William H. Nienhauser, Jr. is the Halls-Bascom Chair Professor of Classical Chinese Literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the founding editor and chief editor of Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR) in the U.S. He was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Humboldt Foundation in 2003. His academic fields include Han Fu and the literature of the two Han Dynasties, biographical literature of the Tang Dynasty (the Tang romances), and Sima Qian's Historical Records. His academic works and compilations include P'i Jih-Hsiu (皮日休), Biographies and Novels: A Comparative Collection of Tang Literature (传记与小说：唐代文学比较论集), Liu Zongyuan (柳宗元), The Indiana Companion to traditional Chinese Literature (印第安纳中国古典文学指南), A Catalogue of Western monographs in the Study of Tang Literature (唐代文学研究西文论著目录), and American Scholars on the Literature of the Tang Dynasty (美国学者论唐代文学), etc. He began to preside over the entire English translation of The Grand Scribe’s Records (史记) in 1991, which has already been published in six volumes.

Title: "Confucius and the Yi Di"

Time: 09:00-9:40, November 5th