Cheng Yun 程芸

Functions and council memberships

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

    Visiting scholar of Chinese Civilisation Centre at City University of Hong Kong (2008-2009) and The East Asian Studies Department at Harvard University (2009-2010)

Member of Chinese Institute of Folk Literature

Head of the scholars group called “The new perspectives of Sinology and Chinese literature studies” 

Research Topics

The history of Chinese opera

Literature in the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty

Chinese studies (Sinology) and original texts overseas

Research Projects

Collation and research on the Ming-Qing literature materials in the “Literature on The Journey to Peking (燕行)” of ancient Korea (2013)

Collation and research on the historical materials about Chinese opera in the original Chinese texts in South Korea (2011)

General Education in arts and the cultivation of the college students’ cultural quality (2006) 

A study of the groups of opera authors between Ming and Qing Dynasty: a historical inspection of regional opera culture (2003)

Main Publications

Research on Chinese Opera in the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasty

Tang Xianzu and the Evolution of Opera in the late Ming Dynasty

Poetic Plays of Human Relationship: The History of Chinese Opera

    And more than 30 papers have been published.