This workshop, founded and organized by Professor Wendy Swartz and funded by the Chiang Ching-kuo (CCK) Foundation, is a major academic forum for the exchange of ideas and the advancement of scholarship.
9:30 Welcome Remarks and Breakfast
10:00 Paul R. Goldin, The Etyma of Xunzi’s Philosophical Keywords
Discussant: Michael Puett
11:10 Ping Wang, Revisiting the South Mountain: A Philological Journey
Discussant: Robert Ford Campany
12:15 Lunch
1:40 Dominic Toscano, Rethinking the 'Transitional Poet': Gradual Innovation and the Case of Yin Keng (511?–c. 563)
Discussant: Wendy Swartz
2:50 Manling Luo, The Pragmatic Hermeneutics in the Trivial Words from the North of Yunmeng (Beimeng suoyan)
Discussant: Meow Hui Goh
4:00 Coffee Break
4:30 Alexei Ditter, Remembering Through Verse: Reflections on the Role of Poetry in Late Medieval Entombed Epitaphs
Discussant: Sarah M. Allen
5:30 Conclusion
About This Workshop:
The 17th Annual Meeting of the Chinese Late Classical and Medieval Studies Workshop will be held on Saturday, May 2, 2026. This workshop, founded and organized by Professor Wendy Swartz and funded by the Chiang Ching-kuo (CCK) Foundation, is a major academic forum for the exchange of ideas and the advancement of scholarship. Scholars from across the United States working on late classical and medieval Chinese literature, history, religion, and visual culture, have been meeting annually in this forum since 2003 to discuss their current research. Ground-breaking research and methodology first presented at these workshops have found their way into notable books and journal articles.
Participants:
Sarah M. Allen (Williams College), Robert F. Campany (Vanderbilt University), Alexei Ditter (Reed College), Meow Hui Goh (Ohio State University), Paul Goldin (University of Pennsylvania), Yuanqiu Jiang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Manling Luo (Indiana University), Michael Puett (Harvard University), Wendy Swartz (Rutgers University), Dominic Toscano (Oberlin College), Mengling Wang (Colgate University), Ping Wang (University of Washington)