Shuen-fu Lin

Name: Shuen-fu Lin

Title(s):

• Professor

Contact Information: 734.647.2093 , lsf@umich.edu

International Institute Affiliation(s):

• CCS
• CICS

Department Affiliation(s):

• Asian Languages & Cultures

Research/Teaching Specialization: Professor Lin completed his doctorate in East Asian Studies (Chinese Literature) at Princeton University in 1972 and joined the faculty of the University of Michigan in 1973. He specializes in Chinese poetry and fiction; early Taoist philosophical literature, and Chinese aesthetics and literary criticism. Currently, Professor Lin is involved in three research projects. First, he is participating in the writing of "The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature" being edited by Stephen Owen of Harvard University and Kang-i Sun Chang of Yale University to be published by Cambridge University Press. He is co-authoring (with Michael Fuller) a chapter on the literature of the tweltfth and thirdteenth centuries. Second, he is contributing a chapter on the interpretation of selected "song lyrices on objects" (youngwu ci) of the Southern Song (1127-1279) to a guided reader of classical Chinese poetry designed for use in undergraduate teaching in this country. Being edited by Zong-qi Cai of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, the book manuscript is entitled "Reading Chinese Poetry: Interpretive Methods, Critical Approaches, and Teaching Strategies." Third, he has been also working on a long-standing book project tentatively entitled "Transforming the Dao: A Literary Study of the Inner Chapters of the Zhuangzi." It is his plan to complete a manuscript of this book during his next sabbatical leave in 2007.