Gong Pengcheng

Gong Pengcheng was born in Taipei in 1956, with ancestral roots in Ji'an, Jiangxi. He holds a doctorate from the Graduate Institute of Chinese Literature at Taiwan Normal University and is a renowned contemporary scholar, thinker, and educator. Long devoted to the study of Chinese academic culture, he is versed in Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism. He served as dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Tamkang University, founded Nanhua University and Fo Guang University in Taiwan and served as their founding president, and later taught at Peking University, Tsinghua University, and Beijing Normal University. Since 2019 he has been a chair professor at Shandong University's School of Literature, and has published more than 180 monographs. His writing spans literary appreciation, history, modern poetry, social science, classics, and essays, combining scholarly works such as Lectures on The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons and A History of Chinese Literary Criticism with popular history like The Great Transformation of History: Shaping Three Thousand Years of China, as well as studies in the history of Chinese fiction and poetry.