Tze-lan Sang
Department Head and Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Literatures
Phone: (541) 346-4206
Email: sang@uoregon.edu
Tze-lan Deborah Sang was born and educated in Taiwan, earning her bachelor’s degree from National Taiwan University. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Berkeley in 1996. Her research focuses on modern Chinese literature, late Qing fiction, Chinese cinemas, and gender and sexuality. Professor Sang has published extensively on many aspects of Chinese culture and gender, including: "Failed Modern Girls," in Performing "Nation": Gender Politics in the Literature, Theater and the Visual Arts of China and Japan, 1880-1940, (2008); “The Transgender Body in Wang Dulu’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” in Modernity Incarnate: Refiguring Chinese Body Politics, (2006); “Women’s Work and Boundary Transgression in Wang Dulu’s Popular Novels” in Gender in Motion: Divisions of Labor and Cultural Change in Late Imperial and Modern China, (2005); “Wang Dulu de jingwei nuxing chengzhang xiaoshuo (Wang Dulu’s ‘Beijing-flavored’ Female Bildungsroman)” in Beijing: Urban Imagination and Cultural Memory, (2005); The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China, (2003); “At the Juncture of Censure and Mass Voyeurism: Narratives of Female Homoerotic Desire in Post-Mao China” in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, (2002). She received a Workshop Grant from ACLS (2009), the Faculty Research Grant from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation (2002-2004), and the ACLS Research Grant to participate in the National Program for Advanced Study and Research in China (2001-2002).
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