{"id":3586,"date":"2016-11-23T09:30:06","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T01:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3586"},"modified":"2016-11-20T18:03:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T10:03:36","slug":"mei-plaks-obituary-of-yu-kung-kao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3586","title":{"rendered":"Mei & Plaks Obituary of Yu-kung Kao"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Yu-kung<\/a>Andrew Plaks and Tsu-lin Mei \u6885\u7956\u9e9f have written an obituary <\/a>for renowned Chinese poetry scholar and Princeton emeritus professor Yu-kung Kao \u9ad8\u53cb\u5de5, who has died at age 87. They write:<\/p>\n

The invaluable contributions of Kao to the academic training of a generation of scholars of Chinese literature in the United States and abroad is matched only by the profound and lasting impact he had, on a personal level, on so many lives. In some ways, he was an enigmatic individual \u2014 quiet and reserved, a very private person whose inner thoughts remained a mystery even to his closest friends, reluctant to display his vast erudition and penetrating insight. Yet in his own way, with his inscrutable smile and self-deprecating manner, he was always reaching out to touch the minds and hearts of all the students and colleagues who read his seminal writings with utter absorption, or sat around his seminar table, intent on absorbing even a small measure of the spiritual and intellectual depths of the Chinese “lyric vision.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For more details of his life, click on the image for the obituary in full.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andrew Plaks and Tsu-lin Mei \u6885\u7956\u9e9f have written an obituary for renowned Chinese poetry scholar and Princeton emeritus professor Yu-kung Kao \u9ad8\u53cb\u5de5, who has died at age 87. They write: The invaluable contributions of Kao to the academic training of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[1757,1758,1756],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-VQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":372,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=372","url_meta":{"origin":3586,"position":0},"title":"Chinese Names in Push Open the Window","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"November 21, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"When I first wrote about the Copper Canyon anthology Push Open the Window, I said, \"My only quibble with the book so far is that, while everything is printed with Chinese and English en face, for some reason the Chinese characters of none of the poets\u2019 names made it into\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Anthologies"","block_context":{"text":"Anthologies","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=13"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2436,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2436","url_meta":{"origin":3586,"position":1},"title":"Chinese Literature Today","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"March 5, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The current issue of Chinese Literature Today features: Chinese Poets Writing in English (Qiu Xiaolong \u88d8\u5c0f\u9f99, Yun Wang, Wai-lim Yip \u8449\u7dad\u5ec9) Non-Chinese Poets Writing in Chinese (Jami Proctor-Xu, Denis Mair, Afaa Michael Weaver [translated by Lucas Klein]) Special features on Yu Jian \u4e8e\u575a and Wai-lim Yip Book reviews of Jacob\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Links"","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ou.edu\/clt\/02-02\/images\/CLT_Issue5_Cover_6.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2189,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2189","url_meta":{"origin":3586,"position":2},"title":"Julia Lin Obituary","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"August 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Julia Chang Lin, a scholar of Chinese literature who brought a forgotten generation of women poets in China and a new generation of post-war Chinese women poets to a western audience, died on Thursday, Aug. 1, of complications from neuroendocrine cancer in New York City. 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