Haosheng Yang

Education

• Ph.D. - Harvard University, East Asian Languages, and Civilizations
• M.A. & B.A. - Peking University, Beijing, China, Chinese Language and Literature

Teaching and Research Interests

• Modern and contemporary Chinese literature & culture

Courses Taught

• Chinese language of all levels
• CHI 252: Modern Chinese Literature in Translation
• CHI/FST 264: Chinese Cinema and Culture
• CHI 261: Forbidden Romance in Modern Chinese Culture

Selected Publications

• A Modernity Set to a Pre-Modern Tune: Classical-Style Poetry of Modern Chinese Writers, Brill Publishers, 2016.
• “The Modernity of a Person Infatuated with Skeleton: Yu Dafu’s Loyalist Consciousness and Classical-Style Poetry” (骸骨迷恋者的现代性: 郁达夫的遗民情结和旧体诗), in From Tradition to Modernity: Poetic Transition from 18^th to Early 20^th Century China (从传统到现代的中国诗学), edited by Lin Zongzheng and Zhang Bowei, Shanghai: Shanghai guji chubanshe, 2017, 529-550.
• “Who Am I? Identity, Resistance, and Resilience in the Classical-Style Poetry of Nie Gannu,” in Journals of Chinese Literature and Culture, Vol.3, No.2, 2017, 335-356.
• “Infatuation with Skeleton: Yu Dafu’s Accidental Loyalism and Classical-Style Poetry,” in Frontiers of Literary Studies in China, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2014, 158-184.
• “New Voice in Old Form: Historicity and Modernity in Lu Xun’s Classical-Style Poetry” (舊體心聲: 魯迅舊體詩的歷史感和現代性), in From Mara Poet to Nobel Laureat: Literature, Canonicity, and Modernity (從摩羅到諾貝爾:文學, 經典, 現代意識), edited by Gao Jiaqian and Zheng Yuyu, Taipei: Maitian chubanshe, 2014, 113-123.
• “Myths of Revolution and Sensual Revisions: New Representation of Martyrs on the Chinese Screen,” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Vol. 24, No. 2, 2012, 179-208.
• “The Political Lyricism of Romantic Poet Guo Moruo (浪漫主义诗人郭沫若的政治抒情), in Lyrical Tradition and the Reform Era (抒情传统与维新时代), edited by Shengqing Wu and Gao Jiaqian, Shanghai: Shanghai wenyi chubanshe, 2012, 555-580.

Professional Organization Memberships

• Member of the Association for Asian Studies
• Member of the American Oriental Society
• Member of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language
• Member of the Chinese Language Teachers Association
• Member of the Chinese Historian Society of America

Languages

• Chinese (native)
• English (near-native)