About - James M. HARGETT

James M. HARGETT

Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of East Asian Studies at the State University of New York, Albany. He also serves as editor of the Journal of Sung-Yuan Studies. His main research interests are Song dynasty culture and literature. His most recent writings include On the Road in Twelfth Century China: The Travel Diaries of Fan Chengda (1126-1193) (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1989); "Chen Yuyi, 1090-1139," Journal of Sung-Yuan Sttudies 23 (1993): 110-22; "Where Are the Moth-Eyebrows? On the Origins of the Toponym 'Omei shan' " Han-hsiieh yen-chiu [Chinese Studies} 12.1 (June 1994): 335-48; and "Books About Everything (Bowu zhi shu): Song Dynasty (960-1279) Local Gazetteers and Their Place in the History of Difangzhi Writing in China" (in review).