CONSTANCE A. COOK Professor Office: Department of Modern Languages and Literature Lehigh University Phone: (610) 758-3091 Maginnes Hall, 9 W. Packer Ave. Fax: (610) 758-6556 Bethlehem, PA 18015 Email address: cac8@lehigh.edu EDUCATION Ph.D. 1990 Asian Languages and Literatures, University of California, Berkeley 1988 (Spring) Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, History Research Center, Beijing 1987 (Fall) Archaeology Department, Beijing University M.A. 1980 Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Washington (Seattle) 1978-79 Inter-University Program, National Taiwan University B.A. 1976 Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Washington 1973-74 Oberlin College Study Abroad Program, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Academic Employment: P.I., Chinese Bridges Project Lehigh University 2009-2011 Director of Asian Studies Lehigh University 1996-1999, 2003-2009 Director, Lehigh in Shanghai Internship Program 2003-present Professor Lehigh University 2007-present Associate Professor Lehigh University 1996-2007 Assistant Professor Lehigh University 1990-1996 Instructor Lehigh University 1989-90 Instructor Colby College 1988-89 Teaching Assistant U.C., Berkeley 1984-87 LIST OF PUBLICATIONS BOOKS: Authored: 2006 Death in Ancient China: The Tale of One Man s Journey. Leiden: Brill Press. In Process: Ancestors, Kings, and the Dao. First draft almost complete. Edited: 1999 Defining Chu: Image and Reality in Ancient China. Ed. with J. Major, University of Hawaii Press. Chapters in books: 2010 Education and the Way of the Former Kings. F. Li & D. Branner, eds. Literacy in Ancient China. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
COOK 01/18/10 2 2009 Ancestor worship during the Eastern Zhou. Early Chinese Religion: Part One: Shang through Han (1250 BC-220 AD). J. Lagerwey and M. Kalinowski. Leiden: Brill. Pp. 237-79. 2007 Ritual, Politics, and the Issue of feng. Shi Quan jiaoshou jiushi danchen jinian wenji [Memorial volume in honor of Prof. Shi Quan s Ninetieth Birthday]. Wuhan University Historical Geography Research Center, comp. Wuhan: Hubei renmin. Pp. 215-67. 2005 Moonshine and Millet: Feasting and Purification Rituals in Ancient China. Chapter One in Of Tripod and Palate: Food and Religion in Traditional China. Roel Sterckx, ed. New York: Palgrave. Pp. 9-33. 2002 Xi Zhou zaoqimu zhong tongqi duozuduoming wenti shitan" [The Problem of Multiple Names on Bronzes in Early Western Zhou Tombs]. Wang Yuzhong and Zhang Maorong ed., Zuixun zhongguo gudai wenming de zongji--li Xueqin xiansheng xueshu huodong wushinian (1950-2000) [Festschrift for Li Xueqin Celebrating Fifty Years of Scholarship]. Shanghai: Fudan University Press. Pp. 377-388. 1999 Preface" with J. Major (vii-ix), "Introduction" with B. Blakeley (1-5), Chapter Five "The Ideology of the Chu Ruling Class" (67-76), Appendix: Translation of the Chu Silk Manuscript, with Li Ling (171-6). In C. Cook and J. Major, ed., Defining Chu: Image and Reality in Ancient China, University of Hawaii Press. Chapter on Pre-Han Healing in The Harvard Illustrated History of Chinese Medicine and Healing. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University. Accepted. ARTICLES: Refereed: 2006 From Bone to Bamboo: Number Sets and Mortuary Ritual. Journal of Oriental Studies 41.1: 1-40. 1998 Myth and Fragments of a Qin Yi text: A Research Note and Translation. Journal of Chinese Religions 26 (1998): 135-143. 1997 Wealth and the Western Zhou. The Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 60.2: 253-294. 1996 Scribes, Cooks, and Artisans: Breaking Zhou Tradition. Early China 20 (1995-96): 241-277. 1995 Spring and Autumn Period (Eight to Fifth centuries BCE) in "Chinese
COOK 01/18/10 3 Religions: State of the Field. Ed. by Daniel Overmeyer. Journal of Asian Studies 54 (Feb. 1995) 4: 12-14. 1994 Three High Gods of Chu. Journal of Chinese Religions 22 (Fall 1994): 1-22. 1993 Myth and Authenticity: Deciphering the Chu Gong Ni Bell Inscription. Journal of the American Oriental Society 113 (1993) 4: 539-550. 1986 "Orpheus and the Revengeful Ghost: A Comparison of Rilke and Feng Zhi," with Patricia Sieber, Phi Theta Papers 17 (1986): 59-69. Non-refereed: 2000 Feast and the Table. Gisèle Croës, ed. Ritual Food Vessels in Ancient China. Brussels: Galerie de Gisèle Croës. Pp. 12-13. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS: 2007 Xian wang zhi dao yu weiyi de waihua biaoxian [The Way of the Former Kings and the Outer Manifestation of Awesome Decorum ]. Ding Sixin, ed. Chudi jianbo sixiang yanjiu, Vol. 3, Proceedings from International Academic Conference on Newly Excavated Chu Bamboo Strips. Hubei: Hubei jiaoyu. Pp. 270-83. 2006 The Way(s) of the Former Kings: Guodian Notes. Confucianism Resurrected: The Third International Conference on Excavated Chinese Manuscripts, Mt. Holyoke College, April 2004. Xing Wen, ed. Special issue of International Research on Bamboo and Silk Documents: Newsletter. Trinity College. Pp. 47-54. 2005 Chuguo qierbei suo shangli zhong de zuoyong yu gudai muzang niurou jisipin de guanxi [Sacrificial Beef in Mortuary Ritual and the Sample from a Chu Lacquer Earcup]. The Chu wenhua yanjiu lunji No. 6. Chu wenhua yanjiuhui, ed. Wuhan: Hubei Jiaoyu. Pp. 354-72. 2004 The Bin Gong xu and Sage King Yu. In The X Gong Xu: A Report and Papers from the Dartmouth Workshop. Xing Wen, ed. Special issue of International Research on Bamboo and Silk Documents: Newsletter. Dartmouth College 2003. Pp.23-8. 2004 Zhao yu chuanshuo: dui xinchu Guizang jianshu jitiao sixian [Omens and Myth: thoughts on the Guizang manuscript]. Xinchu jianbo yanjiu: xinchu jianbo guoji sueshu yantaohui wenji [Studies on Recently Discovered Chinese Manuscripts: Proceedings of the International Conference on
COOK 01/18/10 4 RecentlyDiscovered Chinese Manuscripts (August 2000)]. Ed. By S. Allan and Xing Wen. Aurora Centre for the Study of Ancient Civilizations, Peking University Publication Series, No. 8. Beijing: Wenwu Press. Pp. 154-62. 2003 Gudai Zhongguo de zhaijie yishi yu shensheng kongjian gainian [Sacred space and the zhai purification ritual in ancient China.] Disijie guoji Zhongguo guwenzixue yantaohui lunwenji: xin shiji de guwenzi yu jingdian zhuci. The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Pp. 653-62. 2002 Shilun Jin Hou Bangfu mu zhong de Chu Gong Ni bianzhong [Discussion of the Chu Gong Ni bell sets from Lord Bangfu of Jin s tomb]. Shanghai Museum, ed. Jin Hou mudi chutu qingtongqi guoji xueshu yantaohui lunwenji (Proceedings of the Symposium on Bronzes from the Cemetery of Marquises of Jin). Shanghai shuhua chubanshe. Pp. 355-365. 1993 Ritual Feasting in Ancient China: Preliminary Study I. The Second International Conference Volume on Chinese Paleography. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, October 1993. Pp. 469-87. ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES: 2008 Zhou Dynasty. Berkshire Encyclopedia of China republished with minor revisions an article of the same name in David Levinson and Karen Christensen et al, eds. Encyclopedia of Modern Asia. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2002 2007 Zhou Women [biographical sketches of women who lived from the 11 th through 3 rd centuries BCE]. Lily Xiao Hong Lee, ed. A Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women. M. E. Sharpe. (one of 4 contributors to this volume; multiple entries by Cook) 2007 Burial Practices in the Asia/Pacific and Food and Diet in the Asia/Pacific. Peter Bogucki, ed. Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in the Ancient World. NY: Facts on File. 4 Vols. 1999 Women in Ancient China. Helen Tierney ed. Women's Studies Encyclopedia: History, Philosophy, and Religions, NY: Greenwood Press. Revised and expanded version of 1991 entry. TRANSLATIONS: 2000 Yin through Spring and Autumn Period, (1988). L. von Falkenhausen, ed. Japanese Scholarship on Early China, 1987-1991: Summaries from Shigaku Zasshi. Early China Monograph Series No. 6. Pp. 1-15. 1998 Cypress Boat, Crane Calls, The Great War Dance, Yuner's Bell,
COOK 01/18/10 5 translations from the Book of Odes and of a bronze inscription for The World Treasury of Poetry. W.W. Norton & Co. Pp. 62-67, 69. 1996 Translation of a Zheng state hu vessel inscription. Gisèle Croës,ed. This-Life and the After-Life catalogue for Maastricht, New York, p. 66. 1995 Translations of The Xiaozi Feng Bucket, The Square Beaker of Mai, The Shenzi Ta Tureen, The Bell of Liang Qi, The Tureen of Liang Qi. Deborah A. Sommer ed. Chinese Religion. Oxford U. Press, 1994. Pp. 15-16. HONORS AND AWARDS 2004-2006 Lehigh University, Class of 1961 Professorship 2003 Fall International Scholar of the Year, Phi Beta Kappa (Lehigh) Spring Plenary Address, American Oriental Society, Nashville, TN 2000 Spring Council on National Literatures, Anne and Henry Paolucci Awards in Multinational Studies, $2000 1999 Spring Lehigh University Women's Studies Curriculum Development award, $500 RESEARCH FUNDING Competitively Awarded: 2008 NEH Summer Stipend for book writing Ancestors, Kings, and the Dao $6000 2007 Lehigh Faculty Research Grant $2500, Clan sign database input 2005 Lehigh Faculty Research Grant $2500, Camera-Ready copy production for book Death in Ancient China. 2004 American Council of Learned Scholars, Chinese Fellowship for Scholarly Development, $15,600 (for research scientist Lian Haiping to spend six months at Lehigh University, 2005) 2003 Lehigh Faculty Research Grant $750, Database data entry Lehigh Faculty Research Grant $2500, Database design and data entry 2001 Faculty Research Grant $2250 American Council of Learned Scholars, Chinese Fellowship for Scholarly Development, $15,600 (for senior scholar Liu Yu to spend five months at Lehigh University, 12/3/02-5/3/03)
COOK 01/18/10 6 2000-01 Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, $30,000 1998-99 Pacific Cultural Foundation, $4000 1998-99 Lehigh University Faculty Research Grant, $1200 1997-98 Lehigh University Faculty Research Grant, $1200 1994-95 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, $30,000 1993-94 National Academy of Sciences, Committee for Scholarly Communication with China, post-doctoral research grant, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, History Research Institute, Beijing, $24,050 1993 Class of 1968 Research Fellowship, Lehigh University, $2,000 1992 National Academy of Sciences, Committee for Scholarly Communication with China, travel grant to present a paper at the International Symposium on the Mawangdui Han Tombs, $1,300 1992 Paul Franz Fellowship, Lehigh University, $3,500 1987-88 National Academy of Sciences, Committee for Scholarly Communication with China, fellowship for dissertation research in Beijing, China: Archaeology Department, Beijing University (with Professor Gao Ming) and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the History Research Center (with Professors Li Xueqin and Qi Wenxin), $14,600 1988 National Academy of Sciences, Committee for Scholarly Communication with China travel grant to present a paper at the International Conference of Chu History and Culture, Hubei, China, $3,160 Funding for the development of Academic Programming at Lehigh 2009 Luce Foundation Grant, $300,000 for Chinese Bridge Project: Crossing Disciplines, see http://cas.lehigh.edu/chinesebridge