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Sun Ge

(2005 - 2006)

Sun Ge photo


Contact Information:
Comparative Literature Group
Literature Research Institute
China Academy of Social Sciences
Qingyunli Manting Fangyuan
Building 5, Room 2309
Beijing, PRC

email: sung@readchina.com

 

Bio

Sun Ge is a Researcher (Professor) and the Assistant Director of the Research Group in the Comparative Literature Group at the Literature Research Institute of the China Academy of Social Studies, in Beijing China.  A academic of standing since 1988 in the People’s Republic of China, Dr. Sun received an additional Ph.D. in Politics and Law in 2003, from Tokyo Metropolitan University, in Tokyo Japan.

Professor Sun is a prominent figure in Critical Asian Studies and Comparative History of Ideas.  Building arguments around the dilemma that narrates Asia in the context of modernity and globalization, her essays directly deal with a series of contemporary provocative issues, such as Japanese right wing history textbooks, assessment of the Nanjing atrocities, official visits to Yasukuni Shrine, and the lawsuits against veteran witness Shiro Azuma.  These essays have made great impacts in China, Japan, Taiwan and Korea, and some of them have been translated into English for the journal Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (v.1, n.1 &2, 2000).  She is also a founder of the intellectual forum "The Japan/China Knowledge Community."  Holding multiple symposiums for six years, this "Community" opened one of the few common Asian intellectual spaces and has been a powerful influence and an important testimony of both the challenges and opportunities in the inter-Asian cross-cultural studies.

While in residence as a Rockefeller Fellow, she continued her work on her ongoing project “War, trauma and the construction of Northeastern Asia as a region.”  In addition, she led two critical reading groups for graduate students; one in Chinese and the other in Japanese. Dr. Sun was in residence at the University of Washington during the Spring Quarter of the 2005-2006 school year.

 

 

Selected C.V. & Bibliography

An selected c.v., translated into English:


Education & Appointments:

B.A., Chinese, Jilin University (1981)
Intern, Literature Research Institute (LRI) (1982)                     

China Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)
Assistant Researcher (Lecturer), LRI, CASS (1988-1996)
Associate Researcher (Associate Professor), LRI, CASS (1996-2001)
Researcher (Professor), LRI, CASS (2001-present)
Adjunct Professor, Beijing Japanese Research Center (2000-present)

Ph.D., Politics, Law Section, Tokyo Metropolitan University (2003)


Selected Publications, 1997-2002

Books:            

Chinese language books: four listed, including:
 
How does Asia Mean? (Yazhou yiweizhe shenme?),
Taibei: Juliu Publishing Company, 2000; 418 pages.

Japanese Language: one listed

Journal Articles:           

Chinese Language: eight listed;
Japanese Language: two listed

English Language: both articles listed below:

“How does Asia Mean?” (Parts 1 &2) Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Vol. 1, Nos. 1-2 (2000), pp. 13-47; pp. 319-341.

“Globalization and Cultural Difference: Thoughts on the Situation of Trans-cultural Knowledge,” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2001), pp. 261-275.

 


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