J. MICHAEL FARMER Office: JO 5.612 Phone: 972-883-6354 Email: farmer@utdallas.edu Office Hours: Thursday 4:30-5:30

Areas of Specialization:
Chinese History, especially early and medieval cultural, intellectual,
and literary; the Silk Roads; Women in Traditional China.

Education:
Ph.D. Chinese Literature, University of Wisconsin, Madison
M.A., Chinese Literature, University of Wisconsin, Madison
M.A. Chinese History, University of Wisconsin, Madison
B.A. Chinese, University of Texas at Austin

Publications:

Monograph:
The Talent of Shu: Qiao Zhou and the Intellectual World of Early Medieval Sichuan. State University of New York Press, 2007.

Peer Reviewed Articles:
"A Person of the State Composed a Poem: Lyrics of Praise and Blame in the Huayang guo zhi." Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, and Reviews 29. Forthcoming (December 2007).

"The Three Chaste Ones of Ba: Local Perspectives on the Yellow Turban Rebellion on the Chengdu Plain," Journal of the American Oriental Society 125.2 (April-June 2005): 191­202.

"On the Composition of Zhang Hua's 'Nüshi zhen,'" Early Medieval China 10/11.1 (2004): 151­75.

"How I Came to Doubt Qing Scholarship: The Case of Yao Zhenzong and Qiao Zhou's Records of the Later Han," Monumenta Serica 51 (2003): 237­51.

"Qiao Zhou and the Historiography of Early Medieval Sichuan," Early Medieval China 7 (2001): 31­69.

"What's in a Name? On the Appellative 'Shu' in Early Medieval Chinese Historiography," Journal of the American Oriental Society 121.2 (2001): 44­59.

"Art, Education, & Power: Illustrations in the Stone Chamber of Wen Weng," T'oung Pao 86 (2000): 100­35.

"Passages: Three Poems at Thorn Portal," T'ang Studies 14 (1996): 125­140.

Reviews, Reports, and Encyclopedia Articles:

"Yang Yan: The Prime Empress Yang of Emperor Wu of Jin," "Yang Zhi: The Grievous Empress Yang of Emperor Wu of Jin,"and "Jia Nanfeng: Empress of Emperor Hui of Jin," in Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women, 1600 B.C.E.­618 C.E. (Armonk: ME Sharpe, 2007).

"Zhang Hua," and "Zuo Si," in Dictionary of Literary Biography: Classical Chinese Writers, v. 1, The Pre-Tang Era (Columbia, South Carolina: Bruccoli Clark Layman). Forthcoming.

Conference Report. "The Historical, Fictional, Theatrical, and Artistic Three Kingdoms: A Sino-American Colloquium," Early Medieval China 7 (2001), 153­57.

"Liu K'un," and "Wang Yen-shou," in Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature, v. 2 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press,1998)