Kuo-ch'ing Tu
Kuo-ch'ing Tu (born 1941), born in Taichung, Taiwan is a poet, scholar, translator, critic, and professor. He is a professor in the East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he has taught for almost forty-five years. As the Lai Ho and Wu Cho-liu Endowed Chair, he is the Director of the Center for Taiwan Studies, as well as the founder and editor of the biannual journal, Taiwan Literature: English Translation Series《台灣文學英譯叢刊, which started its publication in 1996. Life. Kuo-ch'ing Tu (杜國清) was born in Taichung , Taiwan in 1941. He graduated from National Taiwan University in 1963 with an English Literature degree. Then, he received his Master of Arts in Japanese literature from Kwansei Gakuin University in 1970. He obtained his Ph.D. in Chinese Literature from Stanford in 1974. His research interests include, but are not limited to, Taiwanese Literature, Chinese literature, Chinese literary theories, comparative literature, and international literatures in Chinese. He has written nearly 500 poems, and authored various Chinese poetry books. He continues to co-edit "Taiwan Literature: English Translation Series", "Taiwan Studies Series", "Taiwan Writers Translation Series", and "Taiwan Literature: Chinese-English  Bilingual Series". He translates English, Japanese, and French publications into Chinese and also modern works of Chinese into English. Dr. Tu also manages the Center for Taiwan Studies at UCSB. Additionally, he currently serves as the Lai Ho and Wu Cho-liu Endowed Chair in Taiwan Studies at UCSB. Quotes. Terence Russell: "As a poet, Tu Kuo-ch'ing has twenty-five published collections of his work, including editions published in Japan, China, and Korea. As a literary scholar, he has several volumes of collected essays and one monograph in English, a study of the Tang dynasty poet, Li He, based  on his Ph.D. dissertation. Tu's reputation as a translator was established in the 1960s and 70s with his renderings of Modernist verse and literary theory, particularly the work of T. S. Eliot and Charles Baudelaire. His translation of Les Fleurs du Mal remains a standard reference in the Chinese-speaking world. He has also introduced James J. Y. Liu's English language studies of Chinese poetics by translating them into Chinese. Among contemporary Chinese-language poets, Tu Kuo-ch'ing is considered one of the most daring and honest with regard to matters of love and eros." Chang Jih-chun : "Tu Kuo-ch'ing occupies a unique position in relation to the landscapes and historical sites of China."