My general area of study is premodern Chinese intellectual history, and my current research focuses on the ritual, visual, and somatic aspects of the Chinese Confucian tradition. Recent articles explore premodern Chinese notions of body and self.

Currently I am completing a book project titled The Afterlife of Confucius: Depictions of the Sage Beyond the Analects, which explores the religious and philosophical significance of constructed imaginings of the body of Confucius. I explore not only textual but also visual, archeological, and folkloric sources that illustrate how people continually re-imagined the body of Confucius and imbued i…

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