Pu Wang

Pu Wang is Associate Professor of Chinese Literature and Culture. Having yielded a book, two conference seminars, and a number of articles, the major component of his research of the past few years focuses on translation, revolution, and historical imagination in modern Chinese culture. His first monograph, titled "The Translatability of Revolution: Guo Moruo and Twentieth-Century Chinese Culture" (Harvard University Asia Center, 2018. 325pp, 9 illustrations), is the first comprehensive study in English of the lifework of Guo Moruo (1892-1978), a towering--and highly controversial--figure of China's revolutionary century who worked as a Romantic writer, Marxist historian, and prolific translator. Dr Wang has also recently co-edited a special issue of Frontiers of Literary Studies in China, titled "Old Stories, New Mediations: Transmedial Representations of the Past in Twentieth‐Century China" (2019). Currently, Dr Wang is working on three scholarly projects: First, he recently started a new research project about modern Chinese travel literature, tentatively titled "Solidarity with the Faraway: Travel Writing and Utopian Geopolitics in Revolutionary China." Second, he is completing a volume of poetic criticism in Chinese. Third, he is writing a series of essays in Chinese about the controversies surrounding the global 60s and its legacies. Dr Wang also works as Chinese translator. His Chinese translation of a critical biography of German-Jewish intellectual Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is under contract and forthcoming. In addition, Dr Wang is a poet writing in Chinese. His first book of poetry, Baota ji qita (2015), received high acclaim.