Faculty Publications List
The following is a sampling, and not a complete list, of recent publications by our faculty. For a faculty member's full publication list please visit their individual faculty pages.
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2026
Our ideas about Confucius come from the stories told about him. He often appears as the great sage of ancient China, handing down timeless moral precepts to his disciples and to posterity. Yet over the course of twenty-five centuries, Confucius has meant...
China’s early medieval period, from the fifth through the early seventh century, from the Northern and Southern Dynasties through the unified Sui, was a time of political fragmentation, military strife, and ethnic conflict. It also witnessed brilliant...
We possess two separate manuscripts for the Tadhkira of Sūt Bībī, about the life and deeds of Sūt Bībī, a prominent saint of Yarkand. One of these is from the Jarring collection (Prov. 6), the other from the Hartmann collection (Ms. or. oct. 1727). Both...
2025
《源氏物语》是诞生于十一世纪的日本文学瑰宝，不仅具有极高的文学价值，而且对后世日本的艺术、文化和社会都产生了不可估量的影响。1510年《源氏物语画帖》是世界上已知现存最古老、最完整的源氏物语绘画和书法作品集，由大内氏家臣陶氏家族定制，三条西实隆与玄清协调组织，六位贵族书法家献笔，土佐光信及其领导的绘所绘制而成。这部书画集不仅反映了中世日本统治阶层（包括贵族和武士）对《源氏物语》文化内涵的阐释，也体现了以土佐光信为代表的中世绘画艺术家对传统宫廷艺术的继承与绘画技法的创新。 钻研日本美术文化
2024
Japan’s oceans demand our attention. Violent, prolific, and changeful, they define life and death on the archipelago: pushing the shore under the rush of tsunami, charging typhoon circulation, feeding millions, and seeding conflicts over territory and...
Interweaving a star-crossed romance with the decline and fall of the Ming dynasty in mid seventeenth-century China, The Peach Blossom Fan by Kong Shangren (1648-1718) is a masterpiece of world literature. This sweeping historical drama encompasses the...
Canvasing a range of materials that include early tales of exemplarity, medieval song lyrics, Ming-Qing poetry and plucked rhymes, twentieth century writings about revolutionaries, opera stars, missionaries, and contemporary fiction, this volume...
2023
Winner, 2025 Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award, Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Winner, 2024 Moving Image Book Award, Kraszna-Krausz Foundation
Winner, 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Honorable Mention, 2025 Joseph Levenson Prize (post-1900)...
Winner, 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Edo-period Japan was a golden age for commercial literature. A host of new narrative genres cast their gaze across the social landscape, probed the realms of history and the fantastic, and breathed new life...
Playwriting in many forms flourished during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Shorter theatrical genres in particular offered playwrights opportunities for experimentation with both dramatic form and social critique. Despite their originality and...
Why would an inkstone have a poem inscribed on it? Early modern Chinese writers did not limit themselves to working with brushes and ink, and their texts were not confined to woodblock-printed books or the boundaries of the paper page. Poets carved lines...