Education
- BA Chinese (Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta
Kappa). University of Washington, 1964.
- MA Far
Eastern Languages and Literature.
Harvard University, 1965.
- PhD Chinese Language
and Literature.
University of Washington, 1968.
Research & Teaching Fields
- Han and Six Dynasties literature, fu, Wen
xuan, Chinese literary history, classical
prose.
Selected Publications
- Coeditor with Taiping Chang. Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature: A Reference Guide, Part One. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2010.
- Coeditor
with Paul Kroll. Studies in Early Medieval
Chinese Literature and Cultural History. In Honor of Richard B. Mather and Donald Holzman.
Provo, Utah: T'ang Studies Society, 2003.
- Court
Culture and Literature in Early China. Variorum
Collected Studies Series. Aldershot,
Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing, 2002.
- Gong Kechang. Studies
of the Han Fu. Co-trans. and ed. David Knechtges. American Oriental Series 84. New
Haven: American Oriental Society, 1997.
- Wen xuan, Volume
Three. Princeton University Press, 1996.
- Wen xuan or Selections
of Refined Literature. Volume Two. Rhapsodies
on Sacrifices, Hunts,
Travel, Palaces and Halls, Rivers and Seas. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1987.
- The
Han shu Biography of Yang Xiong (53 B.C-A.D.
18). Tempe, Arizona: Center for Asian Studies,
Arizona State University, 1982.
- Wen-xuan or Selections of Refined Literature. Volume One. Rhapsodies on Metropolises and Capitals.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982.
- The Han Rhapsody: A Study of the Fu of
Yang Hsiung (53 B.C-A.D. 18). Cambridge, London, New
York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press,
1976.
Current Research Projects
- Editor-in-chief, English version of Peking University's History of Chinese Civilization. To be published by Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- Translation of Wen xuan.
- History of Early Medieval
Chinese Literature.
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