Peter Yang
Peter J. Yang
Office: Guilford 307
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Peter J. Yang (PhD, Utah) is Associate Professor of German, Chinese and Comparative Literature at Case Western Reserve University, where he teaches and serves in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. He came to CASE following four years as German translator at Central Translating and Editing Office, Beijing, seven years as researcher at the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade and the Chinese Trade Office in Austria, and two years as Director of the Language Laboratory at University of Richmond.
His publications include books, translated and edited volumes, chapters in books, articles, and reviews in Germanics, language teaching and technology, economics, and social sciences. His most recent books include Theater ist Theater on theatricality in the chalk-circle plays by Bertolt Brecht and Li Xingdao [Peter Lang, 1998] and Play is Play on the Swiss playwright Max Frisch's Die chinesische Mauer/ The Chinese Wall [University Press of America, 2000]. Currently, he works on book projects 20th Century German Theatrical Masterpieces and Inside China's Economic Reform. He received a number of grants and awards, including a Provost Opportunity Grant ($260,000). He served on the Modern Language Association Committee on Information Technology and Chair of CASE Untergraduate Faculty Committee on Academic Computer.
See all courses I have taught at CASE.

Courses for Fall 2006

 

Business Chinese  (CHIN 315)   Preq: CHIN 202 or equivalent
Elementary German I (GRMN 101)   Preq: None
Intermediate German I (GRMN 201)   Preq: GRMN 102 or equivalent
German Cinema (GRMN 330)   Preq: GRMN 202 or equivalent

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