Ian D. Chapman
Curriculum Vitae
Lecturer, History Faculty
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue, E51-285
Cambridge, MA, USA 02139-4307
ichapman@mit.edu
tel. 617-324-7536 (office); 609-357-8426 (cell)
Education
2001-2007 Ph.D.
Department of East Asian Studies, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA
Main advisors: Stephen F. Teiser, Yang Lu
General examinations: May 2003
Medieval Chinese history (Yang Lu, Dept. of East Asian Studies)
Chinese religions (S.F. Teiser, Dept. of Religion)
Chinese intellectual history through the Song (W.J. Peterson, Dept. of East Asian Studies)
Dissertation: “Carnival Canons: Calendars, Genealogy, and the Search for Ritual
Cohesion in Medieval China.”
Degree awarded: September 2007
2001-2003 M.A.
Department of East Asian Studies, Princeton University
1998-2001 M.A.
Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Advisor: Yang, Ming 楊明
Focus area: Classical Chinese literature (Six Dynasties to Tang)
Thesis: “Shen Yue shige yu shenxian sixiang de guanxi” 《沈約詩歌與神仙思想的關
係》 [Notions of the ‘Divine Immortal’ in the Poetry of Shen Yue]
Final public oral defense passed: April 2002
1992 B.A.
University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Major subjects: History; Chinese language and literature
Academic Employment
2008- Lecturer, History Faculty, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2008 Lecturer, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Harvard University
2007-08 An Wang Post-doctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
1996-2001 Assistant Editor; Research Assistant; Editorial Assistant: Research Centre for Translation, Institute of Chinese Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Awards, Fellowships
2007-2008 An Wang Post-doctoral Fellowship, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University.
2006-07 Chi Chung Yu Award, China Times Cultural Foundation.
2006-07 Writing Grant, East Asian Studies Program, Princeton University.
2005-06 Graduate Fellowship (Religion and Culture Seminar), Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University.
2004 Hyde Summer Fellowship, Princeton University.
2001-06 Five-year doctoral fellowship, Princeton University.
2001-06 Research grants from Princeton University bodies such as the Graduate School, East Asian Studies Program, and Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.
Publications
“Festivals and Ritual Calendars: Jing-Chu suishi ji,” in Robert Campany, Yang Lu
and Wendy Swartz, eds., Early Medieval China: A Reader (forthcoming)
“Yuzhu baodian [Precious Canon of the Jade Candle],” in Albert E. Dien, ed., Six Dynasties
Handbook (forthcoming)
Text Editions (classical Chinese)
2003 Chen Pengnian 陳彭年, Jiangnan bielu 江南别錄 [Jiangnan: An Unofficial Chronicle]. In Quan Song biji, diyi bian 全宋筆記. 第一編 [Complete Song Dynasty Miscellanies, series 1]; Zhengzhou: Daxiang chubanshe, v. 4, pp. 197-210. Recension and punctuation of a 10th century Chinese historiographic work, with introduction; under name Chang Yian 常易安, with Chen Shangjun 陳尚君.
Translations (Chinese-English)
2003 Zhang Kejiu 張可久, “Inspired by Illustration of Zhaojun Leaving for the Frontier” 《題昭君出賽圖》. Renditions nos. 59-60.
2002 Chen Shangjun 陳尚君, “Newly Excavated Stone Inscriptions and the Study of Tang Literature and History” 《新出石刻與唐代文史研究》. For Tang Studies Conference, Princeton University, April 18.
2000 Wang Zhichun 王之春, “Selections from Notes from a Mission to Russia” 《使俄草》, with introduction. Renditions nos. 53-54.
2000 Wang Tao 王韜, “Selections from Jottings of Carefree Travels” 《漫游隨錄》, with introduction. Renditions nos. 53-54.
2000 Chen Tianhua 陳天華, “Selections from Alarm Bells” 《警世鐘》, with introduction. Renditions nos. 53-54.
2000 Anonymous, “The Westerner’s Ten Laments”: excerpts 《外國洋人嘆拾聲》. Renditions nos. 53-54.
1999 Dung Kai Cheung 董啟章, “The Young Shen Nong”《少年神農》, with introduction. In Eva Hung, ed., Hong Kong Stories: Old Themes New Voices; Hong Kong: Research Centre for Translation, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
1998 Ye Xin 葉辛, “Extracts from The Wages of Sin” 《孽債》. Renditions no. 50.
1997 Dung Kai Cheung 董啟章, “The Young Shen Nong”《少年神農》 (extracts), with introduction. Renditions nos. 47-48.
1997 Fan Sin Piau 樊善標, “Four Poems”《詩四首》. Renditions nos. 47-48.
[“Afternoon Anxieties” and “Passing My Father’s Old Shop,” are reprinted in To Pierce the Material Screen: An Anthology of 20th-Century Hong Kong Literature, Hong Kong: Research Centre for Translation, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008].
1997 Woo Kwok Yin 羈魂, “Boomerang” 《回力鏢》. Poetry Bi-monthly 《詩雙月刊》 (Hong Kong).
1996 Signal Left, Turn Right《紅燈停，綠燈行》, directed by Huang Jianxin 黃建新. Subtitles for feature film.
1995 Jiang Jingzhi (Veronica O’Young) 江靜枝, On the Wings of Love 《隨愛而飛》. Essay collection.
1994 Lin Yanni (Eunice Lam) 林燕妮, Live for Me 《為我而生》. Novel.
1993 Bai Hua 白樺, “The Age of Confusion” 《困惑年代》. For Sydney Asian Arts Festival, New South Wales State Library, Sydney.
Scholarly Presentations
2009 “Mt. Mao, Mt. Bao, and Wang Ziqiao: Funerary Steles and the Creation of Cultic Sites in Sixth to Eighth Century China.” University of Chicago, May 22.
2009 “One Foot out of the Grave: Inscribing Holy Lives in Tang China.” At conference “Tang Studies: The Next Twenty-Five Years,” State University of New York at Albany, May 9.
2009 “Pleasure Rites: Imperially Sponsored Festivities in Medieval China (220-907).” Rutgers University (New Brunswick), Jan 23.
2008 “Community, Bureaucracy and Salvation in Medieval Daoist Periodic Ritual.” University of Western Michigan (Kalamazoo), Mar 25.
2008 “Imagining Nation in Medieval China: The Mapping of Ritual Community.” University of Toronto (St George), Feb 12.
2008 “Landscape and Ritual in Six Dynasties ‘Lustration’ Banquet Poetry.” Indiana University (Bloomington), Jan 30.
2007 “Different Drummers, Single Beat: Rhetorics of Ritual Homogeneity and the Sixth-Century Chinese Reunification.” Harvard University, Nov 15.
2007 “Dancing with the Dead: The Morbid Genealogy of Early Medieval Chinese Festivals.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Boston, Mar 22 (panel organizer: “Exorcising the Past: Writing Death’s Ruptures in Medieval China”)
2006 “Six Dynasties Festivals.” International Conference on Pre-Tang Chinese Religion, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, Dec 21.
2006 Discussant for Gil Raz (Dartmouth College), “Worlds Within: Daoist Sacred Geography.” International Conference on Pre-Tang Chinese Religion, Paris, Dec 20.
2006 “The Ethical Reveler: Confucian Morals in Tang Court Festivities.” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Washington DC, Nov 20.
2006 “Daoist Zhai Observance and Popular Festivals in Six Dynasties to Tang China.”
Third International Conference on Daoism and the Contemporary World, Fraueninsel Chiemsee, Germany, May 26.
2006 “Between Local Custom and Imperial Ritual: The Birth of Literati Festival Calendars in Early Medieval China (ca. 150-600).” East Asian Studies Colloquium, Princeton University, Mar 29.
2005 “Marking Human Lives: Biographical Time in Medieval Chinese Festivals.” East Asian Studies Colloquium, Princeton University, Apr 20.
2005 Dissertation research presentation to the Society for the Study of Chinese Religion. Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Chicago, Apr 1.
2005 “The Birthday as Festival in Six Dynasties to Tang China.” American Oriental Society Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Mar 19.
2004 “Of Fast and Feast: Sectarian Ritual and Festival Days in Six Dynasties to Tang China.” Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Philadelphia, Oct 24.
2004 “Liuchao Sui-Tang shiqi de jieri tixi: Daojiao zhaijie yu fei Daojiao jieri zhi guanxi” 六朝隋唐時期的節日體系: 道教齋戒與非道教節日之關係 [Six Dynasties to Tang festival programs: the relationship between Daoist purification precepts and non-Daoist festivals] (in Chinese). Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Apr 23.
Teaching
Instructor
“East Asia in the World 1500-2000” [MIT]
survey of late imperial to modern East Asia within global economic, political and cultural contexts
“Smashing the Iron Rice Bowl: Chinese East Asia” [MIT]
links social, political and cultural transitions in twentieth century China with the experiences of individual people and communities, through memoir, ethnography and film.
“From the Silk Road to the Great Game: China, Russia, and Central Eurasia” [MIT]
explores economic, political, cultural and religious interactions between nomads, traders, oasis communities and agrarian states across Eurasia, from ancient times to the present.
“Medieval China and the Silk Road” [MIT]
focuses on a period of profound mutual influence between the sedentary, agrarian empires of China and the nomads, merchants and travellers of Central Asia.
“Chinese Popular Religion” [Harvard, MIT]
probes China's popular religious practices in their social and sectarian contexts, from the ancient to the contemporary.
“Modern Japan” [MIT]
examines the collapse of a “traditional” regime, and experiences of industrialization, modernization, imperialism, feminism, radicalism, nationalism, war, and democracy.
Assistant in Instruction
“History of East Asia to 1800” [Princeton]
survey of pre-modern China, Japan and Korea
Teacher Training
2005-2006 McGraw Center Graduate Teaching Liaison, Princeton University.
Organizer of, and participant in, a year-long graduate student pedagogy program.
1993-1996; 1998 English language teacher, Beijing and Shanghai.
1993 6 month course in Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). University of New South Wales Institute of Languages, Australia.
Languages
English Native speaker
Modern Chinese Near-native spoken and written proficiency in the standard dialect (“Mandarin”);
some experience with Cantonese and Shanghainese.
Classical Chinese Proficient in the reading and analysis of literary Chinese of various periods and registers
Other Reading comprehension of Japanese, French and Spanish
Academic Service
2008-09; 2009-10 Independent Activities Period coordinator, History Faculty, MIT.
2008-09 Judging committee, Bruce Mazlish Undergraduate Prize in History, MIT.
2006-07 Graduate student mentor, Department of East Asian Studies, Princeton University.
2004-06 Graduate student liaison committee member, Department of East Asian Studies, Princeton University.
2005 Organizing committee member, 7th Annual Buddhist Studies Graduate Student Conference, Princeton University, April 22-24.
Membership of Scholarly Societies
American Academy of Religion
American Historical Association
American Oriental Society
Association for Asian Studies
Early Medieval China Group
Society for the Study of Chinese Religions
T’ang Studies Society
References
Stephen F. Teiser
Department of Religion
1879 Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA 08544-1006
Tel. (609) 258-4490
sfteiser@princeton.edu
Yang Lu
Department of History
Wescoe Hall, Kansas University
1445 Jayhawk Boulevard, Lawrence, Kansas, USA 66045-7590
Tel. (785) 864-9445
yanglu@ku.edu
Willard J. Peterson
Department of East Asian Studies
Jones Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA 08544-0001
Tel. (609) 258-5267
easwjp@Princeton.edu
Anne McCants
History Faculty, Chair
E51-293, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA, US 02139-4307 Tel. (617) 258-6669 amccants@mit.edu