Centre for East Asian Studies
 

Prof. Tam King-fai

General Information
Title Associate Director
Telephone (852) 2696 1364
Fax (852) 2994 3105
E-mail kftam@cuhk.edu.hk
Address Centre for East Asian Studies
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin , NT, Hong Kong

Education
1990 Ph.D.in East Asian Studies, Princeton University
1985 M. A. in East Asian Studies, Princeton University
1983 M.Phil. in Comparative Literature, CUHK
1980 B.A. in English, CUHK

Research Interest
Émigré memoirs & autobiographies
Chinese film
Chinese essay - xiaopinwen
Translation
Cultural dissent
Early 20th-Century Chinese popular literature

Teaching and Research Experience
2008 - Associate Director , Centre for East Asian Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2000 - 2008
Associate Professor, Modern Languages & Literature, Trinity College
1994 - 1999
Assistant Professor , Modern Languages & Literature, Trinity College
1992 - 1994
Assistant Professor, Foreign Languages & Literatures, University of Utah
1989 - 1992 Assistant Professor , Modern Languages & Literature, Trinity College
1988 Instructor, Department of East Asian Languages & Comparative Literature, Rutgers University

Selected Works
Forthcoming Modern Chinese Essay. Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Forthcoming "Yan'an Rectification Campaign ," in Berkshire Encyclopedia of China, ed. Linsun Cheng, Great Barrington, Massachusetts: Berkshire Publishing
2004 "China Diaspora Memoirs in the United States, " in Encyclopedia of Diasporas , vol. 1, ed. Melvin Ember, et al. , New York: Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
2000 "Beautiful Americans, Ugly Japanese, and Obsequious Chinese: The Depiction of Race in Huang Chun-ming Stories, " in Race and Racism , ed. Berel Lang, New York: Rowan and Littlefield
   
 
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