Background
Wang, Jennie was born March 19, 1952 in Shanghai, China. Came to the United States, 1979.
(Bilingual Academy Press publishes books and articles in E...)
Bilingual Academy Press publishes books and articles in English and Chinese, that advance cultural understanding between US and China. Books available on Amazon
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(Bilingual Academy Press publishes books and articles in E...)
Bilingual Academy Press publishes books and articles in English and Chinese, that advance cultural understanding between US and China. Books available on Amazon
https://bilingualacademypress.wordpress.com
2018
(A Real Estate Barron in Old Shanghai, Pure Gentleman Zhou...)
A Real Estate Barron in Old Shanghai, Pure Gentleman Zhou, inherited an automobile with a license plate “001” from a Danish physician, leaving Shanghai on the eve of WWI. A British colonist’s ambition to own that car met with his resistance. The legend became a local pride in Old Shanghai, revived recently. Beginning with a bride in that car, horses and tricycles behind, guards and police aside, slowly moving from the British Concession to the French Concession, Zhou saved his car from destruction. A granddaughter born from that wedlock tells the stories of unhappy marriages inside grand mansions and exquisite gardens. She is searching for roots as well as values—a spiritual heritage. Her contemporary mind is juxtaposed with childhood memories, folklores and classical opera, family parties and photos, ruins of ruined buildings and blocks. Yet she claims she has "no nostalgia." This transnational memoir, made in USA, covers 150 years of social history of Shanghai from 1860s to the present. Well researched, its historical vision makes a difference from official discourses left and right, revealing many impossible contradictions between East and West, wealth and power, tradition and gender, establishment and inheritance, legacy and laws, socialism and thought reform... a wealth of cultural resources for film makers and producers. Recommended for library collection and academic institutions.
https://www.amazon.com/License-Plate-Number-One-Transnational/dp/198650638X/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=jennie+wang+license+plate+number+one&qid=1597614882&s=books&sr=1-2
2018
(An American college professor wrote this memoir, based on...)
An American college professor wrote this memoir, based on over fifty notebooks and diaries she wrote during the Cultural Revolution in China. J’s first memory of student activism ended with the death of a teacher in 1966. Thrown out of school after the first year of junior high, J made a birthday wish to complete her own education “to the highest level attainable.” In this success story, “the Tiger Mother,” “abusive father,” peer competition and peer pressure are hard to find. Instead, the reader is introduced to long lists of books circulated underground, school system and education reform, class status and class identity, women’s liberation and women’s theater, life in the countryside and deaths in the city. All is revisited through a distanced, ironic and objective “Third Eye (I).” Many interesting photos surprise the reader one after another. Teachers, Grandmas and divorced parents would love to have the young read this book, or anyone who has a genuine interest in China would enjoy the book.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1515392457/?tag=2022091-20
Professor of English author Independent thinker
Wang, Jennie was born March 19, 1952 in Shanghai, China. Came to the United States, 1979.
Bachelor in English and American Lit., San Francisco State University, 1983; Master of Arts in English and American Lit., Stanford University, 1984; Doctor of Philosophy in English and American Lit., State University of New York, Buffalo, 1992.
Instructor of English, Shanghai Jiao-Tong University, 1977-1979; Teaching Fellow, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, 1988-1991; Preceptor, Expository Writing Program, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1992-1993; Assistant Professor English, 1993—1997; Associate Professor of English, University Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, 1998—2003; Professor of Comparative Literature/ Dissertation Director, Department Chinese Language and Literature, Co-Director Center for Chinese World Lit. Fudan University, Shanghai, 2004-2008; Visiting Scholar, Department English, University California, Berkeley, 2000-2001, 2003-2004, 2008-09. Professor of English, Department of English Language, Literature and Linguistics, Providence University, Taiwan. Author: Novelistic Love in the Platonic Tradition: Fielding, Faulkner and the Postmodernists, 1997; Chinese translator: Smiles on Washington Square: A Love Story of Sorts (Raymond Federman), 1999; Querying the Genealogy: Comparative and Transnational Studies in Chinese American Literature, 2006; China Men's American Dreams: Stories and Poems, 2007; The Iron Curtain of Language: Maxine Hong Kingston and American Orientalism, 2007; The Education of Jennie Wang: Memoir of a Good Student, 2015; License Plate Number One: Stories of Old Shanghai, 2018; and numerous academic articles on postmodern fiction, Joyce, Faulkner, Kingston, Buck and others to professional journals.
(Bilingual Academy Press publishes books and articles in E...)
(an authoritative book required for English major graduate...)
2007(A Real Estate Barron in Old Shanghai, Pure Gentleman Zhou...)
2018(Bilingual Academy Press publishes books and articles in E...)
2018(An American college professor wrote this memoir, based on...)