Jessey J C Choo
Biographic Data
| ID | 8495168 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessey J C Choo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessey J C |
| FAMILY NAME | Choo |
| SIGNATURE | CHOO J J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-2036-5280 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
There’s a Talisman for That
The great anxiety in medieval China over reproductive perils is well attested by the plethora of premodern magico-medical practices surrounding them. Scholars, however, have yet to examine the medieval Daoist approach to childbirth. This study examines two of the earliest known Daoist prophylactic texts devoted to childbearing complications (especially difficult labor): the Marvelous Scripture Expounded by the Most High on the Six Jia Deities on …
Inscribing Death
This nuanced study traces how Chinese came to view death as an opportunity to fashion and convey social identities and memories during the medieval period (200–1000) and the Tang dynasty (618–907), specifically. As Chinese society became increasingly multicultural and multireligious, to achieve these aims people selectively adopted, portrayed, and interpreted various acts of remembrance. Included in these were new and evolving burial, mourning, a…
In Plain Sight
In this article we focus on the constructedness of Shangguan Wan’er’s 上官婉兒 representation in her muzhiming , moving beyond what information is communicated within a muzhiming 墓志銘 to explore how it is communicated, to whom , and why. We begin by providing an overview of Shangguan’s muzhiming and its content. We then analyze “irregularities” in her muzhiming : the unusual length of its genealogy section, discrepancies in its diction, and strange la…
Workshop Report
The second workshop of the New Frontiers in the Study of Medieval China Series on Muzhiming was held on May 23–24, 2016, at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. The workshop was organized by Jessey Ch
That “Fatty Lump”
The fetus and fetal development were discussed in early imperial Chinese texts of various genres, which often approached these matters in one or more of the following terms: (1) the cosmic (human life begins and matures in the same way as the rest of the universe, following the interplay of yin and yang ); (2) the correlative (the fetus grows according to the Five Phases, all things corresponding to them going through a cycle of changes that give…
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That “Fatty Lump”
The fetus and fetal development were discussed in early imperial Chinese texts of various genres, which often approached these matters in one or more of the following terms: (1) the cosmic (human life begins and matures in the same way as the rest of the universe, following the interplay of yin and yang ); (2) the correlative (the fetus grows according to the Five Phases, all things corresponding to them going through a cycle of changes that give…
Workshop Report
The second workshop of the New Frontiers in the Study of Medieval China Series on Muzhiming was held on May 23–24, 2016, at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. The workshop was organized by Jessey Ch
In Plain Sight
In this article we focus on the constructedness of Shangguan Wan’er’s 上官婉兒 representation in her muzhiming , moving beyond what information is communicated within a muzhiming 墓志銘 to explore how it is communicated, to whom , and why. We begin by providing an overview of Shangguan’s muzhiming and its content. We then analyze “irregularities” in her muzhiming : the unusual length of its genealogy section, discrepancies in its diction, and strange la…
Inscribing Death
This nuanced study traces how Chinese came to view death as an opportunity to fashion and convey social identities and memories during the medieval period (200–1000) and the Tang dynasty (618–907), specifically. As Chinese society became increasingly multicultural and multireligious, to achieve these aims people selectively adopted, portrayed, and interpreted various acts of remembrance. Included in these were new and evolving burial, mourning, a…
There’s a Talisman for That
The great anxiety in medieval China over reproductive perils is well attested by the plethora of premodern magico-medical practices surrounding them. Scholars, however, have yet to examine the medieval Daoist approach to childbirth. This study examines two of the earliest known Daoist prophylactic texts devoted to childbearing complications (especially difficult labor): the Marvelous Scripture Expounded by the Most High on the Six Jia Deities on …
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