Jing Wang (王瑾; 1950 – July 25, 2021) was Professor of Chinese media and Cultural Studies and S.C. Fang Professor of Chinese Language & Culture at

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. She was jointly appointed to MIT's Comparative Media Studies and Global Studies & Languages. After a bachelor's degree from

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, Wang studied comparative literature at University of Michigan before earning her doctorate at the University of Massachusetts. She began her teaching career at Duke University, where she was on the faculty for 16 years. Her 1992 monograph ''The Story of Stone: Intertextuality, Ancient Chinese Stone Lore, and the Stone Symbolism in Dream of the Red Chamber, Water Margin, and The Journey to the West'' won the

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for the year's best book on premodern China. Jing Wang was the founder and organizer of MIT's New Media Action Lab. In spring 2009, Wang launched an

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. Wang started working with

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in 2006 and served as the Chair of the International Advisory Board of

Mainland China. She was appointed to serve on the Advisory Board for

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in 2010. She served on the editorial and advisory boards of ten academic journals in the US, Australia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the UK. Wang died in Boston, July 25, 2021, aged 71.

Books

* ''Brand New China: Advertising, Media, and Commercial Culture'', Harvard University Press 2008. * ''High Culture Fever: Politics, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Deng's China'', Duke University Press, 1996. *The Story of Stone: Intertextuality, Ancient Chinese Stone Lore, and the Stone Symbolism of "Dream of the Red Chamber," "Water Margin," and “Journey to the West."'' University Press, 1992.

Edited

*Locating China: Space, Place, and Popular Culture. In the series of “China in Transition” (ed. David SG Goodman). London and New York: Routledge, 2005. Paperback edition, 2006. * With Tani Barlow, Cinema and Desire: Feminist Marxism and the Cultural Politics in the Work of Dai Jinhua. New York & London: Verso. 2002. * Chinese Popular Culture and the State, a special issue for positions: east Asia cultures critique, 9:1 (spring 2001). ominated for the 2001 MLA Council of Editors of Learned Journals Award for the category of the Best Special Issue * China's Avant-Garde Fiction: An Anthology. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1998. econd Printing, 2004

Candy R. Wei Memorial Scholarship

Jing Wang's daughter Candy R. Wei took her own life at the age of 20. Jing Wang and Candy's father, Young Wei, established a travel scholarship fund at the University of Michigan School of Art & Design in 2001 to commemorate their daughter. The recipients of this fund made individual contributions to Wikipedia by submitting works inspired during their study abroad.

References

External links

Candy R. Wei's memorial article by Jing Wang

NGO 2.0 Project in China

Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board

Google Mapping of NGO2.0 China
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