Martin Kern

Martin Kern(Ph.D. Cologne University) is the Joanna and Greg Zeluck '84 P13 P18 Professor in Asian Studies and Chair of the Department of East Asian Studies at Princeton University. He has published widely on early Chinese literature, history, and textual culture, including The Stele Inscriptions of Ch’in Shih-huang: Text and Ritual in Early Chinese Representation (American Oriental Society, 2000) and various edited volumes. He is currently completing the monograph Texts, Authors, and Performance in Early China: The Origins and Early Development of the Literary Tradition (Princeton University Press). Kern also serves as co-editor of T’oung Pao and as managing editor of the monograph series Studies in the History of Chinese Texts (Brill).