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In June 2005, Wang presented a paper “Canon (Re)formation and National/Cultural Identity” at The International Conference on Canon (Re)formation in the Context of Cultural Studies, in Bejing. His paper was selected for publication in the conference proceedings, and translated into Chinese to be published bilingually by Beijing University Press. His translation of a keynote speech by Vincent B. Leitch, “The Globalization of Literatures,” from the same conference, was accepted for publication by Beijing University Press.

In July 2005, Wang was invited to give a talk entitled “The Disorder of Critical Reading” at the Postmodern Theory Seminar hosted by Suzhou University in China, and, later in the fall, to give a talk “The Shaping of Chinese Mind: Chinese Ambivalence towards Western Democracy” at the National Convention of US-China Peoples Friendship Association.

In 2004, Wang presented “Women as Self-Conscious Beautiful Objects in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth” at Bennington College’s Social Science Colloquium.

In 2003, Wang presented an essay “Deconstructing the Critical Dichotomy of Daoist Hermit Tao Qian and Confucian Scholar Tao Qian” at an international conference in Nanjing, China which was later published in Beginning of the New Century: Comparative Literature in a Cross-Cultural Context.

Bennington magazine, September 2003: Wang presented an essay, later published, Beginning of the New Century: Comparative Literature in a Cross-Cultural Context, at an international conference in Nanjing, China. His article “Tian Zhuang-Zhuang: A Chinese Film Director” appeared in Sense of Cinema, an online journal.

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