Dr. Hongbing Zhang
Dr. Hongbing Zhang was born and grew up in China. Before coming to the USA, he got a bachelor and master degree in English and American literatures in Beijing, China. In the USA, he obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago where his study and research focused on modern Chinese literature and culture. Before joining FSU, Dr. Zhang taught at Northwestern University and the City College of New York.
TEACHING COURSES
- Elementary Chinese I
- Elementary Chinese II
- Intermediate Chinese I
- Intermediate Chinese II
- Advanced Chinese I
- Traditional Chinese Literature
- Modern Chinese Literature
- Cinema and Contemporary China
Jiayuan yiwai de shengyin (Voices from Diaspora) (book of poems in Chinese), Beijing, China: Tuanjie chubanshe, 2018
“Literature and the Ideology of Space: How the Beijing School Was Constructed in Modern Chinese Literature,” Quarterly Journal of Chinese Studies Vol. 4.3 (Spring 2016), pp. 1-13 (peer-reviewed).
“Standing on the Ground of Petit-Bourgeois Desire: Yu Dafu and the Revolutionary Literature,” Quarterly Journal of Chinese Literature Vol. 4.2 (Winter 2015), pp. 1-22 (peer-reviewed).
“Posing the Hair against the Head: Global Experiences and Gu Wenda’s Installations of a Utopia,” Advances in Literary Study Vol. 3.4 (October 2015), pp. 95-101 (peer-reviewed).
“National Nonsense and V.S. Naipaul’s Ethical Distance,” Sino-US English Teaching vol. 8 no. 10 (2011), pp.672-679 (peer-reviewed).
“Details Not So Transparent: Foucault, Intellectuals and Technologies of Power,” in China Scholarship vol. 8 no. 1 (2010), pp. 93-117 (peer-reviewed).
“Ruins and Grassroots: Jia Zhangke’s Cinematic Discontents in the Age of Globalization,” in Sheldon Lu and Jiayan Mi (eds.), Chinese Ecocinema: In the Age of Environmental Challenge (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009), pp. 129-153 (peer-reviewed).
“Reading Shi Zhecun’s ‘Yaksha’ against the Shanghai Modern,” in Andrew Hock Soon Ng (ed.) Asian Gothic: Essays on Literature, Film and Anime (North Carolina: MacFarland Publisher, 2008), pp. 159-175.
“Mo Yan,” in Michael D. Sollars (ed.), The Facts on File Companion to World Novel, 1900 to the Present (New York: Fact on File, 2008), vol. 2, pp. 532-534.
“Naturalizing Industrial Wonders: The Steamship, the Railway Train, and the (In)Credulous Chinese Travelers.” Language and Literature 28 (2003), pp. 1-22 (peer-reviewed).
“Writing ‘the Strange’ of the Chinese Modern: Sutured Body, Naturalized Beauty and Shi Zhecun’s ‘Yaksha.’” Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 5.2 (January 2002), pp. 29-54 (peer-reviewed).
Dr. Zhang is currently working on a project titled “Global Passions: Travel, Space and Cultural Transformations in Modern China, 1840s-1910s.” Dr. Zhang is also working on a project titled “Globalization and Chinese Narrations,” studying the complicated relations between globalization and contemporary Chinese culture.