TREVER MCKAY
Asian and Near Eastern Languages
Brigham Young University
3073 JFSB
Provo, UT 84604
(801) 422-5373
trever_mckay@byu.edu
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
2011-present Visiting Instructor, Asian and Near Eastern Languages, Brigham Young
University
Courses taught:
Chinese 301 Advanced Chinese
Chinese 344 Chinese Literature in Translation (prose)
Chinese 443 Modern Chinese Literature
EDUCATION
2008-(2013)
Ph.D. National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Dissertation (in progress): 「司馬遷實事求是精神探微」(An Examination of Sima Qian’s
Sense of Historicity)
2005-2008
M.A. National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Thesis: 「《史記》與公羊學」(Shiji and Gongyang Thought)
1998-2001
B.A. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.
Honors Thesis: “A Failure to Save: The Christian Element in Early Modern Chinese Fiction”
PUBLICATIONS
Articles
「《春秋》三傳異文學風之形成」 (The Formation of Textual Research on Alternate Readings
amongst the Three Commentaries of the Spring and Autumn Annals), 6th Annual You Feng Chu
Ming Conference, May 2011, hosted by Soochow University, Taipei.
「論魯迅的〈藥〉與耶穌基督革命的關聯」(On the Connection between Lu Xun’s Short Story
‘Medicine’ and Jesus Christ’s Revolution), Zhongguo wenxue yanjiu. 27 (Jan 2008): 77-108.
Translations
Zhu Weizheng. “Confucian Statecraft in Early Imperial China.” Traces of Humanism in China:
Tradition and Modernity. Ed. Carmen Meinert. Bielefeld, Germany: Transcript Publishers, 2010.
19-47. (Chi→Eng)
Margaret Tillman. “Review of Stephen R. Mackinnon’s Wuhan, 1938: War, Refugees, and the
Making of Modern China.” Newsletter for Research in Chinese Studies. 28.3 (Aug 2009): 58-59.
(Eng→Chi)
Book Reviews
Carmen Meinert, ed. Traces of Humanism in China: Tradition and Modernity, in Newsletter for
Research in Chinese Studies 29.4 (Nov 2010): 47-48.
PRESENTATIONS AND AWARDS
“From Taishigong shu to Shiji: The Transmutation of Sima Qian’s Magnum Opus,” American
Oriental Society. Boston, MA. March 17, 2012.
R.O.C. National Science Council Scholarship, 2008-2011
National Superior Level Chinese Writing Contest, 4th place, R.O.C. Ministry of Education SC-TOP,
2008
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2011 - present Chinese Culture Night organizer
2006 - present English editor of Humanitas Taiwanica 臺大文史哲學報, Taipei, Taiwan
2008 - 2009
English editor of Chinese Studies and Newsletter for Research in
Chinese, Taipei, Taiwan
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
American Oriental Society
Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology