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John Kieschnick
Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Professor of Buddhist Studies and Professor, by courtesy, of East Asian Languages and Cultures
BioProfessor Kieschnick specializes in Chinese Buddhism, with particular emphasis on its cultural history. He is the author of the Eminent Monk: Buddhist Ideals in Medieval China and the Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture. He is currently working on a book on Buddhist interpretations of the past in China, and a primer for reading Buddhist texts in Chinese.
John is chair of the Department of Religious Studies and director of the Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford.
Ph.D., Stanford University (1996); B.A., University of California at Berkeley (1986). -
Maciej Kurzynski
Ph.D. Student in Chinese, admitted Autumn 2017
Ph.D. Minor, Slavic Languages and LiteraturesBioI am a Ph.D. Candidate in modern Chinese literature. Before coming to Stanford, I received a Bachelor’s degree in History of Art from the University of Warsaw and a Master’s degree in Literary Theory (文艺学) from Zhejiang University. Entitled “Words of Passion: Narrative Technologies of Modern China,” my dissertation integrates natural language processing (NLP) and cognitive narratology to explore the relationship between embodied cognition and the formal side of narratives produced in China during the long twentieth century.
More info: https://ealc.stanford.edu/people/maciej-kurzynski
