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Xudong Zhang 张旭东 Department of Comparative Literature & Department of East Asian Studies 19 University Place, Room 510 New York University New York, NY 10003 (212)998-8796(CL main office); (212)998-7620(EAS main office) (212)998-7622(direct line) Email: [email protected] Education 1990-95 Ph.D., Duke University (Graduate Program in Literature) 1982-86 BA, Peking University (Department of Chinese Language and Literature) Academic Positions 2005 Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of East Asian Studies, New York University 2001 Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Chinese, New York University 1999 Assistant Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature, New York University 1995 Assistant Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature, Rutgers University Honors, Fellowships and Invited Visitorships 2014-Present University Chair Professor(Visiting) in the Humanities, Peking University 2019(Spring) Visiting Professor and Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo 2015-19 Non-Residential Fellow, Chunqiu Institute of Strategic Studies, Shanghai 2016 Best Essay of the Year, The Journal of Modern Chinese Literature Studies, The Chinese Association of Modern Chinese Literature Studies, for “The Ethical Self- Awareness Discourse in Chinese Enlightenment”. 2011-16 University Professor(Visiting) in the Humanities & Honorary Director, Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Chongqing University 2008-14 Chong Keung Chair Professor(Visiting) of Comparative Literature, Chinese Department, Peking University 2002-14 Zijiang Chair Professor(Visiting) in Comparative Literature and Chinese, East China Normal University, Shanghai 2008-2012 Visiting Professor and Member of the Academic Council, Institute for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 2009(Spring) Visiting Professor, University of Tokyo Center of Philosophy 2006(Fall) Visiting Professor, University of Tokyo Center of Philosophy 2005 Humanities Council Grant, New York University 2002(Spring) Visiting Professor, Institute of Comparative Literature and Chinese Department, Peking University 1998-99 Rockefeller Fellowship in the Humanities, International Center for Advanced Studies(ICAS), New York University 1997-98 Faculty Fellowship, Center for Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture(CCACC), Rutgers University 1996-98 Rutgers University Research Council Grants Administrative, Advisory Experiences and Committee Services 2010-Present Director, International Center for Critical Theory, NYU & PKU(visiting) 2015-Present Fellow and Academic Board, Berggruen Institute of Philosophy and Culture, Santa Monica and New York 2014-Present International Academic Advisory Committee for Yenching Academy, Peking University 2009-19 Director, NYU China House 2017 (Fall) Acting Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Comparative Literature 2011-16 Chair, Academic Advisory Committee, Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Chongqing University 2006-13 Chair, Department of East Asian Studies 2007-12 Director, NYU-Beijing Summer Program 2008-09 Interim Director, China House 2003-08 Foundations of Contemporary Culture Steering Committee, College of Arts & Science 2005-08 Executive Committee, NYU China House 2006-07 Co-Chair, Graduate School Task Force on Teaching and Fellowship 2005-06 Co-Chair, Faculty of Arts and Science Policy and Planning Committee 2003-06 Director of Graduate Studies, Department of East Asian Studies 2003-06 Policy and Planning Committee, Faculty of Arts and Science 2003-06 Steering Committee, International Center for Advanced Studies 2004-05 Language Chairs Committee, College of Arts and Science 2002-05 Awards and Fellowships Committee, Graduate School of Arts and Science 2001-02 Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Comparative Literature Editorial Activities and Other Services to the Profession Editor, Frontier of Literary Studies in China, a refereed English-language quarterly published by Higher Education Press, Beijing, China Editor, “Critical Theory and Literary Studies” book series, Peking University Press Co-editor (with Nakajima Takahiro and Paul Pickering), Papers from the Winter Institute series, University of Tokyo Center of Philosophy Booklet series Editorial Board, Journal of Modern Chinese Studies, Shangha: East China Normal University Press Guest Editor, Boundary 2 special issue on "Postmodernism and China" (coedited with Arif Dirlik), Fall 1997 Guest Editor, Social Text special issue on "Intellectual Politics after Tiananmen," Summer, 1998 Editorial Board, Dongxifang wenhua pinglun(East-West Culture Review), Peking University Press, Beijing, 1988-93 Contributing Editor, Shijie shixue da cidian(Encyclopedia of World Poetics), Yue Daiyun and Ni Peigeng, General Editors, Peking University Press, 1989 Publications/Authored books Cultural Politics and the Chinese Way(wenhua zhengzhi yu zhongguo daolu), Shanghai: Shanghai renmin chubanshe, 2015. 2 Writing In Our Times (women shidai de xiezuo), co-authored with Mo Yan, Hong Kong: Oxford University Press (China), 2012. Mainland Chinese edition, Shanghai: Shanghai wenyi chubanshe, 2013. A Dialogue on The Age of Enlightenment(duihua qimeng shidai), co-authored with Wang Anyi, Beijing: The Joint Publication Co.(sanlian shudian), 2008. Postsocialism and Cultural Politics: 1989-2001 or, the Last Decade of the Chinese Twentieth Century, Duke University Press, 2008. Chinese translation by Zhu Yu et. al., Beijing: Peking University Press, 2014. Letters from New York(niuyue shujian), Shanghai: Shanghai shudian chubanshe, 2006. Cultural Identity in the Age of Globalization(quanqiuhua shidai de wenhua rentong: xifang pubianzhuyi lilun de lishi pipan), Beijing: Peking University Press, 2005. Revised and expanded 2nd edition, 2006. Traces of Criticism: Essays on Cultural Theory and Cultural Criticism, 1987-2002(piping de zongji: wenhua lilun yu wenhua piping), Beijing: The Joint Publishing Co. Ltd., 2003, 2nd print, 2006. The Order of the Imaginary: Critical Theory and Modern Chinese Literary Discourse(huanxiang de zhixu: piping lilun yu xiandai zhongguo wenxue huayu), Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1997. Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms: Cultural Fever, Avant-Garde Fiction and New Chinese Cinema, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997. Chinese translation by Cui Wenjin et. al., Beijing: Peking University Press, 2014. Edited volumes and translations: Papers from the 2018 Winter Institute, co-edited with Takahiro Nakajima and Paul Pickering, Tokyo: University of Tokyo Center of Philosophy. Tradition and Formal Innovation(chuantong yu xingshi chuangyi), ed. and introduced by Xudong Zhang, Shanghai: Shanghai renmin chubanshe, 2015. Rethinking Enlightenment in Global and Historical Contexts (UTCP Booklet No. 21/ICCT Series 1), co-edited with Nakajima Takahiro and Hui Jiang, Tokyo: University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy, 2011. Illuminations: Selected Essays of Walter Benjamin, edited by Hannah Arendt, co-translated with Ban Wang, introduced by Xudong Zhang, Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1998. Mainland China edition: Beijing: Shanlian shudian, 2008. Whither China? Intellectual Politics in the 1990s, edited and with an introduction by Xudong Zhang, Duke University Press, 2001. Postmodernism and China, co-edited (with Arif Dirlik), Duke University Press, 2000. 3 Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism: Selected Essays of Fredric Jameson, edited and with an introduction by Xudong Zhang, co-translated with Stephen Chan et. al., Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1996. Mainland Chinese edition, Beijing: Sanlian shudian., 1998; 2nd edition with a new preface by Xudong Zhang, 2012. Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Age of High Capitalism, by Walter Benjamin, co- translated with Wei Wensheng and with an introduction by Xudong Zhang, Beijing: The Joint Publication Co.Ltd.(sanlian shudian), 1989. 2nd revised edition, 2006; Taiwanese edition, Taipei: 2003. In progress The Conflict of Representations—Narrative and History in the First Decade of the Chinese Twenty-First Century, book manuscript under preparation as the third installment of post-Mao Chinese cultural-historical analysis. Lu Xun and the Origin of Chinese Modernism(revision and expansion of seminar and lecture transcripts, 2008-2018). A Study of Hegel’s Philosophy of Fine Arts (revision and expansion of seminar and lecture transcripts, 2004-2019), under contract with the Joint Publishing Co. Ltd., Beijing. Critical Theory and Political Philosophy: Chinese Lessons (revision and expansion of seminar and lecture transcripts, 2005-2019), under contract with “The Humanities Series,” Peking University Press. Selected Essays and Articles 2019 “Agonistic Memory, Compound Temporality and Expansion of Literary Space in Lu Xun,” Fronteris of Literary Studies in China, 13(2): 200-261. “Camel Xiangzi as Modern Allegory and Political Philosophy”(zuowei xiandai yuyan yu zhengzhi zhexue de Luotuo Xiangzi) in Modern Chinese Literary Studies(xiandai wenxue yanjiu congkan), No. 7, 1-29. “The Structural Transformation of the New Culture: On the Historical Significance of the Vernacular Revolution in May Fourth Era”(wusi xinwenhua de dshenceng jiegouxing zhuanhuan: qiantan baihua geming de weida yiyi), special internet edition of Guancha.net, Shanghai. https://www.guancha.cn/ZhangXuDong/2019_05_04_500148_s.shtml 2018 “Forty Years of Development of Contemporary Chinese Literature, Culture and Thought: A Critical Retrospective”(wenyi wenhua