Prof. LING Chao

Prof. LING Chao

Assistant Professor

BA (PekingU), MA (Columbia), PhD (Yale)

Profile

Chao LING (Ph.D., Yale 2019) primarily researches medieval Chinese poetry and poetics. He is also interested in the philosophical investigations of the relationship between poetry and Chinese literati visual art. In his spare time, he enjoys practicing traditional Chinese calligraphy, landscape painting, and seal engraving.

Before joining CUHK, he taught at Bates College, Colgate University and City University of Hong Kong.

Research Interests

Medieval Chinese poetry / classical poetics / interdisciplinary studies of poetry and literati visual art / art history

Selected Publications
  • “Stones in Female Hands: The Seal Carving Art of Han Yuesu (韓約素) and its Reception,” in Transnational Asia, vol. 6, no. 1, Sept. 2024. https://doi.org/10.25615/ta.v6i1.87
  • “Imperial Identity and Religious Reformation: The Buddhist Urban Landscape in Northern Wei Luoyang,” in Religions 2024, 15, 551. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15050551
  • 《試論王維《輞川集》中負空間的認識論及「詩中有畫」》, 胡曉真, 嚴志雄編輯《春華秋實, 潛學永年: 孫康宜教授禮讚》, (台灣允晨出版社, 2024), pp. 189—217.
Research Scheme
Year Research Scheme
2025-2026

立言不朽:庾信在古代物質文化史中的接受與重構

Immortality through Words: Reconstruction and Reception of Yu Xin (513–581) in Chinese Material Culture

Awards and Honors
Year Awards and Honors
2024-2025

ECS Award, Research Grants Council (傑出青年學者計劃,大學教育資助委員會)

2016–2019

Prize Fellowship, Council of East Asian Studies, Yale University