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Zong-qi Cai

}} Zong-qi Cai is a renowned scholar in the field of Sinology in the United States. In 1977, he was admitted to the Department of English at Sun Yat-sen University as an undergraduate. A year later, he advanced into the department’s inaugural master’s program, studying under Professor Dai Liuling and specializing in British and American literature. In 1984, he pursued graduate studies in comparative literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, earning his master’s degree in 1987. That same year, he entered Princeton University, where he studied classical Chinese literature under the guidance of Professor Yu-kung Kao. He completed his PhD in 1991 and subsequently carried out postdoctoral research at the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan.

Cai has taught at Stony Brook University, a campus of the State University of New York, and currently serves as the Lee Wing Tat Chair Professor of Chinese Literature at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. He is also the Director of the Advanced Institute for Global Chinese Studies at Lingnan University and Professor Emeritus of Chinese and Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Cai is the editor of the Columbia University Press series ''How to Read Chinese Literature''. Additionally, he serves as the founding editor-in-chief of two English-language journals published by Duke University Press: ''Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture'' (JCLC), which is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), and ''Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature''. He is also the editor-in-chief of ''Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies'' (嶺南學報). Cai has authored and edited a total of 17 books in English and 17 academic works in Chinese, published by leading academic presses in both the United States and China.

His research spans a wide range of fields, including classical Chinese poetry, ancient Chinese literary criticism, comparative poetics, comparative literature, comparative philosophy, and Buddhism. Provided by Wikipedia