Sabina Knight 桑稟華

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* #Chinese #Literature: A Very Short Introduction * (Oxford) & *The Heart of Time* (Harvard) Translator & Interpreter: En/Fr/繁中/简中/Ru 雙語 @SabinaKnight.bsky.social Care ethicist @FairbankCenter #PIPfellow @NCUSCR.bsky.social Prof Emerita WLT @SmithCollege

Cover of Thomas Merton's book *New Seeds of Contemplation.* The golden cover features a photo of a stalk of wheat.
"Short Stories from Taiwan." recommended by Sabina Knight (Screenshot of the brightly coloured webpage from Knight's "Five Books" listicle.) "With careful literary crafting, Taiwan's writers have told the complex story of their country since World War II. Sabina Knight, a professor at Smith College and author of *Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction*, recommends five of her favourite short story collections." Interview by Sophie Roell, Editor. The covers of Sabina's five recommended books appear at the bottom of the screenshot. In the top right of the screenshot is the cover of Sabina's *Chinese Literature VSI*. The full title and author's name appear in larger black font below the image of the cover.
"Combining two historiographies" On the left is a graphic with four yellow circles against a black background. In each circle is the name of one type of history: - History of migrations - History of the Holocaust - Transnational history - Micro-history On the right is a paragraph of text: "This project is at the intersection of two fields currently undergoing major renewal: the microhistory of the Holocaust and the transnational history of migrations. It will help to bridge the divide between these two historiographies, and to combat what some have labeled a tendency 'to sequester the Shoah' [1]."
Post of a tweet from Edward Wong. The tweet reads: US is supposedly in "great power competition" with China and Russia. But Trump dismantles @VOANews @RadioFreeAsia @RFERL — which report on those countries and are denounced by autocrats. We who cover China have relied especially on the work of Uyghur and Tibetan reporters at RFA."
Poster for "Taking #Buddhist #Philosophy Seriously: A Symposium in Honor of Jay L. Garfield" Saturday, March 28, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Panelists: Christian Coseru, Laura Guerrero, Kate Hartmann, Connie Kassor, Karin Meyers, Chris Rahlwes, Karl Schmid, Davey Tomlimson Smith College Free, open to the public, and wheelchair accessible
Post from the Uyghur Crisis Response Team The second poem by a #Uyghur #poet that we read was titled "The Encounter". You can read it below: The Encounter By Abdurehim Otkur Loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch I asked her, why aren’t you afraid? She said her God. I asked her, anything else? She said her People. I asked her, anything more? She said her Soul. I asked her if she was content? She said, I am Not.
Screenshot of X's "Account suspended" notification to Sabina Knight's X account. The Profile photos and bio are all gone. There's only a black background with a dark grey circle where the profile photo would be and a medium-shade grey band at the top. The Chinese characters for Sabina Knight's Chinese name appear in white font before her name in English. Below is her handle: @SangBina , also in white (though somewhat small) font. Below her name and handle are the words "Account suspended" in large white font. Below in smaller white font is the sentence "X suspends account which violate the X Rules." The "X Rules" is in bright blue font and is likely a clickable link to the rules.
Cartoon with Winnie the Pooh and Piglet on a couch together. The caption in white lettering reads, "how grateful am i to have people to share space with."
Webpage from the MarcSteinberg.org memorial website. At the top is a bar that says Marc Steinberg on the left. From left to right thereafter are the tabs for Home / Meet Marc / Media / Teaching / Scholarship / Testimonies / Blog / Causes. Underneath the bar is the title "Gotta Know the Rules" Underneath the title is a screen from YouTube showing an album name by The Fountains of Wayne and a shot from one of the music videos of a song from the album. The black-and-white image shows a man in a suit at a diagonal in front of a large bull's eye target.
Color photo of Sabina Knight appearing on stage at a conference via a large screen. Knight delivers comments from her home on another continent. She wears a bright blue blouse and a necklace. Her long reddish blond hair is draped over her shoulders, held back only by a black headband. On screen behind the speaker can be seen two wooden bookshelves with books on the lower shelves, and mostly stuffed animals and framed watercolors on the upper shelves. In front of the large screen are two tables with white flowers on them.
Watercolor of a tree on the viewer's right and plants and a pink, blue, and at the top yellow sky in the background.
ALLWAYS BE KNOWLING image. Shows a cute raccoon peering over a wooden fence. An open book with white pages appears to go from the bottom to the top which in this case is a little over halfway up the fence. On the left hand side of the black-and-white book page is a classy black and white abstract work of art. On the right side are the directions for "HOW TO KNOLL." The title "How to Knoll" is underlined. Four (one to four, with numbers) appear below "How to Knoll," the title.
Web page with "*Know* Your *Meme*" at the top. Above the title of the webpage are S's selection for the strip that appears at the top of the screen below the url that reads bsky.app/profile/tylerborchers.com/post/3lf3ury3xb226. (Error is not impossible.)
United States downward arrow 12345 Continue arrow going from left toward right Four credit card symbols: VISA Mastercard AMEX something I don't recognize Discover?
cropped photo of the cover of the Program of the 140th MLA Annual Convention in New Orleans.
Screenshot of Sabina Knight's profile at Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. There is a photo of Sabina in a round circle on the bottom right. The colors are red, black and white.
Sabina Knight peering up from down inside one of the Chu Chi tunnels in Vietnam.
Photograph of Sabina Knight in Wuzhen, near Shanghai. Sabina is sitting on a bench on a dock-like architectural structure overlooking a canal. (The dock-like structure has a traditional Chinese-style railing type structure. It's very elegant.) Two-story structures in the background are examples of Chinese architecture. The photo was taken by her friend and colleagues, Michael Berry.
Photo of Sabina Knight 桑稟華 smiling. She stands in front of a wall with many posters announcing events at the Fairbank Center at Harvard University. Her name tag is pinned to the folded-back collar of her shirt. A journalist's microphone is being held just under the nametag toward the middle of Sabina's body. Sabina is wearing glasses, a necklace of glass purple beads, and a medium blue shirt.
Cropped image of PMLA journal cover. The text in the grey left-hand column reads: September 2024; Volume 139, Number 4. PROGRAM: The 140th MLA Annual Convention, New Orleans In the center of the journal cover (and a little above the middle) is the abbreviated name of the journal:"PMLA," the abbreviation for "Publications of the Modern Language Association." The color photo on the left two-thirds of of the cover shows a colorful street in New Orleans. There are bright flags hanging from the second-stories of row houses.
Illustration in bright colors with the title "Sociology" at the top. On the right half of the image a woman with long hair sitting on an orange filing cabinet. The front of the cabinet bears the label "sociology." The woman is sitting on the edge of the cabinet working on a laptop computer. The woman's feet rest on one side of the top of a scale of justice. The scale has two golden-colored hanging cups, both empty. The scale is thus perfectly balanced. The brown scale sits atop a large green object. On its (to the viewer's) left edge sits another woman holding a book. At the right side of the large green object stands a man with arms spread wide. In the front of the other objects and people is an glass hourglass a red top and bottom, as well as red-tinted glass. At least half of its sand is still in the top segment. A steady stream of sand is descending to the bottom sphere, where about a quarter of the sand has collected. A large paperclip lies on the ground to the (viewer's) right of the hourglass.
A close-up color photograph of two small homemade art objects on a light wood bookshelf. On the left is a small oval-shaped piece of white paper with the words "Love, your Marc" handwritten in small block (all capital) letters. To the right is a small hand-painted watercolor card. The watercolor has five very simply painted birds and three very simply painted plants. The birds are basically stick figures of birds flying, each one rendered with just two brushstrokes. Each of the plants are also rendered with just two brushstrokes. The background has red hues on the top and bottom with yellow in between and green in the middle. The watercolor washes are dotted with darker spots that somehow make the background look like a pond behind the plants and birds. Behind the two little art objects sits a color photograph, but only the bottom is visible in the close up.
Watercolor painting of a frog. He looks perhaps as if he's ready to jump. The main colors for the frog include red, light blue, medium blue and very dark blue (almost black), orange, and a very tiny bit of white to show light. The white may be unpainted paper showing through. The background is mostly very dark modulated green with some red and reddish orange on the left side from the viewer's point of view.
White lettering against a black background: Reasons for Time Constraints: Heavy Teaching Loads: Professors juggle teaching multiple courses, preparing lectures, creating assignments, grading exams, and holding office hours, leaving limited time for in-depth reading of every student submission. Research Obligations: Many professors are actively involved in research, requiring them to dedicate time to writing grant proposals, conducting experiments, and publishing their findings, further limiting their availability for extensive reading. Administrative Duties: Professors often have administrative responsibilities, such as serving on departmental committees, attending faculty meetings, and participating in university governance, which can consume a significant amount of their time. Impact on Reading Practices: Reduced Reading Time: Professors may have to prioritize reading student work that is most crucial to their course objectives or that is required for a specific grade, leading to a reduction in the amount of time they can spend on other assigned readings.
2023 “Slaughtered Dreams: Cultural Struggle in Literary Borderlands,” for “Transnational Turns and the Future of China Studies,” University of California, Santa Cruz, May. 2023 "Intimacy and Empire: Non-Han Fiction and Poetry," for "Constructing and Deconstructing China,” East and Inner Asian Council (EIAC) designated panel, Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting, Boston, March.
2008 color photograph of Sabina Knight wearing a green-and-navy blue wool winter coat as she stands by the Mill River. Large deciduous trees grow densely on both sides of the river. It's winter, and the trees have all lost their leaves.The river's surface has frozen in wave-like formations amidst rocks, with snow on top. Snow also covers the ground on both banks of the river.
Cartoon of a man walking into the United States Department of Labor. Her wears a suit holding a briefcase. At the reception desk sits a human-sized robot. The cartoon is signed "Bennett," and to the left of his signature the publication is noted: *Chattanooga Times Free Press*.
Watercolor painting by Sabina Knight. Against a light blue background, on the left is a bird sitting on a plum blossom branchs that begin from the right of the painting.
Sabina Knight's book *Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction* on displace in a bookstore or library.
Cover of *The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature* Second Edition Joseph S. M. Lau and Howard Goldblatt, editors The cover shows a brightly colored painting of a dragon or other mythological creature.
Cover of the Chinese edition of Patigül's essay collection "The Lost Mother" 《散失的母親》.
Cover of the English translation of Patigül's novel *Bloodline: A Tumultuous, Semi-Autobiographical Family Saga*, translated from the Chinese by Natascha Bruce. The background of the cover is white, with large red lettering for one instance of the title and smaller black lettering for a smaller, easier-to-read instance of the title, as well as the subtitle, and the phrase "Translated from the Chinese by Natascha Bruce."
Cover of the Chinese edition of Patigül’s * Bloodline*《百年血脉》.
Post from the feed r/PoliticalHumor on Reddit: "Ground Control to Major Musk: Your Mission's Mars, Not the White House" Beneath these words is a graphic showing Donald Trump and Elon Musk in the Oval Office. Trump is trying to help Musk out of his chair. At the top it says "Elon you can't sit there!", and at the bottom it says "It's my presidency. I bought it!"
Graphic for "What Is Meerkat Mode?" with a drawing of a meerkat on the bottom right. "What is Meerkat Mode?" Hypervigilance Seeking a monotropic flow-state (but difficulty accessing) Increased sensory dysregulation (Usually interoceptive, proprioceptive, and vestibular) Indicative of Atypical Burnout AuDHD, may not feel tired or be able to rest Tanya Adkin, 2023 emergentdivergence.com
Screenshot of an error message on Bluesky: "Oups! Ce kit de démarrage n'a pas pu être trouvé." (English translation: "Oups! This starter kit could not be found.") At the bottom is a blue button that says "Retour" ("Back") in white lettering.
Screenshot of the top of Sabina Knight's *Five Books* interview with Editor Sophie Roell: "Short Stories from Taiwan." recommended by Sabina Knight "With careful literary crafting, Taiwan's writers have told the complex story of their country since World War II. Sabina Knight, a professor at Smith College and author of *Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction*, recommends five of her favourite short story collections." The covers of the five recommended books appear at the bottom. In the top right is the cover of Sabina's *Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction* The full title and "by Sabina Knight" appear below the image of the cover.
AI Overview Yes, French writers can be considered a subset of francophone writers because Francophone literature encompasses all literature written in French, including that produced by French writers. "Francophone" refers to anything related to the French language or French-speaking culture. This includes literature written in French by authors from France and other French-speaking countries or regions. French literature, on the other hand, typically refers to literature written in French by authors from France. Therefore, French writers are a part of the broader category of Francophone writers, as they are writing in the French language. In essence, all French writers are Francophone writers, but not all Francophone writers are French writers.
On the left is the cover of *Anarchy: A Graphic Guide* by Clifford Harper. The cover is a colorful painting with three little girls at the corner of a brick building. The tallest is writing "Anarchy: A Graphic Guide" in white capital letters on the brick wall. The smallest is looking at the oldest write on the wall. The girl of middle height is peering around the corner down an old city street. Down the street protesters have rallied. A couple are carrying flags. On the right side are the title and descriptive features of the book: Anarchy: A Graphic Guide SKU: anarchygraphicguide Author: Clifford Harper Publisher: Anne Bonny Books ISBN: Published: first edition published 1987 Format: Paperback Size: 5.8 x 8.3 Page count: 208 Subjects: Anarchism Price: $18.00 Qty: - 1 +Add To Wishlist
Title page of the original 1857 French edition of *Madame Bovary: Mœurs de province* by Gustave Flaubert.
Screenshot of X's "Account suspended" notification to Sabina Knight's X account. The Profile photos and bio are all gone. There's only a black background with a dark grey circle where the profile photo would be and a medium-shade grey band at the top. The Chinese characters for Sabina Knight's Chinese name appear in white font before her name in English. Below is her handle: @SangBina , also in white though somewhat small font. Below her name and handle are the words "Account suspended" in large white font. Below in smaller white font is the sentence "X suspends account which violate the X Rules." The "X Rules" is in bright blue font and look as if there's likely a clickable link to the rules.
Tammy Lai-Ming Ho's Bluesky profile. "Academic, poet, translator, & editor of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, Hong Kong Studies, & The Shanghai Literary Review. Junior Fellow @ HK Academy of the Humanities. Resident @ IWP Fall 2023. Email t@asiancha.com"
A close-up color photograph of two small homemade art objects on a light wood bookshelf. On the left is a small eye-shaped piece of white paper with the words "Love, your Marc" handwritten in small block (all capital) letters. To the right is a small hand-painted watercolor card. The watercolor has five very simply painted birds and three very simply painted plants. The birds are basically stick figures of birds flying, each one rendered with just two brushstrokes. Each of the plants are also rendered with just two brushstrokes. The background has red hues on the top and bottom with yellow in between and green in the middle. The watercolor washes are dotted with darker spots that somehow make the background look like a pond behind the plants and birds. Behind the two little art objects sits a color photograph, but only the bottom is visible in the close up.
Section of a syllabus with dates: 9/8 Introduction I. The Enlightenment in Europe 9/13 Descartes, Discourse on Method (1637), Part II ® ---, 1st & 2nd Meditations (1641) ® 9/15 Kant, “Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Intent” (1784) ® ---, “An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?” (1784)® 9/20 ---, “Foundation for a Metaphysics of Morals” (1785) excerpts ® II. Teleological History and Modernity 9/22 Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 ® 9/27 ---, Communist Manifesto (1848), excerpts ® III. Modernity Problematized
A letter inviting participants for a panel on anarchism and language at the Society for Linguistic Anthropology meeting in Chicago, May 2-25. Dear Colleagues, I invite participants for a panel on anarchism and language at the Society for Linguistic Anthropology meeting in Chicago, May 2025. Please write me by Tuesday or Wednesday (Nov 26/27) if you are inteterested, and we. can work on abstracts in advance of the December 6 deadline. Recently James Slotta ("Anarchy and the Art of Listening," 2023) and others have begun to apply a notion of anarchism in linguistic anthropology. Anarchism may offer a promising new area, e.g. in connection with themes of listening and intelligibility. In my recent work I have found that anarchism leads toward a novel critique of language standardization. Anarchism has multiple meanings, including horizontal, non-hierarchical social organization; diverse political practices of stateless societies; and a specific modern libertarian socialist tradition. Presentationss for this panel are welcome to approach anarchism as an object of study, a method of research practice, &/or as a theoretical framework. This panel is intended to help the field of linguistic anthropology make greater use of anarchism as a method and theory. Exploratory and experimental presentations are welcome. Edwin Everhart (he/him) edwineverhar@umass.edu edwin.everhart@gmail.com Lecturer, 2024-25, University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of Anthropology In in
Screenshot of the last frame of Chiung Yao's farewell video posted on Facebook shortly before her death in December 2024. The image shows Chiung Yao, seen from the back as she walks away, superimposed on a black-and-white photo of what is probably a park in winter. To her left is a row of trees bordering a plowed pathway. She herself walks through the snow. She wears a bright red shirt and black pants. The two Chinese characters of her name, written in red calligraphy, are also superimposed on the scene to Chiung Yao's right. The video timer shows that the frame was at 2:08 minutes of a video of 2:09 minutes in all. Below the video are the like and sad Facebook icons and the words "You, Nicole Huang, Shu-mei Shih and 31K others" Then, farther to the right it says "111 comments / 7.6K shares".
Screenshot of a tweet from Joseph Seelye on Twitter. His comment reads "Thousands of years of Korean history in one meme. Whoever made this is a genius." Below his comment is a graphic showing eleven different periods of Korean history. The names of the periods are mostly amusing, such as "when the franchise was developed by two separate companies due to licensing complications" and "the ensuing copyright lawsuit". Below the graphic is the tweet's time, date and number of views: 4:27 PM / Nov 30, 2024 / 55.7K Views.
On the left side is the cover of the book *Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life* by Luke Burgis. On the right is a color photograph of Luke Burgis crossing his arms. He has a beard and wears a golden sweater.
Four main characters from *Star Trek* seen from the mid chest upward. All are wearing shirts with the delta Starfleet insignia on one side. From the viewer's left to right, the characters pictured are Lt. Nyota Uhura (a light-skinned black woman), Captain Kirk (in the front), pointy-eared Doctor Spock, and Leonard McCoy. The last three are all white men. Behind the characters is the Starship Enterprise (their spaceship) in the same bright blue colors as the bright blue sky behind it. The words "Static Media" appear in small font in the bottom right corner of the image.
Kaiser Kuo's Bluesky profiled. 172 followers, following 263, 2 posts The bio reads: Host of the Sinica Podcast (sinicapodcast.com), former guitarist of Tang Dynasty, about to re-form the band 春秋 (Spring & Autumn). Currently in Chapel Hill, moving back to Beijing soonish. Chinese history, politics, culture, society.
Sabina Knight's main profile on Twitter/X. The profile shows that she joined in October 2014. At the time of the screenshot, she had 4.937 followers.
Book cover: *Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender* by David R. Hawkins, M.D. Ph.D. Beneath Hawkins's name and degrees is the attribution that "The author of *Power vs. Force*." At the top left is Amazon's signature "Best Seller" marker.
Book cover of *Cataclysms of the Earth: The HAB Theory Reloaded* by Hugh Auchincloss Brown. The cover shows planet earth surrounded by two circles superimposed on what looks to be turbulent water. The words on the title are all in off white or a very pale yellow. The words are superimposed over the background image rendered completely in black and deep orange.
Screenshot of a tweet from Sabina Knight featuring the book *When McKinsey Comes to Town* by Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe. The image shows a cover of the book and the basic info as it appears on the Indiebound webpage. On the right is a column headed "Buy at Local Store." The column lists three independent bookstores, two in Northampton and one in Easthampton, Massachusetts.
Screenshot of the standard bright blue starter pack announcement for the "Sociologists Studying China Starter Pack" on Bluesky. All the words and the Bluesky butterly logo are in white letters against a bright blue background. At the top in white capital letters is the invitation to "Join the conversation." Just above the middle is a row of headshots of seven people (or their avatars) listed in the starter pack.
Watercolor of two trees. The style is more representative, not realist. The colors are different shades of a golden brown and various shades of the same green against a blue sky. The sky looks as if there are clouds thanks to the application of denser and more transparent shades of the blue. A few areas remain without paint and thus reveal the white, textured watercolor paper.
IndieBound webpage for the book *When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm* by Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe. Hardcover List Price: $32.50. On the left is a column titled "Buy at Local Store." It lists bookstores in or near Northampton, MA.
Karen Barad's book *Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning*. The book lies on a white background that looks to be linen or perhaps a bedsheet. The title appears above a colorful abstract image that dominates the cover. Below the image is the book's subtitle in smaller font, all lowercase. Below the subtitle to the right is Karen Barad's name in all capital yellow letters. The background color of the cover is a deep, dark purple. The words of the title and subtitle are in a combination of deep yellow, red, orange, and indigo. The abstract image that takes up the middle of the cover is made up of the same colors: deep purple, indigo, red, orange, and deep yellow.
Cover of Simone de Beauvoir's *Pyrrhus et Cinéas* from Gallimard.