1. Personal
Nationality:the United States of America
E-mail:aplaks@princeton.edu
Present occupation: Princeton University, Department of East Asian Studies, Associate Full Professor
2. Education
(1) Secondary:
G.W. Hewlett High School, Hewlett, New York (1962)
Honors: Valedictorian of graduating class
(2) Undergraduate:
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, A.B. 1967, Department of Oriental Studies
Honors: University Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa, graduated summa cum laude
(3) Supplementary:
Inter-university Program for Chinese Language Studies in Taipei, National Taiwan University (1964-65)
Professional study of education, Hunter College (1968)
Intensive Chinese language training, Columbia University (1963)
(4) Doctorate:
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, Ph.D. 1973, Department of East Asian Studies
Honors: Woodrow Wilson Fellowship (1967-68), Princeton National Fellow (1967-68)
National Defense Foreign Language Fellow (1971-73)
(5) Language skills:
Academic fluency: Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese, Russian, Hebrew, French
Speaking and reading: Hungarian, Romanian, Yiddish, Modern Greek, Arabic, Turkiah, Italian
Reading only: Latin, Classical Greek, Sanskrit, German, Norwegian, Swedish
3. Teaching positions
1968-71 New York City Board of Education, P.S.30 inLower Manhattan Duties: teacher of common branches, assigned to classes of newly arrived Chinese-speaking students
1973 - Princeton University, Department of East Asian Studies, Associate Professor (1976), Full Professor (1980)
Courses taught:
Introduction to Chinese Literature
The Chinese (Confucian) Classics: A Comparative Approach
The Chinese Novel
Comparative Approaches to Non-Western Narrative
Graduate seminars on various specialized subjects in Chinese and Comparative Literature
Administrative responsibilities:
Departmental Representative: 1973-76, 1989-91
Director of Graduate Study: 1976-78, 1985-86, 2002-3
Acting Chairman: 1987-88
4. Publications
(1) Books:
Mingdai xiaoshuo sida qishu. Beijing: Zhongguo heping chubanshe (1993); revised edition, Beijing: Sanlian shudian (2006) , pp. 463.
Derech ha'emtsa ve-kiyuma (translation with full annotation of Zhongyong). Jerusalem: Mosad Bialik (2004), pp. 269.
Hung-lou meng p'i-yü p'ian-ch’üan. Taipei: Nan-t'ien shu-chü (1997), Second edition, Beijing, Beijing University Press (2003) , pp. 678.
The Highest Order of Cultivation and On the Practice of the Mean. London: Penguin Classics (2003), pp. 127.
(2) Articles
“Zheng Xuan’s Commentary on the Zhouli,” in Statecraft and Classical Learning : the Rituals of Zhou in East Asian History, ed. Benjamin A. Elman and Martin Kern (Leiden: Brill, 2010)
“Why the Chinese Gods Don’t Suffer?”, in Studies in Chinese Language and Culture: Festschrift in Honor of Christoph Harbsmeier (2006), pp.
“Xin as the Seat of the Emotions in Confucian Self-cultivation”, in Love, Hatred, and Other Passions, ed. Paolo Santangelo and Donatella Guida (Leiden: Brill, 2006), pp.113-25.
“Completeness and Partiality in Traditional Commentaries on Honglou meng”, Tamkang Review (XXXVI:1-2), Fall-Winter 2005. pp.117-35.
“Creation and Non-creation in Early Chinese Texts”, in Genesis and Regeneration, ed. Shaul Shaked. Jerusalem: Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 2005. pp. 164-91.
“Shenqu iluan changxi”, in Bijiao wenxue yu shijie wenxue: Yue Daiyun jiaoxiu qishiwu huadan teji (Beijing: Beijing daxue chubanshe, 2005), pp. 147-54.
“Research on the Gest Library Cribbing Garment”, East Asian Library Journal (XI:2), Autumn, 2004
“The Golden Rule”, in Encyclopedia of Religion (2nd Edition). Macmillan ReferenceUSA, 2004)
“Canonization in the Ancient World: the View from Farther East,” in Homer, the Bible and Beyond. ed. Margalit Finkelberg and Guy Stroumsa (Leiden: Brill, 2003), pp. 267-76.
“Can there be a Non-Western Novel?”, in Il Romanzo, ed. Franco Moretti.Torino: Einaudi (2002), Volume 3, pp. 57-82; “Nel giardino della Fiorita Vista”, Volume 5 (2003), pp. 125-138.
Encyclopedia of Confucianism, ed. Yao Xinzhong (Routledge, 2003), 15 articles on Confucian texts and concepts.
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