Vice Dean of School of International Studies, Doctoral Advisor
Education
9/2002-7/2007 PhD, English Language and Literature, Sun Yat-sen University.
8/2005-7/2006 Visiting doctoral student, Institute for Trans-textual and Trans-cultural Studies, Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 University, France
9/1999-7/2002 M.A., Comparative Literature and World Literature, Sun Yat-sen University.
9/1992-7/1996 B.A., Economics, Hunan Finance and Economics Institute.
Working Experiences
1/2019- Present Professor of English Department, School of International Studies, Sun Yat-sen University.
9/2017- Present Deputy Dean of School of International Studies, Sun Yat-sen University.
12/2013-9/2017 Associate Professor of English Department, School of International Studies & School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University.
7/2007-12/2013 Lecturer of English Department, School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University
2/2010- 2/2011 Visiting scholar at English Department, Cornell University.
7/1996- 9/1998 Bank clerk in Hunan Branch of China Investment Bank
Awards
“A Study of Creative Misreading and Reconstruction of French Theory in America”. Funded by the National Social Science Fund of China. 2018.6.- 2021.12.
“Translation and Dissemination of Contemporary French Thought in China – Taking Lyotard’s Le Différend as an Example”. Funded by Department of International Cooperation and Exchanges of Ministry of Education. 2017.8-2018.3.
“Text and World: Americanization of French Theory with Derrida and Foucault as Case Studies”, Humanities and Social Science Research Project Funded by Ministry of Education. 2014-2017.
“Text and World: Americanization of French Theory with Derrida and Foucault as Case Studies”, Research Project Supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities. 2012-2014.
Visiting Scholar at English Department, Cornell University, Supported by Young Faculty Development Program of American Lingnan Foundation, 2010-2011
Program “A Study on Jean-François Lyotard’s Postmodern Thoughts”, Supported by Tongshan Funds, 2008-2009.
Fellowship of “Young Researcher Fund” by French Government, 2005-2006.
Kaisi Fellowship by Sun Yat-sen University, 2004-2005.
Fellowship of “Elite of Social and Human Sciences” by French Government, 2004.12.
Courses given
“Literary Theory since Plato” for graduates
“Contemporary Western Literary Theory” for graduates
“The History of Western Aesthetics” for graduates
“Comprehensive English” for undergraduates
“American Customs and Institutions” for undergraduates
“American Studies” for undergraduates
“An Introduction to European Culture” for undergraduates
“Romantic Poetry” for undergraduates
“Introduction to The Four Books of Confucianism” (the Great Learning, the Doctrine of the Mean, the Analects of Confucius, and the Mencius) for French exchange students
“Historical Discourse: A Critical Approach I” (From Early Civilizations to Renaissance) for undergraduates
“Selected Readings of Classics on Humanities in the 20th Century” for graduates
Language proficiency
English: proficient in written and spoken English
French: fluent in reading French
Publications
1. Books
Lyotard’s Philosophy of Difference: Law, Event, Form. Chongqing: Chongqing University Press, 2012, 9.
2. Articles
“Text and Politics: The Acceptance and Reconstruction of French Theory in America.” Journal of Sun Yat-sen University Social Science Edition. (CSSCI). 6, (2019).
“Event and art: Lyotard’s Politics of Phrase and the Postmodern Sublime”. Reprinted by Information Center for Social Sciences, Renmin University of China. B7, Aesthetics. 4(2017): 55-62.
“Event and art: Lyotard’s Politics of Phrase and the Postmodern Sublime”. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art. (CSSCI). 6(2016): 73-80.
“All and Each: on Foucault’s Genealogical Study of Governmentality and Bio-power”. Foreign Literature. (CSSCI). 2 (2016): 90-100.
“Political Inaction, Aesthetic Salvation and Moral Relativity: The Existential Predicaments of Clarissa in Mrs Dalloway”. Journal of Sun Yat-sen University Social Science Edition. (CSSCI). 2, (2016): 53-62.
“On Lyotard’s Différend”, Philosophical Researches. (CSSCI, Rank A Journal in Philosophy). 8, (2015): 61-67.
“Foucauldian Triangle: Knowledge-Subject-Power”. Modern Philosophy. (CSSCI). 5 (2013): 67-75.
“Michel Foucault: Discipline and Punish: the Birth of the Prison”. Zhu Wang ed. Major Theorists of Modern and Contemporary Western Culture. Peking: Peking University Press, 2014: 175-184.
“Three Approaches to Teaching Literary Theory in American Universities”. Foreign Literature. (CSSCI). 4 (2013): 93-102.
“The Just Game of Paganism”, Modern Philosophy. (CSSCI). 5 (2011): 81-90.
“Postmodern: a Condition or an Experimental Spirit? --- Double Meanings of ‘Postmodern’ in The Postmodern Condition”. Foreign Literature. (CSSCI). 1 (2010): 119-128.
“The Avant-garde Aesthetics Towards the Sublime – On Lyoatard’s Postmodern Aesthetics.” Reprinted by Information Center for Social Sciences, Renmin University of China. B7, Aesthetics. 1 (2010): 36-42.
“The Avant-garde Aesthetics Towards the Sublime – On Lyoatard’s Postmodern Aesthetics.” Philosophical Trends. (CSSCI). 11 (2009): 70-77.
“Understanding Foucault’s Archaeology from ‘historical a priori’”. Modern Philosophy. (CSSCI). 2, (2006): 59-65.
“On Louis Althusser’s Conception of Ideology”. Open Times. (CSSCI). 8 (2001): 49-56.
3. Translated Books:
Jean-Francois Lyotard. Le Différend. Chongqing: Southwest China Normal University Press，2020 oncoming.
4. Translated Articles:
Jonathan Culler. “Traces of Theory Now”. Foreign Literature. 1 (2011): 99-103.
Morris Dickstein. “The Face in the Mirror: the Eclipse of Distance in Contemporary Fiction”. A Mirror in the Roadway. Shanghai: Shanghai Joint Publishing Company, 2008: 220-238.
Morris Dickstein. “Ordinary People: Carver, Ford, and Blue-Collar Realism”. A Mirror in the Roadway. Shanghai: Shanghai Joint Publishing Company, 2008: 239-249.
Research interests
Literary Theory
English and American Literature
Contemporary French Philosophy
European Studies, Cross-cultural Studies.
