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CHEN Yongguo,Professor Vice Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Tsinghua University

  CHEN Yongguo is a professor of English and Vice Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Tsinghua University. He has years of experience teaching British and American literature, literary criticism, critical theory, and translation theory. He obtained his PhD degree in English literature from Beijing Normal University in 2000, and has published six monographs including The Escape of Theory, Cultural Political Hermeneutics: Jameson in Post- Modern Context, Joseph Heller, American Southern Culture, and has translated and edited about 40 books, including Radical Philosophy: The Alain Badiou Reader, Object of Philosophy: The Deleuze Reader, New Directions: a Reader of Comparative Literature and World Literature, History of World Literature. He has produced more than 60 academic articles on Chinese and international academic journals and has published 3 collections of poems. He has visited the University of Florida, Duke University, and Harvard University in the US, Cambridge University in Britain, and New South Wales University in Australia, doing literary, cultural, and philosophical research with professors at these universities.

HUANG Yusheng,Professor The Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Tsinghua University

  HUANG Yusheng is a professor and the Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Tsinghua University. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Xiamen University in 1987. He completed his master’s degree in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) in 1990, and was admitted as a member into the CASS Institute of Philosophy, working in the research office of contemporary foreign philosophy. In 1995 he received a PhD in philosophy from CASS. Huang’s main research fields are First Philosophy, German philosophy, philosophy of religion, political philosophy, and philosophy of law. He has published several books including Time and Eternity: On Time in Heidegger’s Philosophy, Truth and Freedom: An Ontological Explanation of Kantian Philosophy, and When Religion and Philosophy Encounter Each Other: A Study of the Christian Philosophy of Augustine and Thomas Aquinas.

PENG Gang,Professor

  PENG Gang is a professor of History, Tsinghua University, member of the Supervisory Committee of History Studies of Ministry of Education. He received his LL.B from Peking University, his MA from Tsinghua University, and his PhD in Philosophy from CASS. He researches and teaches in the eld of Western intellectual history and historical theory. He has been a visiting scholar to Harvard University, University of Cambridge, and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Peng was awarded “Tsinghua University New Scholars Award,” “Excellent Talent of the New Century,” and was one of “the 100 Leading Researchers of Social Science of Beijing.” He was awarded “the Best Teacher” and “the Best Course” of Tsinghua University in the 2015 and 2016 course evaluation, and won “the Excellent Teacher Award” in universities of Beijing.

WANG Zhongchen,Professor

  WANG Zhongchen is Professor of Comparative Literature in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Tsinghua University. His research focuses on East Asian modern literature and cultural history. His publications include Border Crossing and Imagination: Comparative Studies of Chinese and Japanese Literature in the 20th Century; Literary and Historical Narratives as Events; Studies on Mao Dun; Studies on Ding Ling; Studies on Japanese Literature; Comparative Culturology; and The History of Chinese Modern Literature.

LIU Shi,Professor

  LIU Shi is a professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Tsinghua University. He received his MA in the Literature of the Tang and Song Dynasties from Sichuan University in 1987, and his PhD in Classical Chinese Literature and Philology from Beijing Normal University in 1991. His research focuses on classical Chinese literature, philology, and Chinese literary history. He is also an editorial board member of Literary Heritage and Knowledge of Classical Literature. He has published several books including: Research on Su Shi’s Song Ci (Taiwan Wenjin Press,1992), Manuscript of Yougaolou ( Commercial Press, 2003), Sushi’s Song Ci ( People’s Literature Publishing House, 2005), Yougaolou II (Phoenix House, 2005), Annotations of Chinese Literature (Song and Jin Dynasties) (Zhonghua Book Company, 2007), Song Ci Appreciation Gradus (Zhonghua Book Company, 2011), Summary of the Catalogue of the Complete Library in the Four Branches of Literature (co-editor) (Shanghai Classics Publishing House, 2014-2016).

SHEN Weirong,Professor

  SHEN Weirong is Professor of History in the Advanced Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences and the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Tsinghua University. His specialties include philology and history of the Western Region, with particular focus on Tibetan histories and comparative studies of Tibetan Buddhism and Sino-Tibetan Buddhism. He received his BA and MA in history from Nanking University and his PhD in Central Asian Languages and Cultures from Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. He has had numerous research experiences in world-class institutes, including a joint research fellow in the Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies of Harvard University, deputy professor in the Department of Central Asian Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, overseas research fellow at the Graduate School of Letters at Kyoto University, visiting professor at the Institute of Historical Linguistics, Academia Sinica of Taiwan, research fellow of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study in 2012 and 2013 and research fellow of the Berlin Institute of Advanced Studies during 2014 and 2015. He was Professor of Chinese Classical Studies at Renmin University, former director of the Institute of Historical Linguistic Research of the Western Regions, and former director of the Center for Sino-Tibetan Buddhism Studies, Renmin University.
  His main publications include Philological Studies of Tibetan Buddhist History; Looking for Shangri-la; Imagining Tibet: Monks, Living Buddha, Lamas and Esoteric Buddhism in Cross-cultural Visions; Texts and History: Formation of the Historical Narratives of Tibetan Buddhism and Construction of the Sino-Tibetan Buddhist Study; and Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in the Western Regions and Central Plains: Preliminary Collection of Studies on Dacheng Yaodao Miji .

SUN Saiyin,Doctor

  SUN Saiyin is an assistant professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Tsinghua University. She received her BA degree in English from Nankai University and MEd from Manchester University in the UK. She then did an MPhil and PhD in Oriental Studies in Cambridge University (Trinity College) and continued to complete a post-doctorate research program after that. She has been teaching in Tsinghua since her return to China in 2010. Her research areas are comparative and modern Chinese literature, and she is the author of the book Beyond the Iron House: Lu Xun and the Modern Chinese Literary Field (2016 Routledge; 2014 Tsinghua University Press).

GAO Jin

  GAO Jin has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Tsinghua University since 2014. She received her BA in English literature from Peking University and MA from UCLA. She did her doctoral studies in comparative literature at Yale University (ABD). Her dissertation is a comparative study of discourses on the relationship of poetry and painting. Her published articles include “Greek Art in the British Museum” and she has translated contemporary Chinese writers such as Wang Anyi and Han Shaogong into English.

ZHOU Peng,Doctor

  ZHOU Peng, Associate Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Tsinghua University; Associate Investigator of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Macquarie University. A/P Zhou’s research interests are in the areas of linguistics and psycholinguistics. He has published 36 papers in international peer-reviewed journals or peer-reviewed books. He is now Associate Editor of the International Journal of English Linguistics, and is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. He has been invited to peer review papers for 17 international refereed journals. He has been a grant and proposal reviewer for the Australian Research Council, the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, the Czech Science Foundation, the US National Science Foundation, the Cambridge University Press, and the Springer. He has also been a chief investigator on a national grant of China and an Australian national grant.

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