# Xiaofei Tian EALC: Professor of Chinese Literature ![Xiaofei Tian](/sites/g/files/omnuum8766/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/rsea/files/file_photo_xiaofei.jpg?itok=uUed0Txs) location\_on 2 Divinity Ave #220 smartphone [(617) 495-7937]() email laptop\_windows [ https://scholar.harvard.edu/xtian/biography](https://scholar.harvard.edu/xtian/biography) 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. - ## People Terms [Field of study: China](/people-terms/field-study-china) [Faculty](/people-terms/faculty)