Presentations

1: Poetry and Description

Eric Hayot, Penn State U, University Park

2: Poetry’s Ambivalent Beginning: Theoretical and Empirical Poetics of the Han Dynasty

Di Wang, Washington U in St. Louis

3: Chinese Poetry as a Shifting Genre and Antigenre? Palace Poems by Lady Blossom and Poets of the Tang-Song Periods

Yiwen Zheng, Indiana U, Bloomington

4: Freed from the Shackles of Prosody: The Death and Afterlife of Classical Chinese Poetry

Chloe Estep, Columbia U

Presider

Jack W. Chen, U of Virginia

Respondent

Michael Fuller, U of California, Irvine