Jianhua CHEN 陳建華

 (PhD, Harvard University, 2002)

Associate Professor of Humanities

E-mail: hmjjchen@ust.hk

Professor Chen received MA and PhD in Classical Chinese Literature from Fudan University and PhD in Modern Chinese Literature from Harvard University. His dissertations were on Ming literature of the Jiangnan regions and the literary culture in early Republican Shanghai. He taught at Fudan University and Oberlin College, Ohio, USA.

Research interests:

Chinese poetics and hermeneutics; Ming-Qing literature; Republican popular literature and print culture; modern Chinese “revolution” discourses and translation theories; Chinese literary and visual modernities.

Representative publications:

〈凝視與窺視：李漁〈夏宜樓〉與明清視覺文化〉[The Gaze and the Peeping: Li Yu’s “Summer Pavilion” and Ming-Qing Visual Culture].《政大中文學報》[Bulletin of the Department of Chinese Literature, National Chengchi University] 9 (June 2008): 25-54.

“Canon Formation and Linguistic Turn: Literary Debates in Republican China, 1919-1949.” In Beyond the May Fourth Paradigm: In Search for Chinese Modernity, ed. by Kai-Wing Chow, Tze-ki Hon, Hung-yok Ip, and Don C. Price. 51-67. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2008.

《革命與形式¾¾茅盾早期小說的現代性展開》[Revolution and Form: Literary Modernity in Mao Dun’s Early Fiction]. Shanghai: Fudan University Press, 2007. 288 pages.

〈1920年代「新」、「舊」文學之爭與文學公共空間的轉型¾¾以文學雜誌「通信」與「談話會」欄目為例〉[Debates between the New and Old Literature and the Transformation of Literary Public Space in the 1920s: Focusing on the “Correspondent” and “Discussion” Columns]. In《中國近代思想史的轉型時代¾¾張灝院士七秩祝壽論文集》[The Transformative Time in Modern Chinese Intellectual History: In Honor of Hao Chang’s Seventy Birthday Anniversary], ed. by Wang Fan-sen. 429-462. Taipei: Linking Books Company, 2007.

〈中國電影批評的先驅¾¾周瘦鵑《影戲話》讀解〉[Pioneer of Chinese Film Criticism: A Reading of Zhou Shoujuan’s “Shadow-play Discourses”]. In《現代中國》[Studies of Modern China] (No. 9), ed. by Chen Pingyuan. 53-76. Beijing: Beijing University Press, 2007.

“Mao Dun’s Rainbow: A Modern Epic and Bildungsroman Novel in 20th-Century China.” In L’Oriente Storia di una figura nelle arti occidentali (1700-2000) [The Orient: History of a Figure in Western Arts (1700-2000)] (Second Volume), ed. by Paolo Amalfitano and Loretta Innocenti. 57-77. Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 2007.

“Xu Zhenya.” In Chinese Fiction Writers, 1900-1949 (Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 328), ed. by Thomas Moran. 257-263. New York: Clark Layman Book, 2007.

〈試論晚明文學「現代性」¾¾杜麗娘「遊園驚夢」新解〉[On the Modernity of Late Ming Literature: New Interpretation of Du Liniang’s “Awakening from a Dream in the Garden”]. In《中國文學傳統與現代的對話》[Dialogues between Tradition and Modernity in Chinese Literature], ed. by Zhang Hongsheng and Qian Naixiu. 234-251. Shanghai: Shanghai guji chubanshe, 2007.

〈質疑理性、反諷自張愛玲《傳奇》與奇幻小說現代性〉[Questioning Reason and Problematizing the Self: Eileen Chang’s Chuanqi and the Modernity of Fantanstic Fiction].《中外文學》[Chung Wai Literary Monthly] 35.3 (August 2006): 109-130. Included in《張愛玲：文學 · 電影 · 舞臺》[Eileen Chang: Literature, Cinema, and the Stage], ed. by Xingqian Lin. 230-266. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 2007.

《帝制末與世紀末¾¾中國文學文化考論》[Chinese Literary Culture in the Ages of Late Dynasties and the 1990s Globalization]. Shanghai: Shanghai Education Press, 2006. 324 pages.

《陳建華詩選》[Selected Poems of Chen Jianhua]. Guangzhou: Flower-city Publishing House, 2006. 239 pages.

〈拿破崙與晚清「小說界革命」：從《泰西新史攬要》到《泰西歷史演義》〉[Napoleon and the Revolution in Late Qing Fiction: From An Outline of New Western History to The Romance of Western History].《漢學研究》[Chinese Studies] 23.2 (December 2005): 321-354.

〈從「以詩證史」到「以史證詩」——讀陳寅恪《柳如是別傳》劄記〉[From Poetic Historicism to Historical Poetics: Notes on Chen Yinke’s Unofficial Biography of Liu Rushi].《復旦學報》[Fudan Journal] 6 (November 2005): 74-82.

“Zhu Xi’s Poetic Hermeneutics and the Polemics of the ‘Licentious Poems’.” In Interpretation and Intellectual Change: Chinese Hermeneutics in Historical Perspective, ed. by Ching-I Tu. 133-148. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers, 2005.

“The ‘Linguistic Turn’ in 1990s China and Globalization.” In Critical Zone 1: A Forum of Chinese and Western Knowledge, ed. by Q.S. Tong, Wang Shouren, and Douglas Kerr. 119-138. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2004.

“The Late Qing Poetry Revolution: Liang Qichao, Huang Zunxian, and Chinese Literary Modernity.” In The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature, ed. by Joshua Mostow. 333-340. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.

“Zhou Shoujuan’s Love Stories and Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies Fiction.” In The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature, ed. by Joshua Mostow. 355-363. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.

《去年夏天在紐約》[Last Summer in New York]. Shanghai: Shanghai wenyi chubanshe, 2001. 147 pages.

“Formation of Modern Subjectivity and Essay: Zhou Shoujuan’s ‘In the Nine-Flower Curtain’.” In The Modern Chinese Literary Essay: Defining the Chinese Self in the 20^th Century, ed. by Martin Woesler. 41-66. Bochum: Bochum University Press, 2000.

《「革命」的現代性——中國革命話語考論》[The Modernity of “Geming”: Textual Studies of Revolution Discourses in Modern China]. Shanghai: Shanghai guji chubanshe, 2000. 372 pages.

“Chinese ‘Revolution’ in the Syntax of World Revolution.” In Tokens of Exchange: The Problem of Translation in Global Circulations, ed. by Lydia H. Liu. 355-374. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999.

《十四至十七世紀中國江浙地區社會意識與文學》[Social Consciousness and Literature in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces from the 14th to 17th Century]. Shanghai: Xuelin chubanshe, 1992. 436 pages.

20-01-2009