This is the famous opening line of the recently-discovered mid-4th-century BCE manuscript 'Confucius's Essay on the Poetry' 〈孔子詩論〉. It reads: 'Poetry is not sparing of will [=desire]; Music is not sparing of emotions; Literary eloquence is not sparing of [words/meaning].'　孔子曰：「詩亡吝志，樂亡吝情，文亡吝［言／意］。」

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Artificial Intelligence and the Humanities (Spring 2025)

Digital Texts II : Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning (Spring 2025)

Machine Learning, Deep Learning and A.I. for Textual, Linguistic and Cultural Analysis (Winter 2023)

Advanced Data Analysis/Deep Learning for Linguistic, Cultural, and Historical Research

Digital Humanities and Digital + Computational Pedagogies

World Poetry: Ancient, Medieval, Modern

Taiwan's Past, Present, Future: Sunflowers Thrive on the Edges of the Garden

Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced Classical Chinese

Introduction to Chinese History and Civilization

Foundations of Classical Chinese Literature

Foundations of Chinese Historiography

Introduction to Chinese Poetics and Phonology

Introduction to Chinese Linguistics