Faculty
Yasmin ChoYan Wang
Yan Wang
ADJUNCT LECTURER
Teaching Hours: M 4:10-6:00
Office Hours: M 2:30-4:00 (Kent Hall 406)
Phone: (201) 745-0565
Email: yw2993@columbia.edu
Educational Background
PhD: Peking University (’05)
MA: Seton Hall University (’02)
BA: University of International Business and Economics, Beijing (’89)
Classes Taught
East Asian GU4244 Chinese Internet Culture
Research Interests
Chinese Literature and Cultural Studies, Film Studies
Dr. Yan Wang specializes in Chinese popular culture and the literature of trauma and testimony. He published books on the Holocaust and the Cold War Film. He has also written on literary theory, as well as essays on film studies. He has taught in the USA and China as Professor of Literature at Beijing Foreign Studies University.
Selected Publications
Cinematic Representation of Urban Space (to be published soon by Beijing SDX Press)
Once Upon a Time in America: the Historical Films of Hollywood (Beijing: SDX Press, 2010)
After Auschwitz: The Holocaust Film Studies (Beijing: SDX Press, 2007)
Novelistic Temporality and Modernity (Beijing: Fltrp Press, 2007)
Andrew Plaks
Andrew Plaks
Associate Adjunct Professor
Email: ap3606@columbia.edu
Educational Background
AB: Princeton University (’67)
PhD: Princeton University (’73)
Research Interests
Chinese and Japanese Classical Literature
Selected Publications
Pu Andi Zixuanji (Collected Works of Andrew Plaks). Beijing: Sanlian shuju (2011)
“Zheng Xuan’s Commentary on the Zhouli,” in Statecraft and Classical Learning: the Rituals of Zhou in East Asian History, ed. Benjamin A. Elman and Martin Kern (Leiden: Brill, 2010).
“Why the Chinese Gods Don’t Suffer?,” in Studies in Chinese Language and Culture: Festschrift in Honor of Christoph Harbsmeier (2006).
“Xin as the Seat of the Emotions in Confucian Self-cultivation,” in Love, Hatred, and Other Passions, ed. Paolo Santangelo and Donatella Guida (Leiden: Brill, 2006), pp.113-25.
“Completeness and Partiality in Traditional Commentaries on Honglou meng,” Tamkang Review (XXXVI:1-2), Fall-Winter 2005. pp. 117-35
“Xin as the Seat of the Emotions in Confucian Self-cultivation,” in Love, Hatred, and Other Passions, ed. Paolo Santangelo and Donatella Guida (Leiden: Brill, 2006), pp.113-25.
The Highest Order of Cultivation and On the Practice of the Mean. London: Penguin Classics (2003)
