李文初,男,1936年9月生于湖南省宁远县。1956年考入北京大学中文系汉语言文学专业(五年制)。毕业后免试做研究生,师从游国恩教授,攻读先秦两汉文学。毕业论文为《司马迁(史记)研究》。1965年毕业分配到广州暨南大学中文系任教至今(“文革”中暨大解体,中文系并入华南师范学院中文系,前后八年,曾短期下放干校,1978年暨大复办回归)。历任该校讲师、副教授,1987年12月晋升教授。次年4月,应日本九州大学校长高桥良平教授之聘,赴该校文学部任客员教授两 Li Wenchu, male, born in September 1936 in Ningyuan County, Hunan Province. In 1956 admitted to Peking University Department of Chinese language and literature (five years). After graduation exempt from doing graduate students, under the guidance of Professor You Guoen, Studying Pre-Qin and Han literature. Thesis is “Sima Qian (Historical Records) Research.” Graduated in 1965 assigned to the Chinese Department of Jinan University in Guangzhou so far ( “Cultural Revolution ” and the disintegration of the Chinese Department into the Chinese Department of South China Normal University, before and after eight years, had short-term decentralization of cadres, . Served as a lecturer in the school, associate professor, 1987 December promoted to professor. The following year in April, Japan Kyushu University President Takahashi Liangping hired to go to the school literature department as guest professor two