How old is Chen Chao, the Lu Prize judge and poetry critic?

Born in October 1958, he unfortunately passed away on the evening of October 30, 2014, at the age of 56.

A well-known poetry critic and poet. His academic research focuses on modern poetics, and he strives to explore and construct a modern poetics system in a cross-cultural context. Among them, he focuses on the philosophy of life, philosophical anthropology and pan-rhetorical criticism. The effective combination attracted the attention of the Chinese poetry circle and established its own poetic system. In addition, the "textual reading" of New Criticism has been used to update and promote the "transformation of poetic interpretation methodology" in China.