Nicholas Morrow Williams

Books

1. Imitations of the Self: Jiang Yan and Chinese Poetics. Sole-authored monograph. Leiden: Brill, 2015. Sinica Leidensia volume 118.
2. Southern Identity and Southern Estrangement in Medieval Chinese Poetry. Co-edited with Wang Ping. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2015.
3. The Residue of Dreams: Selected Poems of Jao Tsung-i. Translations with scholarly introduction and annotation. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell East Asia Series, 2016.
4. The Fu Genre of Imperial China: Studies in the Rhapsodic Imagination. Sole editor. Leeds, U.K.: Arc Humanities Press, 2019. Distributed by Amsterdam University Press. East Meets West: East Asia and its Periphery from 200 BCE to 1600 CE series.
5. Elegies of Chu: An Anthology of Poetic Masterpieces from Ancient China. Translator. Oxford World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
6. Reading Fu Poetry: From the Han to Song Dynasties. Sole editor. Leeds, U.K.: Arc Humanities Press, 2022. Distributed by Amsterdam University Press. East Meets West: East Asia and its Periphery from 200 BCE to 1600 CE series.
7. Chinese Poetry as Soul Summoning: Shamanistic Religious Influences on Chinese Literary Tradition. Sole-authored monograph. Cambria Sinophone World Series, edited by Victor Mair. Amherst, N.Y.: Cambria Press, 2022.

Journal Articles

1. “A Conversation in Poems: Xie Lingyun, Xie Huilian, and Jiang Yan.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 127.4 (2008): 491–506.
2.  “The Half-Life of Half-Rhyme.” Early Medieval China 17 (2011): 22–50.
3. “Two Quasi-Homophonous Texts” 兩篇同音字構成的文章. Zhongguo fanyi (Chinese Translators Journal) 32 (2011): 90–92.
4. “The Metaphysical Lyric of the Six Dynasties.” T’oung Pao 98.1-3 (2012): 65–112.
5.  “Self-Portrait as Sea Anemone, and Other Impersonations of Jiang Yan.” Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 34 (2012): 131–57.
6. “Pan Yue’s ‘Study of a Widow’ and Its Predecessors.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 132.3 (2012): 347–65.
7.  “The Taste of the Ocean: Jiaoran’s Theory of Poetry.” Tang Studies 31 (2013): 87–113.
8. “Irony and Death in the Writings of Liu Zhen.” Bulletin of the Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology 1 (2014): 325–52.
9. “Zhengming, xuetong, zhiyin: David Knechtges’ Influence on Myself and American Sinology” 正名·學統·知音：康達維對我的啓發及對美國漢學的影響. Guoji Hanxue yanjiu tongxun 9 (2014): 320–29.
10. “Li Bai’s ‘Rhapsody on the Hall of Light’: A Singular Vision of Cosmic Order.” T’oung Pao 101.1–3 (2015): 35–97.
11. “Literary Controversy at the Liang Court Revisited.” Early Medieval China 21 (2015): 63–92.
12. “Angelo Zottoli’s Cursus Litteraturæ Sinicæ as Propaedeutic to Chinese Classical Tradition.” Monumenta Serica 63.2 (2015): 327–59.
13.  “Being Alive: Doctrine versus Experience in the Writings of Yamanoue no Okura.” Sino-Japanese Studies 23 (2016): 60–115.
14. “Quasi-Phantasmal Flowers: An Aspect of Wang Wei’s Mahāyāna Poetics.” Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 39 (2017): 27–53.
15. “Tropes of Entanglement and Strange Loops in the ‘Nine Avowals’ of the Chuci.” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 81.2 (2018): 277–300.
16. “Real Words Are Not Vain: Reading Witter Bynner’s Laozi Translation as Creative Interpretation.” Translation Quarterly 88 (2018): 85–115.
17. “‘Roaming the Infinite’: Liu Xiang as Chuci Reader and Would-be Transcendent.” Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Literature 20 (2018): 49–112.
18. “Shamans, Souls, and Soma: Comparative Religion and Early China.” Journal of Chinese Religions 48.2 (2020): 148–73.
19. “Beyond Arbitrariness: Kūkai’s Theory of Languages and Scripts.” Journal of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition 4 (2021): 77–94.
20. “Kūkai’s Transcultural Rhetoric of Prayer: on his Writings Inspired by the Chinese “Prayer Text” (yuanwen 願文).” Studies in Chinese Religions 8 (2022): 1–27.
21. “A Constant Cascade: Ancient and Medieval Verse on the Four Waterways.” Religions 13.2 (2022): 166 [1–17].
22. “The Topos of the World Upside-Down Turned Rightside-Up: Liu Xiang and Political Rhetoric in Early China.” Asia Major 3rd ser. 35 (2022): 33–73.

Book Chapters

1. “The Morality of Drunkenness in Chinese Literature of the Third Century C.E.” In Isaac Yue and Siu-fu Tang, eds., Scribes of Gastronomy: Representations of Food and Drink in Imperial Chinese Literature, 27–43. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2013.
2. “Southland as Symbol.” Coauthored with Wang Ping. In coedited volume Southern Identity and Southern Estrangement in Medieval Chinese Poetry (A2), 1–18.
3. “The Pity of Spring: A Southern Topos Reimagined by Wang Bo and Li Bai.” In coedited volume Southern Identity and Southern Estrangement in Medieval Chinese Poetry (A2), 137–63.
4. “Considering the Authenticity of Song Yu’s Works in Light of Dialogic Structures in the Chuci Anthology” 從《楚辭》的對話結構看宋玉作品的真偽問題. In Li Ao 李驁 et al., eds., Song Yu and His Rhapsodies: Second International Conference Volume 宋玉及其辭賦研究：第二屆宋玉國際學術研討會論文集, 70–76. Beijing: Xueyuan chubanshe, 2015.
5. “Lu Ji ji” 陸機集. In Cynthia L. Chennault, et al., ed., Six Dynasties Texts: A Bibliographical Guide, 188–92. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015.
6. “Pan Yue ji” 潘岳集. In Six Dynasties Texts: A Bibliographical Guide, 220–24.
7. “The Formation of the Utopian Concept of the Pure Land in East Asian Literary Traditions” 淨土烏托邦概念在東亞文學傳統的形成. In Whose Utopia? 500 Years of Reflection and Debate 誰的烏托邦：500年來的反思與辯證, 267–84. Taipei: Taiwan Normal University Press, 2017.
8.  “The Shijing: The Collection of Three Hundred.” Coauthored with Chen Zhi. F.-H. Mutschler, ed., The Homeric Epics and the Chinese Book of Songs: Foundational Texts Compared, 255–82. Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
9. “ ‘Whom Are You Thinking of?’: Unmarked Dialogue in Classical Chinese Poetry and Its Hermeneutical Significance”“云誰之思?”––––中國詩詞中的無標記對話及其詮釋學意義. In Zhang Hongsheng 張宏生, ed., Modern Perspectives on Classical Poetics: Leading Research on Chinese Poetics 古典詩學的現代觀照———中國詩學研究前沿國際論壇論文集, 1–28. Nanjing: Fenghuang chubanshe, 2018.
10.  “Introduction: The Rhapsodic Imagination.” In The Fu Genre (A4), 1–15.
11. “The Metaphysical Rhapsody of the Six Dynasties.” In The Fu Genre (A4), 113–39.
12. “Sublimating Sorrow: How to Embrace Contradiction in Translating the ‘Li sao.’” In Chinese Poetry and Translation: Rights and Wrongs, ed. van Crevel and Klein, 181–99. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019.
13. “Kūkai at Prayer: Esoteric Buddhism and Kanbun Rhetoric in a Ganmon Text” 祈祷する弘法大師：密教と漢文学の間にある願文. The Trajectory of Japanese Kanbun: On Methodology, Achievements, and Possibility 日本漢文学の射程：その方法、達成と可能性に関する, 238–58. Co-edited by Wang Xiaolin and Maki Senjurō. Tokyo: Kyūko shoin, 2019.
14. “Preface.” In Reading Fu Poetry (A6), ix–xiii.
15. “Inventing the Fu: Simulated Spontaneity in Sima Xiangru’s ‘Great Man.’” In Reading Fu Poetry (A6), 1–38.
16. “Translating Song Yu’s Jiu Bian: Phases of Appreciative Perception.” In Encountering China’s Past: Translation and Dissemination of Classical Chinese Literature, 249–69. Edited by L. Qi and S. Tobias. Singapore: Springer, 2022.

Review Articles

1. “Readings New and Old of Tao Yuanming.” Double review of Swartz, Reading Tao Yuanming: Shifting Paradigms of Historical Reception (427–1900), and Ashmore, The Transport of Reading: Text and Understanding in the World of Tao Qian (365–427). China Review International 18.3 (2011): 294–306.
2. “Sashimi and History: On a New Translation of Du Fu.” China Review International 21.3–4 (2014 [actually published January 2017]): 201–44.
3.  “Chinese Poetry and Its Contexts: On Two New Textbooks of Chinese Poetry.” Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 40 (2018): 125–39.

Book Reviews

1. Review of Stumpfeldt, Einundachtzig Han-Gedichte. China Review International 16.3 (2009): 378–82.
2. Review of Goh, Sound and Sight: Poetry and Courtier Culture in the Yongming Era. China Review International 18.3 (2011): 327–32.
3. Review of Beecroft, Authorship and Cultural Identity in Early Greece and China: Patterns of Literary Circulation. China Review International 19.1 (2012): 45–52.
4. Review of Sukhu, The Shaman and the Heresiarch: A New Interpretation of the Li sao. Journal of Chinese Religions 41 (2013): 86–87.
5. Review of Schmidt, The Poet Zheng Zhen (1806–1864) and the Rise of Chinese Modernity. Bulletin of the Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology 2 (2015): 413–19.
6. Review of Swartz, et al., Early Medieval China: A Sourcebook. T’oung Pao 101.1–3 (2015): 246–52.
7. Review of Warner, Transmitting Authority: Wang Tong (ca. 584–617) and the Zhongshuo in Medieval Chinese Manuscript Culture. Journal of the American Oriental Society 136.1 (2016): 149–51.
8. Review of Li, Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese Literature. Bulletin of the Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology 3 (2016): 371–76.
9. Review of Nagata, Tōdai no bungaku riron: “fukko” to “sōshin” 唐代の文学理論：「復古」と「創新」. Tang Studies 34 (2016): 128–32.
10. Review of Höckelmann, Li Deyu (787–850): Religion und Politik in der Tang-Zeit. Tang Studies 35 (2017): 120–23.
11. Review of Yang, Dialectics of Spontaneity: The Aesthetics and Ethics of Su Shi (1037–1101) in Poetry. Frontiers of Literary Studies in China 12 (2018): 704–8.
12. Double review of Nanxiu Qian, Richard J. Smith, and Bowei Zhang, eds., Reexamining the Sinosphere: Cultural Transmissions and Transformations in East Asia, and idem, Rethinking the Sinosphere: Poetics, Aesthetics, and Identity Formation. Journal of Oriental Studies 51.1 (2021): 201–9.
13. Review of Werzner, Ein neuer Klang der alten Lieder: Eine Analyse des Bedeutungsbegriffs in qingzeitlichen Shijing-kommentaren. Bulletin of the Jao Tsung-I Institute of Sinology 9 (2022): 439–45.
14. Review of Jülch, The Zhenzheng lun by Xuanyi: A Buddhist Apologetic Scripture of Tang China. Tang Studies 40 (2022): 184–89.
15. Review of Ni, The Tale of Genji and Its Chinese Precursors: Beyond the Boundaries of Nation, Class, and Gender. Journal of Japanese Studies 49.1 (2023): 234–38.

Miscellaneous Translations from Chinese to English (Articles, Book Chapters, and Book)

1. Seven chapters in Chinese Ceramics: From the Paleolithic Period through the Qing Dynasty (The Culture & Civilization of China). New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.
2. Three chapters in Chinese Silks (The Culture & Civilization of China). New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012.
3. Thirteen chapters in Yuan Xingpei, et al., The History of Chinese Civilization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. English text edited by David R. Knechtges.
4. Review by Sun Changwu of Knechtges and Chang, Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature: A Reference Guide, Part One. T’oung Pao 98.4–5 (2012): 590–93.
5. Cheng Yu-yu, “A New Discourse on ‘Lament For The South’ in the Fu of the Ming-Qing Transition.” In A4, The Fu Genre, 187–222.
6. Ngai, Pauline. A Thousand Auspicious Meanings: Chinese Porcelain Teapots from the Sapientia Collection for the Domestic Market (Volumes I & II). 2 vols. Translation from Chinese to English by Nicholas Morrow Williams. Lisbon: Jorge Welsh, 2022.
7. “Offering Text for My Twelfth Nephew” by Han Yu. In Classic Chinese Poems of Mourning and Texts of Lament, ed. Victor Mair and Zhenjun Zhang, 135–39. London: Bloomsbury, 2024.
8. “Offering Text for Lü Wen, Prefect of Hengzhou” by Liu Zongyuan. In Classic Chinese Poems of Mourning and Texts of Lament, ed. Victor Mair and Zhenjun Zhang, 140–43. London: Bloomsbury, 2024.
9. “Memorial at the Tomb Path on Shuanggang” by Ouyang Xiu. In Classic Chinese Poems of Mourning and Texts of Lament, ed. Victor Mair and Zhenjun Zhang, 153–56. London: Bloomsbury, 2024.