Additional Training: Cambridge University (Oriental Studies) and the Institute of Archaeology (Beijing)

Books

In Progress: Lives of Confucius (for Random House)
In Press: China's Early Empires, supplement to The Cambridge History of China, vol. 1, Ch'in and Han, ed. with Michael Loewe.
chief guest editor, for Asia Major, for two issues, on Chinese science and philosophy (with Henry Rosemont and Li Waiyee) (spring, 2008)
Recarving China's Past: Art, Archaeology, and Architecture of the "Wu Family Shrines," ed. with Cary Y. Liu and Anthony Barbieri-Low. Princeton: Princeton Art Museum, 2005.
The Five "Confucian" Classics. Yale University Press, 2001.
The Canon of Supreme Mystery by Yang Hsiung. SUNY Press, 1993. A popular version is entitled The Elemental Changes.
The Shifting Center: The Original "Great Plan" and Later Readings. Monumenta Serica Monograph Series no. 24 (May, 1992).

Major Articles

"Mencius on Pleasure," with Harrison Huang, Polishing the Chinese Mirror: Essays in Honor of Henry Rosemont, ed. Marthe Chandler and Ronnie Littlejohn (Association of Chinese Philosophers of America and Open Court, Nov., 2007), pp. 1-26.

"Notes on a Case of Illicit Sex Case from Zhangjiashan," Early China 30 (2007), 25-45.

[in press] "Wandering in the Land of Ruins: the Shuijing zhu 水經注 (Water Classic Commentary)             revisited" (forthcoming) in a SUNY Press titled Interpretation and Literature in Early Medieval             China, ed. Alan K.C. Chan (Singapore University).

[accepted] "Empire in the Classical Era in China (323 BC- AD 316)," for a forthcoming volume to be published by Oxford University Press, in cooperation with the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut (Essen), ed. Achim Mittag.

"Addicted to Antiquity: The Story of the Wu Family Shrines, from AD 150-1961" in Recarving China's Past(see above), pp. 519-559.

"The Archaeology of Writing, Ritual, and Public Display in the Classical Era," Text and Ritual in Early China (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005), pp. 3-49.

"Restoring and Restorying Monuments of the Past," Orientations (March, 2004), 98-103.

Mark Csikszentmihalyi (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "Constructing Lineages and Inventing Traditions through Exemplary Figures in Early China," T'oung Pao 89 (2003), 1-41.

"On the Politics of Pleasure," Asia Minor 26 (2003), 73-114.

"Boundaries of the Body and Body Politic in Early Confucian Thought," Boundaries and Justice, ed. Sohail Hashmi (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001), pp. 112-35 (Carnegie Council and Ethikon Institute series).

"Legacies of the Chengdu Plain," in Ancient Sichuan: Treasures from a Lost Civilization, ed. Robert W. Bagley (Seattle and Princeton: Seattle Art Museum and Princeton University Press, 2001), pp. 307-328. The exhibition travels to the Seattle Art Museum, the Kimball Art Museum (Houston), and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

"Sima Qian: A True Historian?" Early China 24 (1998) [published 2000]), 1-44.

"Golden Spindles and Axes: Elite Women in the Achaemenid and Han Empires," The Sage and the Second Sex, essays on classicism, Confucian learning, and feminism, ed. by Li Chenyang (La Salle, Open Court Press, 2000), 199-222. A version of this appears in Early China/Ancient Greece: Thinking through Comparisons, ed. by Stephen Durrant and Steven Shankman (Albany: SUNY Press 2001):

"A Problematic Model: The Han "Orthodox Synthesis," Then and Now," Imagining Boundaries: Changing Confucian Doctrines, Texts, and Hermeneutics, ed. by Kai-wing Chow, On-cho Ng, and John B. Henderson (Albany, SUNY Press, 1999), 17-56.

"Calligraphy: The Sacred Test and Text of Culture," in Liu, Ching, and Smith, eds., Calligraphy and Context (Princeton, The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1999), 1-42. A version of this appears under the title "The Early Aesthetic Values of Writing and Calligraphy," Oriental Art 46.5 (2000), 19-29, special edition on calligraphy, ed. by Robert Harrist.

"A review article: On Wu Hung's Monumentality in Chinese Art (Stanford, 1996)," for Artibus Asiae 57:1-2 (1997), 373-82.

"Han classicists writing in dialogue about their own tradition." Philosophy East and West 47:2 (1996), 133-188.

"Confucian Piety and Individualism." Journal of the American Oriental Society 116 (Jan.-March, 1996), 1-27.

"The ku wen Documents in Han Times." T'oung pao 81 (1995), 1-27.

"The chin wen/ku wen (New Text/Old Text) Controversy in Han." T'oung pao 80 (1994), 83-145.

Steven G. Salkever, "Comparative Political Philosophy and Liberal Education: 'Looking for Friends in History.'" P.S.: Political Science and Politics 27:2 (June 1994), 238-47.

"Style, Patronage, and Confucian Ideals in Han Dynasty Art: Problems of Interpretation." Archives of Asian Art 46 (1993), 93-100; a version of this article appears in Early China 18 (Spring 1994), 227-247.

New Research:
Two book-length translations for the Yale University Press, (1) Wang Ch'ung's Lun heng, and (2) The Documents (Shu ching), in collaboration with Paul L-M Serruys and David Schaberg.