Mingwei Song

Mingwei Song, assistant professor of Chinese literature, grew up in Shandong Province, China. He received education at Shandong University and Fudan University before moving to the United States in 2000.  He earned his Ph.D. in modern Chinese literature from Columbia University in 2005. After graduation, he was awarded an An Wang Postdoctoral Fellowship from Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies (2005-6), and he taught at the University of Hawaii at Manoa from 2006 to 2007.  Professor Song has published numerous articles on modern Chinese literature and culture, in addition to five books written in Chinese.  His first book, The Sorrows of a Floating World: a Biography of Eileen Chang, which he completed when he was a first-year graduate student at Fudan University, was selected as “The Book of the Week” by Taiwan’s China Times in 1996.  In 2003, he won a “Shanghai Literature Award” for his achievement in literary criticism. A History of Contemporary Chinese Literature, which he co-authored, won an “Excellent College Textbook Award” from China’s Ministry of Education in 2001.  Professor Song is currently completing a manuscript (in English) on the literary representations of youth in modern China.  Since Professor Song joined the faculty of Wellesley College in 2007, he has designed and taught several new courses on modern Chinese literature and cinema at Wellesley.

Profile last updated: 8/09