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Ding Xiang Warner

Associate Professor
Pre-Modern China

347 Rockefeller Hall
(607) 254-6738
dxw2@cornell.edu



Ding Xiang Warner (Ph.D., University of Washington, 1996)

Research:
Chinese literature and literary thought from Han dynasty through the early Song, early and medieval Chinese intellectual history, and the study of textual production and text culture in pre-modern China.

Teaching:
Classical Chinese
Readings in Classical Chinese Literature
Ideas and Literature of Medieval China
Representations of Womanhood in Traditional China (Writing Seminar)
China’s Literary Heritage
Chinese Narrative Literature

Selected Publications:

  • A Wild Deer amid Soaring Phoenixes: The Opposition Poetics of Wang Ji (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003)
  • “Wang Tong and the Compilation of the Zhongshuo (Discourses on the Mean): A New Evaluation of the Source Materials and Points of Controversy.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 120 (2001): 370–90.
  • “Mr. Five Dippers of Drunkenville: The Representation of Enlightenment in Wang Ji’s Drinking Poems.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 118 (1998): 347–55.
  • "The Two Voices of Wangchuan ji: Poetic Exchange between Wang Wei and Pei Di." Early Medieval China 10-11, pt. 2 (2005): 57-72.
  • "Rethinking the Authorship and Dating of 'Gujing ji' (The Story of an Ancient Mirror)." T'ang Studies 20-21 (2002-03): 1-38.