Dietrich Tschanz
Instructor

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



Contact Information

Office: Scott Hall 337 (College Avenue Campus)
Office Hours: Monday, 12 noon - 1pm, and by appointment

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



University and Departmental Service
 



Course Information for Spring Semester 2012

  • 01:098/214:245 Global East Asia (Sakai site) [SAS Core Code: 21C, HST, SCL, WCd]
  • 01:098:444 Seminar on Asian Societies (Sakai site) [SAS Core Code: WCr, WCd, ITR]


Vita

Education:

  • M.A. Universität Zürich (1990)
  • M.A. Princeton University (1994)
  • Ph.D. Princeton University (2002)
  • M.L.I.S. Rutgers University (2003)

Courses:

  • 01:165:201 Intermediate Chinese (Fall 1999-Fall 2006, Fall 2008, Fall 2009)
  • 01:165:202 Intermediate Chinese (Spring 2000-Spring 2006, Spring 2010)
  • 01:165:241 Chinese Literature in Translation I: Prose and Poetry (Fall 2000, Fall 2001)
  • 01:165:242 Chinese Literature in Translation II: Popular Fiction and Drama (Spring 2001, Spring 2003, Spring 2006, Spring 2009)
  • 01:165:264 Chinese Drama and Performing Arts (Spring 2000, Fall 2002, Fall 2005, Fall 2008, Fall 2009)
  • 01:165:310 20th Century Chinese Literature (Fall 1999)
  • 01:165:322 Interdisciplinary Topics in East Asia (Fall 2004)
  • 01:165:444 Seminar in Asian Societies (Spring '03, Spring '08, Spring '09, Spring '10, Spring '12)
  • 01:165:494 Independent Study
  • 01:170:284 Philosophical Themes in Chinese Literary Writings (Spring 2010)
  • 01:170:245 Women and Contemporary Chinese Society (Fall 2010, Fall 2011)
  • 16:165:506 Chinese Across the Curriculum (Summer Session 2009, 2010, 2011)

Selected Publications:

  • “Where East and West Meet: Chinese Revolutionaries, French Orientalists, and Intercultural Theater in 1910s Paris,” in Taiwan Journal of East Asian Studies 4.1 (2007): 89-108.
  • "Wu Weiye's Dramatic Works and His Aesthetics of Dynastic Transitions." In Wilt L. Idema, Wai-yee Li, and Ellen Widmer, ed., Trauma and Transcendence in Early Qing Literature. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2006: 427-453.
  • "A Bibliography of Western-Language Studies of Kun-Style Music-Drama." In Kunqu yanjiu ziliao    suoyin 崑曲研究資料索引 (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.
  • "由時空觀念論吳偉業的梅村樂府三種" (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
    冯骥才, Yi bai ge ren de shi nian
          
    一百个人的十年. 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.

Primary Fields of Research:

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

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Asian Languages & Cultures, Rutgers University, Scott Hall 330, 43 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1164

Last updated: 01/03/12