KWONG Yim-tze Charles

Professor
Philosophy Department
Lingnan University
Hong Kong

Biography

Charles Kwong read English at HKU and Oxford before studying Chinese literature at Yale. He had taught in the US, and holds a triple appointment as Professor of Chinese, Professor of Translation and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy. His research work includes Tao Qian and the Chinese Poetic Tradition, Women Writers of Traditional China (associate editor and translator),《朱淑真李清照詩詞逐字索引》(Concordances to the Poems of Zhu Shuzhen & Li Qingzhao),《武則天李冶薛濤魚玄機詩逐字索引》(Concordances to the Poems of Wu Zetian, Li Ye, Xue Tao & Yu Xuanji), and articles in English and Chinese covering classical Chinese poetry and fiction, comparative poetics, literary translation and the history of ideas. His translations include rendering the Chinese texts for a book of paintings into English.

Research Intrest

Premodern Chinese poetry and fiction; comparative literature and poetics; history of ideas; literary translation

List of Publications
(2014) “Environmental Ethics and Aesthetics: The Laozi Revisited,” in Ts’ui-jung Liu, ed., Environmental History in East Asia: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (New York: Routledge), 38-61.
(2014) 從《影梅庵憶語》看文學書寫之「真」與「誠」〉(“Authenticity” and “Sincerity” in Literary Writing: The Case of Yingmeian yiyu),《新國學》(New Studies in Chinese Culture), vol. 10, 20+ pp. (forthcoming)
(2014) 〈從《采桑子》組詞看歐陽修的自然意識〉(“Picking Mulberry” Ci Songs: Ouyang Xiu’s Nature Consciousness), 載張宏生編:《宋元文學與宗教》(in Literature and Religion in the Song and Yuan Dynasties), 17 pp. (forthcoming)