Author, Poet-Monks (Cornell UP). Assoc prof at UC Santa Barbara. Premodern Chinese lit & religion, translation, digital humanities. JASPA (formerly JAOS) editor. Father of 2. From NE Ohio.
https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/thomas-mazanec
Tom Mazanec
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Issue 146.2 of JASPA has been published and is now available online at lockwoodonlinejournals.com/index.php/jaos.
Here's the East Asia section, which I edited. Touches on everything from the earliest poetry translation into Chinese to Tangut Buddhism to Tang Christianity.
@aspa1842.bsky.social
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Honored to have my book, Poet-Monks (published with @cornellupress.bsky.social), be a finalist for the American Council of Learned Society's Open Access Book Prize in the category of Literary / Media Studies.
Winning titles will be announced in the fall. www.acls.org/programs/ope...
Journal of the American Society for Premodern Asia (JASPA) Vol. 146 No. 1 (2026) lockwoodonlinejournals.com/index.php/ja... @aspa1842.bsky.social @tommazanec.bsky.social
Book Reviews
Bruce Rusk, Review of The Forger’s Creed: Reinventing Art History in Early Modern China by J. P. Park
Olivia Milburn, Review of A Historical Taxonomy of Talking Birds in Chinese Literature by Wilt Idema
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(Unofficial) Hucker for Pleco.
Brief Communication
Alexis Balmont, Strategic Naming? On the Use of Seng 僧 in the Jingjiao Stele Lists of Name
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Adding the tag Sinology 🀄️📚. Are we still doing that? Does it work?
Research Articles
Yixin Gu, Poetry in Translingual and Intralingual Practices: The “Song of a Yue Person” and Its Implications
Kirill Solonin and Huang Tingyu 黃婷玉, Caodong and White Cloud:A spects of the Chan Transmission in the Tangut Realm
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Three incredible books—one big honor:
📚 Poet-Monks (@tommazanec.bsky.social)
📚 Ecological States (Jesse Rodenbiker)
📚 Border of Water and Ice (Joseph A. Seeley)
All 2026 ACLS OA Book Prize + Arcadia Awards finalists!
Congrats! 🎉
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