Rujie Wang

Professor and Chair

Program in Chinese Studies (中文)

Department/Affiliation: Chinese; East Asian Studies
Phone: 330-263-2438
Office Address: 203 Kauke
Email: rwang@wooster.edu

Degrees

  • Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Rutgers 1993
  • M.A. in Comparative Literature, Rutgers 1986
  • B.A. English Literature, Wabash College 1983
  • Peking Normal University 1981

Courses Taught

Professor Wang has been teaching the following courses at the College of Wooster since 1995

  • CHIN 101 and 102: Begining Chinese I and II
  • CHIN 201 and 202: Intermediate Chinese I and II
  • CHIN 223: Chinese Cinema
  • CHIN 220: Modern Chinese Fiction
  • CHIN 222: Women in Chinese Fiction
  • CHIN 250: Culture of Cultural Revolution
  • CHIN 301 and 302: Advanced Intermediate Chinese I and II
  • First-Year Seminar: Chinese Box

Research interests and publications

Professor Wang’s research interests include Lu Xun, Chinese realism, and Chinese cinema. His publications include the following:

Publications:

  • “Mao’s Tao: Reflection on China’s Cultural Revolution,” Ellipses, 1989: 5-8
  • Translation of “In Pursuit of Our Oldest Alumnus–Robert Winter,” by Robert Corya, The World of English, 1986, vol. 6, 14-16
  • Translation of “Susan B. Anthony,” by Katherine Anthony, pp. 296-300, The World of English, 1995, Sept
  • “Lu Xun’s The True Story of Ah Q and Cross-Writing” East Asia: An International Quarterly, Vol. 16, no. 3/4, pp.5-40.
  • Translations of What Do You Care What Other People Think? by R. Feynman, pp. 11-6; “One Small Stone, Unforgotten,” by Marsha Arons in A 5th Portion of Chicken Soup for the Soul, pp. 123-7, and Journal of a Solitude by May Sarton, pp.11-3 in Masterpieces of Twentieth Century English Prose, ed. Tao Jie
  • “To Live’ Beyond Good and Evil” Asian Cinema. Vol.12, No.1, 2001
  • Book Review of Chinese Cinema during the Era of Reform: The Ingenuity of the System (Ying Zhu, Praeger, 2003) for Journal of Asian Studies, Nov. 2004, Vol. 63, No.4, pp.1119-1120
  • “The Mosaic of Chinese Literary Modernism: The Aesthetics of Buddhism, Taoism and Primitivism” the special issue on Modernity and Folklore 35.1-2 (2008) of Canadian Review of Comparative Literature (CRCL)
  • Two articles on two modern Chinese writers, Ba Jin and Gao Xingjian, in Gale Encyclopedia of Modern China, published by Charles Scribner’s Son, May 2009
  • “Teaching Chinese Literature in A Post-American World” pp. 279-314 of the book Teaching and Learning Chinese: Issues and Perspectives, published by IAP (Information Age Publishing) 2010
  • “The Aesthetics of Retroactive Memory: Feng Xiaogang’s Aftershock and the Historical Film”, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (MCLC) Resource Center, 2011
  • Book Review to appear in 2016 June issue of Reconstruction for Chinese Lesbian Cinema: Mirror Rubbing, Lala, and Les. by Liang Shi, Lexington Books, 2015;
  • “Conjugating ‘China’ in Sinophone Cinemas” pp.77-90, in China-US Journal of Humanities, 2022
  • “Archetypes of Imagination, Modes of Thought, and Meanings of Social Revolution” to appear in China-US Journal of Humanities, 2023