Jing Wang (professor)

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Jing Wang (王瑾; 1950 – July 25, 2021)

Cultural Studies and S.C. Fang Professor of Chinese Language & Culture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was jointly appointed to MIT's Comparative Media Studies and Global Studies & Languages.[2]

After a bachelor's degree from

Joseph Levenson Prize for the year's best book on premodern China.[3]

Jing Wang was the founder and organizer of MIT's New Media Action Lab.[4][failed verification] In spring 2009, Wang launched an NGO2.0.[5][failed verification]

Wang started working with Creative Commons in 2006 and served as the Chair of the International Advisory Board of Creative Commons Mainland China. She was appointed to serve on the advisory board for Wikimedia Foundation in 2010. She served on the editorial and advisory boards of ten academic journals in the US, Australia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the UK[citation needed].

Wang died in Boston, July 25, 2021, aged 71.[6]

Books

  • Brand New China: Advertising, Media, and Commercial Culture, Harvard University Press 2008.
  • High Culture Fever: Politics, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Deng's China, Duke University Press, 1996.
  • The Story of Stone: Intertextuality, Ancient Chinese Stone Lore, and the Stone Symbolism of "Dream of the Red Chamber," "Water Margin," and “Journey to the West." University Press, 1992.

Edited

  • Locating China: Space, Place, and Popular Culture. In the series of “China in Transition” (ed.
    David SG Goodman
    ). London and New York: Routledge, 2005. Paperback edition, 2006.
  • With Tani Barlow, Cinema and Desire: Feminist Marxism and the Cultural Politics in the Work of Dai Jinhua. New York & London: Verso. 2002.
  • Chinese Popular Culture and the State, a special issue for positions: east Asia cultures critique, 9:1 (spring 2001). [Nominated for the 2001 MLA Council of Editors of Learned Journals Award for the category of the Best Special Issue].
  • China's Avant-Garde Fiction: An Anthology. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1998.[Second Printing, 2004].

Candy R. Wei Memorial Scholarship

Jing Wang's daughter Candy R. Wei took her own life at the age of 20. Jing Wang and Candy's father, Young Wei, established a travel scholarship fund at the University of Michigan School of Art & Design in 2001 to commemorate their daughter.[6][7] The recipients of this fund made individual contributions to Wikipedia by submitting works inspired during their study abroad.

References

  1. ^ "Jing Wang, 1950-2021". Times Higher Education. 2021-09-16. Retrieved 2022-01-11.
  2. ^ MIT. "Jing Wang." Retrieved Jan 10, 2013.
  3. S2CID 165691103
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  4. ^ New Media Action Lab, MIT http://web.mit.edu/newmediaactionlab/
  5. ^ NGO2.0 Project http://www.ngo20.org/
  6. ^ a b Whitacre, Andrew. "Jing Wang, professor of Chinese media and cultural studies, dies at 71". MIT News. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  7. ^ "Contribute – Candy Wei". Retrieved 30 July 2021.

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