Pauline Lin
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University
Thomas Hall 124
610-526-5671
plin@brynmawr.edu
Pauline Lin offers courses on Chinese literature, visual culture, and language. She teaches introductory courses including “Literature of Everyday Life” and “The Chinese Visual Imagination,” as well as more advanced, interdisciplinary, courses, including “Early Chinese Cities and City Cultures,” and “The Culture of Modern China.” “Early Chinese Cities” explores the culture of key cities in early China through archaeological, material, visual, and textual sources; and “The Culture of Modern China” focuses on five key historical moments in modern China, and reads literature, art, and film/documentaries as political commentaries to the time. She also teaches Advanced Chinese in various thematic forms to fourth and fifth year language students.
Her own research interests focus on the literary, visual, material, and cultural history of early Medieval China (roughly 2nd -6th c. AD). She has published articles on the little-known poet Ying Qu (190-252) who authored some of the earliest admonitory poetry in China, as well as the “Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove” mural reliefs, which became a popular decorative motif in Southern Chinese tombs in the 5th-6th centuries. Currently, she is working on a book manuscript that explores how nature was experienced and represented in the two cities of Ye and Luoyang during the pivotal turning point of the Cao-Wei period (220-265), after which one witnessed an increase in landscape poetry and the beginning of landscape art. It is a study of Jian’an literature in its cultural context, as well as an investigation into early Chinese landscape literature and culture. For more on Lin, see http://www.brynmawr.edu/news/2007-05-03/lin.shtml.