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Professor of East Asian Studies; Language Coordinator
Ph.D. 1966 (Chinese), Columbia; M.A. 1960 (English), Columbia; B.A. 1958, Columbia.

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Research Interests:

Classical Chinese language, literature and philosophy, Modern and Contemporary History, Chinese Language, Asian literature and Philosophy.

Fellowships/Honors:

Golden Dozen Teaching Award, Spring 1996; National Endowment for the Arts, 1983-84; Columbia University Translation Center, 1983, 1993; National Endowment for the Humanities, 1985-86

Selected Works:

threekingdoms.jpg Three Kingdoms, University of California Press, 1999. (ISBN: 0-520-21585-0)
daodejing.jpg Dao De Jing: The Book of the Way, Laozi (annotated translation with textual notes and critical introduction), University of California Press, 2001. (ISBN: 0-520-2055503)

Critique of Soviet Economics, (Translation of Mao Zedong's Reading Notes), Monthly Review Press, 1977. (ISBN: 0-783-79611-0 )

Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies, (edited and translated), Pantheon Books, 1979. (ISBN: 0-394-73994-9)

Contra Ideocracy, Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 1997.1.

Bad Karma in Asia, Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 2000.3 (and forthcoming in Harootunian and Miyoshi, eds. Learning Places.)

Historical Overview of the Nanjing Massacre, in Nanjing, Joint Publishing, 1995 (in Chinese only).

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