GUO Liandong, Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), PhD in literature, Fudan University. She was a visiting scholar in Purdue University and Queensland University of Technology. Her research interests are in overseas communication of Chinese modern and contemporary literature and culture and intercultural communication. She has published up to 20 academic articles in CSSCI journals, such as Academic Monthly, Contemporary Writers Review, Literature and Art Forum, Southern Cultural Forum and Fiction Reviews. She led projects funded by the National Social Science Fund of China and Innovation Program of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, also Cultural Specialized projects in Academic Humanities and Social Sciences SJTU. Liandong was the chief-in-charge of the English course of ‘Shanghai and Chinese Traditional Culture’, which was awarded with the title of one of the first model courses of teaching in English for overseas students in Shanghai higher education institutes. She was also the chief-in-charge for ‘Construction and Practice of Elective English Curriculum System of Chinese Culture for Overseas Students” which was the runner-up for 2015 Teaching Achievement Award, SJTU and also won other prizes, such as SJTU Education and Personnel Cultivation Prize, Teaching Competition for Young Teachers and Candle Light Prize.