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Affiliation
Sichuan University
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ORCID iD
0000-0003-2811-8740
🔬 Research Interests
研究方向
Comparative literature
World literature
Chinese literature
📖 Biography
Prof. Cao Shunqing
Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA)
Title: Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts, Sichuan University; Changjiang Scholar Chair Professor; National Distinguished Teacher.
Research Interests: Comparative literature, Chinese literary theory, cross-cultural communication, and international dissemination of Chinese discourse.
Key Contributions:
Proposed the influential “Variation Theory of Comparative Literature” (Springer monograph).
Advocated for the construction of a “Chinese School” of comparative literature and the “Rewriting of World Civilization” from an inclusive, non‑Western perspective.
Served as President of the Chinese Comparative Literature Association and Editor‑in‑Chief of Comparative Literature: East & West (Routledge).
Major Awards:
Lifetime Achievement Award in Chinese Comparative Literature
Five National Outstanding Teaching Achievement Awards
Five MOE Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards
Role in the Project: Academic Advisor, providing theoretical guidance on cross-cultural communication and the international dissemination of intangible cultural heritage.
📚 Selected Publications (Monographs)
2008
A History of Sino-Western Comparative Poetics (monograph)
| Bashu Publishing House
2007
The Formation and Influence of the Academic Discourse Power of the 'Preface to Mao's Version of The Book of Songs'
| Journal of Sichuan University
2007
The Chinese School: Constructing the Disciplinary Theory of the Third Phase of Comparative Literature
| Foreign Literature Studies
2007
The Construction of a New Paradigm of Comparative Literature Studies
| Comparative Literature: East & West
2007
The Paradigmatic Composition of Cross-Civilization Studies
| Journal of Journalism and Communication Studies
2007
Comparative Literature and Academic Innovation
| Academic Monthly
2007
Cultural Classics, Literary Theory Discourse, and Comparative Literature
| Academic Monthly
2007
Everlasting Literary Aspirations (edited)
| Bashu Publishing House
2007
Across Heterogeneous Cultures (monograph)
| Shandong Friendship Publishing House
2006
Cultivating High-Quality Students by Integrating Chinese and Foreign Knowledge
| China University Teaching
2006
Rethinking and Exploring the Definition and Comparability of Comparative Literature
| Jianghan Tribune
2006
Constructing a New Paradigm for Comparative Literature as a Discipline
| Foreign Literature Studies
2006
The Centennial Turn and Construction of Chinese Literary Theory
| Academic Journal of Zhongzhou
2006
A Study of Variation in Comparative Literature
| Journal of Fudan University
2006
Revisiting 'Aphasia'
| Journal of Zhejiang University
2006
The Debate on Elegant and Popular Theory (monograph, co-authored)
| Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House, Jiangxi
2006
Chinese Culture (chief editor)
| Fudan University Press
2006
A Textbook of Comparative Literature (chief editor)
| Higher Education Press
2005
Ethnic Minority Literature Studies Under Triple Hegemony of Discourse
| Studies of Ethnic Literature
2005
Cross-Civilization Studies: Grasping the Basic Trends and Academic Frontiers of Global Scholarship
| Thinking
2005
Reflections on the Era Without Academic Masters
| Journal of Hunan Normal University
2005
Problems and Reflections
| Literary and Artistic Contention
2005
Re-Standardizing the Disciplinary Domain of Comparative Literature
| Comparative Literature in China
2005
Value Rationality and Chinese Literary Theory
| Contemporary Literary Criticism
2005
Studies in Cross-Civilization Comparative Literature (chief editor)
| Bashu Publishing House
2005
The Study of Comparative Literature (edited)
| Sichuan University Press
2004
Misreading and the Nationalization of Literary Theory
| Comparative Literature in China
2004
On the Sinicization of Western Literary Theory
| Foreign Literature Studies
2004
The Sinicization of Western Literary Theory Discourse: Transplantation and Switching or Grafting and Improvement
| Hebei Academic Journal
2004
The Heteroglossic Coexistence of Chinese and Western Literary Theories and the Renewal Process of Chinese Literary Theory
| Thinking
2004
Reinterpreting Literariness
| Hunan Social Sciences
2004
Essays on Cross-Cultural Comparative Poetics (collection of essays)
| Guangxi Normal University Press
2003
The Problematic Awareness in Comparative Literature
| Foreign Literature Studies
2003
Cross-Civilization Studies: Theory and Practice of Chinese Comparative Literature in the 21st Century
| Foreign Literature Studies
2003
From Literary Studies to Cultural Studies: The Transformation of Global Literary Aesthetic Characteristics
| Hebei Academic Journal
2003
Academic Vision and Cultural Construction
| Southeast Academic Research
2003
Dimensions of Realism
| Contemporary (Taiwan)
2003
Constructing Chinese Discourse in Literary Theory Through Dialogue
| Social Science Research
2003
The Disappearing Utopia: On the Disintegration of the Aesthetic Horizon and the Autonomy of Literary Theory
| Literary Review
2003
The Clash of Civilizations and Cross-Civilization Studies in Comparative Literature
| Academic Monthly
2003
Cross-Civilization Comparative Literature Research: The Turn and Construction of Comparative Literature as a Discipline
| Comparative Literature in China
2003
On Comparative Literature (Taiwan edition)
| Yang-Chih Book Co., Ltd., Taiwan
2002
On Comparative Literature (edited)
| Sichuan Education Press
2001
Chinese Criticism: From Aphasia to Reconstruction
| Seeking Truth
2001
Comparative Literature: A Review of a Century of Problems
| Social Science Research
2001
The Three Stages of Development in Comparative Literature as a Discipline
| Comparative Literature in China
2001
Sublime Grandeur and Melancholy Depth (monograph)
| Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House
2001
A Study of Comparative Literature as a Discipline (monograph)
| Bashu Publishing House
2001
Discourse on Ancient Chinese Literary Theory (monograph)
| Bashu Publishing House
2001
Everlasting Brilliance (edited)
| Bashu Publishing House
2001
A Comparative History of World Literary Development (monograph, chief editor)
| Beijing Normal University Press
2000
On the Heterogeneity of Chinese Literary Theory
| Literary Review
2000
Chinese Culture and Chinese Literary Theory (monograph)
| Inner Mongolia Education Press
2000
Towards a New Stage in Comparative Literature (edited)
| Sichuan People's Publishing House
2000
Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Chinese and Foreign Literatures (monograph)
| Beijing Normal University Press
1999
Basic Stance on Reconstructing Chinese Literary Theory Discourse
| Literary Gazette
1999
From Aphasia, Discourse Reconstruction to Heterogeneity
| Literature & Art Studies
1999
Loss in Replacement: The Theoretical Background of the Transformation of Ancient Literary Theory from the Perspective of Cultural Transition
| Literary Review
1998
The Interpretive Mode of Discurvity of Zhuangzi and Laozi and the Meaning-Construction Mode of 'Creating Something from Nothing'
| Journal of Fudan University
1998
Cross-Culture: The Main Trend of Chinese Comparative Literature Studies in the 21st Century
| Comparative Literature in China
1998
A History of Chinese-Foreign Comparative Literary Theory (monograph)
| Shandong Education Press
1998
Cultivating the Theoretical Ground of Chinese Comparative Literature (edited, co-edited with Huang Weiliang)
| Peking University Press
1997
Reconstructing Chinese Literary Discourse
| Wild Peony Press, Sydney
1997
Dao and Logos: The Starting Point of Divergence Between Chinese and Western Cultures and Literary Theories
| Literature & Art Studies
1997
The Development of Medieval Eastern Literary Theory
| Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
1997
Further Discourse on Reconstructing Chinese Literary Theory Discourse
| Literary Review
1997
A Comparative Study of Early Chinese and Western Conceptions of Harmony
| Journal of Humanities
1997
Seeking New Paths in Comparative Poetics Research
| Comparative Literature in China
1997
The Spring and Autumn Style and 'Subtle Words with Profound Meaning'
| Journal of Peking University
1997
Pan-Culture or Cross-Culture: The Strategic Turn of Comparative Literature Studies at the Turn of the Centuries
| Social Science Front
1997
Reconstructing Chinese Literary Theory Discourse from the Perspective of Comparative Literature
| Cultural China (Canada)
1996
Zhuangzi and Schopenhauer: A Comparison of the Tragic Sense of Life
| Comparative Literature in China
1996
The Rise and Fall of Ideological Rebellion: A Comparison of Chinese, Western, and Indian Literary Trends
| Foreign Literature Studies
1996
Literary Theory Aphasia and Cultural Pathology
| Literary and Artistic Contention
1996
Basic Paths and Methods for Reconstructing Chinese Literary Theory Discourse
| Literature & Art Studies
1996
Nature and Sublime Grandeur (monograph, co-authored with Cai Zhongxiang)
| China Renmin University Press
1996
The Halo of Life: Chinese Culture and Chinese Literary Theory (monograph, co-edited with Tang Zhengxu)
| Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House
1996
Anthology of Eastern Literary Theory (Honorary Editor-in-Chief: Ji Xianlin) (chief editor)
| Sichuan People's Publishing House
1996
New Explorations in Comparative Literature (edited)
| Chongqing University Press
1995
Exploring Chinese Literary Theory Discourse
| People's Daily (Theory Section)
1995
Basic Theoretical Characteristics and Methodology of the Chinese School of Comparative Literature
| Comparative Literature in China
1995
An Extraordinary Flower of Non-Sexual Culture: Ancient Chinese Sexual Concepts and Classical Chinese Aesthetics (monograph)
| Bashu Publishing House
1991
History of Comparative Literature (monograph)
| Sichuan People's Publishing House
1990
Shared Spirit in Literary Craftsmanship (selected works)
| Chengdu Publishing House
1988
An Annotated Translation of Literary Theories from the Han Dynasties (edited)
| Beijing Publishing House
1988
Comparative Poetics: China and the West (monograph)
| Beijing Publishing House
1985
Anthology of Comparative Aesthetics and Comparative Literature Papers (edited)
| Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House
