Idle Talk Under the Bean Arbor: A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Collection

edited and co-translated by Robert E. Hegel

Professor Robert Hegel's new book Idle Talk Under the Bean Arbor: A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Collection, has been published by the University of Washington Press.  He edited and translated the book along with several EALC alumni: Li Qiancheng (Chinese and Comparative Literature, PhD '99), Mei Chun (Chinese and Comparative Literature, PhD '05), Lane Harris (East Asian Studies, MA '02; PhD from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Li Fang-yu (Chinese and Comparative Literature, PhD '15), Alexander C. Wille (Chinese and Comparative Literature, PhD '14), Zhang Jing (Chinese and Comparative Literature, PhD '06), Xu Yunjing (Chinese and Comparative Literature, PhD '14), Annelise Finegan Wasmoen (PhD candidate in Comparative Literature), and Lindsey Waldrop.