Wang Yuechuan
Yuechuan was born in Anyue County, Sichuan Province in 1955. After graduating from the Chinese department of Sichuan University in 1982, he furthered his study in Peking University and remained there as a teacher in 1988. Now he is a first grade professor, supervisor of Ph.D. students and director of the institute of calligraphy in Peking University. He is also vice president of the Society of International Calligraphers, specialist of special government allowance, member of Chinese Writers’ Association and the Society of Chinese Calligraphers, vice president of the Academy of Chinese and Foreign Theories on Literature and Art, professor-in-residence of Central South University, guest professor of Chinese Culture College, Kanazawa University in Japan, Philosophy Department in University of Macau and Fudan university.
Wang’s publications on western literary theories and aesthetics include The Classic Writings of Western Literature Theory, Post-modern Culture Studies, Post-modern Culture and Aesthetics, Literature Phenomenology, Artistic Ontology, Aesthetic Methodology of Literature and Art, Theory of Post-colonialism and New Historicism, Theory of Phenomenology and Hermeneutics, The Western Philosophical Poetics in 20th Century, nine-volume Western Literature Theory Series in 20th Century, Postmodernism and post -colonialism in China, four-volume Collection of Wang Yuechuan, Chinese Post-modern Outlook on Discourse, Spirit of Western Art and The Latest Course for Contemporary Western Literary Theory.
His publications on Chinese culture and art include Rediscovering the Orient, Muji Daocun (Power of Understanding), China Album, Study of Art Aesthetics in China, Reflection on Ontology and Cultural Criticism, Globalization and China, Prelection Records of the Great Learning and the Doctrine of the Mean, Prelection Records of Art Aesthetics, Cultural Export: An Interview of Wang Yuechuan, A Grand Exposition of Chinese Calligraphic Culture, Calligraphy Aesthetics, Cultural Spirit of Calligraphy, Identity of Calligraphy, Prelection Records on Calligraphy of Chinese and Foreign Artists, History of Thinking Spirits in China (a four-volume collection including Cultural Spirit in China, Philosophic Thinking Spirit in China, Theory Spirit in China and Art Spirit in China). He has also published more than 400 research papers on academic journals home and abroad.
Professor Wang Yuechuan is a versatile artist who well masters calligraphy, painting and music. Due to his family background, Wang Yuechuan began to practice penmanship at age 5, copying Chinese characters from Han, Jin and Tang dynasties, and attaching great importance to cultural calligraphy and the spirit of Han and Wei dynasties. Particular he showed great interest in copybooks from such ancient masters as Wang Xizhi, Wang Xianzhi and Yan Zhenqing. His broad knowledge of various calligraphical schools leads to his profound understanding of the meanings that the ancient artists desired to convey through specific styles, and also to his contemporary creation based on the old styles.
