Philology is the study of language in oral and written historical sources;it is the intersection of textual criticism,literary criticism,history,and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also defined as the study of literary texts as well as oral and written records,the establishment of their authenticity and their original form,and the determination of their meaning. A person who pursues this kind of study is known as a philologist. In older usage,especially British,philology is more general,covering comparative and historical linguistics.
Biblical studies is the academic application of a set of diverse disciplines to the study of the Bible. For its theory and methods,the field draws on disciplines ranging from ancient history,historical criticism,philology,theology,textual criticism,literary criticism,historical backgrounds,mythology,and comparative religion.
Li-Young Lee is an American poet. He was born in Jakarta,Indonesia,to Chinese parents. His maternal great-grandfather was Yuan Shikai,China's first Republican President,who attempted to make himself emperor. Lee's father,who was a personal physician to Mao Zedong while in China,relocated his family to Indonesia,where he helped found Gamaliel University. In 1959 the Lee family fled Indonesia to escape widespread anti-Chinese sentiment and after a five-year trek through Hong Kong and Japan,they settled in the United States in 1964. Li-Young Lee attended the University of Pittsburgh,the University of Arizona,and the State University of New York Brockport.
John Okada was a Japanese American novelist known for his critically acclaimed novel No-No Boy.
Timothy C. Wong Chinese:黃宗泰;pinyin:Huáng Zōngtài;Wade–Giles:Huang Tsung-t'ai,is a Sinological translator and literary theorist of traditional Chinese fictional narratives and the Chinese efforts to Westernize and politicize their modern counterparts into what everyone now equates with "novels." Wong was born in Hong Kong as an American citizen,and moved with his family back to Hawaii,his father's birthplace,when he was 10 years old. He remained in the city of Honolulu through high school,before going on to northern California for his undergraduate—and eventually graduate—studies.
The Four Books and the Five Classics are authoritative and important books associated with Confucianism,written before 300 BC. They are traditionally believed to have been either written,edited or commented by Confucius or one of his disciples. Starting in the Han dynasty,they became the core of the Chinese classics on which students were tested in the Imperial examination system.
William Theodore de Bary was an American Sinologist and scholar of East Asian philosophy who was a professor and administrator at Columbia University for nearly 70 years.
Northwestern University Press is an American publishing house affiliated with Northwestern University in Evanston,Illinois. It publishes 70 new titles each year in the areas of continental philosophy,poetry,Slavic and German literary criticism,Chicago regional studies,African American intellectual history,theater and performance studies,and fiction. Parneshia Jones is director of the press. It is a member of the Association of University Presses.
Jerome John McGann is an American academic and textual scholar whose work focuses on the history of literature and culture from the late eighteenth century to the present.
Microaggression is a term used for commonplace verbal,behavioral or environmental slights,whether intentional or unintentional,that communicate hostile,derogatory,or negative attitudes toward stigmatized or culturally marginalized groups. The term was coined by Harvard University psychiatrist Chester M. Pierce in 1970 to describe insults and dismissals which he regularly witnessed non-black Americans inflicting on African Americans. By the early 21st century,use of the term was applied to the casual disparagement of any socially marginalized group,including LGBT people,poor people,and disabled people. Psychologist Derald Wing Sue defines microaggressions as "brief,everyday exchanges that send denigrating messages to certain individuals because of their group membership". The persons making the comments may be otherwise well-intentioned and unaware of the potential impact of their words.
Achilles Chih-t'ung Fang was a Chinese scholar,translator,and educator,best known for his contributions to Chinese literature and comparative literature. Fang was born in Japanese-occupied Korea,but attended university in mainland China. After completing his undergraduate degree,Fang worked for Monumenta Serica,a prominent scholarly journal of Chinese topics. He then moved to the United States,where he took up residency in Cambridge,Massachusetts,studying and teaching courses at Harvard University.
Asian American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of Asian descent.
Russell Charles Leong is an academic editor,professor,writer,and long-time Chen-style tai chi student. The long-time editor of Amerasia Journal (1977–2010),Leong was an adjunct professor of English and Asian-American Studies at University of California,Los Angeles and currently serves as senior editor for international projects. He is the founding editor of the CUNY FORUM:Asian American / Asian Studies,published by the Asian American / Asian Research Institute - CUNY,and served as a Dr. Thomas Tam Visiting Professor at Hunter College/CUNY. He is the author of Phoenix Eyes and Other Stories which received the American Book Award. His most recent publication,MothSutra,a graphic poem about New York City restaurant bicycle deliverymen,was released in 2015.
The BYU College of Humanities was formed in 1965 by the division of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences into the College of Humanities and the College of Social Sciences. The College of Social Sciences was later merged into the College of Family,Home and Social Sciences although some of its programs were made part of the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies.
Kurtis R. Schaeffer is Professor of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Virginia and Chair of the Religious Studies department. His primary topics of research are the history of the regions of Nepal,India,Tibet,and China,with a focus on the forms of Buddhism present in these areas,most especially Tibetan Buddhism. Some specific issues he has been concentrated on include Indo-Tibetan poetry,the development of classical learning and printed literature in Tibetan cultural regions,and the history of women,saints,and Dalai Lamas in Tibet. For his work,Schaeffer has received Fulbright,Ryskamp,and Whiting fellowships.
The Hanging on Union Square:An American Epic is a novel by Chinese American author H.T. Tsiang,originally self-published in 1935. The story is about a man called "Mr. Nut" who sits in a cafeteria,and listens to the problems of the people around him. Mr. Nut himself is unemployed,however feels as though his condition is temporary and dreams of striking it rich. Throughout the story,the reader sees Mr. Nut transforming into a radical activist. The book shows multiple facets of the social strata within the streets of Greenwich Village. The first edition was self-published in 1935,after being rejected from numerous publishers. Tsiang places numerous rejection letters in the opening pages of the novel. True to Tsiang's radical aesthetic,the original copy does not show the title of the book,instead questioning what a book cover really is:“the cover of a book / is more of a book / than the book is a book.”The book was published in 2013 by Kaya Press,and edited by Floyd Cheung.
Author profiling is the analysis of a given set of texts in an attempt to uncover various characteristics of the author based on stylistic- and content-based features,or to identify the author. Characteristics analysed commonly include age and gender,though more recent studies have looked at other characteristics like personality traits and occupation
Ronna C. Johnson is a Professor of English at Tufts University in Medford,Massachusetts. Johnson is an established authority on the Beat Generation. She has worked as a fiction editor for ASPECT magazine,Zephyr Press,and Dark Horse magazine. She is also the co-editor of the Journal of Beat Studies published by Pace University Press,a founding board member of the Beat Studies Association,and the co-editor of the Beat Studies book series published by Clemson University Press/Liverpool University Press.
Kaya Press is an independent non-profit publisher of writers of the Asian and Pacific Islander diaspora. Founded in 1994 by the postmodern Korean writer Soo Kyung Kim,Kaya Press is currently housed in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.
Hsi Tseng Tsiang was a Chinese-American left-wing writer of novels,poetry,and plays. In his later years,he trained himself to be an actor in Hollywood. He was captivated with the proletarian movements and created literature works associated with the miserable life of the early Chinese Americans and the struggle of working-class in the United States. In his works,he created eccentric but radical figures,bold but self-deprecating images as instruments to serve his vision of a proletarian revolution.
