LEE Ou-fan
B.A.(National Taiwan University), M.Phil. and PhD. (Harvard
University)
Professor of
Humanities, Department of History, CUHK
I was appointed Professor of Humanities at CUHK two
years ago, upon my early retirement from Harvard in
2004. I take this as an encouragement to cut across
disciplinary and departmental boundaries--or at least to
move among departments. After two happy years teaching
at the Dept of Cultural and Religious Studies, I am
moving to the Chinese department in the fall and the
History department in the spring.
I was trained in modern Chinese intellectual history but
taught modern Chinese literature in the States for the
past thirty years. Now I like to try my free hand in a
few new ventures, which will include two courses this
spring: one jointly with Prof. Billy So on theories of
cultural and legal history; the other on major
intellectual texts in the late Qing and early Republican
periods. I enjoy writing in both English and Chinese and
have published accordingly in both languages. For the
Chinese titles, please visit your nearest bookstore. For
books in English, the major ones are the following:
‧The
Romantic Generation of Modern Chinese Writers (Harvard,
1973)
‧Voices
from the Iron House: A Study of Lu Xun (Indiana, 1987)
‧Shanghai
Modern: The Flowering of Urban Culture in China
(Harvard,1999)
I am also writing a general book titled "Hong Kong from
the Ground Up", to be published by Harvard Univ. Press
as one of their new series on cities. My new books in
Chinese include one on Eileen Chang and a volume of
essays called "Rhapsodies at Festival Walk" (both by
Oxford Univ. Press.) Research Specializations and Interests
Modern Chinese literature and cultural studies
Contemporary fiction
Cinema in Pan-Chinese regions
| Address: |
G17,
Institute of Chinese Studies, CUHK, N.T., Hong Kong |
Phone:
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(852) 2696-1736 |
| Email: |
leeoufan@cuhk.edu.hk |
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