Bobson Dugnutt is a seriously good baseball name

Makes sense. Yeah, we usually only publish anything focused on the 20th century or later if it’s hardcore antiquarian

The repentance part of the text seems sincere, with some decent reflection on change in 心. And while his stated sins mostly reflect catalogs from that time, he does leave out drunkenness because he says he’s not a drinker by nature. So there’s some attempt to reflect reality

Journal of the American Oriental Society, it dates back to 1842 (recently rechristened as Journal of the American Society for Premodern Asia). One of pillars of the field for premodern, up there with T’oung Pao, CLEAR, HJAS, JCLC, Asia Major, and the dynasty-specific journals

Shen Yue's confessions are particularly wild, ranging from stealing classical texts (性愛墳典, 苟得忘廉。取非其有, 卷將二百) to both hetero and homosexual love affairs (淇水上宮，誠無云幾；分桃斷袖，亦足稱多).

At JAOS / JASPA, we recently published an essay by Tian Xiaofei on how the structure of the Buddhist confession / conversion narrative shaped autobiographical writing from the early medieval period on: lockwoodonlinejournals.com/index.php/ja...

Haha, I have this on my syllabus for Classical Chinese! (This might actually be a screenshot of part of my syllabus?)

Arthur Waley's translation, from A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems, dating to the 1920s.

I love how commentators all agree that the Ganyu poems are allegories, but strongly disagree as to what they're allegories for.

Review of Dictionary of Taoist Internal Alchemy by Fabrizio Pregadio
Tyler Feezell
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Review of Twenty-Nine Goodbyes: An Introduction to Chinese Poetry by Timothy Billings
Lucas Klein

Review of A Catalog of Benevolent Items: Li Shizhen’s Compendium of Classical Chinese Knowledge. Selected Entries from the Ben Cao Gang Mu by Paul Unschuld
Yan Liu
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"Forming the Knowledge of Fragrance in Song Dynasty Catalogues of Incense"
Qian Jia

"The Travels of Tang Emperor Xuanzong (r. 712–756)"
Paul W. Kroll

Review of The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought by Wang Hui
Don J. Wyatt
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Here is the East Asia content, which I edited.
"The Final Part of the Mongol Text of the 1413 Tyr Trilingual Inscription"
Pavel Rykin

"The Reconstructed Morphology of Old Chinese and Word Classes in Warring States Chinese"
Lukáš Zádrapa
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Of course, the e-version remains free, open-access. Download it here: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

I was honored to work with someone as erudite as Prof. Zhou, and I am grateful to the Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture for the opportunity to work this out in print for their "Key Terms of Chinese Literary Theory" special issue.
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We ask questions like: can you separate the art from the artist? Can immoral people create good poetry? Are good writers moral exemplars? How have the answers to these questions shaped Chinese literary history? What relevance do these questions have to our era of "cancel culture"?
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