Robert E. Hegel
Professor of Chinese Language and Literature
Liselotte Dieckmann Professor of Comparative Literature
Department Chair
Degrees:
Ph.D., Columbia University
M.A., Columbia University
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314.935.4399
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205 January Hall
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Campus Box 1111
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
Research Interests
Narrative forms and conventions in late imperial China (1500-1900); practices of reading and writing; book culture; literature and ethics; legal writing; translation studies.
Courses Taught
- L04 227C Chinese Civilization
- L04 341 Literature of Early and Imperial China
- L04 476 Reading Seminar in Chinese Traditional Fiction: The Early Novel
- L04 467 The Chinese Theater
- L04 480 Reading Seminar in Chinese Popular Literature and Culture
- L04 536 Proseminar: Methods and Materials Used in Conducting Research in Chinese Studies
- L04 565 Seminar: Literature & Culture of the Yuan, Ming and Qing
Selected Publications
Monographs
- Shiqi shiji zhanghui xiaoshuo 十七世紀章回小説 (Novels of the Seventeenth Century), trans. Mei Chun 春梅 , ed. Li Qiancheng 李前程 (revised and expanded edition of The Novel in Seventeenth-Century China). Forthcoming 2011, Peking University Press, Beijing.
- Reading Illustrated Fiction in Late Imperial China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998.
- The Novel in Seventeenth Century China. New York: Columbia University Press, 1981; rpt. Taipei: Caves Books, 1981.
Edited Volumes of Essays
- Writing and Law in Late Imperial China: Crime, Conflict, and Judgment, edited, with Katherine Carlitz. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007.
- Expressions of Self in Chinese Literature, edited, with Richard C. Hessney. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985.
Collected Translations
- True Crimes in Eighteenth-Century China: Twenty Case Histories, edited and translated, with contributions by Maram Epstein, Mark McNicholas, and Joanna Waley-Cohen. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009.