PhD, Fudan University. Currently, also PhD Supervisor, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, research centres on contemporary Chinese culture and literature studies. Author of 15 monographs including: Living in the Reality; Being Pioneers Is Freedom; Out of the World, In to the Soul. Executive Director, Chinese Fiction Institution. Director, Institute of Chinese Literature and Art Theory. Visiting Professor, Ocean University of China and other universities. 2009, named one of Young Chinese Leaders, Southern People Weekly. Recipient of awards including: Feng Mu Literary Prize and Zhuang Zhongwen Literary Prize.