# Faculty Publications ## A sampling of Faculty Publications 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.](https://ealc.fas.harvard.edu/people/taxonomy/term/6536) **For a searchable and filterable list of faculty publications,** [**please click here**](/faculty-publications-list "Faculty Publications List")**.** Download 29 citations download- [BibTeX](/bibcite/export?pager_style=standard_pager&number_of_items=50&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters=&&&format=bibtex) - [EndNote X3 XML](/bibcite/export?pager_style=standard_pager&number_of_items=50&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters=&&&format=endnote8) - [EndNote 7 XML](/bibcite/export?pager_style=standard_pager&number_of_items=50&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters=&&&format=endnote7) - [Endnote tagged](/bibcite/export?pager_style=standard_pager&number_of_items=50&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters=&&&format=tagged) - [Marc](/bibcite/export?pager_style=standard_pager&number_of_items=50&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters=&&&format=marc) - [PubMedId](/bibcite/export?pager_style=standard_pager&number_of_items=50&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters=&&&format=pubmed_id) - [RIS](/bibcite/export?pager_style=standard_pager&number_of_items=50&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters=&&&format=ris) ### 2026 [### The Confucius Chronicles: A Guide to the Texts That Made the Legend ](/publication/confucius-chronicles-guide-texts-made-legend)Book 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... Wai-yee Li ![The Confucius Chronicles A Guide to the Texts That Made the Legend by Wai-yee Li](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/2025-11/ConfuciusChronicles.png?itok=Tf7YTmdP) [### Writing Empire and Self: Poetic and Cultural Transformation in Early Medieval China ](/publication/writing-empire-and-self-poetic-and-cultural-transformation-early-medieval-china)Book 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... Xiaofei Tian ![Writing Empire and Self Xiaofei Tian](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/2026-03/writingempire_tianxiaofei.png?h=37c6597f&itok=vEAOJQ6C) [### Two Faces of Devotion : A Comparative Study of the Manuscripts of the Tadkhira of Sūt Bībī ](/publication/two-faces-devotion-comparative-study-manuscripts-tadkhira-sut-bibi)Book Chapter 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... Julian Gee, Gulnar Yulghun ![Transactions in Xinjiang: Cultural, Socio-economic and Historical Sources on the Chinese Western Regions](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/2026-04/20250625_xingjiang-heft_programm_Page_1.jpg?itok=ZGizcbQ-) ### 2025 [### The Aesthetic World of the Tale of Genji 《源氏物语》的美学世界 ](/publication/aesthetic-world-tale-genji-yuanshiwuyudemeixueshijie)Book 《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 Melissa McCormick, 顾姗姗 ![The Aesthetic World of The Tale of Genji《源氏物语》的美学世界 by Melissa McCormick Translated by Gu Shanshan](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/2025-11/taleofgenji.png?itok=mTRkb9vz) ### 2024 [### Oceanic Japan: The Archipelago in Pacific and Global History ](/publication/oceanic-japan-archipelago-pacific-and-global-history)Book 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... Stefan Huebner, Nadin Heé, Ian Miller, et al. ![Oceanic Japan: The Archipelago in Pacific and Global History by Ian Miller](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/2025-11/OceanicJapan.jpg?itok=A5sb6dxD) [### Gender and Friendship in Chinese Literature ](/publication/gender-and-friendship-chinese-literature)Book 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... Wai-yee Li ![Gender and Friendship in Chinese Literature by Waiyee Li](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/2025-11/genfren.png?itok=rgRg-HTq) [### The Peach Blossom Fan ](/publication/peach-blossom-fan)Book 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... Kong Shangren, Wai-yee Li ![The Peach Blossom Fan by Waiyee Li](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/2025-11/pchbl.png?itok=jit1pOHF) ### 2023 [### Cinematic Guerrillas: Propaganda, Projectionists, and Audiences in Socialist China ](/publication/cinematic-guerrillas-propaganda-projectionists-and-audiences-socialist-china)Book **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)**... Jie Li ![A Chinese woman with pigtails runs a projector in the outdoors](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/2025-01/cine_0.png?h=d5645816&itok=sfQsBUxP) [### Writing Violence: The Politics of Form in Early Modern Japanese Literature ](/publication/writing-violence-politics-form-early-modern-japanese-literature)Book **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... David Atherton ![Book cover of Writing Violence; A Japanese painting of a samurai with two swords, pointing a gun at the viewer](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/2025-01/violence.png?h=d4a2f2ae&itok=0adNxqX9) [### Literary History In and Beyond China: Reading Text and World ](/publication/literary-history-and-beyond-china-reading-text-and-world)Book *Literary History in and beyond China: Reading Text and World* explores the idea of literary history across the long span of the Chinese tradition. Although much scholarship on Chinese literature may be characterized as doing the work of literary history... Sarah Allen, Jack Chen, Xiaofei Tian ![Literary History In and Beyond China: Reading Text and World](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/2025-11/lithist.jpeg?h=16f098c7&itok=1CT-V4xd) [### The Inscription of Things: Writing and Materiality in Early Modern China ](/publication/inscription-things-writing-and-materiality-early-modern-china)Book 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... Thomas Kelly ![a book cover featuring inkstones with Chinese poetry carved on them](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/ealc/files/kelly_01.png?h=f5f4c788&itok=y3QGrC0N) [### A Topsy-Turvy World: Short Plays and Farces from the Ming and Qing Dynasties ](/publication/topsy-turvy-world-short-plays-and-farces-ming-and-qing-dynasties)Book 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... Wilt Idema, Wai-yee Li, Stephen West ![book cover featuring a chinese marionette play being put on](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/ealc/files/wyli2023.png?h=d5645816&itok=QyDdmY6q) [### 評伝良寛：わけへだてのない世を開く乞食僧 (Hyōden Ryōkan) ](/publication/pingchuanliangkuanwakehetatenonaishiwokaikuqishiseng-hyoden-ryokan)Book ![Japanese book cover showing an ink drawing of a man](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/ealc/files/abe.png?h=0120070c&itok=WSx0qeSQ) ### 2022 [### The Promise and Peril of Things: Literature and Material Culture in Late Imperial China ](/publication/promise-and-peril-things-literature-and-material-culture-late-imperial-china)Book **Winner, 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic Title** Our relationship with things abounds with paradoxes. People assign value to objects in ways that are often deeply personal or idiosyncratic yet at the same time rooted in specific cultural and historical... Wai-yee Li ![book cover depicting an ink drawing of various vases with flowers on tables](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/ealc/files/waiyee_book_cup.jpg?itok=Xm5GTLNO) [### Localizing Learning: The Literati Enterprise in Wuzhou, 1100–1600 ](/publication/localizing-learning-literati-enterprise-wuzhou-1100-1600)Book As the first intellectual history of Song, Yuan, and Ming China written from a local perspective, *Localizing Learning* shows how literati learning in Wuzhou came to encompass examination studies, Neo-Confucian moral philosophy, historical and Classical... ![Salmon colored book cover with background of hand drawn Chinese map](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/ealc/files/bol-localizing.jpg?itok=1Xn7jLSF) ### 2021 [### Family Instructions for the Yan Clan and Other Works by Yan Zhitui (531–590s) ](/publication/family-instructions-yan-clan-and-other-works-yan-zhitui-531-590s)Book Yan Zhitui (531–590s) was a courtier and cultural luminary who lived a colourful life during one of the most chaotic periods, known as the Northern and Southern Dynasties, in Chinese history. Beginning his career in the southern Liang court, he was taken... Xiaofei Tian, Paul Kroll ![Family Instructions for the Yan Clan and Other Works by Yan Zhitui (531-590s) Translated by Xiaofei Tian](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/2025-11/yanclan.jpeg?itok=4IXNXOEe) [### 유대칭가 고문서 - Yu Tae-Ch'ing Family Documents ](/publication/yudaechingga-gomunseo-yu-tae-ching-family-documents)Book 『유대칭가 고문서』는 하버드－옌칭도서관에 소장되어 있는 8점의 고문서를 탈초, 번역하고 연구한 논문을 엮은 것이다. 이 고문서들은 충청도 부여에 세거했던 유대칭을 선조로 하는 기계유씨 가문과 관련된 것들로 조선후기 이 가문의 사정을 알려주는 자료이다. 고문서가 담고 있는 정보는 단편적이지만 다른 사료와 함께 사용할 때 조선후기 한 가문의 역사를 이해하는데 중요한 자료이다. 또한 고문서를 활용한 사례연구가 집적될 때 조선후기 사회와 문화에 대한 이해는 더욱... Sun Kim ![book cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/ealc/files/sjkimbook.jpg?itok=_wBqWHLU) ### 2020 [### Reading Du Fu: Nine Views ](/publication/reading-du-fu-nine-views)Book This is the first collection of essays in English, contributed by well-known experts of Chinese literature as well as scholars of a younger generation, dedicated to the poetry of Du Fu, commonly regarded as the greatest Chinese poet. These essays are... Xiaofei Tian ![Reading Du Fu: Nine Views by Xiaofei Tian](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/2025-11/dufu.jpg?itok=ajcjfecA) [### Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era ](/publication/utopian-ruins-memorial-museum-mao-era)Book In *Utopian Ruins* Jie Li traces the creation, preservation, and elision of memories about China's Mao era by envisioning a virtual museum that reckons with both its utopian yearnings and its cataclysmic reverberations. Li proposes a critical framework for... Jie Li ![book cover with photo of destoyed buildings with Maoist graffiti](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/ealc/files/jlur.jpg?h=06a88f6f&itok=PcXqCWB5) [### The Korean Vernacular Story: Telling Tales of Contemporary Chosŏn in Sinographic Writing ](/publication/korean-vernacular-story-telling-tales-contemporary-choson-sinographic-writing)Book As the political, economic, and cultural center of Chosŏn Korea, eighteenth-century Seoul epitomized a society in flux: It was a bustling, worldly metropolis into which things and people from all over the country flowed. In this book, Si Nae Park examines... Si Park ![a book cover depicting an ink drawing of Seoul in the Choson period](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/ealc/files/9780231195423.png?itok=NFcAARfC) [### Global Healing: Literature, Advocacy, Care ](/publication/global-healing-literature-advocacy-care)Book In *Global Healing: Literature, Advocacy, Care*, Karen Laura Thornber analyzes how narratives from diverse communities globally engage with a broad variety of diseases and other serious health conditions and advocate for empathic, compassionate, and... Karen Thornber ![book cover with title text](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/ealc/files/ktgh.jpg?itok=3DkoiNsQ) [### Handbook of Japanese Semantics and Pragmatics ](/publication/handbook-japanese-semantics-and-pragmatics)Book he volume on Semantics and Pragmatics presents a collection of studies on linguistic meaning in Japanese, either as conventionally encoded in linguistic form (the field of semantics) or as generated by the interaction of form with context (the field of... Wesley Jacobsen, Yukinori Takubo ![image of book cover with title](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/ealc/files/wjsap.jpg?itok=kcjLOt6M) [### The Chinese Empire in Local Society: Ming Military Institutions and Their Legacy ](/publication/chinese-empire-local-society-ming-military-institutions-and-their-legacy)Book This book explores the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) military, its impact on local society, and its many legacies for Chinese society. It is based on extensive original research by scholars using the methodology of historical anthropology, an approach that has... Michael Szonyi, Zhao Shiyu, Joel Wing-Lun ![book title in black and white oversimple floral patterned sage green background](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/ealc/files/mscels.jpg?itok=iRTAQorZ) ### 2018 [### The Tale of Genji: A Visual Companion ](/publication/tale-genji-visual-companion)Book Written in the eleventh century by the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu, *The Tale of Genji* is a masterpiece of prose and poetry that is widely considered the world’s first novel. Melissa McCormick provides a unique companion to Murasaki’s tale that... Melissa McCormick ![The Tale of Genji: A Visual Companion by Melissa McCormick](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/2025-11/taleofgenji2.png?itok=jz03RS8x) [### The Halberd at Red Cliff: Jian'an and the Three Kingdoms ](/publication/halberd-red-cliff-jianan-and-three-kingdoms)Book The turn of the third century CE—known as the Jian’an era or Three Kingdoms period—holds double significance for the Chinese cultural tradition. Its writings laid the foundation of classical poetry and literary criticism. Its historical personages and... Xiaofei Tian ![The Halberd at Red Cliff: Jian'an and the Three Kingdoms by Xiaofei Tian](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/2025-11/halberd.jpeg?h=ef95e7fb&itok=F10tRz5Z) ### 2014 [### The World of a Tiny Insect: A Memoir of the Taiping Rebellion and Its Aftermath ](/publication/world-tiny-insect-memoir-taiping-rebellion-and-its-aftermath)Book "From the cry of a tiny insect, one can hear the sound of a vast world. . . ." So begins Zhang Daye’s preface to *The World of a Tiny Insect*, his haunting memoir of war and its aftermath. In 1861, when China’s devastating Taiping rebellion began, Zhang was... Zhang Daye, Xiaofei Tian ![The World of a Tiny Insect: A Memoir of the Taiping Rebellion and its Aftermath by Xiaofei Tian](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/2025-11/insect.png?itok=s6HwGWgd) ### 2013 [### Tao Yuanming and Manuscript Culture: The Record of a Dusty Table ](/publication/tao-yuanming-and-manuscript-culture-record-dusty-table)Book Winner of a 2006 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title Award As medieval Chinese manuscripts were copied and recopied through the centuries, both mistakes and deliberate editorial changes were introduced, thereby affecting readers' impressions of the... Xiaofei Tian ![Tao Yuanming & Manuscript Culture: The Record of a Dusty Table by Xiaofei Tian](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/2025-11/dustytable.png?h=5048bbb5&itok=5HkBZCtb) ### 2012 [### Visionary Journeys: Travel Writings from Early Medieval and Nineteenth-Century China ](/publication/visionary-journeys-travel-writings-early-medieval-and-nineteenth-century-china)Book This book explores the parallel and yet profoundly different ways of seeing the outside world and engaging with the foreign at two important moments of dislocation in Chinese history, namely, the early medieval period commonly known as the Northern and... Xiaofei Tian ![Visionary Journeys: Travel Writings from Early Medieval and Nineteenth-Century China by Xiaofei Tian](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/2025-11/visionaryjourneys.jpeg?itok=HIOXP7fS) ### 2007 [### Beacon Fire and Shooting Star: The Literary Culture of the Liang (502–557) ](/publication/beacon-fire-and-shooting-star-literary-culture-liang-502-557)Book The Liang dynasty (502–557) is one of the most brilliant and creative periods in Chinese history and one of the most underestimated and misunderstood. Under the Liang, literary activities, such as writing, editing, anthologizing, and cataloguing, were... Xiaofei Tian ![Beacon Fire and Shooting Star: The Literary Culture of the Liang by Xiaofei Tian](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/2025-11/beaconfire.jpeg?h=16f098c7&itok=N88Dq9qS)