The Magic Cube of Ancient Chinese Poetry: A Linguistic Perspective

This book focuses on the linguistic perspective of classical Chinese poetry and its changes and development in different historical periods. It offers a combination of theoretical analysis and aesthetic appreciation of exemplary poems.

Ge Zhaoguang is Distinguished Professor of Fudan University, Shanghai, China. He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Peking University in 1982 and 1984, respectively. He was Professor in the Department of History of Tsinghua University, Beijing, from 1992 to 2006. He then served as the Director of the National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies at Fudan University from 2007 to 2013. Professor Ge’s fi elds of research include the intellectual, religious, and cultural history of East Asia and China. He was the fi rst Princeton Global Scholar and winner of the Asia Pacifi c Award (2014, Japan), Paju Book Award (2014, South Korea), and Hong Kong Book Award (2015), among others.