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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 Head of Foreign Languages and Literatures, the founder and organizer of the MIT Critical Policy Studies of China and a participating member of the MIT Laboratory for Branding Cultures. Professor Wang also serves as the Chair of the International Advisory Board of Creative Commons in China. While directing a digital animation project in collaboration with the Beijing Film Academy and MIT Comparative Media Studies, she is helping MIT building the infrastructure for Digital Humanities.
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.
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:
Bourgeois Bohemians in China? Neo-Tribes and the Urban ImaginaryYouth Culture, Music, and Cell Phone Branding in China
Recent articles on policy studies of China:
Locating ChinaIntroduction: the politics and production of scales in China
On Creative Industries:
The Global Reach of a New Discourse: How Far Can 'Creative Industries' Travel?


