Professor of the School of Liberal Arts at Renmin University of China (RUC), Former Vice-President of RUC (2008-2014), Vice-Director of the Academic Committee of RUC; Major research fields: Comparative Literature and World Literature, Western Literary Criticism, Religious Studies, Christianity; Selected works: China, Christianity and the Question of Culture (2014), Significance: the Public Problems of Contemporary Theology (2013), An Overview of Western Literary Criticism (co-author, 2013), On the Boundary between Literature and Theology (2012).