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Michael Puett

Harvard University, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Faculty Member

Harvard University, Anthropology, Faculty Member

Harvard University, Committee on the Study of Religion, Faculty Member

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I am interested in bringing the study of China into larger historical, anthropological, and comparative frameworks. My work is focused on Chinese intellectual, cultural, and religious history; on comparative history; and on ritual, literary, social, and political theory.
Address: http://scholar.harvard.edu/puett

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Puett, Foreword, Tsai Analects

“Foreword.” Confucius, The Analects: An Illustrated Edition, illustrated by C. C. Tsai, translated by Brian Bruya. , 2018

"Language in Flight: Home and Elsewhere"

by Michael Puett, Veena Das, and Andrew Brandel

“Power and Legitimacy in the People’s Republic of China"

"The Work of Appropriation, Domestication, and Substitution: Theories of Sacrifice in the Liji"

“Political Theologies of Justice: Meritocratic Values from a Global Perspective”

“Humanizing the Divine and Divinizing the Human in Early China: Comparative Reflections on Ritual, Sacrifice, and Sovereignty”

“Creating Worlds: Imagination, Interpretation, and the Subjunctive”

“Formations of Knowledge in Chinese Late Antiquity”

“Impagination, Reading, and Interpretation in Early Chinese Texts”

"Ritual as theory, theory as ritual"

“Wittgenstein on Frazer”

“Life, Domesticated and Undomesticated: Ghosts, Sacrifice, and the Efficacy of Ritual Practice in Early China”

“Genealogies of Gods, Ghosts and Humans: The Capriciousness of the Divine in Early Greece and Early China”

“Ghosts, Gods, and the Coming Apocalypse: Empire and Religion in Early China and Ancient Rome”

“Manifesting Sagely Knowledge: Commentarial Practice in Chinese Late Antiquity.”

“Text and Commentary: The Early Tradition"

“Early China in Eurasian History”

“Sages, Gods, and History: Commentarial Strategies in Chinese Late Antiquity,”

“Ritual Disjunctions: Ghosts, Philosophy, and Anthropology”

Puett, Foreword, Tsai Analects

“Foreword.” Confucius, The Analects: An Illustrated Edition, illustrated by C. C. Tsai, translated by Brian Bruya. , 2018

"Language in Flight: Home and Elsewhere"

by Michael Puett, Veena Das, and Andrew Brandel

“Power and Legitimacy in the People’s Republic of China"

"The Work of Appropriation, Domestication, and Substitution: Theories of Sacrifice in the Liji"

“Political Theologies of Justice: Meritocratic Values from a Global Perspective”

“Humanizing the Divine and Divinizing the Human in Early China: Comparative Reflections on Ritual, Sacrifice, and Sovereignty”

“Creating Worlds: Imagination, Interpretation, and the Subjunctive”

“Formations of Knowledge in Chinese Late Antiquity”

“Impagination, Reading, and Interpretation in Early Chinese Texts”

"Ritual as theory, theory as ritual"

“Wittgenstein on Frazer”

“Life, Domesticated and Undomesticated: Ghosts, Sacrifice, and the Efficacy of Ritual Practice in Early China”

“Genealogies of Gods, Ghosts and Humans: The Capriciousness of the Divine in Early Greece and Early China”

“Ghosts, Gods, and the Coming Apocalypse: Empire and Religion in Early China and Ancient Rome”

“Manifesting Sagely Knowledge: Commentarial Practice in Chinese Late Antiquity.”

“Text and Commentary: The Early Tradition"

“Early China in Eurasian History”

“Sages, Gods, and History: Commentarial Strategies in Chinese Late Antiquity,”

“Ritual Disjunctions: Ghosts, Philosophy, and Anthropology”

Ritual and its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity

To Become a God: Cosmology, Sacrifice, and Self-Divinization in Early China

The Ambivalence of Creation: Debates Concerning Innovation and Artifice in Early China