EDUCATION Xin Wang Associate Professor of China Studies and Interdisciplinary Studies Director of Asian Studies Baylor University Waco, Texas 76798-7391 (254) 710-2209 (office) E-mail: Xin_Wang@baylor.edu 1998-2002 Ed.D. Baylor University, Waco, TX, 2002 1996-1997 M.S.Ed. Baylor University, Waco, TX, 1997 1989-1993 B.A. Shaanxi University of Business and Commerce, China PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT July. 2010 present Director, Asian Studies, Baylor University August 2009 present Associate Professor of Chinese Studies Baylor Interdisciplinary Core & Modern Foreign Languages Baylor University, Waco, TX Aug. 2003 Aug. 2009 Assistant Professor of Chinese and Baylor Interdisciplinary Core Baylor Interdisciplinary Core & Modern Foreign Languages Baylor University, Waco, TX 1993 1996 Project Coordinator Office for International Education Exchange and Cooperation China Shaanxi Provincial Education Commission, Xi an BOOK Higher Education as a Field of Study in China: Defining Knowledge and Curriculum Structure, Lexington Books (A division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers), March, 2010. JOURNAL ARTICLES Desperately Seeking Status: China s Rising Middle Class and Its Political, Social, and Cultural Attributes. Modern China Studies. Spring, 2013 Seeking Channels for Engagement: Media Use in the Political Communication of the Rising Middle Class in China. China: An International Journal, Vol. 7, No. 1, March 2009, pp. 31-56. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/china/toc/chn.7.1.html Divergent Identities, Convergent Interests: Civic Awareness of the Rising Middle-Income Stratum in China, Journal of Contemporary China, 2008, 17(54), 53-69. From Restoration to Mega-Expansion: Higher Education Reform in China, A Three-Decade Review, Analytical Reports in International Education, 2007, vol.1, no.1, pp. 7-20 Page 1
Approaches to General Education: National, State and Institutional Perspectives in the United States, Journal of General Education, 2005, Vol.12, No.4, pp. 1-19. Financing of Chinese Higher Education in the Last Two Decades (1978-1998), Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2002, 23(2), pp. 205-17. Artistry and Commercialism in Zhang Yimou s Filmmaking in the Last Two Decades, Dekalog (Wallflower Press and Columbia University Press), Vol. 5, November, 2009. BOOK CHAPTERS In Pursuit of Status: The Rising Consumerism of China s Middle Class, in Alison Hulme (ed.), The Changing Landscape of China s Consumerism, London: Chandos (July, 2014) The Rise of the Middle Class in China, In Social Classes in Transitional China, Yang Su, Shizheng Feng and Chunping Han, (Editors). Beijing, China: Social Science Academy Press. Dec. 2010. Exploring the Knowledge Structure of an Emerging Field: A Study of Curriculum Structure and Content in Higher Education in Chinese Universities, in Pan Maoyuan, ed., Inheritance and Reform: Higher Education Reform in China. 2004, Xiamen University Press, pp. 417-35. Competence-Based Education, in Encyclopedia of Higher Education, Kevin Kinser & James Forest (Eds.), 2003. BOOK REVIEW The Mongols at China's Edge: History and the Politics of National Unity. Nationalities Papers, Vol. 31, No. 2, June 2003. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Xin Wang, invited panel presenter, Middle Class Identity in China, Middle Class Phenomenon In Emerging Markets Conference, Georgia State University, Atlanta, September, 2013. Xin Wang, panel organizer and chair & presenter, Higher Education Reform in the Context of the Socialist Economic and Social Transformation. Annual Conference of Asian Studies Association, San Diego, March, 2013. Xin Wang, Divergent Agenda, Convergent Interests: Emerging Artist Communities in Urban China. Annual Conference of Southwestern Asian Studies Association, Fort Worth, September, 2010. Xi Wang. Undefined Boundaries: State-University Relationship in Academic Governance in China. Annual Meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society, Charleston, March, 2009. Xin Wang. All the World s A Stage: Art, Culture, and Capital of Zhang Yimou s Extracinematic Productions, an International Conference on Globalization: Cultures, Institutions Page 2
and Socioeconomics, December 12-13, 2008, at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, sponsored by the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Washington University in St. Louis. Xin Wang. Inequality of Investment in Education among the Middle Class in China. Annual Meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society, New York, March, 2008. Xin Wang. The Newly Emerging Middle-Income Stratum in China, International Conference on Contemporary China Studies, The University of Hong Kong. January 2007. Xin Wang. Political Communication Patterns of the Middle Class in China. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. September, 2007. Xin Wang. The Rise of the Middle Class and Its Implications for Higher Education. Invited Guest Lecture at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, June, 2007. Xin Wang. Political Communication Patterns of the Middle Class in China. The Annual Conference of the American Sociological Association. New York, August, 2007. Invited Guest Speaker. Learning Organizations and Knowledge-based Society. Guest Lecture at Xi an University of Science and Technology. Xi an, China, December, 2006. Invited Guest Speaker at the Truitt Seminary on The World Is Flat by Thomas Friedman in summer 2006, invited by Dr. Ron Cook. Xin Wang. Middle Class in Transitional China. Overseas Chinese Forum, sponsored by UC Irvine. May, 2006. Xin Wang. From Yellow Earth to Hollywood: Zhang Yimou s Moviemaking. The 4 th International Meeting on Humanities and Art. Honolulu, January, 2006. Xin Wang. Political Values of the Chinese Middle Class in China. Centennial meeting of the American Political Science Association. Washington, D.C., September, 2005. Xin Wang. Civic Attributes of the Emerging Middle-income Class in China. International Conference of Social Sciences. November, 2004. Xin Wang. Chinese Higher Education Reform in the Knowledge-based Society. International Conference on Higher Education Reform in China. Xiamen University and University of Hong Kong, December, 2003. Xin Wang. Exploring the Knowledge Structure of an Emerging Field. Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Chicago, April, 2003. Xin Wang. Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) and Its Implications for Chinese Higher Education Studies. Annual meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES). New Orleans, March, 2003. Xin Wang. Uneasy Battle: General Education in China. Annual meeting of the Association of Studies for Higher Education (ASHE), Sacramento, November, 2001. Xin Wang. Institutional Development as Strategic Planning for Chinese Higher Education Institutions. The International Conference on Educational Economics: Allocating Resources for Higher Education, Peking University, Beijing, China, May, 2001. Xin Wang. Financing Higher Education in China: Policy Analysis. Annual meeting of the Association of Studies for Higher Education (ASHE), Sacramento, November, 2000. Co-Xin Wang. Renovating Distance Education in China with Videoconferencing Technology. The Sixth Annual Conference of the Texas Center of Educational Technology (TCET), Dallas, May, 1998. Page 3
Xin Wang. Developing Chinese Higher Education Leadership. Shaanxi Education Institute, Xi an, China, March, 1997. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP Society for Asian Studies Comparative and International Education Society GRANTS, HONORS & AWARDS Summer Research Sabbatical 2014 Teaching Development Grant (Peru Project) 2013 Teaching Development Grant (Italy Project) 2010 University Diversity Grant 2009 Research Leave Fall 2008 Teaching Development Grant (China Project) 2007 Baylor s Young Investigator Development Program Award 2005-2006 University Research Grant at Baylor University 2004, 2005, 2008 Teaching Development Grant 2005, 2007 Modern Foreign Languages Mini-Sabbatical 2005 Summer Faculty Institute 2006 Baylor Summer Sabbatical 2004, 2008 Chun-hui Grants 2001, 2003 (Ministry of Education of the P.R. China) Fred Hale Scholarship in Higher Education Administration 1996 2001 Dawson Memorial Fellowship 2000 Light Your World Faculty Recognition, Phi Kappa Chi April 2007 PUBLIC SERVICES External Reviewer, Journal of Chinese Political Science External Reviewer, Journal of Communist and Post-Communist Studies External Reviewer, China: An International Journal External Reviewer, Analytical Reports of International Education Grant Reader and Reviewer, Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Grants (DDRA), U.S. Department of Education Grant Reader and Reviewer, Fulbright-Hays Group Grant, U.S. Department of Education Grant Reader and Reviewer, Gear-Up Grant, U.S. Department of Education. Director, Baylor in China summer study program, Baylor University Director, Asian Studies Program, Baylor University Committee Member, The University Research Committee 2008-present 2006-present 2007-present Committee member of the Clifton Robinson Scholarship Committee at the Honors College. Council member of the International Education Council at Baylor 2003-present Faculty-in-Residence, the Honors College Living and Learning Center 2005-2007 Page 4
Guest Speaker, Baylor Truitt Seminary, 2006, 2009 Guest Speaker, Chinese Culture and Society, Waco & Lorena Independent School Districts 2002-present Faculty Sponsor, Asian Students Association at Baylor 2003-present Faculty Sponsor, Chinese Students and Scholars Association at Baylor 2005-present Faculty Partner (Alexander Hall; Brooks Hall) 2007-present Volunteer for Baylor freshman move-in day 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 President of Chinese Scholars and Students Association, Baylor University 1999 2000 Member of Chinese Congregation at the Emmanuel Baptist Church, Waco 1997-present Featured speaker at the Gatesville First Baptist Church on Christian churches in China, TX Page 5