Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 1980

Dr. Lu Ping-chuan Professor Wai-Lim Yip Professor Leonard Minkes in poetry writing at the State University of Iowa and obtained in 1964 the degree of M.F.A., and in 1967 he obtained a Ph.D. in comparative literature at Princeton University. Professor Yip had been Assistant Professor (1967-70), Associate Professor (1972-74), Chairman of the Comparative Literature Division (1976-78), and Professor (1976-80) of the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego before he joined this University as Visiting Professor of Com parative Literature in 1980. He had also been Visiting Associate Professor (1970-71) and Visiting Professor (1974-75) at National Taiwan University, where he helped to initiate the Ph.D. Programme in Comparative Literature. Professor Yip was elected Fellow of the Creative Arts Institute in 1970 and Fellow of Regent Humani ties in 1973, and one of the tenmajor poets in Taiwan. A prolific poet, Professor Yip has published poems in both Chinese and English. Collections of his poems include: Fugue, Edge o f Waking, Selected Poems, The Voice o f Blooming and The Wild Flower Story. He has also translated T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Sidney Kingsley's The Patriot, and works of recent European and Latin American poets (in And the Trees Sing) into Chinese, and poems of WangWei (in Hiding the Universe: Poems o f Wang Wei) and contemporary poets like Pien Chih-lin, Hsin-ti and Ai Ch'ing into English. Professor Yip has carried out extensive research on the American poet, Ezra Pound, and his major research interests are in comparative poetics and classical Chinese literary theories. Among his major publications are: Ezra Pound's Cathay, Classical Chinese Poetry: Major Modes and Genres Classical ChineseLiterature in ComparativePerspective (in Chinese), and other collections of critical essays; Order's Growth (which won the Literature Prize awarded by Taiwan's Ministry o f Education). Drink from the First Harmony: Studies in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory Studies in Modem Chinese Fiction, Dr. Lu Ping-chuan Lecturer in Music Dr. Lu Ping-chuan was born in 1929 in Kaohsiung ； Taiwan. He studied music in Japan and obtained the degree of B.A. from Musasino Music College, Tokyo in 1966. He pursued further studies at the University of Tokyo, specializing in comparative musicology, and was awarded the degrees of M.A. (1969) and Ph.D. (1972). Since 1969, Dr. Lu had been Lecturer at Showa Music College, Japan, Associate Professor at Chinese Culture University, Taiwan, Associate Professor at Taiwan National College o f Arts, Professor at Suchen Home Economics College, Taiwan, and Professor at Taiwan Normal University. He joined this University as Lecturer in Music in 1980. Dr. Lu has published a number of articles in international journals covering his research interests in music and instruments of Taiwan aborigines. Dr. Chan Sin-wai Associate Editor, Comparative Literature and Trans lation Centre ， Institute o f Chinese Studies Dr. Chan Sin-wai readHistory andChinese Philosophy 33