Tze-lan Deborah Sang 桑梓蘭

Associate Professor

Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures

Eugene, OR 97403-1248

USA

Phone: (541) 346-4007

Email: sang@darkwing.uoregon.edu

 

Research Interests:

Gender theory; the history of sexuality; urban culture; Chinese cinemas (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mainland); Republican-era popular fiction; Chinese performing arts

Selected Refereed Publications

Books:

The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China. University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Articles:

"Women’s Work and Boundary Transgression in Wang Dulu’s Popular Novels.” In Gender in Motion: Divisions of Labor and Cultural Change in Late Imperial and Modern China, ed. Bryna Goodman and Wendy Larson. 287-308. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005.

“The Transgender Body in Wang Dulu’s Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon.” In Modernity Incarnate: Refiguring Chinese Body Politics, ed. Larissa Heinrich and Fran Martin. University of Hawai’i Press. In press.

“Wang Dulu’s ‘Beijing-Flavored’ Novels.” In Beijing: Urban Imagination and Cultural Memory (Beijing: Dushi xiangxiang yu wenhua jiyi), ed. Chen Pingyuan and David Der-wei Wang. Beijing University Press. In press.

“At the Juncture of Censure and Mass Voyeurism: Narratives of Female Homoerotic Desire in Post-Mao China.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 8, no. 4 (2002): 523-52. Duke University Press.

“Feminism’s Double: Lesbian Activism in the Mediated Public Sphere of Taiwan.” In Spaces of Their Own: Women's Public Sphere in Transnational China, ed. Mayfair Yang, 132-61. University of Minnesota Press, 1999.

“Translating Homosexuality: The Discourse of Tongxing’ai in Republican China (1912-1949).” In Tokens of Exchange: The Problem of Translation in Global Circulations, ed. Lydia H. Liu. 276-304. Duke University Press, 1999.

“Gudu de dushi kongjian lunshu” (The discourse of urban space in The Old Capital). In Kongjian, diyu, wenhua (Space, region and culture), ed. Li Fengmao and Liu Yuanru, 439-74. Taipei: Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, 2002.

“Zhang Ailing Shiba chun he Bansheng yuan yanjiu” (Eileen Chang's Eighteen Springs and The Affinity of Half a Lifetime: A study of the popular novel). In Wenyi lilun yu tongsu wenhua (Chinese literary theory and popular culture), ed. Peng Hsiao-yen, 677-705. Taipei: Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, 1999.