Position: Professor, Doctoral Supervisor

Email: 1318697949@qq.com

Research Areas

Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature, Comparative Literature, Children's Literature, Young Adult Literature, Film Studies, Creative Writing.

Courses Taught

History of Modern Chinese Literature; Selected Readings in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature; Modern Chinese Poetry Appreciation; Children's Literature and Film Appreciation; Children's Literature (in English); Young Adult Literature (in English); Comparative Studies of Chinese and Foreign Children's Literature; Genres in Modern Chinese Literature.

Education

• 1992–1996: B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature (Teacher Education), Nanjing Normal University
• 1999–2002: M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature, Nanjing Normal University
• 2004–2007: Ph.D. in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature, Nanjing Normal University

Academic and Research Appointments

• 1996–present: Faculty, School of Chinese Language and Literature, Nanjing Normal University, China
• 2010–2011: Postdoctoral visiting scholar, University of Cambridge (Faculty of Education)
• 2013 (Jun–Aug): Research Fellow, International Youth Library, Munich
• 2015 (Jun–Aug): Visiting Scholar, Macquarie University (Department of International Studies)
• 2018–2021: Visiting Scholar, Illinois State University (Department of English)
• 2026–: Adjunct Doctoral Supervisor, Macau University of Science and Technology (International College)

Professional Affiliations

• Vice President, Chinese Children's Literature Research Association (National First-Level Academic Society)
• Deputy Director, Chinese–Foreign Children's Literature Studies Committee, Chinese Comparative Literature Association
• Executive Deputy Director, Contemporary Children's Literature Creation and Research Center
• Director, Academic Committee of New Education Children's Library
• Jury Member: Hans Christian Andersen Award (2024, 2026); National Outstanding Children's Literature Award; Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Award; Feng Zikai Chinese Children's Picture Book Award.

Research Projects

• National Social Science Fund General Project – European and American Ethnic Chinese Children's Literature
• National Social Science Fund Arts Program – History of Chinese Children's Cinema
• National Social Science Fund Chinese Academic Translation Project – The River Chief System
• Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Science Fund Youth Project – Comparative Studies of Chinese and British Children's Literature
• Jiangsu Provincial Philosophy and Social Science Fund Project – Contemporary Children's Literature Trends
• Jiangsu Provincial Philosophy and Social Science Fund Project – Jiangsu Children's Literature Studies
• Jiangsu Provincial University Philosophy and Social Science Fund Project – Aesthetic Evolution of 20th-Century Chinese Children's Literature
• Sub-project Leader: National Social Science Fund Major Project "Centennial History of Chinese Children's Literature Scholarship" – Centennial History of Chinese-Foreign Children's Literature Academic Exchange
• Sub-project Leader: National Social Science Fund Major Project "Developmental History of Children's Literature in the Context of Centennial Chinese Literature" – Expansion of Children's Literature in the 1930s–1940s
• Sub-project Leader: National Social Science Fund Major Project "Genre-Specific History of Centennial Chinese Children's Literature" – Centennial History of Chinese Children's Drama
• Sub-project Leader: Ministry of Education Key Project "Interdisciplinary Studies of Chinese Children's Literature" – Comparative Studies of Chinese and Foreign Children's Literature
• Trauma and Healing: A Reading Guide to International Children's Literature on War (Industry-Sponsored Project)
• Graded Chinese Reading Proficiency Program for Primary School Students (Industry-Sponsored Project)

Major Academic Publications

Monographs

• Making the World Visible Again: Aesthetic and Emotional Education in Picturebooks (forthcoming, Hohai University Press)
• Roads and Winds: Western Overseas Chinese Children's Literature (forthcoming, Yangtze Children's Publishing House)
• Constructing the Homeland in Chinese Children's Literature (Hunan Children's Publishing House, 2026)
• Fields and Patterns: The New Landscape of Jiangsu Children's Literature (Nanjing University Press, 2022)
• Coordinates and Values: Chinese and Western Children's Literature Studies (21st Century Publishing House, 2020)
• Carving Childhood: A Historical Exploration of Chinese Children's Cinema (Haiyan Publishing House, 2020)
• The Poetic Quest on the Margins: Childhood Narratives in Modern China (People's Publishing House, 2013)

Edited Volumes

• Trauma and Healing: A Companion to Reading International Children's Books on War and Peace (Chinese edition, 21st Century Publishing House, 2026)
• Trauma and Healing: A Companion to Reading International Children's Books on War and Peace (English edition, 21st Century Publishing House, 2026)
• 21st-Century Foreign Children's Literature Theory Series (4 volumes, co-edited with Karen Coats, 21st Century Publishing House, 2026)
• Jiangsu New Literary History · Children's Literature (3 volumes, Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House, 2023)
• Blossoms in Full Bloom: Critical Essays on Huang Beijia's Children's Literature (Jiangsu Phoenix Juvenile and Children's Publishing House, 2023)
• Jiangsu New Literary History · Historical Materials on Children's Literature (3 volumes, Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House, 2025)

Translations

• The Bloomsbury Introduction to Children's and Young Adult Literature (21st Century Publishing House, 2026)
• Children Reading Pictures (co-translator, 21st Century Publishing House, 2026)
• The River Chief System (English translation, Springer Nature, forthcoming)
• A large number of English-language children's literature.

Selected Academic Papers

• "The Poetic Enlightenment and Organic Construction of Wei Ling's Girlhood Ecological Literature," Contemporary Writers Review, No.1, 2026
• "Rethinking Debates and Common-Sense Contestations in Modern Chinese Children's Literature – Starting from the 'Bird-Talk and Beast-Talk' Controversy," Southern Cultural Forum, No.3, 2025
• "East Asian Transnational Collaborative Picturebooks and the Construction of an Anti-War Community," Journal of World Chinese Literature Forum, No.3, 2025
• "Cross-Cultural Narratives in 21st-Century Children's Novels," Chinese Literary Criticism, No.2, 2024
• "Cultural Identity Construction in American Chinese Chinatown Childhood Narratives," Journal of Nanjing Normal University, No.1, 2023
• "Food Writing and Ethical Construction in North American Chinese Children's Literature," Qilu Journal, No.5, 2023
• "Can You Hear My Cry? Representing War and Trauma in Picturebooks for Peace from China, South Korea and Japan" (co-authored with Claudia Nelson), International Research in Children's Literature, Vol.15, No.1, February 2022 (A&HCI)
• "Limits and Directions of Children's Literature: Childhood Trauma Narratives of WWII Survivors," Jianghuai Tribune, No.6, 2022
• "The Heart Shaper: Restoring the Free-Breathing Childhood Ecology for Children," China Publishing Journal, No.17, 2022
• "Symbolic Meanings of Child Images in Chinese Science Fiction Films," Journal of School of Liberal Arts, Nanjing Normal University, No.4, 2022
• "Cross-Cultural and Multi-Dimensional Studies of Western Overseas Chinese Children's Literature," Journal of Southwest Minzu University, No.2, 2021
• "Symbiotic Cultural Landscapes: Retelling Chinese Folktales in Ed Young's Picture Books," Asian Children's Literature and Film in a Global Age: Local, National, and Transnational Trajectories, Palgrave MacMillan, 2020
• "War Narratives in Chinese Children's Films since the Reform and Opening-Up (1978–2018)," Hundred Schools in Arts, No.6, 2019
• "National Cultural Context and Symbiotic Aesthetics: Ed Young's Pictorial Retelling of Folktales," Journal of School of Liberal Arts, Nanjing Normal University, No.3, 2019
• "The Charm and Difficulty of Writing Magical Realist Fiction," China Book Review, No.1, 2019
• "Contemporary International Children's Literature Research Trends," Journal of Kunming University, No.4, 2019
• "Re-Examining 'The Sprout of Humanity': On the Profundity of Lu Xun's Views on Children," Jianghuai Tribune, No.1, 2018; reprinted in Renmin Copy Materials·Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature Studies, No.4, 2018
• "The Tension of Concealment and Ambiguity: Reinterpreting Peter Pan and the Paradoxical Aesthetics of Children's Literature," Journal of Southwest Minzu University, No.6, 2018
• "International Publishing of Chinese Children's Literature since the Reform and Opening-Up," China Publishing Journal, No.11, 2018
• "The Highlighted Life: The Humanistic Orientation of War Narration in Chinese Children's Films since the New Period," Southeast Asian Review of English, Vol.55, Issue 2, 2018
• "Light as A Bird, not A Feather: Science Picture Books from China and the USA," in John Stephens (ed.), The Routledge Companion to International Children's Literature, Routledge, 2018
• "Aesthetic Depth of British Young Adult War Novels," Journal of PLA University of Foreign Languages, No.6, 2017
• "Film Adaptation, Global Film Techniques, and Cross-Cultural Viewing" (co-authored with Sung-Ae Li and John Stephens), International Research in Children's Literature, Volume 1, 2017 (A&HCI)
• "Childhood Illumination after Purification," China Book Review, No.1, 2017
• "Differences in Cultural Fields and Shifts in Meaning," Journal of School of Liberal Arts, Nanjing Normal University, No.2, 2017
• "Looking Back to the Authentic Self: On Sun Weiwei's Childhood Narratives in Prose," Southern Cultural Forum, No.7, 2016
• "Childhood Is a River," China Publishing Journal, No.5, 2016
• "Running Toward the Vast World," Guangming Daily, May 30, 2016
• "Cross-Cultural Interweaving: Cultural Narratives in Cheng Wei's 'Chat' Series," Journal of World Chinese Literature Forum, No.4, 2016
• "Aesthetic Dimensions of Contemporary Science Picturebooks," Journal of Nanjing Normal University, No.2, 2015
• "The Nationalization Trajectory of Chinese Children's Literature and Arts in the Context of Globalization," Journal of East Asian Cultural Studies (Korea), No.63, November 2015 (Hanyang University)
• "Back to Basic Point and Seeking a Turning Point: The Multidimensional Construction of Adolescent Identity in American Realistic Novels for Young Adults," in Claudia Nelson (ed.), Representing Children in Chinese and U.S. Children's Literature, Routledge, 2014
• "Silence, Imagination, and Dialogue: Poetic Approaches to Modern Childhood Narratives," Jiangsu Social Sciences, No.6, 2014
• "Generational Symptoms in Cultural Revolution Childhood Narratives," Literary and Artistic Contention, No.6, 2013
• "Challenges in Identity Crisis: The Construction of Adolescent Subjectivity in Contemporary American Campus Novels," Contemporary Foreign Literature, No.3, 2013
• "Growth Crises amidst Noise and Turmoil: Humanistic Reflections on Cultural Revolution Childhood Narratives," Journal of Ocean University of China, No.5, 2013
• "Breakout and Bondage: The Nationalization of Chinese Picturebooks," in Åse Marie Ommundsen (ed.), Looking Out and Looking In: National Identity in Picturebooks of the New Millennium, Novus, 2013
• "Depictions of the Cultural Revolution in Chinese Juvenile Fiction," Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature, Vol.50, No.1, January 2012
• "'Indifferent' or 'Reverent'?" Contemporary Writers Review, No.6, 2012
• "Breakthrough and Constraints: The Nationalization Path of Chinese Picturebooks," Journal of Nanjing Normal University, No.2, 2012
• "A Comparative Study of Mother-Daughter Conflicts in Two Chinese and British Coming-of-Age Novels," Journal of School of Liberal Arts, Nanjing Normal University, No.1, 2012
• "Marginal Interpretations of Historical Suffering," Nanjing Social Sciences, No.2, 2010
• "Cultural Implications of Childhood Body Discourse in Women's Writing," Contemporary Writers Review, No.4, 2009
• "A Masterpiece of Refined 'Green Animation'," China Television, No.2, 2008
• "Identity Crisis Toward the Mother's Mirror: Mother-Daughter Relationships in Contemporary Women Writers' Childhood Narratives," Jianghuai Tribune, No.3, 2008
• "Enlightenment Thought and the Emergence of Modern Chinese Children's Literature," Nanjing Social Sciences, No.8, 2008
• "A Preliminary Study of the Artistic Development of Modern Chinese Children's Drama," Art Criticism, No.6, 2008
• "On the Establishment of Aesthetic Modernity in Chinese Children's Literature," Ningxia Social Sciences, No.2, 2007
• "An Appreciation of the Animated Series The Adventures of Little Carp," Drama Literature, No.11, 2007
• "Language Transformation in the Emergence Period of Modern Chinese Children's Literature," Journal of Nanjing Normal University, No.6, 2007
• "Aesthetic Innovations in the Animated Film Zhang Ga the Soldier Boy," Film Review, No.24, 2007
• "The Awkwardness of Foreign Models Applied in China," Sichuan Drama, No.1, 2006
• "Aesthetic Qualities of Late-Qing and Early-Republican 'Child' Literature," Journal of School of Liberal Arts, Nanjing Normal University, No.1, 2006
• "Dreamy Childhood: Love Across Time and Space," Drama Literature, No.11, 2006
• "Simplicity and Eeriness: On the Artistic Strategies of Little Red Flowers," Film Review, No.24, 2006
• "Aesthetic Predicaments in the Emergence Period of Modern Chinese Children's Literature," Journal of Nanjing Normal University, No.3, 2005
• "Creative Interpretations of Classic Texts," Drama Literature, No.11, 2005
• "The Cult of Childlike Innocence in May Fourth Literary Circles," Journal of Jiangxi Normal University, No.1, 2002; reprinted in Renmin Copy Materials·Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature Studies, No.5, 2002
• "Lu Xun and Eroshenko's Fairy Tales," Lu Xun Research Monthly, No.1, 2002
• "Review of Chinese Children's Literature and the Modernization Process," Modern Chinese Literature Studies, No.2, 2002
• "Comparative Studies of Xu Zhimo: A Review," Journal of Nanjing Normal University, No.2, 2001; reprinted in Renmin Copy Materials·Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature Studies, No.5, 2001
• "On Xu Zhimo's Hero Worship – With Remarks on the Hero Worship Craze in May Fourth Literary Circles," Journal of Xuzhou Normal University, No.3, 2001
• "A Century-Long Voyage in the Theoretical River of Chinese Children's Literature," China Book Review, No.6, 2001
• "On the Sentimental Emotions in the Poetry of Rongzi and Shu Ting," Journal of World Chinese Literature Forum, No.3, 2000
• "The 'Child' in Misty Poetry," Journal of School of Liberal Arts, Nanjing Normal University, No.3, 2000

Creative Works

• Under the Loquat Tree (novel, Haiyan Publishing House, 2025)
• Guardian Angel (novel, Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House, 2020)
• Cambridge Rainbow: Open (prose collection, co-authored with Sun Qingyue, Tsinghua University Press, 2015)
• Cambridge Rainbow: Broad (prose collection, co-authored with Sun Qingyue, Tsinghua University Press, 2015)
• The Seed of Learning (novel, Writers Publishing House, 2003)
• " THE CHERISHED TALES COLLECTION" picture book series: Grandpa's Treasure Horse, Grandma's Tick-Tock, I Will Be with You, Stich by Stich (Hohai University Press, 2025)

——English version () published by Royal Collins Publishing Group Inc, Canada, 2025

• " The Lantern Bearers" picture book series: The Light of Truth: The Story of Iris Chang, The Light of Education: The Story of Wu Yifang, The Light of Compassion: The Story of Minnie Vautrin (Hohai University Press, 2025)_

——English version (The Winter Plum: How Wu Yifang Became the First Woman to Sign the UN Charter, The Sheltering Tree: How Minnie Vautrin Saved over 10,000 Lives in Wartime China, The Iris Blooms: How Iris Chang Revealed the Truth About the Nanjing Massacre ) published by Royal Collins Group Inc, Canada, 2025

·"Towards the Distance" picture book series (Hohai University Press, 2026).

Awards and Honors

• Second Prize, 17th Jiangsu Provincial Philosophy and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievement Award (for Coordinates and Values: Chinese and Western Children's Literature Studies, 2022)
• First Prize, 7th Jiangsu Literary Criticism Award (for Fields and Patterns: The New Landscape of Jiangsu Children's Literature, 2022)
• First Prize, 12th Jiangsu Social Sciences Federation Academic Conference (for the paper "War Narratives in Chinese Children's Films since the Reform and Opening-Up (1978–2018)," 2019)
• Zijin Mountain Literature Award (for the novel Guardian Angel, 2023)
• Bing Xin Book Award (for the novel Under the Loquat Tree, 2025)
• "Laureate Children's Book" Award (for Under the Loquat Tree, 2025)
• Nanjing Normal University "Lide Shuren" Teaching Excellence Award, 2026