ZHANG, Longxi

张隆溪

Zhang Longxi is Chair Professor in the Department of Chinese and History at City University of Hong Kong, an elected foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities and Academia Europaea, and a former President of the International Comparative Literature Association (2016 – 19). His research focuses on East-West cross-cultural studies. Among his numerous publications are  The Tao and the Logos: Literary Hermeneutics, East and West  (1992),  Mighty Opposites  (1997),  Allegoresis: Reading Canonical Literature East and West  (2005),  Unexpected Affinities  (2007), and  From Comparison to World Literature  (2015).