Books

The Poetics of Sovereignty: On Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty

Harvard University Asia Center, 2010

Anecdote, Network, Gossip, Performance: Essays on the Shishuo xinyu

Harvard University Asia Center, 2021

Idle Talk: Gossip and Anecdote

in Traditional China

GAIA/University of California Press, 2013

Literary Information in China: A History

Columbia University Press, 2021

Literary History in and beyond China:

Reading Text and World

Harvard University Asia Center, 2023

Selected Articles and Chapters

“On the Event, Politics, and the University.” positions politics: praxis (August 6, 2024).

“Ghost Poetry as a Problem for Literary History.” In Literary History in and beyond China: Reading Text and World, edited by Sarah M. Allen, Jack W. Chen, and Xiaofei Tian, 51–70. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2023.

“On Poems (System and Environment).” In “Literary Cybernetics: A Forum,” edited by Heather A. Love and Lea Pao. New Literary History 54, no. 2 (2023): 1207–13.

“Poetry, Ghosts, Mediation.” Qui Parle 31, no. 1 (June 2022): 7–26.

“Lines, Couplets, Stanzas.” In Literary Information in China: A History, edited by Jack W. Chen, Anatoly Detwyler, Xiao Liu, Christopher M. B. Nugent, and Bruce Rusk, 119–24. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021.

“Fictionality in Early and Medieval China.” Co-authored with Sarah M. Allen. In “Medieval Fictionalities: A Forum,” edited by Bruce Holsinger. New Literary History 51, no. 1 (2020): 231–34.

“Foundings of Home: On Du Fu and Poetic Success.” In Reading Du Fu: Nine Views, edited by Xiaofei Tian, 15–26. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2020.

“Reading the Quan Tang shi: Literary History, Topic Modeling, Divergence Measures.” Co-authored with Peter Broadwell and David Shepard. Digital Humanities Quarterly 13, no. 4 (2019).

Chinese translation published as “Yuedu Quan Tang shi: wenxueshi, zhuti moxing, sandu duliang” 閱讀《全唐詩》：文學史、主題模型、散度度量, trans. Cao Yingyue 曹嫣月, Shuzi renwen 數字人文 1 (Jan., 2023).

“On Mourning and Sincerity in the Li ji and the Shishuo xinyu.” In Memory in Medieval China: Text, Ritual, and Community, edited by Wendy Swartz and Robert F. Campany, 63–81. Leiden: Brill, 2018.

“Du Fu: The Poet as Historian.” In How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context: Chinese Poetic Culture from Antiquity through the Tang, ed. Cai Zong-qi, 236–47. Columbia University Press, 2018.

“Sites I (Mapping the Spaces of Chinese Literature).” In Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature (1000 BCE–900 CE), ed. Wiebke Denecke, Wai-Yee Li, and Xiaofei Tian, 424–37. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.

“Recent Contributions to Tang Literary Studies: Networks, Gossip, and Literary History.” Review of Sarah M. Allen, Shifting Stories: History, Gossip, and Lore in Narratives from Tang Dynasty China; Linda Rui Feng, City of Marvel and Transformation: Chang’an and Narratives of Experience in Tang Dynasty China; Manling Luo, Literati Storytelling in Medieval China; and Anna M. Shields, One Who Knows Me: Friendship and Literary Culture in Mid-Tang China. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 77, no. 1 (Jun., 2017): 131–51.

“The Shishuo xinyu as Data Visualization.” Co-authored with Zoe Borovsky, Yoh Kawano, and Ryan Chen. Early Medieval China 20 (2014): 22–58.

“Early Medieval Poetry.” Co-authored with Evan Nicoll-Johnson. In Oxford Bibliographies in Chinese Studies, ed. Tim Wright. New York: Oxford University Press, January 30, 2014.

“Knowing Men and Being Known: Gossip and Social Networks in the Shishuo xinyu.” In Idle Talk: Gossip and Anecdote in Traditional China, ed. Jack W. Chen and David Schaberg, 55–70. Berkeley: Global, Area, and International Archive and the University of California Press.

“Sovereignty, Coinage, and Kinship in Early China.” positions: east asia critique 21, no. 3 (Fall, 2013): 637–58.

Chinese translation published as “Zhongguo gudai de wangquan, huobi he qishu guanxi” 中國古代的王權、貨幣和親屬關係, trans. Liu Wensong 劉文松. In Cong waibu shijie kan Zhongguo: positions zazhi 20 nian jingcui 從外部世界看中國：positions雜誌20年精粹, ed. Tani Barlow (Bai Lu 白露) et al., 28–45, (Nanjing: Nanjing daxue chubanshe, 2016).

“On Hearing the Donkey’s Bray: Friendship, Ritual, and Social Convention in Medieval China.” Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 33 (2011): 1–13.

Chinese translation published as “Wen lü ming: Zhongguo zhonggu shiqi de youyi, liyi yu shehui changghui” 聞呂鳴：中國中古時期的友誼、禮儀與社會常規, trans. Wu Zeyuan 武澤渙, ed. Bian Dongpo 邊東波, Journal of Jinan University (Guangzhou) 暨南大學學報（廣州）, no. 2 (Feb. 2016): 11–17.

“Shi 詩.” In The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, ed. Roland Greene, et al., 4th ed, 1298–1302. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012.

“On Sui and Tang Cities: Introduction.” T’ang Studies 29 (2011): 2–5.

“Social Networks, Court Factions, Ghosts, and Killer Snakes: Reading Anyi Ward.” T’ang Studies 29 (2011): 46–61.

“Blank Spaces and Secret Histories: Questions of Historiographic Epistemology in Medieval China.” Journal of Asian Studies 69, no. 4 (Nov., 2010): 1071–91.

“On the Act and Representation of Reading in Medieval China.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 129, no. 1 (Jan.–Mar. 2009): 57–71.

“北美漢學研究現況 (Thoughts on the State of Chinese Literary Studies in North America),” trans. Chen Jingru 陳靜如. Hanxue yanjiu tongxun 漢學研究通訊 28, no. 1 (May 2009): 33–37.

“The Writing of Imperial Poetry in Medieval China.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 65, no. 1 (June 2005): 57–98.

“Politics and Chinese Religion.” Co-authored with Natasha Heller. In The Encyclopedia of Religion, ed. Lindsay Jones, et al., 2nd rev. ed., 7266–70. New York: Macmillan, 2004.