Kang Zhen (; born March 1970) is a Chinese scholar and a professor at the College of Arts,

Beijing Normal University Beijing Normal University (BNU) () is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education (China), Ministry of Education of China, and co-funded by the Ministry of Education and the B ...

. He is best known for conducting lecture series about

Chinese literature The history of Chinese literature extends thousands of years, and begins with the earliest recorded inscriptions, court archives, building to the major works of philosophy and history written during the Axial Age. The Han dynasty, Han (202 ...

on the

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television programme ''

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''.

Biography

Kang was born in

Suide County Suide County () is a county of Yulin, Shaanxi, China, bordering Shanxi province across the Yellow River to the southeast. Administrative divisions , Suide County is divided to 15 towns. ;Towns Climate Transportation *China National Highway ...

Shaanxi Shaanxi is a Provinces of China, province in north Northwestern China. It borders the province-level divisions of Inner Mongolia to the north; Shanxi and Henan to the east; Hubei, Chongqing, and Sichuan to the south; and Gansu and Ningxia to t ...

in March 1970. He attended

Shaanxi Normal University Shaanxi Normal University (SNNU; ) is a public university in Chang'an, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education. The university is part of the Double First-Class Construction and Project 211 Project 211 ( zh ...

from 1989 to 2000, graduating with a

Master of Arts A Master of Arts ( or ''Artium Magister''; abbreviated MA or AM) is the holder of a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is usually contrasted with that of Master of Science. Those admitted to the degree have ...

. He earned his

Doctor of Letters Doctor of Letters (D.Litt., Litt.D., Latin: ' or '), also termed Doctor of Literature in some countries, is a terminal degree in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. In the United States, at universities such as Drew University, the degree ...

under the direction of Huo Songlin (). In 2006, he received an invitation to be a lecturer on the television programme ''

'' shown on

. Since then, he has conducted four lecture series–''

Li Bai Li Bai (, 701–762), Literary and colloquial readings, also pronounced Li Bo, courtesy name Taibai (), was a Chinese poet acclaimed as one of the greatest and most important poets of the Tang dynasty and in Chinese history as a whole. He and hi ...

'', ''

Du Fu Du Fu (; 712–770) was a Chinese poet and politician during the Tang dynasty. Together with his elder contemporary and friend Li Bai, Du is often considered one of the greatest Chinese poets of his time. His greatest ambition was to serve ...

'', ''

Li Qingzhao Li Qingzhao (; 1084 – ca. 1155), art name Yi'an Jushi (), was a Chinese poet and essayist of the Song dynasty. She is considered one of the greatest poets in Chinese history. Biography Early life Li Qingzhao was born in 1084 in Jinan, S ...

'' and the ''Eight Great Writers of Tang and Song Dynasties''. Since 2002, he taught at

. He was deputy director of the Institute of Ancient Chinese Literature from 2003-2004, and he was elected deputy party chief for 2004 and vice-dean of the College of Arts for 2006.

Works

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References

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Kang Zhen
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