Kwong Yim-tze Charles

Biography

Charles Kwong read English at HKU and Oxford before studying Chinese literature at Yale. He had taught in the US, and holds a triple appointment as Professor of Chinese, Professor of Translation and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy. His research work includes Tao Qian and the Chinese Poetic Tradition, Women Writers of Traditional China (associate editor and translator),《朱淑真李清照詩詞逐字索引》(Concordances to the Poems of Zhu Shuzhen & Li Qingzhao),《武則天李冶薛濤魚玄機詩逐字索引》(Concordances to the Poems of Wu Zetian, Li Ye, Xue Tao & Yu Xuanji), and articles in English and Chinese covering classical Chinese poetry and fiction, comparative poetics, literary translation and the history of ideas. His translations include rendering the Chinese texts for a book of paintings into English.

Research Interest

Premodern Chinese poetry and fiction; comparative literature and poetics; history of ideas; literary translation