Jing Wang is
Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies, and S. C. Fang Professor of
Chinese Language and Culture. She is the founder of the MIT International
Committee of Critical Policy Studies of China, and co-organizer of
the Policy Culture Research Project with Anthony Saich at the Kennedy
School of Government at Harvard University. She received her PhD in
Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Before coming to MIT, she was the Director of the Center for East
Asian Cultural and Institutional Studies and the Chair of the Department
of Asian and African Languages and Literature at Duke University.
Her field of
specialization is Chinese Cultural Studies, with a recent focus on
advertising, media, consumer culture, and popular culture of contemporary
China. She has also published on the topics of modern Chinese literature,
intellectual history, and the tradition of Chinese narrative fiction
dated back to the pre-modern period.
She has authored
and edited the following works:
Her teaching
interests include advertising of East Asia, cultural politics of modern
and contemporary China, kung-fu cinema (transnational perspectives)
and cultural policies of 1990s China.
