Two research fellows at Academia Sinica have been named as international fellows at the British Academy, Academia Sinica said in a press release on Monday.
The two are academician David Wang (王德威), a corresponding research fellow at the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, and Joseph Chan (陳祖為), a research fellow from Hong Kong at the Research Center for Humanities and Social Science, it said.
The two were named alongside 28 other academics who are to join the British Academy as international fellows this year, the academy’s Web site said.
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In addition to his post as a corresponding fellow at Academia Sinica, Wang is also the Edward C. Henderson professor of Chinese literature at Harvard University, Academia Sinica said.
His research fields include China’s late Qing Dynasty, modern and contemporary Chinese literature, comparative literary theory and criticism, and Qing fiction and drama, it said.
In addition to leading translation and study of Taiwanese literature, Wang has also written books including The Lyrical in Epic Time: Modern Chinese Intellectuals and Artists Through the 1949 Crisis and Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China, it said.
Chan is a Taiwan-based academic who specializes in contemporary and Confucian political philosophy, Academia Sinica said.
He wrote Confucian Perfectionism: A Political Philosophy for Modern Times and is researching topics such as Confucian political ideas, contemporary equality theory, and social change and diaspora in Hong Kong, it said.
Wang and Chan, alongside academics from Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, South Africa, Switzerland, Turkey and the US are joining “a community of more than 1,700 distinguished academics” at the British Academy, the academy said in an earlier press release.
Established in 1902, the British Academy is the UK’s academy for the humanities and social sciences, its official Web site says.
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