William S. Tay
Position: Professor Emeritus, Literature Department
Education: Ph.D. in Comparative Literature -- University of California/San Deigo
Selected Publications:
- "Avant-garde Theatre in Post-Mao China: The Bus-Stop by Gao
Xingjian," in Soul in Chaos: Critical Perspectives on Gao
Xingjian, ed. Kwok-kan Tam (Hong Kong: Chinese University
Press, 2001).
- "Colonialism, the Cold War Era, and Marginal Space: The
Existential Conditions of Four Decades of Hong Kong
Literature," in Chinese Literature in the Second Half of
a Modern Century, ed. Pang-yuan Chi and David Wang
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000).
- "Pai Hsien-yung," in Encyclopedia of World Literature in the
20th Century, ed. Steven Serafin, 3rd ed. (New York and
London: St. James Press, 2000).
- "Spencer in China," in The Spencer Encyclopedia, ed. A. C.
Hamilton, 2nd ed. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press,
1996).
- "Ideology, Identity, and Architecture: Modernism,
Postmodernism, and Antiquarianism in Taiwan," Humanities
Bulletin, 4 (1995).
- "The Ideology of Initiation: The Films of Hou Hsiao-hsien,"
in New Chinese Cinemas, ed. Nick Browne, et al. (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1994).
- "Ukiyo-e: Waka, Haiku, and Amy Lowell," in East-West
Comparative Literature: Cross-Cultural Discourse, ed. T. W.
Wong (Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong, 1993).
- "Modernism and Socialist Realism: The Case of Wang Meng," World Literature
Today (Summer 1991).
- "Genre, Narratology, and Popular Literature: Three Approaches to Wu-hsia
Fiction," Erh-shih-yi shih-chi, no. 4 (April 1991).
- China and the West: Comparative Literature Studies, ed. with Ying-hsiung Chou,
Heh-hsiang Yuan (Seattle: University of California Press, 1980).
- Chinese Women Writers Today, ed. Wai-lim Yip (Baltimore: University of
Maryland, 1979).
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