Xudong Zhang 张旭东

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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.

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 sixiang lingyu sishi nian huigu) m Dongfang Journal(dongfang zazhi), Fudan University School of Chinese Studies, No. 1 inaugural issue, 22- 34. Online edition: https://www.guancha.cn/ZhangXuDong/2018_09_19_472595_1.shtml

“Revolutionary Machine and Universal Enlightenment—Re-Thinking Mao’s Talk on Yan’an Forum on Literature and Art(geming jiqi yu pubian de qimeng—jinian yanan wenyi zuotanhui shang de jianghua fabiao qishiwu zhounian), Modern Chinese Literature Studies, No. 4, 1-17.

4 “From the Modern State To the Cultural Leviathan(cong xiandai guojia dao wenhua liweitan)， Lectures in Anthropology(renleixue jiangtang), Vol. 5, March 2018, edited by Pan Jiao, pp. 3-16.

2017 “Revolutionary Machine and ‘Universal Enlightenment’—Re-Thinking Mao’s Talk on Yan’an Forum on Literature and Art” (abbreviated internet edition), Guancha.net, August 10. http://www.guancha.cn/ZhangXuDong/2017_08_10_422190.shtml

2016 “Cultural Politics: The Raison d’Etre of the Civilizational State”(wenhua zhengzhi: wenming guojia de cunzai liyou), Guancha.net, September 10. http://www.guancha.cn/ZhangXuDong/2016_09_10_374008.shtml

“Culture as Political Intensity: The Concept of Cultural Politics”(zhengzhi de neizai qiangdu shi wenhua), Economic Herald(jingji daokan)， No. 9 issue, 36-45.

“On Cultural Politics and ‘the Chinese Way’”(wenhua zhengzhi yu zhongguo daolu), Guancha.net，May 29. http://www.guancha.cn/ZhangXuDong/2016_05_29_362060_1.shtml.

“Origins of An Historical Ontology—A Symposium Discussion with Li Zehou”(lishi bentilun de qidian: yu Li Zehou zuotan), Scholarship(xuewen), special issue on the revival of Chinese humanities, edited by Li Sen, Lin Jianfa & Zong Renfa, Guangzhou: Huacheng chubanshe, 2016, pp. 1-26.

“Ideology and Utopia in Guan Hu’s ‘Mr. Six’”(taohuayuan haishi yujiting: dianying Lao Pao’er li de yishixingtai yu wutuobang), Guancha.net, January 3. http://www.guancha.cn/ZhangXuDong/2016_01_03_346721.shtml

2015 “The ‘Ethical Self-Consciousness’ Discourse in Chinese Enlightenment and Its Implications in Contemporary Chinese Cultural Politics—Reflections on Motifs of Culture and the State in the Early Debates of La Jeunesse”(qimeng zhuyi lunli zijue yu dangdai zhongguo wenhua zhengzhi—fansi Xinqingnian zaoqi lunshu zhong de wenhua yu guojia gainian), Journal of Modern Chinese Literature Studies, No. 7, 2015, pp.1-24.

“Violence, Freedom of Speech, and the Search for A Meaningful Life: Observations on the Charlie Hebdo Bloodshed”(chali zhoukan jingshilu: yanlun ziyou he you yiyi de shenghuo), Guancha.net）, January 10. http://www.guancha.cn/ZhangXuDong/2015_01_10_305868.shtml

2014 “The Becoming Self-Conscious of Zawen--Literary Modernity and Politics of Language in Lu Xun’s Essay Production,” Frontiers of Literary Studies in China, Volume 8 issue no.3 (Fall 2014), Leiden, Boston, Tokyo: Brill, pp.374-409

“Deng Xiaoping As the Sovereign”(zuowei zhuquanzhe de Deng Xiaoping), Guancha.net, August 20, 2014. http://www.guancha.cn/ZhangXuDong/2014_08_20_257504.shtml

“What Is Camel Xiangzi? Review on the Opera Adaptation of Lao She’s Novel Camel Xiangzi”(hewei xiangzi: ping geju ban Luotuo Xiangzi), Chinese Culture Daily(zhongguo wenhuabao), July 3. http://www.guancha.cn/ZhangXuDong/2014_08_25_260141.shtml

“Seminar on Mo Yan’s Republic of Wine”(Mo Yan Jiuguo dushuhui), originally published in Literary Production in Our Times, Xudong Zhang & Mo Yan, Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 2012, 45-106. Japanese translation by Sugitani Kota, China 21, Vol.39, 2014 no. 1, 105-124.

2013 “Narrative and Representation in the Age of Mobile Phone—A Dialogue Between Wang Anyi and Fredric Jameson on Shanghai, Urban Experience, and Technological Conditions of Possibility for Literature,” moderated and interpreted by Xudong Zhang, Frontier of Literary Studies in China, Leiden, Boston & Tokyo: Brill, Volume 7 (2013), issue no.3, 494–510.

“The China Dream: What Does It Mean to Talk About It?(zhongguo meng: zhongyu daole tan mengxiang de shihou), Social Observation(shehui guancha), July issue, 85-97.

“Liberal Education in the Age of Globalization”(jingdian yuedu shi quanqiuhua shidai de xuanze), Wenhuibao, July 4

“NPR Interview on the Nobel Winner: Chinese Novelist Mo Yan,” Frontier of Literary Studies in China, Leiden, Boston, Tokyo: Brill, Volume 7 (2013), issue no.1, 154–157

2012 “In Light of Concreteness: Wang Anyi and the Bildungsroman of the Cultural Revolutionary Generation,” in Frontiers of Literary Studies in China, Leiden, Boston, Tokyo: Brill, 2012, Volume 6, issue no.1, 112–137

“Life and Land as Deposit for Historical Forgetting—On Mo Yan’s Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out(zuowei lishi yiwang zhi zaiti de shengming he tudi: jiedu Mo Yan de Sheng Si Pi Lao), Journal of Modern Chinese Studies(xiandai zhongwen xuekan), no, 6, 4-19.

“The Dialectic and the Historical Determination of Cultural Subjectivity,” Globalization and Localization: The Chinese Perspective, edited by Deng Zhenglai, Singapore, London, and Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific Publishing Co. Ltd., 155-65

“Preface to 2nd edition of Fredric Jameson’s Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Fredric Jameson, Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, ed. by Xudong Zhang, Beijing: The Joint Publishing Co.Ltd. (sanlian shudian chubansh), 2012, 1-8.

“The Politics of Modernity in the Age of Globalization, an Interview with Fredric Jameson”(quanqiuhua shidai de xiandaixing zhengzhi), Wenhuibao, December 10, 2012.

“Theory Is Dead, What Is Theory For? An Interview with Fredric Jameson”(lilun yi si, lilun hewei?), China Reading Weekly(zhonghua dushu bao), December 5, 2012 Reissued in Journal of Hangzhou Normal University, March 2013 issue, 1-6.

“The Sources of Chinese Culture Are the Chinese People Living Today”(zhongguo wenhua de genyuan shi jintian de zhongguoren), 21st Century Business Herald(ershiyi shiji jingji baodao), November 25, 2012.

“The Cultural-Political Construction of Chinese Magical Realism—Language Game, Natural History, and Social Allegory in Mo Yan’s Republic of Wine”(mohuan xianshi zhuyi de zhengzhi

6 wenhua yujing gouzao: Mo Yan Jiuguo zhong de yuyan youxi, ziranshi yu shehui yuyan), Frontiers of Scholarship(xueshu qianyan), No.11, 2012, 66-82.

“Mo Yan Is a Portal for Understanding Contemporary Chinese Literature(Mo Yan shi tongxiang dangdai zhongguo wenxue de menhu), 21st Century Business Herald, October 12.

“Structure, Narrative, and Cultural Politics in Lu Xun’s Writing of Reminiscences—A Critical Analysis of Morning Flowers Plucked at Dusk(Lu Xun huiyixing xiezuo de jiegou, xushi yu wenhua zhengzhi: cong Zhaohua xishi tanqi), Living in the Post-American Age(shenghuo zai hou- Meiguo shidai), edited by Sun Xiaozhong for “Hot Air” Intellectual Forum Series, General Editor: Wang Xiaoming, Shanghai: Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House(shanghai shudian chubanshe), 2012, 274-354.

“Cultural Self-Consciousness As a Political Notion(libukai zhengzhi de wenhua zijue), Beijing Cultural Review((wenhua zongheng)，No. 2, 2012，22-26

“Identity and Value System as Unity of Contradictions: Observations on Contemporary Chinese Cultural Politics/ [interview](zai maodun tongyiti zhong chongjian jiazhi rentong), 21st Century Business Herald, Jan 17, A03, 2012.

“The Will to Allegory and the Origin of Chinese Modernism: Re-Reading Lu Xun’s Ah Q--The Real Story”, in Mark Woellager ed. Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012, 173-205.

2011 “Enlightenment and the Dialectic of Particular and Universal: Toward A Cultural- Political Notion of Modern Identity Formation,” in Rethinking Enlightenment in Global and Historical Contexts (UTCP Booklet No. 21/ICCT Series 1), co-edited with Nakamima Takahiro and Hui Jiang, Tokyo: University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy, 2011, 11-28

“Market Socialism and Its Discontent: Jia Zhangke’s Cinematic Representation of China’s Transition in the Age of Global Capital,” in Neoliberalism and Global Cinema: Capital, Culture, and Marxist Critique, edited by Jyotsna Kapur and Keith Wagner, Routledge, New York: 2011, 135-156

“Rethinking Chinese Identity through the Notion of Totality”(chonggui zongtixing sikao, chongjian zhongguo rentong), Social Observations(shehui guancha), September issue, 2011, 7-11.

“Value Void in the Age of Economic Rationality: Rereading Habermas’ Legitimation Crisis, Part II (jingji lixing shidai de jiazhi kongtong), in Marxism and Reality(makesi zhuyi yu xianshi), 2011 No.2, 106-115.

“Value Void in the Age of Economic Rationality: Rereading Habermas’ Legitimation Crisis, Part I (jingji lixing shidai de jiazhi kongtong), in Marxism and Reality(makesi zhuyi yu xianshi), 2011 No. 1, 99-108.

2010 “The Poetics of Vanishing: Jia Zhangke and the Discontent of Postsocialist Market Economy,” New Left Review, No. 63, 71-88

“From modernism to cultural politics”(cong xiandai zhuyi dao wenhua zhengzhi), Journal of Modern Chinese Studies, 2010 No. 3, 4-27.

“Narrative, Culture and Legitimacy: A Critical Analysis of Zhang Yimou’s The Story of Qiuju(xushi, wenhua yu zhengdangxing), Frontier(tianya)，2010 No. 2, 177-88.

“The World-Historical Vocation of Chinese Values”(zhongguo jiazhi de shijie lishi shiming), Beijing Cultural Review, No. 1, 42-46.

2009 “The Politics of Vernacular Aesthetic: The Invention of Modern Chinese Essay in Zhou Zuoren’s Literary Production in the 1930s,” Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences: A Quarterly, Vol. 2, No.3, September 2009, 60-93

“Preliminary Thoughts on Sources of Legitimacy of the People’s Republic(shitan renmin gongheguo de genji), 21st Century Business Herald，November 24, 2009, A21.

“Modernity and Literary History: Reflections on the 60 Years of Contemporary Chinese Literature(dangdai xing yu wenxueshi: guanyu dangdai wenxue liushinian de duihua)， Scholarship Monthly(xueshu yuekan)， 2009 No. 10，5-16

“May Fourth and the Radical Hermeneutics of Modern Chinese Culture”(wusi yu zhongguo xiandaixing wenhua de jijin chanshixue), Journal of Modern Chinese Literature Studies，2009 No. 1, 13-19.

“Let Lu Xun’s Text Speak for Itself—An Interview with the Lu Xun Museum(rang Lu Xun de wenben ziji shuohua), Literature and Art Studies(wenyi yanjiu), 2009 No.4, 60-71.

“Politics and the Establishment of Artistic Subjectivity: Interview with Xudong Zhang on the 67th Anniversary of ‘Talk on Yan’an Forum”(zhengzhi wei wenyi queli zhuti), Journal of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences(zhongguo shehui kexueyuan bao)，June 20, 2009.

“The Dialectic of “Name” and “Speech” in Chinese Modernism—Rereading Ah Q-The Real Story”(zhongguo xiandaizhuyi de ming-yan zhibian: chongdu Ah Q Zhengzhuan)，Lu Xun Studies Monthly，2009, No. 1, 4-21 Japanese translation by 桥本悟/Hashimoto Satoru under the title of “中国モダニズムの起源の「名」と「言」の辯：『阿 Q 正伝』再読”, China: Society & Culture, issue no. 30, 2015, 162-90

“The Modern Essay and the Re-Invention of Chinese Literary Tradition—Sources of Modern Chinese Literature as Radical Hermeneutics(xiandai sanwen yu chuantong de zaifaming: zuowei jijin chanshixue de Zhongguo xinwenxue de yuanliu), trans. from the English by Xie Jun, Modern China(xiandai zhongguo), April 09, 2009, No. 12, 93-118.

“The Essay and the Making of Social Individuality—on Zhou Zuoren’s Personal Essays in the 1930s(sanwen yu shehui geti de chuangzao: lun Zhou Zuoren sanshi niandai xiaopinwen xiezuo de shenmei zhengzhi), translated from the English by Xie Jun, Journal of Modern Chinese Literature Studies, 2009, No 1，1-22.

“Narrative, Culture, and Legitimacy: Repetition and Singularity in Zhang Yimou’s The Story of Qiu Ju(xushi, wenhua yu zhengdangxing: Qiuju daguansi zhong de chongfu yu duyiwuerxing), trans. from the English by Liu Han, Method and Case Studies: Selected Lectures in Cultural

8 Studies), edited by Sun Xiaozhong, Shanghai: Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House, 2009: 395- 416. Reissued in Frontier，2010, No. 2, 177-88.

“The Becoming Self-Conscious of Zawen—Existential Struggle and Cultural Politics in Lu Xun’s Transitional Period，Part Part II”(zawen de zijue: lun Lu Xun guoduqi xiezuo de cunzai douzheng yu wenhua zhengzhi): 2009, No. 1，12-19. Korean translation under the title of 잡문의 '자각'- 루쉰 '과도기' 창작의 현대성과 언어정치 (하), by Eunyeong Kim, in Journal of Modern Chinese Literature, Seoul, 2009, issue #51, 255-72.

2008 “Lu Xun and East Asian Modernity: Theoretical Perspectives: Takeuchi Yoshimi, Deleuze, and Jameson,” in Utopia Here and There, edited by Maeda Koichi and UTCP, UTCP Booklet 4, Tokyo: University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy, 2008, 93-123.

“National Trauma, Global Allegory: Reconstruction of Collective Memory in Tian Zhuangzhuang’s The Blue Kite,” in Jie Lu ed., China’s Literary and Cultural Scenes at the Turn of the 21st Century, New York: Routledge, 27-42.

“China and the Construction of Universal Value—An interview with Xudong Zhang”(zhongguo jintian shizai chuangzao xin de pubian jiazhi), 21st Century Business Herald , A31, December 20, 2008.

“Rereading Lu Xun and Questions Concerning Chinese Literary Criticism: A Lecture at Fudan University”(chongdu Lu Xun yu zhongguo wenxue piping de jige wenti), Journal of Literary Theory and Criticism(wenyi lilun yu piping)，2008, No. 6, 38-49.

“A Phenomenology of Enlightenment: Being and Nothingness in Wang Anyi’s The Age of Enlightenment”(qimeng de jingshen xianxiangxue: Wang Anyi Qimeng shidai zhong de shizai yu xuwu), Open Times(kaifang shidai)，2008, No. 3，152-165.

“The Becoming Self-Conscious of Zawen—Existential Struggle and Cultural Politics in Lu Xun’s Transitional Period, Part I”(zawen de zijue: lun Lu Xun guoduqi xiezuo de cunzai douzheng yu wenhua zhengzhi), Journal of Literary Theory and Criticism， 2008, No. 6， 42-52. Korean translation under the title of 잡문의 '자각' - 루쉰 '과도기' 창작의 현대성과 언어정치 (상), by Eunyeong Kim, in Journal of Modern Chinese Literature, Seoul, 2009, issue #50, 331-53.

“Culture and Competition—Observations on the 2008 Beijing Olympia Opening Ceremony”(wenhua yu jingsai: 2008 nian Beijing aoyunhui guangan), Beijing Cultural Review， Inaugural Special Issue on the Opening Ceremony, 88-96

“Allegory of Social Landscape: A Critical Account of Chen Kaige’s King of Children”(shehui fengjing de yuyan: Chen Kaige Haiziwang zaijiedu)，trans. by Chen Dandan & He Xiang, “Hot Air” Scholarly Series，No.1，Guilin: Guangxi Normal University Press(guangxi shifan daxue chubanshe)，2008，133-161.

2007 “Becoming, Enlightenment, and Revolution—A Dialogue with Wang Anyi on The Age of Enlightenment(chengzhang, qimeng, geming: guanyu Qimeng shidai de duihua), Polemics in Literature and Art(wenyi zhengming), 2007 No. 12, 40-56.

9 “Opening of The Intellectual Space of A Tumultuous Age—A dialogue on The Age of Enlightenment(dakai luanshi de xinling kongjian: guanyu Qimeng shidai de duitan), Book Town(shucheng), December issue, 5-16.

“Dialectic of and Historical Condition for Cultural Subjectivity”(wenhua zhuti de bianzhengfa yu lishi jueding), Reflexion(sixiang), Taipei: Lianjing chubanshe, No. 5，259-271. Mainland edition in Book Town, July issue, 49-54. English translation in Deng Zhenglai ed., “The Dialectic and the Historical Determination of Cultural Subjectivity,” Globalization and Localization: The Chinese Perspective, Singapore, London, and Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte.Ltd., 155-65

“Two Decades’ of Melancholy and Ideal—translator’s preface to the second edition of the Chinese translation of Walter Benjamin’s Charles Baudelaire—A Lyric Poet in the Age of High Capitalism(ershinian de youyu yu lixiang), Book Town, May issue, 22-23.

“Universality, Cultural Politics, and the Anxiety of Chinese Society”(pubianxing, wenhuazhengshi yu zhongguo ren de jiaolv), Frontier， 2007 no. 2, 167-77.

2006 “Cinema of Post-Socialism: Zhang Yimou’s Film Production in the 1990s,” in Haili Kong and John Lent ed., 100 Years of Chinese Cinema, Norwalk, CT: East Bridge, 2006, 131-70.

“Culture, Politics, and Subjectivity: Postscript to the 2nd expanded Edition of Cultural Identity in the Age of Globalization”(wenhua, zhengzhi yu zhutixing: Quanqiuhua shidai de wenhua rentong di er ban houji), 21st Century Business Herald, end of year special edition.

2005 “Comparison and Political Philosophy: Identity and ‘Politics of Being’ in Modern Bourgeois Subjectivity”, in Boundary 2 vol. 32 no.2 (Summer 05 issue), 81-108 Chinese translation by Hui Jiang, in Comparative Literature and World Literature(bijiao wenxue yu shijie wenxue), Beijing: Peking University Press, 2005, 536-553.

“Narrative, Culture, and Legitimacy: Repetition and Singularity in Zhang Yimou’s The Story of Qiu Ju”, in Michael Wayne ed., Understanding Film—Marxist Perspectives, London: Pluto Press, 2005, 213-32 Chinese translation by Han Liu, in Methods and Case Studies in Cultural Studies(wenhua yanjiu de fangfa yu ge’an), Shanghai: Shanghai shudian, 2009, 395-416.

“A Rereading of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right(chongdu Hegel fazhexue), in Xu Jilin ed., Intellectual Conversations by Liwa River: Selected Lectures at East China Normal University(liwa hepan tan sixiang), Shanghai: East China Normal University Press, 2005, 40-54.

“The Challenge of Carl Schmitt: A Critical Reading of Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy(Schmitt de tiaozhan: du Yihui minzhuzhi de weiji), Open Times, no. 2, 126-38.

“Theory and Practice: How Literature Represents History—A Dialogue between Wang Anyi and Zhang Xudong(lilun yu shijian: wenxue ruhe chengxian lishi? Wang Anyi Zhang Xudong duihua), Part I and Part II, Literature and Art Studies(wenyi yanjiu), Beijing: no. 1, 60-69; no. 2, 83-91.

“Max Weber’s Position-Taking(weibo de lichang), Reading(dushu), no.1, 138-49.

2004 “Multiplicity or Homogeneity? The Cultural-Political Paradox of the Age of Globalization,” Cultural Critique (Fall 04 issue), 30-55

“Jameson and China: Modernity as Cultural Politics,” in Douglass Kellner and Sean Homer, ed. Fredric Jameson: A Critical Reader, London: Palgrave/Mcmillan, 169-94.

“The Song of Ever-Lasting Sorrows: from fiction to theater(changhenge: cong xiaoshuo dao wutai), Wenhuipao，2004.6.2.

2003 “On Becoming Political of the Cultural: The Crisis of Universalism in the Age of Globalization,” in Comparative Literature in the Cross-Cultural Context, ed. by Cheng Aimin and Yang Lixin, Nanjing: Yilin Press, 69-94.

“National Trauma, Global Allegory: Reconstruction of Collective Memory in Tian Zhuangzhuang’s The Blue Kite”, Journal of Contemporary China, vol. 12, No.37, 623-38.

“Universality, Comparability and Culture as Politics—On Cultural Identity in the Age of Globalization(pubianxing, kebixing yu zuowei zhengzhi de wenhua—quanqiuhua shidai de wenhua rentong), Selected University Lectures(zhongguo daxue yanjianglu), Guilin: Guangxi Normal University Press, 2003, 32-56.

“The Vocation of the Scholar—Observations on the 100 Anniversary of the publication of Liang Qichao’s “A Plea to Overseas Chinese Students”(xuezhe de shiming—liang regong jinggao liuxuesheng zhujun bainian yougan), Wenhuipao, October 18.

“Cultural Paradox of the Age of Globalization—Diversity or Homogeneity?(quanqiuhua shidai de wenhua beilun—duoyangxing haishi tongyixing) , 21st Century, October issue (no. 79), 119-129.

“Cultural Nationalism, Frustration, and the Moral Mission of Chinese Scholars”(wenhua minzuzhuyi, cuozhegan, yu zhongguo xueren de jingshen shiming), in 21st Century Business Heral(Ershiyi shiji jingji baodao), August 14.

Reissued in The Ways of University Reforms in China(zhongguo daxue gaige zhi dao), ed. by Gan Yang and Li Meng, Shanghai: Shanghai renmin chubanshe, 2004, 141-52.

“Cultural Politics in the Age of Globalization(quanqiuhua shidai de wenhua zhengzhi), Cross- Cultural Dialogues(kua wenhua duihua), Beijing: Peking University Press, no. 11, 51-72.

“Globalization and the Moral Mission of Chinese Universities(quanqiuhua yu zhongguo daxue de jingshen shiming), Wenhuipao, July 16.

Reissued in The Way of University Reforms in China, ed. by Gan Yang and Li Meng, Shanghai: Shanghai renmin chubanshe, 2004, 135-40.

“Thoughts At Pere Lachaise”(zai laxuezi gongmu), Wenhuibao, August 18.

“Western Theory and the Articulation of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Politics: An Interview with Xue Yi(xixue xiangxiang yu zhongguo dangdai wenhua zhengzhi de zhankai), Frontier(tianya), no.2, 15-28.

“Weber and Cultural Politics(weibo yu wenhua zhengzhi), Reading(dushu) , no.3, 2-12.

“A Commentary on Zhang Yimou’s Hero”(zai niuyue kan yingxing), Wenhuipao, Shanghai: Jan. 17. Swedish translation by Stefan Jonsson, Dagen Nyheter (Kultur section), Stockholm, July 30.

“Language, Poetry, and the Times: A Conversation with Xi Chuan on the Creativity of Contemporary Chinese Literature(yuyan, shige, shidai—guanyu dangdai zhongguo wen xue chuangzaoxing zhuti de duitan), China Reading Weekly(zhonghua dushu bao), Jan. 20.

2002 "Shanghai Image: Critical Iconography, Minor Literature, and the Un-Making of a Modern Chinese Mythology," New Literary History, Winter 2002, 137-169. Chinese translation by Zhang Weiwei, Literary Review(wenxue pinglun), 2002 no. 5, 90-102. Reissued in On the Liwa River: Literary Discourse(liwan hepan tan wenxue), edited by Chen Zishan and Luo Gang, Shanghai: East China Normal University Press, 229-49.

“Re-Reading Fredric Jameson(chongdu jiemuxun), Reading(dushu), no.12, 1-12.

“Shanghai as Narrative”(shanghai gushi), Wenhuipao, October 4.

“To Contemplate with Shock and Horror’—On the First Anniversary of September 11, 2001(daizhe jing’e he kongbu qu guanzhao—jiuyaoyao yizhounian ji), Wenhuipao, September 23, 2002.

“Wang Anyi, Shanghai, and Minor Literature(wang anyi, shanghai, xiaowenxue), Book Town(shucheng), no.9, 61-63.

“Reflections on Chinese Culture in the Age of Globalization: What Does It Mean to Be a Chinese Today? An interview with Zhang Jieyu(quanqiuhua shidai de zhongguo wenhua fansi: women jintian zenyang zuo zhongguoren), China Reading Weekly, July 17, 2002.

“The Concept of Comparability: Universal and Particular from the Perspective of Cultural Politics”(kebixing de gainian: wenhua zhengzhi shiye li de pubian yu teshu), Twentieth-First Century(ershiyi shiji), Hong Kong: Institute of Chinese Culture, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, no. 8, vol. 72, 101-110. Reissued in Selected Lectures at Chinese Universities(zhongguo daxue jiangyan lu), 2003, Guilin: Guangxi Normal University Press, 2003.

“Nietzsche and Cultural Politics(nicai yu wenhua zhengzhi), Reading, Beijing: Sanlian shudian/The Joint Publishing Co., April issue, 3-12.

2001 "The Making of the Post-Tiananmen Intellectual Field,'" East Asia: An International Quarterly, Spring-Summer2001, Vol.19, Nos 1-2, 3-57

"Intellectual Politics after Tiananmen: A Critical Overview," in Whither China? Intellectual Politics in the 1990s, edited by Xudong Zhang, Duke University Press, 2001, 1-75

12 2000 "On Chinese Postmodernism," Arif Dirlik and Xudong Zhang ed., Postmodernism and China, Duke University Press, 399-442.

“Politics of Recognition: Gao Xinjian and Nobel Prize in Literature”(chengren de zhengzhi yu bei chengren de qidai), Twentieth-First Century, Hong Kong: Institute of Chinese Culture, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, no. 12, 4-10. Swedish translation by Stefan Jonsson, Dagen Nyheter (Kultur section), Stockholm, December 3, 2000.

“Symbolic Power and History—On Pierre Bourdieu’s Social Philosophy(fuhao quanli yu lishi: lun bu’erdiyue de shehui zhexue), trans. from the English by Ni Wei, Oriental Culture(dongfang wenhua), Guangzhou, Guangdong: no. 4.

“Intellectuals and National Ideal: A Critical Review of Richard Rorty’s Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth Century(zhishi fenzi yu minzu lixiang: ping luodi de wei meiguo lixiang de shixian—ershi shiji zuoyi sixiang), Reading, no. 10, 24-33. Expanded Internet edition in Century China, an internet magazine edited by the Institute of Chinese Culture at Chinese University of Hong Kong, December 22. http://www.csdn618.com.cn/century/zhoukan/diyishijian/0012/00122200.htm

"Shanghai Nostalgia: Modernity, Allegory, and Mourning in Wang Anyi's Writings of Shanghai," positions:east asia cultures critique, 8:2, Summer 2000, 1-39. Chinese translation by Huang Zhenping under the title “Allegories of Modernity: Wang Anyi and Shanghai Nostalgia(xiandaixing de yuyan: wang anyi yu shanghai huaijiu), Chinese Scholarship(zhongguo xueshu), ed. by Liu Dong, Beijing: The Commercial Press, vol. 1, no. 3, 122-61.

1999 "Postmodernism and Postsocialist Society: Cultural Politics in China in the 1990s," New Left Review, no. 237 (October and November, 1999), 77-105.

"Toward a Radical Hermeneutics of Chinese Literary Tradition: Zhou Zuoren's Sources of Modern Chinese Literature," in Classics and Interpretations: The Hermeneutic Tradition in Chinese Culture, edited by Ching-I Tu (New Brunswick, NJ: Transactions Publisher), 427-56.

“Postmodernism and Contemporary China(houxiandaizhuyi yu dangdai zhongguo), Reading, no. 12, 12-20.

“Orientalism and Politics of Representation(dongfangxue yu biaoxiang de zhengzhi), translated from unpublished paper in English by Ni Wei, Hong Kong Journal of Social Sciences, no.13, Winter 1998, 175-202.

1998 "Dialectics and the Historicity of Theory: An Interview with Fredric Jameson," New Literary History, Summer 1998, 353-83. Reissued in Michael Hardt ed. The Jameson Reader (London: Blackwell, 2000)

"Intellectual Politics in Post-Tiananmen China: An Introduction," Social Text, no. 55, (Summer 1998), 1-8.

"Nationalism, Mass Culture, and Intellectual Strategy in Post-Tiananmen China," Social Text, no. 55 (Summer 1998), 109-40

13 "Postmodernism and China: An Introduction," coauthored with Arif Dirlik, in Postmodernism and China, a special issue of Boundary 2 (Fall 97), 1-20.

“Awaking from the Bourgeois Century: translator's introduction to the Chinese edition of Walter Benjamin's Illuminations(cong zichan jieji shiji zhong suxing), Reading, no. 11, 28-38.

“The 1980s Revisited: Preface to The Order of the Imaginary(chongfang bashi niandai: huanxiang de zhixu xu), Reading, no. 2, 3-11.

1997 "Nationalism and Contemporary China," East Asia: An International Quarterly (Spring and Summer 1997, 16:1/2), 130-46 Chinese edition under the title “Nationalism and Contemporary China: Toward a Critical Intellectual Discourse on Chinese Nationalism”, in Reading, no. 6, 22-30. Reissued in Origins of the Way(yuandao), no. 2, edited by Chen Ming, Zhu Hanmin and Zhang Baoming, Zhengzhou: Henan, 2004, 124-31 Reissued in Intellectual Positions: Nationalism and the Fate of China in Transition(zhishi fenzi lichang: minzu zhuyi yu zhuanxingqi zhongguo de mingyun), ed. by Li Shitao & Xu Jilin: Shidai wenyi chubanshe , 1999, 429-40.

1996 "The Politics of Modernism: A Theoretical Proposal for the Critique of the New Era and Its Intellectual Discourse," New Perspectives: A Comparative Literature Yearbook (Hong Kong), 131-50

“Marxism and the Historicity of Theory: an interview with Fredric Jameson(makesi zhuyi yu lilun de lishixing), Today Literary Magazine(jintian), Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1996 no. 2, vol. 33, 232-52. Reissued in Reading, 1996 no. 8, 18-26.

1995 "The Power of Rewriting: A Critical Account of the Post-Revolutionary Discourse on Chinese Socialist Realism," in South Atlantic Quarterly (SAQ), Summer 1995, 915-946. Reissued in Socialist Realism Without Shores, edited by Thomas Lahusen and Evgeny Dobrenko, (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997), 282-309.

1994 "The Chinese Cultural Fever: Theory, Ideology and Social Change," in Social Text, no. 3, 129-156

"The Political Hermeneutics of Cultural Constitution: Reflections on the Chinese Cultural Discussions (1985-1989), Working Paper, no. 94-01, the Asia-Pacific Studies Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 1-40

“Locality, Culture, Capitalism, and Postcolonialism: A Panel Discussion with Li Tuo, Lydia Liu and Meng Yue”(diyu, wenhua, ziben yu houzhiminzhuyi), Today Literary Magazine, 1994, no. 2, 1-15.

“Literary Criticism: Language and the Space of Writing—A Panel Discussion on Avant-Garde Literature and Criticism, with Huang Ziping, Li Tuo, Lydia Liu, Meng Yue, Tang Xiaobing and Zou Yu (wenxue piping—yuyan yu xiezuo kongjian), Today Literary Magazine, 1994, no. 2, 169- 189.

1991 “The Subject-matter and the Truth-content of Contemporary Chinese Literary Criticism: Narrating the History of Consciousness of Contemporary Chinese Literature from “Misty Poetry”

14 to “New Fiction”(dangdai zhongguo wenxue piping de zuti neirong yu zhenli neirong), Today Literary Magazine, Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, special issue on literary criticism, no. 2, 2-12 Reissued under the title “From ‘Misty Poetry’ to ‘New Fiction’”(cong menglongshi dao xinxiaoshuo), China Avant-garde, edited by Jochen Noth, Wolfger Pohlmann and Kai Reschke, Hong Kong: The Oxford University Press, 1994, 69-76.

1990 “Fables of Self-consciousness: Ge Fei and Some Motifs in Contemporary Chinese Literary Subjectivity(ziwo yishi de tonghua: gefei yu dangdai yuyan zhuti de jige wenti) Bafang Literary and Art Series(bafang), Hong Kong: vol. 12, 308-330. Reissued in abbreviated form in Today Literary Magazine, no. 2, 1991, 110-122.

1989 “The Genealogy of Forgetting: A Re-reading of Lu Xun(yiwang de puxi: chongdu lu xun), Culture: China and the World(wenhua: zhongguo yu shijie), vol. 7, edited by Gan Yang, Beijing: Sanlian shudian (The Joint Publishing Co. Ltd).

“Totality and Narrative: the Modernism of Lukacs(zongti yu xushi: lukaqi de xiandaizhuyi), Course on Contemporary Western Literary Theory(dangdai xifang wenxue lilun jiaocheng), ed. by Hu Jingzhi and Wang Yuechuan, Beijing: Peking University Press, Beijing, 332-356.

“The Order of the Imaginary: Lacan as Critical Theory(huangxiang de zhixu: zuowei wenxue lilun de lakang), Literary Review, Beijing: Institute of Literary Studies, The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, no. 4, 70-91.

“The Semiotic and the Historic on the Screen: A Preliminary Interpretation of the “New Chinese Cinema”(yinmu shang de fuhao zhiwu yu lishi zhiwu), Film Art(dianying yishu), Beijing: Chinese Association of Film Artists, no. 5, 35-46.

“Redemption Is My Private Show: Proust and Philosophy of History(zhengjiu shi wo ziji de zhanxian: pulusite yu lishi zhexue), Reading, no. 7-8, 132-38.

“Fate and Character: Benjamin and Kafka(mingyu yu xingge—benyamin yu ta de kafuka), Reading, no. 2, 77-84.

1988 “Erlebnis and Allegory: The Meaning of Walter Benjamin(tiyan yu yuyan: benyamin de yiyi), Culture: China and the World(wenhua: zhongguo yu shijie), Beijing: Sanlian shudian(The Joint Publishing Co. Ltd.), no. 5, 333-58. Reissued in Cultural Consciousness of Contemporary China, edited by Gan Yang, Hong Kong: Sanlian shudian., 1990, 390-414.

“Allegorical Criticism: On Some Motifs in Benjamin's Charles Baudelaire(yuyan piping: benyaming lun bodelaier zhong de jige muti), Literary Review, no. 4, 89-112. Reissued in Course on Contemporary Western Literary Theory(dangdai xifang wenxue lilun jiaocheng), ed. by Hu Jingzhi & Wang Yuechuan, Beijing: Peking University Press, 1990, 402-427.

“The Homme de Lettres of Modernity: Baudelaire as Represented by Benjamin(xiandai wenren: benyaming bixia de bodelai’er), Reading, no. 11, 81-88.

“Library and Revolution: Benjamin, or Historian as Collector(shufang yu geming: zuowei shoucangjia de benyaming), Reading, no. 12, 83-89.

1987 “The Poetics of Culture and the Culturology of the Poetic: Modes and Transformations in Hemingway, Wittgenstein and Heidegger(wenhua de shixue yu shi de wenhuaxu: haimingwei, weitegensitan ye haidege’er li de zhuanhua yu moshi), Aesthetics and Studies in Literature and Arts, ed. by Sheng Tianqi & Liu Xiaofeng, Hohhot: Neimenggu renmin chubanshe, vol. 2, 119- 139.

Conference Organization and Collaborative Research Projects

Organizer, Symposium on “Socialism and Nature,” International Center for Critical Theory, Peking University, Beijing, December 19

Co-Organizer, with David Pan, “Constitutional Theory”, a Telos-ICCT Joint Conference, New York, February 16-18 2018

Co-Organizer, with Takahiro Nakajima and Paul Pickering, 4th PKU-UofTokyo-ANU Winter Institute on Critical Area Studies, Tokyo, Jan 23-28, 2018

Organizer: “Jin Yucheng and the Writing of Shanghai: A conference on Blooming (Fanhua)”, February, China House, NYU, March 2-3, 2017

Co-organizer (with Nakajima Takahiro): 2nd Peking University-University of Tokyo Winter Institute on Critical Area Studies, March 13-18, 2017

The 4th Annual Himalayas Cultural Forum, “The Conflict of Representation in China Today”, Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, Oct 15, 2016

“Wang Anyi and Chinese Realism” an international conference, ICCT-NYU China House, NYU, co-organized with Todd Foley and Shiqi Liao, May 6-7, 2016

“Wang Anyi and Rethinking Realism” faculty-graduate student bi-weekly workshop series, co- organized with Todd Foley and Shiqi Liao, February through May, 2016

1st PKU-UofTokyo Winter Institute on Critical Area Studies, Institute of Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo, co-organized with Takahiro Nakajima, Tokyo, Jan 6-20, 2016

International Center for Critical Theory (ICCT) conferences, workshops, and seminars: A Symposium on Literature, co-organized with University of Tokyo Interdisciplinary Humanities Program, Tokyo, June 27-28, 2014

Symposium on Literary Representation on Shanghai, co-organized with International Center for Critical Theory, East China Normal University, Shanghai, July 13, 2014

ICCT Summer Institute, East China Normal University, Shanghai, July 7-11, 2014

ICCT Summer Forum on “Postmodernism and China”, co-organized with Himalaya Museum of Art, Shanghai, July 12, 2014

“Modernity and Literary History: Workshop on Rethinking Contemporary Chinese Literature,” co-organized with Cai Xiang and Luo Gang, International Center for Critical Theory & Center for

16 Research on Contemporary Chinese Literature, Shanghai University, Chongqing, August 13-16, 2013

“ICCT Summer Institute on Critical Theory and Modern Chinese Literature,” Peking University, July 29-August 3, 2013

“Tradition and Formal Innovation,” a one-day forum as part of the inaugural ceremony of the Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, June 11, 2013

“Rethinking Yan’an: Culture, Society, and Politics,” co-organized with Cai Xiang and Luo Gang, co-sponsored by New York University, Shanghai University, and Chongqing University, Chongqing, December 26-28, 2012

International Center for Critical Theory conference and seminar/symposium series on Fredric Jameson’s theoretical discourse, co-sponsored by New York University, Peking University, and East China Normal University, December 12-13, Peking University; December 14, Institute of Literary Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; December 20, East China Normal University; December 21, Wenhuibao Headquarters, 2012

“Classics and Interpretations: Annual Summer Workshop on “Core Courses” of Liberal Education,” co-organized with Gan Yang, co-sponsored by Sun Yat-Sen University, Chongqing University, and Peking University, July 29-August 3, 2012

“Fiction and Social Change,” Symposium on Yu Hua’s Brother s(Xiong di, 2005/06), NYU, New York, December 1, 2011

“The Politics of the Essay: Rethinking Lu Xun and Modern Chinese Literature”, a bilateral faculty-graduate student symposium, Peking University and New York University, New York, November 4-6, 2011

“Demolition and Construction: Academic Forum of 4th Guangzhou Triennial,” Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou; co-organizer (with Gan Yang), September 22-24, 2011

“Classics and Interpretations: 5th Summer Institute on Core Courses of Liberal Education,” Peking University, Beijing, co-organizer (with Gan Yang), August 2-9, 2011

“Re-Reading the 1980s: Situation and Context”, a research workshop organized by Xudong Zhang and Cai Xiang, co-sponsored by NYU and Shanghai University, December 18-20, 2009

“Lu Xun’s Essay Production and Critique of Shanghai Modernity,” a research conference organized by Xudong Zhang cosponsored by NYU and ECNU, Shanghai, August 13-15, 2009

“PRC Literature in International Perspectives: 1949-2009,” a research conference organized by Xudong Zhang and Cai Xiang, cosponsored by NYU and Shanghai University, June 12-15, 2009

“The Age of Zawen,” a symposium on Lu Xun’s essay production organized by Xudong Zhang, cosponsored by NYU, Peking University, and East China Normal University, Beijing, August 9- 10, 2008.

NYU-Univ. of Tokyo Joint Workshop on “Rethinking East Asian Modernity: Lu Xun and Takeuchi Yoshimi,” March 2008.

NYU-China Summer Research Institute, 2005-08 (Shanghai); 2007-08 (Beijing), with changing annual themes on theories of modernity; urban culture; Walter Benjamin; and Lu Xun, co- organized with the Chinese Department, Institute of Modern Chinese Thought and Culture, East China Normal University; and with Chinese Department of Peking University, and Peking University Press

Sino-U.S. Bilateral Symposia on Comparative Literature and Cultural Politics, August 10-24, 2005, with panel discussions, workshops, conferences, and colloqua at University of Hong Kong, Chinese Comparative Literature Association Bi-Annual Conference in Shenzhen, East China Normal University in Shanghai, and Tsinghua University, Peking University, and Dushu Editorial Office in Beijing

Advanced Summer Institute on Urban Culture Theory, co-sponsored by New York University, University of Hong Kong, and East China Normal University, Shanghai, June 12-20, 2004

An International Series Conference on Shanghai Urban Culture, Society, and Politics (co- organized with Elizabeth Perry): New York University, April 20-22, 2001; Harvard University, November 2-4, 2001; and University of Hong Kong (co-organized with Elizabeth Sinn), June 10- 12, 2002

"Intellectuals and Reconfiguration of Social Power in 1990s China," an international workshop, co-organized with Timothy Cheek and Jiang Hong, Colorado College, October 26-28, 2001

"The Hermeneutic Tradition of Chinese Culture," Rutgers University, October 10-12, 1996, co- organized with Ching-I Tu, Chun-fang Yu, and Peter Li

"Benjamin for Jetztzeit: 1892-1992," Duke University, co-organized with Craig A. Phillips, February 21-23, 1992

Invited Talks, Public Lectures, and Conference Papers (Selected)

2019 “Reconsiderations of Post-Mao Chinese Avant-Garde Fiction: Critical Perspectives,” invited talk with Su Tong, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, Oct 18.

“Reflections on the Socioeconomic Structure and the Historical Mandate of the Chinese State in the Wake of the Sino-American ‘Trade War’,” lecture in the Executive Management Program, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Jun 27.

“The Personal Essay As Chronicle and Poetics of Urban Modernity: On Lu Xun’s Shanghai Period,” paper presented at East Asian Academy of New Liberal Arts Forum: “East Asian Literature as World Literature”, organized by Nakajima Takahiro, University of Tokyo, Tokyo July 24.

“Of Animal, Ghost and Machine: World Literature and the Future of Humanity in Lao She’s Camel Xiangzi,” paper presented at East Asian Academy of New Liberal Arts Forum: “World Literature & World Philosophy,” organized by Nakajima Takahiro, University of Tokyo, July 23.

“Translating the Untranslatable: Contact Zone and the Frontier of Human Sciences: Benjamin, Lu Xun, Takeuchi Yoshimi,” lecture in “Frontiers of Humanities Lecture Series”, organized by Nakajima Takahiro & Ishi’i Tsuyoshi, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, July 12.

“The Inside and the Outside of the So-Called China Model: Capitalism, Liberal Hegemony and the New Super-State,” keynote speech at the 3rd Intellectual Forum, organized by School of Chinese Studies of Fudan University, Beijing, July 1.

“Contemporary Literature and Its Historical World: Language, Mimesis, and the Earth-Bound Characteristics of Representation,” keynote speech at “Rethinking Contemporary Chinese Literature, 1949-2019,” Shanghai University, Shanghai, June 28-30.

“Rethinking the Vernacular Revolution in May Four New Culture Movement,” talk at “May Four at 100” conference organized by China Institute of New York, May 5.

“Land and Sea and Beyond: Rethinking Carl’s Schmitt’s Spatial Politics in the Age of Sino- American Rivalry and Co-Existence,” keynote speech, ANU-NYU-PKU-Univ. of Tokyo Winter Institute, “History, Culture and Contested Memories: Global and Local Perspectives,” co- organized by Paul Pickering, Nakajima Takahiro and Xudong Zhang, Canberra, Jan 7-11.

2018 “Literature and Art in the Reform Era: A Critical Perspective,” public lecture at the Center for Contemporary China Studies, Tsinghua University, December 28.

“Becoming Animal, Becoming Machine: The Political Allegories in Lao She’s Camel Xiangzi,” keynote speech at “Posthumanism” conference, organized by Wenjin Cui, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, September 29-30.

“Literary and Intellectual Development in the Era of Chinese Reforms: A Retrospective,” public lecture organized by Fudan University School of Chinese Studies, Shanghai, August 4.

“Identity and Difference in Cross-Cultural Understanding: Translation As Political Philosophy in Benjamin, Lu Xun, Schmitt, and Francois Julien,” talk at the Research School of Humanities, Australian National University, Canberra, July 12.

“The Limits of Cultural Radicalism: Rethinking the New Culture-Era Discourse on ‘Becoming Self-Consciousness’(Zijue),” public speech at Sansi Institute Executive Program in Humanities and Technology, Lijiang, Yunnan, June 18.

“From Chinese Interest to Chinese Values? The Interaction between Domestic Politics and Diplomacy within the ‘Chinese Model of Development,’” public lecture at Thinkers Forum, 2018, Fudan University School of Chinese Studies, Shanghai, June 9.

“Mimesis Reconsidered: From Aristotle to the Age of Virtual Reality and Big Data,” public lecture at the Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, May 31.

“After the Beautiful: The Pre-Art and the Post-Art in Hegel’s Phenomenology and Aesthetics,” talk at the School of Humanities, the Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, May 10.

“Narrative and ‘Man in Action’: The Challenge of Realism in Contemporary China,” paper presented at the interdisciplinary research conference on “The Historical Experience of Chinese Industrialization,” organized by Chunqiu Institute, Beijing, Mar 31.

19 “Identity and Sovereignty in the Self-Understanding of Modern Chinese State Form,” paper presented at the CITIC Foundation conference on “Chinese Foreign Relations in the Xi Jinping Era,” Beijing, March 24.

“Constitution-Making Perpetuated: Is There An Unwritten Contract of the Chinese State with the People?” paper presented at the Telos-ICCT joint conference on “Constitutional Theory,” co- organized by David Pan and Xudong Zhang, New York, February 17.

2017 “Observations on the Political and the Apolitical in the State Form Corresponding to ‘Socialist Market Economy,” paper presented at “The Impact of the 19th Party Congress:the Annual NYU Conference on Chinese Capital Markets”, organized by David Denoon, New York, December 8.

“Brothers Forever: Yu Hua’s Allegorical Representation of Chinese Reality,” talk at University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, Oct 16.

“The Concept of Gentleman in Confucius’ Analects,” talk at Yenching Academy, Peking University, Beijing, June 27.

“The High and Low in Chinese New Culture Movement: Reconsiderations”, talk at The Central University of Nationalities, Beijing, June 19.

“Chronicle as Poetry: On Lu Xun’s Essay Production During His Shanghai Decade (1927- 1936),” talk at Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Chongqing University, Chongqing, June 15.

“Brecht and Mimesis: Reading Jameson’s Brecht and Method,” talk at Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Chongqing University, Chongqing, June 14.

“Cultural Politics of Contemporary China,” talk at the Hong Kong Central Policy Institute, Hong Kong, May 12.

“Revisiting Fukuzawa’s Comparative Theory of Civilization in the Age of Identity and Identity Politics,” seminar at the 2nd PKU-Univ. of Tokyo Winter Institute for Critical Area Studies, co- organized by Xudong Zhang and Nakajima Takahiro, Beijing, March 14.

2016 “Legality and Legitimacy: Rethinking the Discourse on ‘The Chinese Way’,” invited talk at Shenzhen Graduate School, Peking University, Shenzhen, December 21.

“National Identity and Cultural Norm: Reconsiderations of the Notion of Sovereignty through the Prism of the Early and Recent Moments of Chinese Historical Experiences,” public speech at the Inaugural China Culture Forum, organized by Tung Chee-Hwa, Our Hong Kong Foundation, Hong Kong, December 19.

“The Nameless Reality: Subject and Subjectlessness in Contemporary Chinese Art,” opening keynote speech, 4th Annual Himalayas Culture Forum on “The Conflict of Representation”, Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, Oct 15.

“Toward A Theory of the Particular Universal: Rethinking Cultural Identity in the Age of Globalization,” public lecture at School of Chinese Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai, Oct 11.

20 “The End of ‘End of History’: Rereading Samuel Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations (1996),” a public lecture at Beijing University of International Studies, Beijing, June 14.

Five lectures on Lukacs, Auerbach, and Fredric Jameson’s theory of realism; on the writings of Wang Anyi; and on literature and political philosophy,” International Center for Critical Theory (ICCT) Seminar Series, Peking University, Beijing, March 15, June 12, 21, 23, and July 16.

Three seminars on Minor Literature and National Allegory; Sovereignty and the State of Exception; and Contradiction and Overdetermination, the International Center for Critical Theory (ICCT) Winter Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Jan 6-15.

2015 “The Origins of Shanghai Culture,” public speech along with Wang Anyi, 50th Anniversary Memorial Lecture Series, Shanghai University of International Studies, Shanghai, December 25.

“A Defense of Theory in the Age of Global Capital: Rethinking the Political in the Aesthetic, and Vice Versa,” paper presented at “Critical Transactions: Engaging the Humanities East & West, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, December 17-18.

“When Shanghai Itself Speaks Out—Of Silence and Omissions in Jin Yucheng’s Fanhua(Blooming),” keynote speech at the Shanghai Project “Nihao, Shanghai” International Conference, Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, December 12.

“Challenges of Liberal Education in the People’s Republic,” invited round-table discussion on “Symposium on Liberal Education in the Age of Globalization”, Yale-NUS College, Singapore, October, 10

“The Ya(Refined)/Su Distinction in the New Culture Movement,” keynote speech at the Centennial Memorial Symposium on Chinese New Culture Movement, Peking University, September 15.

“The East Asian Approach to Global Liberal Education Core Courses in the Humanities,” paper presented at the workshop convened by the Chancellor of Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, July 10.

“The Ya(Refined)/Su(Vulgar) Distinction in Zhou Zuoren’s Theory of the Vernacular Essay,” invited speech at Yenching Academy, Peking University, July 7; keynote speech at Himalayas Culture Forum, Shanghai, July 1.

“Liu Zhenyun and the Countryside of Literature,” keynote speech on “The Poetics of Convolution and the Structural Motivation of Literature,” in the morning symposium and moderator/discussant in the afternoon workshop, Peking University, June 11.

“Is Theory Necessarily Critical?” paper presented at the University of California, Irvine, conference sponsored by the Critical Theory Institute to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Johns Hopkins conference on structuralism, Irvine, May 23-25.

“Literary Studies and Interpretation of Canon” conference keynote speech on “Of Human, Animal, and Machine: Rereading Camel Xiangzi,” Tamkang University, Tamkang, Taiwan, May 13-14.

21 “Rereading Jeunesse—The first 100 Years,” public lecture in the Annual Chinese Cultural Forum, East China Normal University, Shanghai, May 4-5.

“Critical Theory and Political Philosophy,” a series of inter-connected lectures on Hobbes, Schmitt, Lenin, Mao, Benjamin, and Agamben, Spring 2015, International Center for Critical Theory-PKU, Peking University, Beijing, March-May.

2014 “Critique of Violence and Critique of Power in Benjamin, Mao, and Carl Schmitt,” paper presentated at Cornell University Critical Theory Institute, Ithaca, NY, December 6.

“Theory and Liberal Education: Comparative Observations on German, American, and Chinese Concepts of the Research University,” paper presentation at the Sino-German Forum in Advanced Studies, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, October 12.

“When Shanghai Its Speaks Out—Literary Representation and Politics of Language--On Fanhua (Blooming),” public lecture in Sinan Lecture Series sponsored by Shanghai Municipal Culture Bureau, Shanghai, April 19.

“The Concept of Method in Fredric Jameson’s Brecht and Method,” keynote speech at Fudan University Chinese Forum, Shanghai, May 19.

“Animal, Machine, Man: Rereading Lao She’s Camel Xiangzi from the Perspectives of High Modernism and Political Philosophy,” keynote speech at Zhejiang University Oriental Forum, Hangzhou, May 27.

2013 “Slaying the Cultural Leviathan: Reconsiderations on Chinese Enlightenment Discourse on Cannibalism,” keynote speech at the conference on “Cannibalistic Modernisms,” King’s College, London, November 6-7; public lecture, Minzu University of China, Beijing, December 20.

“The Architectonics of the Romantic Novel: Rereading Notre Dame de Paris,” Inaugural lecture for Boya College, Chongqing University, Chongqing, October 10.

“The ‘Magic’ as ‘Real’ in Mo Yan's Fictional Representation of Contemporary China: Reading The Republic of Wine and Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out” & “The Conundrum of Chinese Identity in the Age of Globalization,” a mini lecture series for the “Core Course Workshop” organized by Asian Studies Development Program (ASDP) directed by East-West Center, University of Hawaii funded by U.S. Department of Education, University of North Carolina at Ashville, Sep 16; University of Texas at El Paso, Oct. 7; Portland State University, Oct.21.

“Formal Autonomy and Its Historicization: Language and Structure in Liu Zhenyun’s Literary Production,” public lecture at Peking University, Aug 1

“What Is A Method? Critical Approaches in Fredric Jameson’s Brecht and Method”, public lecture at Peking University, July 30; East China Normal University, Shanghai, June 7.

“Liberal Education in the Age of Globalization,” public lecture in Wenhui Jiangtang Lecture Series, Wenhuipao, Shanghai, June 30.

“What Does It Mean to Talk About the ‘Chinese Dream’,” seminar at Social Observation headquarters, Shanghai, June 14.

“The Poetics of Convolutedness (Rao): Reading Liu Zhenyun’s Yiju ding yiwanju and Wobushi Pan Jinlian”, public lecture at East China Normal University, Shanghai, June 13; Henan University, Kaifeng, June 5.

“Dialectic, Contradiction, Structure: Critical Conceptual Constructions in the Age of Global Capital in Fredric Jameson’s Valences of the Dialectic,” public lecture at East China Normal University, June 9.

“Monad and Formal Expansion: Perspectives on Fredric Jameson’s Studies on Modernism,” public lecture at East China Normal University, June 8.

“Lu Xun as Method,” paper presented at “Lu Xun and East Asia–an International Conference,” Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, April 5.

2012 “Literature as Political Machine—Rereading Mao’s Yan’an Talk,” paper at “Rethinking Yan’an: Culture, Society, and Politics” conference, co-organized by Cai Xiang and Zhang Xudong, Chongqing University, Chongqing, December 26-28, 2012.

“‘Cultural Self-Consciousness’ as A Political Notion,” public lecture at New China Publication and Distribution Group, Shanghai, July 28, 2012.

“Other Peoples, Other Places, and Totality—the Comparative Approaches in Hegel’s Philosophy of Art,” public lecture at Sichuan University of International Studies, Chongqing, June 27, 2012.

“Literature and the Inner Contradictions of the ‘Modern Subject’—from the Viewpoint of Hegel’s Aesthetics,” public lecture at Shanghai University, Shanghai, June 18, 2012.

“The Divine and the Collective as Content: Labor and Hegel’s Phenomenology of Art,” public lecture at East China Normal University, Shanghai, June 16, 2012

“Externalization, Interiority, and ‘Mittelpunkt’—the Subjective Movement in Hegel’s Aesthetic Categories,” public lecture at East China Normal University, Shanghai, June15, 2012.

“The Limits of Idea and of Its Sensuous Appearance: On Hegel’s Rejection of the Notion of Natural Beauty,” public lecture at East China Normal University, Shanghai, June 14, 2012.

“The World of Prose” and “the End of Art: Studies in Hegel’s Aesthetics,” pubic lecture at Peking University, Beijing, June 4, 2012.

“Hegel’s Aesthetics: An Art-Philosophical Interpretation,” public lecture at Peking University, Beijing, May28, 2012.

“What Is Comparative Literature? Toward a Political-Philosophical Understanding,” keynote speech at the End-of-Project Conference, Center of Philosophy, University of Tokyo, Kyoto, Jan 14, 2012.

“Rereading Mao’s ‘On Contradiction’,” graduate seminar at the International Center for Critical Theory, East China Normal University, Shanghai, Jan 6, 2012.

23 “Rereading Mao’s ‘On New Democracy’,” a graduate seminar at the International Center for Critical Theory, East China Normal University, Shanghai, Jan 6, 2012.

“Toward a Political Ontology of New Chinese Culture: Rereading Mao’s ‘Talk at the Yan’an Forum of Literature and Art,’” International Center for Critical Theory, East China Normal University, Shanghai, Jan 5, 2012.

2011 “Toward a Political Ontology of New Chinese Culture: Rereading Mao’s ‘Talk at the Yan’an Forum of Literature and Art,’” International Center for Critical Theory, Peking University, Beijing, December 23, 2011.

“On Yu Hua’s Brothers,” talk at International Center for Critical Theory, Peking University, Beijing, December 20, 2011.

“Contemporary Chinese Intellectual Politics Revisited,” keynote speech at the conference on “The Chinese Way,” organized by Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo Honggo Campus, Tokyo, December 17, 2011.

“What Is Comparative Literature? Toward a Political-Philosophical Understanding,” talk in the Department of Comparative Literature, University of California at Berkeley, November 3, 2011.

“Rereading ‘The Biography of Duke Huaiyin’ in Records of the Grand Historian,” a two-part public lecture given at Peking University 5th Summer Institute on “Classics and Interpretations: Core Courses in Liberal Education” series, Beijing, August 3-4, 2011.

“Enlightenment and Political Philosophy: Rethinking the Notion of ‘Republic’ Among Early May Fourth Intellectuals,” paper presented at the 100th Anniversary of the Republic of China Memorial Conference, University of Hawaii, Honululu, March 29, 2011.

2010 “Toward the Essay: The Aesthetic and Political Intensity of Lu Xun’s Literary Production, 1925-1936,” talk at School of Literary Studies, Nankai University, Tianjin, China, December 1, 2010

“Chinese Modernism and Its Limits,” keynote speech at the Annual Conference of International Committee on Museums and Collections of Modern Art (CIMAN), Shanghai, November 9, 2010.

“Cultural Passion and Political Awareness in the Dialectic of the Particular and the Universal,” talk at “Forum on Political Philosophy: Universalism and Particularism,” College of Philosophy, Renmin University, Beijing, October 31, 2010.

“Keywords in Contemporary Chinese Literature in the Age of Globalization,” keynote speech at Boya International Literary Forum on “Global Implications of Contemporary Chinese Literature,” Peking University, Beijing, October 29-30, 2010.

“Theory Today: Challenges and Opportunities Facing Critical Discourse,” a joint seminar with Susan Buck-Morss (Cornell-CUNY Graduate Center), The Institute of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, November 7, 2010.

“The Politics of the Universal: Enlightenment and Modern Identity Crisis,” paper presented at “Rethinking Enlightenment in Global/Historical Contexts,” organized by Xudong Zhang and

24 Takahiro Nakajima, International Center for Critical Theory, Peking University, August 25-27, 2010.

“Is the ‘Post’ in Postsocialism the Same as the ‘Post’ in ‘Postmodernism’?” talk at Center for Intellectual History, Fudan University, Shanghai, August 21, 2010.

“Allegorical Criticism: Theory and Practice,” and “Lyricism and Modern Experience,” a two-part seminar series on Walter Benjamin’s Das Passengen-Werk, co-organized by Simian School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, East China Normal University & NYU-Shanghai Summer Research Institute, Shanghai, August 20-21, 2010.

“Market Socialism and Its Discontent: On Jia Zhangke’s Filmmaking, from Xiaowu to 24 City,” public lecture at Joint Coursework in Cultural Studies Project co-organized by East China Normal University, Shanghai University, Shanghai Normal University, Fudan University, and Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Jan 2; also delivered at “Modernity’s Cultural Politics” conference organized by Courtauld Institute of Art, London, October 23-24, 2010.

“Rethinking Enlightenment: On Max Horkeheimer and T.W. Adorno’s ‘The Dialectic of Enlightenment’,” a two-part public lecture at Peking University 4th Summer Institute on “Classics and Interpretations: Core Courses in Liberal Education” series, co-organized by Gan Yang and Xudong Zhang, Beijing, August 11-12, 2010.

“Universalism and Cultural Identity in Contemporary China,” talk at “In-Depth Chinese Studies Seminar,” Institute of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, June 21, 2010.

“Walter Benjamin and Urban Experience,” a two-part lecture given at “Metropolitan Studies and Chinese Experience: International Summer Doctoral Research Symposium”, co-organized by Jin Jiang of East China Normal University; Elizabeth Perry of Harvard University; Helen Siu of Yale University, and Xudong Zhang of New York University, June 15-25, Minhang Campus, East China Normal University, Shanghai, June 16, 2010.

“Metropolis and Cultural Practice: Shanghai and Shanghai Studies as Theory and Allegory,” inaugural lecture for “Metropolitan Studies and Chinese Experience: International Summer Doctoral Research Symposium”, co-organized by Jin Jiang of East China Normal University; Elizabeth Perry of Harvard University; Helen Siu of Yale University, and Xudong Zhang of New York University, June 15-25, East China Normal University, Minhang Campus, June 16, 2010.

“Imagined ‘Western Scholarship’ and Internal Contradictions of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Intellectual Space,” keynote speech at “Kulturen im Kontakt: Herstellung, Struktur und Wirkung europaeisch-chinesischer Interaktionsraeume,” April 15-20, organized by der Abteilung fuer Interkulturelle Germanistik im Seminar fuer Deutsche Philologie, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany, April 15, 2010.

“Dismantling Red Legacy and the Battle Over the Concept of ‘the Human’: Rereading Xie Jin’s Hibiscus Town,” paper presented at Red Legacy: An International Conference, Harvard University, April 2-3, 2010.

2009 “Politics of De-politicization: Re-Reading Xie Jin’s Hibiscus Town,”public lecture at the School of Performing Arts, Beijing Normal University, December 29; also delivered at the

25 “Reading the Chinese 1980s: Situation and Context” conference organized by NYU and Shanghai University, Shanghai, Shanghai, December 16-17, 2009.

“Lu Xun’s Late Essays and Critique of Shanghai Modernity”, public lecture at Sun Yat-Sen University, Zhuangzhou, December 16; also delivered at the workshop co-organized by NYU and ECNU, Shanghai, August 15-17, 2009.

“Globalization and Chinese Cultural Production,” public lecture in the inaugural lectures series, Confucius Institute, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX, November 18, 2009.

“The Concept of Religion in the Imaginations of Modern China—The Case of Lu Xun and Zhang Taiyan”, talk at Sino-Indian Philosophical Dialogue on Culture, Wisdom, and Spirituality, organized by Tu Weiming, Peking University, Beijing, November 11-12, 2009.

“Politics of Tradition and the Legitimacy of Modern Nation-State,” talk delivered at Beijing Forum 2009, organized by Peking University, Beijing, November 6-8, 2009.

“Market Socialism and Its Discontent: Jia Zhangke’s Film Production,” a paper delivered at “Modernity’s Cultural Politics: China in Context”, organized by the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, Oct 23-24, 2009.

“Hegel’s Philosophy of Right contra Classical Liberalism,” a seminar at Fudan Institute of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, Shanghai, June 30, 2009.

"The Politics of the Universal", keynote speech at “The Plural Present of Historical Life” conference at Center of Philosophy, University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus, Tokyo, May 15, 2009.

“The Politics of the Universal”, public lecture at Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University, Palo Alto, March 6, 2009.

"Ah Q and the Spectral Name of Modern China: Toward A Semiotics of Political Philosophy," Center of Philosophy, University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus, Tokyo, May 12, 2009.

"Forgetting As Memory: The Politics of Time and Experience in Lu Xun's Personal Recollections", Center of Philosophy, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, April 28, 2009.

“The Cultural Politics of ‘the New’,” talk at the conference to commemorate the 90th anniversary of May Fourth Movement, Peking University, April 23-25, 2009

“The Will to Allegory and the Origin of Chinese Modernism,” talk at Connecticut College, March 26, 2009.

2008 “Allegory and Critical Urban Iconography: Benjamin’s Passagenwerk and Critique of Shanghai Modernity in Lu Xun’s Late Essays”, a paper delivered at Modernism Studies Associate Annual Convention, Nashville, November 14, 2008.

“A Critical Re-reading Lu Xun’s ‘Ah Q-The Real Story’,” invited talk at University of California, San Diego, October 3, 2008.

26 “The Becoming Self-Conscious of Zawen,” a conference on “The Age of the Essay,” Peking University, East China Normal University and New York University, Beijing, July 4-7, 2008.

“Nietzsche, Benjamin, Deleuze—Three Critical Paradigms in ‘Minor Literature’,” a talk at Beijing University of Foreign Studies, Beijing, June 30, 2008.

“Re-reading Lu Xun and Questions of Literary Criticism and Theory,” a talk at Fudan University, Chinese Department, Shanghai, June 16 (afternoon), 2008.

“Formal Analysis and Narrative Strategy: A Critical Re-reading of Lu Xun’s ‘A Madman’s Diary,’ ‘Hometown,’ and ‘Mourning the Dead’,” Tongji University, Shanghai, June 16, 2008.

“Name and Language in the Crisis of Meaning in Modern Chinese Culture: A Critical RE- reading of Lu Xun’s The True Story of Ah Q”, East China Normal University, Shanghai, May 29; Peking University, Beijing, June 9, 2008.

“Politics of Forgetting and Memory: An Analysis of Lu Xun’s Morning Blossom Plucked at Dusk”, Shanghai University, Shanghai, May 30; Beijing Normal University, Beijing, June 6, 2008.

“Modernism and Prose Poetry: Reading Lu Xun’s Wild Grass”, East China Normal University, Shanghai, May 25; Renmin University, Beijing, June 3, 2008.

“Self-Consciousness and National Allegory: Reading ‘Preface to Call for Arms’ and ‘A Madman’s Diary’”, East China Normal University, Shanghai, May 27, 2008.

“Power and Truth: Reading Lu Xun’s Early Essays”, East China Normal University, Shanghai, May 23, 2008.

2007 “The Idea of the University: Political-Philosophical Considerations,” invited paper presented at the “Politics of Academic Knowledge”, co-organized by NYU International Center for Advanced Studies and the Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest, July 16, 2007.

“Reading Mo Yan’s The Republic of Wine,” a graduate seminar at the Center for Modern Chinese Thought and Culture, East China Normal University, Shanghai, July 4, 2007.

“Reading Wang Anyi’s The Age of Enlightenment,” a graduate seminar at the Department of Chinese, East China Normal University, Shanghai, July 2, 2007.

“Benjamin’s Study on Baudelaire,” a seminar co-taught with Richard Sieburth, “Metropolis and Cultural Theory” conference/institute, Shanghai, June 27, 2007.

“The Historico-Materialist Approach in Walter Benjamin’s Study of High Modernism,” seminar at the “Metropolis and Cultural Theory” conference/summer institute, Shanghai, June 25, 2007.

“The Politico-Economic Conditions of Cultural Theory: Benjamin reading Marx in Convolute X of Arcades Project,” keynote speech at the “Metropolis and Cultural Theory” conference, co- organized by NYU and East China Normal University, Shanghai, June 24, 2007.

27 “Benjamin Reading Marx: Examining Convolute X of the Arcades Project,” keynote lecture on “Metropolis and Culture Theory,” NYU-ECNU Summer Research Institute, Shanghai, June 23, 2007.

“Intellectuals, Secularism, and Politics as Religion”, “Religion and Secularism,” organized by Gayatri Spivak, Columbia University, New York, February 28, 2007.

“Secularism and Cultural Politics: Value-Plurality and the Dialectic of the Universal and Particular,” paper delivered at “Religion and Secularism” conference, organized by the Center for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University, New York, Feb 16, 2007.

“Demonic Realism: Allegories of Socialist Market Economy in Mo Yan’s The Republic of Wine”, New School University, New York, February 12, 2007.

2006 A lecture series on Rethinking Modernity and Chinese Modernism delivered at the Center of Philosophy, University of Tokyo, December 4-19, 2006:

1) Rethinking the Maxims of Modernism through Chinese Modernist Movements: Theoretical Terms and Their Historicization 2) The Political-Philosophical Genealogies of the Christian-Bourgeois “Sitte”: Continuities and Discontinuities from Kant to Carl Schmitt 3) Lu Xun as Modernist: The Case of Prose Poetry 4) The Nietzschean Turn in Reaffirming the Western Self from the Ebbing of High Modernism to the Age of Globalization 5) Cinematic Modernism in 20th Century China: The Making and Unmaking of Modernistic Cinematic Language in the 1980s and Early 1990s 6) Imperial Residue and the Multiplicity of Global Sovereignty: Beyond “Clashes of Civilization” and “the End of History” 7) Modernist Poetry in Modern and Contemporary China: Critical Reexaminations 8) Is the “Post” in Post-Socialism the “Post” in Postmodernism? Rereading Contemporary Chinese State, Society, and Culture

“Cinematic Language and Chinese Modernity”, lecture at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, December 8, 2006.

“Narrative Repetition and Cultural Legitimacy in Zhang Yimou’s The Story of Qiu Ju,” lecture at Rykkio Univeristy, Tokyo, December 7, 2006.

“The Relationship between Hegel’s Phenomenology and Aesthetics,” a talk in the Literature Program, Duke University, Durham, NC, November 21, 2006.

“The Concepts of ‘Production’ and ‘Commodity’ in Marx and Benjamin,” keynote speech, conference on “Cultural Production in the Age of Globalization”, organized by East China Normal University and Shanghai University, Shanghai, June 28, 2006.

“’After Theory’ and ‘Death of A Discipline’: Notes on the Current State of Critical Theory and Comparative Literature,” public lecture at Nanjing University, Nanjing, June 27, 2006.

“Critique of Knowledge and Critique of Historicism in Walter Benjamin’s Paris manuscript,” public lecture at the School of Humanities, Tsinghua University, Beijing, June 21, 2006.

28 ECNU University Lecture series, "Prostitution, Gambling, and Flaneurie in Walter Benjamin's Representation of Paris," Shanghai, June 11, 2006.

ECNU University Lecture series, "Natural History and Allegory in Walter Benjamin," Shanghai, June 9, 2006.

East China Normal University(ECNU) University Lecture series, "Author as Producer: Labor and Commodity Fetishism in Marx and Benjamin," Shanghai, June 8, 2006.

2005 “Rethinking the Concept of Literary History in Modern China”, paper presented at “Regarding Modern Chinese Literature: Methods and Meanings”, organized by Xiaobing Tang, University of Chicago, May 6-7, 2006.

“Neoliberalism and Neoconservatism: Overlap and Symbiosis”, paper presented at “Fetishizing the Free Market: The Cultural Politics of Neoliberalism”, organized by Karen Kelsky, Michael Rothberg and Gary Xu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 29-30, 2006.

“‘Civil Society’ and Bourgeois Legal Right: A Political Rethinking”, a general response to the conference “International Civil Society, World Governance, and the State”, organized by Gyatri Spivak, the Center for Comparative Literature and Society, March 31-April 1, 2006.

2004 “Personal Essay and the Invention of Modern Everyday Life: Aesthetics and Politics of Zhou Zuoren’s Literary Production in the 11930s,” talk at Haverford College, March 19, 2006.

“Narrative, Culture, and Legitimacy: Repetition and Singularity in Zhang Yimou’s The Story of Qiu Ju,” a talk at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, IL, March 17, 2006.

“Death of a Discipline: Gyattri Spivak/Judith Butler Symposium on Comparative Literature”, co- organized by Emily Apter and Mary Pratt, panelist, New York University, February 27, 2006.

2003 “Experimental Art and Revolutionary Legacy: Reading Xu Bing,” a paper read at the symposium, “Still Standing after the Fall: Cultural Politics in China, North Korea, Vietnam, and Cuba”, organized by Marilyn Young, International Center for Advanced Studies, New York University, December 5, 2005.

“Reading ‘The Book from the Sky: Notes on Xu Bing,” a panel discussion on “Disappearance” Symposium, organized by Yu Yeon Kim, Weatherhead Institute of East Asian Studies, Columbia University, November 5, 2005.

“Listening to the Growth of Time: Space, Everyday Life, and History in Edward Yang’s Yi Yi”, a paper delivered at “Taiwanese Cinema: Here and There”, organized by Dudley Andrew, Yale University, October 30-November 1, 2005.

“The Essay Production of Xu Zhimo,” a public lecture given at “Symposium on Xu Zhimo”, organized by Hou Yong, the China Institute, New York, September 26, 2005.

“The Internet and Contemporary Chinese Intellectual Debate: Four Case Studies,” a paper delivered at the Freeman conference on “From Book to the Internet: East Asian Intellectual Production”, organized by Arif Dirlik, University of Oregon, October 15-10, 2005.

29 “Modernity as Cultural Politics: Jameson and Utopian Thinking in Contemporary China,” a paper delivered at the conference “The Future of Utopia,” organized by Alberto Moreiras, Duke University, March 19-21,2005.

2002 “Minor Literature and Modern Chinese Literary Culture,” an invited talk given in the Department of Comparative Literature, University of Oregon, October 19, 2005.

“Chinese Literature: The Threshold between the Classical and the Modern,” a public lecture at the American Museum of Natural History, co-sponsored by the China Institute, New York, October 12, 2005.

“Cultural Identity in the Age of Globalization”, keynote speech at the Biannual Convention of Chinese Comparative Literature Associate, Nanjing, August 14-18, 2005.

“History and Subjectivity in the Age of Multiculturalism,” the Cai Yuanpei Lecture, Peking University, June 28, 2005.

“Postcolonialism and the Historicity of Culture,” the Tsinghua-Harvard Forum on Postcolonialism, June 20, 2005.

“Universality, Comparability, and Culture as Politics,” “Comparability /Possibility of Comparison” workshop organized by Harry Harootunian, Department of East Asian Studies, New York University, March 1-3, 2005.

“Know Your Enemy: Political Philosophy and Mao’s Cold War Strategy,” the symposium on “Cold War as Global Conflict”, organized by Marilyn Young, International Center for Advanced Studies, New York University, February 8, 2005.

“Zhang Yimou and the Cinema of Postsocialism,” “Postsocialist China” organized by Leo Ching, Duke University, Feb 1-3, 2005.

2001 “Contemporary Chinese Popular Culture,” China Institute, December 12, 2001.

“Contemporary Chinese Urban Life,” China Institute, December 5, 2001.

“On Becoming Political of the Cultural: Globalization and Postmodernism after September 11,” keynote address at “Globalization and Mass Culture: Production, Consumption, and Identity,” co-organized by Tina Chen and Adam Muller, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, October 19-21, 2001.

“Toward a Radical Hermeneutics of Chinese Literary Tradition: Reading Zhou Zuoren’s Sources of New Chinese Literature,” “How China’s Twentieth-First Century Speaks to Its Past,” co- organized by Tani Barlow and Angela Zito, New York University, October 13-14, 2001.

“Reflections on the Cultural-Political Framing of Hermeneutic Thinking,” Hermeneutics and Interpretations of Chinese Cultural Tradition,” organized by Ching-i Tu and Dietrich Tchanz, Rutgers University, October 4-7, 2001.

“Shanghai Image: Iconography, Minor Literature, and the Unmaking of a Modern Chinese Mythology,” the 3rd Sino-U.S. Bilateral Symposium on Comparative Literature, co-organized by Tsinghua and Yale Universities, Beijing, China, August 10-13, 2001.

“Empire: A Political-Philosophical Perspective,” “Literature, Culture, and Humanity in the Age of Globalization,” organized by Wang Yichuan, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, August 4-7, 2001.

“Old Shanghai: Memory, Imagination, Nostalgia,” China Institute, New York, April 23, 2001.

“Shanghai Image: Iconography, Minor Literature, and the Unmaking of a Modern Chinese Mythology,” “Shanghai Urban Culture: Comparative Perspectives,” co-organized by Xudong Zhang and Elizabeth Perry, New York University, April 20-22, 2001.

“Shanghai Nostalgia: Allegories of Modernity,” “Chinese Culture: Past, Present, and Future,” Stanford University, March 31-April 1, 2001.

“Seventeen Years and the Politics of the Urban Generation of Chinese Filmmakers,” “Urban Generation Films,” organized by Zhen Zhang, New York University, March 11-12, 2001.

2000 "Paradox of Chinese Liberalism," Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University, November 13, 2000.

"Cinema of Postsocialism: On Zhang Yimou’s film productions in the 1990s," Chinese film conference at Swarthmore College, organized by Haili Kong, Oct. 7, 2000.

"Vernacular Literature and Modern Everyday Life: On Zhou Zuoren’s Strategy of Writing," "Material Culture and Modernity" co-organized by Professors Madeleine Y. Dong and Joshua Goldstein, University of Washington (Seattle), September 30 - Oct. 1, 2000.

"The Vernacular Essay and the Reinvention of Chinese Literary Tradition: The case of Zhou Zuoren," Fudan University, Shanghai, June 14, 2000.

"Shanghai Nostalgia: Allegories of Modernity," "Shanghai-Hong Kong Comparative Urban Cultural Studies" conference, organized by Shanghai Normal University and Wenhuipao, Shanghai, June 10-13, 2000.

"Shanghai Nostalgia: Allegories of Modernity," Center of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong, June 5, 2000.

"China and WTO," a radio talk with Peter Kwang and Lingchi Wang at "Asia-Pacific Forum," WBAI (New York City), May 30, 2000.

"Ah Cheng and King of the Children, the Literary Text," East Asian Languages and Cultures Department, Columbia University, April 16, 2000.

" ‘End of History’ or the Endless Modernity: Rethinking Modern Chinese Intellectual History," "Chinese Humanities" conference, organized by Theodore Huters, Center for Chinese Sudies, University of California, Los Angeles, January 22, 2000.

"Shanghai Nostalgia," Chicago Humanities Festival, Nov. 12-14, 2000.

31 1999 “Chinese Intellectual Politics in the 1990s,” a discussion with the graduate student workshop on modern Chinese literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, Nov. 11, 1999.

"On Zhou Zuoren's Sources of New Chinese Literature," “Modern Interpretations of Chinese Cultural-Philosophical Traditions," Stanford University, August 20-22, 1999.

"Aesthetics of the Vernacular: The Idea and Politics of Modern Chinese Essay in Zhou Zuoren," China Studies Program, the Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, May 27, 1999.

"On 'Production'," a discussion on Wang Jianwei's Production (1998)," Music of Change: Visual Representation of Cities," organized by Leo Rubenfien and Barbara Abrash, New York University, April 1, 1999.

"Nostalgic Utopia: Bourgeois Modernity, Post-Revolutionary Melancholy, and the City of Shanghai in Zhang Ailing and Wang Anyi," International Center for Advanced Studies, New York University, Jan. 22, 1999.

Discussions on Tian Zhuangzhuang's Horse Thief and Cinematic Modernism from PRC at CUNY TV (New York City, Channel 75) "City Cinemathesque" with program host Jerry Carlson recorded on Jan.6, first broadcast on Jan. 24, 1999.

1998 "Modernism and Modern Chinese Historical Writing," Mellon-Sawyer Symposium on "Modernism and National Culture," New York University, Nov.20, 1998.

"Utopia against Utopia: Cultural Production and Intellectual Politics in China after 1989," Fairbank Center for East Asian Studies and the Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, Harvard University, Nov. 5, 1998.

"Taiwanese Nationalism," "Writing Taiwan: Strategies of Representation," Columbia University, April 29 - May 1, 1998.

"Modernism as an International Language: Strategies of Globalization in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Film," Colorado College, April 13, 1998.

1997 "Personal Trauma, Global Allegory: Cinematic Construction of National History in Tian Zhuangzhuang's The Blue Kite," Humanities Institute at Stony Brook, State University of New York, Oct. 9, 1997.

"An Introduction to Contemporary Theories of Nationalism," Research Institute of Comparative Literature and Culture, Peking University, June 30, 1997.

"China Without Deng: Mass Culture and Intellectual Discourse, " Symposium on Post-Deng China, Rutgers University, March 12, 1997.

"Specters and Spectacles: History, Melodrama, and Politics in Recent Chinese Award-winning Films," College of Wooster, February 10, 1997.

1996 "Anti-Intellectualism and the Reproduction of Social Space: Wang Shuo as Cultural Politics, " Swarthmore College, November 27, 1996.

"Toward a Radical Hermeneutics of Chinese Literary Tradition: Reading Zhou Zuoren's Sources of Modern Chinese Literature," "The Hermeneutic Tradition of Chinese Culture," organized by Ching-I Tu et. al., Rutgers University, October 10-12, 1996.

"The Chinese 1980s as a Cultural Historical Period," Research Institute of Comparative Literature and Culture, Peking University, May 15, 1996.

"The Politics of Representation: Rethinking Orientalism," Research Institute of Comparative Literature and Culture, Peking University, May 18, 1996.

"The Field of Cultural Production: An Introduction to Pierre Bourdieu's Social Philosophy," Peking University, May 20, 1996.

"What is 'National Allegory'?" East China Normal University, Shanghai, May 25, 1996.

1995 "A Memory of the 'Future': Experience of Soviet Culture in the Early Years of the People's Republic," annual conference of the American Association of Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington, DC, October 21-23, 1995.

"The Rise and Fall of the "Fifth Generation Film," Asian Film Festival of the Triangle Area, hosted by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, February 28, 1995.

1994 "Allegories of the Social Landscape: Reading Chen Kaige's King of the Children," "Image, Desire, Ideology in Chinese Cinema," organized by Sheldon Hsiao-peng Lu, University of Pittsburgh, September 23-25, 1994.

"Utopia, Ideology and the Aesthetic Modernity of the Chinese 1980s," "Idealism and Modern China," organized by the Institute of Chinese Culture, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, June 27 July 1, 1994.

"The Space of Temporality: Notes on the Representation of the Urban in the Context of Third World Culture," "New Metropolis Forms," organized by Jonathan Beller and Neferti Tadiar, Duke University, April 7, 1994.

1993 "The Relevance of Postcoloniality in the Chinese Cultural Discussion," Critical- Theoretical Alternatives: a workshop (organized by Arif Dirlik and Maurice Meisner), University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 23-25, 1993.

1992 "Reflections on the Chinese 'Cultural Discussion' in the Late 1980s," "Rethinking of Chinese Literature and Critical Theory," organized by the American Association of Chinese Comparative Literature), UCLA, March 20, 1992.

"Naturgeschichte, Subjectivity and Questions Concerning Narrative" "Benjamin for the Jetztzeit: 1892-1992," Duke University, February 21-23, 1992.