Weigui Fang#
| Membership Number: | 5766 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CHINA |
| Homepage(s): | http://wxy.bnu.edu.cn/szdw/wyxyjs/200191.html |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-4133-5435 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2020 Chairman of the Academic Council of the Centre for Studies of Literary Theories, Beijing Normal University (BNU)
- Senior research fellow, Centre for Studies of Literary Theories, BNU
- 2020 Director of the Center for Literature and the History of Ideas at BNU
- 2006 ff. Distinguished Professor, School of Chinese Language and Literature., BNU
- 2002 Associate Professor, Chinese Studies, Univ. of Erlangen-Nürnberg
- 2001 Research Fellow, Dept. of Media Science/Dept. of Chinese, Trier Univ.
- 1998 Regular Guest Prof., China Center Hannover Univ.
- 1996 Research Fellow, Dept. of East Asian Studies, Göttingen Univ.
- 1992 Researcher, Chinese Dept., Trier Univ.
- 1981 Assistant Prof., Dept. of German, Shanghai International Studies Univ. (SISU)
Fields of Scholarship
- Modern Chinese culture and literature
- Sociology of literature
- International Sinology
- Comparative literature
- Comparative poetics
- Conceptual history
Honours and Awards
- Distinguished Professor, since 2006 (until now)
- Yangtze River Scholar. This is the highest possible academic award granted in China
- Expert obtaining special allowances from the State Council (Section Education)
