Qian Liqun

Qian Liqun was born in Chongqing in 1939, with ancestral roots in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. He is a senior professor and doctoral supervisor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Peking University. His research focuses on the history of modern Chinese literature, studies of Lu Xun and Zhou Zuoren, and the intellectual history of modern Chinese intellectuals. His representative works include In Search of the Soul, A Biography of Zhou Zuoren, On Zhou Zuoren, Thirty Years of Modern Chinese Literature, 1948: Heaven and Earth in Dark Mystery, and The Richness of Suffering: The Eastward Migration of Don Quixote and Hamlet, as well as My Spiritual Autobiography. His Fifteen Lectures on Lu Xun's Works, which interprets Lu Xun in an accessible lecture format, has had a wide influence. His writing spans academic research and essays, with attention to literary appreciation and intellectual inquiry, in a rigorous style informed by a concern for reality.