Xinci Fu

Xinci Fu

Specialization: Tang literature and cultural history, Late Tang poetry, Premodern Chinese literary history.

Office Hours: Mon 3:30-4:30

Email:xinci_fu@ucsb.edu

Fu Xinci (傅歆辭) is a Ph.D. student currently working on premodern Chinese literature, with a focus on Late Tang poetry and how it reflects poetry exchange as a literary culture in Tang Dynasty and the development of exchange poem as a literary genre. He is also interested in and studying the female writings of Tang Dynasty, and the cultural history of the middle period of China.

Academic History

B.A. in Chinese Literature and Language, University of Hong Kong.
M.A. in Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore.
Ph.D. in East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies (in progress).

Advisors

Professor Thomas Mazanec
Professor Li Xiaorong

Awards and Fellowships

2018 Dr SH HO Prize in Chinese studies
2019 Cheung Nim-ping Prizes in Chinese Literature
2019 Professor So Man Jock Prizes in Chinese Literature
2019 Professor Tsui Ying Chun Prizes in Chinese Literature
2020 Sung Hon Ting Cheng Pui Lan Memorial Scholarship
2021 Graduate Teaching Fellowship, NUS
2023 Chancellor’s Doctoral Fellowship, UCSB
2024 Presentation Honorarium, Arizona State University
2024 Harvard Institution of World Literature Fellowship
2024 Singapore Association of Writers Medal and Prize for Chinese Studies, NUS

Conference Presentations

“Performing Talent As Locals: The Construction And Localization Of Late Tang Zhejiang浙江Poets’ Literary Reputation”. The 6th ZJU-NUS Frontier of Chinese Language and Literature, Zhejiang University, September 1st, 2023.
“Topographic Writings and Poetic Competence: a Late Tang (827-907) Local Literary Group’s Poetic Learning and Poetry Exchanges”. CU Boulder Asian Studies Graduate Conference, February 24th, 2024.
“Bitter Intoning as Literary Persona: Fang Gan and Du Xunhe’s Self-Representations in Poetry Exchanges”. Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, October 11th, 2024.
“Outside the Private Garden: How Pi Rixiu and Lu Guimeng Wrote and Thought about Tai Lake Stone Addiction” American Oriental Society, Western Branch, Arizona State University, 2024.

Translations

Jao, Tsung-I饒宗頤. “Suyab, the True Birthplace of Li Bai” (李白出生地——碎葉) in “Collected Works of Jao Tsung-I：Xuantang Anthology”, revised by Professor. Nicholas Morrow Williams.