Yiyan Wang
Yiyan Wang | |
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| Alma mater | University of Sydney |
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| Institutions | Victoria University of Wellington |
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Yiyan Wang is a New Zealand based scholar of Chinese literature. She is a professor at the Victoria University of Wellington, where she is Director for Research and Postgraduate Studies in the School of Languages and Cultures.[1]
Academic career
After a 1999 PhD titled 'Narrating China : Defunct capital and the fictional world of Jia Pingwa' at the University of Sydney, Wang moved to the Victoria University of Wellington, rising to full professor in 2015.[2]
Wang teaches both Chinese language and Chinese culture, but much of her research is on Chinese language fiction.[3]
Selected works
- Wang, Yiyan. "Shanghai Modernity: Women and the Practice of Everyday Life." Literature & Aesthetics 17, no. 1 (2011).
- Wang, Yiyan. Narrating China: Jia Pingwa and his fictional world. Routledge, 2006.
References
- ^ "Professor Yiyan Wang". Asian Aotearoa Arts 2024. Retrieved 29 November 2025.
- ^ "Inaugural lecture—Professor Yiyan Wang - School of Languages and Cultures - Victoria University of Wellington". www.victoria.ac.nz.
- ^ "Professor Yiyan Wang looks at Chinese urban youth culture and why they have embraced conspicuous consumption". interest.co.nz. 14 July 2014.