Principles of Poetry

Chester Wang is retired as the East Asian Studies Bibliographer at the University of Wisconsin. A native of China, he received his doctorate in history at the University of Chicago and subsequently taught at Roosevelt University and the University of Southern California. He recently published an English translation of Fung Youlan's Xin Zhi Yen under the title of A New Treatise on the Methdology of Metaphysics (Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1997); and a Chinese translation of H.G. Creel's Confucius and the Chinese Way under the title of Kongzi yu Zhongguo Zhi Dao (Taipei: Web, 2003). He is currently working on a Chinese philosophic text.