I am happy to announce that my book Writing Pirates: Vernacular Fiction and Oceans in Late Ming China is shortlisted by University of Michigan Press as a recommended title for libraries.
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AAS 2021 “Trade Networks, Maps, and Literatures in South China Seas and Malay Archipelago”
Please attend my organized panel "Trade networks, maps, and literatures in south China seas and Malay Archipelago" at AAS 2021, March 22, 3:00pm-4:30pm.
Inter-Asian literature and arts workshop at Dartmouth in March
I am delighted to announce that I was invited to participate an "Inter-Asian Literature and Arts workshop: A Research Workshop" on March 5-6 at Dartmouth organized by Miya Qiong Xie (Assistant Professor of Chinese), co-sponsored by the Dartmouth Leslie Center for the Humanities, the Inter-Asia program of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), and the [...]
a new article accepted by Ming Studies
I am delighted to announce that my new article “What Hangs On a Hairpin: Inalienable Possession and Language Exchange in Two Marriage Romances” is accepted for publication by Ming Studies. Following is the paper’s abstract. Stay tuned! What Hangs On a Hairpin: Inalienable Possession and Language Exchange in Two Marriage Romances This paper discusses the [...]
The Digital Literary map of the Late-Sixteenth-Century Chinese Novel Romance of the Yang Family Generals
This literary map sketches the major battle routes described and mentioned in the prolific late Ming literatus-publisher Xiong Damu's 熊大木 (ca. 1506-1579) Romance of the Northern Song (Beisong zhizhuan 北宋志傳). The romance-novel itself is based upon the saga of Yang Family Generals (Yangjia jiang 楊家將)--the oral and literary family compound of pinghua 平話, plays, and [...]
