Zong-qi Cai

Zong-qi Cai is Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature, Translation Studies, and Medieval Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He received his Ph. D. from Princeton University. He is the author of The Matrix of Lyric Transformation: Poetic Modes and Self-Presentation in Early Chinese Pentasyllabic Poetry (Michigan, 1996) and Configurations of Comparative Poetics: Three Perspectives on Western and Chinese Literary Criticism (Hawaii, 2002), and the co-author (with Cui Jie) of How to Read Chinese Poetry Workbook (Columbia 2011). He has edited A Chinese Literary Mind: Culture, Creativity, and Rhetoric in Wenxin dialong (Stanford, 2001), Chinese Aesthetics: The Ordering of Literature, the Arts, and the Universe in the Six Dynasties (Hawaii, 2004), How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology (Columbia, 2008), and Chinese Poetic Culture from Antiquity through the Tang (Columbia, forthcoming in 2017). He has also published numerous articles, in both English and Chinese, on classical Chinese poetry, literary criticism, comparative literature, and philosophy. To read and download his published works, visit http://www.zongqicai.weebly.com His Facebook address: www.facebook.com/HowtoReadChinesePoetryZongqiCai