Hou Shaobo, male, Han ethnicity, native of Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province. He joined the university in July 2018, holds a Ph.D. from Northeast Normal University, and is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Chinese, School of Humanities.

Contact Email: houshaobo@ncu.edu.cn

Main Research Areas and Interests:

Pre-Qin and Han Dynasty Literature and Culture.

Courses Taught:

Undergraduate: History of Ancient Chinese Literature, Intensive Reading of Ancient Chinese Literary Classics, The Zuo Zhuan, Guided Reading of Pre-Qin and Han Historical Prose, Introduction to Chinese Culture, Research and Retrieval of Ancient Documents.

Graduate: Monographic Studies in Literature.

Major Academic Research Achievements:

Papers:

[1] "The Textual Formation and Scholarly Reconciliation of Jiang Yuan's 'Bearing a Child by Stepping in a Footprint'," Social Science Forum, 2015(10).

[2] "The Transformation Path of Fu-ification in Qin and Han Sao-style Literature," Journal of Tianzhong, 2017(1).

[3] "Dongfang Shuo's Qi Jian and Its Relationship with the 'Nine-Style' Genre," Forum on Chinese Culture, 2017(2).

[4] "A New Perspective on the Dispute between New Text and Old Text Confucian Classics in the Han Dynasty," [Korea] Journal of Chinese Studies, 2017(6).

[5] "A Study of Han Dynasty Literature from a Cultural Perspective," The Northern Forum, 2017(6). (Second author)

[6] "Following the Book of Songs for Inspiration: The Artistic Trajectory of Sao-style and Han Dynasty Imitative Sao Literature," Journal of China Three Gorges University, 2020(1).

Books:

[1] Annotations and Translation of the Discourses of the States, Changchun Publishing House, 2015. (Second author)

[2] Chinese Classics (Book 4), Shaanxi Normal University Press, 2014.

[3] Elementary Readings in Chinese Classics (Book 6), Sinolingua, 2017.

[4] College Chinese, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press, 2022. (Contributing editor)