Student Information
Graduate Student
Asian Languages and Civilizations (Chinese)
The College of Lib Arts & Sci
Long Bio
Rishi Mahendran Nair (姓名: 江智源) is an Master's student in the East Asian Languages & Civilizations (Chinese) Program. He received his Bachelor's degree in East Asian Studies at Western Washington University
What drives his research in Chinese poetry are questions related to the complex relationship between the religious, literary, and natural worlds, and how their environments continuously interact in the creation, evaluation, product, and culture of poetry from the Six Dynasties (220 - 589 CE) through the Tang (618 - 907 CE). His current projects revolve around the literati class and poetry creation as religious practice.
Education
B.A. East Asian Studies (Concentration: Chinese Studies), Western Washington University
Research Interests
- Religious dimensions of poetry and literati culture in Medieval China
- The Chinese environmental imagination
- Indian influence on Chinese poetics
- Sino-Buddhist Literature
Research Activity
Transcribing Heaven: Lu Ji's Wenfu and the Making of Chinese Literary Spirituality
A Scholar in Disguise: The Hagiography of Huineng and its Literati Resonances