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 Ph.D.,
Stanford University
Professor and Lai Ho & Wu Cho-liu Endowed Chair in Taiwan Studies
Director of the Center for Taiwan Studies
Office: Humanities and Social Sciences Building, 2257
Phone: (805) 893-8835
Email: kctu@eastasian.ucsb.edu
Kuo-ch'ing Tu was born in Taichung, Taiwan, and graduated from National
Taiwan University in 1963 with a major in English Literature. He received
his M.A. in Japanese literature from Kwansei Gakuin University in 1970
and his Ph.D. in Chinese Literature from Stanford in 1974. His research
interests include Chinese literature, Chinese poetics and literary theories,Taiwan Literature,
comparative literature East and West, and worldwide literatures in Chinese.
He is the author of numerous books of poetry in Chinese, as well as translator
of English, Japanese, and French works into Chinese and of contemporary
works of Chinese into English. He is the co-editor of Taiwan Literature:
English Translation Series, published by the Forum for the Study of
World Literatures in Chinese at UCSB. Professor Tu has received research
grants from NEH, the Chiang Ching Kuo Foundation, the Toyota Foundation,
as well as the Award for Lifelong Achievement in Translation from the
Council for Cultural Affairs, Republic of China.Visit Professor Tu's Forum
for the Study of World Literatures in Chinese at www.eastasian.ucsb.edu/projects/fswlc . He also is the Lai Ho and Wu Cho-liu Endoiwed Chair in Taiwan Studies
at UCSB. Visit the center's site at www.eastasian.ucsb.edu/projects/taiwancenter.
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Representative Publications
- Li Ho (Twayne's World Authors Series). Boston: Twayne Publishers,
1979.
- Wuwangcao (Forget-me-not). Original poems in Chinese. Beijing:
Renmin Wenxue Publishing House, 1992.
- Shiqing yu shilun (Poetic Sentiments and Poetic Views). Selected
poems and critical essays. Guangdong: Huacheng Publishing House, 1993.
- Ai ran wu meng (Five Dreams Imbued with Love). Original poems
in Chinese. Taipei: Guiguan Publishing, 1999.
- Zhongguo wenxue lilun (Chinese translation of Chinese Theories
of Literature by James J.Y. Liu). Taipei: Lianjing Publishing, 1981.
- "The Introduction of French Symbolism into Modern Chinese and
Japanese Poetry." Tamkang Review Vol. X (No. 3&4), Spring/Summer,
1980, 343-367.
- "Li Chin-fa and Kambara Ariake: The First Symbolist Poets in
China and Japan." In Essays in Commemoration of the Golden Jubilee
of the Fung Ping Shan Library (1932- 1982). Chief Editor: Chan Ping-leung.
Hong Kong University, 1982, 317-344.
- "Chinese and Japanese Symbolist Poetics." Proceedings
of the Xth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association/Actes
du Xe congres de
- Xixie Shunsanlang de shi yu shixue (Nishiwaki Junzaburo's
Poetry and Poetics) (Chunhui, 1980)
- l'Association internationale de litterature comparee. New York:
Garland, 1985, 665-674.
- "Taiwan bungaku to Kabun bungaku." (Taiwan Literature
and Literatures in Chinese). Delivered at the 7th Conference of Taiwan
Studies, Taiwan Gakkai, Tenri University, June 29, 1997. Tenri Taiwan
Gakuho Nenpo 8, July 1999, 1-8.
- "Taiwan wenxue xingxiang jiqi guoji yanjiu kongjian: cong
Ying-Ri fanyi de quxiang tanqi (The Image of Taiwan Literature and
Its International Studies: Different Orientations in English and Japanese
Translations)." Proceedings of International Conference on Postwar
Taiwan Literature: Culture, Identity, Social Change. Taipei: The
Council for Cultural Affairs, 2000, 493-523.
Teaching
- Introduction to Classical Chinese (Chinese 101c)
- Imagism, Haiku and Chinese Poetry (Chinese 115A)
- Seminar in Chinese Literary Translation (Chinese 106 A-B)
- Special Topics in Classical Chinese Poetry (Chinese 132A)
- Special Topics in Modern Chinese Poetry (Chinese 132B)
- Survey of World Literatures in Chinese (Chinese 116/216)
- Seminar on Taiwan Literature (Chinese 121/221)
- The Art and Theory of Translation (EACS 218)
- Chinese Theories of Literature (Chinese 230)
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