Changjiang Distinguished Professor of Ministry of Education; Distinguished Professor of the School of Liberal Arts and Researcher of Research Center for Literary Studies at Beijing Normal University. Main research fields include: China-West Comparative Poetics; Comparative Literature; History of Concept; Literary Sociology; Studies on Overseas Sinology. Major publications include: Selbstreflexion in der Zeit des Erwachens und des Widerstands: Moderne Chinesische Literatur 1919-1949; Studies on 20th Century German Literary Thought (二十世纪德国文学思想论稿); etc.