Dr. Honey is a Professor of Chinese. A 1980 graduate of UCLA in Oriental Languages, He received his M.A. (1984) and Ph.D degrees (1988) in Classical Chinese from the University of California, Berkeley. He teaches summers at Middlebury College in Vermont and was a Visiting Professor of Chinese at Tunghai University in Taichung, Taiwan during Winter semester, 2000. His research interests include classical scholarship, the history of sinology, poetry, and Cantonese literati. His book on the history of sinology, entitled Incense at the Altar: Pioneering Sinologists and the Development of Classical Chinese Philology, was published by the American Oriental Society in 2000. A Chinese translation, by The People's Press, Beijing, is currently underway.

Recent publications

• "The Han-shu, Manuscript Evidence, and the Textual Criticism of the Shih-chi: The Case of the Hsiung-nu lieh-chuan," Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 21 (1999): 63-94.
• "Ts'ung Ling-nan shi fung k'an Ch'iu Fung-chia te Kuang-tung shih" (Poetizing the Local in Ch'iu Fung-chia's Verses on Kwangtung). Ts'iu Fung-chia, Ch'iu Nien-t'ai fu-tzu chi ch'i shi-tai hsÈeh- shu yen-t'ao hui (Taichung: Fung-chia University, 1999), pp. 3-17.
• "Nan-yÈan te hou-ch'i li-shih (The Later History of the Southern Garden)," in Hai-hsia liang-an ti-fang-chih ti-fang po-wu-kuan hsÈeh- shu yen-t'ao-hui, ed. Wang Ming-sun (Nantou: Taiwan sheng wen-hsien wei-yÈan-hui, 1999), pp. 199-208.
• "Cultural Missionaries of China to the West: An Overview of German Sinology". In Sino-German Relations Since 1800: Multidisciplinary Explorations, ed. Ricardo K.S. Mak and Danny S. L. Paau (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2000), pp. 149-65.