She is a professor of the School of Humanities of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, a PhD student supervisor, and the academic leader in ancient literature. She acts as a part-time professor of the Qilu Cultural Research Institute of Shandong Normal University, a key research base of the Ministry of Education. She is also a visiting professor of the Lin Siqi International Research Center of Simon Fraser University.  She received a master's degree in arts in Hangzhou University in 1997, and her doctorate in arts in Zhejiang University in 2003. After obtaining her post-doctorate in Suzhou University in 2005, she worked for the Department of Chinese of the School of Humanities, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. Since 2013, she has been working for the School of Humanities of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.  She serves as a vice president of the China Qin Guan Society, and an executive director of China Literary Geography Society.  She is mainly engaged in the studies of ancient Chinese literature, regional culture and literature, family literature and so on.  She has presided over and completed the National Social Science Fund project - Literati as Private Assistants and Literature in the Ming and Qing Dynasties (09BZW0033); the Humanities and Social Sciences planning project of the Ministry of Education - Literati as Private Assistants and Literary Ecology in the Qing Dynasty (08JA751028); the major subject of the Yue Culture Research Institute as a key research base of Zhejiang Province - Studies of Wu Xingzuo Shogunate Literature, and so on.  She is now taking charge of the following projects: the “Study of Basic Documents on Wang Shizhen’s Works”, a sub-subject of the major National Social Science Fund project - The Collation and Study of the Complete Works of Wang Shizhen (12& ZD159); The Study of the Belt and Road Cultural Strategies  (15JCZZ11), a liberal arts and science project of Shanghai Jiao Tong University; the “Study of Overseas Chinese in Canada in the Early Days”, a sub-subject of the national major project - The Chinese Canadian History Fund in cooperation with Simon Faisa University; The Cultural History of Aristocratic Families in Shaoxing, a major project of the Yue Culture Research Institute of Shaoxing University as a key research base of Zhejiang Province (SXW1501), and so on.  She has published more than ten scholarly monographs, such as Maritime Silk Road and the Literary World in Taicang in the Seventeenth Century (SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2016); Draft of the Chronology of Wu Xingzuo Shogunate Literature (China Social Sciences Press, 2013); Checking and Punctuating of the Collection of Li Liangnian’s Works (Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House, 2011), and so on.  She has also released more than 70 research papers, including Wuxingzuo Shogunate and the Circles of Quyi Performers in the Early Qing Dynasty (Literary Review, February 2014) and so on.

Maritime Silk Road and the Literary World in Taicang in the Seventeenth Century (SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2016)  
Maritime Silk Road and the Hu Zongxian Shogunate (China Social Sciences Press, 2016)  
Draft of the Chronology of Wu Xingzuo Shogunate Literature (with 450,000 words, China Social Sciences Press, 2013)  
Collection of Li Liangnian’s Works (checked and collated, Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House, 2011)  
Families and Literature in the Areas South of the Yangtze River in the Ming Dynasty – Taking the Gus and the Lus as a Case (with 270,000 words, Henan People's Publishing House, 2011)  

Wu Xingzuo Shogunate and Traditional Operas in the Early Qing Dynasty, Literary Review, February 2014.  
On the Poetry of Fang Wen as a Forerunner of the Tongcheng School, Journal of Anhui University, January 2014.  
Literati as Private Assistants and Traditional Operas in the Early Qing Dynasty - Speaking from the Traditional Opera Actor Wan Shu, Journal of Suzhou University, June 2013.  
View on Cultural Independence from the Poetic Circles in the Mid and Late Ming Dynasty, Lanzhou Journal, April 2016, reprinted in Issue 7 of Photocopied Materials of Newspapers and Periodicals of Renmin University of China in 2016.

Collection of Li Liangnian’s Works (collated, published by Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House in 2011) won the second prize for collating ancient books in East China in 2012.

She has presided over the following projects: the “Study of Basic Documents on Wang Shizhen’s Works”, a sub-subject of the major National Social Science project - The Collation and Study of the Complete Works of Wang Shizhen (12&ZD159);

the National Social Science Fund project - Literati as Private Assistants and Literature in the Ming and Qing Dynasties (09BZW0033), which was completed in 2014;  

the National Social Science Fund project - Literati as Private Assistants and Literature in the Ming and Qing Dynasties (09BZW0033), which was completed in 2014;  

the key social science project of Zhejiang Province - Studies of Wu Xingzuo Shogunate Literature (11JDYW02Z), which was completed in 2013;  

the project of the Qilu Cultural Research Center as a Humanities and Social Sciences base of the Ministry of Education - History of the Acceptance of Xin Jiaxuan in the Qing Dynasty, which was closed in 2005,  

and the research subject in Project 211 of the Ministry of Education - Studies of Family Literature in the Areas South of the Yangtze River in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, which was completed in 2011.

She has also participated in the following projects: the National Social Science Fund project - The Relationship between Culture and Clan Changes and Literary Development in the Areas South of the Yangtze River in the Qing Dynasty (03B2W031), which was finished in 2007;  the Humanities and Social Science Fund project of Jiangsu Province - Studies of the Yushan Poetry School in the Qing Dynasty, which was closed in 2005,  and the Humanities and Social Sciences research project of the Ministry of Education - Studies of the Huxiang Poetry School (06JA75011-44013), which was completed in 2009.