Publications

2022
Stephen Owen. 2022. All Mine: Happiness, Ownership, and Naming in Eleventh-Century China, Pp. 197. New York: Columbia University Press.
2020
2020. “Thinking Through Poetry: Du Fu’s ‘Getting Rid of the Blues".” In Reading Du Fu: Nine Views, Pp. 27-40. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
2019
4/2019. “The Future of China’s Past.” In China Questions: Critical Insights Into a Rising Power. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Stephen Owen. 2019. Just a Song: Chinese Lyrics from the Eleventh and Early Twelfth Centuries, Pp. 420. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Asia Center.
2018
2018. “Poetry and Authorship: The Songs of Chu (Chuci).” In How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context, Pp. 30-47. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
Stephen Owen Sheldon and Polock. 2018. “Sorting Out Babel: Literature and its Changing Languages.” In What China and India Once Were: The Pasts That May Shape the Global Future. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
2017
Stephen Owen. 2017. The Poetry of Ruan Ji. . Boston, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
Stephen Owen. 2017. “How Did Buddhism Matter in Tang Poetry?” T'oung Pao, 103, 4-5, Pp. 388-406. owen_stephen_how_did_buddhism_matter in Tang Poetry_pdf
2017. ““Sanbian Liu Yong yu qiwude Renzong” (The Changing Face of Liu Yong and Dancing Renzong).” In Chuanhe Kangsan jiaoshou rongxiu jinian wenji 川合康三教授榮休紀念文集, Pp. 241-263. Nanjing: Fenghuang chubanshe. liu_yong_and_dancing_renzong.pdf
2016
2016. “Synecdoche of the Imaginary.” In The Rhetoric of Hiddenness in Traditional Chinese Culture, Pp. 261-277. Albany, NY: University of New York Press.
2015
Stephen Owen. 11/2015. “Returning to the High Tang.” In Hume Lecture. Yale University, New Haven, CT. returning_to_the_high_tang_2.docx
Stephen Owen. 2015. The Poetry of Du Fu. Boston, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
2015. “Jiangnan from the Ninth Century On: The Routinization of Desire.” In Southern Identity and Southern Estrangement in Medieval Chinese Poetry, Pp. 189-206. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
2015. “Who Wrote That? Attribution in Northern Song Ci.” In Reading Medieval Chinese Poetry: Text, Context, and Culture, Pp. 202-220. Leiden: Brill.
2014
9/29/2014. “Postface: "Believe it or Not” .” In Idle Talk: Gossip and Anecdote in Traditional China, Pp. 217-224. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
2012
2012. “Poetry.” In The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 4th ed., Pp. 1065-1068. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press.
2010
Stephen Owen. 2010. “The Poet in the Scroll: Du Fu's Collected Poems in Manuscript.” In An International Conference on Manuscript Culture. Harvard University. manuscript_culture_conference_du_fu_final.pdf
2009
Stephen Owen. 9/11/2009. “The Lessons of the Feng.” In Book of Odes Symposium . University of Chcago. Lessons_of_the-Feng_2009_bookofodessymposium_stephenowen.pdf
2009. “A Poetic Narrative of Change: Du Fu’s Poetic Sequence ‘Going Out the Passes: First Series’.” In Text, Performance, and Gender in Chinese Literature and Music: Essays in Honor of Wilt Idema, Pp. 7-22. Leiden: Brill.
2008
Stephen Owen. 11/2008. “Huayan: shiyi shiji de xingbie yu wenti 華宴﹕十一世紀的性別與文體.” Xueshu yuekan 學術月刊 .

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