Teaching & Research Interests:

Chinese Language (Mandarin)
Classical Chinese
Business Chinese
Chinese Literature
Chinese Civilization
Chinese Religion
Dissertation:
"T'ang Stories in the T'ai-p'ing kuang-chi" (1986)
Education:
Ph.D. Columbia University (Chinese Literature)
M.A. Columbia University (Chinese Literature; 1979)
B.A. State University of New York at New Paltz (Chinese Language and Literature; magna cum laude, 1976)
Articles:
"What Yuan Mei Spoke of", Journal of Chinese Religions 36 (2008), pp. 84-117. abstract

"The Chinese Strategy of Transcendence" The American Journal of Semiotics (23.1-4) (2007), pp. 253-276. abstract
"Factual Framing in Liao Zhai Zhi Yi" Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungarica 59.2 (2006), pp. 205-30. abstract

"The Investigation of Principle: Morality in Yetan Suilu" Journal of Oriental Studies 41.1 (2006), pp. 69-90. abstract

"Shifting Explanations: Lanyan's Commentaries to Yetan Suilu" Journal of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies 2 (October 2000) pp. 35-67. abstract
"Yetan Suilu: Casual Records of Night Talks" Tamkang Review 30, No. 1, (Autumn 1999), pp. 125-167. abstract
"The Righteous Tiger and the Grateful Lion" Monumenta Serica 44 (1996), pp. 191-211. abstract
"Vulpine Alchemy" T'oung Pao 82 (1996), pp. 364-80. abstract
"The Demonization of the Other: Women and Minorities as Weretigers" Journal of Chinese Religions 23 (Fall 1995), pp. 59-80. abstract
"The Interpretation of Thunder" Journal of Asian Studies 53.2 (May 1994), pp. 487-503. abstract
"Sacred Metamorphosis: the Weretiger and the Shaman" Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 46.2-3 (1992-93), pp. 235-55. abstract
"Waiting for a Thunderbolt" Asian Folklore Studies 51.1 (1992), pp. 25-49. abstract
"Incantations: Poetry, Possession, and Prayer in T'ang Verse" American Journal of Chinese Studies 1.1 (1992), pp. 123-144. abstract
"The Chinese Intuitive Experience" Chinese Culture 33.2, (June 1992), pp. 57-79. abstract
"Americans in China: the Individualist Meets the Collective" Journal of the Chinese Language Teacher's Association 27.1/2 (February/May 1992), pp. 55-69. abstract
"An Excursion in Tiger Lore" Asia Major 4.1 (1991), pp. 87-100. abstract
"Ultimate Truths: Tang Poetry as Magical Discourse" Journal of Oriental Studies 29.1 (1991), pp. 19-44. abstract
"T'ang Legends: History and Hearsay" Tamkang Review 20.4 (summer 1990), pp. 359-82. abstract

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