Faculty

Yan 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)

Xiaodan Wang

Xiaodan Wang

Lecturer in Chinese

Office: 510 Kent Hall
Office Hours:
Phone: (212) 854-3604
Email: xw2167@columbia.edu

Educational Background

MA: Chinese Linguistics and Literature, Capital Normal University (2006)
BA: Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, Beijing Language and Culture University (2003)

Classes Taught

CHNS UN1101 First Year Chinese I
CHNS UN1102 First Year Chinese II
CHNS UN2201 Second Year Chinese N I
CHNS UN2202 Second Year Chinese N II

Research Interests

Language for Specific Purposes
Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy
Chinese Syntax and Discourse Analysis

Xiaodan Wang joined Columbia faculty in 2007 and her teaching included Elementary Chinese and Intermediate Chinese. She has also been teaching for Columbia’s Summer Language Program in Beijing since 2007. In addition, she serves as the coordinator of Chinese language teaching assistants as well as the coordinator for the second year Chinese program.

Publications

《商务中文案例教程-文化卷》Business Chinese-Culture Analysis (China Translation & Publishing Corporation, 2013; co-author)
《留学中国》Experiencing China -An Intermediate Chinese textbook (Peking University Press, 2013; co-author)
《卓越汉语-公司实战篇》 Business Chinese, Advanced Level (Foreign Language and Research Press, 2010; co-author)
《汉英口语快车》Common English IdiomsExpress (Beijing Institute of Technology Press, 2007; co-author)

Hai-Long Wang

Hai-Long Wang

Lecturer in Chinese

Office: 501 Kent Hall
Office Hours: MTR 3:00-4:00
Phone: (212) 854-5038
Email: hw21@columbia.edu

Educational Background

MA: Linguistics and Anthropology, Columbia University
MA: Comparative Literature, Shanghai Normal University
BA: Chinese Language and Literature, Jiangsu Normal University

Classes Taught

CHNS UN1111 First Year Chinese W I
CHNS UN1112 First Year Chinese W II
CHNS UN3005 Third Year Chinese W I
CHNS UN3006 Third Year Chinese W II

Research Interests

Language for Specific Purposes
Chinese Syntax
Chinese Language Pedagogy

Hai-Long Wang has been teaching Mandarin Chinese at Columbia University since 1998. He has taught Elementary Chinese, Intermediate Chinese, Advanced Chinese, Reading in Modern Chinese and other subjects. He has authored several Chinese textbooks including Aspects of Modern China and Cultural Interpretations of China.

Publications

Aspects of Modern China《深入中國》 (Peking University Press, 2011)
Reading China Through the Newspaper Volume I,《報紙上的中國》 (Peking University Press, 2004)
Reading the World Through the Newspaper Volume II,《報紙上的天下》 (Peking University Press, 2004)
A Primer for Advanced Beginners of Chinese (Simplified Characters Edition),《大學語文》 (Columbia University Press, 2004; Co-editor and author of four chapters)
A Primer for Advanced Beginners of Chinese (Traditional CharactersEdition),《大學語文-繁體字》 (Columbia University Press, 2003; Co-editor and author of four chapters)
Cultural Interpretations of China: An Advanced Chinese Reader I, 《文化中國》 (Peking University Press, Beijing, 2002)
Getting Into Chinese Thought: An Advanced Chinese ReaderII,《解讀中國》 (Peking University Press, 2002)
Introduction to BusinessChinese Writing,《應用漢語讀寫教程》 (Peking University Press, 2002)