Chen Wenxin陈文新

Functions and council memberships

Professor and Ph.D supervisor in the College of Chinese Language and Literature

Deputy Director of the Research Center of Traditional Chinese Cultural Studies

Director of the Research Center of Literature in Ming and Qing Dynasties

Specially-appointed professor of The Luojia Scholar in Wuhan University

Vice president of China’s Popular Literature Institute

Research Topics

The history of Chinese fiction

Poetics in the Ming Dynasty

Courses

    The history of Chinese literature

Main Publications

    Traditional Novels and the Tradition of Novels

    The Aesthetics History of Chinese Classical Novels

    Poetics of Ming Dynasty: the Development and the Main Theoretical Problems

    The Emergence and Development of Schools of Thoughts in Chinese Literature

    A Chronicle History of Chinese Literature (18 volumes) (chief editor).

    And nearly two hundred of papers have been published.