Zhang Longxi is a Ph. D. of Harvard University, he taught at the University of California, Riverside, the City University of Hong Kong, and currently he is teaching at Hunan Normal Univeristy. He published more than 20 books and numerous articles in English and Chinese on Chinese-Western comparative studies. He is a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy and Academia Europaea, and an Honorary President of the International Comparative Literature Association.His research focuses on East-West cross-cultural studies. Among his numerous publications areThe Tao and the Logos: Literary Hermeneutics, East and West(1992),Mighty Opposites(1997),Allegoresis: Reading Canonical Literature East and West(2005),Unexpected Affinities(2007), andFrom Comparison to World Literature(2015).