YAO Shen, born in Huzhou, Jiangsu Province, PRC, is currently Distinguished Professor at Shanghai Normal University. He previously served as journal proprietor and Editor-in-Chief of the China University Academic Abstracts (CUUA) buttressed by China’s Ministry of Education, Co-Editor-in-Chief of Cowrie: A Journal of Comparative Literature and Culture, and Director of the Institute of Regional Studies at Shanghai Normal University. He was also Adjunct Professor at the College of Humanities and Communications, Shanghai Normal University, and graduate advisor at the university’s Research Center for Comparative Literature and World Literature, a Ministry of Education designated National Key Research Center.
His academic positions and social appointments include but are not limited to:
1) The Ministry of Education designated Distinguished Evaluation Expert of China University Philosophy and Social Sciences Reputed Journal Project; the project’s Interim Evaluation Expert at Peking University, Renmin University of China, Fudan University, and Nanjing University; Evaluation Expert of Humanities and Social Sciences Projects funded by The Ministry of Education.
2) Advisor to the Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences Evaluation, Renmin University of China; Editorial Board Member of and advisor to scholarly journals including Research of Chinese Literature at Fudan University, Journal of Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), and several others; Vice President of the Society of China University Journals in Humanities and Social Sciences, a National First Class Society; council member of the Chinese Comparative Literature Association (CCLA) and the Shanghai Comparative Literature Association (SCLA); and distinguished professor, visiting professor, adjunct professor at various universities in China.
He has published dozens of academic articles including “Measuring and Choosing: On Interdisciplinary Studies in the Transformation of Social Sciences,” “A Study of the Origin of the Chinese Culture: New Problems and Visions,” “A Decennium of Comparative Literature in China,” and “‘Literary Myths’ of the Postcolonial Times: Non-native Language Writing and Its Significance,” etc. He has also published as many as 10 academic monographs and reference books, such as The Origin of the Chinese Culture (co-edited), East Asia: Economic, Political and Cultural Interpretations, Academic Research in China: 1984—2014 (Volume on Humanities and Volume on Social Sciences), Dictionary of Confucius (co-edited), Syllabus for Foreign Literature Teaching (co-edited), and so forth.
