• PHD Chinese art and literature, University of Oxford 2002
World Area Of Focus:
• Asia 100% • East Asia 100%
Languages:
• Chinese, Mandarin (native/bilingual proficiency) • Chinese, Min Nan (Hokkie) (native/bilingual proficiency)
Specialization:
Chinese traditional theater, literature, and art.
Relevant Experience:
• 2008-2017 Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill • 2002-2008 Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill • 2001-2002 Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota • 2000-2001 Visiting Professor, University of Minnesota
Distinctions:
• 2016-2018 Secretary/Treasurer, Southeast Conference of Association for Asian Studies • 2014-2016 President, Southeast Conference of Association for Asian Studies • 2013-2014 Vice-president, Southeast Conference of Association for Asian Studies • 2010-2013 Edior-in-chief, Southeast Review of Asian Studies
Relevant Courses Taught:
• ASIA 55 Kung Fu: The Conception of Chinese Heroism • CHIN 150 Introduction to Chinese Civilization • CHIN 242 Chinese Qin Music • CHIN 255 Bandit or Hero: Outlawry in Chinese Literature and Films • CHIN 361 Chinese Traditional Theater • CHIN 367 Illustration and Animation of Text • CHIN 407 Readings in Modern Chinese I • CHIN 408 Readings in Modern Chinese II • CHIN 531 The Chinese Zither in Poetry and Painting
Recent Publications:
• 2018 “Picturing Qin Music: Min Qiji and Others’ Illustrations of ‘Yingying Listens to Qin’ in Xixiang ji.” (Forthcoming, Ming Qing Studies, 2018).
• 2017 “The Third Cry of a Gibbon: A Translation of Xu Wei’s Mulan.” Co-translated with Dr. David A. Ross. Southeast Review of Asian Studies 39 (2017). Forthcoming.
• 2015 “Music and the Union of Love: Illustrating “Yingying Listens to Zither” in the 1616 He Bi Edition of Xixiang ji.” Co-authored with Yihui Sheng, UNC-Chapel Hill. Southeast Review of Asian Studies 37 (2015): 20–32.
• 2014 “White Egret as the Ideal Man: Wang Wei’s Metaphor for the Perfect Conflation with Nature.” Co-authored with Ashley McGee, UNC-Chapel Hill. Southeast Review of Asian Studies 36 (2014): 141–45.
• 2013 “Wang Wei’s vs. Su Shi’s Conceptions of ‘Painting within Poetry’.” Southeast Review of Asian Studies 35 (2013): 178-89.
• 2012 Southeast Review of Asian Studies, Volume 34 (2012). Xvii + 271 pages. This “special issue” is to honor Professor Robert E. Hegel for his contributions to the interdisciplinary study of Chinese art and literature. It features twenty-six articles, essays, and book reviews.
• 2011 Southeast Review of Asian Studies, volume 33 (2011). Co-edited with Dr. David Ross (production editor) at Department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC-Chapel Hill, Mr. Steven Ross (Associate Editor of Essays) at 7 Department of English at Oxford University, and Dr. Tomas Pynn (Associate Editor of Reviews) at Department of Philosophy at Kennesaw University.
• 2010 “The Metaphoric Mode of Production: The Editing Principle of Ten Bamboo Studio Letter Catalogue.” Chinese Studies 28, no. 2 (June 2010): 57-86
• 2010 “Dancing the Red Lantern: Zhang Yimou’s Fusion of Peking Opera and Ballet.” Southeast Review of Asian Studies 32 (2010): 129-136.
• 2010 Southeast Review of Asian Studies, volume 32 (2010). Co-edited with Dr. David Ross (production editor) at Department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC-Chapel Hill and Dr. Tomas Pynn (Associate Editor of Essays and Reviews) at Department of Philosophy at Kennesaw University.
• 2009 “Loyalty vs. Filial Piety: the Late Ming Commentaries of Pipa ji.” Chinese Culture Quarterly 7, no. 3 (Fall 2009): 2-67.
• 2007 The Eternal Present of the Past: Illustration, Theater, and Reading in the Wanli Period, 1573-1619. Volume 12 of the China Studies Series, published for the Institute for Chinese Studies, Oxford University. Leiden: Brill, 2007.
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