Prof. XU Xingwu is the Dean of the Faculty of Literature at Nanjing University. He received his PhD in Literature from Nanjing University in 1993. He has been a visiting scholar of the Yanjing Society of Harvard University, a visiting scholar of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, a visiting scholar of the Tian Jiabing Visiting Scholarship Programme, a visiting professor of the Department of Humanities and Sociology of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and a visiting researcher of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Society of National Taiwan University. He serves as a member of the Chinese Language Teaching Steering Committee of Universities under the Ministry of Education, vice president of the National College Chinese Research Institute, council member of the Society of Wenxuan, and executive editor of the Literary Study. His main research interests are ancient Chinese thought and culture, and ancient Chinese literature. His main works include Prophetic Literature and Cultural Construction in Han Dynasty, Commentarial Biography of Liu Xiang, Formation of Early Classics and Cultural Self-Consciousness, etc. He has presided over the National Philosophy and Social Science Project "Prophetic Literature and Cultural Construction between Warring States, Qin and Han Dynasties", "Study on the Literature of 'General Idea of the Five Classics'".