Maddalena Poli

Peer-reviewed

In preparation: New manuscript evidence on the formation of the Analects: the Warring States Anhui University *Zhongni said and the Wangjiazui *Confucius said

In preparation 
“Crafting the past. The reconstitution of “Command to Yue” 說命  in the Shangshu 尚書 and the fashioning of the ruler-minister relationship in ancient China.” Submitted for the volume On Altars of Soil: Unearthing New Narratives in Early Chinese History, Cambridge University Press. Edited by Nick Vogt and Glenda Chao editor.

2021 with Adam D. Smith, “Establishing the Text of the Odes. A First Look at the Anhui University Bamboo Manuscript.” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 84.3: 515-557.

2021 “Baoshan 包山” and “Hanfeizi 韩非子” entries in The Encyclopedia of Ancient History: Asia and Africa, edited by Daniel Potts, Ethan Harkness, Jason Neelis, and Roderick McIntosh. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (ISBN: 9781119399919). 

Research Projects 

Ongoing collaborative study of the Tsinghua Manuscripts. Maddalena will be in charge of translating and introducing for the first time in English language the manuscripts of volume 13 of Studies and Translations of the Tsinghua Manuscripts, 18 vols. Project led by Huang Dekuang 黃德寬 (Tsinghua University) and Ed Shaughnessy (University of Chicago). Sponsored by the Research and Conservation Center for Unearthed Texts, Tsinghua University 清華大學出土文獻研究與保護中心,  Paleography and Chinese Civilization Inheritance and Development Program 古文字与中华文明传承发展工程”协同攻关创新平台.  

“ The Arousal of Human Nature in Early China.”

“Graphs and Words. A study of 取 in the Xing zi ming chu 性自命出 and velar finals in Old Chinese.” Chinese version:“釋戰國竹簡〈性自命出〉的「取」字。”

Non peer-reviewed contributions

2022 “Mozi 墨子” Database of Religious History, UBC.

“Command to Fu Yue 傅說之命” Database of Religious History, UBC.

“The heart is what is at the center 心是謂中” Database of Religious History, UBC.

2021 “Shangshu 尚書”, Database of Religious History, UBC.

“Lunyu 論語”, Database of Religious History, UBC.

“Xing zi ming chu 性自命出”, Database of Religious History, UBC.

2020 editorial review and revision for second edition of A Source Book of Ancient Chinese Bronze Inscriptions. C. Cook and P. R. Goldin eds. Society for the Study of Early China, 2016. My tasks included: updating bibliography; supervising editing; collaborating with translators. 

2018 “Mohism”, Database of Religious History, UBC. DOI 10.14288/1.0385889.

2016 “An idea of Self in the Zhuangzi”, in Hanna N. Li and Gina van der Ling, eds., Proceedings of the Rombouts Graduate Conference: ‘Image’, Leiden: Stichting Shilin.