Tseng, Shou-Jen Distinguished Professor

Contact Info

Research lab：A404-1
Phone : 2777、2690
Email : sjtseng@mail.ncnu.edu.tw

Employment

  • Professor, The Department of Chinese Language and Literature at National Chi-Nan  University
  • Associate Professor, The Department of Chinese Language and Literature at National Chi-Nan  University
  • Assistant Professor, The Department of Chinese Language and Literature at National Chi-Nan  University
  • Assistant Professor, The Department of Chinese Literature at Fu Jen University

Courses Taught

History of Chinese Literature, Scholarly Approach, History of Chinese Literary Criticism, Introduction to the Origins and Development of Ancient Culture, Ci Poems with Exercises, Ming-Qing Literary Criticism, Special Topics in the Lyric Tradition of Chinese Literature, Special Topics on The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons, Special Topics on Qing Dynasty Poetry Criticism (Shihua), Special Topics on Late Qing Literature

Education

  • Ph.D., Institute of Chinese, National Taiwan University
  • Master of Chinese, National Chi-Nan  University
  • Bachelor’s degree in Chinese, Fu Jen University

Journal Articles

  • Tseng, Shou-Jen: Fan, Zeng-Xiang: The New Poetics of An Old School of Literati, Bulletin of The Department of Chinese Literature National Taiwan University Vol.84 2024.03, pp.37-83.
  • Tseng, Shou-Jen: Compassionate Wisdom: Mou Tzongsan’s Life Poetics, Journal of the History of Ideas in East Asia Vol.17 2019.12, pp.317-359.
  • Tseng, Shou-Jen: Concise and Extraordinary: Ko Ching-Ming’s Statement on Lyrical Tradition, Chung Wai Literary Vol.48 2019.09, pp.205-214.
  • Tseng, Shou-Jen: Lyrical Elegy: Yi Shun-ding’s Poetics of Tears and Blood, Bulletin of  The Department of Chinese Literature National Chengchi University Vol.31 2019.06, pp.295-340.
  • Tseng, Shou-Jen: From Literary Aestheticism to Cultural ethics: On Tragic insight of Wang Guo-wei, Bulletin of  The Department of Chinese Literature National Chengchi University NO.28 2017.12, pp.281-328.
  • Tseng, Shou-Jen: What Divine Omniscient Eyes See Ends in Annihilationof Emotion—On Wang Guo-wei’s Modern Annihilation Experience, Chung Cheng Chinese Studies vol.27 2016.06 pp.55-89.
  • Tseng, Shou-Jen: State System, Literary Genre, and Lyricism-from “Shi-Shi” to “Shen-Yun”, Dong Hwa Journal of Chinese Studies Vol.21 2015.06 pp.31-99.
  • Tseng, Shou-Jen: Qian Cheng-Zhi’s Dispositional Poetic Discourse in a Time of Political Changeover: Real Poetry, Bitter Hymns, and a Latent Shishi Discourse, Literature & Philosophy Vol.26 2015.06 pp.379-423.
  • Tseng, Shou-Jen: An analysis of Qian Qianyi’s late poetry theory: true poetry, disaster fire and the rise and fall of dynasties, Fu Jen Literature Journal Vol.40 2015.04 pp.93-130.
  • Tseng, Shou-Jen: Book Review: Xiao Chi:中國思想與抒情傳統第三卷：聖道與詩心, Bulletin of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy Vol.45 2014.09 pp.214-226.
  • Tseng, Shou-Jen: Forbidding man, Spectral Implement, and Ghostly-delight: On Zhung-Xing and Tan Yuan-Chun’s Personality, Poetry and Literary Criticism, Literature & Philosophy Vol.18 2011.06 pp.397-428.
  • Tseng, Shou-Jen: The sentimental Poet Thinking upon Poetry Alteration-to Analysis Wang Quanshan’s commentary: “Since had five-character Poems, there is no one’s accomplishment like Xie Lingyun; and Xie’s poetry had emergence already, there is no five-character Poems to place on a par”, Bulletin of  The Department of Chinese Literature National Chengchi University NO.14 2010.12 pp.201-240.
  • Tseng, Shou-Jen: Demons, Ghosts and True Poetry: On the Centrifugal Nature in Jingling Poetic Discourse, Fu Jen Literature Journal Vol.30 2010.04 pp.201-225.

Books

  • Tseng, Shou-Jen: Lyric in an Antagonistic World: A Study on the Poetics from Late Qing to Early Republican China, Taipei: National Taiwan University (NTU) Press, 2024.12.
  • Tseng, Shou-Jen: Reconstructing Wang Fu-Chih’s poetry theory: An exploration of Confucianism’s poetic concept based on the correlation between philosophy and poetry / darkness and brightness / heaven and human, Taipei: National Taiwan University (NTU) Press, 2010.12 (Doctoral Dissertation Publication).
  • Tseng, Shou-Jen: A Study of Chin Sheng-Tan’s Ping-Tien Activity —— The Pseudo-Structuralism’s Reconstruction and Deconstruction, Taipei: Huamulan Culture Press, 2014.03 (Publication of master’s thesis).

Book Chapters

  • Tseng, Shou-Jen: “What Divine Omniscient Eyes See Ends in Annihilationof Emotion —— On Wang Guo-wei’s Modern Annihilation Experience”, in Li Ruiteng and Zhuo Qingfen (eds.), The Intersection of Objects and Me: The Materiality and Subjectivity of Classical Literature, Taipei: Wanjuanlou, 2017, pp. 477-515.
  • Tseng, Shou-Jen: “The Peach Blossom Fan Sends the Southern Dynasties: On Kong Shangren’s Historical Consciousness and Its Writing”, in Li Zhenhui (ed.), Chinese Narratology: Historical Narrative Poetry and Essays, Hsinchu: Tsinghua University Press, December 2016, pp. 327-376.
  • Tseng, Shou-Jen: “Analysis from the Perspective of Poetry History in Qian Zhu Du Poems”, Proceedings of the Fifth Cross-Strait Rhyme Literature Academic Symposium, Taipei: Shih Hsin University, March 2014, pp. 75-94.
  • Tseng, Shou-Jen: “A Definitive Form of Expression: A Discussion on Yang Ming’s Thoughts”, in Zhu Pingci and Yang Rubin (eds.), Celestial Bodies, Bodies and National Bodies: Sinology Returning to the World, Taipei: National Taiwan University Press, September 2005.

Research Project

  • Tseng, Shou-Jen: Shanshui, vision and lyrical tradition: reflection and reconstruction of a Chinese poetic theory, project number: 113-2410-H-260-015-MY2, 2024/08/01-2026/07/31.
  • Tseng, Shou-Jen: Shanshui Discourse and Landscape Interiors and Exteriors: A Study of Old Style Poetry in the Late Qing and early Republican of China, project number: 112-2410-H-260-032-, 2023/08/01-2024/07/31.
  • Tseng, Shou-Jen: The Dance of the Hidden Dragon: Literary Activities of the Tongcheng Poetic School in the Late Qing Dynasty and the Early Period of the Republic of China, project number: MOST109-2410-H260-037-MY3, 2020/08/01-2022/07/31.
  • Tseng, Shou-Jen: Poetry in the malicious world —— On some important cases in Modern China time, project number: MOST106-2410-H260-045-MY3, 2017/08/01-2020/07/31.
  • Tseng, Shou-Jen: Genesis of the Chinese Lyrical tradition: An Analysis of Modern Chinese Literary Criticism Discourse (1904-1927), project number: MOST105-2410-H260-042, 2016/08/01-2017/07/31.
  • Tseng, Shou-Jen: State, Lyricalism, and Modernity Experience —— The Cultural Empire Collapses with the Suicide of Wang Guowei, project number: MOST104-2410- H260-034, 2015/08/01-2016/07/31.
  • Tseng, Shou-Jen: From “Shishi” to “Shen Yun” : An Chinese Lyrical Tradition Investigation of Evaluation of the Ming and Qing poetics, project number: NSC102-2410-H260-067-MY2, 2013/08/01-2015/07/31.
  • Tseng, Shou-Jen: An Exploration and Evaluation of Shi-shi of Ming and Qing Dynasties: Exemplified Discussions on Qian Qian-Yi and Wang Fu-Zhi, project number: NSC101-2410-H260-065, 2012/08/01-2013/07/31.
  • Tseng, Shou-Jen: Ingenuous or Disingenuous? The Poetic Pursuit and the Return to Poetic Canon —— Reevaluate the Purport of Qian Qian-Yi’s Poetics, project number: NSC 100-2410-H-030-038, 2011/08/01-2012/07/31.
  • Tseng, Shou-Jen: Evil・spirit and heresy: Reconstructing Jing-ling’s poetic theory in the late Ming Dynasty and research of the acceptances, project number: NSC 99-2410-H-030-082, 2010/08/01 -2011/07/31.