Principal Investigator Min-Min Liang
Co-investigators Emma Teng , Jonathan Griffith
Project Website http://web.mit.edu/ccw/index.html
The mission of this project is to give visibility to the varied and lively literature produced by living Chinese writers who may not be as well known to readers in the West
The Contemporary Chinese Writers Website Project is a collaborative project undertaken by faculty and teaching staff in the Foreign Languages and Literatures Section, in conjunction with members of the MIT community. The mission of the project is to give visibility to the wide range of famous living Chinese writers and to integrate Chinese cultural elements into language learning. The project is centered on a series of scholarly websites featuring prominent contemporary Chinese writers from China, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora. The meaning of the website's Chinese logo is “waves of literature,” and it symbolizes the impact of these writers on Chinese society and the world.
The website is a scholarly repository, and we invite academic scholars to have their scholarly works cited on the website and linked if appropriate. In the spirit of MIT’s OpenCourseWare, the Contemporary Chinese Writers Website Project will serve as an open resource to scholars and readers of Chinese literature worldwide. The Contemporary Chinese Writers Project gratefully acknowledges the generous donation of Senior Associate Dean Alan White of the MIT Sloan School of Management for funding the project's first site on mainland Chinese short story writer, novelist, and critic Can Xue, and MIT's Department Foreign Languages and Literatures for the funding of the newest site devoted to Taiwanese novelist and feminist writer Li Ang.