Education
1. Secondary:
G.W. Hewlett High School, Hewlett, New York (1962)
Honors: Valedictorian of graduating class
2. Undergraduate:
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, A.B. 1967, Department of Oriental
Studies
Honors: University Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa, graduated summa cum laude
3. Supplementary:
Inter-university Program for Chinese Language Studies in Taipei, National Taiwan University (1964-65)
Professional study of education, Hunter College (1968)
Intensive Chinese language training, Columbia University (1963)
4. Doctorate:
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, Ph.D. 1973, Department of East Asian Studies
Honors: Woodrow Wilson Fellowship (1967-68), Princeton National Fellow (1967-68)
National Defense Foreign Language Fellow (1971-73)
5. Language skills:
Academic fluency: Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese, Russian, Hebrew, French
Speaking and reading: Hungarian, Romanian, Yiddish, Modern Greek, Arabic, Turkish, Italian
Reading only: Latin, Classical Greek, Sanskrit, German, Norwegian, Swedish
III. Professional experience
1.Teaching positions:
1968-71 New York City Board of Education, P.S. 30 in Lower Manhattan
Duties: teacher of common branches, assigned to classes of newly
arrived Chinese-speaking students
1973 - Princeton University, Department of East Asian Studies, Associate
Professor (1976), Full Professor (1980), Emeritus Professor (2007)
Courses taught:
Introduction to Chinese Literature
The Chinese (Confucian) Classics: A Comparative Approach
The Chinese Novel
Comparative Approaches to Non-Western Narrative
Graduate seminars on various specialized subjects in Chinese and
Comparative Literature
Administrative responsibilities:
Departmental Representative: 1973-76, 1989-91
Director of Graduate Study: 1976-78, 1985-86, 2002-3
Acting Chairman: 1987-88
2009-12 Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of East Asian Studies
('teken hanasi')
2. Visiting Professor:
Tel-Aviv University, Department of Comparative Literature (fall, 1976, 1995-
2008)
Tokyo University, Department of Comparative Literature and Culture (spring,
1977)
Beijing University, Institute of Comparative Literature (spring, l989, spring
1993)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of East Asian Studies (spring,
l980, fall, l988, fall, 1992, 1994 through 2008)
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Comparative Literature (spring, 1993)
University of Toronto, Department of East Asian Studies (spring 2010)
New York University, Department of East Asian Studies (spring 2010, 2011)
University of California at Berkeley, Department of East Asian Studies (spring
2011)
3. Service to profession:
ACLS, Joint Committee on Chinese Studies, subcommittee on Chinese Literature
(1988-90)
CLEAR (Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews), Editorial Board
Princeton University Press, Princeton Library of Asian Translations, Advisory
Board
Sino-Judaic Institute, Board of Directors
“The Four Books:” Project Coordinator for series of Hebrew translations, Mosad
Bialik
Referee for fellowship and grant applications: National Endowment for the
Humanities, Committee for Scholarly Communication with the People’s
Republic of China, American Council of Learned Societies, etc.
4. Professional consulting:
Editor of Ancient Literature unit of Adventures in World Literature, Harcourt,
Brace, Jovanovich: preparation of teachers' manual
"Chinese Civilization: Change and Continuity, the T'ang," Student and Faculty
Guides
University of Washington (formerly Yale University) Press, Classics of Chinese
Thought (see 'Current Projects')
5· Grants and awards:
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, 1974
National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for Independent Study and
Research, 1976-77
American Council of Learned Societies, Grant for Research in Chinese
Civilization, 1980
Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China,
National Academy of Sciences, National Program for Advanced Study and
Research in China, 1984-85, 1989
Joseph Levenson Prize for best book on pre-twentieth century China, Association
for Asian Studies, 1989
Lady Davis Fellowship, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1992
6. Other academic experience abroad:
Japan: 1964 (language study); 1977, 84, 85, 86 (research)
Taiwan: 1964-65 (language study), 1975, 79, 80, 86 (conferences), 1993 (lecture), 2006, 2009 (lectures, conference), 2011 lectures
Hong Kong:1977 (research); 1989 (conference); 1993 (lectures); 2004 (conference), 2005
China: 1984-85 (research); 1986 (conference); 1989 (research); 1993 (lectures,
conferences, and publication project), 1997,2001, 2002, 2006, 2009 (conferences)
Soviet Union: 1982 (research and conference)
Hungary: 1976 (conference)
Greece: 1980 (language study)
Italy: 1982 (research), 2001 (conference)
France: 1965 (language study); 1976, 83, 87, 90 (research)
England: 1976, 83, 87 (research), 2009 (conference)
Netherlands: 1987 (research)
Romania: 1991 (lecture)
Norway: 1995 (conference), 1999 (study group, Institute for Advanced
Studies, Oslo)
Sweden: 2005 (Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study)
Korea: 1993 (lecture), 2001 (conference)
India: 2005 (textual study)
7. Current and Ongoing Projects
"Classics of Chinese Thought" (50-volume series of fully-annotated
translations of classical Chinese texts), University of Washington Press (orig.Yale University Press), General Editor
The Chung-yung: new analysis of text and commentaries, and reappraisal of its
position in Chinese literary and intellectual history
The problem of uncreated matter and the conception of an uncreated universe in
Chinese and Western philosophical texts
Mid-Ch'ing fiction: critical studies of neglected 17th-19th century works
The Gest Library "cheating robe" and its relation to theory and practice of imperial
examination essays
Comparative studies of classical exegesis on scriptural/philosophical texts
The Gongyang and Guyang commentarial traditions on the Chunqiu classic