A Midyear Reflection on the State of my Research
Lance Crisler 柯則已
March 20, 2015
I do a lot of reading; it’s part of my job description as a graduate student. I read all types of works: newspaper
I do a lot of reading; it’s part of my job description as a graduate student. I read all types of works: newspaper
The heat of the day had receded as we walked into the shrine after ‘isha, the final evening prayers. The marble ground felt cool
An important skill that I have adopted for living overseas in a different culture is shifting my frame of reference to accommodate new
In this two-part essay, I survey two important academic lineages in Taiwan and their contributions to the study of Chinese Buddhist poetry. In
Chinese Buddhist poetry and literature remains largely unstudied in Western academia. The study of Buddhist poetry requires facility with the disparate fields of
This research period, so far, has been a fruitful one, thanks to the generous support of the Fulbright Taiwan Foundation for Scholarly Exchange.
“If they won’t go on the boats, then we’ll just go fishing, go far oceaning, ourselves!” says the wife of a member
Modern scholars of late-Imperial Chinese literature benefit from collected texts printed during the Ming and Qing dynasties that are supplemented with bibliographic
This was a spectacular find. Xuanzang is one of the most celebrated monks in the history of Asia. His historic pilgrimage from China to India
The Fulbright Taiwan program is generously sponsoring my year of sabbatical research here in Taipei, where I am investigating the relationships between public spaces and
