Department of World Languages & Cultures

Dongming Zhang

Lecturer

Dongming teaches undergraduate courses in both Chinese language and literature. He received his B.A. from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Peking University in 1984, specializing in classical Chinese literature with an emphasis on Tang poetry. He obtained his M.A. in East Asian Language and Literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder. There, the focus of his research was Chinese modernism. He pursued his Ph.D. studies at Cornell University from 1997 to 2004, with expertise in modern and contemporary Chinese literature, film, and cultural studies. He is currently completing his dissertation, “Modern Chinese Popular Fiction,” which discusses the nascence and the flowering of modern Chinese popular literature, ranging from the mid-19th century to the establishment of the People’s Republic of China.