Chinese Intellectual and Cultural History
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Recent papers in Chinese Intellectual and Cultural History
Introduction to the Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Han Fei (2012)
A corrected version of the article that was published with editorial mistakes in Journal of Chinese Philosophy 38.1 (2011)
Although the Shang dynasty sometimes seems archaic and alien from the point of view of later periods, there are important elements of Shang culture that persevered in recognizable forms, even after allowing for adaptation to new... more
In the reception of Tang literature during the Song Dynasty, the anthology Wen cui 文粹 (Literature's Finest), compiled by the Northern Song scholar Yao Xuan 姚鉉 (968–1020) in 1011, survives as the earliest attempt by an individual scholar... more
This article examines the Tang dynasty anecdote collection Guo shi bu 國史補 (Supplement to the History of the State), compiled by Li Zhao 李肇 (?-after 827) in part as a critique of imperial government and elite social mores of the early... more
This is the slide-deck for a lecture I gave in the graduate student seminar, 唐宋转型与文学演变, at Fudan University in August 2018.
One of the challenges of reading ancient Chinese philosophical texts is to recognize that certain keywords have attained significantly different senses in the more recent language, and to try to reconstruct, on the basis of contemporary... more
This paper examines the biography of Yang Shen (1488-1559) and how it changed through the writings of five key intellectuals of the late imperial period and the official history of the Ming dynasty. The main argument is that biographers,... more
Abstract This paper examines the biography of Yang Shen (1488-1559) and how it changed through the writings of five key intellectuals of the late imperial period and the official history of the Ming dynasty. The main argument is that... more
The completion of Adrien von Ferscht's 4th Edition work creates a whole new benchmark as the ultimate information resource for an important part of Chinese cultural history We at AICCC have watched the growth of this work for some... more