“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part I, 1808
“To travel is to discover that everybody is wrong,” Aldous Huxley wrote, en route to Borneo, in his travelogue Jesting Pilate. “That knowledge, which only travel can give, is worth, it seems to me, all the trouble, all the discomfort and expense of a circumnavigation.”
—Aldous Huxley, Jesting Pilate : An Intellectual Holyday, 1957
Lectures and Publications
Academic Monographs
A Fulbright-IIE sponsored research monograph.
2016
A Dunhuang Academy + UCF Mid-Career Award sponsored research monograph.
2024
With National Geographic Award-winning Dunhuang Academy photographer Sun Zhijun.
Forthcoming
Google Map indicating key research sites for Staging Tianxia: Dunhuang Expressive Arts and China’s New Cosmopolitan Heritage
Academic Articles and Book Chapters
on learning and sharing
“It is much easier to recognize error than to find truth; for error lies on the surface and may be overcome; but truth lies in the depths, and to search for it is not given to everyone.”
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Maxim and Reflection of Goethe, 1908
“What some people call ‘poor’ is rich in my mind,” “I want my international students to know how important their own cultures are and not to be intimidated by the U.S., I hope my U.S. students bring back important info that the world needs.” “It’s important to look at the overlooked, look for what was left out of the records.”
— Henry Glassie, “Look at the overlooked,” in IDS | May 15, 2008
University of Central Florida
Course Materials
Course materials are copyrighted and subjected to changes with dates and notices.
| Course Prefix + Num. | Name | Syllabi | Semester | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PHI 3800 | Aesthetics | Copyrighted Material → | Fall | Full Details → |
| PHI 3071 (New) | Eastern Philosophies | Copyrighted Material → | Rotate | Full Details → |
| HUM 3401 (Asian Studies Core) | Asian Humanities | Copyrighted Material → | Fall | Full Details → |
| HUM 3402 (High-Impact Global Track) | East Asian Folklore and Popular Culture | Copyrighted Material → | Spring | Course Introduction Video → |
| HUM 4330 | Performance Theory | Copyrighted Material → | Spring | Course Introduction Video → |
| REL 3400 (New) | Daoism, Cosmology, and the Body | Copyrighted Material → | Rotate | Full Details → |
| HUM 2210 | Cultural Studies: Ancient to 17th Cent. | Copyrighted Material → | Fall/Spring/Summer | Full Details → |