Professor Ling Chenguang was born in January 1965 in Jinan, with ancestral roots in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. He holds a Ph.D degree in Literature and currently serves as Professor in the School of Literature, Shandong University, as well as Professor in the Research Center for Literary and Artistic Aesthetics of Shandong University, a Key Research Base in the Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education. He is also Director of the Institute of Literary Theory Research, and a Dissertation Advisor for Ph.D students. Professor Ling has served as an Exchange Professor in the Department of Foreign Literatures at Dongseo University, South Korea. In recent years, he has been engaged primarily in the study of Fundamental Theory of Literature and Art, Literary Criticism, Art Criticism and Appraisal Studies. Professor Ling has published a number of monographs, including Contemporary Literary Criticism and The Museum of the Humanities: Art, as well as more than fifty professional academic papers. As a major author contributor, he participated in the authoring and compilation of Foreign Literature Theory, a textbook project under the aegis of the National Project of Marxist Theory Research and Construction. He has also contributed a number of entries in the “Foreign Literary and Art Theory” section of TheEncyclopedia of China (3rd edition.)
Professor Ling matriculated for undergraduate studies in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of Shandong University in September, 1982, and obtained his BA in July 1986. He then continued his graduate studies at Shandong University, and received his MA degree from the School of Literature in July 1989. He has been a member of the teaching faculty of the School of Literature of Shandong University since 1989. He was appointed as a Lecturer in July 1992, and was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in September 1998, and to Professor in September 2008. In July 2007, Professor Ling completed his doctoral studies while holding his teaching position at Shandong University, and graduated with his Ph.D degree. From March 2003 to February 2004, Professor Ling served as an Exchange Professor at Dongseo University in Busan, South Korea, and for three months from September to December 2014, he served as a Visiting Professor at Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea. In June 2018 Professor Ling was appointed as a Dissertation Advisor for Ph.D students in the School of Literature, Shandong University.
Since 1989, when he stayed on as a member of the teaching staff at Shandong University, his alma mater, Professor Ling has offered a number of courses at both the undergraduate level and for MA students. For undergraduates in the Literature major, he has offered foundation courses that include:
· Introduction to Literature
· Literary Theory
· Selected Readings in Marxist-Leninist Literary Theory
· History of Western Academic Thought
As well as electives in the major, including:
· Literary Criticism
· Art Appraisal and Critique
Since 1998, Professor Ling has offered courses in the major for MA students, including:
· Literary CriticismStudies
· Methods in the Human Sciences
· Special Topics in Literary Theory
For the two published monographs, Contemporary Literary Criticism and The Museum of the Humanities: Art, Professor Ling has received Shandong Province’s Liu Xie Prize for Literary Criticism (in the third and fifth year of the prize, respectively.)
Professor Ling has undertaken and has been in charge of, a number of significant sponsored-research projects, including:
· Contemporary Literary Criticism Studies. A project of the Ministry of Education’s “Ninth Five-Year Plan” Foundation for Development of Young Scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Sole individual researcher)
· Studies in the Current State of Art Theory. AMajor Project of the Ministry of Education's Key Humanities and Social SciencesResearch Base. Principal Scholar-in-Charge
· Treatment of, and Research in the Documentary Literature of Classical Eco-Aesthetics in the West. (Sub-project no. 3 of “The Treatment of and Research in the Documentary Literature of Eco-Aesthetics”, a Major Project of the National Foundation for the Social Sciences.)Sub-project Supervisor
Professor Ling’s publications include the following:
Monographs and edited volumes:
1. New Theories in Literature and Art, co-authored (as third author) with Di Qicong and Wang Wencheng. Shandong Education Publishing House, 1996. (Responsible for contributing 260,000 characters)
2. Contemporary Literary Criticism Studies. Shandong University Press, May 2001 (270,000 characters)
3. The Dimension of Literature: The Historical Status and Future of Literary Studies, co-editor-in-chief, with Tan Haozhe. Shandong University Press,June 2003. (Secondary author.)(Responsible for contributing 110,000 characters, pp. 51-157, 466-484)
4. Aesthetic Art Education Theory, co-authored (as secondary author) with Wang Xiaoshu. Henan People's Publishing House, January 2005. (Responsible for contributing 120,000 characters, pp. 66-186)
5. Third contributing author in Wang Xianpei, Sun Wenxian (editors in chief),Introduction to Literary Theory. Higher Education Press, June 2005. (Responsible for contributing 30,000 characters, pp. 51-63, 79-88)
6. The Museum of the Humanities: Art. Shandong Education Publishing House,November 2005. (250,000 characters)
7. A General Introduction to Literary and Artistic Studies,co-authored with Di Qicong and Wang Wencheng.Higher Education Press, April 2009. (Responsible for contributing 210,000 characters, pp. 117-182, 283-376)
Papers and academic journal articles:
1. “A Brief Discussion of Discourse and Criticism”, Academic Journal of Yunnan University, no. 5, 2009, pp. 86-93.(10,000 characters)
2. “The Essence and Function of Art from the Perspective of Modern Art Education in China, and in the West”, Social Science in Guizhou, no. 12, 2008, pp. 84-86. (8,000 characters)
3. “Art Education and the Cultivation of Aesthetic Experience”, Social Sciences in Tianjin, no. 2, 2007, pp. 111-115. (8,600 characters)
4. “The Illusion of Art and the Reality of Life”, Art’s Garden, no. 4, 2008, pp. 4-8. (9,000 characters)
5. “The Meaning of Art”, Art’s Garden, no. 7,2006, pp. 4-10. (11,000 characters)
6. “The Awareness of a Problem and the Concern for Context”, Reviews of Chinese Books,no. 4, 2006, pp. 50-52.(3,600 characters)
7. “Music and Title”, China Airports Magazine, no. 2, 2007, pp. 48-52. (6,000 characters)
8. “On the Classification of Literary Textsby Genre”, Wen-Shi-Zhe (A Journal of Literature, History and Philosophy), no. 1, 2004, pp. 116-118.(6,000 characters)
9. “The Formation of Literary Exchange and the Revelation of Textual Meaning”, Wen-Shi-Zhe (A Journal of Literature, History and Philosophy), no. 5, 2001, pp. 33-37.(9,000 characters)
10. “Gender and Criticism”, Wen-Shi-Zhe (A Journal of Literature, History and Philosophy), no. 1, 1997,pp. 81-86. (8,500 characters)
11. “Three Metaphors”, Wen-Shi-Zhe (A Journal of Literature, History and Philosophy), no. 4, 1993,pp. 82-87.(8,500 characters)
12. “Aesthetic Imagery and the Conceptualizing of Art”, Wen-Shi-Zhe (A Journal of Literature, History and Philosophy), no. 3, 1990, pp. 56-61.(7,500 characters)
13. “The Characteristics of the Novel as Narrative Fiction”, A Journal of Discourses From Taishan,no. 6, 2003, pp. 111-113. (6,000 characters)
14. “History and Literature”, Jianghai Academic Journal, no. 1, 2001,pp. 173-177. (9,000 characters)
15. “On the Psychological Characteristics of Literary Critics”, Jianghai Academic Journal, no. 4, 1996, pp. 155-161.(9,500 characters)
16. “On the Established Conventions in Art”, Jianghai Academic Journal, no. 6, 1994,pp. 161-167.(10,000 characters)
17. “A Brief Discussion of How Artistic Images are Formed”, Jianghai Academic Journal, no. 5, 1992, pp. 172-179.(9,000 characters)
18. “On Reading Literature”, Jianghai Academic Journal, no. 6, 1990,pp. 183-188.(9,000 characters)
19. “Aesthetic Experience and Art Education”, Korean Society of Chinese Studies, ed. Chinese Studies, vol. 22, August 2004, pp. 551-562.(9,000 characters)
20. “Literature and Art from an Ideological Perspective”, (co-authored with Zang Qixiu), Social Sciences in Shandong, no. 4, 1998, p. 94.(1,500 characters)
21. “On Literary Exchange", Social Sciences in Shandong, no. 3, 1992, pp. 47-52.(9,000 characters)
22. “The Code of Conduct for Literary Critics”, Academic Journal of Shandong University, no. 1, 1997, pp. 39-44.(10,000 characters)
23. “On the Question of the Status and Positioning of Literary Studies”, Academic Journal of Shandong University, no. 4, 1994, pp. 18-23.(8,000 characters)
24. “The Third Group of Aesthetic Categories of Literary Art”, Academic Journal of Shandong Medical University, no. 2, 1996, pp. 36-42. (6,000 characters)
25. (Translated) “Mass Media, Popular Culture and Elite Art”, The Young Thinker, nos. 5-6, 1994, pp. 170-173.(8,000 characters)
26. “Poeticized Philosophy and the Poet’s Temperament”, People's Daily, 14th edition, March 11, 1995, p. 14. (2,000 characters)
27. “Cultural Concerns Based on Reality”, Reading, no. 6, 1995, pp. 91-93.(1,500 characters)
28. “The Hour to Wake Up From Our Dreams”, Reading All Books, no. 12, 1994, pp. 18-19.(2,400 characters)
29. “Establishing an Ethically EvaluatedModel of Cultural Development”, Reading All Books, no. 8, 1994, pp. 44-45.(2,200 characters)
30. “Removing Cultural Blind Spots”, Literary Theory News, December 1, 1995, p. 3. (3,300 characters)
31. “Questions and Doubts Arising from the Translation of ‘Skeptical Aesthetics’”, Wenhui Reading Weekly, September 4, 1993, p. 4.(1,500 characters)
32. “Writing the History of Aesthetic Culture from an Aesthetic State of Mind”, Reviews of Chinese Books, no. 3, 2001, pp. 58-60.(3,000 characters)
33. “Lifting the Veil of History, To Reveal the Passions of Humanity”, Reviews of Chinese Books, no. 6, 1998, pp. 23-25.(3,000 characters)
34. “How Can There be No Story in the World?”, Reviews of Chinese Books, no. 5, 1995, pp. 36-38.(2,400 characters)
35. “From Conflict to Checks and Balances”, Reviews of Chinese Books, no. 2, 1995, pp. 45-47.(2,500 characters)
36. “From One Perspective, We See the Mountain Range; From Another, We See the Mountain Peak”, Reviews of Chinese Books, no. 4, 1994, pp. 63-65.(2,400 characters)
37. “As an Ethically EvaluatedModel of Cultural Development”, Reviews of Chinese Books, no. 3, 1994, pp. 115-116.(2,200 characters)
38. “The Ideal of ‘Literati’”, Reviews of Chinese Books, no. 2, 1994, pp. 80-82.(2,200 characters)
39. “To Stimulate and Enlighten Each Other; To Reflect One Another”, Reviews of Chinese Books, no. 6, 1993, pp. 70-72.(2,400 characters)
40. “The ‘Metaphor’in ‘Cherishing Ink as if It Were Gold’”,Reviews of Chinese Books,no. 5, 1993, pp. 104-106.(1,800 characters)
41. “Open the Door to a New Universe with a Spirit of Skepticism”, Reviews of Chinese Books, no. 5, 1992, pp. 74-76.(2,600 characters)
42. “The Ideology of Contemporary Painting”, The Theoretician of Literature and Art, no. 1, 1987. (7,500 characters). Full-text reprinted in The People’s University’s Reprints of Newspaper and Periodical Materials,Plastic Arts, no. 2, 1987
43. “On the Various Types of Literary Critics, and Their Strengths and Shortcomings”, Academic Journal of the Party School of Jinan Municipal Party Committee, no. 4, 1999. (9,900 characters)
44. “The Strength and the Performance of the Modern Piano”, Knowledge and Life, no. 9, 1999. (2,000 characters)
45. “Conducting: The Orchestra’s Soul”, Knowledge and Life, no. 10, 1999.(1,800 characters)
46. “The Physiological and Psychological Foundations of Beauty in Art”, Literary Aesthetics Studies, vol. 1.(9,000 characters)
47. “Culture, Ecology, Theory”, Literary Aesthetics Studies, vol. 2. (10,000 characters)
48. “The Structure of Literary Text as a Second Level Indication System”, Literary Aesthetics Studies, vol. 3.(11,000 characters)
49. “History and Criticism”, Humanistic Writings, vol. 3. (9,000 characters)
50. “Hermeneutics and Literary Criticism”, Humanistic Writings, vol. 4.(10,000 characters)
51. “A New Theory of Research Methods in Literary Studies”, Humanistic Writings, vol. 6.(10,000 characters)
52. “Art Criticism Discourse and Visual Metaphor”, Studies in Literary Theory, no. 2, 2012
53. “Art as the Object of Discourse Analysis”, Social Sciences in Tianjin, no. 6, 2012. Reprinted in The People’s University’s Reprints of Newspaper and Periodical Materials,Literary Theory, no. 2, 2013.
54. “An Analysis of Visual Behavior in the Cognitive Activity in Art”, Studies in Literary Theory, no. 2, 2016
55. “The Narrative Nature of Literary Theory, and Its BecomingScientific”, Social Sciences in Tianjin, no. 3, 2016
56. “Focus and Perspective: Also On the Objectives of Image Criticism”, Cultural Studies, vol. 25 (Summer2016)
57. “The Nobel Prize as a Literary Event and Bob Dylan”, (co-author), Hundred Schools Review, no. 1, 2017
58. “Polyphony and Symphony:Thematic Academic Conversations on Literary and Artistic Aesthetics”, (co-author), Hundred Schools Review, no. 2, 2017
59. “Comparative Poetics and the Mutual Stimulation Among the Arts”, Hundred Schools Review, no. 2, 2017. Reprinted in The People’s University’s Reprints of Newspaper and Periodical Materials,Studies in Foreign Literatures, no. 2, 2018
60. “Art Interpretation in Philosophical Discourse, including a Comment on ‘Van Gogh’s ‘Peasant’s Shoes’ Painting in the Eyes of [Martin] Heidegger”,Academic Journal of Huaibei Normal University, no. 3, 2017
61. “On the Interpretation of Art in Scientific Discourse”, Social Sciences in Shandong, no. 7, 2017
62. “The Expression of Acceptanceof Art in Aesthetic Discourse”, Academic Journal of Huaibei Normal University,no. 2, 2018
63. “On Literary Presentation of Music: Music Critics Discuss Music”, Social Sciences in Shandong, no. 5, 2018