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Yiyan Wang

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Yiyan Wang
Alma materUniversity of Sydney
Scientific career
InstitutionsVictoria University of Wellington
Thesis

Yiyan Wang is a New Zealand Chinese academic, and as of 2019 is a full professor at the Victoria University of Wellington.[1]

Academic career

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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.[1][2]

Wang teaches both Chinese language and Chinese culture, but much of their research is on Chinese language fiction.[3][1]

Selected works

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  • 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

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  1. ^ a b c "Yiyan Wang - School of Languages and Cultures - Victoria University of Wellington". www.victoria.ac.nz.
  2. ^ "Inaugural lecture—Professor Yiyan Wang - School of Languages and Cultures - Victoria University of Wellington". www.victoria.ac.nz.
  3. ^ "Professor Yiyan Wang looks at Chinese urban youth culture and why they have embraced conspicuous consumption". interest.co.nz. 14 July 2014.