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Tian Yuan Tan

Tian Yuan Tan (陳靝沅; born c. 1972) is a Singaporean scholar of Chinese literature. Since 2019, he has served as Shaw Professor of Chinese at the University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow of University College.[1][2] Prior to his appointment at Oxford, he was Professor of Chinese Studies at SOAS, University of London.[3]

Tian Yuan Tan
Born1971/1972 (age 50–51)
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Oxford
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese陳靝沅
Simplified Chinese陈靔沅
Hanyu PinyinChén Tiānyuán
Hokkien POJTân Thian-goán

Early life

Tan is from Singapore, where he did his secondary education at The Chinese High School (now part of the Hwa Chong Institution) and his bachelor's degree at the National University of Singapore.[4] He obtained his PhD from Harvard University in 2006 under the supervision of Wilt L. Idema, Wai-yee Li, and Stephen Owen.[5]

Career

Tan's main areas of research include pre-modern Chinese literature, with a special focus on late imperial drama, fiction, and poetry; Chinese literary history and historiography; court theatre and performance; and cross-cultural contacts between China and the world.[2] His 2011 Chinese-language publication A Critical Edition of Kang Hai's Songs with Notes, and Two Essays, the first critical edition of the complete sanqu songs of Kang Hai [zh] (1475–1541), was awarded second prize in both the 2011 National Excellent Classical Books Award (全國優秀古籍圖書獎) and Excellent Classical Books of East China Region Award  (華東地區古籍優秀圖書獎).[6]

He is an editorial board member of several academic journals and book series and served as Secretary-General of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS) from 2012 to 2018.[7][8]

Selected publications

Monographs

  • Passion, Romance, and Qing: The World of Emotions and States of Mind in Peony Pavilion. 3 Volumes. Leiden: Brill, 2014. (Co-authored with Paolo Santangelo)
  • Kang Hai sanqu ji jiaojian 康海散曲集校箋 (A Critical Edition of Kang Hai's Songs with Introduction, Notes, and Two Essays). Hangzhou: Zhejiang guji chubanshe, 2011. (Single-authored; PI of British Academy funded project, 2008-2010)
  • Songs of Contentment and Transgression: Discharged Officials and Literati Communities in Sixteenth-Century North China. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2010. (Single-authored)

Edited books

  • 1616: Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu's China. London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2016. (Lead Editor and PI of CCKF funded project (2014-15), with Paul Edmondson and Shih-pe Wang)
  • Yingyu shijie de Tang Xianzu yanjiu lunzhu xuanyi 英語世界的湯顯祖研究論著選譯 (An Anthology of Critical Studies on Tang Xianzu in Western Scholarship). Hangzhou: Zhejiang guji chubanshe, 2013. (Co-editor, with Xu Yongming; funded by Harvard-Yenching Institute and PRC International Project Network Grant)
  • Text, Performance, and Gender in Chinese Literature and Music: Essays in Honor of Wilt Idema. Leiden: Brill, 2009. xii, 468pp. (Co-editor, with Maghiel van Crevel and Michel Hockx)

Journal articles

  • “Springtime Passion and Literary Tradition in Peony Pavilion”, International Communication of Chinese Culture, Volume 3, Issue 1 (2016): 57–65.
  • “Emerging from Anonymity: The First Generation of Writers of Songs and Drama in Mid-Ming Nanjing,” T’oung Pao 96 (2010): 125–164.
  • “The Transmission of Sanqu Songs, Writers’ Reputation, and Literati Network in the Mid Ming: Local and Translocal Considerations,” Ming Qing Studies (2010): 193-215.
  • “A Collation and Annotation of Kang Hai’s Newly Discovered Song Collection Pandong yuefu houlu,” (Part 2) (in Chinese), with revisions by Sun Chongtao, Studies in Culture & Art (Wenhua yishu yanjiu), Volume 2, No. 5 (2009): 145–175.
  • “A Collation and Annotation of Kang Hai’s Newly Discovered Song Collection Pandong yuefu houlu,” (Part 1) (in Chinese), with revisions by Sun Chongtao, Studies in Culture & Art (Wenhua yishu yanjiu), Volume 2, No.4 (2009): 117–134.
  • “Contending with Displacement: Two Forms of Retirement in Wang Jiusi’s Songs and Drama,” (in Chinese), Journal of Theater Studies (Xiju yanjiu), 3 (2009): 49–74.
  • “The Wolf of Zhongshan and Ingrates: Problematic Literary Contexts in Sixteenth-Century China,” Asia Major, Third Series, Volume 20, Part 1 (2007): 105–131.
  • “The New Discovery of Kang Hai’s (1475-1541) Sanqu Collection and Its Significances,” (in Chinese), Zhongguo wenzhe yanjiu tongxun (Taipei: Academia Sinica), Volume 16, No.2 (2006): 75–91.
  • “Prohibition of Jiatou Zaju in the Ming Dynasty and the Portrayal of the Emperor on Stage,” Ming Studies, Number 49 (Spring 2004): 82-111.

Book chapters

  • “Song of Dragon Well Tea and Other Court Plays: Spectacle and Panegyrics”, in Patricia Sieber and Regina Llamas, eds. How to Read Chinese Drama. Columbia: Columbia University Press, under preparation.
  • “Ming Qing gongting juben zhi bianzhuan ji zuozhe wenti chutan” 明清宮廷剧本之編撰及作者問題初探 (A Preliminary Study of the Compilation and Authorship of Drama in Ming and Qing Imperial Courts), in Ming Qing gongtingshi xueshu yantaohui lunwenji, Vol. 2 (2017). Beijing: Gugong chubanshe, pp 435–447.
  • “Jiang Shiquan juzuo zhong de xi yu qu” 蔣士銓劇作中的“戲”與“曲” (Performance and Poetry in Jiang Shiquan's Dramatic Works), in Tsung-Cheng Lin and Zhang Bowei, eds., Cong chuantong dao xiandai de Zhongguo shixue 從傳統到現代的中國詩學 (From Tradition to Modernity: Poetic Transition from 18th to Early 20th Century China). Shanghai: Shanghai guji chubanshe, 2017, pp.30-47.
  • “Traditions and Transitions in Eighteenth-Century Qu Poetry: The Case of Jiang Shiquan (1725-1785)”, in Tiziana Lippiello, Chen Yuehong and Maddalena Barenghi, eds., Linking Ancient and Contemporary: Continuities and Discontinuities in Chinese Literature. Venice: Edizioni Ca'Foscari, 2016, pp.229-245. (Sinica Venetiana series)
  • “Introduction.,” in Tian Yuan Tan, Paul Edmondson, and Shih-pe Wang, eds., 1616: Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu's China. London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, pp. 1–4.
  • “Sixty Plays from the Ming Palace, 1615-18”, in Tian Yuan Tan, Paul Edmondson, and Shih-pe Wang, eds., 1616: Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu's China. London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2016, pp. 96-107.
  • “Shared Words and Worlds of Love in Peony Pavilion,” in Tian Yuan Tan and Paolo Santangelo, eds. Passion, Romance, and Qing: The World of Emotions and States of Mind in Peony Pavilion (3 vols.). Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2014, pp. 1454–1481.
  • “Tang Xianzu and Shakespeare: Two Theatrical Cultures in Global Perspective,” (in English and Chinese) in Tang Xianzu-Shashibiya wenhua gaofeng luntan ji Tang Xianzu he Wan Ming wenhua xueshu yantaohui lunwen ji, ed.  Society of Chinese Theatre Studies (Tang Xianzu Branch) and Suichang Association of Social Sciences. Hangzhou: Zhejiang University Press, 2012, 24–29.  
  • “Reflections on the Study of Court Theatre in Late Imperial China” (in Chinese), in Ming Qing gongtingshi xueshu yantaohui lunwenji (Volume 1), ed. Palace Museum. Beijing: Jijincheng chubanshe, 2011, pp.467-477.
  • “Rethinking Li Kaixian’s Editorship of Revised Plays by Yuan Masters: A Comparison with His Banter about Lyrics,” in Text, Performance, and Gender in Chinese Literature and Music: Essays in Honor of Wilt Idema, ed. Maghiel van Crevel, Tian Yuan Tan, and Michel Hockx. Leiden: Brill, 2009, pp.139-152.
  • “A Study of Kang Hai’s Composition of Southern Songs in His Later Years, Along with a Discussion on the Tune Title Langtaosha,” (in Chinese) Mingdai wenxue lunji, ed. Chen Qingyuan. Fuzhou: Haixia wenyi chubanshe, 2009, pp.1065-1076.
  • “The Sovereign and the Theater: Reconsidering the Impact of Ming Taizu’s Prohibitions,” Chapter 9 in Long Live the Emperor: Uses of the Ming Founder across Six Centuries of East Asian History, ed. Sarah Schneewind. Ming Studies Research Series, Number 4. Minneapolis: Society for Ming Studies, 2008, pp.149-169.
  • “The Discovery of Materials Related to the Mid Ming Writer Kang Hai and Its Significances,” (in Chinese) in Zhongguo Xiju: Cong Chuantong dao Xiandai (Chinese Drama: From Traditional to Modern Forms), ed. Dong Jian and Rong Guangrun. Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 2006, pp.179-196.
  • “A Study of a ‘New’ Huaben Story in Jingshi tongyan: ‘Ye Fashi Fushi Zhenyao’ (Exorcist Ye Subdues the Demon with a Charmed Rock),” (in Chinese) in Mingdai xiaoshuo mianmianguan: Mingdai xiaoshuo guoji xueshu yantaohui lunwenji (Aspects of Ming Dynasty Fiction: Proceedings of the International Conference on Ming Fiction), ed. Kow Mei Kao and Huang Lin. Shanghai: Xuelin chubanshe, 2002, pp.354-371.

Recent research projects

  • ERC-funded project “TEXTCOURT: Linking the Textual Worlds of Chinese Court Theater, ca. 1600-1800”, Principal Investigator[9][10]
  • CCKF-funded project “Textual Forms and the Construction of Knowledge in Late Ming Qu Anthologies”, Co-Director (in collaboration with National Taiwan University)[11]
  • CCKF-funded project “Brave New Theatres: 1616 in China and England”[12][13]
  • British Academy-funded project “'Lost Songs' of Kang Hai (1475-1541)”[14]

References

  1. ^ "Tian Yuan Tan". University College Oxford. Retrieved 2019-11-06.
  2. ^ a b "Tian Yuan Tan 陳靝沅 | Faculty of Oriental Studies". www.orinst.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-11-06.
  3. ^ "Tian Yuan Tan appointed to the Shaw Professorship of Chinese | University of Oxford China Centre". Retrieved 2019-11-06.
  4. ^ 我国学者陈靝沅受委 牛津大学"邵逸夫汉学讲座教授" [Our country's scholar Tan Tian Yuan named University of Oxford Shaw Professor of Chinese]. Lianhe Zaobao. 12 June 2019. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  5. ^ "<i>Qu</i> writing in literati communities: Rediscovering <i>sanqu</i> songs and drama in sixteenth-century North China - ProQuest". search.proquest.com. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
  6. ^ "Two awards for Dr Tian Yuan Tan's book on Kang Hai's songs, News, SOAS, University of London". www.soas.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
  7. ^ "University College Record" (PDF). October 2019. p. 15. Retrieved 2019-11-12.
  8. ^ "Tan, Prof. Tian Yuan, (Born 24 April 1972), Shaw Professor of Chinese, University of Oxford, since 2019; Fellow of University College, Oxford, since 2019". Who's Who. 2019. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U293107. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4.
  9. ^ "Linking the Textual Worlds of Chinese Court Theater, ca. 1600-1800". Cordis. Retrieved 6 November 2019.
  10. ^ "Project Details | Digital Humanities @ Oxford". digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-11-06.
  11. ^ "Grant Recipients, 2017-2018 (II) — CCKF". Retrieved 2019-11-06.
  12. ^ "Brave New Theatres: 1616 in China and England — CCKF". www.cckf.org. Retrieved 2019-11-12.
  13. ^ "Brave New Theatres: 1616 in China and England | SOAS University of London". www.soas.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-11-12.
  14. ^ ""Lost Songs" of Kang Hai (1475-1541): China and Inner Asia Research Project: SOAS". www.soas.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-11-06.

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In this Chinese name the family name is Tan Tian Yuan Tan 陳靝沅 born c 1972 is a Singaporean scholar of Chinese literature Since 2019 he has served as Shaw Professor of Chinese at the University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow of University College 1 2 Prior to his appointment at Oxford he was Professor of Chinese Studies at SOAS University of London 3 Tian Yuan TanBorn1971 1972 age 50 51 Academic backgroundEducationUniversity of OxfordChinese nameTraditional Chinese陳靝沅Simplified Chinese陈靔沅Hanyu PinyinChen TianyuanHokkien POJTan Thian goan Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Selected publications 3 1 Monographs 3 2 Edited books 3 3 Journal articles 3 4 Book chapters 4 Recent research projects 5 ReferencesEarly life EditTan is from Singapore where he did his secondary education at The Chinese High School now part of the Hwa Chong Institution and his bachelor s degree at the National University of Singapore 4 He obtained his PhD from Harvard University in 2006 under the supervision of Wilt L Idema Wai yee Li and Stephen Owen 5 Career EditTan s main areas of research include pre modern Chinese literature with a special focus on late imperial drama fiction and poetry Chinese literary history and historiography court theatre and performance and cross cultural contacts between China and the world 2 His 2011 Chinese language publication A Critical Edition of Kang Hai s Songs with Notes and Two Essays the first critical edition of the complete sanqu songs of Kang Hai zh 1475 1541 was awarded second prize in both the 2011 National Excellent Classical Books Award 全國優秀古籍圖書獎 and Excellent Classical Books of East China Region Award 華東地區古籍優秀圖書獎 6 He is an editorial board member of several academic journals and book series and served as Secretary General of the European Association for Chinese Studies EACS from 2012 to 2018 7 8 Selected publications EditMonographs Edit Passion Romance and Qing The World of Emotions and States of Mind in Peony Pavilion 3 Volumes Leiden Brill 2014 Co authored with Paolo Santangelo Kang Hai sanqu ji jiaojian 康海散曲集校箋 A Critical Edition of Kang Hai s Songs with Introduction Notes and Two Essays Hangzhou Zhejiang guji chubanshe 2011 Single authored PI of British Academy funded project 2008 2010 Songs of Contentment and Transgression Discharged Officials and Literati Communities in Sixteenth Century North China Cambridge MA Harvard University Asia Center 2010 Single authored Edited books Edit 1616 Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu s China London Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare 2016 Lead Editor and PI of CCKF funded project 2014 15 with Paul Edmondson and Shih pe Wang Yingyu shijie de Tang Xianzu yanjiu lunzhu xuanyi 英語世界的湯顯祖研究論著選譯 An Anthology of Critical Studies on Tang Xianzu in Western Scholarship Hangzhou Zhejiang guji chubanshe 2013 Co editor with Xu Yongming funded by Harvard Yenching Institute and PRC International Project Network Grant Text Performance and Gender in Chinese Literature and Music Essays in Honor of Wilt Idema Leiden Brill 2009 xii 468pp Co editor with Maghiel van Crevel and Michel Hockx Journal articles Edit Springtime Passion and Literary Tradition in Peony Pavilion International Communication of Chinese Culture Volume 3 Issue 1 2016 57 65 Emerging from Anonymity The First Generation of Writers of Songs and Drama in Mid Ming Nanjing T oung Pao 96 2010 125 164 The Transmission of Sanqu Songs Writers Reputation and Literati Network in the Mid Ming Local and Translocal Considerations Ming Qing Studies 2010 193 215 A Collation and Annotation of Kang Hai s Newly Discovered Song Collection Pandong yuefu houlu Part 2 in Chinese with revisions by Sun Chongtao Studies in Culture amp Art Wenhua yishu yanjiu Volume 2 No 5 2009 145 175 A Collation and Annotation of Kang Hai s Newly Discovered Song Collection Pandong yuefu houlu Part 1 in Chinese with revisions by Sun Chongtao Studies in Culture amp Art Wenhua yishu yanjiu Volume 2 No 4 2009 117 134 Contending with Displacement Two Forms of Retirement in Wang Jiusi s Songs and Drama in Chinese Journal of Theater Studies Xiju yanjiu 3 2009 49 74 The Wolf of Zhongshan and Ingrates Problematic Literary Contexts in Sixteenth Century China Asia Major Third Series Volume 20 Part 1 2007 105 131 The New Discovery of Kang Hai s 1475 1541 Sanqu Collection and Its Significances in Chinese Zhongguo wenzhe yanjiu tongxun Taipei Academia Sinica Volume 16 No 2 2006 75 91 Prohibition of Jiatou Zaju in the Ming Dynasty and the Portrayal of the Emperor on Stage Ming Studies Number 49 Spring 2004 82 111 Book chapters Edit Song of Dragon Well Tea and Other Court Plays Spectacle and Panegyrics in Patricia Sieber and Regina Llamas eds How to Read Chinese Drama Columbia Columbia University Press under preparation Ming Qing gongting juben zhi bianzhuan ji zuozhe wenti chutan 明清宮廷剧本之編撰及作者問題初探 A Preliminary Study of the Compilation and Authorship of Drama in Ming and Qing Imperial Courts in Ming Qing gongtingshi xueshu yantaohui lunwenji Vol 2 2017 Beijing Gugong chubanshe pp 435 447 Jiang Shiquan juzuo zhong de xi yu qu 蔣士銓劇作中的 戲 與 曲 Performance and Poetry in Jiang Shiquan s Dramatic Works in Tsung Cheng Lin and Zhang Bowei eds Cong chuantong dao xiandai de Zhongguo shixue 從傳統到現代的中國詩學 From Tradition to Modernity Poetic Transition from 18th to Early 20th Century China Shanghai Shanghai guji chubanshe 2017 pp 30 47 Traditions and Transitions in Eighteenth Century Qu Poetry The Case of Jiang Shiquan 1725 1785 in Tiziana Lippiello Chen Yuehong and Maddalena Barenghi eds Linking Ancient and Contemporary Continuities and Discontinuities in Chinese Literature Venice Edizioni Ca Foscari 2016 pp 229 245 Sinica Venetiana series Introduction in Tian Yuan Tan Paul Edmondson and Shih pe Wang eds 1616 Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu s China London Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare pp 1 4 Sixty Plays from the Ming Palace 1615 18 in Tian Yuan Tan Paul Edmondson and Shih pe Wang eds 1616 Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu s China London Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare 2016 pp 96 107 Shared Words and Worlds of Love in Peony Pavilion in Tian Yuan Tan and Paolo Santangelo eds Passion Romance and Qing The World of Emotions and States of Mind in Peony Pavilion 3 vols Leiden Boston Brill 2014 pp 1454 1481 Tang Xianzu and Shakespeare Two Theatrical Cultures in Global Perspective in English and Chinese in Tang Xianzu Shashibiya wenhua gaofeng luntan ji Tang Xianzu he Wan Ming wenhua xueshu yantaohui lunwen ji ed Society of Chinese Theatre Studies Tang Xianzu Branch and Suichang Association of Social Sciences Hangzhou Zhejiang University Press 2012 24 29 Reflections on the Study of Court Theatre in Late Imperial China in Chinese in Ming Qing gongtingshi xueshu yantaohui lunwenji Volume 1 ed Palace Museum Beijing Jijincheng chubanshe 2011 pp 467 477 Rethinking Li Kaixian s Editorship of Revised Plays by Yuan Masters A Comparison with His Banter about Lyrics in Text Performance and Gender in Chinese Literature and Music Essays in Honor of Wilt Idema ed Maghiel van Crevel Tian Yuan Tan and Michel Hockx Leiden Brill 2009 pp 139 152 A Study of Kang Hai s Composition of Southern Songs in His Later Years Along with a Discussion on the Tune Title Langtaosha in Chinese Mingdai wenxue lunji ed Chen Qingyuan Fuzhou Haixia wenyi chubanshe 2009 pp 1065 1076 The Sovereign and the Theater Reconsidering the Impact of Ming Taizu s Prohibitions Chapter 9 in Long Live the Emperor Uses of the Ming Founder across Six Centuries of East Asian History ed Sarah Schneewind Ming Studies Research Series Number 4 Minneapolis Society for Ming Studies 2008 pp 149 169 The Discovery of Materials Related to the Mid Ming Writer Kang Hai and Its Significances in Chinese in Zhongguo Xiju Cong Chuantong dao Xiandai Chinese Drama From Traditional to Modern Forms ed Dong Jian and Rong Guangrun Beijing Zhonghua shuju 2006 pp 179 196 A Study of a New Huaben Story in Jingshi tongyan Ye Fashi Fushi Zhenyao Exorcist Ye Subdues the Demon with a Charmed Rock in Chinese in Mingdai xiaoshuo mianmianguan Mingdai xiaoshuo guoji xueshu yantaohui lunwenji Aspects of Ming Dynasty Fiction Proceedings of the International Conference on Ming Fiction ed Kow Mei Kao and Huang Lin Shanghai Xuelin chubanshe 2002 pp 354 371 Recent research projects EditERC funded project TEXTCOURT Linking the Textual Worlds of Chinese Court Theater ca 1600 1800 Principal Investigator 9 10 CCKF funded project Textual Forms and the Construction of Knowledge in Late Ming Qu Anthologies Co Director in collaboration with National Taiwan University 11 CCKF funded project Brave New Theatres 1616 in China and England 12 13 British Academy funded project Lost Songs of Kang Hai 1475 1541 14 References Edit Tian Yuan Tan University College Oxford Retrieved 2019 11 06 a b Tian Yuan Tan 陳靝沅 Faculty of Oriental Studies www orinst ox ac uk Retrieved 2019 11 06 Tian Yuan Tan appointed to the Shaw Professorship of Chinese University of Oxford China Centre Retrieved 2019 11 06 我国学者陈靝沅受委 牛津大学 邵逸夫汉学讲座教授 Our country s scholar Tan Tian Yuan named University of Oxford Shaw Professor of Chinese Lianhe Zaobao 12 June 2019 Retrieved 21 July 2021 lt i gt Qu lt i gt writing in literati communities Rediscovering lt i gt sanqu lt i gt songs and drama in sixteenth century North China ProQuest search proquest com Retrieved 2019 11 07 Two awards for Dr Tian Yuan Tan s book on Kang Hai s songs News SOAS University of London www soas ac uk Retrieved 2019 11 07 University College Record PDF October 2019 p 15 Retrieved 2019 11 12 Tan Prof Tian Yuan Born 24 April 1972 Shaw Professor of Chinese University of Oxford since 2019 Fellow of University College Oxford since 2019 Who s Who 2019 doi 10 1093 ww 9780199540884 013 U293107 ISBN 978 0 19 954088 4 Linking the Textual Worlds of Chinese Court Theater ca 1600 1800 Cordis Retrieved 6 November 2019 Project Details Digital Humanities Oxford digital humanities ox ac uk Retrieved 2019 11 06 Grant Recipients 2017 2018 II CCKF Retrieved 2019 11 06 Brave New Theatres 1616 in China and England CCKF www cckf org Retrieved 2019 11 12 Brave New Theatres 1616 in China and England SOAS University of London www soas ac uk Retrieved 2019 11 12 Lost Songs of Kang Hai 1475 1541 China and Inner Asia Research Project SOAS www soas ac uk Retrieved 2019 11 06 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Tian Yuan Tan amp oldid 1143887266, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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