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Faculty Member, Comparative Literature
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, English
School of Humanities
About
Daniel VUKOVICH (Illinois, 2005) grew up working class in Oakmont, PA. His book _China and Orientalism: Western Knowledge Production and the P.R.C._ was recently published by Routledge in the Postcolonial Politics series . It makes a case for the re-constitution of orientalism since the 1970s, and is a defense of the theoretical and political complexities of Maoist and post-Mao China. It includes chapters on: China studies and the non-debate with postcolonialism and orientalism; Tiananmen, 1989; DeLillo’s novel _Mao II_; Maoist discourse and governance; the Great Leap Forward and the debate on its famine statistics; film studies versus Chinese films themsleves; the "China-reference" in recent cultural theory; and the relationship between Sinological-orientalism and global capitalism.
His research interests revolve around Marxist cultural critique, the production of knowledge in intellectual-political culture (to borrow a favorite phrase of Edward Said) , and the limits of received 'theory' vis a vis the PRC in particular but non-Western societies in general. While based in literary and cultural studies methods, his work seeks to engage the political in more direct, sharper-edged ways.
His articles have appeared in positions, Cultural Critique, Neo-Helicon, Cultural Politics, Frontiers of Literary Studies in China, and Cultural Logic among other places. In Chinese translation he has published on orientalism and liberalism and depoliticization. (Other texts have not passed the censorship bar.) Recent and forthcoming work includes a discourse analysis of the China-Hong Kong relationship since 1997 and the so-called ‘re-colonization’ thesis; an article on the resurgence/backlash of liberal humanism; a book chapter on the rise of the Chinese New Left as an intellectual and post-colonial phenomenon; and a long chapter on “Asia” for an advanced, Oxford Guide to post-colonial studies.
He is currently working towards a second book tentatively entitled _Seeing Like An Other State_: China and Other Political Problems. This will extend and revise the critique of Sinological-orientalism in political and cultural studies, but also involves field-work (time) in China and Vietnam.
He teaches postcolonial, PRC, literary, and theoretical studies at Hong Kong University, in the School of Humanities.
Class website housing syllabi and notes is here:
https://sites.google.com/site/honggangdaxue/
Contact Information
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