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Chia-ning Chang Program Director, East Asian Studies Professor, Japanese Ph.D., Stanford University Email: cnchang@ucdavis.edu Phone: (530) 752-1119 Office: 305 Sproul Hall

Research Interests
Modern Japanese literary history and criticism, cultural and intellectual history since Meiji, the interplay between literary and political imagination, the poetics of modern autobiographical narratives. I am currently working on the colonization and manipulation of the Chinese film industry in Manchuria under the Japanese occupation in the 1930s and 1940s. Part of my work involves the study of the life and writings of Li Xianglan (Ri Kōran in Japanese, aka Yamaguchi Yoshiko) including her autobiography Watashi no hansei (1987) which I am translating.

Major Publications

Book Manuscripts:

• Social Vision and Literary Imagination: Critics and Writers of Meiji Social Literature.

Books:

• My Spiritual Wanderings (Waga seishin no henreki, 1951) by Kamei Katsuichirō. Translation with a Critical Introduction and Chronology. Forthcoming, Duke University Press.
• A Sheep's Song by Katō Shūichi: A Writer's Reminiscences of Japan and the World. An Annotated Translation with an Introduction. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, University of California Press, May 1999. 506 pages.

Selected Articles :

• "Jiden ni okeru sōzō to kyokō: Hitsuji no uta o chūshin ni." ("Imagination and Fictive Construction in Autobiography: Centering on A Sheep's Song.") Nihon o toi-tsuzukete. Tokyo, Iwanami Shoten, 2004, pp. 40-62.
• "Sailing into the Sea of Public Sentiments: The Meiji Discourse on Social Realism." Nihon shisō no chihei to suimyaku (The Horizons and Subterranean Landscape of Japanese Thought). Ed. Kawahara Hiroshi. Tokyo, Perikansha, 1998, pp. 105-45.
• "Jiga no saiteigi - Katō Shūichi no jiden Hitsuji no uta." ("Redefinition of the Self: Katō Shūichi's Autobiography A Sheep's Song.") Geppō, Katō Shūichi chosakushū, vol. 20. Tokyo, Heibonsha, 1997. 2-8.
• "Literary Imagination in East Asia in a Global Context: A Response to Wai-leung Wong's Chinese Literature, The Creative Imagination, and Globalization." Macalester International, vol. II, 1996, pp. 75-84.
• "Shimazaki Tōson." Contemporary Authors, vol. 134. Ed. Susan M. Trosky. Detriot and London, Gale Research Inc., 1992. 431-38.
• "Bankoku Kōhō seiritsu jijō to honyaku mondai: Sono chūgokugoyaku to wayaku o megutte." ("A Study of the Emergence and An Examination of the Chinese and Japanese Translations of [Henry Wheaton's] Elements of International Law.") Honyaku no shisō. (The Ideology of Translation). Ed. Katō Shūichi & Maruyama Masao. Vol. 15, Nihon kindai shisō taikei (A Series on Modern Japanese Thought, 24 vols.) Ed. Katō Shūichi, Maeda Ai, Maruyama Masao, Tōyama Shigeki, Matsumoto Sannosuke et al. Tokyo, Iwanami Shoten, 1991. 381-400.
• "The Socialization of Literature: The Idea and Prototypes of the Mid-Meiji Social Novel." Rethinking Japan, Vol. I. Ed. Adriana Boscaro, Franco Gatti & Massimo Raveri. Sandgate, Folkestone, Kent, Japan Library Ltd., 1991. 30-40 & 289-91.
• "Katō Shūichi: Hito to bungaku." ("Katō Shūichi: The Man and His Works.") Karaki Junzō, Yasuda Yojūrō, Kamei Katsuichirō, Takeyama Michio, Katō Shūichi, Saeki Shōichi, Shinoda Hajime, Ōoka Makoto and Yamazaki Masakazu. Vol. 28, Shōwa bungaku zenshū. (A Comprehensive Collection of Shōwa Literature.) Ed. Nakamura Mitsuo, Inoue Yasushi, Yamamoto Kenkichi et al. Tokyo, Shōgakukan, 1989. 1072-75.

• Fulbright Senior Scholar Research Fellowship
• Japan Foundation Fellowship
• Humanities Institute (UCD) Fellowship
• Japanese Ministry of Education (Mombusho) Scholarship
• Sir Robert Black Scholarship

• JPN 103: Modern Japanese Literature in Translation
• JPN 105: Modern Japanese Literature: Hero and Anti-hero
• JPN 106: Japanese Culture Through Film
• JPN 131-133: Readings in Modern Japanese Literature
• JPN 135: Readings in the Humanities
• JPN 136: Readings in Newspapers and Magazines