Richard J. Smith

George & Nancy Rupp Professor of Humanities
Professor of History

Interim Director, Chao Center for Asian Studies

Email: smithrj [] rice.edu Phone: x2552 Office: 322 Humanities

Education

• Ph.D. University of California-Davis, 1972
• M.A. University of California-Davis, 1968
• B.A. University of California-Davis, 1966

Areas of Interest

• Chinese history and culture
• Comparative/Global history

Research and Teaching

• Statement coming soon.

Selected Publications

• “Eternal Writ: The Globalization of the Yijing (I-Ching or Book of Changes)” Book manuscript in progress (under contract for the University of Virginia Press).
• Fathoming the Cosmos and Ordering the World: The Yijing (I Ching or Book of Changes) and Its Evolution in China (University of Virginia Press, 2008).
• Different Worlds of Discourse: Transformations of Gender and Genre in Late Qing and Early Republican China, with Nanxiu Qian and Grace Fong (Brill, forthcoming, 2008)
• “Divination In Late Imperial China: New Light On Some Old Problems” in On-cho Ng, ed., The Imperative of Reading: Chinese Philosophy, Comparative Philosophy, and Onto-Hermeneutics (Global Scholarly Publications, forthcoming 2008)
• “Qing Perspectives on Yuan Dynasty Yijing Scholarship: Evidence from the Siku quanshu zongmu tiyao” (Annotated General Catalogue of the Complete Collection of the Four Treasuries) in Yuet Keung Lo, ed., The Qing Episteme: Thought, Culture, and Society in Late Imperial China (Hong Kong University Press, forthcoming 2008).
• “Knowing the Self and Knowing the ‘Other’: The Epistemological and Heuristic Value of the Yijing (Classic of Changes),” Journal of Chinese Philosophy (2006).
• “The Yijing (Classic of Changes) in Comparative Perspective: The Value of Cross-Cultural Investigations,” International Journal of the Humanities (2003)

Curriculum Vitae

• CV coming soon

Links

• Chao Center for Asian Studies