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HUMANITIES SOCSCI
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Ye, Yang

Associate Professor of Chinese

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Comparative Literature & Foreign Languages


Biography

Yang Ye is an associate professor of Chinese Literature and Language. His interests lie in Chinese poetry and poetics, and East-West comparative poetics. His recent work has also focused on Chinese belles-lettres non-fictional prose. He is the author of Vignettes from the Late Ming (1999) and Chinese Poetic Closure (1987), and his current projects include a critical study of late Ming and early Qing Chinese literati.

Former Institution

Fudan University; Harvard University; Bates College

Degrees

Ph.D. Comparative Literature 1989

Harvard University

MA Comparative Literature 1985

Harvard University

BA English & American Literature & Language 1982

Fundan University

Awards

1983 Top Prize, the Yilin (Translation) Contest for Translation for American Literature (John Updike: “The Son”)
1984-86 Fellowship for Advanced Studies from the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia
1984-87 The Harvard-Yenching Fellowship for Doctoral Programs
1991 The National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend
1995 Resident Fellowship of Center for Ideas & Society, UCR
1997-98 Regents’ Faculty Fellowship/Faculty Development Award, UCR


Research Area

Chinese literature with emphasis on poetry, non-fictional prose and literary theory; comparative poetics

Publications

Chinese Poetic Closure (1996), a comparative study of Chinese and Western poetic closures, and Vignettes from the Late Ming (1999), a collection of short familiar essays translated, annotated and with an introduction.
Please see department web page for further information: http://complitforlang.ucr.edu/people/faculty