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Xiaomei Chen 陳小眉 Major Advisor Graduate Group, Comparative Literature Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Indiana University, 1989 Email: xmchen@ucdavis.edu Phone: (530) 752-1209 Office: 309 Sproul Hall

Research Interests
Modern Chinese literature, drama, theater, women's literature, comparative literature, literary theory, cultural studies, and performance studies.

Current Projects

• A book manuscript on the dramatic culture of the Republican period (1911-1949)
• An anthology of modern Chinese drama in English translation with a critical introduction (1919-2000)

Major Publications
Books:

• Acting the Right Part: Political Theater and Popular Drama in Contemporary China. University of Hawaii Press, 2002.
• Occidentalism: A Theory of Counter-discourse in Post-Mao China. Oxford University Press, 1995. Second, revised, and expanded edition, forward by Jinhua Dai. Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. A translation in Korean language. Translated by Jin-Bae Chung. Seoul, Korea (South): Kang Publish Company, 1999.
• Reading the Right Text: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Drama with a Critical Introduction. Ed., Xiaomei Chen, University of Hawaii Press, 2003.
• East of West: Cross-cultural Performance and the Staging of Difference. Eds., Claire Sponsler and Xiaomei Chen. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001.
• Visual Culture and Memory in Modern China. A Special Issue on Visual Culture in Twentieth-century China for the journal, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture. Eds., Julia F. Andrews and Xiaomei Chen. Columbus: Ohio State University, 2001.

Selected Articles:

• "Tian Han and the Nanguo Phenomenon: Networking the Personal, Communal, and the Culture," Literary Societies in Republican China, eds., Kirk A Denton and Michel Hockx.  Lexington Books, forthcoming.
• Reflecting on the Legacy of Tian Han: "Proletarian Modernism" and its Traditional Roots." Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 18: 1 (spring, 2006), 155-215.
• "Red Maple again - Methodology and Critical Perspectives of Teaching "China" in the American Universities," Wang Ban and Zhong Xueping, eds, Teaching China in America, Nanjing: Nanjing University Press, 1-18, 2006. (又是紅楓時節--寫在旅美教學十八年之後，王斑，鐘雪萍編，美國大學裡的中國)
• "Remebering War and Revolution on the Maoist Stage," Cold War Literature: Writing the Global Conflict, ed., Andrew Hammond.  New York: Routledge, 2006, 131-145.
• "'Playing in the Dirt': Plays about Geologists and the Memories of the Cultural Revolution and the Maoist Era," China Review: A Special Issue on the Memory of the Cultural Revolution, edited by Guobin Yang and Yue-ming Bao, 65-95, 2005.
• "Introduction." Reading the Right Text: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Drama. Ed., Xiaomei Chen, University of Hawaii Press, 2003, 1-63
• "China Writes Back: Reading Stories of the Chinese Diapora," a new chapter in the second edition of Occidentalizm, Rowman and Littlefield, 2002, 139-176
  
• "The Performing of Nation: Modern Spoken Drama." The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature, China volume. Ed., Kirk Denton. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002, 1-12.
• "Modern Chinese Spoken Drama," The Columbia History of Chinese Literature, ed., Victor H. Mair. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001, 848-877.
• "From the Lighthouse: Growing up among Ordinary Stars in the Maoist China," Some of Us: Chinese Women Growing up in the Mao Era, eds., Zhong Xueping, Wang Zhen, and Bai Di. New Brunswisk, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2001, 53-76.
• "Growing up with Posters in the Maoist Era," in Picturing Power in the People's Republic: Posters of the Cultural Revolution, eds., Harriet Evans and Stephanie Donald. Boulder, CO: Rowman & Littlefield Publisher, 101-122, 1999.
• "Reading Mother's Tale--Reconstructing Women's Space in Amy Tan and Zhang Jie." Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, and Reviews 16 (1994): 111-32.
• "Rediscovering Ezra Pound: A Post-Postcolonial Misreading of a Western Legacy." Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship 23:2,3 (1994): 81 106.
• "Occidentalism as a Counter-Discourse--He Shang in Post-Mao China." Critical Inquiry 18:4 (Summer, 1992): 686-712.
• "The Poetics of 'Misunderstanding': An Ahistorical Model of Cross-cultural Literary History." Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 19:4 (1992): 485-506.
• "Thomas McFarland? and the Anxiety of Influence: Tradition and the Individual Talent Once Again." Nineteenth-Century Contexts 11:2 (1987): 193-205.
• "Derrida's Pharmacy: Towards A Foucauldian Reading of 'La Pharmacie de Platon.'" Works and Days: Essays in the Socio-Historical Dimensions of Literature and the Arts, 4:2 (Fall, 1986): 33-50.
• "Genre, Convention, and Society: A Reception Study of the Chinese Reportage." Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature 34 (1985): 85-105.
  

Honors and Awards

• American Council of Learned Society, Research Fellowship.
• NEH summer stipend.
• Grant-in-aids and Special Research Awards. Ohio State University.
• Interdisciplinary Seminar Grant, the Office of Research and the Graduate School, Ohio State University.
• Mellon Foreign Area Studies Fellowship, the Library of Congress.
• Pacific Cultural Foundation Fellowship, Taiwan.
• Undergraduate Teaching and Service Award, Ohio State University.
• Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University.
• Ohio State University Seed Grant, Ohio State University.

Courses Taught

• CHN 10: Modern Chinese Literature in English
• CHN 101: Chinese Film
• CHN 102: Chinese American Literature
• CHN 103: Modern Chinese Drama in English
• CHN 104: Modern Chinese Fiction in English
• CHN 109 H: Popular Culture