Richard John Lynn

Professor Lynn has held positions at universities in New Zealand, Australia, U.S.A. and Canada. In 1999, he was appointed as a full-time Professor of Chinese Thought and Literature at the University of Toronto until retiring in 2005. He has more than 100 book sections, journal articles, and reviews published on pre-modern Chinese poetry and poetics, literati culture, intellectual history and the visual arts. He is currently working on the translation and study of the Daoist classic, Zhuangzi, with commentary of Guo Xiang (Columbia University Press, 2020), and a study of Huang Zunxian’s literary experiences in Japan (1877– 82).

Selected Publications

• Zhuangzi: A New Translation of the Sayings of Master Zhuang as Interpreted by Guo Xiang (Columbia University Press, 2022)
• Kuan Yün-shih [1286-1324] (Twayne, 1980)
• Chinese Literature: A Draft Bibliography in Western European Languages (Australian National University Press, 1980)
• Guide to Chinese Poetry and Drama (G. K. Hall, 1984)
• The Classic of Changes: A New Translation of the I Ching as Interpreted by Wang Bi (Columbia University Press, 1994)
• The Classic of the Way and Virtue: A New Translation of the Tao-te ching of Laozi as Interpreted by Wang Bi (Columbia University Press, 1999)
• Editor, James J. Y. Liu, Language—Paradox— Poetics: A Chinese Perspective (Princeton University Press, 1988)

Further Materials 

• Blog post: The Multifaceted Advice of the Zhuangzi,  Columbia University Press Blog
• Video lecture: Reception of Zhuangzi in the West, presented at the Elling Eide Center, Sarasota, Florida
• Video lecture: Road Not Taken: Huang Zunxian in Japan 1877 – 1882. Japan as Modernization Model for China: What If?, Princeton University Class of '62 Scholars Lecture Series