Biography

Naikan Tao obtained his MA from Nanjing University, and his PhD from the University of Sydney. He taught courses in Chinese language, Chinese literature and culture, and translation at UNSW, Macquarie University and the University of Sydney before he joined the University of Canberra. He enjoys the natural scenery of UC campus, loves his students, domestic and overseas, and now contributes to UC education and research. 

Publications

Patton, Simon and Naikan Tao. trans. 2008. Starve the Poets, Selected Poems of Yi Sha. UK Tarset: Bloodaxe,Books.

Tao, Naikan. 2007. (monograph) Pangde yu Zhongguo wenhua (Ezra Pound and Chinese Culture) in Yue Daiyun, ed. Zhongxue xi jian congshu (Chinese learning in the West series). Beijing: Capital Normal University Press.

Tao, Naikan and Prince, Tony, eds. & trans. 2006. Eight Contemporary Chinese Poets: University of Sydney East Asian Series, No. 17. Sydney: Wild Peony Press, UHP distr.

Tao, Naikan, trans. 2002. Jinse de wuqun (The Golden Dress, novel) by Marion Halligan. Guangzhou: Huacheng Press.

Journal articles and translations

Tao, Naikan. 2010. “Subjectivity and Innovation in Contemporary Chinese Poetry (Part I)”, The Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia, Vol. 41 (2009), pp.115-36.

Tao, Naikan. 2010. “Introduction to Bei Dao’s poetry”. Southerly (special issue: China, China) Vol. 70, No. 1, p.142.

Patton, Simon and Naikan Tao, trans. 2010. “Four Poems by Bei Dao”. Southerly (special issue: China, China), Vol. 70, No. 1, pp.143-47.

Patton, Simon and Naikan Tao, trans. Bei Dao: China and US (pamphlet for 40th Poetry International Festival, Rotterdam, 13-19 June 2009)

Patton, Simon and Naikan Tao, trans. 2008. “Five Poems by Yi Sha”, Modern Poetry in Translation (UK) No.10, pp. 116-21.
Tao, Naikan and Patton, Simon. 2008. “The Style in Blood” introduction to Starve the Poets, pp.9-16.

Tao, Naikan. 2007. “Modernism and Confucianism: Otherness as a Stimulus to Modernity in Chinese and English Literatures”, Tamkang Review, Vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 53-76.

Tao, Naikan and Yu Jian. 2005. “Da Tao Naikan wen”  in Yu Jian ji, juan wu (Collected works of Yu Jian, Volume 5), Kunming: Yunnan People’s Press, pp. 210-37.

Tao, Naikan. 2001. “‘The Law of Discourse’: Confucian Texts and Ideograms in The Pisan Cantos,” the journal Paideuma (University of Maine, US), Vol. 30, No. 1&2, pp. 21-68.

Tao, Naikan. 2001. “Ezra Pound’s Comparative Poetics,” Comparative Literature and Culture Web Journal (Purdue University, US), the issue lead article, No. 3-4.

Tao, Naikan. 2000. “The ‘Peach-Blossom-Fountain’ Poetic and Canto IV” in Helen M. Dennis (Warwick, UK) ed. Ezra Pound and Poetic Influence. Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, pp.114-29

Tao, Naikan. 1999. “Building a White Tower at Night: Zhai Yongming’s Poetry,” World Literature Today (University of Oklahoma, US), the issue lead article, Vol. 73, No. 3, pp. 398-416.