Yixin Gu

Yixin Gu is an Assistant Professor in Classical Chinese Literature at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, specializing in the literary and intellectual culture of Han-Wei China (late first century BCE–third century CE). Their research explores the emergence of individual erudition as a cultural ideal, challenging disciplinary boundaries and concepts like material determinism in early Chinese scholarship.

Research Focus:

• Reconstruction of literary practices and knowledge systems in Han-Wei China
• Critique of institutionalized archives and disciplinary divisions (e.g., canonical studies vs. literature)
• Analysis of textual, oral, and socio-cultural matrices in meaning-production

Advised by Martin Kern, Yixin Gu's work emphasizes interdisciplinary methodologies, integrating philosophic, historiographic, and poetic texts to trace the evolution of erudition as a socio-cultural framework.