Xudong Zhang

Professor of East Asian Studies, Comparative Literature
Chair, East Asian Studies
Ph.D. 1995 (Literature), Duke
B.A. 1986 (Chinese Language and Literature), Peking University

Office Address: 41 East 11th Street, 714
On leave for Fall 2010 semester
Email:
Phone: 212-998-7622
Fax: 212-995-4682

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Areas of Research/Interest
Modern Chinese literature and culture; critical theory. Twentieth-Century Chinese literature, film, and intellectual discourses; literary theory and aesthetics; political and philosophical discourses of modernity.

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		Literature and Its Times: Essays, Symposia, and Interviews on Republic of Wine and Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out, co-authored by Xudong Zhang and Mo Yan (我们时代的写作——对话《酒国》《生死疲劳》). Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780192990265
		ICCT series 1: Rethinking Enlightenment in Global and Historical Contexts, co-ed: NAKAJIMA Takahiro , ZHANG Xudong, & JIANG Hui, Tokyo: The University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy, 2011. ISSN: 1882-742X
		Duihua qimeng shidai 对话启蒙时代 (A Discourse on The Age of Enlightenment), Xudong Zhang & Wang Anyi, Beijing: Sanlian shudian, 2008. ISBN 978-7-108-02952-2
		Postsocialism and Cultural Politics: China in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century, Duke University Press, 2008.
				Qidi 启迪 (Illuminations: Essays and Reflections by Walter Benjamin), edited by Hannah Arendt, translated by Xuodong Zhang and Ban Wang, with an introduction by Xudong Zhang. Paperback edition issued by OUP (Hong Kong) in 1998. Reprint. Simplified (mainland Chinese) edition: Beijing: Sanlian shudian, 2008. ISBN 978-7-108-02920 Reprint. Hong Kong: Oxford Univeristy Press, 2012. ISBN: 978-0-19-398932-0
		Letters from New York, Shanghai: Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House, 2006.
		Quanqiuhua shidai de wenhua rentong (Cultural Identity in the Age of Globalization), Beijing: Peking University Press, 2005. 2nd edition, 2006 (ISBN：7301081499)
		Whither China: Intellectual Politics of Contemporary China, edited and introduced by Xudong Zhang, Duke University Press, 2002. (ISBN 0822326485)
		Postmodernism and China, co-edited with Arif Dirlik, Duke University Press, 2000. (ISBN 0822325446)
		Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms: Cultural Fever, Avant-garde Fiction, and New Chinese Cinema, Duke University Press, 1997. (ISBN: 0822318466)
		Pi Ping De Zong Ji, Beijing: San Lian Shu Dian, 2003. (ISBN: 7108018624)
		Huan Xiang De Zhi Xu, Oxford University Press, 1997. (ISBN: 019586008X)
				Jameson, Fredric. The Cultural Logic of the Late Capitalism (Wan Qi Zi Ben Zhu Yi De Wen Hua Luo Ji) (Xudong Zhang, editor.) Oxford University Press, 1996. (ISBN: 0195864824) Reprint. Oxford University Press, 1997. (ISBN: 7108011034)
				Benjamin, Walter. Charles Baudelaire (Xudong Zhang, trans.). San Lian Shu Dian, 1989. (ISBN: 7108001535) Reprint. San Lian Shu Dian, 2007. (ISBN: 9787108001535)

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