Longxi Zhang - Biography#

Zhang Longxi holds an MA in English from Peking University 1981 and a Ph. D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University in 1989, and has taught at Peking, Harvard, and the University of California, Riverside, before moving to Hong Kong in 1998. He is currently Chair Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation at the City University of Hong Kong. He has published widely in English and Chinese on East-West comparative studies and was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities in 2009. He was invited to be an Advisory Editor of New Literary History in the US in 2010.