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MA Student, Chinese Language and Literature
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Celebrating award winning queer Chinese writer Mu Cao’s work in Queer Literature in the Sinosphere (edited by Hongwei Bao and a Yahia Ma) www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-lit...
December 8, 2024 at 11:45 AM
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Can Xue: The Experimental Voice of Chinese Literature

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Can Xue: The Experimental Voice of Chinese Literature
Can Xue didn’t win the Nobel Prize in Literature—but at this point, her legacy may already be secured
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December 8, 2024 at 3:05 PM
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On the latest episode of Barbarians at the Gate, MIT Professor Tristan Brown discusses his award-winning book on how feng shui in the Qing era had less to do with furniture placement than about power, belonging, and control of spaces in a rapidly evolving society.

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Laws of the Land: Feng Shui in Chinese History
Featuring MIT Professor Tristan Brown
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November 26, 2024 at 2:34 PM
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I'm watching you🐱😃
November 26, 2024 at 11:48 PM
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Tomorrow 11/22 1:00-3:00pm award winning author and journalist Peter Hessler @ UCLA 2024年11月22日著名作家和记者何伟将来到加大洛杉矶分校进行学术交流，欢迎各位来参加！

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Reflections on a Chinese Education
Award-winning journalist and writer Peter Hessler speaks about his recent book on teaching English to two distinct generations of Chinese university students, as well as how his twin daughters experie...
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November 21, 2024 at 9:17 PM
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New job:

Chair Professor/Professor/Associate Professor/Assistant Professor (Chinese Language and Literature) in the Department of Chinese and History

City University of Hong Kong

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November 20, 2024 at 1:26 PM
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Don’t have an end-of-the-year list to contribute but here’s the podcast I was happiest to discover in 2023. Casual conversation (in Mandarin) about literature and culture. Recent episodes: Tibetan Chinese-language novelist Alai 阿来, love and war in Eileen Chang’s novels, Wang Xiaobo’s 杂文…
December 31, 2023 at 3:31 PM
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excerpt of postmodern chinese novel "a dictionary of modernist literature" by jia qin translated by yours truly
“a” Excerpt, from Jia Qin (1980-) 现代派文学辞典 (A Dictionary of Modernist Literature) translated by Xia Zong Tingfen, poet, once wrote: “You also, alongside humanity and her language, were born all at once. You also, with the word ‘a’, were born all at once.” It is the first statement of man: the utterance ‘a’. Evidently, it is not just a word — it is pure sound, self evident. The language of the ancients is precisely this form of primordial sound, which morphs and expands, the magic of language transcending the imagination, the language of all things being born all at once. Zong Tingfen continues: “Night seizes the opportunity, crawling into the villages a dog straightening out the head’s wool, exclaims: woof!” Note this spoken word. Note how after night descends, language follows. Perhaps it can be approached from a different, even more primitive angle and analysis: what is the language of God? Rilke writes: “Your first word of all was light, and time began. Then for long you were silent. Your second word was man, and fear began, which grips us still. Are you about to speak again? I don’t want your third word.” The labyrinth of the poem is fraught with chain snares. In the second stanza, in place of God, Rilke makes a declaration that perhaps God does not wish to: that being the third word, “I”. Pertaining to the two words prior, while they are clearly also the poet’s words, we have reason in the work to believe they are the statement of God (1), and that the poet serves God. In Cicero's words, For their service to humanity, poets become famous. Let us borrow this concept to illustrate where the power of the poet derives from. Of course, asking a poet, they will tell you that the Divine compelled them to write — and this is where the nature of the creation of writing is revealed in its entirety: the origin of creation is God’s undertaking. Let us not forget that in the original Ancient Greek, poetry comes from the word meaning creation (2). Let us also remember the …
October 27, 2024 at 9:32 AM
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First the workshop - now the course : )

"The Chinese Family Romance"
New #dukeuniversity course announcement for Spring 2024. Seminar open to graduate students and upper-level undergrads.
SPRING 2024 NEW COURSE PROFESSOR EILEEN CHENG-YIN CHOW AMES 560S Tuesdays 3:05-5:35 Classroom Building 135 Class Attributes: Seminar (FL) Foreign Language (ALP) Arts, Literature & Performance
October 21, 2023 at 3:10 PM
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Rulan Chao Pian (1922 – 2013) was an ethnomusicologist and scholar of Chinese language and literature and was one of the first ten full professor women in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University.
Author of Song Dynasty Musical Sources and Their Interpretation (1967).
A black and white photo of a young Chinese American woman standing at an office or library. She has short bangs, a floral shirt, and a velvety dark jacket.
September 24, 2024 at 9:56 AM
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Getting close to 100 new followers in the last few days, so I guess it’s time to do the self introduction thread.

I’m a scholar and translator of medieval Chinese literature, especially Tang-dynasty (618-907) poetry. I teach Classical Chinese language & literature at UC Santa Barbara.
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November 10, 2024 at 3:12 AM
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Um, "Sinology" 🀄, I guess? (Emoji for labeling purposes.)

*Two* positive reviews of my Tarikh-i Ḥamidi translation came out this week!

From Jun Sugawara in the JAS: doi.org/10.1215/0021...
From Tristan Brown in the Journal of Chinese History: doi.org/10.1017/jch....
The Tarikh-i Ḥamidi: A Late-Qing Uyghur History
Research on the modern history of Xinjiang has undergone a steady expansion in recent years. Owing to the sustained contributions of researchers ever since the publication in 1986 of Andrew Forbes's s...
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November 14, 2024 at 4:14 AM
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Congratulations to my brilliant colleague @hiromunagahara.bsky.social for producing this fabulous new special exhibition on the early Japanese students at MIT. Check it out on your next visit to Cambridge!
Samurai in Japan, then engineers at MIT
A new exhibit at MIT, “From Samurai into Engineers,” explores the Institute’s first Japanese students, who arrived as MIT was taking flight and their own country was opening up.
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November 20, 2024 at 2:07 PM