Research Area:
Chinese literature

Prof. Liu Zaifu is a renowned poet and contemporary Chinese literary critic scholar. He received his BA on Chinese Language and Literature from Xiamen University in 1963, and immediately joined the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing where he later served as the Director of the Institute of Literature. During 1989-1994, he lectured at different universities, including the University of Chicago, the University of Stockholm and the University of British Columbia, as a Visiting Scholar or Visiting Professor. Since 1994, he has been a Visiting Fellow at the University of Colorado Boulder. In 2002-2010, he was an Honorary Professor at the Center of Chinese Culture of the City University of Hong Kong. 

Prof. Liu served as Editor-in-Chief of Wenxue Pinglun (Literary Review) and the co-author of Tradition and Chinese, Farewell Revolution, and Understanding Life Together.  He has published more than 100 books, varied from scholarly and theoretical works to collections of essays and proses, including A Biography of Lu Xun, Lu Xun and Natural Science, Lu Xun’s Aesthetics, The Theory of Character Organization, Farewell Gods, Twenty-Five Kinds of Men, and a five-volume series entitled Records of Exile to name a few. Some of his works have been translated into English, Japanese, Swedish, German, and Korean.