Yiyan Wang

Yiyan Wang is a New Zealand Chinese academic, and as of 2019 is a full professor at the Victoria University of Wellington.

Academic career
After a 1999 PhD titled  'Narrating China : Defunct capital and the fictional world of Jia Pingwa'  at the University of Sydney, Wang moved to the Victoria University of Wellington, rising to full professor in 2015.

Wang teaches both Chinese language and Chinese culture, but much of their research is on Chinese language fiction.

Selected works

 * Wang, Yiyan. "Shanghai Modernity: Women and the Practice of Everyday Life." Literature & Aesthetics 17, no. 1 (2011).
 * Wang, Yiyan. Narrating China: Jia Pingwa and his fictional world. Routledge, 2006.