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Ming Jian

Assistant Professor
Department of Languages and Cultures
William Paterson University


EDUCATION

Ph.D. 1990 The Free University of Berlin, Germany

Dissertation: Expressionistische Nachdichting chinesishcer Lyrik (Expressionistic Rendering of Chinese Poetry)

MILS 1994 University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Major: Library and Information Science

M.A. 1985 Peking University, Beijing, China

Majors: Aesthetics

B.A. 1982 Peking University, Beijing, China

Majors: German Language and Literature

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2000 - Courses in Chinese language, culture, literature, cinema, and Asian studies

1999 -20 Adjunct Professor, CS201, Department of Computer Science, WPUNJ

1984 - 85 Lecturer of German language and literature, Department of Western European Languages and Literatures, Peking University

OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE

2/99 – 20 Instructional Designer, Instruction and Research Technology, WPUNJ

1/95-1/99 Technical Service Librarian /Assistant Professor, University Libraries, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE

PUBLICATIONS

1. Published

Books:

Expressionistische Nachdichtungen Chinesischer Lyrik (Expressionistic Rendering of Chinese Poems). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1990.

Book Chapters

"Europäisierung, Subjektivierung und Erotisierung: Chinesische Liebeslyrik in Deutschen Nachdichtungen", in Kubin, Wolfgang, ed. Mein Bild in deinem Auge : Exotismus und Moderne: Deutschland-China im 20. Jahrhundert. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1995, pp. 219-244.

"Einige Aspekte der Deutschen Nachdichtungen Chinesischer Literatur, in Zhu, Jinyang, ed. Neue Forschungen der Chinesischen Germanisten in Deutschland. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1991, pp. 85-96.

"Fushide" (Goethe's Faust), in Ji, Xianlin, ed. Review of the Masterpieces of the Chinese and World Literature (zhong wai wenxue shumu da wen). Beijing: Zhongguo Qingnian Chubanshe, 1986, pp. 603-608.

"Qiangdao" (Friedrich Schiller's Räuber), in Ji, Xianlin, ed. Review of the Masterpieces of the Chinese and World Literature (zhong wai wenxue shumu da wen). Beijing: Zhongguo Qingnian Chubanshe, 1986, pp. 608-613.

Articles:

"Language Learning and the On-Line Environment: The Views of Learners of Chinese," co-authored with Dr. Thomas Ihde. Accepted for publication by The Journal of Chinese Language Teachers Association in June 2002.

"Her De de Meixue Sixiang" (On Herder's Aesthetics and Literary Theories), Foreign Literatures (Guwai Wenxue) 4:105-111 (Beijing: 1988).

"Leguan de Zhexue" (Optimistic Philosophy), Du Shu (Bejing Monthly) 3:21-28 (Beijing: 1984).

"Dute de chuang zuo tujing, juda de shehui fanxiang – Jingte Warlafu de xiaoshuo Zui Dicheng" (The Unusual Literary Approach and the Sensational Social Effects" -- Günther Wallraff and His Novel Ganz Unten," Wenyi Bao (Literature and Arts), May 3-4 (Beijing: May 10, 1986) [Newspaper article].

"Von Ähnlichkeit der Mittlern Englischen und Deutschen Dichtkunst nebst Verschiedenem, das Daraus Folget" by Johann Gottfried Herder [translation], Guowai Meixue (Aesthetics Abroad) 2:65-72 (Shanghai: 1986).

Published Translation (Book)

"Meixue"(Theoretical Aesthetics) by Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten. [Translation from German into Chinese] (Beijing: Wenhua yishu chubanshe, 1987).

Review Articles:

"CyberChinese," CALICO, 19.2:381-389 (2002).

"Silver City," MultiCultural Review, 7.2:70-71 (June 1998).

Contributed more than 30 review abstracts covering wide ranges of academic disciplines from 1995-1998, Reference Reviews Europe Annual, (Fiesole, Firenze: Casalili Libri, 1996-1999).

Encyclopedia Entry:

"Social Realism" was accepted for publication in the Encyclopedia of Asia by Berkshire Reference Works in November 2001.

Presentations

"Imaginary Discourse of the Self: Gao Xingjian’s Soul Mountain," the 2nd International Convention of Asia Scholars (Berlin, Germany, August 2001)

The Spring Conference of New Jersey Teachers of English to Speakers of other Languages/New Jersey Bilingual Educators (New Jersey, May, 2001)

"The Role of the Teacher in Computer Assisted Language Learning," jointly presented with Dr. Thomas Ihde at the Fourth Annual Conference of National Council of Organizations of Less Commonly Taught Languages (Washington D.C., April 2001)

"Chinesische Liebeslyrik in Deutschen Nachdichtungen," International Conference: Exotismus und Moderne: Deutschland-China im 20. Jahrhundert (Bonn, Germany: 1989)

FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS

Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation Scholarship, 1985-90
Award for the Best Paper, German Language and Literature Association of China, 1989
President, Association of Chinese German Scholars and Students in Germany, 1988-90

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Association for Asian Studies
Modern Languages Association
Association of Chinese Language Teachers in Greater New York Regions