Ronald Egan was born in 1948. He is a professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Stanford University. His research mainly focuses on Chinese Poetry, Song dynasty Poetry and literati Culture and the social and historical context of Song dynasty aesthetics. He is also Confucius Institute Professor of Sinology in Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Stanford University and Emeritus Professor of Chinese, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara. His words include Limited Views: Essays on Ideas and Letters by Qian Zhongshu (1998), Loss and accretion: the increase in the number of song lyrics attributed to Li Qingzhao in the Ming-Qing period (2012) and Anxiety over beauty: aesthetic thought and pursuits of Northern Song literati (2013).
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