Xia Zhiqing

Xia Zhiqing (February 18, 1921 - December 29, 2013), a native of Wuxian County, Jiangsu Province, was born in Pudong, Shanghai, a Chinese literary critic and professor. He graduated from the English Department of Hujiang University in 1942. In September 1946, he followed his eldest brother Xia Jian to Peking University as a teaching assistant. He was obsessed with Western European classical literature. He stood out because of his research on William Blake's thesis, and received a scholarship to study in the United States to study for a master's degree and a doctoral degree in English at Yale University. When he was teaching at the State College of New York, he received sponsorship from the Rockefeller Foundation (also known as the Rockefeller Foundation) and completed the book "History of Modern Chinese Novel", establishing his status as a scholar. In 1961, he went to teach at Columbia University in New York, and later took over the Wang Jizhen chair. In July 2006, he was elected as an academician of the Academia Sinica of the Republic of China.