East Asian Languages and Cultures
Taper Hall of Humanities 226 A
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0357
United States of America
E-Mail: shaoyis@usc.edu
Telephone: (213) 740-3707
Fax: (213) 740-9295 or (626) 458-2364
EDUCATION
Ph.D. (May 1999) University
of Southern California (East Asian Languages & Cultures)
Dissertation Title: Urban Landscape and Cultural Imagination:
Literature, Film, and Visuality in Semi-Colonial Shanghai 1927-1937
M. A. (1997) University
of Southern California (Film Studies, School of Cinema-Television)
M. A. (1991) Shanghai Academy
of Social Sciences (Modern Chinese Literature); Degree granted
at Nanjing University, China.
B. A. (1983) Institute
of International Politics (Chinese Literature and Language),
Beijing, China.
COURSES DESIGNED AND TAUGHT
Fall 1999 "Introduction
to East Asian Literature and Culture"
Spring 2000 "Modern
Chinese Literature and Film: Defining the Chinese Nation-State"
EMPLOYMENT
09/1999 - present Adjunct
Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, University
of Southern California (USC).
05/1999 - present Project
Manager & Webmaster. Asia Pacific Media Center (APMC) at
the Annenberg Center for Communication, University of Southern
California (USC).
07/1998 - present Media
Consultant. The SAESHE Advertising, Los Angeles.
07/1998 - 08/1998 Interpreter.
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
12/1997 - 06/1998 Film
Tour Coordinator. Asia Pacific Media Center & Network for
the Promotion of Asian Cinema/USA (NETPAC/USA).
12/1996 - 06/1997 Film
Tour Coordinator. APMC & NETPAC/USA.
12/1996 - 05/1997 Media
Consultant. The Fred Silverman Company, Los Angeles.
09/1994 - 12/1995 Adjunct
Instructor in Chinese. Coastline Community College, Orange County,
California.
09/1983 - 07/1988 Assistant
Research Fellow. Institute of Literature, Shanghai Academy of
Social Sciences.
OTHER TEACHING AND RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
01/1999 - 05/1999 Teaching
Assistant for "East Asian Ethical Thought." Department
of East Asian Languages and Cultures (EALC), USC.
09/1998 - 12/1998 Teaching
Assistant for "Chinese Civilization." EALC, USC.
01/1998 - 05/1998 Teaching
Assistant for "East Asian Humanities." EALC, USC.
09/1997 - 12/1997 Teaching
Assistant for "Chinese Civilization." EALC, USC.
01/1997 - 05/1997 Teaching
Assistant for "East Asian Humanities." EALC, USC.
09/1996 - 12/1996 Teaching
Assistant for "History of International Cinema." School
of Cinema-Television, USC.
09/1996 - 12/1996 Teaching
Assistant for "Modern Chinese Literature in Translation."
EALC, USC.
10/1994 - 12/1998 Research
Assistant. Reading unpunctuated classical Chinese documents;
EALC, USC.
01/1996 - 05/1996 Teaching
Assistant for "East Asian Ethical Thought." EALC, USC.
09/1991 - 12/1995 Teaching
Assistant for "East Asian Humanities." EALC, USC.
HONORS
01/2000 Member of the International
Jury. The 6th Dhaka International Film Festival, Bangladesh.
04/1999 Outstanding Academic
Achievement, USC.
04/1997 Outstanding Academic
Achievement, USC.
10/1996 The Ou Jou Yi Scholarship
($2,000).
09/1995 - 05/1996 Graduate
School Tuition Award, USC.
09/1994 - 05/1995 Beaumont
Fellowship, USC ($12,000).
07/1979 Ranked First in
China's College Entrance Examination, Shanghai, 1979.
MEDIA COVERAGE
May 18, 2000 30 minutes
TV Interview (on History of American Cinema): Channel 18 (Chinese
channel in LA) "Tea Time"
April 25, 2000 30 minutes
TV Interview (on Cinemas of Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan):
Channel 18 (Chinese channel in LA) "Tea Time"
March 23, 2000 30 minutes
TV Interview (on the 72nd Academy Awards): Channel 18 (Chinese
channel in LA) "Tea Time"
March 26, 1998 The Hartford
Advocate
April 4, 1998 World
Daily News (in Chinese)
October 31, 1996 Central
Daily News (in Chinese)
October 28, 1996 Sing
Tao Daily (in Chinese)
August 8, 1979 Liberation
Daily (in Chinese)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
Association for Asian Studies
(AAS)
Modern Language Association of America (MLA)
Society for Cinema Studies (SCS)
Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC)
PUBLICATIONS, BOOKS
Jorge Larrain and the
Birmingham School of Cultural Studies: Media, Popular Culture,
Ideology, and Late Capitalism (In Chinese, forthcoming).
From Literary Studies
to Cultural Studies
(an 100-page chapter for Zhu Liyuan's A History of Western
Aesthetics [Xifang meixue tongshi]), Vol. 7 (Part II) : 651-744
(In Chinese). Shanghai: Shanghai wenyi chuban she [Shanghai Literature
and Art Press], 1999.
PUBLICATIONS, ARTICLES
"Under the Shadow
of Commercialization: The Changing Landscape of Chinese Cinema."
(Forthcoming in Celluloid, May 2000).
"Surviving the End:
The Monumentality of Memory in Hiroshima Mon Amour and Sacrificed
Youth." (Forthcoming in Eastern Screen).
"Global Image Consumption
and Chinese Cinema: Random Thoughts on Joan Chen's Xiu Xiu,
The Sent Down Girl." (In both English and Chinese) Cinedossier:
The 35th Golden Horse Award. Taipei: 1999.
"Women and The Labyrinth
of History: Reflections on The Soong Sisters." (In
both English and Chinese) Cinedossier: The 34th Golden Horse
Award. Taipei: 1998.
"Urban Space and Chinese
Nationalism: Re-reading Chinese Leftist Films of the 1930s"
Shanghai wenhua; 1996 : 3.
"Popular Culture,
Ideology, and the Hegemony of Discourse: Reflections on the Birmingham
School" Con-Temporary Monthly, Vol. 114, October
1995 : 68-89; also in Tendency Quarterly, No. 5, 1995
: 117-33.
"A Stranger in the
Cultural Margin: A Dialogue with Dominic Cheung" Wenxue
shijie, 1993 : 2.
"In Search of Modern
China: Jonathan Spence's Perspective on Chinese History"
Shehuikexuebao, Jan. 7, 1993.
"A Detailed Catalogue
of the Periodicals of Modern Chinese Poetry: 1919-1949"
Zhonghua wenxue shiliao, No. 1, 1991.
"North America Studies
on Chinese Literature: 1970-1990" Xueshujie dongtai,
1990 : 4.
PUBLICATIONS, TRANSLATIONS
Jiao Tong (Chiao T'ung),
Erotic Recipes: A Complete Menu for Male Potency Enhancement
[a poem collection]. Forthcoming.
Theodore Huters, Qin
Zhongshu (Twayne Publishers, 1982). Beijing: Zhongguo guangbo
dianshi chubanshe, 1990.
Matin Weizhong Huang, "The
Inescapable Predicament: The Narrator and His Discourse in The
True Story of Ah Q." Shanghai wenlun, 1991 : 6.
PUBLICATIONS, REVIEWS
Yingjing Zhang, The City
in Modern Chinese Literature and Film: Configuration of Space,
Time, and Gender. The Journal of Asian Studies (JAS),
56 : 1 (Feb. 1997).
PUBLICATIONS, CONFERENCE PAPERS
"Fashioning the Shanghai
Woman: Gender, Politics, and Power." Presented at the Conference
on Asian Popular Culture; April 16-18, 1998, University of Victoria,
Canada.
"Surfacing from History:
The Reconstruction of the Past in Jiang Wen's In the Heat of
the Sun." Presented at the 1997 Annual Meeting of the Western
Conference of the Association for Asian Studies; October 23-25,
1997, University of Colorado at Boulder.
"Border Crossing:
Memory, Self-Reflexivity, and the Problem of Representation."
Presented at the 1996 Annual Meeting of the Western Conference
of the Association for Asian Studies; October 25-26, 1996, Ogden,
Utah.
"Haipai and Chinese
Nationalism: Reconsidering Shanghai as a Cultural Space."
Presented at the 1996 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian
Studies; April 11-14, 1996, Honolulu, Hawaii.
"Urban Space and Chinese
Nationalism: Re-reading Chinese Leftist Films of the 1930s."
Presented at the 1995 Annual Meeting of the Western Conference
of the Association for Asian Studies; Sept. 29-30, 1995, Lewis-Clark
State College, Idaho.
MULTIMEDIA PROJECTS
Web Page: "Asian Film
Connections." http://www.asianfilms.org
Web Page: "Chinese Cinema." http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~shaoyis/
CD-Rom: "Electric Shadows: Pre-1949 Chinese Film."
(for educational purpose)
