Yaohua Shi

B.A. Shanghai Foreign Languages Institute
M.A. Clark University
Ph.D. Indiana University

Yaohua joined Wake Forest in 2002. He received his doctorate in Comparative Literature from Indiana University. His research interests include early twentieth-century Chinese modernism, pre-modern Chinese vernacular fiction, and East–West cultural relations. He has published in Chinese vernacular literature, film, and architecture. He is co-editor of The Silk Roads: From Local Realities to Global Narratives and co-translator of Yang Jiang’s novel Baptism. He also co-authored the Chinese language textbook series Integrated Chinese, currently in its fourth edition. He has taught all levels of Chinese language and courses in Chinese literature, film, and East Asian cultures. He also serves on the advisory board of the Lam Museum of Anthropology.