Martin Kern

Selected E-Papers

• “Literature: Early China.” In A Scholarly Review of Chinese Studies in North America, ed. Haihui Zhang et al., pp. 292-316. Association for Asian Studies, 2013. http://www.asian-studies.org/publications/A_Scholarly_Review_ePDF.pdf.

• “Fangfalun fansi: Zaoqi Zhongguo wenben yiwen zhi fenxi he xieben wenxian zhi chansheng moshi” 方法論反思：早期中國文本異文之分析和寫本文獻之產生模式 [Methodological Reflections on the Analysis of Textual Variants and the Modes of Manuscript Production in Early China], in Dangdai xifang hanxue yanjiu jicui: Shanggushi juan 當代西方漢學研究集萃：上古史卷 [Selected Works in Contemporary Western Sinological Research: Ancient History], ed. Chen Zhi 陳致,  pp. 349-385. Shanghai: Shanghai guji chubanshe, 2012.

• “Xunzi de shixing fengge” 《荀子》的詩性風格 [The Poetic Style of the Xunzi]. Handan xueyuan xuebao 邯鄲學院學報 [Journal of Handan College] 2.4 (2012): 107-119.

• “Shuo ‘Shi’: ‘Kongzi shilun’ zhi wenli yu yili” 說《詩》：《孔子詩論》之文理與義理 [Speaking of Poetry: Pattern and Argument in the Kongzi shilun]. Wenxue yichan [Literary Heritage] 2012.3: 17-25.

• Interview with Shanghai Review of Books 上海書評.

• “Zaoqi Zhongguo shouchao wenxian yanjiu fangfa zhi fansi” 早期中國手抄文獻研究方法之反思 [Some Reflections on the Methodology of Studying Early Chinese Manuscripts]. Guoxue xuekan 國學學刊 2011.4: 25-38.

• “Xueshu lingyu de jieding: Bei-Mei Zhongguo zaoqi wenxue (Xian-Qin Liang-Han) yanjiu gaikuang” 學術領域的界定: 北美中國早期文學(先前兩漢)研究概況 [State of the field: Research Survey of North American Scholarship on Early Chinese Literature (pre-Qin and Han)]. In Beimei Zhongguo xue: yanjiu gaishu yu wenxian ziyuan 北美中國學:研究概述與文獻資源 [Chinese Studies in North America: Research and Resources], ed. Zhang Haihui 張海惠 et al., pp. 570-600. Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 2010.

• “Huainanzi de chengshu yu zoushu: Lun ‘Yao lüe’ pian zhi wei fu”《淮南子》的成書與奏書：論《要略》篇之為賦 [The Compilation and Presentation of the Huainanzi: The “Yaolüe” Chapter of Huainanzi as a Fu]. In Beijing daxue Zhongguo guwenxian yanjiu zhongxin jikan 北京大學中國古文獻研究中心集刊 [Journal of the Center for Ancient Chinese Classics and Archives, Peking University] 9 (2010): 436-451.

• “Tropes of Music and Poetry: From Wudi (141-87 BCE) to 100 CE.” In China’s Early Empires: A Re-Appraisal, ed. Michael Loewe and Michael Nylan, pp. 480-491. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

• “Lost in Tradition: The Classic of Poetry We Did Not Know.” Hsiang Lectures on Chinese Poetry 5 (2010): 29-56. Centre for East Asian Research, McGill University.

• “Mao shi zhi hou: Zhonggu zaoqi Shijing jieshou yanjiu” 毛詩之後：中古早期《詩經》接受研究 [After the Mao Odes: A Study in the Reception of the Shijing in the early medieval period]. In Kua xueke shiye xia de Shijing yanjiu 跨學科視野下的詩經研究 [Cross-disciplinary Research on the Classic of Poetry], ed. Chen Zhi 陳致, pp. 236-250. Shanghai: Shanghai guji chubanshe, 2010.

• “Offices of Writing and Reading in the Rituals of Zhou.” In Statecraft and Classical Learning: The Rituals of Zhou in East Asian History, ed. Benjamin A. Elman and Martin Kern, pp. 65-93. Leiden: Brill, 2009.

• “Bronze inscriptions, the Shangshu, and the Shijing: The Evolution of the Ancestral Sacrifice during the Western Zhou.” In Early Chinese Religion, Part One: Shang Through Han (1250 BC to 220 AD), ed. John Lagerwey and Marc Kalinowski, pp. 143-200. Leiden: Brill, 2009.

• “Yinju yu Zhongguo gudai xieben wenxian zhong de rujia jingdian: ‘Ziyi’ yanjiu” 引據與中國古代寫本文獻中的儒家經典《緇衣》研究 [Quotation and the Confucian Canon in Early Chinese Manuscripts: A Study of the “Zi yi”]. Jianbo yanjiu 簡帛研究 [Research in Bamboo and Silk Manuscripts] 2005 [published 2008]: 7-29.

• “Announcements from the Montains: The Stele Inscriptions of the Qin First Emperor.” In Conceiving the Empire: China and Rome Compared, ed. Fritz-Heiner Mutschler and Achim Mittag, pp. 217-240. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

• “Cong chutu wenxian tan ‘Guofeng’ de quanshi wenti: yi ‘Guanju’ wei li” 從出土文獻談《國風》的詮釋問題：以《關雎》為例 [Hermeneutic Issues Regarding the “Airs of the States” as Seen from Excavated Manuscripts: The Case of “Guanju”]. Zhonghua wenshi luncong 中華文史論叢 [Journal of Chinese Literature and History] 2008.1: 253-271.

• “Beyond the Mao Odes: Shijing Reception in Early Medieval China.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 127 (2007): 131-142.

• “The Performance of Writing in Western Zhou China.” In The Poetics of Grammar and the Metaphysics of Sound and Sign, ed. Sergio La Porta and David Shulman, pp. 109-176. Leiden: Brill, 2007.

• “Excavated Manuscripts and Their Socratic Pleasures: Newly Discovered Challenges in Reading the ‘Airs of the States’.” Études Asiatiques/Asiatische Studien 61.3 (2007): 775-793.

• “Han shi zhi shi: Shiji, Hanshu xushi zhong de shige hanyi” 漢史之詩：《史記》、《漢書》敘事中的詩歌含義 [The Poetry of Han Historiography: The Use of Song in Shiji and Hanshu]. Zhongguo dianji yu wenhua 中國典籍與文化 [Chinese Classics and Culture] 2007.3: 4-12.

• “Zuowei jiyi de shi: Shi ji qi zaoqi quanshi” 作為記憶的詩：《詩》及其早期詮釋 [Poetry as Memory: The Odes and Their Early Hermeneutics]. Guoxue yanjiu 國學研究 [Studies in Sinology] 16 (2005): 329-341.

• “The Ritual Texture of Early China.” Introduction to Text and Ritual in Early China, ed. Martin Kern, pp. vii-xxvii. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005.

• “The Odes in Excavated Manuscripts.” In Text and Ritual in Early China, ed. Martin Kern, pp. 149-193. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005.

• “Quotation and the Confucian Canon in Early Chinese Manuscripts: The Case of ‘Zi Yi’ (Black Robes).” Asiatische Studien / Études Asiatiques 59.1 (2005): 293-332.

• “Deguo Hanxuejia zai 1933-1945 nian de qianyi: chongti yiduan bei ren yiwang de lishi” 德國漢學家在1933-1945年的遷移 : 重提一段被人遺忘的歷史 [The Emigration of German Sinologists 1933-1945: Revisiting a Forgotten History]. In Deguo hanxue: lishi, fazhan, renwu yu shijiao 德國漢學 : 歷史、發展、人物與視角之研究 [German Sinology: History, Development, People, and Perspectives], ed. Helmut Martin, Christiane Hammer, Zhang Xiping, and Li Xuetao, pp. 217-258. Zhengzhou: Daxiang chubanshe, 2005.

• “Poetry and Religion: The Representation of ‘Truth’ in Early Chinese Historiography.” In Historical Truth, Historical Criticism, and Ideology: Chinese Historiography and Historical Culture from a New Comparative Perspective, ed. Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer, Achim Mittag, and Jörn Rüsen, pp. 53-78. Leiden: Brill, 2005.

• “The Poetry of Han Historiography.” Early Medieval China (Festschrift for David R. Knechtges) 10-11.1 (2004): 23-65.

• “A History of Chinese Literature?” With Robert E. Hegel. Review Article on The Columbia History of Chinese Literature, ed. Victor Mair. Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 26 (2004), 159-179. Chinese translation in Zhonghua wenshi luncong 中華文史論叢 [Journal of Chinese Literature and History], forthcoming.

• “Die Anfänge der chinesischen Literatur [The Beginnings of Chinese Literature].” In Chinesische Literaturgeschichte [History of Chinese Literature], ed. Reinhard Emmerich, pp. 1-87. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2004.

• “Chutu wenxian yu wenhua jiyi: Shijing zaoqi lishi yanjiu” 出土文獻與文化記憶：詩經早期歷史研究[Excavated Manuscripts and Cultural Memory: A Study in the Early History of the Canon of Poetry]. Zhongguo zhexue 中國哲學 [Chinese Philosophy] 25 (2004): 111-158.

• “The ‘Biography of Sima Xiangru’ and the Question of the Fu in Sima Qian’s Shiji.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 123.2 (2003): 303-316.

• “Western Han Aesthetics and the Genesis of the Fu.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 63.2 (2003): 383-437.

• “Early Chinese Poetics in the Light of Recently Excavated Manuscripts.” In Recarving the Dragon: Understanding Chinese Poetics, ed. Olga Lomová, pp. 27-72. Prague: Charles University–The Karolinum Press, 2003.

• “Methodological Reflections on the Analysis of Textual Variants and the Modes of Manuscript Production in Early China.” Journal of East Asian Archaeology 4.1-4 (2002): 143-181.

• “Disengagement by Complicity: The Difficult Art of Early Medieval ‘Hypothetical Discourses’.” Review Article on Writing against the State: Political Rhetorics in Third and Fourth Century China, by Dominik Declercq. Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 23 (2001): 141-152.

• “Ritual, Text, and the Formation of the Canon: Historical Transitions of Wen in Early China.” T’oung Pao 87.1-3 (2001): 43-91.

• “Shi jing Songs as Performance Texts: A Case Study of ‘Chu ci’ (‘Thorny Caltrop’).” Early China 25 (2000): 49-111.

• “Religious Anxiety and Political Interest in Western Han Omen Interpretation: The Case of the Han Wudi Period (141-87 B.C.).” Chûgoku shigaku 中國史學 [Chinese History] 10 (2000): 1-31.

• “Feature: Writing and Authority in Early China, by Mark Edward Lewis.” China Review International 7.2 (2000): 336-376.

• “‘Persuasion’ or ‘Treatise’? – The Prose Genres shui and shuo in the Light of the Guwenci leizuan of 1779.” In Ad Seres et Tungusos: Festschrift für Martin Gimm, ed. Lutz Bieg, Erling von Mende, and Martina Siebert, pp. 221-243. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2000.

• “A Note on the Authenticity and Ideology of Shih-chi 24, ‘The Book on Music’.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 119.4 (1999): 673-677.

• “Die Emigration der Sinologen 1933-1945: Zur ungeschriebenen Geschichte der Verluste [The Emigration of Sinologists 1933-1945: Regarding the Unwritten History of Losses].” In Chinawissenschaften–Deutschsprachige Entwicklungen: Geschichte, Personen, Perspektiven, ed. Helmut Martin and Christiane Hammer, pp. 222-242. Hamburg: Institut für Asienkunde, 1999.

• “The Emigration of German Sinologists 1933-1945: Notes on the History and Historiography of Chinese Studies.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 118.4 (1998): 507-529.

• “Yao Nais pragmatischer Umbau der literarischen Genretheorie” [Yao Nai’s Pragmatic Reconstruction of Literary Genre Theory].” In Tradition und Moderne: Religion, Philosophie und Literatur in China, ed. Bernhard Führer and Christiane Hammer, pp. 143-163.  Bochum: Project Verlag, 1997.

• “In Praise of Political Legitimacy: The miao and jiao Hymns of the Western Han.” Oriens Extremus 39.1 (1996): 29-67.