Interpretation and Literature in Early Medieval China

Contributors

275 Contributors Zong-qi Cai is Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He received his PhD from Princeton University in 1991. He is the author of The Matrix of Lyric Transformation: Poetic Modes and Self-Presentation in Early Chinese Pentasyllabic Poetry (Michigan, 1996) and Configurations of Comparative Poetics: Three Perspectives on Western and Chinese Literary Criticism (Hawaii,2002).HehaseditedAChineseLiteraryMind:Culture,Creativity, and Rhetoric in Wenxin Dialong (Stanford, 2001), Chinese Aesthetics: The Ordering of Literature, the Arts, and the Universe in the Six Dynasties (Hawaii, 2004), and How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology (Columbia, 2008). He has also published numerous articles on classical Chinese poetry, literary criticism, comparative literature, and philosophy. Robert Ford Campany is Professor of Religion and East Asian Languages & Cultures and Director of the School of Religion at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Strange Writing: Anomaly Accounts in Early Medieval China (SUNY, 1996), To Live as Long as Heaven and Earth: A Translation and Study of Ge Hong’s Traditions of Divine Transcendents (California, 2002), and Making Transcendents: Ascetics and Social Memory in Early Medieval China (Hawaii, 2009), as well as of numerous articles on the religious history of early medieval China and methods for the cross-cultural study of religion. Alan K. L. Chan is Professor and Dean, College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Previously he was Professor of Chinese philosophy and Associate Provost at the 276 Contributors National University of Singapore. He received his PhD from the University of Toronto. With research interests in both Confucianism and Daoism, his recent publications include Mencius: Contexts and Interpretations (ed.) (Hawaii, 2002), Filial Piety in Chinese Thought and History (ed. with Sor-hoon Tan) (RoutledgeCurzon, 2004), “Neo-Daoism,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2009), and “Affectivity and the Nature of the Sage: Gleanings from a Tang Daoist Master,” Journal of Daoist Studies 3 (2010). Timothy Wai Keung Chan is Associate Professor of Chinese at Hong Kong Baptist University. His research focuses on early to medieval Chinese literature and intellectual history. Cynthia L. Chennault is Associate Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at the University of Florida. Her research focuses on the poetry and culture of the southern dynasties. Previous publications that take an interdisciplinary approach to understanding literature in historical and social context include “Lofty Gates or Solitary Impoverishment? Xie Family Members of the Southern Dynasties” (T’oung Pao 85, 1999) and “Odes on Objects and Patronage during the Southern Qi (T’ang Studies special issue, 2003). Since 2000 she has served as editor and managing editor of the journal Early Medieval China. Daniel Hsieh is Associate Professor of Chinese in the Foreign Languages and Literatures Department at Purdue University. He received his PhD from the University of Washington, Seattle. He is the author of The Evolution of Juejue Verse (Peter Lang, 1996) and the forthcoming Love and Women in Early Chinese Fiction, as well as various articles on early Chinese poetry and fiction. David R. Knechtges is Professor of Chinese Literature at the University of Washington. He is the author of Two Studies of the Han Fu (1968), The Han Rhapsody: A Study of the Fu of Yang Hsiung (53 B.C.–A.D. 18; 1976), The Han shu Biography of Yang Xiong (1982), Wen-xuan or Selections of Refined Literature, Volume One. Rhapsodies on Metropolises and Capitals (1982), Wen xuan or Selections of Refined Literature, Volume Two. Rhapsodies on Sacrifices, Hunts, Travel, Palaces and Halls, Rivers and Seas (1987), Wen xuan, Volume Three. Rhapsodies on Natural Phenomena, Birds and Animals, Aspirations and Feelings, Sorrowful Laments, Literature, Music, and Passions (1996), editor and co-translator, Gong Kechang. Studies of the Han Fu (1997), Contributors 277 Court Culture and Literature in Early China (2002), co-editor, with Paul Kroll. Studies in Early Medieval Chinese Literature and Cultural History (2003), co-editor, with Eugene Vance, Rhetoric and the Discourses of Power in Court Culture, East and West, 2005. Yuet-Keung Lo is Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at the National University of Singapore. He specializes in Chinese intellectual history covering Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism and their interactions from the classical period to late imperial times. He has published one book and numerous articles in these areas, and his recent publications include “The Drama of Numskulls: Structure, Texture, and Functions of the Scripture of One Hundred Parables...