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Guobin
Yang's Bio
Guobin Yang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College, Columbia University . He is also a faculty in the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and an affiliated faculty in the Department of Sociology of Columbia University.
He has published on a wide range of social issues in contemporary China, including the internet and civil society, environmental NGOs, the 1989 student movement, the Red Guard Movement,
and collective memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. His books include Re-Envisioning the Chinese Revolution: The Politics and Poetics of Collective Memories in Reform China (edited with Ching-Kwan Lee, 2007) and Dragon-Carving and the Literary Mind
(2 volumes. Library of Chinese Classics in English Translation, Beijing,
2003). He is completing a book on The Power of the Internet: Chinese
Society in the Information Age (Columbia University Press, under
contract).
Yang received a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation “Writing and Research Grant” (2003), was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington , D.C. (2003-2004), and taught as an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (2000-2005). He has a Ph. D. in English Literature with a specialty in Literary Translation from Beijing Foreign Studies University (1993) and a second Ph.D. in Sociology from New York University (2000).
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