Jiangnan Li

Jiangnan Li is a Ph.D. candidate in the East Asian Languages and Civilizations Program of the School of International Letters and Cultures at Arizona State University. He currently serves as a teaching assistant/associate and has recently taught Chinese language courses and a course on premodern Chinese history. His dissertation "Imperial Power and the Three Teachings in Song China (960–1279): A History of Discourses" will explore the interactions and negotiations between imperial power and the Three Teachings of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism in the Song dynasty. By probing into these important power-cultural dynamics at the Song court, his research hopes to complicate scholars' understanding of the Confucian revival during the Song and reveal the behavioral patterns of imperial power and the Three Teachings.