2004

Sophie Volpp

  • Assistant Professor
  • University of California, Berkeley

Project

Literary Texts and Material Culture in Late-Imperial China

Program

Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowships

Department

Depts of Comp Lit & East Asian Lang & Cultures

Abstract

I plan to engage in research for a book on the relation between the representation of the material world and concerns regarding social order in a cross-section of late-sixteenth to early-seventeenth century texts (vernacular fiction, autobiography, notation books, and manuals of style).