CHEN Guoping (Xidu), a poet and poetry critic, is professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Tsinghua University. His primary research focus on modern Chinese poetics. Born in Pujiang County, Zhejiang Province in 1967, he studied at Peking University's Department of Chinese Language and Literature from 1985 to 1989, where he began writing poetry. After graduation, he worked as an editor for many years. He earned his Ph.D. in Literature from Tsinghua University in 2015 and joined Tsinghua's School of Humanities in 2018. His poetry collections include Plato in the Snow, The Grass House, Heart-Linked Locks, Bird Language Forest, Angel's Arrow, and The Watchmaker's Memory. His critical works include Watching and Listening, The Future of the Soul, Notes on Reading Poetry, and the monograph Heroic Scenery: On Luo Yihe and a Comparative Study of Luo Yihe and Haizi. Some of his works have been translated into French and published as Le Chant du vent et des roseaux (Éditions Fédérop, 2008). He has received awards such as the Liu Li'an Poetry Prize, the October Literary Award, the Dongdangzi Poetry Prize, the Yangtze River Poetics Award, the Changyao Poetry Prize, the Thatched Cottage Poetry Prize, and the October Poetry Prize.

Other edited works include The Complete Works of Ge Mai, Selected Poems of Peking University (co-edited with Zang Di), Archives of Avant-Garde Poetry, Visiting Chinese Poetry, Luo Yihe's Poems, Selected Poems of Hai Zi, Master Reading Series, Modern Chinese, College Chinese, and others.

Modern Chinese Poetics

History of Contemporary Chinese Literature, Modern Chinese Poetics, Modern and Contemporary Poetry: Poetry Trends, Schools and Communities, Appreciation and Writing of Modern Chinese Poetry, Writing and Communication

September 1985 - July 1989, studied at the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University, B.A degree obtained.

September 2010 - July 2015, studied at the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Tsinghua University, Ph.D in literature obtained.

July 1989 - May 2018, employed at China Planning Press.

In May 2018, he was transferred to the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Tsinghua University as a professor.

Angel's Arrow (Poetry Collection), Shanghai Education Publishing House,2020

The Watchmaker's Memory (Poetry Collection), Beiyue Literature and Art Publishing House, 2020

Selected Poems of Xidu, Taibai Literature and Art Publishing House, 2019

Notes on Reading Poetry, Orient Publishing Center,2018

Magnificent Scenery: On Luo Yihe, A Comparative Study of Luo Yihe and Haizi, China Social Sciences Press,2012

Bird Language Forest (Poetry Collection), Hainan Publishing House, 2010

The Future of the Soul (Poetry Collection), Henan University Press, 2009

Song of the Wind or Reeds (Poetry Collection, Bilingual Chinese-French), France Éditions Fédérop, 2008

The House of Grass (Poetry Collection), New World Press, 2002

Watching and Listening (Collection of Poetic Criticism), Central Compilation & Translation Press, 2000

Plato in the Snow (Poetry Collection), Culture and Art Publishing House, 1998

“Looking Forward to China's Great Poets: A Dialogue Between Xidu and Leige”, Literary Contention, Issue 4, 2020

“The Nature and Possibilities of Prose Poetry”, Poetry Journal (Part 1),Issue 3, 2020

“The ‘Achilles' Heel’ of Chinese Poets”, New Poetry Review (Issue No. 23),2019

“Primitivism in Haizi's Poetry and Its Origins”, Literary Contention, No. 3, 2019

“Boundless Life: Luo Yihe and1980s Poetry”, Yangtze River Review, No. 6, 2018

"The Issue of Imagery in Contemporary Poetry," originally published in Yangtze River Review, Issue 3, 2017, reprinted in Xinhua Digest, Issue 17, 2017

"The Rhythm of Freedom: Constructing the Musicality of Free Verse Poetry—From Hu Shi to Fei Ming," Journal of Modern Chinese Literature Studies, No. 8, 2017

"The Upper Volume and Lower Volume of the Sacred Book—Similarities and Differences in the Poetry of Luo Yihe and Hai Zi," Literary Review No. 6, 2012

"The Discord of Cold and Heat: The Fate of Romanticism in Chinese New Poetry," originally published in Journal of Modern Chinese Literature Studies, Issue 3, 2012, reprinted in Xinhua Digest, Issue 14, 2012

"The Everyday Movement in Contemporary Poetry: From Wang Xiaolong, Han Dong to Luo Yihe,"Journal of PLA Academy of Arts, No. 1, 2016

"The Poetics of Care and Other Essays" (co-authored with Prof. Xie Zhixi), Literary Contention, Issue 3, 2015

"Bian Zhilin's Theory of New Poetry Meter," Journal of Modern Chinese Literature Issue 4, 2011

"Experimentalism and Anti-Academic Complex in Contemporary Poetry", originally published in Journal of Jianghan University, Issue 2, 2011; reprinted in Xinhua Digest, Issue 17, 2011; and in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature Studies by Renmin University of China Press, Issue 7, 2011

"The Abandoned Child of the Era and the Muse's Favorite—On the Poets Born in the 1960s," originally published in Journal of Jianghan University, Issue 5, 2005, reprinted in Xinhua Digest, Issue 1, 2006, and reprinted by China Renmin University Press's Research on Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature, Issue 2, 2006

"Historical Consciousness and Poetic Writing in the 1990s," Poetry Exploration, No. 2, 1998