Judith T. Zeitlin
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Judith T. Zeitlin is a professor in Chinese literature
and East Asian Languages and Civilizations
at the University of Chicago
. Her areas of interest are Ming
-Qing
literary and cultural history, with specialties in the classical tale and drama.
She describes her personal interests on her academic page at the University of Chicago as follows:
Chinese literature
Chinese literature extends thousands of years, from the earliest recorded dynastic court archives to the mature fictional novels that arose during the Ming Dynasty to entertain the masses of literate Chinese...
and East Asian Languages and Civilizations
EALC
In American universities, EALC refers to East Asian Languages and Civilizations , and is the term for the department of East Asian studies, which studies this region of the world....
at the University of Chicago
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
. Her areas of interest are Ming
Ming Dynasty
The Ming Dynasty, also Empire of the Great Ming, was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty. The Ming, "one of the greatest eras of orderly government and social stability in human history", was the last dynasty in China ruled by ethnic...
-Qing
Qing Dynasty
The Qing Dynasty was the last dynasty of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912 with a brief, abortive restoration in 1917. It was preceded by the Ming Dynasty and followed by the Republic of China....
literary and cultural history, with specialties in the classical tale and drama.
She describes her personal interests on her academic page at the University of Chicago as follows:
Selected publications
- Historian of the Strange: Pu Songling and the Chinese Classical Tale (StanfordStanford UniversityThe Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
, 1993) - Writing and Materiality in China, co-edited with Lydia Liu (HarvardHarvard UniversityHarvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
, 2003) - "Shared Dreams: The Story of the Three Wives’ Commentary on The Peony Pavilion" (1994)
- "Disappearing Verses: Writings on Walls and Anxieties of Loss" in Writing and Materiality (2003)
- The Life and Death of the Image: Ghosts and Portraits in Chinese Literature in Body and Face in Chinese Visual Culture, ed. Wu Hung and Katherine Tsiang (Harvard, 2005)
- Notes of Flesh: The Courtesan’s Song in Seventeenth-Century China in The Courtesan’s Arts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, ed. Martha Feldman and Bonnie Gordon (OxfordOxford University PressOxford University Press is the largest university press in the world. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics appointed by the Vice-Chancellor known as the Delegates of the Press. They are headed by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as...
, 2006) - The Return of the Palace Lady” in Cultural Innovation and Dynastic Decline, ed. David Wang and Wei Shang (Harvard, 2006)
- Music and Performance in Palace of Lasting Life in Trauma and Transcendence in Chinese Literature, ed. Idema, Li, and Widmer (2006)
- Xiaoshuo in The Novel, ed. Franco MorettiFranco MorettiFranco Moretti is an Italian literary scholar, trained as a Marxist critic, whose work focuses on the history of the novel as a "planetary form". He has written five books, Signs Taken for Wonders , The Way of the World , Modern Epic , Atlas of the European Novel, 1800-1900 , and Graphs, Maps,...
(2006)
Selected articles in Chinese by Cai Jiudi
- Chongshen yu fenshen: Mingmo Zhongguo xiqu zhong de hun dan. [Doubling and Splitting the Phantom Heroine in Seventeenth-Century Drama] *In Tang Xianzu yu Mudanting yanjiu [Research on Tang Xianzu and Peony Pavilion], ed. Hua Wei (TaipeiTaipeiTaipei City is the capital of the Republic of China and the central city of the largest metropolitan area of Taiwan. Situated at the northern tip of the island, Taipei is located on the Tamsui River, and is about 25 km southwest of Keelung, its port on the Pacific Ocean...
, 2006) - Tibishi yu Ming Qing zhi ji dui funü shi di shouji [Writing on Walls and the Collection of Women’s Poetry in the Late Ming and Early Qing.]
- In Ming Qing wenxue yu xingbie yanjiu [Ming Qing Literature and Gender], ed. Zhang Hongsheng, (Nanjing, 2002)