Position:
Associate Faculty member from 21st October 2021 to the 14th October 2024
Stanley Ho Junior Research Fellow in Chinese Studies
Faculty / College Address:
Pembroke College, St Aldates, Oxford, OX1 1DW
Email:
xiaojing.miao@pmb.ox.ac.uk
Research interest:
medieval Chinese literature and culture (roughly 100 to 900 CE), rhetoric, historiography, and humor studies.
Current projects:
My current book project, tentatively titled Mirrors and Masks: Showing Selves in Tang Literature (618-766), explores Tang literati’s self-representation.
Courses taught:
Literature Courses
Mirrors and Masks: Self-representation in Premodern China
Masterpieces of Chinese Literature in Translation
Swordsmen and -women in Chinese Literature
Women and the Supernatural in Chinese Literature
Advanced Writing Course
Advanced Writing Topics on Chinese & Japanese Literature
Language Courses
Classical Chinese
Advanced Reading in Modern Chinese
Beginning Chinese
Recent publications:
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
(under peer-review) “Defying the Times”: Liu Zhiji’s Resignation Letter Reconsidered,” T’ang Studies.
(accepted for publication) “Self-Praise with Wit: Yang Jiong and other Tang Literati,” Journal of the American Oriental Society.
“Self-Display and Farewell Counsel: The Occasional Preface in the Early and High Tang,” T’ang Studies, 37(2019): 1–29.
Book Reviews
Reading Du Fu: Nine Views, ed. Xiaofei Tian (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2020). Journal of the American Oriental Society, 141.2 (2021): 463-66.
Xiaofei Tian, The Halberd at Red Cliff: Jian’an and the Three Kingdoms (Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2018). The Journal of Asian Studies, 79.4 (2020): 998-1000.
Ao Wang, Spatial Imaginaries in Mid-Tang China: Geography, Cartography, and Literature (Amherst, N.Y.: Cambria Press, 2018). Journal of the American Oriental Society, 140.3 (2020): 725–26.
Translation
Paul W. Kroll, “Heyue yingling ji and the Attributes of Tang Verse” (《河岳英靈集》與盛唐詩歌的特征), in Wuma yu Xunyuan: Ke Rui zixuanji 舞馬與馴鳶：柯睿自選集, ed. Chen Weiqiang 陳偉強 (Nanjing: Nanjing daxue chubanshe, 2021), 288-324.
Paul W. Kroll, “Aid and Comfort: Lu Zhaolin’s Letters” (援助與慰藉：盧照鄰的書信), to be published by Jiangsu fenghuang chubanshe in 2021.
Full publications:
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
(under peer-review) “Defying the Times”: Liu Zhiji’s Resignation Letter Reconsidered,” T’ang Studies.
(accepted for publication) “Self-Praise with Wit: Yang Jiong and other Tang Literati,” Journal of the American Oriental Society.
“Self-Display and Farewell Counsel: The Occasional Preface in the Early and High Tang,” T’ang Studies, 37(2019): 1–29.
“Li Bai ‘Gufeng’ qiyi ‘wo zhi zai shan shu’ jie” 李白《古風》其一“我志在刪述”解 (“Interpretation of ‘I Aspire to Edit and Transmit’ in Li Bai’s First ‘Ancient Airs’ Poem”), Wenshi zhishi 2014.10: 46–51.
Articles in Edited Volumes
(forthcoming) “Authenticating Self-representation: Authenticity as a Rhetorical Effect,” in Understanding Authenticity in Chinese Cultural Heritage, ed. Dr Anke Hein and Christopher Foster, to be published by Routledge in 2022.
“Li Bai Gufeng zushi timing bianzuan qingkuang kaoshu” 李白《古風》組詩題名、編纂情況考述 (“Reconsidering the Title and Compilation of Li Bai’s ‘Ancient Airs’ Poems”), in Zhongguo Li Bai yanjiu: 2014 nianji 中國李白研究：2014年集. ed. Zhongguo Li Bai Yanjiuhui 中國李白研究會, and Maanshan Li Bai Yanjiusuo 馬鞍山李白研究所 (Anhui: Huangshan shushe, 2014), 107–15.
“Li Bai xinyuefu bianyi” 李白新樂府辨疑 (“Discussion on Li Bai’s New Ballads”), in Zhixinglu: Zhongyang minzu daxue wenxue yu xinwen chuanbo xueyuan jiaoxue yanjiu ji xuesheng xueshu xunlian chengguo xuanbian disanji 知行錄─中央民族大學文學與新聞傳播學院教學研究及學生學術訓練成果選編第三輯. ed.
Wenxue yu xinwen chuanbo xueyuan 文學與新聞傳播學院 (Beijing: Zhongyang minzu daxue chubanshe, 2012), 183–201.
Chapters in Handbooks
“Meiguo Tang shi yanjiu” 美國唐詩研究 (Studies on Tang Poetry in the U.S.), in Dabaike quanshu Tang shi zhuanti 大百科全書×唐詩專題, to be published in 2022.
Book Reviews
Reading Du Fu: Nine Views, ed. Xiaofei Tian (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2020). Journal of the American Oriental Society, 141.2 (2021): 463-66.
Xiaofei Tian, The Halberd at Red Cliff: Jian’an and the Three Kingdoms (Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2018). The Journal of Asian Studies, 79.4 (2020): 998-1000.
Ao Wang, Spatial Imaginaries in Mid-Tang China: Geography, Cartography, and Literature (Amherst, N.Y.: Cambria Press, 2018). Journal of the American Oriental Society, 140.3 (2020): 725–26.
Translation
Paul W. Kroll, “Heyue yingling ji and the Attributes of Tang Verse” (《河岳英靈集》與盛唐詩歌的特征), in Wuma yu Xunyuan: Ke Rui zixuanji 舞馬與馴鳶：柯睿自選集, ed. Chen Weiqiang 陳偉強 (Nanjing: Nanjing daxue chubanshe, 2021), 288-324.
Paul W. Kroll, “Aid and Comfort: Lu Zhaolin’s Letters” (援助與慰藉：盧照鄰的書信), to be published by Jiangsu fenghuang chubanshe in 2021.
