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Jeffrey Weng
職稱：助理教授
研究領域：政治社會學、歷史社會學、種族與族群研究，語言社會學、中國研究
電話：+886-2-3366-1226
Email：jeffweng@ntu.edu.tw
個人網頁：https://www.jeffreyweng.com/
Jeffrey Weng studies language and nationalism in modern China. His book project, Out of Many Voices, One: Language and the Reinvention of the Chinese Nation, addresses the puzzle of Chinese unity amid the disintegration of other multiethnic empires in the twentieth century. It argues that the resort to Chinese or Asian exceptionalism—an Orientalizing tendency to regard Chinese and other East Asian societies as exceptionally homogeneous—is a common move in explaining China’s anomalous unity, one based on shaky premises and a faulty understanding of the country’s cultural and linguistic diversity. At the very least, ethnic or cultural exceptionalism cannot explain Chinese unity.
Weng holds degrees from Yale and the University of California Berkeley. Before joining the NTU faculty, he held an appointment as Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellow in Contemporary Asia at Stanford University. His work has appeared in publications including the Journal of Asian Studies and Theory and Society.
學歷：
耶魯大學政治系學士
加州大學柏克萊分校社會系碩士、博士
現職：
國立臺灣大學社會學系助理教授
主要經歷：
史丹佛大學Shorenstein當代亞洲研究博士後
最近研究計畫：
研究專書《Out of Many Voices, One: Language and the Reinvention of the Chinese Nation》
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Weng, Jeffrey. Forthcoming. “Stop the Presses! Publishing Chinese Character Simplification, 1935–1936.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies.
- Weng, Jeffrey. 2020. “End of an Era: Transforming Language and Society in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, ca. 1870–1950.” European Journal of Sociology 61(2): 269–299.
- Weng, Jeffrey. 2020. “Uneasy Companions: Language and Human Collectivities in the Remaking of Chinese Society in the Early Twentieth Century.” Theory & Society. 49(1):75–100.
- Weng, Jeffrey. 2018. “What is Mandarin? The Social Project of Language Standardization in Early Republican China,” Journal of Asian Studies. 77(3): 611–633.
Book Chapters
- Weng, Jeffrey. 2020. “Vernacular Language Movement.” Oxford Bibliographies in Chinese Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Lie, John and Jeffrey Weng. 2020. “East Asia.” Pp. 129–146 in Wiley Blackwell Companion to Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons.
Book Reviews
- Weng, Jeffrey. Forthcoming. “Sound, Meaning, Shape: The Phonologist Wei Jiangong (1901–1980) between Language Study and Language Planning, by Mariana Münning.” Bulletin of the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica.
- Weng, Jeffrey. 2023. “Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern, by Jing Tsu.” The Journal of Asian Studies. 82(3):471–472.
- Weng, Jeffrey. 2017. “The Rural Modern: Reconstructing the Self and State in Republican China, by Kate Merkel-Hess.” The China Review 17(3).