Welcome to my website, which is a repository of my (mostly unpublished, or hard-to-find) writings, to be read and downloaded as you wish. Some are writings that I originally meant to work over for publication, but now have given up thought of doing that to, and instead "publish" in this way. Included are the Getty Lectures delivered at USC in 1994 under the title "The Flower and the Mirror: Representations of Women in Later Chinese Painting" (here simply titled "Women in Chinese Painting" or WCP); the first two chapters, and part of a third, from my never-to-be-completed book on Early Qing Painting (fourth in my series); and a series of CLP, "Cahlll Lectures and Papers," which I have been compiling in recent years. These number some 180, but only about eighty are available digitally, and so included here.
(A list of the whole series will be added to the website, and in principle others could be obtained by paying the costs of copying and sending.) All these are uniillustrated—at some future time I may begin putting pictures on this website, but not now. Another long document, to which I will make additions, is "Responses and Reminiscences." Most of these are passages from long letters I've sent colleagues who wanted information and commentary on some aspect of my past or my career; it also contains informal reminiscences on a diversity of subjects. Also among my writings is the CYCTIE or Ching Yuan Chai Treasury of Imperishable Ephemera, a collection of my non-scholarly writings, from early attempts at verse through songs and verses composed for Faculty Club Christmas parties at Berkeley and other academic follies. Near the end of this is a Shakespearean fragment, "Hamlet at Wittenberg," written during the student movement at Berkeley, My Bibliography and Short C.V. are also here, along with a place for contacting me; I will try to respond to questions that require only brief answers, and use my judgment about those that need more. I am certainly not committing myself to explaining or amplifying anything written long ago, unless it can be done quickly. I expect to attach a kind of blog to this welcoming message, so I can add commentary on various subjects from time to time.
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