Department of Chinese Language and Literature
Name:Zhang Zhongliang
Title:Distinguished Professor

Email:zhongliangz222@163.com

Research Expertise:Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature; Comparative Literature

Courses:Modern Chinese Novels; Left-wing Literature; May Fourth Literature and Anti-Japanese Literature to be offered

He was born in Harbin of Heilongjiang Province in 1955.  His pen name is Qin Gong. He graduated from Jilin University, Wuhan University, and the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (GSCASS) successively, receiving his doctorate in 1991.  From April 1991 to March 1992, he was sent by GSCASS to study in Japan, acting as a foreign researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo.  He served as Deputy Director of the Teaching Affairs Division of GSCASS, Director and Researcher of the Modern Literature Office of the Institute of Literature of CASS, and a member of the Academic Committee, of the Academic Degree Committee, and of the Professional Title Review Committee of the Institute of Literature.  

In 2013, he was engaged as a Distinguished Professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and currently, he is a member of the Academic Committee of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.  Concurrently, he holds the following academic posts on a part-time basis: the vice president of the Modern Chinese Literature Association, a member of the Editorial Board of Literature Review, a member of the Editorial Board of Modern Chinese Literature Studies, a member of the Editorial Board of Modern Chinese Literature in Taiwan, a member of the Academic Committee of Literature and Culture Studies of the Republic of China in Taiwan, and a chief editor of Studies on the Anti-Japanese War Culture (the other chief editor: Li Jianping).  

He has published more than ten individual monographs, such as Awakening and Struggling - Comparison of Chinese and Japanese Human Literature in the Twentieth Century; Narrative of Chinese Novels in the 1930s and 1940s; Translation Literature during the May 4th Movement of 1919; May 4th: New and Old; The Anti-Japanese War Literature and Front-line Battlefield; The Concept of Nation State and the Literature of the Republic of China, and so on. Four books coauthored by him and others are The History of Modern Chinese Essays; Illustrations of Chinese Literature in the Twentieth Century; The History of Development of Chinese Literature, and General History of Chinese Literature. His translation works include Disputes between People and Ghosts; Shame and Recovery, and so on.  

He has released more than 150 papers in such publications as Social Sciences in China, Literary Review, Foreign Literature Review, Japan Studies, The Journal of Studies of China's Resistance War Against Japan, Literature and Art Studies, Modern Chinese Literature Studies, Journal of Peking University, Modern Chinese Literature in Taiwan, Collected Papers of Nagoya University on Speech Culture (in Japanese) in Japan, and so on. He has also issued more than 170 critiques in People's Daily, Guangming Daily, Reading and other newspapers and periodicals.  Many of his articles have been reprinted in Xinhua Digest, Photocopied Materials of Newspapers and Periodicals of Renmin University of China, and so on.  

His representative works include On the Concept of Traditional Literature during the May Fourth Movement of 1919, published in Social Sciences in China in June 2001;

The Historical Significance and Contemporary Enlightenment of Sorting out Chinese Cultural Heritage, Literary Review, June 2001.  

The Nation-State Issue in Modern Chinese Literature, Literary Review, April 2014.  

Background and Origin of the “March of the Volunteers", Contention in Literature and Art, July 2015.  

 

 

 

    

He has released more than 170 essays and informal essays, and compiled Chinese Moral Integrity, Trap of Academic Fashion etc. into a book.