Dear All, I am happy to introduce a new member of the listserv, Curie Virag ( curie.virag@utoronto.ca ). Below is her self-introduction. I am an assistant professor at the University of Toronto (East Asian Studies and Humanities). I received my Ph.D. in 2004 from the Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard, and am currently writing up my book manuscript, tentatively titled "Self and the Ethics of Feeling in Pre-modern China," which traces the evolution of philosophical, literary and political discourses of emotions from antiquity to the late twelfth centuries, and relates these discourses to shifting conceptions of the self. I consider myself an intellectual historian, with a particular interest in understanding historical change from the point of view of subjective awareness (thus how people understand themselves as perceiving, knowing and evaluative beings). Apart from the emotions, other topics I have been exploring include conceptions of memory, music theory, and the role of movement in aesthetics. My article, "Emotions and Human Agency in the Thought of Zhu Xi" appeared in issue 37 (2007) of the Journal of Song-Yuan Studies 37.