Fang Wu

I am interested in pulling together excavated materials with the transmitted texts and examining the hidden messages in the minimalist narrative patterns of the excavated texts exposed the disenchanted complicated history of the pre-Qin period. In order to develop a more scientific method to study early Chinese thought, historiography, and literature, I have attempted to reach across disciplinary boundaries by exploring the excavated manuscripts, with an emphasis on the interactions between orality and writing, form and grammar, as well as intertextuality and exegetic traditions in early China.