Jing Wang is Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies and S.C. Fang Professor of Chinese Languages & Culture of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, She is also a Afiliated Faculty of Comparative Media Studies in Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Jing Wang is the founder and organizer of MIT’s New Media Action Lab. In spring 2009, Professor Wang launched an NGO 2.0 project in collaboration with two Chinese universities, three Chinese NGOs, and three corporate partners including Ogilvy & Mather China and Frog Design. The project, funded by Ford Foundation in Beijing, is designed to enhance the digital literacy of grassroots NGOs in the underdeveloped regions of China and will deliver an interactive platform complete with Web 2.0 training courses and a Chinese field guide to best practices and software of social media for nonprofits.
Professor Wang started working with Creative Commmonsin 2006 and serves as the Chair of the International Advisory Board of Creative Commons Mainland China. She also worked as the co-organizer of the Policy Culture Research Project with Anthony Saich at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Brand New China: Advertising, Media, and Commercial Culture
High Culture Fever: Politics, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Deng's China
The Story of Stone: Intertextuality, Ancient Chinese Stone Lore, and the Stone Symbolism of "Dream of the Red Chamber," "Water Margin," and “Journey to the West." In book series “Contemporary Interventions” (ed. Fredric Jameson and Stanley Fish). Durham and London:
Duke University Press, 1992. [Second printing, 2000]
Locating China: Space, Place, and Popular Culture. In the series of “China in Transition” (ed.David S. G. Goodman). London and New York: Routledge, 2005. Paperback edition, 2006.
With Tani Barlow, Cinema and Desire: Feminist Marxism and the Cultural Politics in the Work of Dai Jinhua. New York & London: Verso. 2002.Chinese Popular Culture and the State, a special issue for positions: east asia cultures critique, 9:1 (spring 2001).[Nominated for the 2001 MLA Council of Editors of Learned Journals Award for the category ofthe Best Special Issue].
China's Avant-Garde Fiction: An Anthology. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1998.[Second Printing, 2004].