Humanities and Social Sciences

History Program

Staff Profiles

Dr Thomas Bartlett

Honorary Research Associate Room: David Myers Building E120 Tel: (61 3) 9479 2381 Fax: (61 3) 9479 1942 Email: t.bartlett@latrobe.edu.au Qualifications: BA Harv., MA Taiwan, PhD Princeton

Research interests include early modern Confucian statecraft.

Research Projects

Gu Yanwu (1613-82) and the integrity of Confucian humanism.

Research Publications

• “Song Dynasty”, in Berkshire Encyclopedia of China, Berkshire Publishing Group, Gt Barrington, MA, USA, 2009
  
  “Phonology as Statecraft in Gu Yanwu’s Thought”, in Perry Link, ed., The Scholar’s Mind: Essays in Honor of Frederick W. Mote, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, Hong Kong, 2009.
• “Vale, Magister: Reflections on the Integrity of Pre-modern Chinese Humanism”, in The East Asian Library Journal, vol. xii, no. 1, Spring 2006; Trustees of Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
• “Gu Yanwu, Preface to Five Treatises on Phonology”, in Victor Mair, et al. comp., Hawai’i Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture, University of Hawaii Press, 2005.
  
• "The Global Significance of Classic Chinese Furniture", in Classic Chinese Furniture, Chinese Furniture Research Institute, LLC, 2004. The catalogue of an exhibition held at the Kimball-Jenkins Estate, Concord, New Hampshire, USA, October-November 2004, under a grant from the New Hampshire Council on the Humanities.
  
• "Gu Yanwu", in Antonio S. Cua, comp., Encyclopedia of Chinese Philosophy, Routledge, 2003.
  
• Four essays on early Chinese history, in Ann Delroy, ed., Two Emperors: China's Ancient Origins, Praxis Exhibitions Australia, 2002. The catalog of an exhibition of archaeological discoveries from the Qin and Han dynasties, shown at the Australian Museum, Sydney, 2003.
  
• "The Role of History in China's View of the World Today" in Pacifica Review, 13:1, February 2001, pp. 117-126.