Memory in Medieval China explores memory as performed in various genres of writing, from poetry to anecdotes, from history to tomb epitaphs, thereby illuminating ways in which the memory of persons, events, dynasties, and literary styles was constructed and revised.
Wendy Swartz (Ph.D., UCLA) is Associate Professor of Chinese Literature at Rutgers University. She has published monographs, articles, translations, and edited volumes on China, including Reading Philosophy, Writing Poetry: Intertextual Modes of Making Meaning in Early Medieval China (Harvard, 2018).
Robert Ford Campany (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is Professor of Asian Studies and Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University. He has published books, articles, and edited volumes on China, including Making Transcendents: Ascetics and Social Memory in Early Medieval China (Hawai'i, 2009).