PEAK Staff Profile

Qin Wang,
Associate Professor – Japan in East Asia

Contact: qw312[at]g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Profile

Wang Qin is Associate Professor in Area Studies at the University of Tokyo. He received his PhD in Comparative Literature at New York University. He has been teaching courses on literature, intellectual history, literary theory, and elementary Chinese at the University of Tokyo since 2020. He is the Chinese translator of several works of Jacques Derrida, Karatani Kōjin, David Harvey, and so forth.

Research Interests

Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature; Critical Theory; Post-war Japanese thoughts; Political Philosophy

Selected Publications

-“Lingdu” riben [Japan “Degree Zero”], Peking University Press, 2024 [in Chinese]
-Rojin wo yomō [Reading Lu Xun], Shunjūsha, 2022 [in Japanese]
-Configurations of the Individual in Modern Chinese Literature, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020