About the author

Public information about Dai Jianye is limited, and what is available centers mainly on his writings. The collection includes seventeen of his works, among them the ten-volume Collected Works of Dai Jianye, Dai Jianye's Close Reading of A New Account of Tales of the World, The Realm of Clarity: A New Study of Tao Yuanming, and Dai Jianye's Close Reading of Laozi. His works span classics, Eastern philosophy, literary appreciation, classical poetry, and social sciences. They include close readings of canonical texts such as A New Account of Tales of the World and Laozi, as well as popular introductions to poetry like Romantically Incurable and Teacher Dai's High-Energy Course on Song Ci, alongside an illustrated reader, Comic A New Account of Tales of the World. His writing tends to make ancient texts clear and approachable, balancing scholarly discussion with accessible expression, and has thus gained a certain influence among both specialist and general readers.

Written (17)

The Collected Works of Dai Jianye (Ten-Volume Set) cover
Rating 4.4
The Collected Works of Dai Jianye (Ten-Volume Set) 戴建业 · 2025 With his unique style of “reading classics with a smile, understanding life through tears,” Professor Dai Jianye spent thirty years writing ten heavyw…
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Rating 4.1
Desperately Romantic 戴建业 Tianjin People's Publishing House · 2025 The final installment of Dai Jianye's "Catchphrase Trilogy"—a collection of essays bursting with unmistakable Dai flavor! A chat with young friends ab…
Teacher Dai's High-Energy Song Ci Course cover
Rating 4.1
Teacher Dai's High-Energy Song Ci Course 戴建业 Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2024 Grounded in a prosperous material life, the Song dynasty developed an elegant and refined literati culture. Faced with the extraordinary achievements …
Comics: A New Account of the Tales of the World cover
Rating 4.1
Comics: A New Account of the Tales of the World Liu Yiqing / 戴建业 / 胖乐胖乐 Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House · 2022 Reliable text, adapted from Professor Dai Jianye's acclaimed Close Reading of A New Account of Tales of the World, with selections personally chosen a…
Teacher Dai's High-Energy Tang Poetry Course cover
Rating 4.0
Teacher Dai's High-Energy Tang Poetry Course 戴建业 Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2022 “National Professor” Dai Jianye’s new book for 2022—Professor Dai’s High-Energy Tang Poetry Course—offers an impassioned discussion of more than 80 re…
Dai Jianye's Collected Works (Nine-Volume Set) cover
Rating 4.4
Dai Jianye's Collected Works (Nine-Volume Set) 戴建业 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021 The "Dai Jianye Collected Works" is the first collected edition of the works of Dai Jianye, a doctoral supervisor at Central China Normal University a…
Dai Jianye's Close Reading of A New Account of Tales of the World cover
Rating 4.3
Dai Jianye's Close Reading of A New Account of Tales of the World 戴建业 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021 A New Account of the Tales of the World is a collection of anecdotes recording the words and deeds of celebrated scholars of the Wei and Jin dynasties…
The Realm of Clarity: A New Study of Tao Yuanming cover
Rating 4.3
The Realm of Clarity: A New Study of Tao Yuanming 戴建业 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021 Tao Yuanming had neither Qu Yuan's grand tragedy, nor Li Bai's bold and free spirit, nor Du Fu's vast and profound power. With only about a hundred po…
Dai Jianye's Close Reading of Laozi cover
Rating 4.2
Dai Jianye's Close Reading of Laozi 戴建业 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021 Laozi: A Close Reading by Dai Jianye. Often known as the Daodejing, Laozi is an abstract philosophical work of ancient China and a key source of Daois…
A Brief History of Northern and Southern Song Poetry cover
Rating 4.1
A Brief History of Northern and Southern Song Poetry 戴建业 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021 The Song dynasty was a golden age for the development of shi and ci poetry. Song shi broke through the bounds of Tang poetry and opened up a new, rugg…
Did You Understand? cover
Rating 4.0
Did You Understand? 戴建业 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021 “Wonder lies in a single turn of the mind; in an instant, life’s traps become life’s blessed ground.” This collection of eighty essays by Dai Jianye c…
A History of Six Dynasties Literature cover
Rating 4.0
A History of Six Dynasties Literature 戴建业 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021 The Six Dynasties period in literary history runs from the late Eastern Han to the early Sui. The literature of this era achieved artistic distinction…
The Prisoner of Poetry: Essays on Meng Jiao cover
Rating 4.0
The Prisoner of Poetry: Essays on Meng Jiao 戴建业 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021 Meng Jiao (751–814), courtesy name Dongye, was a major poet who helped shape the poetic style of the mid-Tang dynasty and, together with Han Yu, led t…
The Inside and Outside of Textual Interpretation cover
Rating 3.9
The Inside and Outside of Textual Interpretation 戴建业 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021 The interpretation of a literary text may start from the text itself or from factors outside it—what the American literary theorist Wellek calls "intr…
On the Classification of Knowledge and of Books in Ancient China cover
Rating 3.8
On the Classification of Knowledge and of Books in Ancient China 戴建业 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021 Ancient Chinese texts are vast as the sea, a treasury of China's millennia of knowledge—yet reading without method yields nothing. The classification …
Good Heavens! cover
Rating 3.7
Good Heavens! 戴建业 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021 Who says there is nothing new under the sun? Dai Jianye always finds surprising treasures. My goodness! The Dragon Boat Festival has nothing to do wit…
Teacher Dai's Addictive Poetry Class cover
Rating 3.9
Teacher Dai's Addictive Poetry Class 戴建业 Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2020 Dai Jianye's Mandarin has a distinctive Macheng accent, which always made him worry whether his students could follow what he taught in class. But as …

Publishers

Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing HouseBeijing United Publishing Co., Ltd.Tianjin People's Publishing HouseZhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House