Dietrich Tschanz
Assistant Professor

Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey



Contact Information

Office: Scott Hall 337 (College Avenue Campus)
Office Hours: MW 2:45 to 3:30 pm, and by appointment

Phone:
(732) 932-5596
FAX: (732) 932-7926
E-mail: dtschanz@rci.rutgers.edu

 


Course Information for Spring 2008
 

  • 01:065:201 Intermediate Chinese (Fall 2006)
  • 01:065:202 Intermediate Chinese (Spring 2006)
  • 01:065:241 Chinese Literature in Translation I: Prose and Poetry
  • 01:065:242 Chinese Literature in Translation II: Popular Fiction and Drama
  • 01:065:264 Chinese Drama and Performing Arts (Fall 2006)
  • 01:098:322 Interdisciplinary Topics in East Asia (Fall 2004)
  • 01:098:444 Seminar on Asian Societies (Spring 2003, 2008)
  • 01:065:494 Independent Study

 


Vita

Education:

  • M.A. Universität Zürich
  • Ph.D. Princeton University

Courses:

  • 201 Intermediate Chinese (Fall 1999-Fall 2005)
  • 202 Intermediate Chinese (Spring 2000-Spring 2006)
  • 241 Chinese Literature in Translation I: Prose and Poetry (Fall 2000, Fall 2001)
  • 242 Chinese Literature in Translation II: Popular Fiction and Drama (Spring 2001, Spring 2003, Spring 2006)
  • 264 Chinese Drama and Performing Arts (Spring 2000, Fall 2002, Fall 2005)
  • 310 20th Century Chinese Literature (Fall 1999)
  • 444 Seminar in Asian Societies (Spring 2003, Spring 2008)
  • 494 Independent Study

Selected Publications:

  • "A Bibliography of Western-Language Studies of Kun-Style Music-Drama." In Kunqu yanjiu ziliao suoyin (Bibliography of Studies on Kun-Style Music-Drama), ed. Hong Weizhu. Taibei: Guojia chuban she, 2002: 641-84.
  • "Gendered Passions: Literati Poems on Female Impersonators in the Early Republican Period." In Papers from the XIII EACS Conference. Torino, 2002. (CD-ROM ISBN 88-9000888-0-X)
  • "The New Drama before the New Drama: Drama Journals and Drama Reform in Shanghai before the May Fourth Movement." Theatre InSight 10.1 (1999): 49-59.
  • "¥Ñ ®É ªÅ Æ[ ©À ½× §d ° ·~ ªº ±ö §ø ¼Ö ©² ¤T ºØ" (In Chinese: "Time, Place, and Dynastic Transition in the Dramatic Works of Wu Weiye [1609-1672]"). Zhongguo wenzhe yanjiu tongxun, 9.4 (1999): 117-126.
  • "An Interview with the Author Feng Jicai." In Feng Jicai, Ten Years of Madness: Oral Histories of China's Cultural Revolution. San Francisco: China Books & Periodicals Inc., 1996: 259-74. (This interview has also appeared in Chinese as appendix to Feng Jicai's Yi bai ge ren de shi nian. Nanjing: Jiangsu wenyi, 1996.)
  • "Zehn Jahre im Leben von hundert gewöhnlichen Menschen: Zu Feng Jicais Projekt der literarischen Dokumentation der Kulturrevolution." Asiatische Studien/Études Asiatiques 50.1 (1996): 109-164
  • "History and Meaning in the Late Ming Drama Ming feng ji." Ming Studies 34 (1995): 1-31.
  • "Self-reflections of Extended Vernacular Prose Narrative: Discussions of Fact and Fiction in Don Quixote, The Story of the Stone, and the Tale of Genji." Tamkamg Review 25.1 (1994): 59-79.

Forthcoming Publications:

  • "Wu Weiye's Dramatic Works and His Aesthetics of Dynastic Transitions." In Wilt L. Idema, Wai-yee Li, and Ellen Widmer, ed., Conference Volume on Post-Conquest Literature in the Early Qing Dynasty.
  • "The Spring Willow Society." In Michel Hockx, ed. Literary Societies in Republican China.

Primary Fields of Research:

  • Traditional Chinese Drama and Theatre
  • Traditional Chinese Fiction and Fiction Criticism
  • 17th-Century Chinese Literature and Culture
  • Late Qing and Early Republican Literature and Culture

Membership in Scholarly Associations:

 


Last updated: 02/09/08