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Xiaoquan Zhang Senior Professorial Lecturer CAS | World Languages and Cultures

Contact
Xiaoquan Zhang
(202) 885-2376
CAS | World Languages and Cultures
4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW 207
Mondays: 4:00pm-8:00pm, and by appointment
Degrees
PhD, Chinese and Comparative literature, Washington University
MA, Peking University
BA, Peking University

Bio
Xiaoquan Raphael Zhang received his PhD in Chinese and Comparative
Literature from Washington University in St. Louis. His primary research
field is literature, culture, and history of late imperial China, in particular
literati and family literature/culture of the late Ming and the Ming-Qing
transition periods. His research interests also include Chinese cinema and popular culture as well as comparative literature, translation and adaptation studies.
See Also
Chinese Language Study
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Teaching

Spring 2025

  • CHIN-220 Chinese Scripts: Policy/Ident

  • CHIN-411 Chinese Civilization

  • CHIN-425 Chinese Business Translation

Fall 2025

  • CHIN-210 Understdg Chinese Culture/Soc

  • CHIN-312 Advanced Chinese I

  • CHIN-410 Newspaper and Media Chinese