Xiaofei Tian

Xiaofei Tian

On Leave AY2023-24
EALC: Professor of Chinese Literature
Xiaofei Tian

Her books include Tao Yuanming and Manuscript Culture (named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title in 2006), Beacon Fire and Shooting Star: The Literary Culture of the Liang (502-557), Visionary Journeys: Travel Writings from Early Medieval and Nineteenth-century China, and The Halberd at Red Cliff: Jian’an and the Three Kingdoms. Her translation of a nineteenth-century memoir, The World of a Tiny Insect: A Memoir of the Taiping Rebellion and Its Aftermath, was awarded the inaugural Patrick D. Hanan Book Prize for Translation by Association for Asian Studies in 2016. She is the co-editor and contributing author of The Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature (1000BCE-900CE) and A New Literary History of Modern China. She was a Walter Channing Cabot Fellow in 2012, and a recipient of the Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award in 2017.

 

 

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