Prof. JIANG Tao

Jiang Tao is a Professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Peking University. He used to be a visiting associate professor in the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Nihon University and in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. He serves as the deputy secretary-general of the Modern Chinese Literature Research Association, the vice dean of the Institute of Chinese Poetry at Peking University, and the executive editor-in-chief of the academic journal “New Poetry Review”. He is mainly engaged in the research on modern Chinese literature and the history of New Poetry in the 20th century.

Modern Chinese Literature and Social Culture / Chinese Literature during the War in the 1940s / The History of New Poetry in China in the 20th Century

Academic and Critical Monographs

• “On the Scene and ‘Depth’ of Criticism”, Jinan: Shandong Literature and Art Press, 2024.
• “Ideas and ‘Poetry’ in the Deep Description of History”, Beijing: People’s Press, 2020.
• “Constantly Waking Up from the Hypnotic World”, Shanghai: East China Normal University Press, 2020.
• “The Tower in the Apartment: Literature and Youth in China in the 1920s”, Beijing: Peking University Press, 2015.
• “Bakunin’s Hand”, Beijing: Peking University Press, 2010.
• “The Collections of New Poetry and the Rise of Chinese New Poetry”, Beijing: Peking University Press, 2005.