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 […]
Paul Rouzer
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 […]
Presentation at MLA 2016
This coming Thursday, I will be presenting a paper at the 2016 MLA Convention in Austin, TX. I will present some of my work on gāthās in medieval China as part […]