Date: Jan. 4, 2022

Source: JNU Press

The History of Chinese Noun Arrangement, published by the Jinan University Press and written by Prof. Wu Liquan of Fudan University, won one of four second prizes in the 19th Peking University Wang Li Linguistic Awards. 

Wu, a professor and doctoral supervisor in Fudan’s Department of Chinese Language and Literature, serves concurrently as president of the Chinese Rhetorical Society.

The book was a National Publication Fund Project in 2019. Wu has spent 20 years comprehensively examining and researching literature works including poetry, song, fu (a Chinese writing style), qu (a type of verse for singing), fiction, prose, and couplets in both ancient and modern times. These works are compiled in the Pre-Qin and Han dynasties; the Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties; the Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties; the Song, Yuan and Jin, Ming and Qing Dynasties; and modern times. Wu researched the historical development paths of the form of Chinese noun arrangement; examined principles of development and change for noun arrangement in different times from the perspective of receptive aesthetics; and demonstrated the difference in aesthetic value and pursuit between different text layout and structure patterns of noun arrangement texts.

Peking University’s Wang Li Linguistic Award was established by the linguistic master (1900-1986), for the development of Chinese linguistics. The highest academic award in Chinese linguistics, it goes to Chinese scholars who contribute to the study of the current status and history of the Chinese language or other languages spoken within China.