Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature
Associate Professor of Chinese

Catherine Vance Yeh is head of the Chinese language and literature section in the Department of Foreign Language and Literature. Her research interest is in the twentieth-century Chinese entertainment culture and literature, in particular the relationship between entertainment and the transformation of society as a whole. She has published widely on the subject, and her most recent publication is Shanghai Love: Courtesans, Intellectuals and Entertainment Culture, 1850-1910 (2006). A  monograph entitled A Literary Fashion Goes Global: The Political Novel in Late Qing China is forthcoming. She is currently in the finishing stages of a project with the working title: “From Male ‘Flower’ to National Star: Media, international politics, and the transformation of patronage culture in the rise of the Peking opera female impersonator.”

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Courses:

Undergraduate:
Masterpieces of Chinese Fiction (in English translation) (CAS LC 250)
Fifth-Semester Modern Chinese (CAS LC 311)
Seventh-Semester Modern Chinese (CAS LC 411)
Introduction to Chinese Women's Writing (in English translation) (CAS LC 284)
Introduction to Chinese Literature (CAS LC 350)