University of Heidelberg

Contact information

MLCL, Boston University
718 Commonwealth Ave, Room 201D
Boston, Mass. 02138
United States of America

Email:

yeh@bu.edu

Phone:

001(617) 353-6242

Fax:

001(617) 353-6246

Projects

• B5 Rise of dan Actors
• HRA11 Chinese Entertainment Newspapers

Curriculum vitae

Employment:

since 2006: Associate Professor, Modern Languages and Comparative Literature Boston University.

2005-2006: Visiting Professor, Modern Languages and Comparative Literature Boston University.

2004-2005: Visiting scholar at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité de Recherche Chine Contemporaine, Lyon, France

1998-1999: Visiting Professor, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan.

since 1994: Research Associate of Institute of Chinese Studies, University of Heidelberg, Germany

1990-1991: Lecturer, Chinese Literature, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

Education:

1982-1990: Ph.D. Degree, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University.

1976-1980: Undergraduate Education, University of California, Santa Cruz, major: American Studies.   

Selected publications

Books

"City, Courtesan, and Intellectual: The Rise of Entertainment Culture in Shanghai 1850-1910. University of Washington Press, 2005

"A Literary Fashion Goes Global: The Political Novel in China, Meiji University International Exchange Programs Guest Lecture Series No. 11 (1998), Tokyo: Meiji University Center for International Programs, March 1999, 71pp.

"1991: Zeng Pu's 'Niehai hua' as a political novel -- A world genre in a Chinese form. Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, Advisor:” Prof. Patrick Hanan (UMI) Part of it to be published as A Literary Fashion Goes Global

"A Literary Fashion Goes Global: The Political Novel in Late Qing China. Contract currently under negotiation with Hong Kong University Press.

In prep. "The Rise of the Chinese Actor as National Star: The Female Impersonator and Social Transformation during the Early Republican Era".

In prep. "The Formation of a Multiethnic Urban Culture: the Shanghai Concessions 1850-1910," edited volume based on conference papers.

Articles (in English)

2005
"Playing with the Public: Late Qing Courtesans and Their Opera singer Lovers” in Bryna Goodman and Wendy Larson eds., Gender in Motion: Divisions of labor and Cultural Change in Late Imperial and Modern China. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 145-168.

2004

"The Press and the Rise of Peking Opera Singer As National Star: The Case of Theater Illustrated (1912-17)”, East Asian History (Winter issue)

"Where is the Center of Cultural Production? -- The Rise of the Actor to National Stardom and the Beijing / Shanghai challenge (1860s-1910s),” Late Imperial China (Winter issue).

2003
"Creating the Urban Beauty: The Shanghai Courtesan in Late Qing Illustrations" in Judith T. Zeitlin and Lydia H. Liu eds., Writing and Materiality in China. Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University East Asian Center, 2003, pp. 397-447.

"A Public Love affair or a Nasty Game? -- The Chinese Tabloid Newspaper and the Rise of the Opera Singer as Star," due to appear in European Journal of Asian Studies, No. 3.

“From Male ‘Flower’ to National Star: Choreographing Mei Lanfang’s Rise to Stardom”, in Erika Fischer-Lichte, Christian Horn, Sandra Umathum, Matthias Warstat, eds., Performativität und Ereignis, Tübingen and Basel: A. Francke Publishers, pp. 259-276.

2002
"Representing the City: Shanghai and its Maps" in David Faure ed., Town and Country in China: Identity and Perception. Oxford: Palgrave in association with St. Antony's College, pp.166-202.

"Towards a New Culture of Private Love: Late Qing Shanghai Courtesans and their Opera Singer Lovers" in Bryna Goodman and Wendy Larson eds., Gender in Motion: Divisions of Labor and Cultural Change in Late Imperial and Modern China. In Press.

"Li Boyuan and his Shanghai Entertainment Newspaper Youxi bao,” in Rudolf G. Wagner, ed., Joining the Global Public. Word, Image, and City in the Early Chinese Newspapers 1870-1910. Accepted for publication SUNY Press.

“Deciphering the Entertainment Press 1896-1920: The Youxi bao, the Shijie fanhua bao and their Descendants,” in Rudolf G. Wagner, ed., Joining the Global Public. Word, Image, and City in the Early Chinese Newspapers 1870-1910. Accepted for publication, SUNY Press.

2001
"Root Literature of the 1980s: May Fourth as a Double Burden," in M. Dolezelova, O. Kral (eds.), The Appropriation of Cultural Capital: China’s May Fourth Project, pp. 229-256. Harvard University Asia Center.

1998
"Reinventing Ritual: Late Qing Handbooks for Proper Customer behavior in Shanghai Courtesan Houses" in Late Imperial China, vol.19, No.2 (December 1998):1-63.

1997
"The Life-Style of four Wenren in Late Qing Shanghai" in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol.57: No. 2, December 1997, pp. 419-470.

1996
"Chinese Urban Studies Workshop. A Reader (1850 - 1990)", co-edited with Christian Henriot. Lyon: CNRS 1996.

"Creating a Shanghai Identity - Late Qing Courtesan Handbooks and the Formation of the New Citizen", in Tao Tao Liu and David Faure eds., Unity and Diversity: Local Cultures and Identities in China. Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong, 1996, pp. 107-123.

1991
Zeng Pu's 'Niehai hua' as a political novel - A world genre in a Chinese form. PhD dissertation, Harvard University. 

Articles in Chinese

2003"Wenhua jiyi de fudan - Wan Qing Shanghai wenren dui wan Ming lixiang de jian’gou" 文化記憶的負擔 - 晚清上海文人對晚明理想的建構(The burden of cultural memory: The construction of the late Ming ideal by late Qing Shanghai wenren), in Chen Pingyuan 陳å¹³原, Wang Dewei (David Wang) 王德威, Shang Wei 商偉eds., Wan Ming yu wan Qing: Lishi chuancheng yu wenhua chuangxin 晚明與晚清: 歷史的傳承與文化創新(The late Ming and the late Qing: Historical dynamics and cultural innovations). Wuhan: Hubei xiaoyu chubanshe, pp. 53-63.

2000
"Cong Shijiu shiji Shanghai ditu kan dui chengshi weilai dingyi de zhengduo zhan" 從十九世紀上海地圖看對城市未來定義的爭奪戰 (The battle over the future definition of the city seen from 19th century Shanghai maps). Zhongguo xueshu, no.3, pp.88-121.

1999
"Zai lunxianqu Shanghai xiezuo -- Su Qing yiji ta suo chuangban de wenxue zazhi Tiandi" 在淪陷區上海寫作 - 蘇青以及她所創辦的文學雜誌《天地》(Writing in wartime Shanghai -- Su Qing and her literary journal Heaven and Earth) in Peng Xiaoyan ed., Wenxue lilun yu tongsu wenhua. Taipei: Zhongyang yanjiuyuan wenzhesuo choupeichu, Dec. 1999, pp.649-676.

1998
"Nali shi Shanghai? -- Shijiu shiji Shanghai ditu yu chengshi xingxiang de zhengduo zhan" 那裏是上海 – 十九世紀上海地圖與城市形象的爭奪戰 (Where is Shanghai? – Nineteenth century Shanghai city maps and the struggle to define its future image) in Ershiyi shiji, (Aug. 1998) 48:72-92.

1997
"Shanghai: Shijie youxichang; wan Qing jinu shengyi jing" 上海:世界遊戲場 - 晚清妓女生意 (Shanghai, the world's playground. Late Qing courtesan business strategies) in Zhang Zhongli ed., Zhongguo jindai chengshi qiye, shehui, kongjian. Shanghai: Shanghai shehui kexueyuan chubanshe, pp. 308-335.

1996
"Qingmo Shanghai jinu fushi, jiaju yu xiyang wuzhi wenming de yinjin”清末上海妓女 服飾，家具與西洋物質文明的引進 (Fashion and Furniture in Late Qing Shanghai Courtesan houses and the Introduction of Western Material Culture,) in Xueren 學人, vol. 9, pp. 381- 438.

1995
"Yi kan yifu hua de fangshi lai du Niehaihua – Wan Qing wenxue zhong de chuantong yishu shoufa yu xin xiaoshuo de jiehe” 以看一幅畫的方 式來讀《孽海花》- 晚清文學中的傳統藝術手法與新小說的結合 (Reading Zeng Pu's Niehai hua as a painting -- the link between traditional artistic technique and the new novel at the turn of the century)," in Zhongguo xiandai wenxue guoji taolunhui lunwen ji: Minzu guojia lunshu – cong wan Qing, wusi dao Ri ju shidai Taiwan wenxue 中國現代文學國際討論會論文集：民族國家論述–從晚清，五å››到日據時代臺灣文學，Academia Sinica, Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Taipei, p. 85-116.

1994
"The Wedge Chapter in the Late Qing political novel," (In Chinese) in Wang Jiquan (ed.), Wan Qing wenxue guoji taolunhui lunwen ji 晚清文學國際討論會論文集. Nanchang: Jiangsu wenyi."

1989
"Guanyu wan Qing shidai de xiaoshuo leibie ji Xin xiaoshuo zhazhi guanggao er ze” 關於晚清時代的小說類別及《新小說》雜誌廣告二則 (On late Qing fiction genres and two advertisements in the periodical New Novel) in Shinmatsu shôsetsu 清末小說, 12:112-121.   

Essays

2003: “Beijing, Beijing!” 北京,北京! (Beijing, Beijing!) in Lianhe wenxue 聯合文學, No.223, 5:98-102.

2000: “Jin Yong Haidebao zhuanqi”金庸海德堡傳奇 (The extraordinary story of Jin Yong in Heidelberg) in Mingbao yuekan 明å ±月刊, 3:107-108.

1999: "Taitannike hao yu shehuizhuyi xianshizhuyi"《泰坦尼克號》與社會主義現實主義 ([The film] Titanic and socialist realism) in Dushu 讀書, 1: 114-118.

1996: "Zouzai xianjin yu lishi de jiatao zhong: Du qian Dongde zuojia Kelisita.Wofu de Keshanzhuo yu Sidifen.Haimu de Dawei Wang Baogao" 走在現今與歷史的夾道中:讀前東德作家克麗斯塔沃夫的《柯珊卓》與斯蒂芬, 海摩的《大衛王》報告 (Walking in the narrow path between history and the present: A critique of the former East German writer Christa Wolf's <Cassandra> and Stefan Heym's <The King David Report>), in Dangdai 當代, No.117, 1996, 1.1, pp.42-64. Taibei.

"Pingzhe de baoli" 評者的暴力 (The terror of the critic), in Lianhe wenxue 聯合文學, No.137, 3:128-129 (1996). Taibei.

Fiction

1996: Lantudi,yuanxingzhe 蘭土地, 遠行者(Upon a blue land, a traveler, novel), Yuanliu chuban gongsi, Taibei.

Lantudi. Yuanxingzhe 蘭土地, 遠行者(Upon a blue land, a traveler, novel) in Xiaoshuo jie 小說界, 1:76-132.

1987: "Songzang de shihou" 送葬的時候 (At the time of the funeral, novel), in Shiyue 十月, 3. Beijing.

1975: "Kedexi gongchang de huohua" 克德希工廠的火花 (Sparks in the Cole Hersee factory, story), Qishi nandai 七十年代, May, June, July, 1975. Hong Kong.