California State University, Sacramento

BIO

Dr. Amelia Ying Qin received her Doctoral degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She had taught at the University of Houston and the University of Pittsburgh prior to coming to California State University, Sacramento.

Fall 2022 Courses

• HIST 148A: China: Antiquity to 1600
• HRS 70: Arts and Ideas of Asia: Ancient to Medieval
• HRS 171: Introduction to the East Asian World

Selected Publications

Forthcoming translation. “Zhao shijia” 趙世家 (Chapter 43: Hereditary House of Zhao). In The Grand Scribe’s Records, ed. William H. Nienhauser, Jr. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2023.

Two entries "Xu Hun" 許渾 (with Shuxiang You), 410–13, and "Yao He" 姚合, 437–39. In the Biographical Dictionary of Tang Dynasty Literati, eds. William H. Nienhauser, Jr. and Michael E. Naparstek. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2022.

Book review: Anecdote, Network, Gossip, Performance: Essays on the Shishuo xinyu, by Jack W. Chen. Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 124. Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 43 (2021): 187–90.

“Anecdotes for Reminders: Performed Oral Culture in the ‘Guji liezhuan’ 滑稽列傳.” Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 42 (2020): 1–32.

“Particularly Unusual, Definitely True: Anecdotes as Political Criticism in the Late Tang Miscellany Songchuang zalu 松窗雜錄.” Oriens Extremus 56 (2017): 117–70. (came out 2019)

“From Beyond Time and Space: Master Zhuang’s Cosmogony and Modern Physics.” In What Difference Does Time Make? Papers from the Ancient and Islamic Middle East and China in Honor of the 100th Anniversary of the Midwest Branch of the American Oriental Society, eds. JoAnn Scurlock and Richard H. Beal, 15–28. Oxford, UK: Archaeopress, 2019.

“Molded by Culture: Memories of the Wang Family from Taiyuan in Northern Song Genres and Networks.” Journal of Song-Yuan Studies 47 (2017–2018): 33–84.

“An Introductory Study of the Tang yulin (Forest of Conversations on the Tang): Textual History, Source Material, and the Influences It Received.” Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies 清華學報 (Special Issue on Song Dynasty Brush Jottings 宋代筆記專刊), New Series 48.2 (June 2018): 419–56.

Book review: Song Dynasty Tales: A Guided Reader, trans. by Zhenjun Zhang and Jing Wang. Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 39 (2017): 178–80.

Book review: Negotiated Power: The State, Elites and Local Governance in Twelfth- to Fourteenth-Century China, by Sukhee Lee. Harvard East Asian Monographs 371. Journal of Asian Studies 75, no. 1 (Feb. 2016): 223–24.

Book review: Shishuo xinyu zhengti yanjiu 世說新語整體研究 (An Integrated Study of A New Account of Tales of the World), by Lily Lee. The Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia (JOSA) 46 (2014): 162–66.

Book review: Willow Catkins, Festschrift for Dr Lily Xiaohong Lee on the Occasion of Her 75th Birthday, edited by Shirley Chan, Barbara Hendrischke, and Sue Wiles. The Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia (JOSA) 46 (2014): 158–62.

“In Search of Tang Oral Literature: A Short Review of Western Studies.” In Duoyuan shijiao yu wenxue wenhua: Gudian wenxue lunji 多元視角與文學文化：古典文學論集 (Multiple Perspectives & Literary Culture: Essays on Classical Chinese Literature, in Chinese & English), eds. Qu Jingyi and Li Jia, 252–77. Beijing & Hefei: Beijing Normal University Publishing Group & Anhui University Press, 2014.

“The Joy and Heaviness of Chinese Heritage and the Role of Chinese-American Children’s and Young Adult Literature.” The Dragon Lode: Journal of the Children’s Literature and Reading Special Interest Group, International Reading Association 32, no. 1 (Fall 2013): 12–20.

“Trends in Recent Studies on Multicultural Children’s Literature.” The Dragon Lode: Journal of the Children’s Literature and Reading Special Interest Group, International Reading Association 29, no. 2 (Spring 2011): 42–49.

(as Co-translator) “Han Changru liezhuan” 韓長孺列傳 (Chapter 108: Memoir 48). In The Grand Scribe’s Records, vol. 9, ed. William H. Nienhauser, Jr., 173–99. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2010.

(as Co-translator) 12 poems by Mo Fei, Xudong Hu, and De-an Lü. In Another Kind of Nation: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Poetry, eds. Zhang Er and Chen Dongdong, 83–96, 151–72, 193–99. Jersey City, NJ: Talisman House Publishers, 2007.