Wenyang Zhai, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Mandarin Chinese | Wheaton College
Wheaton, IL, UNITED STATES
Dr. Zhai specializes in Mandarin Chinese and Comparative Literature.
Education (3)
Florida State University: Ph.D., Comparative Literature 2014
Dissertation: The Issue of Illegitimacy—Writing in Diaspora
Tianjin Foreign Studies University, Tianjin, China: M.A., English and American Literature 2007
Tianjin Foreign Studies University, Tianjin, China: B.A., English and International Business 1999
Areas of Expertise and Research Interests (3)
Diaspora Studies
Mandarin Chinese
Comparative Literature
Professional Affiliations (2)
- Modern Language Association of America : member.
- Chinese Language Teachers Association : member.
Presentations and Event Appearances (4)
How to Create a New Genre of Film Course to Facilitate Language Teaching
The First CLTA International Symposium on Chinese Language Teaching and Learning Bloomington, IN, 2014
The Illegitimacy at a Crossroad: Ha Jin’s Diasporic Navigation
Crossroads Conference Amherst, MA, 2012
The Deformed Specificity—Ha Jin’s Representation of Chinese
American Comparative Literature Association New Orleans, LA, 2010
The Issue of Illegitimacy-- the Disowned Daughter Writing in Diaspora
The New England Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference Boston, MA, 2017
Select Articles, Chapters, Reviews, and Other Publications (3)
The Force of Illegitimacy: Ha Jin’s Individual Battle in Diaspora
Chinese Diaspora Writers. Beijing: Central Compilation & Translation Press.
2015
Arranged Love Marriage—the Problematics of Diaspora's Indianness.
Institute for English Cultural Studies of Dongguk University in South Korea
2010 The younger generation’s marriage of Indian diaspora is a popular plot in Bollywood romance. For the elder parents, the first generation immigrants, marrying a traditional conservative Indian girl or man would be the perfect match for their children but their children always express resistance against the arranged marriage for most of them have been largely Westernized. Around the issues of family values ...
The Problems and Solutions to Spoken English
Journal of Tianjin Foreign Studies University. pp. 81-85
June 2003