Publications
Forthcoming
Thomas Kelly. “Writing Evanescence: Pan Zhiheng’s Essays on Acting”. In The Sensorium of the Early Modern Chinese Text, edited by Suyoung Son, Pieter Keulemans, and Ariel Fox. Ithaca: Cornell University Press
Thomas Kelly. “Writing Evanescence: Pan Zhiheng’s Essays on Acting”. In The Sensorium of the Early Modern Chinese Text, edited by Suyoung Son, Pieter Keulemans, and Ariel Fox. Ithaca: Cornell University Press
Thomas Kelly. “Pu Songling’s Things”. In Approaches to Teaching Liaozhai, edited by Rania Huntington and Roland Altenburger. Modern Language Association of America
Thomas Kelly. “Pu Songling’s Things”. In Approaches to Teaching Liaozhai, edited by Rania Huntington and Roland Altenburger. Modern Language Association of America
2026. 物与铭：早期现代中国的书写与物质性 . Nanjing: Jiangsu renmin chubanshe 江苏人民出版社
2026. 物与铭：早期现代中国的书写与物质性 . Nanjing: Jiangsu renmin chubanshe 江苏人民出版社
2026
2026. “The Forger’s Creed: Reinventing Art History in Early Modern China, by J.P. Park”. T’oung Pao, 112, 1-2, Pp. 3
2026. “The Forger’s Creed: Reinventing Art History in Early Modern China, by J.P. Park”. T’oung Pao, 112, 1-2, Pp. 3
Thomas Kelly. 2026. “Distance: The Story of the Western Wing and Early Modern Chinese Media Landscapes”. In A Cultural History of Media in the Renaissance, edited by Helen Smith, 3:Pp. 23. London: Bloomsbury
Thomas Kelly. 2026. “Distance: The Story of the Western Wing and Early Modern Chinese Media Landscapes”. In A Cultural History of Media in the Renaissance, edited by Helen Smith, 3:Pp. 23. London: Bloomsbury
2025
Thomas Kelly. 2025. “The Unfinished Manuscript: A Poetics of Incompletion in the Ming-Qing Transition ”. T’oung Pao, 111, 5-6, Pp. 59
Thomas Kelly. 2025. “The Unfinished Manuscript: A Poetics of Incompletion in the Ming-Qing Transition ”. T’oung Pao, 111, 5-6, Pp. 59
Thomas Kelly. 2025. “Affective Impressions in Biographies of Seal Carvers”. In Materiality and Affect: Emotion in Chinese Art, edited by Wu Hung and Jeehee Hong. Chicago: Art Media Resources
Thomas Kelly. 2025. “Affective Impressions in Biographies of Seal Carvers”. In Materiality and Affect: Emotion in Chinese Art, edited by Wu Hung and Jeehee Hong. Chicago: Art Media Resources
Thomas Kelly. 2025. “Book Burning and Early Modern Chinese Literature: The Case of Dong Tuo (1620–1686)”. Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews, 47
Thomas Kelly. 2025. “Book Burning and Early Modern Chinese Literature: The Case of Dong Tuo (1620–1686)”. Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews, 47
2024
Thomas Kelly. 2024. “The Substance of Fiction: Literary Objects in China, 1550–1775, Written by Sophie Volpp”. The Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies, 55, 3/4, Pp. 4
Thomas Kelly. 2024. “The Substance of Fiction: Literary Objects in China, 1550–1775, Written by Sophie Volpp”. The Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies, 55, 3/4, Pp. 4
Thomas Kelly. 2024. “The Crying Statue in Early Qing Drama”. Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture, 11, 1, Pp. 115–147
Thomas Kelly. 2024. “The Crying Statue in Early Qing Drama”. Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture, 11, 1, Pp. 115–147
2023
Thomas Kelly. 2023. The Inscription of Things: Writing and Materiality in Early Modern China, Pp. 368. New York: Columbia University Press
Thomas Kelly. 2023. The Inscription of Things: Writing and Materiality in Early Modern China, Pp. 368. New York: Columbia University Press
Thomas Kelly. 2023. “Impressions of Loss: Writing and Memory in Biographies of Seal Carvers”. Asia Major, 36, 1, Pp. 1-52
Thomas Kelly. 2023. “Impressions of Loss: Writing and Memory in Biographies of Seal Carvers”. Asia Major, 36, 1, Pp. 1-52
2021
Thomas Kelly. 2021. “The Inscription of Remnant Things: Zhang Dai’s ’Twenty-Eight Friends’”. Late Imperial China, 42, 1, Pp. 1-43
Thomas Kelly. 2021. “The Inscription of Remnant Things: Zhang Dai’s ’Twenty-Eight Friends’”. Late Imperial China, 42, 1, Pp. 1-43
Thomas Kelly. 2021. “Riddles in Jin Ping Mei ”. Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture, 8, 2, Pp. 341–370
Thomas Kelly. 2021. “Riddles in Jin Ping Mei ”. Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture, 8, 2, Pp. 341–370
2020
Thomas Kelly. 2020. “The Death of an Artisan: Su Shi and Ink Making”. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 80, 2, Pp. 315–346
Thomas Kelly. 2020. “The Death of an Artisan: Su Shi and Ink Making”. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 80, 2, Pp. 315–346
2019
Thomas Kelly. 2019. “Paper Trails: Fang Yongbin and the Material Culture of Calligraphy”. Journal of Chinese History (Special Issue: History of Material Culture), 3, 2, Pp. 325–362
Thomas Kelly. 2019. “Paper Trails: Fang Yongbin and the Material Culture of Calligraphy”. Journal of Chinese History (Special Issue: History of Material Culture), 3, 2, Pp. 325–362
2018
Thomas Kelly. 2018. “Design by the Book: Chinese Ritual Objects and the Sanli Tu, Written by François Louis”. East Asian Publishing and Society , 8, 1, Pp. 99–103
Thomas Kelly. 2018. “Design by the Book: Chinese Ritual Objects and the Sanli Tu, Written by François Louis”. East Asian Publishing and Society , 8, 1, Pp. 99–103
2013
Thomas Kelly. 2013. “Putting on a Play in an Underworld Courtroom: The ‘Mingpan’ (Infernal Judgment) Scene in Tang Xianzu’s Mudan Ting (Peony Pavilion)”. CHINOPERL: Journal of Chinese Oral and Performing Literature , 32, 2, Pp. 131–155
Thomas Kelly. 2013. “Putting on a Play in an Underworld Courtroom: The ‘Mingpan’ (Infernal Judgment) Scene in Tang Xianzu’s Mudan Ting (Peony Pavilion)”. CHINOPERL: Journal of Chinese Oral and Performing Literature , 32, 2, Pp. 131–155