宇文所安(Stephen Owen),是美国当代著名的汉学家,现任教于哈佛大学东亚系、比较文学系,他还是以汉学研究获得哈佛学院教授殊荣的极少数美国学者之一。他受中国学界的关注,首先来自于他的唐诗史研究。从《初唐诗》、《盛唐诗》再到《中国“中世纪”的 Stephen Owen, a famous contemporary sinologist in the United States, currently teaches at the Department of East Asian Studies and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He is also one of the very few American academics who have honored Harvard professors with his Sinology. He was concerned by the Chinese academic circles, first of all from his history of Tang poetry. From “Early Tang Poetry” and “Grand Tang Dynasty Poetry” to “China ” Middle Ages "