Xu Nan

Lecturer in Classical Chinese Literature Teaching and Research Unit within the School of Liberal Arts at Renmin University. PhD from Peking University Chinese Literature Department in 2006. Primary research fields in Classical Chinese literature and Ming Dynasty literary thought. Recent scholarly works include PhD thesis ‘Research into Suzhou poets between the Chenghua and Zhengde eras’ and various articles including ‘Overflowing Spirits’, ‘The ‘shedding petals’ poetry of Shen Zhou and Tang Yin’; ‘Review of Zhu Yunming’s Thought’ etc.