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Name in Chinese
黃運特
Biography
Yunte Huang received his BA in English from Peking University and Ph.D. in English from the Poetics Program at State University of New York at Buffalo. He taught as an assistant professor of English at Harvard University from 1999 to 2003, before joining the faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he was promoted to full professor of English in 2006. A Guggenheim Fellow, Huang is the author of many books, including Transpacific Displacement (Univ. of California Press, 2003), Transpacific Imaginations (Harvard Univ. Press, 2008), and Charlie Chan (Norton, 2010), which won the Edgar Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His most recent book is Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History (Liveright, 2018), chosen by Newsweek as one of the Best Non-Fiction Books of 2018. Huang is also the editor of The Big Red Book of Modern Chinese Literature (Norton, 2016), the translator into Chinese of Ezra Pounds Cantos, and the translator into English the poetry of Yu Xinqiao, Che Qianzi, and others. He has published articles in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Daily Beast, PMLA, and many others. As a bestselling author, he has been featured on the National Public Radio (Fresh Air, Morning Edition, On Point), C-SPAN TV, BBC, Australian National Radio, Irish National Radio, and many others.
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Projects
- 1 Active
Chinese Whispers: Poetry, Translatability and Risk (中國耳語：詩歌，翻譯和風險)
1/01/20 → 31/12/21
Project: Grant Research
Research Output
The Banished Immortal’ Review: Heaven Begot a Talent Like Me: The poet Li Po sailed down the Yangtze, making friends, visiting temples and reciting poems at dinner parties.
HUANG, Y., 11 Jan 2019, In : Wall Street Journal - Online Edition.Research output: Journal Publications › Review article
The Not So Soft Power of Chinese Literary Theory and Criticism: A Review of Literature and Literary Criticism in Contemporary China by Zhang Jiong
ZHANG, J. & HUANG, Y., Aug 2019, In : Style. 53, 2, p. 257-264Research output: Journal Publications › Review article
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
HUANG, Y., 4 Apr 2018, In : Southern Spaces.Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed)
Open Access
Prizes
LU Research & Knowledge Transfer Fund Award 2020 (RGC/PICO Grant)
HUANG, Yunte (Recipient), Apr 2020
Prize: Prize / Award
Times Critics' Top Books of 2018 - Inseparable : the original Siamese twins and their rendezvous with American history (authored by Prof. Huang Yunte)
HUANG, Yunte (Recipient), 4 Dec 2018
Prize: Prize / Award
Activities
- 1 Editorial (Journal)
Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature (Journal)
Zong-qi CAI (Editor in chief), Yunte HUANG (Editor in chief), Haomin GONG (Associate Editor), Chris SONG (Managing Editor) & Matthew CHENG (Editorial Assistant)
2018 → …
Activity: Editorial / Peer-review Work › Editorial (Journal)
Press / Media
香港與世界：一個人文的眼光 Hong Kong and the world: from humanistic point of view
27/02/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Commentaries
The Banished Immortal’ Review: ‘Heaven Begot a Talent Like Me’
12/01/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Commentaries