Yue daiyun biography

Yue Daiyun (1931-2024), a member of the Miao ethnic group, was born in January 1931 in Guiyang, Guizhou Province.

Yue daiyun biography

She graduated from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Peking University in 1952. Throughout her distinguished career, she served as the Director of the Institute of Comparative Literature and Comparative Culture at Peking University, the President of the Chinese Comparative Literature Association (CCLA), and the Vice President of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA).

Her major works include The Principles of Comparative Literature, Comparative Literature and Modern Chinese Literature, The Form and Spirit of Chinese Intellectuals, The Bridge of Cross-Cultural Communication, Intellectuals in Chinese Novels, and Comparative Literature and China: Yue Daiyun's Overseas Lectures (English edition) (《比较文学原理》《比较文学与中国现代文学》《中国知识分子的形与神》《跨文化之桥》《中国小说中的知识分子》《比较文学与中国 — 乐黛云海外讲演录》).

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