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Kim Besio

Title

Oak Professor of East Asian Studies; Chair of East Asian Studies

Department

East Asian Studies

Information

  • (207) 859-4412
  • [email protected]
  • (207) 859-4705
  • Lovejoy 428

Address

4400 Mayflower Hill Waterville, Maine 04901-8853

Office Hours

M,W,F 10:00-11:00; T, TH 3:00-4:00; and by appt.

Current Courses

CRS Title Sec
EA120 Nature in East Asian Literature and Culture A
EA252 Hell on Earth? Chinese Writers on Modern Chinese Society A
EA493 Seminar: Advanced Research in East Asia A

Education

  • M.A., Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
  • B.A., University of Hawaii at Manoa

Areas of Expertise

  • Late imperial Chinese fiction and drama
  • Construction of gender in late imperial China
  • Chinese language pedagogy

Personal Information

Kimberly Besio has taught Chinese language and literature at both Berkeley and the University of Minnesota, and is the Ziskind Professor of East Asian Studies. Her research interests center on traditional Chinese fiction and drama, particularly their influence on the Chinese imagination in areas such as gender construction and visual culture. She has published articles related to these topics in Nan Nu: Men, Women and Gender in Early and Imperial China, Ming Studies, CHINOPERL Papers, Journal of Sung-Yuan Studies, and Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient; and she is the co-editor with Constantine Tung of an essay collection titled Three Kingdoms and Chinese Culture. Professor Besio teaches courses in Chinese language and Chinese literature in translation in the East Asian Studies Department.

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4000 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, ME 04901 207-859-4000
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