Lu Yuhua, Ph.D holdsthe rank of Associate Professor in the School of Literature at Shandong University. Her major field of study is Ancient (Traditional) Chinese Literature, with a special focus on the literature of the Sui, Tang and Five-Dynasties periods. She offers, among others, the following courses: "The History of Ancient (Traditional) Chinese Literature, with Intensive Reading of Selected Works (3)"; "A Study of Tales of the Extraordinary in the Tang Dynasty"; "Guided Reading:Poetry of the Tang Dynasty"; "Tang-Dynasty Poetry and Tang-Dynasty Culture";and "Studies in the Literary Theories of Chinese Novels and Operatic Literature (Tang- and Song- Dynasty segment)".

Educational experience:

From September 1991 to July 1998, Professor Lu attended Shandong University in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, undergraduate and graduate studies, and graduated with BA and MA degrees. In September 1998 she enrolled in the doctoral program in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of Fudan University, and received her Ph.D in Literature in July 2001. From October 2006 to March 2101, Professor Lu furthered her advanced education as a Circulating Postdoctoral Fellow under the aegis of the Research Institute of Literature, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Virginia, USA, from October 2017 to October 2918.

Work resume:

July 2001 to December 2005 Associate Editor at Zhonghua Book Company
December 2005 – present Associate Professor, School of Literature,Shandong University

Academic focus and major research fields:

Ancient Chinese Literature;History of Chinese Literary Criticism, Literature of the Sui and Tang Dynasties and of the Five-Dynasties Era

A representative list of published monographs authored by Professor Lu:

· A Study of the Development of Literary Theory in Traditional Chinese Novels, Shandong Education Press, 2016

· Three Hundred Yuan-Dynasty[Yuanqu] Song-Poems (Selections, CriticalCommentaries, Annotations), Zhonghua Book Company, 2015

· Love. Tokens. (Passing on the Culture of Books and Ethics of Decorum From One Generation to Another, Books of Chinese Culture Series),Zhonghua Book Company, 2015

· There is Love in the Secular World: Random Discourses on The Three Collections of Stories To Admonish and Awaken the World, and the Two Editions of the “O My Goodness” Novellas, Haiyan Publishing House, 2013

Published papers:

· “Establishing Critical Argument on the Basis of the Poem–A Poetic ‘State of Mind’ Already Chosen”, Literary and Historical Knowledge, issue no. 7, 2016

· “Li Bai in Shanfu County: In addition, ‘Li Bai, Du Fu, and Gao Shi Travel Together in the Liang-Song Region’, and ‘Jia Zhi’s Tenure as Military Governor of Shanfu County’”, Chinese Studies of Li Bai, 2014

· “The Evolution of the Concept of the Novel in Ancient China”, Perspectives and Methods: Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Chinese Literary Theory at Fudan University, Fenghuang(The Phoenix) Publishing House, 2013

· “An Examination of the Discourse on The Book ofDanyang[by Yin Fan]”, Research on Traditional Texts and Documents, No. 2, 2003

· “A Brief Analysis of the Concept of ‘Destiny’ in the Inner Chapters of Zhuangzi”, Academic Journal of Shangrao Normal University, no. 5, 2000, alsoChinese Language Monthly,(Taiwan), No. 526

Contact Information: Email address: lyuyh@sdu.edu.cn