Stephen Field

Stephen Field is a Professor of Chinese and East Asian Studies at Trinity University, where he founded the Chinese program in 1990. He holds a Ph.D. and B.A. in English Romanticism from the University of Texas at Austin, with a focus on nature poetry that later informed his transition to Chinese studies through Daoist philosophy. His academic work bridges pre-Qin Chinese literature and environmental cosmology, particularly through fengshui studies.

• Director, EAST Program
• Faculty Adviser, Chinese Culture Club
• Affiliated with Comparative Literature and International Studies programs

Research highlights:

• Specialist in early Chinese cosmology and divination texts
• Author of The Duke of Zhou Changes (2015), a major Zhou Yi translation
• Founder of FengshuiGate.com for popular essays and translations

His teaching includes:

• Modern Standard Chinese
• Chinese Civilization
• The Folk Ecology of Fengshui
• Being Young in Asia (First-Year Experience course)

Active in the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies and Association for Asian Studies, he has directed the EAST Program and advised the Chinese Culture Club while securing Critical Language Scholarships for students in 2021.