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Wenyang Zhai, Ph.D.Assistant Professor of Mandarin Chinese
On Faculty since 2016
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Florida State University
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, 2014
Tianjin Foreign Studies University, Tianjin, China
M.A., English and American Literature, 2007
Tianjin Foreign Studies University, Tianjin, China
B.A., English and International Business, 1999
- Diaspora Studies
- Mandarin Chinese
- Comparative Literature
- Modern Language Association of America: member
- Chinese Language Teachers Association: member
How to Create a New Genre of Film Course to Facilitate Language Teaching
The First CLTA International Symposium on Chinese Language Teaching and Learning, Bloomington, IN, 2014
The Illegitimacy at a Crossroad: Ha Jin’s Diasporic Navigation
Crossroads Conference, Amherst, MA, 2012
The Deformed Specificity—Ha Jin’s Representation of Chinese
American Comparative Literature Association, New Orleans, LA, 2010
The Issue of Illegitimacy-- the Disowned Daughter Writing in Diaspora
The New England Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Boston, MA, 2017
The Force of Illegitimacy: Ha Jin’s Individual Battle in Diaspora, Chinese Diaspora Writers. Beijing: Central Compilation & Translation Press.
2015
Arranged Love Marriage—the Problematics of Diaspora's Indianness., Institute for English Cultural Studies of Dongguk University in South Korea
2010
The younger generation’s marriage of Indian diaspora is a popular plot in Bollywood romance. For the elder parents, the first generation immigrants, marrying a traditional conservative Indian girl or man would be the perfect match for their children but their children always express resistance against the arranged marriage for most of them have been largely Westernized. Around the issues of family values ...
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The Problems and Solutions to Spoken English, Journal of Tianjin Foreign Studies University. pp. 81-85
June 2003