Phil Williams

Emeritus Professor,

SILC

DURHAM LANGUAGE & LITERATURE TEMPE, AZ 85287
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Long Bio

Have taught and researched as Professor of Chinese at
ASU and a few other universities in the US and Australasia. Have
published ten books and a couple of hundred shorter publications such
as refereed articles, book chapters, translated stories and essays,
reference work articles, and book reviews.

Publications

Philip Williams. Wu Zuxiang (5 April 1908-11 January 1994). Modern Chinese Fiction Writers, 1900-1949, ed. Thomas Moran (2005).
Philip Williams. Book Review of Poshek Fu's _Between Shanghai and Hong Kong: the Politics of Chinese Cinema_. Choice (2004).
Philip Williams. Book Review of Ying Zhu's _Chinese Cinema during the Era of Reform_. Choice (2004).
Philip Williams. Mao Zedong (1893-1976). Encyclopedia of Modern Dictators, ed. Frank Coppa (2004).
Williams, Philip, Wu, Yenna. The Great Wall of Confinement: The Chinese Prison Camp through Contemporary Fiction and Reportage. (2004).
Philip Williams. Book Review of Chang Hsi-Kuo's _Five Jade Disks_. Choice, vol. 41, no. 3 (2003).
Philip Williams. Book Review of Dai Jinhua's _Cinema and Desire_. Choice, vol. 40, no. 7 (2003).
Philip Williams. Book Review of Perry Link's _The Uses of Literature_. Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, vol. 38, no. 1 (2003).
Philip Williams. Book Review of Shuhui Yang's _Appropriation and Representation_. China Review International, vol. 10, no. 1 (2003).
Philip Williams. Book Review of Xiaobin Yang's _The Chinese Postmodern_. Choice, vol. 40, no. 9 (2003).
Philip Williams. Contrasting Trajectories after Release from Captivity: the Dissident Writers Wei Jingsheng, Václav Havel, and Tashi Tsering. Journal of the Southwestern Conference on Asian Studies (2003).
Zhang Mingyuan, Xiaomei Chen. Wild Grass [a full-length Chinese play in English translation]. Reading the Right Text: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Drama (2003).

Research Activity

Williams,Philip F C*. WRITERS OF THE CHINESE PRISON CAMP. UC RIVERSIDE(8/16/1996 - 6/30/1998).

Presentations

Williams, Philip. Inaugurating a Pacific-Rim Language Program and Computer Assisted Language Learning Laboratory. National Conference on the Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLTL)
Williams, Philip. Key Cultural and Institutional Bulwarks of One-party Rule in Contemporary China. Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies

Service

Affirmative Action Traning Workshop (09/03), workshop participant (2003)
Annual Full-day Departmental Retreat meeting, participant with turn as group moderator (2003)
Humanist Society of Greater Phoenix, presented invited lecture and answered questions (2003)
LMP Survey of Teaching Materials for Less Commonly Taught Languages, survey participant (2003)
Language Labs Committee member , 2003-2004 (Dept. of Languages and Literatures), committee member, AY 2003-04; sole representative of Chinese program (2003)
Modern Language Journal, manuscript referee, 2003 (2003)
Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT), peer reviewer of instructional media, 2003-2004 (2003)
Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting (October 2003), panel chair (2003)
co-creator (with Y. Wu and J. Lin), language teaching website http://chinesetheeasyway.ucr.edu, language audio file creator and co-editor, and audio file website co-designer (2003)