Professor Ma Ruifang（马瑞芳）

Introduction:
Professor Ma Ruifang, female, was born in April, 1929 and graduated from Chinese department, Shandong University in 1965.She is now a essayist, novelist, professor, tutor of Ph.D students and academic leader of Ancient Chinese Literature. She has also been entitled the member of Chinese Writers’ Association and National Committee, executive director of Chinese "A Dream of Red Mansions" Institute, academic commissioner of Ancient Literature Research Center of Fudan University and vice-chairman of Shandong’s Writers’ Association. The most known works by Ma Ruifang are A Critical Biography of Pu Songling, Creation of Strange Tales of Liaozhai, from " Strange Tales of Liaozhai" to " A Dream of Red Mansions", Ma Ruifang collate and comment on " Strange Tales of Liaozhai", the novel Blue eye and black eye, sky eye, Four Seasons experience and the verse collections Recorded Knowledge, If I am Rich, Pancake Flowers, Lecture Room is a Devil's Bed, etc. From 2005 to 2007, Professor Ma Ruifang was the speaker of “Talk about Liaozhai “in Lecture Room of CCTV. In 2008, she began to talk about "A Dream of Red Mansions" in Jiangsu Television. She has won several "Scientific Research Prizes of Shandong Province”, "National Award for Best Novel" and "The First Female Literary Prize".
Main courses:
For graduate students : Social Science Methodology, Chinese Novel History, Studies on the Play of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Studies on the Essay of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Studies on "A Dream of Red Mansions" , Studies on " Strange Tales of Liaozhai", A Lantern by the Forked Road and Chinese Literature in 18th Century(for foreign PhD students).
For undergraduate students: Chinese Literary History (Ming and Qing Dynasties), Creation of Strange Tales of Liaozhai, Studies on "A Dream of Red Mansions”.