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Ye Song
A scholar of Chinese poetics and a practicing poet, this author explores how classical Chinese poetry creates pleasure, meaning, and judgment. Their work brings literary history and aesthetics together in a way that feels thoughtful and fresh.
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莊子的故事
by Ye Song
About the author
Song Ye is a lecturer at Hebei University in China whose research centers on Chinese classical poetics, Chinese and Western aesthetics, and classical Chinese poetry. He is the author of Poetry and Power of Judgment: The Aesthetic Unity of Chinese Classical Poetry, a study of how pleasure, cognition, and aesthetic judgment work together in the tradition of Chinese poetry.
Alongside his academic work, he is also a poet. Publisher material notes that he has published a collection of his own classical poems, Collection of Poetic Insights (Yuanshi Ji), in 2018.
His writing sits at an interesting meeting point between criticism and creation: he studies how poetry is understood and valued, while also working within the poetic tradition himself. That combination gives his work a grounded, reader-friendly sense of why classical poetry still matters.