Magic Cube of Ancient Chinese Poetry

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.

• 1. Background and Meaning: A retrospect on the tradition of interpretation of poetry in ancient China 2. Linguistic Approach and Intuitive Perception: A tangle that ancient Chinese poetry critics had to unravel 3. Thought Flow and Word Order: Seeming disengagement of thinking from verse 4. Tonal and Metrical Schemes: A analysis of the patterns of ancient Chinese poetry 5. Allusion: One special aspect of ancient Chinese poetry 6. "Xu Zi" words or phrases: A second special aspect of ancient Chinese poetry 7. Shi Yan: A third special aspect of ancient Chinese poetry 8. Development of the Chinese Poetry from the Vernacular Song Dynasty Style to the Vernacular Modern Style