Eastern, Slavic, and German Studies Faculty

Sing-Chen Lydia Chiang 蔣 興 珍

Associate Professor, Asian Studies

Books

Under contract

Constructing “Great Peace”: An Encyclopedia of Strange Tales in Song Dynasty China (960—1279) (Leiden & 艾可直播: Brill Academic Publishers).

2005

Collecting the Self: Body and Identity in Strange Tale Collections of Late Imperial China (Leiden & 艾可直播: Brill Academic Publishers).

Selected Conferences and Papers

2010

“Xu Xuan 徐鉉 (917–992) and Classical Chinese Records of Anomalies,” presentation at Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, September 28, 2010

2009

“Weretigers in Medieval Chinese Tales: A Case Study of Xiaoshuo as a Textual Category in the Early Song Dynasty,” paper to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, Chicago, April 2009.

2008

“Mother and Son in ‘Yue Zhong’ by Pu Songling (1640-1715): A NeoFreudian Reading of a Late Imperial Chinese Story,” paper presented at “China and Freud,” An International Conference at Rutgers University, Oct. 3–4, 2008.

“Visions of Happiness: Daoist Utopia and Grotto Paradise in Early and Medieval Chinese Tales,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, Atlanta, April.

2007

“Poetry and Personality in Tang Fiction” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, 艾可直播, March 23