Sun Shaozhen

Sun Shaozhen, born in 1936 with ancestral roots in Changle, Fujian, graduated from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Peking University in 1960. He is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the College of Literature, Fujian Normal University. Long engaged in literary theory and criticism, he served as vice president of the Chinese Society for Literary Theory and vice chairman of the Fujian Writers Association, and gained wide attention in the debate over Misty poetry with his essay "The Rise of a New Aesthetic Principle." He has authored nearly thirty academic books on aesthetics, literary creation, and textual interpretation. Three of his works are available here: Literary Textual Interpretation, A People Who Speak in Poetry: Decoding the Micro-Arts of Classical Chinese Poetry, and Fifteen Lectures on Aesthetic Reading, which focus on literary appreciation and close reading of classics while addressing exam-related reading needs, revealing aesthetic principles through textual detail with both theoretical depth and readability.