How and Why to Learn Classical Chinese
Recently, a friend asked me how to go about teaching himself classical Chinese. He works for the U.S. State Department and speaks Mandarin very well, but now he wants to […]
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Book Review: Spells, Images, and Maṇḍalas by Koichi Shinohara
My review of Spells, Images, and Maṇḍalas by Koichi Shinohara (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014) has recently been published in the Buddhist studies journal Pacific World. From the opening of my […]
Dissertation and New Position
On Tuesday, May 23, 2017, I successfully defended my dissertation, “The Invention of Chinese Buddhist Poetry: Poet-Monks in Late Medieval China (c. 760-960 CE).” In the spirit of scholarly openness, […]
Publication: Guanxiu’s Mountain-Dwelling Poems
My translation of the twenty-four “Mountain-Dwelling Poems” 山居詩 of the poet-monk Guanxiu 貫休 (832–913) has just been published by Tang Studies. It includes a fairly extensive introduction, as well as an […]
Religious Poetry Workshop
Tomorrow marks the start of the Princeton Workshop on Chinese Religious Poetry, organized by myself and Jason Protass. Despite what the poster says, all are welcome to come, even without […]
Paul Rouzer’s Translation of Hanshan (Cold Mountain)
The Hanshan 寒山 (Cold Mountain) poems are among the most celebrated Chinese verses in the West. Some of them were famously translated by Gary Snyder in 1958, after he had studied […]
Publication: Jia Dao’s Rhythm
I recently published an essay on an experimental method of translating classical Chinese poetry, namely by using a form of English quantitative verse. See the abstract below or click here […]
Poster Presentation at Leiden
Next week, I’ll be presenting some of my research on network maps of Chinese exchange poetry at Leiden University’s Summer School in Chinese Digital Humanities. This will be the first poster […]
Interview with Calvin College
A person from the PR office of my undergraduate institution, Calvin College, recently interviewed me about what I’m doing now, nine years after graduating. Click here, or on the picture […]
Call for Papers: Workshop on Chinese Religious Poetry
For the past few months, I have been co-organizing a workshop with Jason Protass (Brown University) on the intersections between poetry and religion in China. It will take place at […]