• Anthony E. Clark
  Assistant Professor
  Ph.D. University of Oregon, 2005
  
  aclark1@bama.ua.edu
  
  
  Spring 2009 Office Hours: Wed. 11:00 - 1:00 p.m.

  Personal Webpage: http://web.me.com/anthony.e.clark/AEC/Welcome.html

  Research Interests:

• Political ideologies of early China, centering on the philosophical idea of tianming (Heaven's Mandate) in Ban Gu's Hanshu.
• Late-imperial Chinese intellectual history, especially in comparison to Western religio-philosophical trends.
• Late-imperial imagistic and textual modes of cultural representation, Western vis-à-vis Chinese.
• Catholic Orders in late-imperial China – Jesuits, Franciscans, Dominicans.

Courses Recently Taught:

• HY 243: History of East-Asian Civilization to 1600.
• HY 244: History of East-Asian Civilization Since 1600.
• HY 403/503: History of Chinese Civilization to 1600.
• HY 404/504: History of Chinese Civilization Since 1600.
• HY 306: History of East Asian Thought.
• HY 405/505: History of Han China.
HY 400/500: 18th-Century China – Dream of the Red Chamber.
HY400/500: History of Beijing, China.
Hy400/500: Judaism, Christianity, and the West in China.


Upcoming Courses:

• HY 405/505: History of Chinese Film.
• HY 400/500: Chinese Buddhism - Journey to the West

  
  Recent Publications:

• "Ban Gu" and "Ban Biao," in DLB, Classical Chinese Writers: Pre-Tang Era (-589). Columbia, SC: Broccoli Clark Layman, forthcoming.
• "Reflections on the Han View of Truth and Historicity with a Translation of Ban Biao's 'Essay on Historiography',"Southeastern Review of Asian Studies. Vol. XXVIII, 2006.
  
• "Early Modern Reactions to Western Missionary Iconography," Southeastern Review of Asian Studies. Vol. XXX, 2008.


Books:

• Beating Devils and Burning Their Books: Views of China, Japan, and the West (Forthcoming, AAS, University of Michigan).


Works Under Review:

• Killing Snakes and Chasing Deer: Inscribing the Text and Self in Ban Gu's History of the Han (book manuscript).
• "Confucius Said What? Baobian and the Voice of Judgment in the Hanshu" (article).


Current Projects:

• Martyrs of the Middle Kingdom: the Catholic Saints of China (book manuscript).


Grants, Awards, and Honors:

• DePaul University Vincentian Studies Research Grant (Beijing, China; Paris, France; Rome, Italy)
• William's Fund Award for research at the Vatican Secret Archives and Pope's Private Library, 2007 (Rome, Italy).
• Visiting Scholar and Researcher, Archives des Missions Étrangères, 2007 (Paris, France).
• Research Advisory Committee Grant, 2006 (Taipei, R.O.C.).
• Visiting Scholar and Researcher, Institut für Sinologie und Ostasienkunde, Münster University, 2004 (Münster, Germany).
• Fulbright Scholar, J. William Fulbright Fellowship for research in early Chinese history and literature, 2001-2002 (Taipei, Taiwan).
• NSEP, David L. Boren Fellowship for research in early Chinese history and literature, 2001 (Taipei, Taiwan).
• Visiting Scholar and Researcher, Bibliothèques des Instituts D'Extrême-Orient, Collège de France, 2003 (Paris, France).
• Visiting Scholar and Researcher, Center for Chinese Studies, National Central Library, 2001-2002 (Taipei, Taiwan).