Vita (June 09)

Judith T. Zeitlin
University of Chicago
Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations
1050 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
(h. ph) 773-288-2247; (cell phone) 773-547-7060
e-mail: jzeitlin@uchicago.edu; jzeitlin@gmail.com (preferred);

EDUCATION
Ph.D 1988, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University.
M.A. 1983, Regional Studies-East Asia, Harvard University
B.A. 1982, magna cum laude with highest honors, East Asian Languages and Civilizations,
Harvard University

TEACHING
2002- Professor of Chinese Literature
1994- Associate Professor of Chinese Literature, The University of Chicago (tenured
1996)
1993-94 Associate Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University
1990-93 Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University
1989-90 Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature, Cornell University

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

2008
2006 China Committee, U of Chicago Center for East Asian Studies conference grant
2006 Franke Center for the Humanities conference grant
2006 College Arts Planning Council performance support grant
2005 Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for Scholarly Exchange, Conference Grant
2001 Association for Asian Studies, Council on China and Inner Asia, Conference Grant
2001 Franke Institute for the Humanities, Conference Grant
1999-2000 ACLS fellowship for research in China awarded by Committee on Scholarly
Communication with China (CSCC)
1996 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers
1993 CSCC China Conference Grant
1988-89 ACLS/SSRC China Area Studies, Mellon Younger China Scholar Program
1988-89 Fellow, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University.
1987-88 Whiting Dissertation Fellowship in the Humanities

DEPARTMENT AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Newly-elected Member, Humanities Policy Committee
Member, Provost-appointed Committee to Recommend a New Director for Center for Gender
Studies

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Member, Council of the University Senate, 2008-
Department Chair, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, 2004-07
Member, Executive Committee of the Center for East Asian Studies, 2004-07
Member (elected), Divisional Committee to Recommend a New Dean of the Humanities, 2007
Modern Chinese Literature Search Committee Chair, EALC, 2006-07
Modern Chinese History of Work Search Committee Chair, EALC, 2007

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Commentator, Panel on “Illustration,” Conference on “Representing Things: Visuality and
Materiality in East Asia.” Yale University, April 24-25.
Co-organizer (with Paola Iovene), Symposium on Chinese Opera Film after 1949. University of
Chicago, April 17-19, 2009.
Panel Chair, Chinoperl annual meeting, Chicago, March 2009.
Reviewer of manuscripts for Journal of Asian Studies, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies,
positions, Theater Journal, Critical Inquiry, CLEAR, University of Michigan Center for
Chinese Studies monograph series, University of California Press, Columbia University
Press, Harvard Yenching East Asian Monograph Series.
External reviewer for PhD dissertation, National University of Australia.
Commentator, Panel on “Sensuous Realms of Chinese Erotic Writing from the Ming.” AAS
national meeting, Atlanta, 2008.
Commentator, Panel on Voice, Genre, and Class, “Traditional Chinese Women through a Modern
Lens,” Harvard University, June 2006.
Co-organizer with Wai-yee Li (EALC, Harvard), “Pleasure and Passion in Chinese Literature,”
symposium in honor of Anthony C. Yu’s retirement held May 26-28 at University of
Chicago, 2006.
Organizer, Workshop and Discussion with the Wintergreen Kunqu Society, Shoreland Ballroom,
May 8. 2006.
Organizer, Kunqu Music Theater performance at the Chicago Cultural Center, 2006.
Co-organizer with Joseph Lam (Music, University of Michigan), “Musiking the Late Ming,”
international conference held May 4-7, 2005 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Society of Ming Studies, Member of the Board (Apr 2005-)
Moderator, Conference panel, Regarding Modern Chinese Literature, May 6-8, University of
Chicago
Participant, Roundtable discussion on House of Flying Daggers, CMS, fall
Spring 2001-005. Selection committee member, Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships in Humanistic
Studies
Fall 2001. Co-organizer with Charlotte Furth (USC) and Hsiung Ping-chen (Academic Sinica,
Taiwan) of “The Case in Chinese Cultural History,” a three-day interdisciplinary
international conference, University of Chicago, October 2001. Funding from Center for
Asian Studies (University of Chicago), the Franke Institute (University of Chicago)
Association of Asian Studies Council on China and Inner Asia (National Association)
December 2000. Commentator, for symposium on “Let Evidence Speak: the case in Chinese
cultural history,” Modern History Institute, Academica Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
November 2000. Panelist on round table discussion for Wu Wenguang’s documentary film “On the
Road,” University of Chicago.

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April 1999 Organizer, 2 day symposium on Chinese literature in honor of Professor David Roy.
University of Chicago
March 1998, Commentator, Panel on Urban Culture in 17th century Jiangnan. National meeting of
Association for Asian Studies, Washington D.C.
April 1998, Chair, panel at Body and Face in Chinese Visual Culture, symposium held at the
University of Chicago.
1997 Organizer of speaker series Between Tradition and Modernity: Images of Women in Late
Imperial and Republican China, co-sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies and the
Center for Gender Studies, University of Chicago.
1997 Commentator for panel on Female Homoeroticism in China, Association of Asian Studies,
national meeting, Chicago.
1994 Chair and organizer of panel, Theatricality and Representation in Late Imperial China,
Association for Asian Studies, national meeting, Boston.
Reviewer of manuscripts for Journal of Asian Studies, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies,
positions, Theater Journal, Critical Inquiry, CLEAR, University of Michigan Center for
Chinese Studies monograph series, University of California Press, Columbia University
Press, Harvard Yenching East Asian Monograph Series.
1991-94 Chair and organizer of Premodern China Seminar, John King Fairbank Center for East
Asian Research, Harvard University
March 1991 Co-chair and organizer for back-to-back panel, “Dream and Representation in Chinese
Art and Literature.” Association for Asian Studies, national meeting, New Orleans.
1990-94 Associate, Adams House, Harvard University
1988-90-Associate in research, John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard
University.

TALKS AND CONFERENCE PAPERS

Apr 2009. “The Theatrical Supernatural and the Cinematic Fantastic in 1950s PRCE Opera Film: A
Case Study of A Test of Love.” Paper presented at the Symposium on Chinese Opera Film
after 1949. University of Chicago.
Mar 2009. “Between Print, Manuscript, and Performance: Imagining the Musical Text in 17th-
Century Drama.” Panel on “Theater Beside Itself: Transmutations of the Theatrical in
Thirteenth to Seventeenth-Century China,” National Meeting of the Association of Asian
Studies, Chicago.
Mar 2009. “Painting the Invisible World: Literary and Theatrical Perspectives on Luo Ping's Ghost
Amusement Scrolls.” Joint session of the Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia
Workshop and the Early Modern East Asia Workshop. University of Chicago.
Dec 2008. “Painting the Invisible World: Literary and Theatrical Perspectives on Luo Ping's Ghost
Amusement Scrolls.” Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo.
Oct 2008. “Painting the Invisible World: Literary and Theatrical Perspectives on Luo Ping's Ghost
Amusement Scrolls.” Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. University of
Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.
Oct 2008. “Painting the Invisible World: Literary and Theatrical Perspectives on Luo Ping's Ghost
Amusement Scrolls.” Center for East Asian Studies. University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Oct 2008. “The Cultural Biography of a Musical Instrument: Little Hulei as Sounding Object,
Antique, Prop, and Relic.” Joint sessions of the Art and Politics of East Asia Workshop and
the Early Modern East Asia Workshop.

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November 2007. “Between Print, Manuscript, and Performance: Imagining the Musical Text in
Seventeenth-Century Songbooks and Plays.” First Annual Workshop on Ming-Qing
Literature, New School/ Columbia University.
April 2007. “The Literary Life of Things: Reflections on Biographical Objects in Chinese
Literature.” Columbia University, invited lecture.
March 2007. “The Cultural Biography of a Thing.” Keynote speech, symposium on Chinese action
and identity, University of Hawai’i, Manoa.
December 2006. “The Cultural Biography of a Thing: 'Little Thunderclap' as Musical instrument,
Antique, Prop, and Relic.” University of Toronto, invited lecture.
October 2006 “Feng Menglong's Celestial Air Played Anew and the Pleasures of Print.”
Symposium on “The Power of Words: In Honor of Stephen Owen,” Harvard University.
May 2006 “Musical Mirrors: ‘Play within play’ and ‘Song within song’ in Seventeenth-century
Chinese Drama.” Symposium on “Pleasure and Passion in Chinese Literature: In Honor of
Anthony C. Yu,” University of Chicago.
May 2006 Intermission talk for Kunqu Music Theater performance at the Chicago Cultural Center.
May 2006 “Illustrated Verse from the late Ming Pleasure Quarter.” Conference on Musiking the Ming,
May 4-6, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
April 2006 “The Cultural Biography of a Thing: 'Little Thunderclap' as musical instrument,
antique, prop, and relic.” Wu Foundation Lecture, Yale University.
January 2006. "The Cultural Biography of a Thing: 'Little Thunderclap' as musical instrument,
antique, prop, and relic." Center for Asian Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
October 2005 “Illustrated Verse from the Green Bower: The Late Ming Pleasure Quarter as a Site
of Cultural Production.” Hsiang Lecture in Chinese Poetry, McGill University.
May 2005 “Ghosts, Sexuality, and Fertility in Chinese Literature.” Lecture delivered to the
Women’s Board, University of Chicago
May 2005 “In and Out of the Antique Market: The Making of a Cultural Relic.” Symposium on
Art and Commerce in East Asia, University of Chicago
April 2005 “The Cultural Biography of a Thing: “Little Thunderclap” as Stage Prop, Antique, and
Relic.” Panel on “Medium and Materiality,” annual meeting of Association for Asian
Studies, Chicago.
Nov 2004 “Between Thing and Character: the Roles of a Musical Instrument in Kong Shangren’s
Little Thunderclap.” Symposium on “Character in Chinese Literature,” Harvard University.
Nov 2004 “Ghosts and Theatricality,” book chapter presented to the Workshop on Early Modern
East Asian Literature and Cultural History
May 2004 “Ghosts and Memory in Palace of Lasting Life,” Conference on “Memory, Memorial,
and Commemoration in Chinese Literature,” Berkeley.
May 2003 “Illustrated Books from the Pleasure Quarter,” Symposium on “From Prints to
Photography,” Center for the Arts of East Asia, University of Chicago
May 2003. “Musical Mirrors: ‘play within play’ and ‘phenomenal song’ in chuanqi drama.”
Conference on Hermeneutics in Chinese Literature, Yale University.
May 2002 “Realizing the Music’”: The Vocal Arts of the Courtesan in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-
Century China.” Paper presented at the China Workshop on Gender Studies, Harvard
University.
April 2002 “’Realizing the Music’: The Courtesan as Singer and Composer in China.” Paper
presented at the University of Chicago Asian Sexualities Workshop.
April 2002 “‘Realizing the Music’: The Courtesan as Singer and Composer in Sixteenth- and
Seventeenth-Century China.” Paper delivered at “The Courtesan’s Arts,” an

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 interdisciplinary and cross-cultural conference at the University of Chicago and the
Newberry Library (April 02).
October 2001. “Music and Performance in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Drama: The Case of
Palace of Lasting Life. Lecture given at Yale University.
October 2001. “The Literary Fashioning of Medical Knowledge and Authority: A Study of Sun
Yikui’s Case Histories.” Paper prepared for “Thinking with Cases: Specialist Knowledge in
Chinese Cultural History,” University of Chicago.
May 2001. “Music and Performance in Palace of Lasting Life,” Paper delivered at Workshop on
Seventeenth-Century Chinese Literature, Harvard University.
December 2000. “Poems Written on Walls and the Collection of Women’s Poetry during the Ming
and Qing.” Paper delivered in Chinese at the Institute of Philosophy and Literature,
Academia Sinica, Taipei.
June 2000 “Research methods for the history of Chinese Classical Fiction.” Lecture delivered in
Chinese at the Chinese department, Beijing Normal University.
May 2000 “The Representation of Ghosts in Ming and Qing Southern Drama.” Lecture given in
Chinese at The Academy for Traditional Chinese Drama, Beijing.
May 2000 “Writing on Walls and the Collection of Women’s Poetry in the Late Ming and Early
Qing.” Paper delivered in Chinese at the International Conference on Gender and Ming-
Qing Literature at Nanjing University, China.
April 2000 “Ming Medical Cases Seen from a Literary Viewpoint.” Lecture given in Chinese at the
Institute for the Study of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing.
March 2000 “Research methods for studying Liaozhai zhiyi and the History of Chinese Classical
Fiction.” Lecture given at the Chinese department, Peking University
May 1999 “The Secret Life of Rocks: Objects and Collectors in Chinese Literature.” Art Institute
of Chicago.
April 1999 “Memoirs of a Foolish Old Whore: Childhood & First-person Narrative in a late Ming
Novella.” Symposium on Chinese literature in honor of Professor David Roy, University of
Chicago.
March 1999 “The Uncanny Image: Ghosts & Portraits in The Peony Pavilion and beyond.” Peony
Pavilion Symposium and Conference on Vernacular cultures, University of California,
Berkeley.
October 1998 “Ming Case Histories and the Literary Structure of Medical Knowledge: The
Writings of Sun Yikui.” Workshop on Medicine & Culture, University of Chicago.
October 1998 “Ruined Verses: Writing on Walls and Anxieties of Loss in Late Imperial China.”
Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
November 1998 “The Return of the Palace Lady: the historical ghost story and dynastic fall”
Conference on “From Ming to Qing,” Columbia University.
March 1998, Lecture on Chinese literature and autobiography for the Literacy Project, University
of Chicago.
February 1998, “Ming Case Histories and the Literary Structure of Medical Knowledge: The
Writings of Sun Yikui.” Conference on Cultural Studies of Chinese, Science, Medicine, and
Technology, Berkeley Center for East Asian Studies
January 1998, “The Case History as Literary Work: The Medical Writings of Sun Yikui,” Southern
California China Colloquium, UCLA
December 1997, “A Collection of Women and their Writings: A Preliminary Study of Furen ji”
Symposium in Honor of Professor Patrick Hanan, Harvard University

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November 1997, “Making the Invisible Visible: Images of Desire and Constructions of the Female
Body in Chinese Literature, Medicine, and Art.” Keynote address, Attending to Early
Modern Women, Conference by Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies, University of
Maryland
May 1997, “Ruined Verses: Writing on Walls and Anxieties of Loss in Late Imperial China.”
Symposium on Ruins in Chinese Visual Culture, University of Chicago.
February 1997, “Making the Invisible Visible: Female Portraits in Ming Qing Literature, Medicine,
and Art.” Wellesley College.
November 1996, “Images of Desire and Constructions of the Body in Ming and Qing Literature,
Medicine and Art.” Premodern China Seminar, Fairbank Center for Chinese Research,
Harvard University.
October 1996, “Spirit writing and Performance in the work of You Tong.” Joint session of the
workshops on Describing and Depicting Traditional China and Rethinking East Asia,
University of Chicago.
July 1996, “Making the Invisible Visible: Images of Desire and Constructions of the Female Body
in Ming and Qing Literature, Medicine, and Art.” Symposium for Chinese Art of the Ming
and Ch’ing Dynasties, Art Institute of Chicago.
February 1996, “Spirit writing and Performance in Late Imperial China. Center for Chinese
Studies,” University of Wisconsin, Madison.
May 1996, “Romance in Late Imperial China.” Chicago Council on Foreign Affairs.
November 1995, “Spirit writing and Performance in the work of You Tong.” Conference on
dimensions of performance in traditional Chinese culture. Center for Chinese Studies,
UCLA.
March 1995, “Self-Representation in Late Imperial Chinese Literature.” Colloquium on Infusing
Asia into the Curriculum, College of DuPage, Illinois.
April 1995, “Ghost Writing in Ming-Qing Literature.” British Association for Chinese Studies,
Edinburgh, Scotland.
December 1994, “Embodying the Disembodied: Feminizing the Ghost in Late Imperial Chinese
Literature.” Center for Chinese Studies, University of California at Berkeley.
November 1994, “Ghosts and Resurrection in Late Imperial Chinese Drama.” Chicago Humanities
Institute.
March 1994, “Specter as Spectacle: The Representation of Ghosts and Resurrection in Ming and
Qing China.” Association for Asian Studies, national meeting, Boston.
May 1994, “The Three Wives’ Commentary on The Peony Pavilion.” Workshop on Gender
Studies, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University.
September 1993. “Nügui yu guishi: cong Liaozhai kan shiqi shiji zhongguo wenxue zhong de dui
yinrou de rengehua yu shiyi hua.” [Female ghosts and ghost poetry in seventeenth-century
Chinese literature]. International Conference on Traditional Chinese Fiction, Beijing, China.
June 1993, “Embodying the Disembodied: Representations of Ghosts and the Feminine in
Seventeenth-Century Chinese Literature.” Yale University Conference on Women and
Literature in Late Imperial China.
November 1991, “Place, Memory, and Self-Representation in Literature and Paintings of the Ming
and Qing.” Sackler Museum, Harvard University.
April 1991, “Shared Dreams, Readership, and the Chinese Discourse on Fictionality.” Association
for Asian Studies, national meeting, New Orleans.

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February 1991, “The Allure of Dead Women in Later Chinese Literature.” Mansfield Freeman
Center for Asian Studies, Wesleyan University.
March 1989, “Obsession in Chinese Literary and Medical Writings.” Association for Asian
Studies, national meeting, Washington D.C.
March 1989, “Dislocations in Gender: Pu Songling’s ‘Human Prodigy.’” Whitney Humanities
Center, Yale University.
October 1988, “Family Conflict in Liaozhai zhiyi.” New England Regional Association for Asian
Studies.
May 1987, “Over the Borderline: Transsexuals and Transvestites in Seventeenth-Century Chinese
Literature.” Fukiyose Workshop, Harvard University.
May 1986, “An Arsenal in His Belly: Magic and Military Arts in Liaozhai zhiyi. Workshop on
Violence and Chinese Civilization, Harvard University.

PUBLICATIONS
Books
Historian of the Strange: Pu Songling and the Chinese Classical Tale. Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 1993. (paperback edition 1997).
Writing and Materiality in China. Co-editor and co-writer of the introduction with Lydia Liu. This
volume also includes my essay, “Writing on Walls and Anxieties of Loss in Late Imperial
China” Harvard Asia Center Publications, 2003.
Thinking with Cases: Specialist Knowledge in Chinese Cultural History. Co-edited with Charlotte
Furth and Ping-chen Hsiung. University of Hawaii Press, 2007.
The Phantom Heroine: Ghosts and Gender in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Literature. University
of Hawaii Press, 2007.

Articles and book chapters:

The Cultural Biography of a Musical Instrument: Little Hulei as Sounding Object, Antique, Prop,
and Relic.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 69.2 (2009): 395–441.
“Between Print, Manuscript, and Performance: Imagining the Musical Text in 17th century
Songbooks and Plays.” In Text, Performance, and Gender in Chinese Literature and
Music:Essays in Honor of Wilt Idema, ed. Maghiel van Crevel et al. Leiden: Brill, 2009:
263-292.
“Luo Ping’s Early Ghost Amusement Scroll: Literary and Theatrical Perspectives.” In Eccentric
Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799), ed. Kim Karlsson et al. Zurich: Museum
Rietberg, 2009.
“The Gift of Song: Courtesans and Patrons in Late Ming and Early Qing Cultural Production.” In
Hsiang Lectures on Chinese Poetry, ed. Grace Fong. McGill University: Centre for East
Asian Research, 2008.
“Phantom Heroines: Ghosts and Gender in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Literature and Beyond" in
Ghosts, Stories, Histories: Ghost Stories and Alternative Histories, ed. Sladja Blazan.
Newcastle, England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007: 212-226.
“The Literary Fashioning of Medical Authority: A Study of Sun Yikui’s Case Histories.” In
Thinking with Cases: Specialist Knowledge in Chinese Cultural History, ed. Charlotte
Furth, Judith Zeitlin, and Hsiung Ping-chen. University of Hawaii Press, 2007.
“Xiaoshuo.” In The Novel, ed. Franco Moretti. Princeton University Press, 2006: vol. 1, 249-62.

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“Music and Performance in Palace of Lasting Life.” In Trauma and Transcendence in Early Qing
Literature, edited by Wilt Idema, Wai-yee Li, and Ellen Widmer. Harvard Asia Center
Publications, 2006: 454-487.
“‘Notes of Flesh’: The Value of the Courtesan’s Song in Seventeenth-Century China.” In The
Courtesan’s Arts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, ed. Martha Feldman and Bonnie Gordon.
Oxford University Press, 2006: 75-99. [Winner of the Ruth A.Solie Award for the best
multi-authored collection of 2006 from the American Musicological Society.]
“The Return of the Palace Lady: The Historical Ghost Story and Dynastic Fall.” In Dynastic
Decline and Cultural Innovation, ed. David Wang and Shang Wei. Harvard Asia Center
Publications, 2006:151-99.
“The Secret History of the Hamentash in China.” In The Great Latke Hamantash Debate, ed. Ruth
Fredman Cernea. University of Chicago Press, 2005: 177-84
“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 Mino. Harvard University Asia
Center Publications, 2005: 229-256.
“Disappearing Verses: Writing on Walls and Anxieties of Loss in Late Imperial China.” In Writing
and Materiality in China, ed. Judith Zeitlin and Lydia Liu. Harvard University University
Asia Center, 2003, 73-125.
“My Year of Peonies.” Special issue on recent performances of The Peony Pavilion. Asian Theater
Journal 19.1 (Spring 2002): 124-33.
“Xiaoshuo.” [in Italian]. In Il Romanzo (The Novel), vol. 3: Storia e geographia (History and
Geography) Turin, Italy: Einaudi, 2002: 125-34.
“Poems on Walls and the Collection of Women’s Writings in the Late Ming and Early Qing.” [in
Chinese]. In Gender and Ming Qing Literature, ed. Zhang Hongsheng. Nanjing: Jiangsu
guji chuban she, 2002: 502-32.]
"Making the Invisible Visible: Portraits of Desire and Medical Constructions of the Female Body in
Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century China." In Crossing Boundaries: Attending to Early
Modern Women, ed. Jane Donawerth and Adele Seef. University of Delaware Press, 2000.
“The Secret History of Rocks: Objects and Collecting in the Ming and Qing Imagination.”
Orientations. May 1999: 40-47.
“Spirit Writing and Performance in the Work of You Tong.” T’oung Pao ( 1998): 102-35.
“Embodying the Disembodied: Representations of Ghosts and the Feminine in Late Imperial
Chinese Literature.” In Writing Women in Late Imperial China, ed. by Ellen Widmer and
Kang-i Sun Chang. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997: 242-63.
“Shared Dreams: The Story of the Three Wives’ Commentary on The Peony Pavilion.” Harvard
Journal of Asiatic Studies 54. 1 (July 1994): 127-79.
“The Petrified Heart: Obsession in Chinese Literature, Art, and Medicine.” Late Imperial China
12. 1: (June 1991): 1-26.

Translations:
Qu You, “The Regulator of the Ultimate Void” and Pu Songling, “Gongsun Jiuniang.” Special
Issue: Violence in Ming and Qing Literature. Renditions 70 (Winter 2009): 35-48.
Wu Yunming, Eternally in Our Memory: Ethnographic Photographs of Qiang-Tibetan Culture
from the Northwestern Region of Sichuan. Shanghai Music Press, 2009.
Institute of Chinese Drama, China Academy of Arts. Pictorial Handbook of the History of Chinese
Drama. Beijing: People’s Music Publishing House, 2003. (as co-editor of translation)

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“Two Ghost Stories from Liaozhai’s Records of the Strange by Pu Songling. In Under Confucian
Eyes: Writings on Gender in Chinese History, ed. Susan Mann and Yu-yin Cheng.
Berkeley:University of California Press, 2001:196-214.
You Tong, “Preface to Linxia cixuan” and Wu Qi, “Preface to Zhongxiang ci.” In Women Writers
of Traditional China: An Anthology of Poetry and Criticism, ed. Kang-i Sun Chang and
Haun Saussy. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999: 768-774.

Articles in Chinese:
“Chongshen yu fenshen: Mingmo Zhongguo xiqu zhong de ‘hun dan.’ [Doubling and Splitting the
Phantom Heroine in Seventeenth-Century Drama] In Hua Wei, ed. Tang Xianzu yu
Mudanting yanjiu [Research on Tang Xianzu and Peony Pavilion]. Taipei:
Zhongyang yanjiuyuan Zhongguo wenzhe yanjiusuo, 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 [Studies on Gender and Ming Qing Literature], ed. Zhang Hongsheng, Nanjing:
Jiangsu gujichubanshe, 2002: 502-531.
“Nügui yu guishi: cong Liaozhai kan shiqi shiji zhongguo wenxue zhong de dui yinrou de rengehua
yu shiyi hua.” [Female ghosts and ghost poetry in seventeenth-century Chinese literature].
In Proceedings from the 1993 Beijing International Conference on Traditional Chinese
Fiction. Beijing: Kaiming chubanshe, 1996: 329-40.

Articles in press:
“Beauty, Portrait, Ghost in The Peony Pavilion.” In Beauty(ies), 5-volume collection under the
direction of Georges Vigarello et al, published simultaneously in French and English. Paris:
Les Editions Babylone, Fall 2009, forthcoming.

Work in progress
Books
Music and Materiality in Early Modern China. (Book manuscript)

Edited Projects
The Opera Quarterly: Special Double Issue on Chinese Opera Film. Co-edited with Paola Iovene.
Projected publication date: Fall 2010.

Articles
Operatic Ghosts on Screen: The Case of A Test of Love (1958). In The Opera Quarterly: Special
Double Issue on Chinese Opera Film. Forthcoming, 2010.
“Musical Mirrors: ‘Play within Play’ and ‘Song within Song’ in Seventeenth-Century Chinese
Drama.” (article)
“Illustrated Songbooks from the Ming Pleasure Quarter” (article)

Other Projects
Co-Curator with Yuhang Li. “The Visual and Material Culture of Chinese Opera.” Exhibition to be
held at the Smart Museum, tentatively scheduled for Fall 2012.
Editor of Exhibition Catalogue.