Professor of Sinology, University of Frankfurt

Zhiyi Yang

楊治宜

I specialize in the research on classical and modern classicist Chinese poetry, through which I investigate questions about aesthetics, history, intellectual history, cultural memory, as well as media and culture. A graduate of Peking University, I received a PhD in East Asian Studies from Princeton University in 2012. My first monograph is about the 11th century poet Su Shi (Dongpo), and my second book explores the complicated modern poet and politician Wang Zhaoming (Jingwei). My current work focuses on exploring a phenomenon that I term as “Sinophone classicism,” especially lyric classicism in modern and contemporary China. I love books, music, dancing, yoga, hiking, and traveling. I consider myself Chinese, European, and world citizen. It is the call of the distance–what the Germans beautifully describe as das Fernweh–which has brought me across oceans, from China to the US and eventually to Germany.

宜，江西宜春人氏。雅好讀書，不求甚解；性不耐酒，空杯常持。學問之道，非為己而誰歟？百歲之間，耽斯娛以終老。