Rate My Professor Zong-qi Cai

Cai's research specializes in premodern Chinese literature, Chinese poetry, classical Chinese poetry, literary criticism, comparative literature, and philosophy. He has authored and edited numerous scholarly books, including Chinese Theories of Literary Creation: A Historical and Critical Introduction (Duke University Press, 2024), How to Read Chinese Prose: A Guided Anthology (Columbia University Press, 2022), How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context: Poetic Culture from Antiquity through the Tang (Columbia University Press, 2018), Chinese Aesthetics: The Ordering of Literature, Arts, and the Universe in the Six Dynasties (University of Hawaii Press, 2004), A Chinese Literary Mind: Culture, Creativity, and Rhetoric in Wenxin diaolong (Stanford University Press, 2001), and How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology (Columbia University Press, 2008). He is general editor of the ten-volume How to Read Chinese Literature series (Columbia University Press), co-founding editor-in-chief of Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (Duke University Press), editor of Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature (Duke University Press), and editor-in-chief of Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies. In recognition of his editorial work, Cai received the 2020 Distinguished Editor Award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. His scholarship has reinvigorated the research and teaching of Chinese poetry in the English-speaking world.