Xiaofei Tian

Hello and welcome to another episode on the New Books Network.

I'm one of your hosts, Dr. Miranda Melcher, and I'm very pleased today to be speaking with Dr. Xiaofei Tian about a book published by Columbia University Press in 2026 titled, Writing Empire and Self, Poetic and Cultural Transformation in Early Medieval China.

Now, anyone who knows anything about early medieval China, That's kind of a chaotic period in a lot of senses.

And yet it's also a period where there's some really famous poems, famous at the time, and honestly, in some senses, famous a lot longer than just from that time.

Hello and welcome to another episode on the New Books Network.

I'm one of your hosts, Dr. Randa Melcher, and I'm very pleased today to be speaking with Dr. Xiaofei Tian about a book published by Columbia University Press in 2026 titled Writing, Empire, and Self, Poetic and Cultural Transformation in Early Medieval China.

Now, anyone who knows anything about early medieval China, that's kind of a chaotic period in a lot of senses.

And yet it's also a period where there's some really famous poems, famous at the time, and honestly, in some senses, famous a lot longer than just from that time.

So we are going to be talking about poetry, but we're going to be talking about other things, too.

I think, in fact, we're going to have a lot of things to talk about.

So Xiaofei, thank you so much for joining me on the podcast.

Thank you, Miranda.

I'm one of your hosts, Dr.

Random Elcher, and I'm very pleased today to be speaking with Dr. Xiaofei Tian about a book published by Columbia University Press in 2026 titled, Writing Empire and Self, Poetic and Cultural Transformation in Early Medieval China.

Now, anyone who knows anything about early medieval China, that's kind of a chaotic period in a lot of senses.

And yet it's also a period where there's some really famous poems, famous at the time, and honestly, in some senses, famous a lot longer than just from that time.

So we are going to be talking about poetry, but we're going to be talking about other things, too.

I think, in fact, we're going to have a lot of things to talk about.

So Xiaofei, thank you so much for joining me on the podcast.

Thank you, Miranda.

Hello and welcome to another episode on the New Books Network.

I'm one of your hosts, Dr. Randa Melcher, and I'm very pleased today to be speaking with Dr. Xiaofei Tian about a book published by Columbia University Press in 2026 titled Writing, Empire, and Self, Poetic and Cultural Transformation in Early Medieval China.

Now, anyone who knows anything about early medieval China that's kind of a chaotic period in a lot of senses.

And yet it's also a period where there's some really famous poems, famous at the time, and honestly, in some senses, famous a lot longer than just from that time.