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PhD, Columbia University 2004; Betty Gage Holland Professor of Roman History, Emory University; Distinguished Guest Professor, Shanghai Normal University.

Recent Publications

Books:

Monographs

1. Collegia centonariorum: the Guilds of Textile-dealers in the Roman West. Brill, 2009 [For reviews, see, e.g., Sehepunkte. Rezensionsjournal für die Geschichtswissenschaften 2011.1 (in German); Latomus 70 (2011): 1158-1162 (in French); L’antiquité classique 80 (2011): 538-539; 西洋古典学研究Journal of Classical Studies 59 (2011), 161-62 (in Japanese); Classical Review 62.2 (2012): 602-604 (in English)].
2. 《罗马史研究入门》An Introductory Research Guide to Roman History (in Chinese). 北京大学出版社Beijing (Peking) University Press, 1st ed., 2014 [Reviewed in Chinese：e.g., 张治，《南方都市报阅读周刊》 9/21/2014], reprint 2016; 2nd revised ed. 2021, reprint 2023.

Edited volumes

1. 主编,《全球视野下的古罗马诗人奥维德研究前沿》，北京大学出版社，2021年 (ed, New Frontiers of Research on Ovid in a Global Context. Peking University Press, 2021), 2 volumes in Chinese.
2. Thomas R. Blanton IV, Agnes Choi, and Jinyu Liu (eds), Taxation, Economy and Revolt in Ancient Rome, Galilee, and Egypt. Routledge, 2022.
3. Thomas Sienkewicz and Jinyu Liu (eds), Ovid in China: Reception, Translation, and Comparison. Brill, 2022 (review: Michele Valerie Ronnick, CJ 2024.4.3).

Articles:

Journal Articles and Book Chapters in Western Languages esp. English

1. “Vertaalde ballingschap: uitdagingen en strategieën bij het vertalen van Ovidius’ Tristia naar het Mandarijn (Translating Exile: Challenges and Strategies in Rendering Ovid’s Tristia into Mandarin)” (translated into Dutch), Hermeneus. Tijdschrift voor antieke cultuur 95.04 (2023), 72-79.
2. “Introduction” (with Thomas Sienkewicz), in Thomas Sienkewicz and Jinyu Liu (eds), Ovid in China: Reception, Translation, and Comparison, Brill, 2022, 1-18.
3. Chapter 7 “Translating Ovid into Chinese” and Chapter 16 “The Voice of the Exiled Poet: A Translator’s Perspective”, in Thomas Sienkewicz and Jinyu Liu (eds), Ovid in China: Reception, Translation, and Comparison, Brill, 2022, 136-154. 297-319.
4. “Introduction” (with Thomas R. Blanton IV and Agnes Choi), in Thomas R. Blanton IV, Agnes Choi and Jinyu Liu (eds), Taxation, Economy and Revolt in Ancient Rome, Galilee, and Egypt. Routledge, 2022.
5. “Greek Tragedy in Early Twentieth Century China: Reception, Translation, and Function,” Translation Quarterly 95 (2020): 47-63.
6. “Translating and Rewriting Western Classics in China (1920s-1930s): The Case of the Xueheng Journal,” in A-B. Renger, Fan Xin (eds.), Receptions of Greek and Roman Antiquity in East Asia. Leiden: Brill, 2018, 91-111 (currently being translated into Chinese).
7. “Virgil in Chinese,” in Susanna Braund and Zara Torlone (eds.), Virgil and His Translators. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, 224-236.
8. “Urban Poverty in the Roman Empire: Material Conditions,” in Tom Blanton and Ray Pickett (eds), Paul and Economics. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2017: 23-56.
9. “Group Membership, Trust Networks, and Social Capital: A Critical Analysis,” in: C. Laes and K. Verboven (eds.), Work, Labour, Professions in the Roman world. Impact of Empire 23. Brill, 2016: 203-226.
10. “Virgil in China in the Twentieth Century,” Sino-American Journal of Comparative Literature I (2015): 67-105.
11. “AE 1998. 282: A Case Study of Public Benefaction and Local Politics,” in John Bodel, Nora Dimitrova (eds), Ancient Documents and their Contexts. First North American Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (2011). Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy. Brill, 2014: 248-262.
12. “Trade, traders and Guilds (?) in textiles: the case of Southern Gaul and Northern Italy (First-Third Centuries),” in Margarita Gleba, and Judit Pásztókai-Szeőke (eds.), Making Textiles in pre-Roman and Roman Times: People, Places, Identities. Ancient Textiles Series. Oxbow, 2013: 126-141.
13. Chapter 20 “Professional Collegia,” in Paul Erdkamp (ed.), Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome. Cambridge University Press, 2013: 352-368.
14. “Late Antique Fora and Public Honor in the Western Cities: Case studies,” in David Brakke, Deborah M. Deliyannis, and Edward Watts (eds.), Shifting Cultural Frontiers in Late Antiquity VIII. Ashgate, 2012; reprint Routledge 2016: 225-242.
15. “Clothing supply for the military: a look at the inscriptional evidence,” in Marie-Louise Nosch (ed.), Wearing the Cloak: Dressing the Soldier in Roman Times. Ancient Textiles Series. Oxbow Books in association with the Centre for Textile Research, 2012: 19-29.
16. “The Economy of Endowments: the case of Roman associations,” In Koenraad Verboven, Katelijn Vandorpe and Véronique Chankowski-Sable (eds.), ‘Pistoi dia tèn technèn’. Bankers, loans and archives in the Ancient World. Studies in honour of Raymond Bogaert. Studia Hellenistica 44. Leuven: Peeters, 2008: 231-256. For reviews of the book, see, e.g., Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010.05.02.
17. “Pompeii and Collegia: a new appraisal of the evidence,” Ancient History Bulletin (AHB) 22.1-4 (2008): 53-69.
18. “The Era of Patavium Again,” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (ZPE) 162 (2007): 281-289.
19. “Local Governments and Collegia: a new appraisal of the evidence,” in Jean-Jacques Aubert and Zsuzsanna Várhelyi (eds.), A Tall Order: Imperialism, Law, Religion, and Society in the Ancient World. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 216. K. G. Saur Verlag. 2005: 279-310.

Bibliographic article in English

20. “Roman collegia,” Oxford Bibliographies in Classics. DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780195389661-0393, 2023.

Journal articles in Chinese

1. “Mirror Lessons and Self-reflections in the First Half of the 20th Century: Chinese Intellectuals on the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 镜鉴与自省：20世纪上半叶中国知识分子论罗马帝国的衰亡”, World History Review世界历史评论 13.2 (2026): 3-28.
2. “J. B. Bury and his two versions of the History of the Later Roman Empire” (伯里和他的两部《晚期罗马帝国史》), Classical Review 古典学评论 10 (2024): 13-34; selected to be featured in 人大复印报刊资料 (China Social Science Excellence: World History 2024).
3. “Ovid in the West and China: A History of Ovidian Translations and Scholarship” (奥维德在西方和中国的译注史和学术史概述, in Chinese), with Kai Kang, Shangjun Li, and Ying Xiong. The World History Review (《世界历史评论》), 5 (2016): 26-94.
4. “Virgil in the West and China: A Case in Reception Studies” (维吉尔在西方和中国：一个接受史的案例, in Chinese), The World History Review (《世界历史评论》) 2 (2014), 225-264.

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