Wang Yichuan

Wang Yichuan, born in February 1959 in Muchuan, Leshan, Sichuan, is a professor at the School of Arts, Peking University, a Changjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor appointed by the Ministry of Education in 2005, and vice chairman of the China Literature and Art Critics Association. He mainly researches literary and art theory, aesthetics, and art criticism. His works include The Instantaneous Generation of Meaning, Rhetorical Aesthetics, and An Introduction to Chinese Modernity, and he has edited textbooks such as A Course in Aesthetics and Introduction to Literature. His books span literary appreciation, philosophy, and cultural studies, with representative titles including Literary Theory (Revised Edition), Nine Lectures on Literary Theory, A History of Western Literary Theory, and The Contemporary Inheritance of the Chinese Aesthetic Spirit. He also edits the journal Culture and Poetics and the proceedings of the Beijing Literature and Art Forum.