Liu Jun (Xi Chuan) is Freeman Visiting Professor from Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing, supported by the Freeman Foundation.
Xi Chuan is a poet, essayist and translator, and has been recognized as one of the most dynamic poets living in China today. He was born in 1963 in Jiangsu province, and graduated from the English Department of Peking University in 1985. After his graduation he became an editor of the Globe magazine, compiled by the Xinhua News Agency, and presently he is teaching Classical and Modern Chinese Literature at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. Xi Chuan has published four collections of poems including A Fictitious Family Tree (1997) and Roughly Speaking (1997), two books of essays and one book of critique, in addition to a play and numerous translations, including works of Ezra Pound, Jorge Luis Borges and Czeslaw Milosz. His own poetry and essays have been widely anthologized and translated. He is the winner of prizes, honors and fellowships like the Modern Chinese Poetry Prize (1994), UNESCO-ASCHBERG bursaries of artists (1997), national Luxun Prize for Literature (2001), Freeman fellowship at the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa, USA (2002), and the Zhuang Zhongwen Prize for Literature (2003). He was awarded one of the top ten winners of the Weimar International Essay Prize Contest (Germany, 1999).
In Spring 2007, Xi Chuan will be a visiting Adjunct Professor at the Department of East Asian Studies, NYU. He will be teaching two courses, Advanced Chinese II (V33.0206) and 20th Century Chinese Literature in Translation (V33.0731).
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