Assistant Professor at the Institute for European Global Studies of the University of Basel, Switzerland; President of the European Association for Chinese Philosophy (EACP). Main research fields include: comparative and political philosophy; Confucianism; Chinese politics; methodological and conceptual aspects of translinguistic and transcultural research. He directs two major research projects: “The Exterior of Philosophy: On the Practice of New Confucianism” and “European Studies in a Global Perspective”. A recent publication is “The Politics of Studying Europe in China” (with Silvana Tarlea).

Professor of School of Liberal Arts, Deputy Chair of the University Academic Council, Renmin University of China; Vice President of China Comparative Literature Association; Vice-President of China Religious Society (2012-2014) and member of the Academic Committee of China National Fund for Social Sciences (2007- ). Main research fields include: religious studies and comparative literature. Major publications include: At the Boundary of Literature and Theology , Searching for the Meaning , etc. The collection of his papers in English include “Christianity in China: the Work of Yang Huilin” “China, Christianity and Questions of Culture” which was awarded Christianity Today's 2015 Book Awards in the United States.

Chair Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation at City University of Hong Kong, elected foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, member of the Executive Council of the International Comparative Literature Association, and Advisory Editor of New Literary History. His main research fields include: East-West cross-cultural studies. Some major publications include: The Tao and the Logos: Literary Hermeneutics, East and West (1992), Mighty Opposites (1992), Allegoresis (2006), Unexpected Affinities (2007), From Comparison to World Literature (2014).