Both of Emanuel’s recently published books will be used in graduate courses in the United States this semester.
His book on the reception of the Chinese vernacular in Japan, The Observable Mundane: Vernacular Chinese and the Emergence of a Literary Discourse on Popular Narrative in Edo Japan, will be assigned in the East Asian Studies graduate program at Princeton
for EAS 501 “Proseminar in Chinese and Japanese Studies.” The course is taught by Professor Benjamin A. Elman, the department head.
The Novels of Park Jiwon, Translations of Overlooked Worlds, will be employed in a graduate course on Korean literature taught by Professsor David McCann in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University.