Curtis Dean Smith 史國興 | Sacramento State

Contact Information

Name: Curtis Dean Smith, Ph.D. 史國興

Title: Professor and Department Chair

Office Location: Mariposa Hall 2059

Email: curtis.smith@csus.edu

Office Phone: (916) 278-6726

Mailing Address: Sacramento State 6000 J Street Sacramento, CA 95819-6043

Office Hours: Thursdays 1:30-2:30 https://csus.zoom.us/j/85304200683

Where to find me : Mariposa Hall 2059 or 2051

Courses that I teach

CHIN 1A: Elementary Mandarin
CHIN 1B: Elementary Mandarin
CHIN 2A: Intermediate Mandarin
CHIN 2B: Intermediate Mandarin
CHIN 120: Chinese Civilization
CHIN 130 Introduction to Classical and Literary Chinese
CHIN 150: Survey of Chinese Literature

Select Publications

Between Heaven and Earth: Classical Chinese Poetry in English and Italian (Tra il cielo e la terra: Poesie nel cinese classico, in inglese e in italiano). With Barbara Carle. Milan: La Vita Felice, 2017.

"Su Shi (1037-1101)." Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism. Ed. Lawrence J. Trudeau. Vol. 139. Detroit: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2012. 73-274.

Classical Chinese Writers of the Pre-Tang Period. Ed. Curtis Dean Smith. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 358. Detroit: Gale, 2011.

李白 Li Bai (A Chinese English bilingual edition from the Collection of Critical Biographies of Chinese Thinkers《中国思想家评传》简明读本 ‐ 中英对版). Nanjing, China: Nanjing University Press, 2010.

Multimedia Learning Suite Traditional Chinese Characters Memory Lifter. LearnLift, 2008.

Research Projects/Interests

Ancient Chinese intellectual history;
Medieval Chinese literature: Southern Dynasties (Tao Yuanming, Xie Lingyun), Tang (Wang Wei, Meng Haoran, Liu Zongyuan), & Northern Song (Su Shi);
Chinese Tea;
Gu qin;
TeX/LaTeX.