David Der-wei Wang is Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies at Columbia University. He is the author of "Fin-de-Siecle Splendor: Repressed Modernity of Late Qing Fiction, 1849-1911 "(1997) and "Fictional Realism in Twentieth-Century China: Mao Dun, Lao She, Shen Congwen "(1992). He is the coeditor of "Chinese Literature in the Second Half of a Modern Century: A Critical Survey "(2000).