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Xudong Zhang 张旭东

Department of Comparative Literature 19 University Place, 3rd Floor New York University New York, NY 10003 (212)998-8796 (main office) (212)995-4377 (Fax) xz3@nyu.edu

Department of East Asian Studies 19 University Place, Room 510 New York University New York, NY 10003 (212)998-7620 (main office) (212) 998-7622 (direct line) (212)995-4682 (Fax)

Education 1990-95 Ph.D., Duke University (Graduate Program in Literature) 1982-86 BA, Peking University (Department of Chinese Language and Literature) Academic Positions 2005 Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of East Asian Studies, New

York University 2001 Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Chinese, New York

University 1999 Assistant Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature, New York University 1995 Assistant Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature, Rutgers University Honors and Fellowships 2019 (Spring) Visiting Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo 2016- Best Essay of the Year, The Journal of Modern Chinese Literature Studies, The

Chinese Association of Modern Chinese Literature Studies, for “The Ethical Self-Awareness Discourse in Chinese Enlightenment”.

2015- Member, Academic Board, Berggruen Institute of Philosophy and Culture (Santa Monica and New York)

2015- Non-Residential Fellow, Chunqiu Institute of Strategic and Development Studies (Shanghai)

2014- Member, International Academic Advisory Committee for Yenching Academy, Peking University 2014- University Chair Professor (Visiting) in the Humanities/北京大学人文讲席教

授), Peking University 2008-14 Chong Keung Chair Professor (Visiting) of Comparative Literature/“长江学

者”讲座教授), Chinese Department, Peking University 2011-14 University Professor (Visiting) in the Humanities, Honorary Dean & Chair of

Academic Advisory Committee, Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Chongqing University, Chongqing

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2002-14 Zijiang Chair Professor （Visiting） in Comparative Literature/ 紫江学者讲座教授, East China Normal University, Shanghai 2008-2012 Visiting Professor and Member of the Academic Council, Institute for Advanced Studies in Social Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 2009 Spring, Visiting Professor, Center of Philosophy, University of Tokyo 2006 Fall, Visiting Professor, Center of Philosophy, University of Tokyo 2005 Humanities Council Grant, New York University 2002 (Spring) Visiting Professor, Institute of Comparative Literature and Chinese Department,

Peking University 1998-99 Rockefeller Fellowship in the Humanities, International Center for Advanced

Studies (ICAS), New York University 1997-98 Faculty Fellowship, Center for Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture

(CCACC) , Rutgers University 1996-98 Rutgers University Research Council Grants Editorial Activities Editor, Frontier of Literary Studies in China, a refereed English-language quarterly published by Brill, Leiden, the Netherlands Editor, “Critical Theory and Literary Studies” book series, Peking University Press Editorial Board, Journal of Modern Chinese Studies (现代中文学刊), Shangha Guest Editor, Boundary 2 special issue on "Postmodernism and China" (coedited with Arif Dirlik), Fall 1997 Guest Editor, Social Text special issue on "Intellectual Politics after Tiananmen," Summer, 1998 Editorial Board, Dongxifang wenhua pinglun(东西方文化评论/ East-West Culture Review), Peking University Press, Beijing, 1988-93 Contributing Editor, Shijie shixue da cidian (世界诗学词典 Encyclopedia of World Poetics), Yue Daiyun and Ni Peigeng, General Editors, Peking University Press, 1989 Administrative Experiences and Committee Services 2009-Present Director, China House 2010-Present Director, International Center for Critical Theory, PKU/NYU 2017 (Fall) Acting Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Comparative Literature 2011-14 Honorary Director and Chair, Academic Advisory Committee, Institute for

Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Chongqing University 2006-13 Chair, Department of East Asian Studies 2007-12 Director, NYU-Beijing Summer Program 2008-09 Interim Director, NYU China House 2005- Executive Committee, NYU China House 2006-07 Co-Chair, Graduate School Task Force on Teaching and Fellowship 2005-06 Co-Chair, Faculty of Arts and Science Policy and Planning Committee

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2004-05 Language Chairs Committee, College of Arts and Science 2003-08 Foundations of Contemporary Culture Steering Committee 2003-06 Director of Graduate Studies, Department of East Asian Studies 2003-06 Policy and Planning Committee, Faculty of Arts and Science 2003-06 Steering Committee, International Center for Advanced Studies 2002-05 Awards and Fellowships Committee, the Graduate School of Arts and Science 2001-02 Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Comparative Literature Publications/Authored books Cultural Politics and the Chinese Way (文化政治与中国道路), Shanghai: Shanghai renmin chubanshe, 2015 Writing for Our Own Times (我们时代的写作), co-authored with Mo Yan, Hong Kong: Oxford University Press (China), 2012

Mainland Chinese edition, Shanghai: Shanghai wenyi chubanshe, 2013 The Age of Enlightenment: An Ongoing Dialogue（对话启蒙时代), co-authored with Wang Anyi, Beijing: Sanlian Shudian (The Joint Publication Co.), 2008. Postsocialism and Cultural Politics: 1989-2001 or, the Last Decade of the Chinese Twentieth Century, Duke University Press, 2008

Chinese translation by Zhu Yu, Beijing: Peking University Press, 2014 Letters from New York (纽约书简—随笔、评论与访谈), Shanghai: Shanghai shudian chubanshe, 2006. Cultural Identity in the Age of Globalization (全球化时代的文化认同：西方普遍主义理论的历史批判), Beijing: Peking University Press, 2005.

Revised and expanded 2nd edition, 2006 Traces of Criticism: Essays on Cultural Theory and Cultural Criticism, 1987-2002 (批评的踪迹：文化理论与文化批评，1985-2002), Beijing: The Joint Publishing Co. Ltd., 2003, 2nd print, 2006. The Order of the Imaginary: Critical Theory and Modern Chinese Literary Discourse (幻想的秩序－批评理论与现代中国文学话语), Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1997. Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms: Cultural Fever, Avant-Garde Fiction and New Chinese Cinema, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997

Chinese translation by Cui Wenjin, Beijing: Peking University Press, 2014 Edited volumes and translations: Chuantong yu xingshi chuangyi(传统与形式创意/ Tradition and Formal Innovation), ed. and introduced by Xudong Zhang, Shanghai: Shanghai renmin chubanshe, 2015

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Rethinking Enlightenment in Global and Historical Contexts (UTCP Booklet No. 21/ICCT Series 1), co-edited with Nakajima Takahiro and Hui Jiang, Tokyo: University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy, 2011 Qidi(启迪/Illuminations: Selected Essays of Walter Benjamin), edited by Hannah Arendt, co-translated with Ban Wang, introduced by Xudong Zhang, Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1998

Mainland China edition: Beijing: Shanlian shudian, 2008 Whither China? Intellectual Politics in the 1990s, edited and with an introduction by Xudong Zhang, Duke University Press, 2001 Postmodernism and China, co-edited (with Arif Dirlik), Duke University Press, 2000 Wanqi zibenzhuyi wenhua luoji (晚期资本主义文化逻辑－詹明逊文选/Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism: Selected Essays of Fredric Jameson), edited and with an introduction by Xudong Zhang, Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1996. Mainland Chinese edition, Beijing: Sanlian shudian., 1998; 2nd edition with a new preface by Xudong Zhang, 2012 Fada zibenzhuyi shidai de shuwqing shiren (发达资本主义时代的抒情诗人/ Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Age of High Capitalism), by Walter Benjamin, co-translated with Wei Wensheng and with an introduction by Xudong Zhang, Beijing: Sanlian shudian, 1989 2nd revised edition, 2006 Taiwanese edition, Taipei: 2003 In progress Lu Xun and the Origin of Chinese Modernism (revision and expansion of 15 seminar transcripts) The Tower at Crossroads: The Vernacular Essay and the Making of Modern Chinese Men of Letters, volume 1: 1895-1919; volume 2: 1919-1945 Hegel and Questions Concerning East Asian Modernity: Reading Phenomenology, Aesthetics and Philosophy of Right Against the Grain (revision and expansion of 15 seminar transcripts), Selected Essays and Articles 2018 “文艺文化思想领域 4 0 年回顾”(40 Years of Development of Contemporary Chinese Literature, Culture and Thought: A Critical Retrospective”,东方学刊(The Dongfang Journal), edited by Zhang Weiwei, Fudan University School of Chinese Studies, inaugural issue, pp. 22-35. Online edition: https://www.guancha.cn/ZhangXuDong/2018_09_19_472595_1.shtml “革命机器与‘普遍的启蒙’－纪念《延安文艺座谈会上的讲话》发表 75周年” (Revolutionary Machine and Universal Enlightenment—Re-Thinking Mao’s Talk on Yan’an Forum on Literature and Art, full text), 现代中国文学研究丛刊(Modern Chinese Literature Studies), no. 4, 2018, pp. 1-17

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2017 “革命机器与‘普遍的启蒙’” (Revolutionary Machine and ‘Universal Enlightenment’—Re-Thinking Mao’s Talk on Yan’an Forum on Literature and Art” (abbreviated internet edition) in 观察网（Guancha.net）, August 10, 2017 http://www.guancha.cn/ZhangXuDong/2017_08_10_422190.shtml 2016 “文化政治：文明国家的存在理由” (Cultural Politics: The Raison d’Etre of Civilizational States,” 观察网（Guancha.net）, September 10, http://www.guancha.cn/ZhangXuDong/2016_09_10_374008.shtml “政治的内在强度是文化”（Culture as Political Intensity: The Concept of Cultural Politics”, 经济导刊(Economic Herald)， No. 9 issue, 36-45, an abbreviated version of the online essay. “文化政治与中国道路”(On Cultural Politics and ‘the Chinese Way’）, 观察网（Guancha.net)，May 29, http://www.guancha.cn/ZhangXuDong/2016_05_29_362060_1.shtml.

“历史本体论的起点 (与李泽厚座谈)”(The Starting Point of An Historical Ontology—A Symposium Discussion with Li Zehou）, 学问(Scholarship), special issue on the revival of Chinese humanities, edited by Li Sen, Lin Jianfa & Zong Renfa, Guangzhou: Huacheng chubanshe, 2016, pp. 1-26 “桃花源还是聚义厅：电影《老炮儿》里的意识形态与乌托邦”(Ideology and Utopia in Feng Xiaogang’s Lao’paoer”), 观察网（Guancha.net）, January 3 http://www.guancha.cn/ZhangXuDong/2016_01_03_346721.shtml 2015 “启蒙主义“伦理自觉”与当代中国文化政治——反思《新青年》早期论述中的文化与国家概念”(The ‘Ethical Self-Consciousness’ Discourse in Chinese Enlightenment and Its Implications in Contemporary Chinese Cultural Politics—Reflections on Motifs of Culture and the State in the Early Debates of La Jeunesse), 现代中国文学研究丛刊(Journal of Modern Chinese Literature Studies), No. 7, 2015, pp.1-24. “查理警示录:查理周刊警示录| 暴力、言论自由和有意义的生活”(Violence, Freedom of Speech, and the Search for A Meaningful Life: Observations on the Charlie Hebdo Bloodshed)，观察网（Guancha.net）, January 10 http://www.guancha.cn/ZhangXuDong/2015_01_10_305868.shtml 2014 “The Becoming Self-Conscious of Zawen--Literary Modernity and Politics of Language in Lu Xun’s Essay Production,” Frontiers of Literary Studies in China, Volume 8 issue 3 (Fall 2014), Leiden, Boston, Tokyo: Brill, pp.374-409 “作为主权者的邓小平”(Deng Xiaoping the Sovereign）”, 观察者网(Guancha.net), August 20, 2014 http://www.guancha.cn/ZhangXuDong/2014_08_20_257504.shtml “评歌剧版《骆驼祥子》”（What Is Camel Xiangzi? Review on the Opera Adaptation of Lao She’s Novel Camel Xiangzi,” 中国文化报(Chinese Culture Daily), July 3 http://www.guancha.cn/ZhangXuDong/2014_08_25_260141.shtml

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2013 “Narrative and Representation in the Age of Mobile Phone—A Dialogue Between Wang Anyi and Fredric Jameson on Shanghai, Urban Experience, and Technological Conditions of Possibility for Literature,” moderated and interpreted by Xudong Zhang, Frontier of Literary Studies in China, Leiden, Boston & Tokyo: Brill, Volume 7 (2013), issue 3, 494–510 “中国梦：终于到了谈梦想的时刻”(The Chinese Dream: What Does It Mean to Talk About It?),社会观察(Social Observation), July issue, 85-97 “经典阅读是全球化时代的选择: 张旭东以哥伦比亚大学本科生的核心课程为例谈人文教育(Liberal Education in the Age of Globalization,” 文汇报(Wenhuibao) , July 4, Shanghai. “NPR Interview on the Nobel Winner: Chinese Novelist Mo Yan,” Frontier of Literary Studies in China, Leiden, Boston, Tokyo: Brill, Volume 7 (2013), issue 1, 154–157 2012 “In Light of Concreteness: Wang Anyi and the Bildungsroman of the Cultural Revolutionary Generation,” in Frontiers of Literary Studies in China, Leiden, Boston, Tokyo: Brill, 2012, Volume 6, issue No. 1, 112–137 “作为历史遗忘之载体的生命和土地—解读莫言的《生死疲劳》(Life and land as a deposit for historical forgetting—on Mo Yan’s Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out), 现代中文学刊(Journal of Modern Chinese Studies), 4-19 “The Dialectic and the Historical Determination of Cultural Subjectivity,” Globalization and Localization: The Chinese Perspective, edited by Deng Zhenglai, Singapore, London, and Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific Publishing Co. Ltd., 155-65 “晚期资本主义时代的文化逻辑再版序”(Preface to 2nd edition of Fredric Jameson’s Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism/), Fredric Jameson, Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, ed. by Xudong Zhang, Beijing:三联书店出版社(Sanlian shudian chubansh), 2012, 1-8 “全球化时代的现代性政治——杰姆逊访谈 Quanqiuhua shidai de xiandaixing zhengzhi” (The Politics of Modernity in the Age of Globalization, an Interview with Fredric Jameson)）, 文汇报(Wenhuibao), December 10, 2012 “理论已死，理论何为？杰姆逊访谈”(Theory Is Dead, What Is Theory For? An Interview with Fredric Jameson), 中华读书报(China Reading Weekly), December 5, 2012

Reissued in杭州师范大学学报(Journal of Hangzhou Normal University), March 2013 issue, 1-6 “中国文化的根源是今天的中国人”(The Source of Chinese Culture is the Chinese People Living Today/),二十一世纪经济报道(21st Century Business Herald), November 25, 2012 “魔幻现实主义”的政治文化语境构造——莫言《酒国》中的语言游戏、自然史与社会寓言(The Cultural-Political Context of the Magical Realism—Language Game, Natural History, and Social Allegory in Mo Yan’s Republic of Wine), 学术前沿(Frontiers of Scholarship), No.11, 2012, 66-82

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Japanese translation by 杉谷幸太/Sugitani Kota, 中国 21 (China 21), Vol.39, 2014 no. 1, 105-124 “莫言是通向当代中国文学的门户”(Mo Yan Is a Portal for Understanding Contemporary Chinese Literature), 二十一世纪经济报道(21st Century Business Herald), October 12 “鲁迅回忆性写作的结构、叙事与文化政治–从《朝花夕拾》谈起” (Structure, Narrative, and Cultural Politics in Lu Xun’s Writing of Reminiscences—A Critical Analysis of Morning Flowers Plucked at Dusk), 生活在后美国时代(Living in the Post-American Age)，edited by Sun Xiaozhong for 热风思想论坛(“Hot Air” Intellectual Forum Series), General Editor: Wang Xiaoming, Shanghai:上海书店出版社(Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House), 2012, 274-354 “离不开政治的文化自觉”(Cultural Self-Consciousness As a Political Notion), 文化纵横(Beijing Cultural Review)，No. 2, 2012，22-26 “在矛盾统一体中重建价值认同”(Identity and Value System as Unity of Contradictions: Observations on Contemporary Chinese Cultural Politics/ [interview]), 二十一世纪经济报道(21st Century Business Herald), Jan 17, A03, 2012 “The Will to Allegory and the Origin of Chinese Modernism: Re-Reading Lu Xun’s Ah Q--The Real Story”, in Mark Woellager ed. Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012, 173-205.

Japanese translation by 桥本悟/Hashimoto Satoru under the title of “中国モダニズムの起源の「名」と「言」の辯：『阿 Q正伝』再読”, by Satoru Hashimoto, China: Culture and Society, 2016 August issue 2011 “Enlightenment and the Dialectic of Particular and Universal: Toward A Cultural-Political Notion of Modern Identity Formation,” in Rethinking Enlightenment in Global and Historical Contexts (UTCP Booklet No. 21/ICCT Series 1), co-edited with Nakamima Takahiro and Hui Jiang, Tokyo: University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy, 2011, 11-28 “Market Socialism and Its Discontent: Jia Zhangke’s Cinematic Reprepsentation of China’s Transition in the Age of Global Capital,” in Neoliberalism and Global Cinema: Capital, Culture, and Marxist Critique, edited by Jyotsna Kapur and Keith Wagner, Routledge, New York: 2011, 135-156 “重归总体性思考，重建中国认同”(Rethinking Chinese Identity through the Notion of Totality), 社会观察(Social Observations), September issue, 2011, 7-11 “经济理性时代的价值空洞：重读哈贝马斯的《合理性危机》”(Value Emptiness in the Age of Economic Rationality: Rereading Habermas’ Legitimation Crisis), in马克思主义与现实 (Marxism and Reality), Part I: 2011 No. 1, 99-108; Part II: 2011 No.2, 106-115 2010 “The Poetics of Vanishing: Jia Zhangke and the Discontent of Postsocialist Market Economy,” New Left Review, No. 63, 71-88 “从现代主义到文化政治”(From modernism to cultural politics),” 现代中文学刊(Journal of Modern Chinese Studies), 2010 No. 3, 4-27

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“叙事、文化与正当性”(Narrative, Culture and Legitimacy), 天涯(Frontier)，2010 No. 2, 177-88 “中国价值的世界历史使命”(The World-Historical Task of Chinese Values), 文化纵横(Beijing Cultural Review), No. 1, 42-46 2009 “The Politics of Vernacular Aesthetic: The Invention of Modern Chinese Essay in Zhou Zuoren’s Literary Production in the 1930s,” Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences: A Quarterly, Vol. 2, No.3, September 2009, 60-93 “试谈人民共和国的根基”(Preliminary thoughts on the sources of legitimacy of the People’s Repubic), 21世纪经济报道(21st Century Business Herald)，November 24, 2009, A21 “当代性与文学史：关于当代文学 60年的对话”( Modernity and Literary History)，学术月刊(Scholarship Monthly)， 2009 No. 10，5-16 “五四”与中国现代性文化的激进诠释学”(May Fourth and the radical hermeneutics of Chinese culture of modernity), 现代中文学刊(Journal of Modern Chinese Literature Studies)，2009 No. 1, 13-19 “让鲁迅的文本自己说话—鲁迅博物馆访谈” (Unpacking the Text of Lu Xun Speak for Itself—interview with Lu Xun Museum), 文艺研究(Literature and Art Studies), 2009 No.4, 60-71. “政治为文艺确立主体：在《延安文艺座谈会上的讲话》发表 67周年访张旭东” (Politics and Artistic Subjectivity: Interview with Xudong Zhang on the 67th Anniversary of ‘Talk on Yan’an Forum), 中国社会科学院报(Journal of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences/)，June 20, 2009 “中国现代主义的‘名言之辩’—重读《阿 Q正传》”(Allegory and Origin of Chinese Modernism—Rereading Ah Q-The Real Story)，鲁迅研究月刊(Lu Xun Studies Monthly)，2009, No. 1, 4-21 “现代散文与传统的再发明---作为激进诠释学的《中国新文学的源流》”(The Modern Essay and the Re-Invention of Chinese Literary Tradition—Sources of Modern Chinese Literature as Radical Hermeneutics/), 现代中国(Modern China), April 09, 2009, No. 12, 93-118 “散文与社会个体性的创造--论周作人 30年代小品文写作的审美政治”(The Essay and the Making of Social Individuality—on Zhou Zuoren’s Xiaopinwen in the 1930s), translated from the English by Xie Jun, 现代文学研究丛刊(Journal of Modern Chinese Literature Studies), 2009, No 1，1-22 “叙事、文化与正当性：《秋菊打官司》中的重复与独一无二性”(Narrative, Culture, and Legitimacy: Repetition and Singularity in Zhang Yimou’s The Story of Qiu Ju), trans. from the English by Liu Han, 方法与个案：文化研究演讲集 (Method and Case Studies: Selected Lectures in Cultural Studies), edited by Sun Xiaozhong, Shanghai: 上海书店出版社(Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House ), 2009: 395-416

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Reissued in天涯(Frontier)，2010, No. 2, 177-88 “杂文的自觉：论鲁迅过渡期写作的存在斗争与文化政治（下）”(The becoming Self-conscious of Zawen—On Existential Struggle and Cultural Politics in Lu Xun’s Transitional Period，Part Part II): 2009, No. 1，12-19 Korean translation by Eunyeong Kim, in Journal of Modern Chinese Literature, Seoul, 2009, issue #51, 255-72 2008 “Lu Xun and East Asian Modernity: Theoretical Perspectives: Takeuchi Yoshimi, Deleuze, and Jameson,” in Utopia Here and There, edited by Maeda Koichi and UTCP, UTCP Booklet 4, Tokyo: University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy, 2008, 93-123 “中国今天是在创造新的普遍价值”(China and the Construction of the Universal—An interview with Xudong Zhang), 21世纪经济报道(21st Century Business Herald) , A31, December 20, 2008 “重读鲁迅与中国文学批评的几个问题—在复旦大学的演讲” (Lu Xun and Questions Concerning Chinese Literary Criticism: Lecture at Fudan University), 文艺理论与批评(Journal of Literary Theory and Criticism)，2008, No. 6, 38-49 “启蒙的精神现象学：王安忆《启蒙时代》中的实在与虚无”(A Phenomenology of Enlightenment: the Real and the Nihilistic in Wang Anyi’s The Age of Enlightenment), 开放时代(Open Times)，2008, No. 3，152-165 “杂文的自觉：论鲁迅过渡期写作的存在斗争与文化政治（上）”(The Becoming Self-conscious of Zawen—On Existential Struggle and Cultural Politics in Lu Xun’s Transitional Period， Part I), 文艺理论与批评(Journal of Literary Theory and Criticism)， 2008, No. 6， 42-52 Korean translation by Eunyeong Kim, in Journal of Modern Chinese Literature, Seoul, 2009, issue #50, 331-53 “文化与竞赛—2008年北京奥运会观感”(Culture and Competition—Observations on the 2008 Beijing Olympia Opening Ceremony), 文化纵横(Beijing Cultural Review)，Inaugural Special Issue on the Opening Ceremony, 88-96 “社会风景的寓言：陈凯歌《孩子王》再解读”(Allegory of Social Landscape: A Critical Account of Chen Kaige’s King of Children)，trans. by Chen Dandan & He Xiang, 热风学术丛刊(“Hot Air” Scholarly Series)，No.1，Guilin: Guangxi shifan daxue chubanshe (广西师范大学出版社)，2008，133-161 2007 “成长、启蒙、革命—关于《启蒙时代》的对话”(Becoming, Enlightenment, and Revolution—A Dialogue with Wang Anyi on The Age of Enlightenment), 文艺争鸣(Polemics in Literature and Art), 2007 No. 12, 40-56 “打开乱世的心灵空间—关于《启蒙时代的对谈》” (Opening the Intellectual Space of a Tumultuous Age—A dialogue on The Age of Enlightenment),书城(Book Town), December issue, 5-16

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“文化主体性的辩证法与历史决定”(Dialectic of and Historical Condition for Cultural Subjectivity),思想(Reflexion), Taipei: 联经出版社(Lianjing chubanshe)， No. 5，259-271

Mainland edition in书城(Book Town), July issue, 49-54 English translation in Deng Zhenglai ed., “The Dialectic and the Historical Determination of Cultural Subjectivity,” Globalization and Localization: The Chinese Perspective, Singapore, London, and Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte.Ltd., 155-65

“二十年的忧郁与理想--《发达资本主义时代的抒情诗人》再版感言”(Two Decades’ of Melancholy and Ideal—translator’s preface to the second edition of the Chinese translation of Walter Benjamin’s Charles Baudelaire—A Lyric Poet in the Age of High Capitalism, 书城(Book Town), May issue, 22-23 “普遍性、文化政治与中国人的焦虑”(Universality, Cultural Politics, and the Anxiety of Chinese Society)，天涯(Frontier)， 2007 no. 2, 167-77 2006 “Cinema of Post-Socialism: Zhang Yimou’s Film Production in the 1990s,” in Haili Kong and John Lent ed., 100 Years of Chinese Cinema, Norwalk, CT: East Bridge, 2006, 131-70. “文化、政治与主体性: 《全球化时代的文化认同》第二版后记”(Culture, Politics, and Subjectivity: Postscript to the 2nd expanded Edition of Cultural Identity in the Age of Globalization), 二十一世纪经济报道(21st Century Business Herald), end of year special edition 2005 “Comparison and Political Philosophy: Identity and ‘Politics of Being’ in Modern Bourgeois Subjectivity”, in Boundary 2 vol. 32 no.2 (Summer 05 issue), 81-108. Chinese translation by Hui Jiang, Bijiaowenxue yu shijiewenxue (Comparative Literature and World Literature), Beijing: Peking University Press, 2005, 536-553. “Narrative, Culture, and Legitimacy: Repetition and Singularity in Zhang Yimou’s The Story of Qiu Ju”, in Michael Wayne ed., Understanding Film—Marxist Perspectives, London: Pluto Press, 2005, 213-32. Chinese translation by Han Liu, 文化研究的方法与个案(Method and Case Studies in Cultural Studies), Shanghai: 上海书店（Shanghai shudian）, 2009, 395-416 “重读黑格尔的《法哲学》” (Rereading Hegel’s Philosophy of Right/), in Xu Jilin ed.，丽娃河畔谈思想—华东师大思与文讲座演讲集(Intellectual Conversations by the Liwa River: Selected Lectures at East China Normal University), Shanghai: East China Normal University Press, 2005, 40-54. “施米特的挑战——读《议会民主制的危机》”(The Challenge of Carl Schmitt: A Critical Reading of Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy), 开放时代(Open Times), no. 2, 126-38 “理论与实践：文学如何呈现历史？王安忆、张旭东对话”(Theory and Practice: How Literature Represents History—a Dialogue between Wang Anyi and Zhang Xudong/), Part I and Part II, 文艺研究(Literature and Art Studies), Beijing: no. 1, 60-69; no. 2, 83-91 “韦伯的立场”(Max Weber’s Position-Taking), 读书(Dushu), no.1, 138-49

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2004 “Multiplicity or Homogeneity? The Cultural-Political Paradox of the Age of Globalization,” Cultural Critique (Fall 04 issue), 30-55. “Jameson and China: Modernity as Cultural Politics,” in Douglass Kellner and Sean Homer, ed. Fredric Jameson: A Critical Reader, London: Palgrave/Mcmillan, 169-94. “《长恨歌》：从小说到舞台(The Song of Ever-Lasting Sorrows: from fiction to theater), 文汇报(Wenhuibao)，2004.6.2 2003 “On Becoming Political of the Cultural: The Crisis of Universalism in the Age of Globalization,” in Comparative Literature in the Cross-Cultural Context, ed. by Cheng Aimin and Yang Lixin, Nanjing: Yilin Press, 69-94 “National Trauma, Global Allegory: Reconstruction of Collective Memory in Tian Zhuangzhuang’s The Blue Kite”, Journal of Contemporary China, vol. 12, No.37, 623-38 “普遍性、可比性与作为政治的文化—全球化时代的文化认同” (Universality, Comparability and Culture as Politics—On Cultural Identity in the Age of Globalization), 中国大学讲演录(Selected University Lectures), Guilin: Guangxi Normal University Press, 2003, 32-56 “学者的使命——梁任公《敬告留学生诸君》百年有感 (The Vocation of the Scholar—Observations on the 100 Anniversary of the publication of Liang Qichao’s “A Plea to Overseas Chinese Students”), 文汇报(Wenhuibao), October 18 “全球化时代的文化悖论——多样性还是同一性？” (Cultural Paradox of the Age of Globalization—Diversity or Homogeneity?), 二十一世纪(1st Century), October issue (no. 79), 119-129 “文化民族主义、”挫折感”、与中国学人的精神使命”(Cultural Nationalism, Frustration, and the Moral Mission of Chinese Scholars/), in Ershiyi shiji jingji baodao (21st Century Business Herald/二十一世纪经济报道), August 14. Reissued in中国大学改革之道(The Way of University Reforms in China), ed. by Gan Yang and Li Meng, Shanghai: Shanghai renmin chubanshe, 2004, 141-52 “全球化时代的文化政治”(Cultural Politics in the Age of Globalization), 跨文化对话 (Cross-Cultural Dialogues), Beijing: Peking University Press, no. 11, 51-72 “全球化与中国大学的精神使命”(Globalization and the Moral Mission of Chinese Universities),文汇报(Wenhuibao), July 16

Reissued in中国大学改革之道 (The Way of University Reform in China), ed. by Gan Yang and Li Meng, Shanghai: Shanghai renmin chubanshe, 2004, 135-40 “在拉雪兹公墓” (Thoughts At Pere Lachaise),文汇报(Wenhuibao), August 18 “西学想象与中国当代文化政治的展开” (Western Theory and the Articulation of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Politics: An Interview by Prof. Xue Yi), 天涯(in Tianya (Frontier), no.2, 15-28 “韦伯与文化政治” (Max Weber and Cultural Politics), 读书(Dushu) , no.3, 2-12

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“在纽约看《英雄》” (A Commentary on Zhang Yimou’s Hero, 文汇报(Wenhuibao), Shanghai: Jan. 17 Swedish translation by Stefan Jonsson, Dagen Nyheter (Kultur section), Stockholm, July 30 “语言、诗歌、时代——关于当代中国文学创造性的对谈”(Language, Poetry, and the Times: A Conversation with Xi Chuan on the Creativity of Contemporary Chinese Literature), 中华读书报(China Reading Weekly), Jan. 20 2002 "Shanghai Image: Critical Iconography, Minor Literature, and the Un-Making of a Modern Chinese Mythology," New Literary History, Winter 2002, 137-169.

Chinese translation by Zhang Weiwei, 文学评论(Literary Review), 2002 no. 5, 90-102 “重读杰姆逊”(Re-Reading Fredric Jameson), 读书(Reading), no.12, 1-12 “上海故事” (Shanghai as Narrative), 文汇报(Wenhuibao), October 4 “带着惊愕和恐怖去观照——九一一周年祭”(To Contemplate with Shock and Horror’—On the First Anniversary of September 11, 2001), 文汇报 (Wenhuibao), September 23, 2002 “王安忆、上海、小文学”(Wang Anyi, Shanghai, and Minor Literature), 书城(Book Town), no.9, 61-63 “全球化时代的中国文化反思：我们今天怎样做中国人？ — 张旭东教授访谈录” (Reflections on Chinese Culture in the Age of Globalization: What Does It Mean to Be a Chinese Today? An interview with Zhang Jieyu), 中华读书报 (China Reading Weekly), July 17, 2002 “Shanghai Yixiang: Chengshi ouxiang pipan yu xiandai shenhua de xiaojie” (Shanghai Image: Critical Iconography and the Un-making of a Modern Chinese Mythology／上海的意象：城市偶像批判与现代神话的消解), 文学评论(Literary Review), Beijing: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, no. 5

Reissued in丽娃河畔谈文学, edited by Chen Zishan and Luo Gang, Shanghai: East China Normal University Press, 229-49 “可比性的概念：文化政治视野里的普遍与特殊” (The Concept of Comparability: Universal and Particular from the Perspective of Cultural Politics), 二十一世纪 (Twentieth-First Century), no. 8, vol. 72, 101-110. Reissued in中国大学学术讲演录(Selected Academic Lectures in Chinese Colleges and Universities), 2003, A, Guilin: Guangxi Normal University Press, 2003 “尼采与文化政治(Nietzsche and Cultural Politics), 读书(Reading), Beijing: Sanlian shudian/The Joint Publishing Co., April issue, 3-12 2001 "The Making of the Post-Tiananmen Intellectual Field,'" East Asia: An International Quarterly, Spring-Summer2001, Vol.19, Nos 1-2, 3-57

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"Intellectual Politics after Tiananmen: A Critical Overview," in Whither China? Intellectual Politics in the 1990s, edited by Xudong Zhang, Duke University Press, 2001, 1-75 2000 "Shanghai Nostalgia: Modernity, Allegory, and Mourning in Wang Anyi's Writings of Shanghai," positions:east asia cultures critique, 8:2, Summer 2000, 1-39.

Chinese translation by Huang Zhenping, 中国学术(Chinese Scholarship), Vol.3., 122-61. "On Chinese Postmodernism," Arif Dirlik and Xudong Zhang ed., Postmodernism and China, Duke University Press, 399-442 “承认的政治与被承认的期待” (Politics of Recognition: Gao Xinjian and Nobel Prize in Literature), 二十一世纪(Twentieth-First Century), Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, no. 12, 4-10 Swedish translation by Stefan Jonsson, Dagen Nyheter (Kultur section), Stockholm, December 3, 2000. “符号权力与历史：论布尔迪约的社会哲学,” (Symbolic Power and History—On Pierre Bourdieu’s Social Philosophy), trans. from the English by Ni Wei, 东方文化(Chinese Culture), Guangzhou, Guangdong: no. 4 “知识分子与民族理想：评罗蒂的《为美国理想的实现 — 二十世纪左翼思想》,” (Intellectuals and National Ideal: A Critical Review of Richard Rorty’s Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth Century, 读书(Reading), no. 10, 24-33

Expanded Internet edition in世纪中国(Century China), an internet magazine edited by the Institute of Chinese Culture at Chinese University of Hong Kong, December 22, http://www.csdn618.com.cn/century/zhoukan/diyishijian/0012/00122200.htm “现代性的寓言：王安忆与上海怀旧” (Allegories of Modernity: Wang Anyi and Shanghai Nostalgia/), trans. by Huang Zhenping, 中国学术(Chinese Scholarship), Beijing: The Commercial Press, vol. 1, no. 3, 122-61 1999 "Postmodernism and Postsocialist Society: Cultural Politics in China in the 1990s," New Left Review, no. 237 (October and November, 1999), 77-105. "Toward a Radical Hermeneutics of Chinese Literary Tradition: Zhou Zuoren's Sources of Modern Chinese Literature," in Classics and Interpretations: The Hermeneutic Tradition in Chinese Culture, edited by Ching-I Tu (New Brunswick, NJ: Transactions Publisher), 427-56. “后现代主义与当代中国” (Postmodernism and Contemporary China), 读书(Reading), no. 12, 12-20 “东方学与表象的政治” (Orientalism and Politics of Representation), tran. from the English by Ni Wei, Hong Kong Journal of Social Sciences, no.13, Winter 1998, 175-202 1998 "Dialectics and the Historicity of Theory: An Interview with Fredric Jameson," New Literary History, Summer 1998, 353-83.

Reissued in Michael Hardt ed. The Jameson Reader (London: Blackwell, 2000).

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"Intellectual Politics in Post-Tiananmen China: An Introduction," Social Text, no. 55, (Summer 1998), 1-8. "Nationalism, Mass Culture, and Intellectual Strategy in Post-Tiananmen China," Social Text, no. 55 (Summer 1998), 109-40. "Postmodernism and China: An Introduction," coauthored with Arif Dirlik, in Postmodernism and China, a special issue of Boundary 2 (Fall 97), 1-20. “从资产阶级世纪中苏醒” (Awaking from the Bourgeois Century: translator's introduction to the Chinese edition of Walter Benjamin's Illuminations), 读书(Reading), no. 11, 28-38 “重访八十年代：《幻想的秩序》序” (The 1980s Revisited: Preface to The Order of the Imaginary), Dushu(读书), no. 2, 3-11 1997 "Nationalism and Contemporary China," East Asia: An International Quarterly (Spring and Summer 1997, 16:1/2), 130-46. “民族主义与当代中国” (Nationalism and Contemporary China: Toward a Critical Intellectual Discourse on Chinese Nationalism),读书(Reading), no. 6, 22-30

Reissued in原道 (Origins of the Way), no. 2, edited by Chen Ming, Zhu Hanmin and Zhang Baoming, Zhengzhou: Henan, 2004, 124-31

Reissued in知识分子立场：民族主义与转型期中国的命运(Intellectual Positions: Nationalism and China in Transition), ed. by Li Shitao, Shangchun, Jilin: Shidai wenyi chubanshe , 1999, 429-40 1996 "The Politics of Modernism: A Theoretical Proposal for the Critique of the New Era and Its Intellectual Discourse," New Perspectives: A Comparative Literature Yearbook (Hong Kong), 131-50 “马克思主义与理论的历史性” (Marxism and the Historicity of Theory: an interview with Fredric Jameson/), in今天(Today Literary Magazine), Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1996 no. 2, vol. 33, 232-52.

Reissued in读书(Reading) 1996 no. 8, 18-26 1995 "The Power of Rewriting: A Critical Account of the Post-Revolutionary Discourse on Chinese Socialist Realism," in South Atlantic Quarterly (SAQ), Summer 1995, 915-946.

Reissued in Socialist Realism Without Shores, edited by Thomas Lahusen and Evgeny Dobrenko, (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997), 282-309 1994 "The Chinese Cultural Fever: Theory, Ideology and Social Change," in Social Text, no. 3, 129-156 "The Political Hermeneutics of Cultural Constitution: Reflections on the Chinese Cultural Discussions (1985-1989), Working Paper, no. 94-01, the Asia-Pacific Studies Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 1-40

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“地域、文化、资本主义与后殖民主义” (Locality, Culture, Capitalism, and Postcolonialism), a panel discussion with Li Tuo, Lydia Liu and Meng Yue,今天(Today Literary Magazine), 1994, no. 2, 1-15 “文学批评－语言与写作空间” (Literary Criticism: Language and the Space of Writing), a panel discussion on avant-garde literature and criticism, with Huang Ziping, Li Tuo, Lydia Liu, Meng Yue, Tang Xiaobing and Zou Yu, 今天(Today Literary Magazine), 1994, no. 2, 169-189 1991 “当代中国文学批评的主题内容与真理内容” (The Subject-matter and the Truth-content of Contemporary Chinese Literary Criticism: Narrating the History of Consciousness of Contemporary Chinese Literature from “Misty Poetry” to “New Fiction”), 今天(Today Literary Magazine), Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, special issue on literary criticism, no. 2, 2-12

Reissued under the title “从”朦胧诗”到”新小说” (From “Misty Poetry” to “New Fiction”), China Avant-garde, edited by Jochen Noth, Wolfger Pohlmann and Kai Reschke, Hong Kong: The Oxford University Press, 1994, 69-76 1990 “自我意识的童话－格非与当代语言主体的几个问题” (Fables of Self-consciousness: Ge Fei and Some Motifs in Contemporary Chinese Literary Subjectivity), 八方（Bafang Literary and Art Series), Hong Kong: vol. 12, 308-330

Reissued in abbreviated form in今天(Today Literary Magazine), no. 2, 1991, 110 - 122 1989 “遗忘的系谱: 重读鲁迅” (The Genealogy of Forgetting: A Re-reading of Lu Xun), 文化 中国与世界(Culture: China and the World), vol. 7, edited by Gan Yang, Beijing: Sanlian shudian (The Joint Publishing Co. Ltd). “总体与叙事” (Totality and Narrative: the Modernism of Lukacs), 当代西方文学理论教程 (Course on Contemporary Western Literary Theory), ed. by Hu Jingzhi and Wang Yuechuan, Beijing: Peking University Press, Beijing, 332-356 “幻想的秩序: 作为批评理论的拉康” (The Order of the Imaginary: Lacan as Critical Theory),文学评论(Literary Review), Beijing: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, no. 4, 70-91 “银幕上的符号之物与历史之物” (The Semiotic and the Historic on the Screen: A Preliminary Interpretation of the “New Chinese Cinema”), 电影艺术(Film Art), Beijing: Chinese Association of Film Artists, no. 5, 35-46 “拯救是我自己的展现” (Redemption Is My Private Show: Proust and Philosophy of History/),读书(Reading), no. 7-8, 132-38 “命运与性格——本雅明与他的卡夫卡” (Fate and Character: Benjamin and Kafka/), 读书(Reading), no. 2, 77-84 1988 “体验与寓言：本雅明的意义” (Erlebnis and Allegory: The Meaning of Walter Benjamin), 文化：中国与世界(Culture: China and the World), Beijing: Sanlian shudian(The Joint Publishing Co. Ltd.), no. 5, 333-58

Reissued in 当代中国文化意识(Cultural Consciousness of Contemporary China), edited by Gan Yang, Hong Kong: Sanlian shudian (The Joint Publishing Co. Ltd.)., 1990, 390-414

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“寓言批评: 本雅明论波德莱尔中的几个母题” (Allegorical Criticism: On Some Motifs in Benjamin's Charles Baudelaire), 文学评论(Literary Review), no. 4, 89-112

Reissued in当代西方文学理论教程/Course on Contemporary Western Literary Theory, ed. by Hu Jingzhi & Wang Yuechuan, Beijing: Peking University Press, 1990, 402-427 “现代文人: 本雅明笔下的波德莱尔” (The Homme de Lettres of Modernity: Baudelaire as Represented by Benjamin), 读书(Reading)，no. 11, 81-88 “书房与革命: 作为收藏家的本雅明” (Library and Revolution: Benjamin, or Historian as Collector), 读书(Reading)， no. 12, 83-89 1987 “文化的诗学与诗的文化学” (The Poetics of Culture and the Culturology of the Poetic: Modes and Transformations in Hemingway, Wittgenstein and Heidegger),文艺美学丛刊(Aesthetics and Studies in Literature and Arts), Hohhot: Neimenggu renmin chubanshe, vol. 2, 119-139 Conference Organization and other Coordinated Research Projects Organizer: Co-Organizer, with David Pan, “Constitutional Theory”, a Telos-ICCT Joint Conference, New York, February 16-18 2018 Co-Organizer, with Takahiro Nakajima and Paul Pickering, 4th PKU-UofTokyo-ANU Winter Institute on Critical Area Studies, Tokyo, Jan 23-28, 2018 Organizer: Jin Yucheng and the Writing of Shanghai: A conference on Blooming (Fanhua), February, China House, NYU, March 2-3, 2017 Co-organizer (with Nakajima Takahiro): 2nd Peking University-University of Tokyo Winter Institute on Critical Area Studies, March 13-18, 2017 The 4th Annual Himalayas Cultural Forum, “The Conflict of Representation in China Today”, Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, Oct 15, 2016 “Wang Anyi and Chinese Realism” International conference, China House, NYU, co-organized with Todd Foley and Shiqi Liao, May 6-7, 2016 “Wang Anyi and Rethinking Realism” faculty-graduate student bi-weekly workshop series, co-organized with Todd Foley and Shiqi Liao, February through May, 2016 1st PKU-UofTokyo Winter Institute on Critical Area Studies, Institute of Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo, co-organized with Takahiro Nakajima, Tokyo, Jan 6-20, 2016 --International Center for Critical Theory conferences, workshops, and seminars: ----Symposium on Literature, co-organized with University of Tokyo Interdisciplinary Humanities Program, Tokyo, June 27-28, 2014

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----Symposium on Literary Representation on Shanghai, co-organized with International Center for Critical Theory, East China Normal University, Shanghai, July 13, 2014 ----ICCT Summer Institute, East China Normal University, Shanghai, July 7-11, 2014 ----ICCT Summer Forum on “Postmodernism and China”, co-organized with Himalaya Museum of Art, Shanghai, July 12, 2014 “Modernity and Literary History: Workshop on Rethinking Contemporary Chinese Literature,” co-organized with Cai Xiang and Luo Gang, International Center for Critical Theory & Center for Research on Contemporary Chinese Literature, Shanghai University, Chongqing, August 13-16, 2013 “ICCT Summer Institute on Critical Theory and Modern Chinese Literature,” Peking University, July 29-August 3, 2013 “Tradition and Formal Innovation,” a one-day forum as part of the inaugural ceremony of the Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, June 11, 2013 “Rethinking Yan’an: Culture, Society, and Politics,” co-organized with Cai Xiang and Luo Gang, co-sponsored by New York University, Shanghai University, and Chongqing University, Chongqing, December 26-28, 2012 International Center for Critical Theory conference and seminar/symposium series on Fredric Jameson’s theoretical discourse, co-sponsored by New York University, Peking University, and East China Normal University, December 12-13, Peking University; December 14, Institute of Literary Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; December 20, East China Normal University; December 21, Wenhuibao Headquarters, 2012 “Classics and Interpretations: Annual Summer Workshop on “Core Courses” of Liberal Education,” co-organized with Gan Yang, co-sponsored by Sun Yat-Sen University, Chongqing University, and Peking University, July 29-August 3, 2012 “Fiction and Social Change,” Symposium on Yu Hua’s Brother s(Xiong di, 2005/06), NYU, New York, December 1, 2011 “The Politics of the Essay: Rethinking Lu Xun and Modern Chinese Literature”, a bilateral faculty-graduate student symposium, Peking University and New York University, New York, November 4-6, 2011 “Demolition and Construction: Academic Forum of 4th Guangzhou Triennial,” Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou; co-organizer (with Gan Yang), September 22-24, 2011 “Classics and Interpretations: 5th Summer Institute on Core Courses of Liberal Education,” Peking University, Beijing, co-organizer (with Gan Yang), August 2-9, 2011 “Re-Reading the 1980s: Situation and Context”, a research workshop organized by Xudong Zhang and Cai Xiang, co-sponsored by NYU and Shanghai University, December 18-20, 2009 “Lu Xun’s Essay Production and Critique of Shanghai Modernity,” a research conference organized by Xudong Zhang cosponsored by NYU and ECNU, Shanghai, August 13-15, 2009

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“PRC Literature in International Perspectives: 1949-2009,” a research conference organized by Xudong Zhang and Cai Xiang, cosponsored by NYU and Shanghai University, June 12-15, 2009 “The Age of ‘Zawen’,” a symposium on Lu Xun’s essay production organized by Xudong Zhang, cosponsored by NYU, Peking University, and East China Normal University, Beijing, August 9-10, 2008 NYU-Univ. of Tokyo Joint Workshop on “Rethinking East Asian Modernity: Lu Xun and Takeuchi Yoshimi,” March 2008 NYU-China Summer Research Institute, 2005-08 (Shanghai); 2007-08 (Beijing), with changing annual themes on theories of modernity; urban culture; Walter Benjamin; and Lu Xun, co-organized with the Chinese Department, Institute of Modern Chinese Thought and Culture, East China Normal University; and with Chinese Department of Peking University, and Peking University Press Sino-U.S. Bilateral Symposia on Comparative Literature and Cultural Politics, August 10-24, 2005, with panel discussions, workshops, conferences, and colloqua at University of Hong Kong, Chinese Comparative Literature Association Bi-Annual Conference in Shenzhen, East China Normal University in Shanghai, and Tsinghua University, Peking University, and Dushu Editorial Office in Beijing Advanced Summer Institute on Urban Culture Theory, co-sponsored by New York University, University of Hong Kong, and East China Normal University, Shanghai, June 12-20, 2004 An International Series Conference on Shanghai Urban Culture, Society, and Politics (co-organized with Elizabeth Perry): New York University, April 20-22, 2001; Harvard University, November 2-4, 2001; and University of Hong Kong (co-organized with Elizabeth Sinn), June 10-12, 2002 "Intellectuals and Reconfiguration of Social Power in 1990s China," an international workshop, co-organized with Timothy Cheek and Jiang Hong, Colorado College, October 26-28, 2001 "The Hermeneutic Tradition of Chinese Culture," Rutgers University, October 10-12, 1996, co-organized with Ching-I Tu, Chun-fang Yu, and Peter Li "Benjamin for the Jetztzeit: 1892-1992," Duke University, co-organized with Craig A. Phillips, February 21-23, 1992 Invited Talks, Public Lectures, and Conference Papers (Selected) 2018 “Becoming Animal, Becoming Machine: The Political Allegories in Lao She’s Camel Xiangzi,” keynote speech at “Posthumanism” conference, organized by Wenjin Cui, Unversity of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, September 29-30 “Literary and Intellectual Development in the Era of Chinese Reforms: A Retrospective,” a public lecture organized by Fudan University School of Chinese Studies, August 4

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“Identity and Difference in Cross-Cultural Understanding: Translation As Political Philosophy in Benjamin, Lu Xun, Schmitt, and Francois Julien,” invited talk at the Research School of Humanities, Australian National University, July 12 “The Limits of Cultural Radicalism: Rethinking the New Culture-Era Discourse on ‘Becoming Self-Consciousness’(Zijue), ” keynote speech at Sansi Institute Executive Program in Humanities and Technology, Lijiang, Yunnan, June 18 “From Chinese Interest to Chinese Values? The Interaction between Domestic Politics and Diplomacy within the ‘Chinese Model of Development,’” Thinkers Forum, 2018, Fudan University School of Chinese Studies, Shanghai, June 9 “Mimesis Reconsidered: From Aristotle to the Age of Virtual Reality and Big Data,” a public lecture at the Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, May 31 “After the Beautiful: The Pre-Art and the Post-Art in Hegel’s Phenomenology and Aesthetics,” an invited talk at the School of Humanities, the Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, May 10 “Narrative and ‘Man in Action’: The Challenge of Realism in Contemporary China,” paper presented at the interdisciplinary research conference on “The Historical Experience of Chinese Industrialization,” organized by Chunqiu Institute, Mar 31, Beijng “Identity and Sovereignty in the Self-Understanding of Modern Chinese State Form,” a paper presented at the CITIC Foundation conference on “Chinese Foreign Relations in the Xi Jinping Era,” March 24 “Constitution-Making Perpetuated: Is There An Unwritten Contract of the Chinese State with the People?” paper presented at the Telos-ICCT joint conference on “Constitutional Theory,” co-organized by David Pan and Xudong Zhang, New York, February 17 2017 “Observations on the Political and the Apolitical in the State Form Corresponding to ‘Socialist Market Economy,” a conference paper at “The Impact of the 19th Party Congress: the Annual NYU Conference on Chinese Capital Markets”, organized by David Denoon, New York, December 8 “Brothers Forever: Yu Hua’s Allegorical Representation of Chinese Reality,” an invited talk at University of New Hampshire, Oct 16, Durham, NH “The Concept of Gentleman in Confucius’ Analects,” an invited talk at Yenching Academy, Peking University, June 27, Beijing “The High and Low in Chinese New Culture Movement: Reconsiderations”, an invited talk at The Central University of Nationalities, Beijing, June 19, Beijing “Chronicle as Poetry: On Lu Xun’s Essay Production During His Shanghai Decade (1927-1936), ” invited talk at Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Chongqing University, June 15, Chongqing ”Brecht and Mimesis: Reading Jameson’s Brecht and Method,” invited talk at Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Chongqing University, June 14, Chongqing

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“Cultural Politics of Contemporary China,” invited talk at the Hong Kong Central Policy Institute, May 12, Hong Kong “Revisiting Fukuzawa’s Comparative Theory of Civilization in the Age of Identity and Identity Politics,” keynote address at the 2nd PKU-UofTokyo Winter Institute for Critical Area Studies, co-organized by Xudong Zhang and Nakajima Takahiro, Beijing, March 14 2016 “Legality and Legitmacy: Rethinking the Discourse on ‘The Chinese Way’,” invited talk at Shenzhen Graduate School, Peking University, Shenzhen, December 21 “National Identity and Cultural Norm: Reconsiderations of the Notion of Sovereignty through the Prism of the Early and Recent Moments of Chinese Historical Experiences,” a keynote address of the Inaugural China Culture Forum, organized by Tung Chee-Hwa, Our Hong Kong Foundation, December 19 “The Nameless Reality: Subject and Subjectlessness in Contemporary Chinese Art,” opening keynote speech, 4th Annual Himalayas Culture Forum on “The Conflict of Representation”, Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, Oct 15 “Toward A Theory of the Particular Universal: Rethinking Cultural Identity in the Age of Globalization,”, a public lecture at School of Chinese Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai, Oct 11 “The End of ‘End of History’: Rereading Samual Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations (1996),” Beijing University of Foreign Studies, June 14 Five lectures on Lukacs, Auerbach, and Fredric Jameson’s theory of realism; on the writings of Wang Anyi; and on literature and political philosophy,” International Center for Critical Theory (ICCT) Seminar Series, Peking University, March 15, June 12, 21, 23, and July 16 Three keynote lectures on Minor Literature and National Allegory; Sovereignty and the State of Exception; and on Contradiction and Overdetermination, the International Center for Critical Theory (ICCT) Winter Institute, University of Tokyo, Jan 6-15 2015 “The Origins of Shanghai Culture,” public speech along with Wang Anyi, 50th Anniversary Memorial Lecture Series, Shanghai University of International Studies, Shanghai, December 25 “A Defense of Theory in the Age of Global Capital: Rethinking the Political in the Aesthetic, and Vice Versa,” invited presentation at “Critical Transactions: Engaging the Humanities East & West, the University of Hong Kong, December 17-18 “Let the City Talk—On Silence and Omissions in Jin Yucheng’s Fanhua(Blooming),” keynote speech at the Shanghai Project “Nihao, Shanghai” International Conference, Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, December 12 “Challenges of Liberal Education in the People’s Republic,” invited round-table discussion on “Symposium on Liberal Education in the Age of Globalization”, Yale-NUS College, Singapore, October, 10

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“The Ya(Refined)/Su Distinction in the New Culture Movement,” keynote speech at the Centennial Memorial Symposium on Chinese New Culture Movement, Peking University, September 15 “The East Asian Approach to Global Liberal Education Core Courses in the Humanities,” invited presentation at the workshop convened by the Chancellor of Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, July 10 “The Ya(Refined)/Su(Vulgar) Distinction in Zhou Zuoren’s Theory of the Vernacular Essay, ” invited speech at Yenching Academy, Peking University, July 7; keynote speech at Himalayas Culture Forum, Shanghai, July 1 “Liu Zhenyun and the Countryside of Literature,” keynote speech on “The Poetics of Convolution and the Structural Motivation of Literature,” in the morning symposium and moderator/discussant in the afternoon workshop, Peking University, June 11 “Is Theory Critical? ” invited presentation at the University of California, Irvine, conference sponsored by the Critical Theory Institute to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Johns Hopkins conference on structuralism, Irvine, May 23-25 “Literary Studies and Interpretation of Canon” conference keynote speech on “Of Human, Animal, and Machine: Rereading Camel Xiangzi,” Tamkang University, Taiwan, May 13-14 “Rereading Jeunesse—The first 100 Years,” annual Chinese Cultural Forum symposium , East China Normal University, May 4-5 “Critical Theory and Political Philosophy,” a series of inter-connected lectures on Hobbes, Schmitt, Lenin, Mao, Benjamin, and Agamben, Spring 2015, International Center for Critical Theory-PKU, Peking University, Beijing, March-May 2014 “Critique of Violence and Critique of Power in Benjamin, Mao, and Carl Schmitt,” an invited presentation at Cornell University Critical Theory Institute, Ithaca, NY, December 6 “Theory and Liberal Education: Comparative Observations on German, American, and Chinese Concepts of the Research University,” invited paper presentation at the Sino-German Forum in Advanced Studies, Free University of Berlin, October 12 “When Shanghai Speaks--Literary Representation and Politics of Language--keynote speech on Fanhua (Blooming),”Sinan Reading Club lecture series sponsored by Shanghai Municipal Culture Bureau, Shanghai, April 19 “The Concept of Method in Fredric Jameson’s ‘Brecht and Method,” keynote speech at Fudan University Chinese Forum, Shanghai, May 19 “Animal, Machine, Man: Rereading Lao She’s Camel Xiangzi from the Perspectives of High Modernism and Political Philosophy,” keynote speech at Zhejiang University Oriental Forum, Hangzhou, May 27 2013 “Slaying the Cultural Leviathan: Reconsiderations on Chinese Enlightenment Discourse on Cannibalism,” keynote speech at the conference on “Cannibalistic Modernisms,” King’s

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College London, November 6-7; invited public lecture, Minzu University of China, Beijing, December 20 “The Architectonics of the Romantic Novel: Rereading Notre Dame de Paris,” Inaugural lecture for Boya College, Chongqing University, October 10 “"The 'Magic' as 'Real' in Mo Yan's Fictional Representation of Contemporary China: Reading The Republic of Wine and Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out"” & “The Conundrum of Chinese Identity in the Age of Globalization”, a mini lecture series for the “Core Course Workshop” organized by Asian Studies Development Program (ASDP) directed by East-West Center, University of Hawaii funded by U.S. Department of Education, University of North Carolina at Ashville, Sep 16; University of Texas at El Paso, Oct. 7; Portland State University, Oct.21 “Formal Autonomy and Its Historicization: Language and Structure in Liu Zhenyun’s Literary Production,” Peking University, Aug 1 “What Is A Method? Critical Approaches in Fredric Jameson’s Brecht and Method”, Peking University, July 30; East China Normal University, Shanghai, June 7 “Liberal Education in the Age of Globalization,” Wenhui Jiangtang Lecture Series, Wenhuipao, Shanghai, June 30 “What Does It Mean to Talk About the ‘Chinese Dream’,” an invited lecture at Social Observation headquarters, Shanghai, June 14 “The Poetics of Convolutedness (Rao): Reading Liu Zhenyun’s Yiju ding yiwanju and Wobushi Pan Jinlian”, East China Normal University, Shanghai, June 13; Henan University, Kaifeng, June 5 “Dialectic, Contradiction, Structure: Critical Conceptual Constructions in the Age of Global Capital in Fredric Jameson’s Valences of the Dialectic,” East China Normal University, June 9 “Monad and Formal Expansion: Perspectives on Fredric Jameson’s Studies on Modernism,” East China Normal University, June 8 “Lu Xun as Method,” a paper presented at “Lu Xun and East Asia–an International Conference,” Harvard University, April 5 2012 “Literature as Political Machine—Rereading Mao’s Yan’an Talk,” paper delivered at “Rethinking Yan’an: Culture, Society, and Politics” conference, co-organized by Cai Xiang and Zhang Xudong, Chongqing University, December 26-28, 2012 “‘Cultural Self-Consciousness’ as A Political Notion,” New China Publication and Distribution Group, Shanghai, July 28, 2012 “Other Peoples, Other Places, and Totality—the Comparative Approaches in Hegel’s Philosophy of Art,” Sichuan University of Foreign Languages, Chongqing, June 27, 2012 “Literature and the Inner Contradictions of the ‘Modern Subject’—from the Viewpoint of Hegel’s Aesthetics,” Shanghai University, June 18, 2012

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“The Divine and the Collective as Content: Labor and Hegel’s Phenomenology of Art,” East China Normal University, Shaghai, June 16, 2012 “Externalization, Interiority, and ‘Mittelpunkt’—the Subjective Movement in Hegel’s Aesthetic Categories,” East China Normal University, Shanghai, June15, 2012 “The Limits of Idea and of Its Sensual Appearance: On Hegel’s Rejection of the Notion of Natural Beauty,” East China Normal University, Shanghai, June 14, 2012 “The World of Prose” and “the End of Art: Studies in Hegel’s Aesthetics,” Peking University, June 4, 2012 Hegel’s Aesthetics: An Art-Philosophical Interpretation, Peking University, May28, 2012 “What Is Comparative Literature? Toward a Political-Philosophical Understanding,” keynote speech at the End-of-Project Conference, Center of Philosophy, University of Tokyo (Komaba), Kyoto, Jan 14, 2012 “Rereading Mao’s ‘On Contradiction’,” a graduate seminar at the International Center for Critical Theory, East China Normal University, Shanghai, Jan 6, 2012 “Rereading Mao’s ‘On New Democracy’,” a graduate seminar at the International Center for Critical Theory, East China Normal University, Shanghai, Jan 6, 2012 “Toward a Political Ontology of New Chinese Culture: Rereading Mao’s ‘Talk at the Yan’an Forum of Literature and Art,’” International Center for Critical Theory, East China Normal University, Shanghai, Jan 5, 2012 2011 “Toward a Political Ontology of New Chinese Culture: Rereading Mao’s ‘Talk at the Yan’an Forum of Literature and Art,’” International Center for Critical Theory, Peking University, Beijing, December 23, 2011 “On Yu Hua’s Brothers”, a talk at International Center for Critical Theory, Peking University, Beijing, December 20, 2011 “Contemporary Chinese Intellectual Politics Revisited,” keynote speech at the conference on “The Chinese Road”, organized by Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo (Honggo), December 17, 2011 “What Is Comparative Literature? Toward a Political-Philosophical Understanding,” invited talk in the Department of Comparative Literature, University of California at Berkeley, November 3, 2011 “Rereading ‘The Biography of Duke Huaiyin’ in Grand Record of History,” ,” a two-part public lecture given at Peking University 5th Summer Institute on “Classics and Interpretations: Core Courses in Liberal Education” series, Beijing, August 3-4, 2011 “Enlightenment and Political Philosophy: Rethinking the Notion of ‘Republic’ Among Early May Fourth Intellectuals,” paper presented at the 100th Anniversary of the Republic of China Memorial Conference, University of Hawaii, Honululu, March 29, 2011

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2010 “Toward the Essay: The Aesthetic and Political Intensity of Lu Xun’s Literary Production, 1925-1936,” invited talk at School for Literary Studies, Nankai University, Tianjin, China, December 1, 2010 “Chinese Modernism and Its Limits,” Keynote speech at the Annual Conference of International Committee on Museums and Collections of Modern Art (CIMAN), Shanghai, November 9, 2010 “Cultural Passion and Political Awareness in the Dialectic of the Particular and the Universal,” invited presentation at “Forum on Political Philosophy: Universalism and Particularism,” College of Philosophy, Renmin University, Beijing, October 31, 2010 “Keywords in Contemporary Chinese Literature in the Age of Globalization,” keynote speech at Boya International Literary Forum on “Global Implications of Contemporary Chinese Literature,” Peking University, Beijing, October 29-30, 2010 “Theory Today: Challenges and Opportunities Facing Critical Discourse,” a joint seminar with Susan Buck-Morss (Cornell-CUNY Graduate Center), The Institute of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, November 7, 2010 “The Politics of the Universal: Enlightenment and Modern Identity Crisis,” a paper presented at “Rethinking Enlightenment in Global/Historical Contexts,” organized by Xudong Zhang and Takahiro Nakajima, International Center for Critical Theory, Peking University, August 25-27, 2010 “Is the ‘Post’ in Postsocialism the Same as the ‘Post’ in ‘Postmodernism’?,” an invited talk at Center for Intellectual History, Fudan University, Shanghai, August 21, 2010 “Allegorical Criticism: Theory and Practice,” and “Lyricism and Modern Experience,” a two-part seminar series on Walter Benjamin’s Das Passengen-Werk, co-organized by Simian School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, East China Normal University & NYU-Shanghai Summer Research Institute, Shanghai, August 20-21, 2010 “Market Socialism and Its Discontent: On Jia Zhangke’s Filmmaking, from Xiaowu to 24 City”, invited lecture at Joint Coursework in Cultural Studies Project co-organized by East China Normal University, Shanghai University, Shanghai Normal University, Fudan University, and Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Jan 2; also delivered at “Modernity’s Cultural Politics” conference organized by Courtauld Institute of Art, London, October 23-24, 2010 “Rethinking Enlightenment: On Max Horkeheimer and T.W. Adorno’s ‘The Dialectic of Enlightenment’,” a two-part public lecture given at Peking University 4th Summer Institute on “Classics and Interpretations: Core Courses in Liberal Education” series, Beijing, August 11-12, 2010 “Universalism and Cultural Identity in Contemporary China,” invited talk at “In-Depth Chinese Studies Seminar,” Institute of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, Fudan University, June 21, 2010 “Walter Benjamin and Urban Experience,” a two-part lecture given at “Metropolitan Studies and Chinese Experience: International Summer Doctoral Research Symposium”, co-organized by Jin Jiang of East China Normal University; Elizabeth Perry of Harvard University; Helen Siu of Yale

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University, and Xudong Zhang of New York University, June 15-25, Minhang Campus, East China Normal University, June 16, 2010 “Metropolis and Cultural Practice: Shanghai and Shanghai Studies as Theory and Allegory,” inaugural lecture for “Metropolitan Studies and Chinese Experience: International Summer Doctoral Research Symposium”, co-organized by Jin Jiang of East China Normal University; Elizabeth Perry of Harvard University; Helen Siu of Yale University, and Xudong Zhang of New York University, June 15-25, Minhang Campus, East China Normal University, June 16, 2010 “Imagined ‘Western Scholarship’ and Internal Contradictions of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Intellectual Space,” keynote speech at “Kulturen im Kontakt: Herstellung, Struktur und Wirkung europaeisch-chinesischer Interaktionsraeume,” April 15-20, organized by der Abteilung fuer Interkulturelle Germanistik im Seminar fuer Deutsche Philologie, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany, April 15, 2010 “Dismantling Red Legacy and the Battle Over the Concept of ‘the Human’: Rereading Xie Jin’s Hibiscus Town,” paper presented at Red Legacy: An International Conference, Harvard University, April 2-3, 2010 2009 “Politics of De-politicization: Re-Reading Xie Jin’s Hibiscus Town”, invited lecture at the School of Performing Arts, Beijing Normal University, December 29; also delivered at the “Reading the Chinese 1980s: Situation and Context” conference organized by NYU and Shanghai University, Shanghai, December 16-17, 2009 “Market Socialism and Its Discontent: On Jia Zhangke’s Filmmaking from Xiaowu to 24 City,” invited lecture at Joint Coursework in Cultural Studies Project, co-organized by East China Normal University, Shanghai University, Shanghai Normal University, Fudan University, and Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, January 2; also delivered at “Modernity and Cultural Politics,” an international conference organized by Courtauld Institute of Art, London, October 23-24, 200 “Lu Xun’s Late Essays and Critique of Shanghai Modernity”, a public lecture at Sun Yat-Sen University, Zhuangzhou, December 16; also delivered at the workshop co-organized by NYU and ECNU, Shanghai, August 15-17, 2009 “Globalization and Chinese Cultural Production”, Inaugural lectures series, Confucius Institute, University of Texas at Dallas, November 18, 2009 “The Concept of the “the Religious” in the Imaginations of Modern China—The Case of Lu Xun and Zhang Taiyan”, presented at Sino-Indian Philosophical Dialogue on Culture, Wisdom, and Spirituality, organized by Tu Weiming, Peking University, Beijing, November 11-12, 2009 “Politics of Tradition and the Legitimacy of Modern Nation-State”, a talk delivered at Beijing Forum 2009, organized by Peking University, Beijing, November 6-8, 2009 “Market Socialism and Its Discontent: Jia Zhangke’s Film Production,” a paper delivered at “Modernity’s Cultural Politics: China in Context”, organized by the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, Oct 23-24, 2009 “Hegel’s Philosophy of Law contra Classical Liberalism,” a seminar at Fudan Institute of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, Shanghai, June 30, 2009

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"The Politics of the Universal", keynote speech at “The Plural Present of Historical Life” conference at Center of Philosophy, University of Tokyo, May 15, 2009 “Ah Q and the Spectral name of Modern China: Toward A Semiotics of Political Philosophy,” Center of Philosophy, University of Tokyo-Komaba, May 12, 2009 “The Politics of the Universal”, invited public lecture at Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University, March 6, 2009 "Ah Q and the Spectral Name of Modern China: Toward A Semiotics of Political Philosophy", Center of Philosophy, University of Tokyo, May 12, 2009 "Forgetting As Memory: The Politics of Time and Experience in Lu Xun's Personal Recollections", Center of Philosophy, University of Tokyo, April 28, 2009 “The Cultural Politics of ‘the New’”, invited talk at the conference to commemorate the 90th anniversary of May Fourth Movement, Peking University, April 23-25, 2009 “The Will to Allegory and the Origin of Chinese Modernism,” an invited lecture at Connecticut College, March 26, 2009 2008 “Allegory and Critical Urban Iconography: Benjamin’s Passagenwerk and Critique of Shanghai Modernity in Lu Xun’s Late Essays”, a paper delivered at Modernism Studies Associate Annual Convention, Nashville, November 14, 2008 “Rereading Ah Q-The Real Story,” invited talk at University of California, San Diego, October 3, 2008 “The Age of Zawen,” research symposium organized by Xudong Zhang in collaboration with Peking University and East China Normal University, Beijing, July 4-7, 2008 “Nietzsche, Benjamin, Deleuze—Three Critical Paradigms in ‘Minor Literature’,” a talk at Beijing University of Foreign Studies, Beijing, June 30, 2008 “Rereading Lu Xun and Questions of Literary Criticism and Theory,” a talk at Fudan University, Chinese Department, Shanghai, June 16 (afternoon), 2008 “Formal Analysis and Narrative Strategy: Reading Lu Xun’s ‘A Madman’s Diary’, ‘Hometown’, and ‘Morning the Dead’ ”, Tongji University, Shanghai, June 16 (morning), 2008 “Name and Language in the Crisis of Meaning in Modern Chinese Culture: Reading The True Story of Ah Q”, East China Normal University, Shanghai, May 29; Peking University, June 9, 2008 “Politics of Forgetting and Memory: Reading Morning Blossom Plucked at Dusk”, Shanghai University, May 30; Beijing Normal University, June 6, 2008 “Modernism and Prose Poetry: Reading Lu Xun’s Wild Grass”, East China Normal University, Shanghai, May 25; Renmin University, Beijing, June 3, 2008

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“Self-Consciousness and National Allegory: Reading ‘Preface to Call for Arms’ and ‘A Madman’s Diary’”, East China Normal University, Shanghai, May 27, 2008 “Power and Truth: Reading Lu Xun’s Early Essays”, East China Normal University, Shanghai, May 23, 2008 2007 “The Idea of the University: Political-Philosophical Considerations,” invited paper presented at the “Politics of Academic Knowledge”, co-organized by NYU International Center for Advanced Studies and the Hungarian Academy of Science, July 16, 2007 “Reading Mo Yan’s The Republic of Wine,” a graduate seminar at the Center for Modern Chinese Thought and Culture, East China Normal University, July 4, 2007. “Reading Wang Anyi’s The Age of Enlightenment,” a graduate seminar at the Department of Chinese, East China Normal University, July 2, 2007. “Benjamin’s Study on Baudelaire,” a seminar co-taught with Richard Sieburth, “Metropolis and Cultural Theory” conference/institute, Shanghai, June 27, 2007. “The Historico-Materialst Approach in Walter Benjamin’s Study of High Modernism,” seminar at the “Metropolis and Cultural Theory” conference/summer institute, Shanghai, June 25, 2007. “The Politico-Economic Conditions of Cultural Theory: Benjaming reading Marx in Convolute X of the Arcades Project,” keynote speech at the “Metropolis and Cultural Theory” conference, co-organized by NYU and East China Normal University, Shanghai, June 24, 2007. “Benjamin Reading Marx: Examining Convolute X of the Arcades Project”, keynote lecture on “Metropolis and Culture Theory,” NYU-Shanghai Summer Research Institute, June 23, 2007. “Intellectuals, Secularism, and Politics as Religion ”, Religion and Secularism Conference, organized by Gayatri Spivak, Columbia University, February 28, 2007. “Secularism and Cultural Politics: Value-Plurality and the Dialectic of the Universal and Particular,” paper delivered at “Religion and Secularism” conference, organized by the Center for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University, Feb 16, 2007. “Demonic Realism: Allegories of Socialist Market Economy in Mo Yan’s The Republic of Wine”, New School University, February 12, 2007. 2006 A lecture series on Rethinking Modernity and Chinese Modernism delivered at the Center of Philosophy, University of Tokyo, December 4-19, 2006: 1) Rethinking the Maxims of Modernism through Chinese Modernist Movements:

Theoretical Terms and Their Historicization 2) The Political-Philosophical Genealogies of the Christian-Bourgeois “Sitte”: Continuities

and Discontinuities from Kant to Carl Schmitt 3) Lu Xun as Modernist: The Case of Prose Poetry 4) The Nietzschean Turn in Reaffirming the Western Self from the Ebbing of High

Modernism to the Age of Globalization 5) Cinematic Modernism in 20th Century China: The Making and Unmaking of

Modernistic Cinematic Language in the 1980s and Early 1990s

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6) Imperial Residue and the Multiplicity of Global Sovereignty: Beyond “Clashes of Civilization” and “the End of History”

7) Modernist Poetry in Modern and Contemporary China: Critical Reexaminations 8) Is the “Post” in Post-Socialism the “Post” in Postmodernism?: Rereading Contemporary

Chinese State, Society, and Culture “Cinematic Language and Chinese Modernity”, lecture at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, December 8, 2006. Narrative Repetition and Cultural Legitimacy in Zhang Yimou’s “The Story of Qiu Ju”, lecture at Rykkio Univeristy, Tokyo, December 7, 2006. “The Relationship between Hegel’s Phenomenology and Aesthetics,” a talk in the Literature Program, Duke University, November 21, 2006. “The Concepts of ‘Production’ and ‘Commodity’ in Marx and Benjamin,” keynote speech, conference on “Cultural Production in the Age of Globalization”, organized by East China Normal University and Shanghai University, June 28, 2006. “’After Theory’ and ‘Death of A Discipline’: Notes on the Current State of Critical Theory and Comparative Literature,” public lecture at Nanjing University, Nanjing, June 27, 2006. “Critique of Knowledge and Critique of Historicism in Walter Benjamin’s Paris manuscript,” public lecture at the School of Humanities, Tsinghua University, Beijing, June 21, 2006. ECNU University Lecture series, "Prostitution, Gambling, and Flaneurie in Walter Benjamin's Representation of Paris," Shanghai, June 11, 2006. ECNU University Lecture series, "Natural History and Allegory in Walter Benjamin," Shanghai, June 9, 2006. East China Normal University (ECNU) University Lecture series, "Author as Producer: Labor and Commodity Fetishism in Marx and Benjamin," Shanghai, June 8, 2006. 2005 “Rethinking the Concept of Literary History in Modern China”, paper presented at “Regarding Modern Chinese Literature: Methods and Meanings”, organized by Xiaobing Tang, University of Chicago, May 6-7, 2006. “Neoliberalism and Neoconservatism: Overlap and Symbiosis”, paper presented at “Fetishizing the Free Market: The Cultural Politics of Meoliberalism”, organized by Karen Kelsky, Michael Rothberg and Gary Xu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 29-30, 2006. “‘Civil Society’ and Bourgeois Legal Right: A Political Rethinking”, a general response to the conference “International Civil Society, World Governance, and the State”, organized by Gyatri Spivak, the Center for Comparative Literature and Society, March 31-April 1, 2006. 2004 “Personal Essay and the Invention of Modern Everyday Life: Aesthetics and Politics of Zhou Zuoren’s Literary Production in the 11930s”, a talk at Haverford College, March 19, 2006. “Narrative, Culture, and Legitimacy: Repetition and Singularity in Zhang Yimou’s The Story of Qiu Ju,” a talk at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 17, 2006.

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“Death of a Discipline: Gyattri Spivak/Judith Butler Symposium on Comparative Literature”, co-organized by Emily Apter and Mary Pratt, panelist, New York University, February 27, 2006. 2003 “Experimental Art and Revolutionary Legacy: Reading Xu Bing,” a paper read at the symposium, “Still Standing after the Fall: Cultural Politics in China, North Korea, Vietnam, and Cuba”, organized by Marilyn Young, International Center for Advanced Studies, New York University, December 5, 2005. “Reading ‘The Book from the Sky: Notes on Xu Bing,” a panel discussion in “Disappearance” Symposium, organized by Yu Yeon Kim, Weatherhead Institute of East Asian Studies, Columbia University, November 5, 2005. “Listening to the Growth of Time: Space, Everyday Life, and History in Edward Yang’s Yi Yi ”, a paper delivered at “Taiwanese Cinema: Here and There”, organized by Dudley Andrew, Yale University, October 30-November 1, 2005. “The Essay Production of Xu Zhimo,” a public lecture given at “Symposium on Xu Zhimo”, organized by Hou Yong, the China Institute, New York, September 26, 2005. “The Internet and Contemporary Chinese Intellectual Debate: Four Case Studies,” a paper delivered at the Freeman conference on “From Book to the Internet: East Asian Intellectual Production”, organized by Arif Dirlik, University of Oregon, October 15-10, 2005. “Modernity as Cultural Politics: Jameson and Utopian Thinking in Contemporary China,” a paper delivered at the conference “The Future of Utopia,” organized by Alberto Moreiras, Duke University, March 19-21,2005. 2002 “Minor Literature and Modern Chinese Literary Culture,” an invited talk given in the Department of Comparative Literature, University of Oregon, October 19, 2005. “Chinese Literature: The Threshold between the Classical and the Modern,” a public lecture at the American Museum of Natural History, co-sponsored by the China Institute, New York, October 12, 2005. “Cultural Identity in the Age of Globalization”, keynote speech at the Biannual Convention of Chinese Comparative Literature Associate, Nanjing, August 14-18, 2005. “History and Subjectivity in the Age of Multiculturalism,” the Cai Yuanpei Lecture, Peking University, June 28, 2005. “Postcolonialism and the Historicity of Culture,” the Tsinghua-Harvard Forum on Postcolonialism, June 20, 2005. “Universality, Comparability, and Culture as Politics,” “Comparability /Possibility of Comparison” workshop organized by Harry Harootunian, Department of East Asian Studies, New York University, March 1-3, 2005. “Know Your Enemy: Political Philosophy and Mao’s Cold War Strategy,” the symposium on “Cold War as Global Conflict”, organized by Marilyn Young, International Center for Advanced Studies, New York University, February 8, 2005.

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“Zhang Yimou and the Cinema of Postsocialism,” “Postsocialist China” organized by Leo Ching, Duke University, Feb 1-3, 2005. 2001 “Contemporary Chinese Popular Culture,” China Institute, December 12, 2001. “Contemporary Chinese Urban Life,” China Institute, December 5, 2001. “On Becoming Political of the Cultural: Globalization and Postmodernism after September 11,” keynote address at “Globalization and Mass Culture: Production, Consumption, and Identity,” co-organized by Tina Chen and Adam Muller, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, October 19-21, 2001. “Toward a Radical Hermeneutics of Chinese Literary Tradition: Reading Zhou Zuoren’s Sources of New Chinese Literature,” “How China’s Twentieth-First Century Speaks to Its Past,” co-organized by Tani Barlow and Angela Zito, New York University, October 13-14, 2001. “Reflections on the Cultural-Political Framing of Hermeneutic Thinking,” “Hermeneutics and Interpretations of Chinese Cultural Tradition,” organized by Ching-i Tu and Dietrich Tchanz, Rutgers University, October 4-7, 2001. “Shanghai Image: Iconography, Minor Literature, and the Unmaking of a Modern Chinese Mythology,” the 3rd Sino-U.S. Bilateral Symposium on Comparative Literature, co-organized by Tsinghua and Yale Universities, Beijing, China, August 10-13, 2001. “Empire: A Political-Philosophical Perspective,” “Literature, Culture, and Humanity in the Age of Globalization,” organized by Wang Yichuan, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, August 4-7, 2001. “Old Shanghai: Memory, Imagination, Nostalgia,” China Institute, New York, April 23, 2001. “Shanghai Image: Iconography, Minor Literature, and the Unmaking of a Modern Chinese Mythology,” “Shanghai Urban Culture: Comparative Perspectives,” co-organized by Xudong Zhang and Elizabeth Perry, New York University, April 20-22, 2001. “Shanghai Nostalgia: Allegories of Modernity,” “Chinese Culture: Past, Present, and Future,” Stanford University, March 31-April 1, 2001. “Seventeen Years and the Politics of the Urban Generation of Chinese Filmmakers,” “Urban Generation Films,” organized by Zhen Zhang, New York University, March 11-12, 2001. 2000 "Paradox of Chinese Liberalism," Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University, November 13, 2000. "Cinema of Postsocialism: On Zhang Yimou’s film productions in the 1990s," Chinese film conference at Swarthmore College, organized by Haili Kong, Oct. 7, 2000. "Vernacular Literature and Modern Everyday Life: On Zhou Zuoren’s Strategy of Writing," "Material Culture and Modernity" coorganized by Professors Madeleine Y. Dong and Joshua Goldstein, University of Washington (Seattle), September 30 - Oct. 1, 2000.

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"The Vernacular Essay and the Reinvention of Chinese Literary Tradition: The case of Zhou Zuoren," Fudan University, Shanghai, June 14, 2000. "Shanghai Nostalgia: Allegories of Modernity," "Shanghai-Hong Kong Comparative Urban Cultural Studies" conference, organized by Shanghai Normal University and Wenhuibao, Shanghai, June 10-13, 2000. "Shanghai Nostalgia: Allegories of Modernity," Center of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong, June 5, 2000. "China and WTO," a radio talk with Peter Kwang and Lingchi Wang at "Asia-Pacific Forum," WBAI (New York City), May 30, 2000. "Ah Cheng and ‘King of Children,’ the Literary Text," East Asian Languages and Cultures Department, Columbia University, April 16, 2000. " ‘End of History’ or the Endless Modernity: Rethinking Modern Chinese Intellectual History," "Chinese Humanities" conference, organized by Theodore Huters, Center for Chinese Sudies, University of California, Los Angeles, January 22, 2000. b "Shanghai Nostalgia," Chicago Humanities Festival, Nov. 12-14, 2000. "Chinese Intellectual Politics in the 1990s," a discussion with the graduate student workshop on modern Chinese literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, Nov. 11, 1999. "On Zhou Zuoren's Sources of New Chinese Literature," "Modern Interpretations of Chinese Cultural-Philosophical Traditions," Stanford University, August 20-22, 1999. "Aesthetics of the Vernacular: The Idea and Politics of Modern Chinese Essay in Zhou Zuoren," China Studies Program, the Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, May 27, 1999. "On 'Production'," a discussion on Wang Jianwei's "Production" (1998) ," Music of Change: Visual Representation of Cities," organized by Leo Rubenfien and Barbara Abrash, New York University, April 1, 1999. "Nostalgic Utopia: Bourgeois Modernity, Post-Revolutionary Melancholy, and the City of Shanghai in Zhang Ailing and Wang Anyi," International Center for Advanced Studies, New York University, Jan. 22, 1999. Discussions on Tian Zhuangzhuang's Horse Thief and Cinematic Modernism from PRC at CUNY TV (New York City, Channel 75) "City Cinemathesque" with program host Jerry Carlson recorded on Jan.6, first broadcast on Jan. 24, 1999. 1998 "Modernism and Modern Chinese Historical Writing," Mellon-Sawyer Symposium on "Modernism and National Culture," New York University, Nov.20, 1998. "Utopia against Utopia: Cultural Production and Intellectual Politics in China after 1989," Fairbank Center for East Asian Studies and the Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, Harvard University, Nov. 5, 1998.

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"Taiwanese Nationalism," "Writing Taiwan: Strategies of Representation," Columbia University, April 29 - May 1, 1998. "Modernism as an International Language: Strategies of Globalization in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Film," Colorado College, April 13, 1998. 1997 "Personal Trauma, Global Allegory: Cinematic Construction of National History in Tian Zhuangzhuang's The Blue Kite," Humanities Institute at Stony Brook, State University of New York, Oct. 9, 1997. "An Introduction to Contemporary Theories of Nationalism," Research Institute of Comparative Literature and Culture, Peking University, June 30, 1997. "China Without Deng: Mass Culture and Intellectual Discourse, " Symposium on Post-Deng China, Rutgers University, March 12, 1997. "Specters and Spectacles: History, Melodrama, and Politics in Recent Chinese Award-winning Films," College of Wooster, February 10, 1997. 1996 "Anti-Intellectualism and the Reproduction of Social Space: Wang Shuo as Cultural Politics, " Swarthmore College, November 27, 1996. "Toward a Radical Hermeneutics of Chinese Literary Tradition: Reading Zhou Zuoren's Sources of Modern Chinese Literature," "The Hermeneutic Tradition of Chinese Culture," organized by Ching-I Tu et. al., Rutgers University, October 10-12, 1996. "The Chinese 1980s as a Cultural Historical Period," Research Institute of Comparative Literature and Culture, Peking University, May 15, 1996. "The Politics of Representation: Rethinking Orientalism," Research Institute of Comparative Literature and Culture, Peking University, May 18, 1996. "The Field of Cultural Production: An Introduction to Pierre Bourdieu's Social Philosophy," Peking University, May 20, 1996. "What is 'National Allegory'?" East China Normal University, Shanghai, May 25, 1996. 1995 "A Memory of the 'Future': Experience of Soviet Culture in the Early Years of the People's Republic," annual conference of the American Association of Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington, DC, October 21-23, 1995. "The Rise and Fall of the "Fifth Generation Film," Asian Film Festival of the Triangle Area, hosted by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, February 28, 1995. 1994 "Allegories of the Social Landscape: Reading Chen Kaige's King of the Children," "Image, Desire, Ideology in Chinese Cinema," organized by Sheldon Hsiao-peng Lu, University of Pittsburgh, September 23-25, 1994.

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"Utopia, Ideology and the Aesthetic Modernity of the Chinese 1980s," "Idealism and Modern China," organized by the Institute of Chinese Culture, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, June 27 July 1, 1994. "The Space of Temporality: Notes on the Representation of the Urban in the Context of Third World Culture," "New Metropolis Forms," organized by Jonathan Beller and Neferti Tadiar, Duke University, April 7, 1994. 1993 "The Relevance of Postcoloniality in the Chinese Cultural Discussion," Critical-Theoretical Alternatives: a workshop (organized by Arif Dirlik and Maurice Meisner), University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 23-25, 1993. 1992 "Reflections on the Chinese 'Cultural Discussion' in the Late 1980s," "Rethinking of Chinese Literature and Critical Theory," organized by the American Association of Chinese Comparative Literature), UCLA, March 20, 1992. "Naturgeschichte, Subjectivity and Questions Concerning Narrative" "Benjamin for the Jetztzeit: 1892-1992," Duke University, February 21-23, 1992.