Rong Cai
Associate Professor
| Office: | Modern Languages 306 |
| Phone: | 404 727 5028 |
| Fax: | 404 712 8511 |
| E-mail: | rcai@emory.edu |
About me
I did my undergraduate and graduate study in English language and literature at Nanjing University in China. I earned a Ph.D. degree in Chinese and Comparative literature at Washington University in St. Louis in 1995. After teaching at Colby College and Illinois State University for a few years, I joined the faculty at Emory in 1999.
Areas of interest
- Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature and Society
- Contemporary Chinese Popular Culture
- Gender Studies
- Chinese Cinema and Television
- Comparative Literature
Courses taught
- Modern China in Film and Fiction
- Chinese Women in Film and Fiction
- Shanghai: The Lure of the Modern
- Myth and Meaning
- Foundations of Inquiry
- Hell on Earth (?): Modern China in the Eyes of the Writers
- Re-Imaging Chinese Women in the Twentieth Century
- Self-Definition in Twentieth-Century World Literature
- Advanced Readings in Modern Chinese
- Advanced Chinese I and II
Current Projects
I am currently engaged in a tripartite study of the representation of history in film, fiction, and TV entertainment in the post-Tiananmen era (1989-present). The project explores the multifaceted imaginations of the nation since the 1990s and how "history" is appropriated by various discourses to shape the meanings and identity of the nation in the age of accelerated reforms.
Selected Publications
Books
- The Subject in Crisis in Contemporary Chinese Literature. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2004.
Refereed Journal Articles
- Gender Imaginations in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and the Wuxia World. positions: east asia cultures critique 13.2 (Fall 2005), pp. 441-471.
- Problematizing the Foreign Other: Mother, Father, and the Bastard in Mo Yan's Fengru feitun. Modern China (October 2002), pp. 108-137.
- The Mirror in the Text: Borges and Metafiction in Post-Mao China. Tamkang Review 32.2 (Winter 2001), pp. 35-67.
- The Lonely Traveler Revisited in Yu Hua's Fiction. Modern Chinese Literature 10 (Spring/Fall 1998), pp. 173-190.
- In the Madding Crowd: Self and Other in Can Xue's Fiction. China Information: A Quarterly Journal on Contemporary China Studies 11.4 (Spring 1997), pp. 41-57.
- The 'Subject' in Crisis: Han Shaogong's Cripple(s). The Journal of Contemporary China (Winter/Spring 1994), pp. 64-77.
Translations
- Sangshuping Chronicles. In Theater and Society: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Drama, 1979 to the Present. Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe 1998, pp. 189-261.