Shouhua Liu Author

Born in August 1935 in Xiantao, Hubei Province, China, Shouhua Liu is a folklorist and professor at the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Central China Normal University. He is the editor-in-chief of The Yearbook of Chinese Folk Art and Literature and serves as the honorary president of Hubei Folk Artists Association. In 2022, he was conferred the title of Lifetime Achievement Folk Artist by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles. Liu has published over 400 articles and more than 10 books in the fields of folk literature, folklore, comparative literature, ancient literature, and religious studies, becoming a leading figure in contemporary Chinese folktale studies. The publication of A Collection of Liu Shouhua’s Folktale Studies in 2020, a ten-volume collection, fully demonstrates his achievements of systematic studies in the field.