Assistant Professor, University of South Alabama, USA

Please see my departmental profile for more information.

I majored in History of Asian Art at Stanford University and have since been active in a range of arts activities – writing and directing/producing films and curating arts exhibitions. Chinese poetry has been an important element of my projects.

Yue Zhang is receiving his Ph.D. degree from the University of Toronto, and obtained an M.A. from the Institute of Chinese Culture and Ancient Books Studies, Beijing Normal University. He has taught various courses on Chinese language, literature, history, culture, East Asian civilization, and global Asia for different universities and programs, such as Princeton in Beijing, University of Toronto, and University of Colorado. His doctoral dissertation on historical memory and nostalgia in poetry adopts a multidisciplinary approach to poems on history in early Medieval China (220-589).

I am an American living in China who is keenly interested in Chinese culture and language. At this point I have been living in China 1.5 years, and studying the language.

Professor of Chinese Language and Literature, Roma Tre University, Italy

 I received my PhD in Modern Chinese Literature from the University of Rome La Sapienza, and M.A. in Chinese Studies from the University of Science and Technology of Hong Kong. My research fields: modern and contemporary Chinese Literature (fiction and poetry), XX century reportage literature on China, literary translation. I have translated novels by Chinese contemporary writers (Mo Yan, Wang Shuo, Su Tong, Hong Ying) and contemporary poems by Bei Dao, Yang Mu, Xi Murong, Jidi Majia and Xi Chuan. I have also edited a bilingual vocabulary of Chinese –Italian.

My research to date has covered variants of the epistemological act – reading, translating, writing, investigating two broad theoretical and methodological questions that are crucial in cultural, translation and literary studies alike: the issue of interpretation and representation, and the need for a non-dichotomous approach to the study of literature and literary translation. These research interests are articulated in the three major projects that I have carried out. The first concerns poetry translation and its hermeneutic function in the study of the Chinese source text; the second one adopts a sociological approach to translation; and the third aims at the translation, dissemination and critical appreciation of bi-lingual and Sinophone literature. My last published book Between the Lines: Yang Lian’s Poetry through Translation (2012) provides new methodological tools for the study of poetry that work in triangulation with two translations and the source text, rather than in the binary fashion of original and translation pairs. The case study is constituted by the work of Yang Lian, one of the most critically acclaimed contemporary poets, who so far has only received fragmentary critical attention. The long article “The Public Life of Contemporary Chinese Poetry in English Translation”, published in the Target. International Journal of Translation Studies (24:2, 2012) sheds light on the industrial and commercial dimension of English translations of contemporary Chinese poetry, exploring social and cultural factors that have played a role in the production, publication and reception of these translations in the last three decades. It thus attempts to link translations to the broader context, highlighting modalities and expectations of reception that have evolved within the social structures through which the translation of contemporary Chinese poetry has been circulating: the publishing industry, universities, the periodical press, public intellectual debates, and the market. The book chapter, “Words by the Look. Issues in Translating Chinese Visual Poetry” presents primary material, which has not previously been investigated and unpublished in the West. Recognizing an increased integration, from the mid- 1990s onward, of visual, audio and performing-arts components into the Chinese poetic text, this study presents a number of poems where visual form interacts with literary technique. After presenting three different but not exclusive modes of resorting to the visual in contemporary Chinese poetry, I point out unique text-based issues, and derive a number of theoretical implications, which can inform the translation of these poems into English. I have also worked on Macau poetry and the ways in which it questions certain well-established theoretical tenets in post-colonial and world literature. The article “Contemporary Poetry from Macau” (forthcoming in Intervention, a journal of post-colonial theory) addresses a readership interested in postcolonial cultural and literary studies, and cogently presents Macau poetry as representative of issues shared by “postcolonial” regions that are largely urban, arguing that conventional postcolonial literary theory cannot be applied to the literature of Macau for a variety of historical and cultural reasons, the most important of which is the region’s multilinguistic identity.

I am an undergraduate student from Dickinson College, class of 2014. I double majored in History and East Asian Studies; have done researches on Chinese classical poetry and literature, Chinese traditional medicine, East Asian history and religion. I am a native Chinese speaker, and have three years training of Japanese in the college, also knows Latin and Spanish.

1st year PhD student at Columbia University in the dept. of East Asian Literatures and Cultures, studying under Prof. Lydia Liu.

赵敏俐，文学博士，现任首都师范大学教授、博士生导师，中国诗经学会副会长，日本广岛大学客座教授。科研主要方向为先秦两汉文学与文化、中国古代诗歌、中国现代学术史，在先秦诗歌、特别是汉代诗歌研究方面有比较突出的成就。

葛晓音，现任北京大学中文系教授，博士生导师，2002年至今兼任香港浸会大学中文系教授、讲座教授。主要学术领域为中国古代文学史，专攻汉魏六朝隋唐五代文学方向。出版学术著作20种，发表学术论文一百餘篇，获奖15项。

Hello, I am currently a senior at Northern Kentucky University and am almost 22 years old. I will be graduating in May 2015 with a B.A. in Literature, a B.A. in Spanish, and a minor in Honors. Currently, I am working on translating Nicolás Gómez Davila’s Escolios a un texto implicito, tomo I into English (only 22% of it has been translated into English). After graduating, I plan on joining the Catholic seminary in order to become a priest. There I will earn a B.A. in philosophy and a Masters in Divinity. I have been very interested in Chinese philosophy for over three years. Last year, I challenged myself to read some Chinese poetry, and I came to like it very much. As a member, I intend to read and own good scholarship on Chinese poetry.

David Prager Branner studied articulatory phonetics and dialect field methods with Robert Austerlitz (B.A., Columbia University) and Chinese descriptive and historical linguistics with Jerry Norman (PhD., University of Washington), as well as computer science (City College of New York, Hacker School). His research interests encompass the Chinese language in all periods, and he considers himself a sinologist specializing in language rather than a linguist specializing in Chinese. Current long-term publication projects are a Chinese dictionary and a handbook of medieval prosody. Representative research reports: “A Curious Lexicographic Relic of the Cultural Revolution” (2013); “Portmanteau Characters in Chinese” (2011); “Motivation and Nonsense in Chinese Secret Languages” (2010); “Some Composite Phonological Systems in Chinese” (2006); “Tonal Prosody in Chinese Parallel Prose” (2003); “Common Chinese and Early Chinese Morphology” (2002); “The Classification of Longyan” (1999). Preprints and offprints of many of his papers can be found at brannerchinese.com.

Chao Liu received his BA in Humanities and an MA in Comparative Literature from Nanjing University, and got his PhD in comparative literature from CU-Boulder. He is interested in critical theories, cultural studies, discursive analysis, art history, and media studies, with a focus on the aesthetic experience of modernity as represented by world literature and films. His languages are English, Japanese, classical Japanese, French, and Spanish.

Thomas Mazanec is a Ph.D. candidate in Chinese literature at Princeton University, pursuing joint degrees in the Department of East Asian Studies and the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities. He received his B.A. in English Literature and Chinese from Calvin College in 2007 and his M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2011. He is currently working on a dissertation on Buddhist poet-monks in late medieval China (c. 800-960 CE). His other research interests include comparative poetics and translation theory. For more information, please see his website, tommazanec.com.

I am very much a early learner! Self learning to read Chinese and attempting some translations of (primarily) Tang poetry; I’m very interested in the life and times of the Tang poets to assist in developing translations that also reflect those conditions.

As a retiree I have recently been been haunted by Li Shangyin’s “Jinse” poem. I hope some interested persons may join me in discussions of this poem and I would also like to learn more about Li’s burial places, both of them.

My name is Nathan Love, I recently graduated Appalachian State University with a Masters in Public History. My passion has always been Early Chinese History, specifically the Three Kingdoms period. As well as the Mongols and the Yuan Dynasty. My most current research includes Cao Cao’s poetry, and the Three Caos. Recently I presented my research at the Association of Asian Studies Southeast Conference. I am seeking to learn more from like-minded individuals about Chinese poetry across the dynasties.

My research focuses on the history of classical China’s non-material civilization, and more particularly on the medieval period (3rd to 10th century), and covers the following themes: 1) Traditional Chinese historiography (the status of history in China, the characteristics of Chinese historian thought and rhetoric); 2) Political history (periods of dynastic change and issues relating to legitimization of power); 3) Political ideology (political philosophy and the exercise of power, doctrinal rivalry); 4) Institutions (titles, functions and government bodies).

I am an ABD graduate student at the University of Chicago working under Ed Shaughnessy, Don Harper and Haun Saussy on the role of sound in early Chinese poetry and prose, and the creation of literary artistry in general. Please visit www.tharsen.net for details.

Associate Professor, Ohio State University, USA

Meow Hui Goh is Associate Professor of Chinese literature at The Ohio State University. A specialist of medieval Chinese literature and culture, she is the author of Sound and Sight: Poetry and Courtier Culture in the Yongming Era (483-493) (Stanford UP, 2010). Her current book project examines the memory of chaos in early medieval China through different forms of writing that depict the collapse of the Han Dynasty and its aftermath.

In my MA at Rome University I studied Chinese and Sanskrit. I’ve worked as Italian FL teacher in Beijing and as a Chinese teacher for highschool students in Italy. Recently I’ve been admitted as candidate at Rome University (Italy). My research project is about translation of poetry from Sanskrit to Chinese, with main focus on the Buddhacarita (Fo suoxing zan).

I have Chinese ancestry, so I want to learn more about Chinese language and culture, including poetry.

I’m a poet and literary critic.

Minoru Takano 高野実 is PhD student of the the department of Asian Studies in the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver (Supervisor: Prof. Bruce Rusk). He is studying literary movements in the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), especially that of Old Phraseology (Guwenci pai 古文辞派). He received his BA from Waseda 早稲田 University in Tokyo (2011) and his MA from UBC (2014). See https://ubc.academia.edu/MinoruTakano for details.

I am a graduate student at the University of Arizona studying my MA in China Area Studies with an emphasis in Literature.

Jessica Siu-yin Yeung is a Year 1 PhD student in the Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies at SOAS University of London. Her current research focuses on the intersection of women’s writings and allegory. Her articles are forthcoming in Virginia Woolf Miscellany and a/b:Auto/Biography Studies.

Associate Professor, University of Alberta, Canada

Daniel Fried is currently Associate Professor at the University of Alberta; his forthcoming book Tracing the Way (SUNY) examines Daoist theories of semiotics in Six Dynasties literature.

I am an MTS student at Harvard Divinity School, focusing on comparative religious studies. I am interested in Islamic (primarily Persian) and Chinese philosophical and poetical production. I am particularly interested in Islam in China.

I’m a PhD. candidate of University of Tampere, Finland. The topic of my research is the connection of Buddhism and the poetry of Wang Wei. I’ve studied 3,5 years in China (Shanghai, Nanjing, Beijing). This year I received Taiwan Fellowship and I’m currently based in National Taiwan University, Taipei City.

I am a Phd candidate in the East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies at UC Santa Barbara. My dissertation deals with Buddhist and literati culture in the Northern Song.

Born in Xi’an and lived in Beijing for most of my life, studied in Nanjing. My life is immersed with Chinese capitals and I love them deeply, the great history, the food, the people..Poetry is just a little piece of it, a little piece of my loved.

I am a scientist by training with a background in medicine, cancer biology, drug development. I have published about 80 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals. I am also an avid reader, I like to read and re-read classic literature from both China and western culture.s I would like to contribute to this platform in translating any writings between Chinese and English.

Associate Professor, Tribhuban University, Nepal

I’m an Associate professor in Tribhuban University, Nepal. I teach English literature. I write short poems in Nepali Language. I’ m also interested in Chinese literature, especially poetry and fiction.

I am a cultural anthropologist with a decades-long interest in and love for classical Chinese poetry. I’ve taught Chinese poetry classes to undergraduates, personally practice calligraphy and translation, and have published short-form poetry in several journals. I welcome collaborative opportunities.

I am a Chinese language teacher in MGIMO University, I have a PhD degree on literature (candidate degree). I research Han Dong’s poetry. Some times I work as interpreter. I was an interpreter on Moscow poetry biennial 2017.

Associate Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

WONG Wai-ho holds his Ph.D. in classical Chinese literature from Nanjing University and worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Fudan University. He is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Humanities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Seoul National University, South Korea

My name is Kim Soo Hee, teaches and studies at Seoul National University in Korea. My research fields is the song lyrics, especially the song lyrics of Northern Song. I’m interested in the process of changing the folk song into literary literature. Therefore, mainly studied the vulgar or ethereal aspects of the song lyrics of the Northern Song Dynasty.. And I also studied Ming-Qing Women’s Literature. I would like to join this forum to identify trends in Chinese literature and cultural research in the American region. I hope to get a lot of academic help through this forum.