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Dr. Ming-Bao Yue, Ph.D.

Chair of the SPAS Council , Director, Center for Chinese Studies
Associate Professor, East Asian Languages & Literatures

Professor Yue’s research areas include 20th century Chinese literature, film and culture from PRC, Taiwan, and HK; Chinese literature from Southeast Asia; cultural constructions of “Chineseness;” transnational Chinese popular culture; Pan-Asianism and diasporic consciousness in Chinese travel and exile literature; multiculturalism in Europe; theories of ideology and representation; post-colonialism in East and Southeast Asia; feminist criticism; psychoanalysis; media studies and visual culture; and Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. She has co-edited with Guobin Yang a special issue “Collective Memories of the Cultural Revolution” for The China Review, (5:2, Oct 2005), and with Jon Goss a special journal issue on “De-Americanizing the Global? Interventions from Asia and the Pacific” for Comparative American Studies (3:3, Fall 2005); with Michael Shapiro and Geoff White a special issue “Culture in the Pacific: Views from Hawai’i,” Cultural Values: Journal For Cultural Research (6:3, 2002). She was also the consulting editor of the Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture, ed. Edward Davis, (Routledge Press, 2005). She was the co-founder and co-director of the International Cultural Studies Graduate Certificate Program that is co-sponsored by the East-West Center. Since 2018, she has also been serving as the editor of the journal China Review International.

Educational Background

Certificate of Undergraduate Studies 1982, Beijing University
BA University of Hamburg
MA Stanford University
PhD Stanford University

Email: mingbao@hawaii.edu
Phone: (808) 956-7047

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