1992        University of Minnesota, (Ph.D.)

1985        Fudan/Suzhou University, (MA)

1982        Jiangsu Teachers' College, (BA)

Literary theory
Comparative literature
Semiotics  

Publication List

Monographs (in Chinese)

The Sign-Character of Language, Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2000.  

Beyond Ontology - A Study in Marxist Theory of Meaning, Suzhou University Press, 1994 (reviewed by Yuan Yin in Social Sciences in China [1st Issue], 1996, pp. 199-201).

Articles in English  

 “Chinalizing the World: Intellectual Expansion through Selective Translation,” in Literary Research / Recherche Litteraire, Journal of the International Comparative Literature Association, Vol 18, no. 35, Spring-Summer, 2001, pp. 44-50. 

 “Imperfect Paradise: The Image of the US on Chinese TV,” in Images of the US around the World (Yahya R. Kamalipour ed.), State University of New York Press, 1999, pp. 221-28.

 “Chinese Ontological Realism,” in Encyclopedia of Semiotics (Paul Bouissac ed.), Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 116-18. (Refereed)

 “Global Consciousness and Praxis of Comparative Literature,” in Culture: Diversite et coexistence dans le dialogue Chine-Occident, Yilin Press, 1998, pp. 186-93.

“Philosophical Discourse of Postmodernity in the Chinese Context,” in New Literary History (Vol. 28), John Hopkins University Press, 1997 (Winter Issue), pp. 21-30. (Refereed)

“The Tale of the Impossible,” in Multicomparative Theory, Definitions, Relations, Council on National Literatures of USA, 1996 (December Issue), pp. 103-10.

“Reconstruction of Interpretive Rationality,” in New Perspectives, Department of Comparative Literature of HKU, 1995, pp. 132-54.  

Articles in Chinese  

“Global Consiousness and Praxis of Comparative Literature,” in Culture: Diversite et coexistence
dans le dialogue Chine-Occident, Nanjing University Press, 1999, pp. 198-210.

 “The Tale of the Impossible,” in Transmission of Culture and Literary Images (Yue Daiyun & Zhang Hui ed.), Peking University Press, 1999, pp. 27-33.

“Semiotics and Comparative Literature,” in Comparative Literature, (Chen Dun ed.)
 Chinese Higher Education Press, 1997, pp. 495-517

 “A Semiotic Interpretation of Northrop Frye's ‘Theory of Symbols,’” in Frye Study: China
and West (Wang Ning ed.), Chinese Social Sciences Publisher, 1996, pp. 140-48.

“The Study of Canon-formation from a Cross-cultural Perspective,” in Comparative Literature in China, 1996 (3rd Issue), pp. 23-34.

“Myth-making and its Socio-psychological Functions,” in Foreign Literatures, 1996 (2nd Issue), pp. 49-52.

 “The Specter of Kant,” in Art Theory and Criticism, 1994 (6th Issue), pp. 121-24.

“The Nature and Scope of Semiotics,” in Social Science Journal of Suzhou University, foreign language and literature series (Vol. 4), 1994, pp. 1-6.

"Peirce's Triadic Theory of the Sign,” in Academic Journal of Sichuan Foreign Languages Institute, 1994 (3rd Issue), pp. 10-14.

“The Aporias of Deconstruction,” in Foreign Literature Review, 1994 (3^rd Issue), pp. 40-48.

 “Text, Canon and Power,” in Literature in the Age of Cultural Pluralism (Yue Daiyun ed.), Hunan Art and Literature Publishing House, 1994, pp. 55-60.