Paola Zamperini is an Associate Professor of Asian Languages and Civilizations (Chinese) and Women's and Gender Studies and Chair of Asian Languages and Civilizations at Amherst College. Her interests span traditional and contemporary Chinese literature, popular culture, romance, sexuality, gender, film studies and cinema. Recent works include Lost Bodies: Prostitution and Masculinity in Late Qing Fiction (Brill University Press, 2010) andSpellbound. Gambling in Chinese Fiction, which looks at fictional and non-fictional representations of gambling. Other interests include how fashion is represented in pre-modern and contemporary Chinese fiction and visual culture.
Below are syllabi from several of her courses as well as readings on a variety of topics. Video of her Title VI presentation "Spellbound: The Maze of Gambling in Late Imperial Chinese Fiction" from the workshop Chinese Histories in a Global Context will be posted soon.
An excellent anthology of contemporary short chinese fiction is The Pearl Jacket and Other Stories: Flash Fiction from Contemporary China by Shouhua Qi (Editor), Publisher: Stone Bridge Press; 1st edition (October 3, 2008).
Deep China : the moral life of the person, what anthropology and psychiatry tell us about China today by Arthur Kleinman … [et. al.] Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.