Ruo Yu Liu The Path of Integrating Chinese and Western Poetics

Author: Zhan Honglun
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: Liu Ruoyu, a renowned Chinese-American scholar specializing in Chinese literature and comparative poetics. Born in Beijing, he graduated from the Western Language Department of 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, the New Asia College in Hong Kong, the University of Hawaii, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Chicago in the US. Since 1967, he taught at Stanford University in the US, served as the head of the Department of Asian Linguistics from 1969 to 1975, and became 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 Northern Song Lyricists (1974), Chinese Literary Theory (1975), Essentials 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.