focused on examining premodern Chinese fiction on its own terms, with the idea that knowing the differences between the way the Chinese told their stories and the way Europeans and Americans did is indispensable for a deeper understanding of both. He retired from Arizona State University in 2010, but has continued to publish and to be active at academic conferences. Selected English Publications Wu Ching-tzu. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1978. Stories for Saturday: Twentieth Century Chinese Popular Fiction. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2003. Sherlock in Shanghai: Stories of Crime and Detection by Cheng Xiaoqing. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2006. "Self and Society in Tang Dynasty Love Tales." Journal of the American Oriental Society, 99, No. 1 (January–March 1979), 95–100. "Entertainment as Art: An Approach to the Ku-chin Hsiao-shuo." Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews, 3, No. 2 (July 1981), 235–250. "Notes on the Textual History of the Lao Ts'an yu-chi." T'oung Pao LXIX, 1–3 (1983), 23–32. "The name 'Lao Ts'an' in Liu E's Fiction." Journal of the American Oriental Society, 109, No. 1 (January–March 1989), 103–106. "Liu E in the Fang Shih Tradition." Journal of the American Oriental Society, 112, No. 2 (April–June 1992), 302–306. "The Government Language Paradigm in the Academy: Some Observations." Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association XXIX, No. 2 (May 1994), 13–22. "Commentary and Xiaoshuo Fiction." Rpt. in Of Ong & Media Ecology: Essays in Communication, Composition, and Literary Studies, eds Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. New York: Hampton Press, Inc., 2012, pp. 143–159. "The Facts of Fiction: Liu E's Commentary to the Travels of Lao Can." Excursions in Chinese Culture. Festschrift in Honour of Dr. William R. Schultz, eds Marie Chan, Chia-Lin Pao Tao, and Jing-shen Tao. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2002. "Chinese Narrative." Entry in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory, eds. David Herman, Manfred Jahn, and Marie Laure Ryan. London and New York: Routledge, 2005, pp. 62–63. "The Original Evolutionary Nature of Chinese Vernacular Fiction." Comparative Literature: East & West, 15, No. 2 (Autumn/Winter, 2011), 57–63. "Orality in Performance: The Art of Classical Xiaoshuo." Comparative Literature: East & West, 22, No. 1 (Spring/Summer, 2015), 1–7. See also List of Sinologists References 1941 births Living people Chinese sinologists Arizona State University faculty American people of Chinese descent Chinese–English translators Ohio State University faculty Hong Kong people