Faculty & Staff Directory

ALL 3361W - Maps, Pictures and Writing in the Representation of Taiwan
ALL 5261 - The Work of Translation: Theory, Function & Practice
ALL 3334 - Voices from Ancient China: The Book of Songs and the Songs of the South
ALL 3334 - Writing (in) East Asian Cutures

Chair, Asian Languages and Literatures: 2013
Director of Chinese Flagship, University of Minnesota: 2014
Director, Consortium for the Study of the Asias: Title VI, NRC , 2006
Founding Chair, Asian Languages and Literatures: 2000 - 2008
Chair of Executive Committee, East Asia Before 1900. Modern Language Association, : 2011
National Editorial Board, Texts and Translations, Modern Language Association: 2006 - 2010
Director, Chinese Language Flagship, University of Minnesota:

Colonial Photography: Examination of early Japanese colonial photography in Taiwan in terms of ideological and ethnic constructions
Chinese Literature Textbooks in the Twentieth Century: The role of the high-school Chinese Literature textbook in the formation of a shared set of canonical texts in popular culture, in China, Taiwan, and abroad. Funded by Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs Fellowship and the University Minnesota Imagine Fund.

Publications

"Picturing Gentlemen: Japanese Portrait Photography in Colonial Taiwan." Journal of Asian Studies, November, 2014, 1009-1042.
Taipei: City of Displacements. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012. Winner of the Joseph Levenson Prize in Chinese Studies, Post 1900, 2014. Image
“From Literature to Lingerie: Classical Chinese Poetry in Taiwan Popular Culture.“Popular Culture in Taiwan: Charismatic Modernity. London and New York: Routledge, 2010, 65-85.
"Why Learning to Write Chinese Characters is a Waste of Time: A Modest Proposal." Foreign Language Annals.. 41.2 (Summer, 2008), 237-51.
Sea of Dreams: The Selected Writings of Gu Cheng. Translated and Edited. Allen, Joseph, New York: New Directions Publishers, Author, 2005.
“Taipei Park: Signs of Occupation": Allen, Joseph, Journal of Asian Studies, 66.1 (2007) 159-99.
“Mapping Taipei: Representation and Ideology“: Allen, Joseph, Studies on Asia, II, 2.2 (Fall 2005) 5-80, plus illustrations. Link
The Book of Songs. Edited with Additional Translations and Postface. Translated by Arthur Waley. New York: Grove Press, 1996. Revised 2000.

Awards

College of Liberal Arts Dean's Medal, University of Minnesota, 2016
Center for Chinese Studies Fellowship, National Library, Minister of Foreign Affairs., 2012
Faculty Research Grant, Ministry of Education, Taiwan., 2009
Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, 1999

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