Introduction
David Wang Der-wei (variously David Der-wei Wang, D. D. W. Wang, etc.) is a Taiwanese-born American scholar of Chinese literature.
Academic career
Wang graduated from National Taiwan University in 1976 with a B.A. in foreign languages and literature, and went on to study comparative literature at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, receiving his M.A. in 1978 and his Ph.D. in 1982. He is on the editorial board for the Cambria Sinophone World Series (Cambria Press), headed by Victor H. Mair.
He was named as the head of Columbia University's East Asian Languages and Cultures Department in 1997. In 2000, he succeeded Irene Bloom as chair of the University Committee on Asia and the Middle East. In September 2004, Harvard University named him Edward C. Henderson Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures.
Works
- Wang, David Der-wei (1997), Fin-de-Siecle Splendor: Repressed Modernities of Late Qing Fiction, 1849-1911, Stanford: Stanford University Press, ISBN 0-8047-2845-3. The first full-length English language survey of late Qing Dynasty fiction, it has been praised as a major contribution to scholarship on the fiction of the era.
- Wang, David Der-wei (2004), The Monster That Is History: History, Violence, and Fictional Writing in Twentieth-Century China, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, ISBN 0-520-23873-7. Reflections on violence in Chinese fiction and real-world history, covering famous writers such as Lu Xun and Mao Dun as well as less-well-known ones from mainland China and Taiwan.
- Wang, Der-wei (2005), 《如此繁華：王德威自選集》 [Urban Splendor: Selected Writings of Wang Der-wei] (in Chinese), Hong Kong: Cosmos Books, ISBN 988-211-140-8. A collection of essays discussing the history of modern literary creation in three cities: Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Taipei.
- Fictional Realism in Twentieth-Century China: Mao Dun, Lao She, Shen Congwen
- Williams, Philip F.; Wang, David Der-wei (April 1999), "Fin-de-siecle Splendor: Repressed Modernities of Late Qing Fiction, 1849-1911. (Review)", The Journal of the American Oriental Society, 119 (2): 371–2, doi:10.2307/606157, JSTOR 606157
- Vlastos, Steven (December 2005), "Book Review: Asia: David Der-wei Wang. The Monster That Is History: History, Violence, and Fictional Writing in Twentieth-Century China", The American Historical Review, 110 (5): 1505, doi:10.1086/ahr.110.5.1504
- Lu, Tonglin (2005), "Book Reviews—China—The Monster That is History: History, Violence, and Fictional Writing in Twentieth-Century China", The Journal of Asian Studies, Cambridge University Press (64): 461–3
- "書介：《如此繁華》", Wen Wei Po, Hong Kong, 2005-04-15, retrieved 2008-02-18