Nan Z Da
Biographic Data
| ID | 313848 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nan Z Da |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nan Z |
| FAMILY NAME | Da |
| SIGNATURE | DA N Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Notre Dame |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How to see what has been done with words
From social media platforms to generative artificial intelligence, the rise of new technologies of communication has given fresh urgency to J.L. Austin’s notorious theory of speech acts. It is now possible to do more things with words than ever before. It is also possible to record, to construe, to track, to respond to, and to account for words in more ways than ever before. The proliferation of communicative possibilities throws fresh light on a…
Critical Response III . On EDA, Complexity, and Redundancy
Other People's Books
This essay identifies a problem within the sociology of literature: the wide adoption of quantitative/probabilistic contingency as the only kind of contingency there is. It relates this phenomenon to three factors: 1) the oddness of the book as an empirical object of study, 2) modernity's management of complexity through theories of reading, and 3) a long-standing, subtle form of cultural essentialism, expressed not through representational choic…
The Computational Case against Computational Literary Studies
On the Decipherment of Modern China and Spurned Lovers
Long regarded as the contemporary Chinese feminist poet par excellence—giving not only voice to Chinese women but feminine sonic mysteriousness to the poetic landscape—Zhai Yongming has, in her latest work, apotheosized Chinese women’s poetry into the only thing through which relations between Chinese linguistics, historiography, media, and constructions of national and global essence become fully apprehensible. This essay is divided into two par…
Feminist Sinologies
“Feminist Sinologies” offers an introduction to the thematic cluster published in this issue. Its historicist account of the entanglements between feminism and sinology reveals the deep and broad ties between the theories, methods, and problematics of feminism and the ongoing production of knowledge about China (our repurposed definition of sinology). It argues that this dialectic has special explanatory power for both contemporary Chinese phenom…
The Computational Case against Computational Literary Studies
Feminist Sinologies
“Feminist Sinologies” offers an introduction to the thematic cluster published in this issue. Its historicist account of the entanglements between feminism and sinology reveals the deep and broad ties between the theories, methods, and problematics of feminism and the ongoing production of knowledge about China (our repurposed definition of sinology). It argues that this dialectic has special explanatory power for both contemporary Chinese phenom…
Other People's Books
This essay identifies a problem within the sociology of literature: the wide adoption of quantitative/probabilistic contingency as the only kind of contingency there is. It relates this phenomenon to three factors: 1) the oddness of the book as an empirical object of study, 2) modernity's management of complexity through theories of reading, and 3) a long-standing, subtle form of cultural essentialism, expressed not through representational choic…
On the Decipherment of Modern China and Spurned Lovers
Long regarded as the contemporary Chinese feminist poet par excellence—giving not only voice to Chinese women but feminine sonic mysteriousness to the poetic landscape—Zhai Yongming has, in her latest work, apotheosized Chinese women’s poetry into the only thing through which relations between Chinese linguistics, historiography, media, and constructions of national and global essence become fully apprehensible. This essay is divided into two par…
On the Decipherment of Modern China and Spurned Lovers
Long regarded as the contemporary Chinese feminist poet par excellence—giving not only voice to Chinese women but feminine sonic mysteriousness to the poetic landscape—Zhai Yongming has, in her latest work, apotheosized Chinese women’s poetry into the only thing through which relations between Chinese linguistics, historiography, media, and constructions of national and global essence become fully apprehensible. This essay is divided into two par…
Feminist Sinologies
“Feminist Sinologies” offers an introduction to the thematic cluster published in this issue. Its historicist account of the entanglements between feminism and sinology reveals the deep and broad ties between the theories, methods, and problematics of feminism and the ongoing production of knowledge about China (our repurposed definition of sinology). It argues that this dialectic has special explanatory power for both contemporary Chinese phenom…
The Computational Case against Computational Literary Studies
Critical Response III . On EDA, Complexity, and Redundancy
Other People's Books
This essay identifies a problem within the sociology of literature: the wide adoption of quantitative/probabilistic contingency as the only kind of contingency there is. It relates this phenomenon to three factors: 1) the oddness of the book as an empirical object of study, 2) modernity's management of complexity through theories of reading, and 3) a long-standing, subtle form of cultural essentialism, expressed not through representational choic…
How to see what has been done with words
From social media platforms to generative artificial intelligence, the rise of new technologies of communication has given fresh urgency to J.L. Austin’s notorious theory of speech acts. It is now possible to do more things with words than ever before. It is also possible to record, to construe, to track, to respond to, and to account for words in more ways than ever before. The proliferation of communicative possibilities throws fresh light on a…
Art (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · China (2 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)