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CURRICULUM VITAE David William Pankenier Department of Modern Languages & Literature Lehigh University, 9 West Packer Avenue, Bethlehem, PA 18015 USA Tel: (610) 758-6062; Fax: (610) 758-6556; E-mail: [email protected] Webpage: http://www.lehigh.edu/~dwp0/ HOME: 2942 Valley View Drive, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, 18901-1786 U.S.A. Tel: (215) 794-4129 EDUCATION: Stanford University, M.A. Chinese 1979, Ph.D. Chinese 1983 Inter-University Program for Chinese Studies, Taipei, Taiwan, 1974-75 Private study with Aisin Gioro Yü-yün, Taipei, Taiwan, 1975-77 University of Stockholm, fil. kand. Chinese, 1972 University of Rochester, A.B. History 1968 Université de Paris-Sorbonne, Diplôme d’études de civilisation française (avec la mention), 1967 EMPLOYMENT: 1998- Professor of Chinese, Lehigh University. 1989-97 Associate Professor of Chinese, Lehigh University 1986-89 Assistant Professor of Chinese, Lehigh University 1984-86 Adjunct Lecturer in Chinese, University of Stockholm, Sweden 1983-84 Visiting Assistant Professor of Chinese, University of British Columbia, Canada 1973-74 Lecturer in Chinese, Swedish Foreign Ministry, Stockholm, Sweden LANGUAGES: Chinese: speaking, reading: excellent, writing: good Swedish: speaking, reading, writing: near-native fluency French: reading, speaking, writing: good German: reading: good Japanese: reading: good 3/24/10 2 I. RESEARCH, SCHOLARSHIP, AND RELATED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY A. PUBLICATIONS 1. Books East Asian Archaeoastronomy: Historical Records of Comet and Meteor Shower Observations of China, Japan, and Korea, David W. Pankenier, Zhentao Xu & Yaotiao Jiang (Cambria Press: Youngstown, NY, 2008). 中 國 上古史 實 揭密 : 天文考古 學 研究 (Revealing the Secrets of Ancient Chinese History: Research in Archaeoastronomy), (Shanghai: Shanghai guji chubanshe, 2008). Archaeoastronomy in East Asia: Historical Records of Astronomical Observations of China, Japan and Korea, Zhentao Xu, David W. Pankenier & Yaotiao Jiang (Amsterdam: Gordon & Breach, 2000). 2. Book Chapters “Getting ‘Right’ with Heaven and the Origins of Writing in China,” Chapter 2 in Writing and Literacy in Early China (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010), 13-48. “Huainanzi’s “Tianwen” and Shiji: “Tianguan shu” What’s the difference?” in Liu An's Vision of Empire: New Perspectives on the Huainanzi (Harvard University, Asia Center, in press). “再谈北极简史与「帝」字的起源”(Once Again—A Brief History of Beiji 北极 [Northern Culmen] and the Origin of the Graph di 帝 [Supreme Lord]) in《西方中国史研 究论丛》(Western Research on China), Patricia Ebrey 伊沛霞 & Yao Ping 姚平 eds. Vol. 1. 《古代史研究》(Ancient History), Chen Zhi 陳致 ed. (Shanghai: Shanghai guji chubanshe, in press). “Locating True North in Ancient China,” Cosmology Across Cultures, Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, Vol. 409 (2009), 128-137. “Astronomy and Astrology in Ancient China,” in V. H. Mair, P. R. Goldin, and N. S. Steinhardt, ed. Hawaii Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2005), 18-27. “Temporality and the Fabric of Space-Time in Early Chinese Thought,” in Time and Temporality in the Ancient World. Ralph M. Rosen ed. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum Press, 2003), 129-146. “天命和五行交替理论中的占星学起源 ” (Astrological Origins of Heaven’s Mandate and Five Elements Theory), in Sarah Allan, Wang Tao & Fan Yuzhou ed., 中国 古代思维模式与阴阳五行说探源 (The Origins of Yin Yang, Wuxing and Correlative Modes of Thought in Early China), (Nanjing: Jiangsu guji chubanshe, 1998), 161-195. “The Cosmo-political Background of Heaven’s Mandate” (in Chinese) in Wu Wang ke Shang zhi nian yanjiu (Research on the Date of King Wu’s Conquest of Shang) (Beijing: Beijing shifan daxue chubanshe, 1997), 416-430. “Wang Su’s Illustrations of the Begging Professions,” in Outstretched Leaves on his Bamboo Staff: Studies in Honour of Göran Malmqvist, (Stockholm, 1994), 230-246. 3/24/10 3 3. Articles (refereed), Review Articles (invited) “Granting the Seasons: The Chinese Astronomical Reform of 1280, with a Study of its Many Dimensions and an Annotated Translation of its Records. Nathan Sivin, with the research collaboration of Kiyoshi Yabuuti and Shigeru Nakayama (New York: Springer, 2009). Book review. Journal for the History of Astronomy 40 (2009): 476-477. “The Planetary Portent of 1524 in Europe and China,” The Journal of World History 20.3 (September, 2009), 339-375. (Ban Dawei 班大为 ) “Beiji de faxian yu yingyong 北极的发现与应用 (Locating and Using the Pole in Ancient China),” Ziran kexueshi yanjiu 自然科学史研究 27.3 (2008): 281- 300. “The Xiangfen, Taosi site: A Chinese Neolithic ‘Observatory’?” in Archaeologia Baltica 10, Astronomy and Cosmology in Folk Traditions and Cultural Heritage (Klaipeda: University of Klaipeda Press, 2008), 141-148. “Caveat lector: Comments on Douglas J. Keenan, ‘Astro-historiographic Chronologies of Early China are Unfounded,” Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage 10.2 (2007): 137-141. “Notes on translations of the East Asian records relating to the Supernova of AD 1054,” Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage 9.1 (2006): 77-82. “Characteristics of Field Allocation (fenye 分野 ) Astrology in Early China,” in Current Studies in Archaeoastronomy: Conversations across Time and Space, J.W. Fountain & R.M. Sinclair, ed. (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2005): 499-513. “A Brief History of Beiji (Northern Culmen): with an Excursus on the Origin of the Character di 帝 ,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 124.2 (April-June 2004): 1-26. “A Short History of Beiji,” Culture and Cosmos 8.1-2 (2004): 287-308. “Seeing Stars in the Han Dynasty: A Review Article,” Early China 25 (2000): 185- 203. “Popular Astrology and Border Affairs in Early Imperial China: An Archaeological Confirmation,” Sino-Platonic Papers 104 (July, 2000): 1-19. “Applied Field Allocation Astrology in Zhou China: Duke Wen of Jin and the Battle of Chengpu (632 BCE),” Journal of the American Oriental Society 119.2 (1998): 261- 279. “The Mandate of Heaven” and “China’s Oldest Surviving Astronomical Observatory,” Archaeology 51.2 (March/April 1998): 26-34. “Heaven-Sent: Understanding Cosmic Disaster in Chinese Myth and History,” in Natural Catastrophes During Bronze Age Civilisations: Archaeological, geological, astronomical, and cultural perspectives, B. Peiser et al., eds. BAR International Series 728 (Oxford: Archaeopress, 1998): 187-197. “Astronomy and mathematics in ancient China: the Zhoubi suanjing, by Christopher Cullen.” (book review) Journal of Asian Studies 56.3 (August 1997): 762-763. “The Cosmo-Political Background of Heaven’s Mandate,” Early China 20 (1995): 121-176. “Astrological Origins of Chinese Dynastic Ideology,” Vistas in Astronomy 39 (1995): 503-516. “Reflections of the Lunar Aspect on Western Chou Chronology,” T’oung Pao LXXVIII (Leiden, 1992): 33-76. 3/24/10 4 “The Bamboo Annals Revisited: Problems of Method in Using the Chronicle as a Source for the Chronology of Early Zhou, Part 2: The Congruent Mandate Chronology in Yi Zhou shu,” Bulletin of the School of Oriental & African Studies, LV.3 (London, 1992): 498- 510. “The Bamboo Annals Revisited: Problems of Method in Using the Chronicle as a Source for the Chronology of Early Zhou, Part 1,” Bulletin of the School of Oriental & African Studies, LV.2 (London, 1992): 272-297. “Comment on David S. Nivison and Kevin Pang, ‘Astronomical Evidence for the Bamboo Annals’ Chronicle of the Xia Dynasty,’ Early China Forum, Early China 15 (1990): 117-132. “The ‘Scholar’s Frustration’ Reconsidered: Melancholia or Credo?” Journal of the American Oriental Society 110.3 (1990): 434-459. “Astronomical Observations in the Three Dynasties Period and the Origin of Five Phases Correlative Theory” (in Chinese), in Yinxu bowuyuan yuankan 1.1 (Anyang, PRC, 1989): 183-188. “F.R. Stephenson and M.A. Houlden, Atlas of Historical Eclipse Maps: East Asia 1500 BC - AD 1900 (A Review Article),” Bulletin of the School of Oriental & African Studies, LI.3 (London, 1988): 521-24. “The Metempsychosis in the Moon,” Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities 58 (Stockholm, 1986): 149-159. “Mozi and the Dates of Xia, Shang, and Zhou: A Research Note,” Early China 9-10 (1983-85): 175-83. “Early Chinese Positional Astronomy: the Guoyu Astronomical Record,” Archaeoastronomy 5.3 (July - September 1982): 10-20. “Astronomical Dates in Shang and Western Zhou,” Early China 7 (1981-82): 2-37. 4. Translations, Encyclopedia Articles, Essays, Reports, Other Tr. Wu Jiabi, Chen Meidong, Liu Ciyuan, “陶寺观象台遗址的天文功能与年代 “ (The astronomical function and date of the Taosi observatory,” ms. 8 pp. forthcoming. Bernhard Karlgren: A Life, by Göran Malmqvist (copy-edited English translation; Lehigh University Press), in press. “Chinese Astrology,” article for the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, (New York: Scribners, 2004). The Mandate of Heaven: Hidden History in the I Ching. S.J. Marshall (New York, 2002). Journal of Chinese Religions 31 (2003): 277-278 (book review). “Basic Annals of Emperor Wu the Filial,” in Ssu-ma Ch’ien, The Grand Scribe’s Records. Vol. 2: The Basic Annals of the Han Dynasty. Ed. William H. Nienhauser, Jr. Translated by Scott W. Galer, W. H. Nienhauser, David W. Pankenier, and Cao Weiguo (Bloomington, 2002): 219-259. Astronomy Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Astronomy (Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science, 1, ed. Helaine Selin (Dordrecht, 2000),” in Isis: Journal of the History of Science Society 93:2 (2002): 285-286 (book review). “Zhongguo Wenwubao’s Top Archaeological Discoveries of 1996,” Early China News 9 (1996): 36, 33-34. “Kaoguxue (Archaeology): Digest of the Past Year’s Archaeological Discoveries as Reported in the Chinese Press,” Early China News 8 (1995): 18-23, 27-28. 3/24/10 5 “The 1995 International Scholarly Conference on China’s Shang Civilization,” Early China News 8 (1995): 15-16. “Kaoguxue: Recent Clippings from the Pages of People’s Daily,” Early China News 7 (1994): 16-20. “Zhongguo Wenwubao Announces the Top Archaeological Discoveries of 1994,” Early China News 7 (1994): 24, 22-23. The Shape of the Turtle: Myth, Art, and Cosmos in Early China, by Sarah Allan, Journal of Chinese Religions 21 (1993), 131-137 (book review).