The Office of the Vice President for Research announced the awards for the sixteenth annual Arts and Humanities Research Support for research, creative, and scholarly projects. This internal funding opportunity supports projects that engage the arts, design, and/or humanities in carrying out the university’s research mission and lay the foundation for further work beyond the award end date.

Dr. Zhang’s awarded project is:

A Space of the Mind: The Literati Studio in Song Dynasty Literary Culture (960–1279)

Professor Zhang aims to create a six-chapter book, A Space of the Mind: The Literati Studio in Song Dynasty Literary Culture (960–1279). This study conceptualizes the porosity of a personal space from the perspective of this previously unexplored locus of the literati studio. Drawing upon a wide range of literary, historical, and visual sources, A Space of the Mind investigates the studio’s emergence as a personal oasis in Chinese literary culture from the tenth to the thirteenth century and the ways it became a stage on which to display literati selfhood, which marked the rise as well as the legitimation of the need for a personal space (even as distinct from the domestic) in China. As the first book in any language that examines the studio’s increasing prevalence and importance in literary configurations, this study contributes importantly to furthering knowledge about the fundamental cultural and literary transitions from medieval to early modern China. Check out Dr. Zhang’s research at here https://clasprofiles.wayne.edu/profile/gt3284