作者简介
Alan Berkowitz has a PhD in Classical Chinese Language and Literature from the University of Washington, in Seattle, and currently is Associate Professor of Chinese at Swarthmore College, and Section Head of Chinese and Chair of the Asian Studies Program.Alan has lived in China and Taiwan for extended periods, especially Nanjing, Beijing, and Taipei.He has traveled throughout many regions of China, following the traces of celebrated men of yore deep into the remote mountains they called home.He dabbles at playing the qin, and claims that his enthusiasm far exceeds his accomplishment; but his appreciation of the instrument is deep, and his interest longstanding.Alan's primary research interests span Chinese culture, Han through Tang periods of the first eight centuries of our common era.He recently published Patterns of Disengagement: The Practice and Portrayal of Reclusion in Early Medieval China (Stanford, 2000), and is working on biography and hagiography in medieval China.He is also editor of a series of books on exemplary conduct in traditional Chinese culture and at work on a collaborative project concerning the German polymath G. W. Leibniz and his association with the French Jesuits at the Chinese court in the late 17th and 18th centuries.Alan is president of the Early Medieval China Group and is book review editor for the journal Early Medieval China; and he serves on the board of the T'ang Studies Society.
