严明

Yan Ming was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu, in August 1956. He is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Humanities, Shanghai Normal University, and chief expert of the National Social Science Fund major project "History of East Asian Han Poetry (Multi-volume)." His research focuses on Ming and Qing poetry and East Asian Han poetics. He has published more than twenty monographs, including Chinese Poetics and Ming-Qing Poetry Talks and Studies in East Asian Han Poetry, and over one hundred articles; nine of his works are included in this library. These works span literary appreciation, cultural essays, photography, and social-science topics, ranging from a close reading of the Classic of Poetry to thematic scholarly collections on East Asian Han poetry, as well as cross-disciplinary subjects such as educational linguistics and legal regulation of the media industry. His writing balances scholarly rigor with readability, serving both specialist research and general readers.