Jin Feng

Asssociate Professor of Chinese

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Jin Feng

Contact Information Mail: Grinnell College, Dept. of Chinese and Japanese, 1115 8th Ave., Grinnell, IA 50112
Phone: 641-269-4464
E-mail: fengjin@grinnell.edu
Education Ph. D. in Chinese Language and Literature
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, August, 2000
Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies University of Michigan, May, 2000
M. A. in Comparative Literature

University of Illinois-Urbana, January, 1996

B. A. in Chinese Language and Literature Fudan University, Shanghai, China, July, 1993
Reserach Interests modern Chinese literature, narrative, comparative theories, and gender studies
Selected Publications Translation: Autobiography of Chen Hengzhe. Anhui Education Publications, 2006.
The New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction. Purdue University Press, 2004.
“The Story of Zhao Yuanren and Yang Buwei: On How to Become Chinese." Xiong Xianguan, ed., Gender and National Boundaries.?@Nanyang Technology University and Bafang wenhua, 2006, pp. 23-35.
“The Great (Surrogate) Mother of the West: The Genealogy of Masculinity in Yung Wing’s My Life in China and America.” Tamkang Review XXXV.1 (Autumn 2004): pp. 57-78.
“Narrating Suffering, Constructing Chinese Modernity: The Emergence of the Modern Subject in Chinese Literature.” East Asia 18.1 (Rutgers University: Spring, 2000), pp. 62-82.
“Shizhong yu yunxuan: ershi shiji zhongguo liuri xuesheng wenxue”
(“Weightlessness and Vertigo: Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature by ‘Japan-Returned Students’”), Shanghai wenhua (Shanghai Culture) 6 (1994), pp. 87-92.

"Struggle in That Perilous Current of Water." Conference Proceedings of the Biennial Conference of American Comparative Literature and Chinese Literature Association (Nanjing University Press, forthcoming 2006).

“Exile Between Two Continents: Ettie Chin’s War Experience in China (1937-1944).” Chinese American: History and Perspectives (Chinese Historical Society of America, forthcoming 2007).
Recent Presentations

“Training Her Body for God and for China: The Development of Physical Education at Ginling College (1915-1952).” The Biannual Conference of the Historical Society for Twentieth-Century China. National University of Singapore. Singapore, June 25-27, 2006.

“With this Lingo, I thee Wed: Language and Marriage in Yang Buwei’s Autobiography of A Chinese Woman.”  The annual Association for Asian Studies Convention. San Francisco, CA. April 6-9, 2006.

“Exile Between Two Continents: Ettie Chin’s War Experience in China (1937-1945).” To be presented at the conference of “Branching Out the Banyan Tree: A Changing Chinese America.” San Francisco, CA. October 7-9, 2005.

“‘Struggle in That Perilous Current of Water’: Chen Hengzhe’s Autobiography of A Chinese Young Girl.” The International Women’s Congress and Woman’s World 2005. Seoul, Korea. June 19-24, 2005.

“Her Story and His Story: Yang Buwei , Zhao Yuanren and the Tale of Transnational Education.” The International Conference on National Boundaries and Cultural Configuration. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. June 23-25, 2004.

“Feng Yuanjun’s ‘Sentimental Autobiography.’” The International Conference of Feminism in China Since The Women's Bell. Shanghai, China. June 18, 2004.

“The Great (Surrogate) Mother of the West: The Genealogy of Masculinity in Yung Wing’s My Life in China and America.” Presented at Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ). Tokyo, Japan. June 22, 2003.

Selected Awards, Fellowships, and Honors

Invited lecture: “Guojia : The Chinese Family and Nation in A Century of Revolution and (Ex)Change.” National Consortium for the Education of Asia. March 27, 2004.

Invited lecture: “Feng Yuanjun’s ‘Sentimental Autobiography’ and the Modernization of Chinese Literature.” Presented at the meeting of the Japanese Society of Chinese Studies, Western Branch, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. June 20, 2003.
Mellon Foundation Faculty Development Summer Stipend. Summer 2003.
Freeman Travel Grant to Japan. June 18-23, 2003.

John N. and Mary K. Shephard Faculty Travel and Study Fund. Grinnell College. Summer 2002, summer 2005.

Interdisciplinary Fellow. Grinnell College. Spring 2006-Spring 2007.
“Michigan Teaching Fellow.” University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI. May 2000

Institute for the Humanities Graduate Pre-doctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan. 1999-2000.

Charles and Mryl Hucker Award for Summer Research, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan. April 1999.
Selected Service Chair, Department of Chinese and Japanese (2003-04, 2005-2007)
Rosenfield Symposium in Public Affairs
Chair, Committee of Cultural Films (2003-04, 2005-2006)
Committee of the East Asian Studies Concentration

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