Professor of School of Liberal Arts at Renmin University of China, a member of China Comparative Literature Association, an executive member of The Specialized Committee for Foreign Literature of Chinese Higher Education Association, and vice president of Tianjin Comparative Literature Association. Main research fields include: Franz Kafka, Western modernism, and postmodernist literature. Major publications include: Reevaluation: Western Literary Canon; A Study of Kafka; Western Postmodernist Literary Studies; Oriental Postmodernism.