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Dr. Ding Jin was born in Jinan, Shandong Province in September 1990. In 2013, he received a Dual BA degree in Chinese Language and Literature and English Language and Literature from Zhejiang University. He holds an Honors Certificate of Graduation from the Zhu Kezhen Honors College of Zhejiang University, and a Level 8 Certificate in the English Language major. In 2018, he received his Ph.D. in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature from Zhejiang University. From 2016 to 2017, he was sent under government sponsorship and funding to Waseda University in Japan as a Visiting Researcher for one year. Since 2018, he has been an Assistant Researcher at the Institute of Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature of the School of Literature at Shandong University. Dr. Ding's primary research areas are Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature, and Drama-,Film- and Television- Culture. He has published many papers in CSSCI journals and at international and Chineseacademicconferences. He is the Associate Editor of Analysis of Classic Films in World Cinema, atextbook for a common elective course in Chinese colleges and universities. He was the recipient of a Tang LixinScholarship, and a Scholarship for Outstanding Doctoral Students of Zhejiang University. He was selected forZhejiang Province's Bureau of Journalism, Publication, and Radio and Television Broadcasting's "Project for Developing Outstanding Talent in Film, Television, Animation, and Cartoon Production inZhejiang". He also serves as a special critic and reviewer of drama for Zhejiang Daily.

Dr. Fu Xu was born in 1990, and hails from Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province. In 2013, she graduated from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of Sun Yat-Sen University with a BA degree. She obtained her Ph.D degree in Literature from the School of Literature of Nanjing University in 2018. Dr. Fu is currently a Research Associate at the Research Center for Literary and Artistic Aesthetics of Shandong University. Herprimary research interests are oriented toward the History of Chinese Literary Criticism, and the Literature of the Han,Wei, and Six Dynasties Period. Dr. Fu's published articles and papers include:

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Professor Liao Qun was born in July 1959in the city of Jinan, Shandong province, to a family whose ancestral home is in Hunan province. She matriculated at Shandong University in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature in 1977, andgraduated in January 1982 with a BA degree. Afterward, she stayed on as a teaching staff at her alma mater.Subsequently she completed her graduate studies at the same department, receiving her MA degree (specializing in the field of Ancient Chinese Literature) in July 1987 and her Ph.D. in Literature in 2004. During, as well as since, completing her graduate studies, Professor Liao has continued to be on the teaching faculty at Shandong University where she currently holds the rank of Professor in the School of Literature. She is a Dissertation Advisor for Ph.D students as well as a Thesis Advisor for MA students. Concurrently, she also serves asExecutive Vice-president of Shandong Association of Classical Literature Studies, and a member of the Executive Board of Directors ofboth the Chinese Academy of Shijing (Classic of Poetry) Studies and the Chinese Society of Qu Yuan Studies. Professor Liao has been engaged in teaching and research in the field of ancient Chinese literature for many years, focusing on the literature and trends in cultural development of Chinaduring the pre-Qin era and in the Qin and Han dynasties. She has authored the following monographs: Archaeological Studies of the Literature of the Pre-Qin Era and the Qin and Han Dynasties (selected for inclusion in The Library of Academic Achievements of the Chinese National Foundation for the Social Sciences); Research Studies of Pre-Qin Dynasty Texts that Were Derived Originally From Speech or Oral Sources(selected for inclusion in The Chinese Library of National Academic Achievements in Philosophy and the Social Sciences);The Shijing(Classic of Poetry)and Chinese Culture;Tracing the Footsteps of Ancient Chinese Myths and Legends; History of Chinese Aesthetic Culture (The Pre-Qin Volume);Archaeological Studies of the Shijing and the Lisao; Multi-Dimensional Studies of the Literature of the Pre-Qin Era and the Qin and Han Dynasties;Studies on the Genesis of Ancient Chinese Novels;A "Fun Reading" of the Writings of Han Feizi;A History of Chinese Literature of the Pre-Qin Era, and others. She served as the principal compiler and editor of The Archives of Scholarly Studies on the Yuefu [Poems Collected and Curated by the Imperial Bureau] of the Western and Eastern Han Dynasties. Professor Liao was also the chief editor of A Grand Compendium of the Confucian Cultural Legacy (The Life of Confucius volume.)Her major co-authored works include:The Pre-Qin volume in the multivolume anthology,The Spirit of Chinese Literature and Translations of the Confucian Classics(the Shijing [Classic of Poetry] volume). She was a contributing author and editor for the following works, among others: The Spirit of Traditional Chinese Culture; Yin-Yang Dualistic Thought and Chinese Aesthetic Culture; Interdisciplinary Studies in the Literature of Ancient China; Selected Works of Ancient Chinese Literature;A History of Chinese Literature; and Assorted Selected Lectures onthe Shijing and the Lisao. In addition, Professor Liao has published more than a hundred scholarly papers and articles in academic journals such as Literary Review, Studies in Literature and Art, Our Literary Legacy, and Wen-Shi-Zhe (A Journal of Literature, History and Philosophy).Many of these papers and articles have appeared, either in abstract or in full-text reprint, in the Xinhua Digest, the Chinese Social Sciences Digest, and the Digest of Traditional and Modern Chinese Literature and Digest of Chinese Philosophy (these latter two published by The People's University's Reprints of Newspaper and Periodical Materials.) For her academic accomplishments, Professor Liao has won aHighest Level of Excellence prize, and a Third Level of Excellence prize, conferred by the Chinese Ministry of Education for Excellence of Achievement in the Humanities and Social Sciences in Chinese Higher Education.She also won a Level-Two National Prize for Excellence in Teaching, and two "Major Achievements" prizes,as well as two Level-2 prizes and one Level-3 prize, for Outstanding Achievements in the Social Sciences in Shandong Province.She is a principal lecturer for the course "A History of Chinese Aesthetic Culture" that was selected as a Nation-wide "Name-Brand" Course and as a "Name-Brand" video open course for the public by the Ministry of Education. In recent years, she has independently undertaken two research projectssponsored by the National Foundation For the Social Sciences and one research project that received secondary funding from the National Foundation For the Social Sciences. In addition, she has undertaken a research project sponsored by the National Committee of Antiquities Studies in Higher Education, and a Keystone Research Project in Social Sciences Planning for Shandong Province, while also supervising two projects in Ancient Texts Restoration and Management for Shandong Province. She played a major participating member's role in two other research projects sponsored by projects sponsored by the National Foundation For the Social Sciences,and also took part, as a sub-project leader, in a major project of the Humanities and Social Sciences Base of the Ministry of Education, and in a major project of the National Foundation For the Social Sciences, the culminating product from which has been twice selected for inclusion in the "Archives of Academic Achievements" in National Social Sciences Planning.

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Professor Zheng Chun was born in Zibo xian, Shandong Province, in 1963, to a family whose ancestral home is in Mei xian, Guangdong Province, In1980, he was admitted to the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Shandong Universityand obtained a BA degree in 1984. Afterward, he continued to study at Shandong University, pursuing graduate studies at the master's and doctoral levels. He received his MA in 1998, and his Ph.D in Literature in 2002. Since graduating with the baccalaureate degree in 1984, he has stayed on to work as a member of the staff and faculty at his alma mater. He was appointed as Lecturer, then Associate Professor, and eventually Professor. He is currently a Professor in the School of Literature (formerly the Department of Chinese Language and Literature) of Shandong University, and serves also as a Dissertation Advisor for Ph.D students. In addition to his faculty position, Professor Zheng also serves as General Secretary of the Steering Committee for Chinese Language Teaching in Higher Education of the Ministry of Education. Professor Zheng's primary fields of research are: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature, and The Overseas Education Background of Modern Chinese Writers. Professor Zheng has authored and published two academic monographs: The Overseas Education Background of Writers and Modern Chinese Literature, (Shandong Education Press), and Spirit and Limitation: An Analysis of Polarity in Chinese Literature in the Twentieth Century, (Shandong University Press). He has also edited many volumes and collections, including: The Shandong Literature and Art Review Series(The Review of Poetry and Songs Volume), and A Collection of Commemorative Essays on the 110th Anniversary of the School of Literature of Shandong University. Professor Zheng has authored and published more than fifty scholarly papers and articles in various journals such as the Literary Review, Studies in Literature and Art,Miscellaneous Publications in Modern Chinese Literature, and Wen-Shi-Zhe (A Journal of Literature, History and Philosophy). In addition, Professor Zheng has published many articles in newspapers and periodicals such as Guangming Daily, China Reading Weekly, and Social Science Weekly. He has undertaken and completed one research project sponsored by the National Foundation for the Social Sciences, a Research Project in the Humanities and Social Sciences sponsored by the Ministry of Education, and another Key Research Project under the aegis of the Commission on Educational Reform in Higher Education in Shandong Province. For his academic achievements, Professor Zheng has received many awards, includinga Level-2 Prize for Outstanding Achievement in the Social Sciences in Shandong Province (2008)" and the Liu Xie Prize for Literary Criticism. Currently Professor Zheng is undertaking a research project sponsored by the National Foundation for the Social Sciences and another project under the aegis of the Shandong Provincial Commission for Social Sciences Planning.