Robert Hegel
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Liselotte Dieckmann Professor of Comparative Literature
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Professor, Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures (Chinese)
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Books
Ed. and trans. True Crimes in Eighteenth-Century China: Twenty Case Histories. Seattle: U of Washington P. (forthcoming, 2009). Narratives of capital crimes as presented to the emperor for approval: their investigation, testimony by all concerned, and the process of determining the appropriate punishments.
Co-ed., with Katherine Carlitz. Writing and Law in Late Imperial China: Crime, Conflict, and Judgment. Seattle: U of Washington P, 2007. Collection of essays that explore conventions of legal writing; the reflection of law and legal practice in fiction; and the representation of changing administrative concerns in the crafting of legislation—all in response to varying reading communities, primarily in Qing (1644-1911) China.
Articles
"Picturing the Monkey King: Illustrations and Readings of the 1641 Novel Xiyou bu.” In The Art of the Book in China. London: London University School of Oriental and African Studies, 2006 (Percival David Foundation Colloquies 23). 175-91. Study of llustrations in the novel's first edition that comment ironically on the narrative, suggesting an unusually close relationship between the illustrator and the text.
"Dreaming the Past: Memory and Continuity Beyond the Ming Fall.” In Trauma and Transcendence in Early Qing Literature. Eds. Wilt Idema, Wai-yee Li, and Ellen Widmer. Cambridge: Harvard U Asia Studies Center, 2005. 345-71. How imaginative reconstructions of the tragic end a previous golden age serve as metaphors for the trauma of dynastic change in fiction and plays by a circle of 17th-century Chinese writers.
