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David Wang

Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilzations, Harvard University

Governing Board Member, SOF/Heyman, Columbia University (1999–2002)

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David Der-wei Wang is Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature and Director of CCK Foundation Inter-University Center for Sinological Studies. His specialties are Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature, Late Qing fiction and drama, and Comparative Literary Theory. Wang received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and he has taught at National Taiwan University and Columbia University.