Chen Mingzhu is a researcher at the Institute of Culture at the Zhejiang Academy of Social Sciences focusing on the study of Chinese and Western classical poetry with particular emphasis on Aristotle’s Poetics and the exegesis of the Book of Songs in Chinese classical studies. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from Sun Yat-sen University and a Master’s Degree in Literature from Peking University. She was jointly trained at the Sino-French Doctoral School of the Aix-Marseille University Classical Studies Center.  She led the National Social Science Fund’s youth project on Research on the Annotation and Exegesis of Aristotle’s Poetics which received much acclaim. Her current research at the Zhejiang Cultural Studies Project is “A Study of Vitality in the Artistic Images of Flowers and Birds.” Her publications include Aristotle’s Poetics: A Translation with Notes and Commentary (2020) and over thirty papers on Chinese and Western classical poetry. Her published translations include The Poetry of Philosophy: On Aristotle’s Poetics (2012), The Philosopher in Plato’s Statesman (co-translaton, 2014), and Exploring the Soul of the Greeks: An Inquiry (co-translation, 2016).

In 2020, Chen Mingzhu organized the CAA lecture series “Aristotle’s Poetics”, a mandatory ICAST course.