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 Ph.D.,
Harvard University
Professor
Graduate Advisor
Office: Humanities and Social Sciences Building, 2258
Phone: (805)893-3770
Email: ronegan@eastasian.ucsb.edu
Ronald Egan works on traditional Chinese poetry, aesthetics, and literati
culture of the Tang and Song periods. His publications include studies
of major writers of the period as well as topical studies on literature,
literary criticism and the relation between poetry and the other arts
(painting, calligraphy and music). He is also the translator of selected
essays of Qian Zhongshu, one of twentieth-century China's foremost literary
scholars.
His current work is on the problem of justifying interest in beauty and
aesthetic pursuits in Song dynasty China in such diverse fields as poetics,
horticulture, the collection of art objects and antiquities, and entertainment
songs. Before coming to UCSB, he taught at Harvard University and Wellesley
College. He has received grants from the American Council of Learned Societies
and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Selected Publications
- The Problem of Beauty: Aesthetic Thought and Pursuits in Northern Song Dynasty China. Harvard University Press, 2006.
- "Poet, Mind and World : A Reconstuction of the 'Shensi' Chapter
if Wenxin dialong." In Contemporary Perspectives on Wenxin diaolong,
ed. Zhongji Cai. Stanford University Press, 2001.
- Word. Image and Deed in the Life of Su Shi. Harvard-Yenching
Monograph Series. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994.
- Limited Views: Essays on Letters and Ideas by Qian Zhongshu.
Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 1998.
- "The Controversy over Music and 'Sadness' and Changing Conceptions
of the Qin in Middle Period China." Harvard Journal of Asiatic
Studies 57, 1997.
- "The Problem of the Repute of Tz'u During the Northem Sung." Voices of the Song Lyric in China, ed.PaulineYu. Berkeley:University
of California Press ,1994, 191-225.
Teaching
- Workshop on Translation (Chinese 105)
- Tang Poetry (Chinese 142)
- Mythology and Supernatural in Chinese Literature (Chinese 145)
- Historic Lives (Chinese 148)
- The Problem of Love (Chinese 154)
- Survey of Asian Literature (Comparative Literature 33)
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