Yadan Shen—Professor and Doctoral Supervisor of the Department of Art Theory
Biography
Yadan Shen, professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of Arts, Southeast University, was born in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, in 1967.
Education
Department of Fine Arts, Zhenjiang Teachers College (now incorporated into Jiangsu University), graduated in 1988.
Major: Traditional Chinese Painting
M.A. (Department of Liberal Arts, Nanjing University) .1996
D.Phil. (Department of Liberal Arts, Nanjing University). 2000
Visiting Scholar (Dartmouth College). 2011．1-2012.8
Research Interests
Artistic Theory, Artistic Aesthetics, Theory of Literature and Art
Research Achievements
Took charge of 2 national social science fund projects.
Published 3 monographs and 35 papers.
Representative Achievements
Selected Publications：
Monograph:
The Sound of Silence: On the Musical Form of Chinese Poetry and Its Historical Change. Shanghai People's Publishing House, 2007.
The third prize for outstanding achievements in philosophy and social science in Jiangsu Province in 2010.
Papers:
“On the metaphor of cloud and smoke in painting of Song Dynasty.” Literature &Art Studies. 2015.3
“The revival of ‘Ekphrasis’ and its enlightenment to contemporary era.” Jianghai Academic Journal.2013.1
“The picture of the Book of Songs--a Song Confucianism poetic image text.”Literature &Art Studies. 2012.9
“On the syllable differentiation of four-syllable poems and the occurrence of five-character poems.” Social Science Research. 2012.3
“The order of sounds: Chinese poetry as the universal consciousness of the Chinese people and Its formal presentation.”Theoretical Studies In Literature and Art. 2011.1
“On the musicology analysis of Chinese poetry.”Hundred Schools in Arts.2010.10
“Dynamic investigation of the connotation of concepts in cross-cultural art comparison: A case study of ‘form’.”Journal of Southeast University. 2009.9
Research Projects:
2004-2007
Principal Investigator, “The musical form of Chinese poetry and its historical change.”(Grant No.04czw006). National Social Science Fund.
“A comparative study of Song Dynasty's music, poetry and painting from the perspective of comparative art studies.”(Grant No. 10 BA007). National Arts Fund project in 2010, ongoing.
“Chinese art and Chinese spirit.”
Key Project of Philosophy and Social Science Fund of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions in 2016. Approved.