ZHANG Longxi holds an MA in English from Peking University and a PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard University. He had taught at Peking, Harvard, and the University of California, Riverside, and is currently Chair Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation at the City University of Hong Kong, and a Distinguished Professor at the Yenching Academy of Peking University. He was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities in 2009 and a foreign member of Academia Europaea in 2013. He is President of the International Comparative Literature Association for 2016-19. He serves as an Advisory Editor of New Literary History, and an Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of World Literature. He has published more than 20 books and numerous articles in both English and Chinese in East-West comparative studies.