Current Academic Research Projects
Doctoral Dissertation (2015):
“Chinese Euphonics: Phonetic Patterns, Phonorhetoric and Literary Artistry in Early Chinese Narrative Texts”
For Digital Humanities research projects, see Portfolio
Deriving a Lexical Database from Ancient Glosses: the Jīngdiǎn shìwén 《經典釋文》 and Early Chinese Lexicography
Computational Approaches to Rhetoric and Argumentation in Early Confucianism and Taoism
Sounds of the Gods: Homoioteleuton Ὁμοιοτέλευτον in Ancient Greek, Roman, Chinese and Sumerian Ritual
Algorithmic Analyses of the Phonetic System of the Guǎngyùn 《廣韻》 Rhyme Dictionary
Tang Poetics: Computing the zè 仄 of Du Fu 杜甫
Piánwén 駢文 Parallel Prose Style from the Western Zhou 西周 to the Eastern Han 東漢
From Wu-hu! 「嗚呼」 to Wu-hu ai-zai! 「嗚呼哀哉」 : An Outcry in Early China
Great and Terrible: Yáng 陽 Rhyme Group Words in the Classic of Poetry 《詩經》
J.Tharsen Downloads: 2007 Academic Papers and Essays (PDFs)