Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Shanghai, China)
WANG Ning is one of China’s leading scholars of
comparative literature and cultural studies and a prominent literary and
cultural theorist in the contemporary era. He got his Ph.D at Peking University
and did his postdoctoral research with Douwe Fokkema in the University of Utrecht
in 1990-1991. Wang was appointed associate professor by Peking University in
1991 and promoted onto the rank of full professor in 1992. He is one of the
very few scholars who have published extensively on modern and contemporary
Chinese literature and literary theory. He is particularly famous in the five
fields: psychoanalysis and its critical reception in China, modernity and
postmodernism, especially in its critical and creation reception in China,
postcolonial studies with regard to cultural studies and translation studies,
globalization studies from literary and cultural perspectives, and world
literature studies with regard to cosmopolitanism. During the past decades, he
worked as Director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies
at Beijing Language and Culture University (1997-2000), and has been Director
of the Center for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Tsinghua
University since the beginning of 2001. He is currently Distinguished
University Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at Shanghai Jiao Tong
University and Changjiang Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative
Literature at Tsinghua University. Since the beginning of the 1990s, he has
lectured extensively at over 80 universities in Asia, Africa, North America,
Latin America, Europe and Australia.
Wang is one of the most productive literary scholars in present-day China. Apart from his 20 single-authored books and hundreds of articles in Chinese, he has also authored two books in English: Globalization and Cultural Translation (2004), and Translated Modernities: Literary and Cultural Perspectives on Globalization and China (2010). In addition, he has also published extensively in English in such international prestigious journals as New Literary History, Critical Inquiry, boundary 2, Modern Language Quarterly, Modern Fiction Studies, Comparative Literature Studies, European Review, Neohelicon, Semiotica, ARIEL, Journal of Contemporary China, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, The Minnesota Review, Narrative, Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice, Telos and The Amerasia Journal. He was elected to the Academy of Latinity in 2010 and to Academia Europaea in 2013. In 2017 Wang was elected President of the Chinese Comparative Literature Association.
Abstract:从比较诗学到世界诗学:一种理论建构