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Jing Wang
Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies
S.C. Fang Professor of Chinese Languages & Culture
Afiliated Faculty, Comparative Media Studies
jing@mit.edu
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Professor Jing Wang

Professor Jing Wang received her Ph. D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.  She taught at Duke University for sixteen years before joining the MIT FL&L faculty. She is the founder and organizer of New Media Action Lab (NMAL) – previously known as the MIT International Initiative of Critical Policy Studies of China. Professor Wang also serves as the Chair of the International Advisory Board of Creative Commons in China. She directed a digital animation project in collaboration with the Beijing Film Academy and MIT Comparative Media Studies. In spring 2009 she launched an NGO 2.0 project (“Chinese NGOs in the Web 2.0 Environment") undertaken in collaboration with the University of Science and Technology of China and three Chinese NGO partner organizations.

Professor Wang published several books and articles, among them, the award-winning The Story of Stone, High Culture Fever, and the editor of Locating China: Space, Place, and Popular Culture (availble in Paperback from Routledge), Popular Culture and the Chinese State, China’s Avant-Garde Fiction, Cinema and Desire (with Tani Barlow).  Her current research interests include branding and marketing, advertising and new media, popular culture, and media and cultural policies, with an area focus on the People’s Republic of China.  Her new book Brand New China: Advertising, Media, and Commercial Culture is now available from Harvard University Press.

Brand New China Brand New China Arabic Edition

The Story of Stone High Culture Fever China's Avant-Garde Fiction Cinema and Desire Chinese Culture and the State Locating China


Jing Wang on the Proposal for the “Asian Commons"

Jing Wang on the MIT Controversy over "Visualizing Cultures" (May 2, 2006)

Jing Wang on the MIT Controversy over "Visualizing Cultures" (May 5, 2006)

Jing Wang on the MIT Controversy over "Visualizing Cultures" (May 17, 2006)


Creative Commons in China: The Launch Event (March, 2006)

“Knowledge Commons: Expectations and Blocking Stones” - A talk given at Creative Commons Launch in Beijing, PRC

 


Please join me to celebrate Candy Wei's art and life at http://www.candywei.org.

Candy R. Wei: Reincarnation, Death, Art, and Schizophrenia


Recent publications on advertising, branding, and marketing in China:

CC China Mainland and the Global Infrastructre for Creative Commons
Bourgeois Bohemians in China?  Neo-Tribes and the Urban Imaginary
Youth Culture, Music, and Cell Phone Branding in China


Recent articles on policy studies of China:

Locating China
Introduction: the politics and production of scales in China


On Creative Industries:

The Global Reach of a New Discourse: How Far Can 'Creative Industries' Travel?

 

 

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