Advisor: Michael Puett

Henry Jacobs received his BA and MSt in Chinese Studies from The University of Oxford, where his work focused on Early and Early Medieval text cultures and knowledge production. His doctoral research broadly concerns the reconstruction of Early Chinese...

The Author's Two Bodies: Paratext in Early Chinese Textual Culture

“With Malice Toward None” to “A House Divided”: The Impact of Changing Perceptions of Ritual and Sincerity on Elite Social Cohesion and Political Culture in  Northern Song China, 1027–1067

Rethinking Constitutionalism in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century China

Language, Likeness, and the Han Phenomenon of Convergence

The Politics of the Past in Early China

Patronage, Politics, and the Emergence of Rock-Cut Tombs in Early Han China

Living Karma: The Religious Practices of Ouyi Zhixu (1599-1655)

Benjamin Gallant is a PhD candidate in Chinese History specializing in early Chinese intellectual history. His dissertation project examines how people used and debated the past from the Western Zhou to the Eastern Han as the emergence of legalist...

Ways of Being: Philosophical Theory and Practice in Early China