John Gualteros is a postdoctoral researcher at East China Normal University and holds a Ph.D. in Contemporary Chinese Literature from Peking University. His research focuses on Latin American modern poetry, Latin American magical realism, and the relationship between Latin American fiction and contemporary Chinese literature. His current research project is to analyze the differences and interaction of “magical realism” in China’s “New Era Literature”, European avant-garde, and Latin American novels, from the perspective of cross-cultural and comparative literature. His publications include Magical Realism from a Global Perspective (forthcoming, 2021), and Contemporary Chinese Literature and Latin American magical Realism (2021).