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Hang Tu 涂航 2 Peabody Terrace, #1703, Cambridge, MA, 02138 Email: Hangtu@G.Harvard.Edu Phone: +1-443-345-6628 Education： H Hang Tu 涂航 2 Peabody Terrace, #1703, Cambridge, MA, 02138 Email: [email protected] Phone: +1-443-345-6628 Education： Harvard University 2015-Present East Asian Languages & Civilizations Ph.D. University of Washington June 2014 English Language and Literature M.A. Sun Yat-Sen University July 2012 English Language and Literature B.A. Dissertation: “Revolution Remains: Literature, Thought, and Memory Politics in Contemporary China” Committee: Professor David Der-wei Wang (Chair), Professor Elizabeth J. Perry, Professor Jie Li Publications: Book Chapters: “Cultural Imperialism Redux? Reassessing the Christian Colleges of Republican China,” co- authored with Elizabeth J. Perry, in China and the World—The World and China: A Transcultural Perspective, Vol. 3 (Gossenberg: OSTASIEN Verlag, 2019). “Anticipatory Utopia and Redemptive Utopia in Post-revolutionary China,” in Utopia and Utopianism in the Contemporary Chinese Context: Texts, Ideas, Spaces, David Der-wei Wang eds. (Hong Kong University Press, forthcoming). English Journal Articles: “Pleasure and Sin, Li Zehou, Liu Zaifu, and the Political-Theological Motif in Post-Mao Cultural Reflections,” in Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature, accepted. Chinese Journal Articles: “Le yu zui: Li Zehou, Liu Zaifu, yu wenhuafansi de liangzhonglujing” 樂與罪：李澤厚, 劉 再復, 與文化反思的兩種路徑” [Pleasure and sin: Li Zehou, Liu Zaifu, and the two routes of cultural reflection in post-Mao China], in Huawenwenxue 華文文學 [Sinophone Literature], Feb. 2019. (Peer-reviewed) “Meiyu dai zongjiao: houwusi shidai de meixue sichao” 美育代宗教：后五四時代的美學 思潮 [An aesthetic education with religious sentiments: notes on a political-theological motif in post-May Fourth aesthetics], in Nanfangwentan 南方文壇 [Southern Forum], Jan. 2019. (Peer-reviewed) “Huidao kangde: Li Zehou yu bashiniandai de qimeng sichao” 回到康德：李澤厚與八十 年代的啟蒙思潮 [Back to Kant: Li Zehou and the question of enlightenment in post-Mao China], in Sixiang 思想雜誌 [Reflexion] , Dec. 2017. Book Review: Review of David Der-wei Wang, The Lyrical in Epic Time: Modern Chinese Intellectuals and Artists through the 1949 Crisis, in The China Review, Spring 2016(Vol.16, No. 1). Review of Wang Hui, China’s Twentieth Century: Revolution, Retreat, and the Road to Equality, in The China Review, October 2016(Vol. 16, No. 3). Review of Laikwan Pang, The Art of Cloning: Creative Production During China’s Cultural Revolution, in The China Review, forthcoming. Conference Participation: Panels Organized: 2018. Organizer. “In Search of Autonomy: Chinese Intellectuals between Politics and Scholarship.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference. Washington, D.C. March 22-25. 2019. Co-organizer, with Po-hsi Chen. “Left-wing Melancholia in Asian History, Culture, and Literature.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference. Denver, Colorado. March 21-24. Conference Coordinated: 2017. “Rethinking Intellectual Currents in Contemporary China.” Harvard Yenching Institute. Cambridge, MA. March 28-29. 2019. “Frontiers and Strata in Modern Chinese Literary and Media Studies.” Harvard-Yale Workshop on Modern Chinese Literature. Cambridge, MA. March 1st. Papers Presented: 2016. “Specters of Lu Xun: The Emergence of New Left in Postsocialist China.” Harvard East Asia Society Conference, Harvard University, February 20-21. 2017. “Back to Kant: Li Zehou and the Question of Enlightenment in Post-Mao China.” Conference on “Rethinking Intellectual Currents in Contemporary China,” Harvard Yenching Institute, March 28-29. 2017. “反事實的想象力：陳寅恪熱中的真實、虛構、與記憶政治” [The counterfactual imagination: reality and fictionality in Chen Yinke Fever]. Forum on “Chinese Literature and Linguistics,” Nankai University, November 3-5. 2018. “The Discourse of Enlightenment in 1980s China.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference. Washington, D.C. March 22-25. 2019. “Left Melancholia: Chen Yingzhen, Wang Anyi, and the Desire for Utopia.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference. Denver, Colorado. March 21-24. 2019. “樂與罪：李澤厚，劉再復，與文化反思的兩種路徑” [Pleasure and sin: Li Zehou, Liu Zaifu, and the two routes of cultural reflection in post-Mao China]. Conference on “The Legacy of May Fourth,” Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong. May 8-10. Invited Talks 2018. “Impersonating China: Female Impersonators and Contemporary Chinese Gender Politics.” Guest Lecture, Harvard University General Education. September 19, 2018. 2019. “Eileen Chang and Hu Lancheng: A Story of Love and Betrayal.” Guest Lecture, Harvard University General Education. March 27, 2019. Teaching Experience: 2019 Fall Visiting Lecturer, “Topics in Chinese Literature: Romance in Modern China” (Boston University) • Lectures a class of 25 students to study the literary and cultural representations of romance in modern China. • Responsible for generating essay topics, holding section discussions, and developing writing assignments related to Chinese literature and culture. 2019 Spring Head Teaching Fellows, “Forbidden Romance in Modern China” (Harvard University) • Leads two section of fifteen students to study the literary and cultural representations of romance in modern China. 2018 Fall Head Teaching Fellows, “Documenting China on Film” (Harvard University) • Leads one section of fifteen students to examine documentary films made in or about China from the early 20th century to the present day, through the lenses of both Chinese and foreign filmmakers. Teaching Fellows, “Popular Culture and Modern China” (Harvard University) • Examines popular culture as a modern, transnational phenomenon and explores its manifestation in Chinese and Sinophone communities and beyond. 2018 Spring Teaching Fellows, “East Asian Studies Sophomore Tutorial” (Harvard University) • Leads one section of ten students in learning the field of Asian Studies from a range of disciplinary perspectives. • Serves as a writing tutor to help students to develop academic writing skills. Teaching Fellows, “The Worlds of Business in Modern China” (Harvard University) • Leads one section of ten students to use business as a lens to study modern China. 2012 Fall – 2015 Spring Instructor of Record, “English Expository Writing” (University of Washington) • Lectures a class of 23 students in studying and practicing academic writing, with topics derived from a variety of personal, academic, and public subjects. • Responsible for generating essay topics, holding discussions, and developing writing assignments. Additional Professional Experience: Research Assistant to Professor Elizabeth J. Perry, Department of Government, Harvard University 2016 June—2019 April • Locate and read relevant archival materials and secondary literature concerning the restructuring of higher education in socialist China; composes monthly reports on the progress. Editorial Assistant to Professor David Der-wei Wang, Department of East Asian Civilizations, Harvard University 2017 June—2019 May • Assist Professor Wang with editing and coordination for a book volume titled Utopia and Utopianism in the Contemporary Chinese Context: Texts, Ideas, Spaces, to be published by Hong Kong University Press. Awards: 2012-2015 University of Washington, Graduate Teaching Assistantship 2015-2016 Harvard University, Yun-Cheng Sa Memorial Fellowship 2018 Harvard University, Fairbank Center Summer Research Funding 2019 Harvard University, GSAS Merit and Term-Time Research Fellowship 2019 Harvard University Derek Bok Center, Certificate of Distinction in Teaching Translation Work: “Xulun” 緒論 [Prologue]; “Jielun” 結論 [Epilogue], Shishishidai de shuqingshengyin 史詩 時代的抒情聲音：二十世紀中期的中國知識分子與藝術家 [The Lyrical in Epic Time: Modern Chinese Intellectuals and Artists through the 1949 Crisis], David Der-wei Wang, Taipei: Maitian Press 麥田出版社, 2017. Languages: Chinese(Mandarin), English, Japanese(reading) .
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