Joseph Allen

• Educational Background & Specialties
• Publications
• Activities
• Awards
• Courses

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

• Ph.D.: Chinese Literature, University of Washington, - none

Specialties

• China
• Chinese poetry and poetics
• Colonialist Photography
• Taipei City
• Taiwan

Publications

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Publications

• Taipei: City of Displacements. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012. Winner of the Joseph Levenson Prize in Chinese Studies, Post 1900, 2014.
• The Book of Songs. Edited with Additional Translations and Postface. Translated by Arthur Waley. New York: Grove Press, 1996. Revised 2000.
• “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.
• "Picturing Gentlemen: Japanese Portrait Photography in Colonial Taiwan." Journal of Asian Studies, November, 2014, 1009-1042.
• "Why Learning to Write Chinese Characters is a Waste of Time: A Modest Proposal." Foreign Language Annals.. 41.2 (Summer, 2008), 237-51.

Activities

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Activities

Professional

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

Research

• 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..

Awards

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Awards

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

Courses

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Courses

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