Martin Svensson Ekström

Martin Svensson Ekström is Senior Research Fellow in Chinese. His research deals mainly with early Chinese poetry, poetics and intellectual history but also with early Greek and Roman poetics, and the early history of European sinology. Martin Svensson Ekström is the editor of the Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (BMFEA).

Representative articles (downloadable below)
—”Translatio, eller den kinesiska poesins skönhetsfläck.” Med andra ord, Vol. 73 (Dec 2012).
—“The Phantasmatic Tomb, or Methodology and Schmutz in Intercultural Translation.” In Essays on Inter-cultural Translation. Eds. Charlotte Bydler, Cecila Sjöholm. Södertörn University, 2012.
— ”Does the Metaphor Translate?” Culture and Dialogue, Vol. 1:1 (2011), pp. 125-150.
— “One Lucky Bastard: On the Hybrid Origins of Chinese ‘Literature’.” In Literature and Literary History in Global Contexts: A Comparative Project. Volume 1: Notions of literature across times and cultures. Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 70-110.
— “Inscription and Re-reading—Re-reading the Inscribed: A Figure in the Chinese Philosophical Text.” Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (BMFEA) volume 74, pp. 101-37.
— “Illusion, Lie, and Metaphor: The Paradox of Divergence in Early Chinese Poetics.” Poetics Today 23:2 (2002), pp. 251-89.
—”Comparative Poetics in the Raw.” BMFEA 78 (2010), pp. 5-21.
— “The Value of Misinterpretation and the Need for Re-interpretation.” BMFEA 76, pp. 5-21.
— [In Chinese] “Beinaidiketesi Siweinuoniusi yu shiba shijie Ruidian hanxuezhongdi ‘xueshu xiangxiang’.” (Benedictus Svenonius and the “Academic Imaginary” in Swedish 18th Century Sinology.) Kuawenhua Duihua, April, 2007.
— [In Swedish] “Glossa sacra (agambiska anmärkningar om Agambens poetik).” (“Glossa sacra: Agambian Notes on Agamben’s Poetics”). Res Publica 62/63 (special issue on Giorgio Agamben), pp. 126-44.

Forthcoming books
—An ‘Other’ Treasure: Early Chinese Poetics, A Re-reading.
—The Origins of Chinese Hermeneutics: A Study of the Shijing and the Mao School of Confucian Exegesis.

Research projects (funded by the Swedish Research Council)
—Cratylus Sinensis: An Interdisciplinary and Comparative Study of the Han Dynasty Rhapsody and Graeco-Roman Poetics (webpage info here).
—18th Century Swedish Sinology and the ‘Academic Imaginary’: A Postcolonial Critique and a Critique of Postcolonialism (webpage info here).

Video lecture
—" 'Si-militude', or How the Early Chinese Out-Platoed Plato." Penn State Comparative Literature Luncheon, Sept. 26, 2011.
http://cnet.pegcentral.com/player.php?video=1529fef06e2f70059cfa43de15d6465f
 

Course (autumn semester 2013)
—Om-läsningar: kinesiska tanketraditioner och filosofi (Poetic Thinking: Chinese Philosophical Traditions). Course description below (in Swedish).