Tag: Sinologist

• Victor Mair (Cambria Sinophone World Series Editor) to give Distinguished Lecture at the University of Hong Kong this week

  Victor Mair (UPenn professor and Cambria Sinophone World Series Editor) to give Distinguished Lecture at the University of Hong Kong

  Cambria Press

  November 23, 2015

  Asian Studies, Cambria Press, Current Events

  Cambria Press, Cambria publication, Cambria Sinophone World Series, Chinese, Shu-mei Shih, Sinologist, sinology, University of Hong Kong, Victor Mair

• Interview with Wilt Idema on his new book, “The Immortal Maiden Equal to Heaven and Other Precious Scrolls from Western Gansu”

  The following is an interview with Cambria Press author Dr. Wilt Idema (Harvard University) whose new book has just been released. In addition to the many honors he has earned, Dr. Idema is one of twenty Sinologists this year to win the 9th Special Book Award of China, a national-level award was set up by General…

  Cambria Press

  October 8, 2015

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Asian Studies, China, Literary History, Religious Studies

  AAS, Asian Studies, baojuan, Book Award, Buddhist, Cambria author, Cambria book, Cambria Press, Cambria publication, Central Asia, China, Chinese dialect, Chinese popular culture, colloquial, comparative literature, Harvard University, intangible cultural heritage, literary history, May Fourth, Ming dynasty, Mongol, Precious Scrolls, Qing dynasty, religious studies, Shanghai, Sinologist, sinology, Sinophone, sutra, The Precious Scroll of Kalpa Survival, The Precious Scroll of Liu Quan Presenting Melon, The Precious Scroll of the Mouse, The Precious Scroll of the Parrot, translation, vernacular, Victor Mair, Western Gansu, Wilt Idema

• Baojuan (Precious Scrolls) of China explained by Eminent Sinologist Wilt Idema (Harvard University)

  What are the baojuan 寶卷 (precious scrolls) of China? Eminent Sinologist Wilt Idema (Harvard University) explains: Precious scrolls (baojuan) is the name of a genre of prosimetric texts (texts written in an alternation of prose and verse) on religious subjects and written in vernacular Chinese. The most recent catalogue of precious scrolls lists more than…

  Cambria Press

  October 5, 2015

  AAS, Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Culture

  #Book, Asian Studies, baojuan, Buddhist sutra, Cambria author, Cambria Press, Cambria publication, China, Chinese, Ming dynasty, Precious Scrolls, Qing dynasty, Sinologist, Sinophone, Victor Mair, Wilt Idema

• Cambria Press Author Wilt Idema of Harvard University Wins Special Book Award of China

  Cambria Press congratulates Dr. Wilt Idema of Harvard University on winning the prestigious Special Book Award of China. Leading Sinologist, Dr. Idema’s research interests range from Chinese women’s literature to traditional Chinese vernacular literature (fiction and drama). In recent years he also has published several collections of traditional popular ballads and prosimetric narratives. His most…

  Cambria Press

  August 28, 2015

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations

  Asian Studies, Beijing Book, Book Award, Cambria author, Cambria Press, Cambria publication, Cambria Sinophone World Series, China, Chinese, Chinese literature, Chinese studies, Chinese translation, Gansu, Harvard University, Immortal Maiden, Precious Scrolls, Sinologist, Sinophone, Special Book Award of China, Victor Mair, Wilt Idema

• Cambria Press Book Review: CLEAR lauds The Chinese Prose Poem: A Study of Lu Xun’s Wild Grass (Yecao)

  Cambria Press congratulates Nicholas A. Kaldis on the glowing review of his book, The Chinese Prose Poem: A Study of Lu Xun’s Wild Grass (Yecao), in the journal CLEAR (Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews). Kaldis’s book was reviewed by the distinguished scholar Jon Eugene von Kowallis, who praised the book, stating that it is “a comprehensive, well-balanced study” and…

  Cambria Press

  August 6, 2015

  AAS, Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Asian Studies, Cambria Press

  Asian Studies, Cambria Press, Cambria publication, Cambria reviews, Chinese, Chinese Literature: Essays, Jon von Kowallis, Lu Xun, Nicholas A. Kaldis, Nick Kaldis, Sinologist, sinology, Sinophone, Yecao