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Ban Wang is the William Haas Professor of Chinese Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature (courtesy) at Stanford University's Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. He also holds a Yangtze River Chair Professorship at East China Normal University's Simian Institute of Advanced Study. His research spans modern Chinese literature, cultural theory, political philosophy, and environmental humanities, with a focus on global China studies, Tianxia theory, and critical ecocriticism.
Wang earned his B.A. in English Literature and M.A. in Comparative Literature from Beijing Foreign Studies University (1982-1985), followed by two Ph.D.s in Comparative Literature from the University of Iowa (1990) and UCLA (1993). His academic contributions bridge Chinese intellectual traditions with global theoretical frameworks, addressing themes like Confucianism's ecological motifs, posthuman dystopias in sci-fi, and labor ethics in modern China.
His recent work examines planetary sustainability through Tianxia theory and explores ecological utopias/dystopias in contemporary Chinese literature. He has published extensively on cultural revolution aesthetics, trauma studies, and the intersections of art, labor, and environment.
