jingyili

jingyili@arizona.edu
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Fall 2023 1-1:30PM Wed or via Zoom
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Li, Jingyi
Graduate Associate

I am a doctorate candidate in early modern Japanese literature and history. I am a University Fellow 2017~2018, as well as a Japan Foundation Doctoral Fellow 2022~2023. I study Tokugawa-period literary history through popular literature. My dissertation project examines the transforming interpretation of bunjin literati in nineteenth-century Japan and emphasizes the role of popular literature in Japan's modernization. In particular, I discuss literati's economic roles through their participation in shogakai gatherings. 

I am also interested in book history and the education of early modern Japanese paleography (kuzushiji). In addition, I have been a podcast host for the New Books Network Japanese Studies channel since 2020.

Recent Publications:

“The Master in the Clouds: Imagining Li Yu in Early Modern Japan.” Japanese Language and Literature 56, no. 1 (March 18, 2022): 185–207. https://doi.org/10.5195/jll.2022.213.

Currently Teaching

EAS 201 – Myth, Memory, Mind: Introduction to Traditional East Asia

What would it be like to visit China, Japan, and the Korean Peninsula in premodern times? What is East Asian Studies? This course offers an introduction to the histories, cultures, languages and scripts, religions, and literatures of traditional East Asia. It also invites students to participate in the interdisciplinary knowledge production that is East Asian Studies. While we explore what has been historically shared among these East Asian societies, our emphasis is on how East Asia has always been diverse and heterogeneous. We encourage students to debunk the popular myths about East Asia--particularly premodern East Asia--as an exotic and homogeneous place. This will not only inform our understanding of today's East Asia in its historical context, it will also prompt us to actively address the historical legacy of orientalism.

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What would it be like to visit China, Japan, and the Korean Peninsula in premodern times? What is East Asian Studies? This course offers an introduction to the histories, cultures, languages and scripts, religions, and literatures of traditional East Asia. It also invites students to participate in the interdisciplinary knowledge production that is East Asian Studies. While we explore what has been historically shared among these East Asian societies, our emphasis is on how East Asia has always been diverse and heterogeneous. We encourage students to debunk the popular myths about East Asia--particularly premodern East Asia--as an exotic and homogeneous place. This will not only inform our understanding of today's East Asia in its historical context, it will also prompt us to actively address the historical legacy of orientalism.

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JPN 101 – Elementary Japanese

Beginning conversation, grammar, reading and writing in modern Japanese.

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