Chinese American Literary Studies in China Today

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This lecture will focus on the recent development of Chinese American literature teaching and research in China, by presenting both the data found online and the speaker’s own perspective of teaching and research of it. Prof. Yingguo Xu will first give an overview of Chinese American literature classes taught in universities, as well as Masters theses and PhD dissertations found in some major databases for academic publication in China, in order to show the growth of the studies in the past decade. Secondly, Prof. Xu will introduce the series of Chinese American literature studies she initiated in 2003, providing attendees an idea about who are the Chinese American writers who have received the most attention in China and the perspectives Chinese scholars approach them from. Finally, based on her own teaching and research experiences, Prof. Xu will talk about her own observations about issues concerned in class and in literary criticism of Chinese American literature in China.

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Author Bio

Yingguo Xu is a professor of English and Director of Institute of Chinese American Literature Studies, Tianjin University of Technology - Tianjin, China. Professor Xu is one of the leading scholars of Chinese American literature studies in China and the editor of Anthology of Chinese American Literature (2004/2008 second edition). She initiated a series of Chinese American literature studies in China. The series, having published eighteen books so far, presents the major scholarships in the field in China and received significant attention internationally.

Professor Xu is one of the few professors who first taught Chinese American literature in China, and has supervised dozens of Masters theses on Chinese American literature. She is author of more than sixty academic papers and eighteen books covering areas ranging from American literature, British literature, transnational studies, and diaspora studies. Her recent publications include:

  • A Study of Chinese American Drama, Shangwu Yinshuguan (Commerce Press), Beijing, China, 2012
  • New Approaches to Diasporic Literature: Theory and Textual Criticism. Ed., Nankai University Press, Tianjin, China, 2012
  • American Women’s Literature: From The Colonial Period to the 20th Century (first writer), Nankai University Press, Tianjin, China, 2010
  • A New Dictionary of Ethnic and Gender Studies, Ed. Nankai University Press, Tianjin, China, 2009
  • British and American Literature from Cross-culture Perspective, Renmen Wenxue Press, Beijing, China, 2007
  • An Anthology of Chinese American Literature, Ed., Nankai University Press, Tianjin, China, 2008 (2004 first edition)