Yanjie Wang

Associate Professor of Asian and Asian American Studies; Coordinator for the Asian and Pacific Studies Program Loyola Marymount University

  • Los Angeles CA

Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts

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Biography

Yanjie Wang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies and serves as the Coordinator for its Asian and Pacific Studies program. She holds a Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Cultures from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, an M.A. from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and a B.A. from Peking University. Professor Wang’s research topics include displacement, migration, migrant workers, ethnic minorities, ecocriticism, trauma, violence, and gender and sexuality. Her most recent work explores the aesthetics and ethics of representing ecological crises in contemporary Chinese cinema. She is currently working on projects that examine the portrayal of China’s ethnic minorities through transborder and translocal lenses.

Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Ph.D.

East Asian Languages and Cultures

Chinese University of Hong Kong

M.Phil.

Chinese Language and Literature

Peking University

B.A.

Chinese Language and Literature (Summa Cum Laude)

Areas of Expertise

Chinese cinema
Modern Chinese literature and culture
Displacement and Migration
Ecocinema
Ethnic Minorities
Trauma and Violence
Women and Gender Studies

Courses

Contemporary Chinese Cinema

AAAS 3710

East Asian Cinema

FYS1000

Hong Kong Cinema

AAAS 4170

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Articles

Korean Chinese in the Borderland: Border Existence, Fractured Community, and Minor Transnational Friendship in Zhang Lu’s Dooman River

Screen

Yanjie Wang, "Korean Chinese in the Borderland: Border Existence, Fractured Community, and Minor Transnational Friendship in Zhang Lu’s Dooman River," Screen 66:4 (Winter 2025), forthcoming.

Wounded Bodies: Grim Beauty and Environmental Injustice in Zhao Liang’s Behemoth

Journal of Cinema and Media Studies

Yanjie Wang, “Wounded Bodies: Grim Beauty and Environmental Injustice in Zhao Liang’s Behemoth,” JCMS 63, no. 1 (Fall 2023): 124–149.

Films of Refection and Nativity

Routledge Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature

Yanjie Wang, "Films of Refection and Nativity" in Ming Dong Gu ed, Routledge Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature. London & New York: Routledge, 2018. Pp. 462-474.

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