Honorable Mention for the 2016 Kayden Book Award This first book-length study in Chinese
or any Western language of personal letters and letter-writing in premodern China focuses …

In Roaming into the Beyond Zornica Kirkova provides the first detailed study in a Western
language of Daoism-inspired themes in early medieval Chinese poetry. She examines …

" Imperiled Destinies" examines the evolution of Daoist beliefs about human liability and
redemption over eight centuries and outlines ritual procedures for rescuing an ill‐starred …

This dissertation is a study of Yang Xiong's (53 BCE–18 CE) Taixuan jing that attempts to
incorporate philological methods with philosophical insights by situating the text within the …

During the Six Dynasties (220-589) there evolved a distinct poetic current of" roaming into
immortality"(youxian shi), which is distinguished as a sub-genre of lyrical poetry shi in the …