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In the context of globalization of Dickinson studies, this essay tries to chart the contours of an emerging field. Considering the philosophical premise of Daoist non‐action as a critical framework for Dickinson's corpus, and likewise a valuable complement to extant Western approaches, I will reread some of Dickinson's paradigmatic poems. I will argue that Dickinson's meditative passivity, her writing...