Antje Richter
Biographic Data
| ID | 3663156 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Antje Richter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Antje |
| FAMILY NAME | Richter |
| SIGNATURE | RICHTER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0617-2298 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
In the Fox’s Own Words
The question driving this essay is how nonhuman beings present themselves verbally in early medieval Chinese Records of the Strange. Studying animal and plant spirits’ first-person voices related by human storytellers, the article asks how nonhuman protagonists establish identity and narrate experience and what role nonhuman narration plays in a story.
Anecdote, Network, Gossip, Performance
Given the immense importance of the Shishuo xinyu in Chinese and East Asian literary and intellectual history and historiography, not to mention the delights that the anecdotes gathered in this massive collection have in store for their readers, scholarship on Shishuo xinyu in English or other Western languages is surprisingly scant. Before Jack W. Chen's Anecdote, Network, Gossip, Performance: Essays on the Shishuo xinyu, two decades had passed …
Stories of Coping with Sickness
As basic facts of life, illness and healing occur frequently and in a variety of patterns in Chinese non-medical literature, starting from the earliest sources inscribed on oracle bones and continuing throughout literary history up to the present day. This article looks at illness narratives in early medieval anecdotal literature (3rd to 6th century CE) to understand how the experience of being sick or of attending to the sick was reflected in th…
Mistaken Identities
The large corpus of early medieval Chinese narratives now classified as records of the strange includes an abundance of stories of mistaken identity. This essay focuses on stories in which an animal successfully impersonates a human but is eventually found out. The questions I ask of these materials touch on issues of identity, privilege, and narrative: What does it take to pass as and replace a human, and possibly even a particular human? How ar…
Aus geteilten Zeiten
Aus geteilten Zeiten: Studien zur Nanbeichao-Periode. Geburtstagsgabe für Shing Müller 宋馨. Edited by Roderich Ptak. Deutsche Ostasienstudien, vol. 35. Gossenberg: Ostasien Verlag, 2020. Pp. vi + 216. €29
Buddhist Healing in Medieval China and Japan
From its inception in northeastern India in the first millennium BCE, the Buddhist tradition has advocated a range of ideas and practices that were said to ensure health and well-being. As the religion developed and spread to other parts of Asia, healing deities were added to its pantheon, monastic institutions became centers of medical learning, and healer-monks gained renown for their mastery of ritual and medicinal therapeutics. In China, impo…
Tales from Tang Dynasty China
Tales from Tang Dynasty China: Selections from the Taiping Guangji. Edited by Alexei Kamran Ditter; Jessey Choo; and Sarah M. Allen. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co., 2017. Pp. xiv + 162. $46 (cloth); $16 (paper). Record of the Listener: Selected Stories from Hong Mai’s Yijian zhi. Translated by Cong Ellen Zhang. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co., 2018. Pp. xliv + 116. $48 (cloth); $16 (paper
The Trouble with Wang Xizhi
Containing many reports of his own illnesses and attempts at treatment, along with inquiries after the health of correspondents and acquaintances, the letters of Wang Xizhi (303-361) constitute the earliest sizeable corpus of personal health reports in Chinese literature and are thus a valuable source for the study of Chinese epistolary communication and medical history. This article explores the rhetorical strategies of Wang’s medical narratives…
Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature
The study of early medieval China – the period between the end of the Han dynasty in the late second century and the beginning of the Tang dynasty in the early seventh century – is experiencing a n
A History of Chinese Letters and Epistolary Culture
A History of Chinese Letters and Epistolary Culture is the first publication, in any language, that is dedicated to the study of Chinese epistolary literature and culture in its entirety, from the early empire to the twentieth century. The volume includes twenty-five essays dedicated to a broad spectrum of topics from postal transmission to letter calligraphy, epistolary networks to genre questions. It introduces dozens of letters, often the firs…
Letters and Epistolary Culture in Early Medieval China
Honorable Mention for the 2016 Kayden Book Award This first book-length study in Chinese or any Western language of personal letters and letter-writing in premodern China focuses on the earliest period (ca. 3rd-6th cent. CE) with a sizeable body of surviving correspondence. Along with the translation and analysis of many representative letters, Antje Richter explores the material culture of letter writing (writing supports and utensils, envelopes…
Beyond Calligraphy
The extant calligraphy ascribed to Wang Xizhi consists mainly of short letters that have hitherto been discussed mostly in terms of their calligraphic value, authenticity, and as sources of historical information. This article focuses on the textual properties of the approximately seven-hundred transmitted notes of Wang Xizhi, especially on their communicative functions for the perpetuation of personal relationships among family members and frien…
Letters and Letter Writing in Early Medieval China
Mit Schätzen Beladen Heimkehren Der Schubkarren Als Glückverheissendes Motiv in Volkstümlichen Chinesischen Drucken
在略述中國獨輪車的構造特徵和歷史發展以後,本文說明中國吉祥畫的 獨輪車圖案。獨輪車主要出現在吉祥畫的三個主題,有不同的比喻和敘 述的作用。畫有〈搶劫的猴子〉的吉祥畫帶給小孩和商人愉快的氣氛。 〈試驗趙州石橋〉的吉祥畫希望給施工帶來平安。〈裝以財寳〉的獨輪 車圖案象徵財富的盼望。在這三個不同的主題中,獨輪車與商人的世界 緊密相關。作為小商人的工具,獨輪車結合了財富及升級的期待。透過 两位平民皇帝的傳奇故事,獨輪車的意義更加提高了。原本是車伕的柴 榮(後周世宗)和趙匡胤(宋太祖)後來成為一國之尊。所以獨輪車一 方面體現了與帝王階級密切的關聯,另一方面也意味著對太平治世的期 望。中華人民共和國以來出現的獨輪車畫中,計劃經濟的圖騰取代了財 神以及人民解放軍取代了門神,這些都建立在類似的模式上
A History of Chinese Letters and Epistolary Culture
A History of Chinese Letters and Epistolary Culture is the first publication, in any language, that is dedicated to the study of Chinese epistolary literature and culture in its entirety, from the early empire to the twentieth century. The volume includes twenty-five essays dedicated to a broad spectrum of topics from postal transmission to letter calligraphy, epistolary networks to genre questions. It introduces dozens of letters, often the firs…
Mit Schätzen Beladen Heimkehren Der Schubkarren Als Glückverheissendes Motiv in Volkstümlichen Chinesischen Drucken
在略述中國獨輪車的構造特徵和歷史發展以後,本文說明中國吉祥畫的 獨輪車圖案。獨輪車主要出現在吉祥畫的三個主題,有不同的比喻和敘 述的作用。畫有〈搶劫的猴子〉的吉祥畫帶給小孩和商人愉快的氣氛。 〈試驗趙州石橋〉的吉祥畫希望給施工帶來平安。〈裝以財寳〉的獨輪 車圖案象徵財富的盼望。在這三個不同的主題中,獨輪車與商人的世界 緊密相關。作為小商人的工具,獨輪車結合了財富及升級的期待。透過 两位平民皇帝的傳奇故事,獨輪車的意義更加提高了。原本是車伕的柴 榮(後周世宗)和趙匡胤(宋太祖)後來成為一國之尊。所以獨輪車一 方面體現了與帝王階級密切的關聯,另一方面也意味著對太平治世的期 望。中華人民共和國以來出現的獨輪車畫中,計劃經濟的圖騰取代了財 神以及人民解放軍取代了門神,這些都建立在類似的模式上
Letters and Letter Writing in Early Medieval China
Beyond Calligraphy
The extant calligraphy ascribed to Wang Xizhi consists mainly of short letters that have hitherto been discussed mostly in terms of their calligraphic value, authenticity, and as sources of historical information. This article focuses on the textual properties of the approximately seven-hundred transmitted notes of Wang Xizhi, especially on their communicative functions for the perpetuation of personal relationships among family members and frien…
Letters and Epistolary Culture in Early Medieval China
Honorable Mention for the 2016 Kayden Book Award This first book-length study in Chinese or any Western language of personal letters and letter-writing in premodern China focuses on the earliest period (ca. 3rd-6th cent. CE) with a sizeable body of surviving correspondence. Along with the translation and analysis of many representative letters, Antje Richter explores the material culture of letter writing (writing supports and utensils, envelopes…
A History of Chinese Letters and Epistolary Culture
A History of Chinese Letters and Epistolary Culture is the first publication, in any language, that is dedicated to the study of Chinese epistolary literature and culture in its entirety, from the early empire to the twentieth century. The volume includes twenty-five essays dedicated to a broad spectrum of topics from postal transmission to letter calligraphy, epistolary networks to genre questions. It introduces dozens of letters, often the firs…
Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature
The study of early medieval China – the period between the end of the Han dynasty in the late second century and the beginning of the Tang dynasty in the early seventh century – is experiencing a n
The Trouble with Wang Xizhi
Containing many reports of his own illnesses and attempts at treatment, along with inquiries after the health of correspondents and acquaintances, the letters of Wang Xizhi (303-361) constitute the earliest sizeable corpus of personal health reports in Chinese literature and are thus a valuable source for the study of Chinese epistolary communication and medical history. This article explores the rhetorical strategies of Wang’s medical narratives…
Tales from Tang Dynasty China
Tales from Tang Dynasty China: Selections from the Taiping Guangji. Edited by Alexei Kamran Ditter; Jessey Choo; and Sarah M. Allen. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co., 2017. Pp. xiv + 162. $46 (cloth); $16 (paper). Record of the Listener: Selected Stories from Hong Mai’s Yijian zhi. Translated by Cong Ellen Zhang. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co., 2018. Pp. xliv + 116. $48 (cloth); $16 (paper
Buddhist Healing in Medieval China and Japan
From its inception in northeastern India in the first millennium BCE, the Buddhist tradition has advocated a range of ideas and practices that were said to ensure health and well-being. As the religion developed and spread to other parts of Asia, healing deities were added to its pantheon, monastic institutions became centers of medical learning, and healer-monks gained renown for their mastery of ritual and medicinal therapeutics. In China, impo…
Aus geteilten Zeiten
Aus geteilten Zeiten: Studien zur Nanbeichao-Periode. Geburtstagsgabe für Shing Müller 宋馨. Edited by Roderich Ptak. Deutsche Ostasienstudien, vol. 35. Gossenberg: Ostasien Verlag, 2020. Pp. vi + 216. €29
Stories of Coping with Sickness
As basic facts of life, illness and healing occur frequently and in a variety of patterns in Chinese non-medical literature, starting from the earliest sources inscribed on oracle bones and continuing throughout literary history up to the present day. This article looks at illness narratives in early medieval anecdotal literature (3rd to 6th century CE) to understand how the experience of being sick or of attending to the sick was reflected in th…
Mistaken Identities
The large corpus of early medieval Chinese narratives now classified as records of the strange includes an abundance of stories of mistaken identity. This essay focuses on stories in which an animal successfully impersonates a human but is eventually found out. The questions I ask of these materials touch on issues of identity, privilege, and narrative: What does it take to pass as and replace a human, and possibly even a particular human? How ar…
Anecdote, Network, Gossip, Performance
Given the immense importance of the Shishuo xinyu in Chinese and East Asian literary and intellectual history and historiography, not to mention the delights that the anecdotes gathered in this massive collection have in store for their readers, scholarship on Shishuo xinyu in English or other Western languages is surprisingly scant. Before Jack W. Chen's Anecdote, Network, Gossip, Performance: Essays on the Shishuo xinyu, two decades had passed …
In the Fox’s Own Words
The question driving this essay is how nonhuman beings present themselves verbally in early medieval Chinese Records of the Strange. Studying animal and plant spirits’ first-person voices related by human storytellers, the article asks how nonhuman protagonists establish identity and narrate experience and what role nonhuman narration plays in a story.
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