Ruo Yu Liu -- The Path of Integrating Chinese and Western Poetics

Author: Zhan Honglun
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Publish Date: 2005-11-02
Features: Liu Ruoyu, a renowned American scholar of Chinese descent, specializes in Chinese literature and comparative poetics. Born in Beijing, he graduated from the Department of Western Languages at Beijing Fu Ren University in 1948 and earned a master's degree from the University of Bristol in the UK in 1952. He taught at the University of London in the UK, Shangda College in Hong Kong, the University of Hawai'i, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Chicago in the US. Since 1967, he has been teaching at Stanford University in the US, serving as the director of the Department of Asian Linguistics from 1969 to 1975, and becoming a professor of Chinese literature and comparative literature in 1977. He has authored eight English (monographs) such as Chinese Poetics (1962), The Chinese Knight-Errant (1967), The Poetry of Li Shangyin (1969), Six Song Lyricists (1974), Chinese Literary Theory (1975), The Essence of Chinese Literature and Art (1979), Interlingual Critic (1982), and Language, Paradox, and Poetics (1988), as well as over 50 academic papers. He pioneered an academic path that integrates Chinese and Western poetics to interpret Chinese literature and its critical theories. His comparative poetics theory system has had a significant impact in Western Sinology, while also offering invaluable insights for the internationalization of Chinese literary theory. This book provides a comprehensive review of Liu Ruoyu's academic thought.