Field: Modern Chinese Literature

Advisor: Lydia Liu
Email: zw3023@columbia.edu

Adam Zhengyuan Wang is a Ph.D. student in modern Chinese literature with a focus on poetry. His research examines the intellectual practices oriented toward the theorization of new poetics in the first half of the twentieth century, particularly in relation to travel writing, the tradition of Chinese poetic criticism, modernist poetry, and the philosophy of poetic language. His dissertation project traces the emergence of the concept of the “word” in modern Chinese literary discourse and investigates its impact on the making of modern poetics.