About the author

Yao Chaowen: publicly available information about this author is limited, and few biographical details are confirmed. The three works held in the catalog nonetheless indicate scholarly interests spanning literary criticism, language study, and the interpretation of folk culture. The Poetic Study of Folk Film in the Huang Feihong Narrative takes the Huang Feihong film series as its point of departure to examine the relationship between folk narrative and film poetics. Literary and Cultural Criticism reflects the author's engagement with close reading and cultural analysis. On the New Metrical Poetry of Modern Chinese turns to questions of language and poetic form, exploring possible paths for metrical verse in modern Chinese. Belonging to categories such as language and writing and literary appreciation, these works show an author who combines theoretical construction with the analysis of specific texts. The writing is academic in orientation and may be of interest to readers concerned with folk cinema, literary criticism, and modern Chinese prosody.

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Publishers

Jinan University Press