Professor Zhang Xuejun, born in January 1954, has a Ph.D degree in bet365 games best slots. He currently holds the rank of Professor in the School of bet365 games best slots at Shandong University, and is a Dissertation Advisor for Ph.D students. He is President of the Shandong Provincial Association of Contemporary bet365 games best slots Studies, a member of the Chinese Writers Association, and a Director of the Chinese Association For Research in Contemporary bet365 games best slots. In 1978, he was admitted to the Department of Chinese Language and bet365 games best slots atShandong Normal University. In 1983, he was admitted to the graduate program in the Department ofChinese Language and bet365 games best slots of Shandong University, working toward an MA degree in the field of Modern Chinese bet365 games best slots, with a focus on Lu Xun Studies, under the tutelage and mentoring of Mr. Sun Changxi, who was his Thesis Advisor. After graduating in 1986, he stayed on at Shandong University as a member of the teaching staff in the area ofContemporary Chinese bet365 games best slots. He was promoted to the rank of Professor in 2000, and received his Ph.Din bet365 games best slots in 2002. In 2004, in the second year of the program, Professor Zhang was acclaimed as a Master Teacher at Shandong University.
Professor Zhang is primarily engaged in the teaching and research of modern and contemporary Chinese bet365 games best slots. He has authored and published a number of scholarly monographs, including: A History of the Various Schools and Branches of Writing in Chinese Contemporary Novels, Lu Xun’s Art of Satire, Ba Jin and Reading, Modernism in Contemporary Chinese Novels, Emotion in bet365 games best slots, and An Exploration of the Art of Contemporary Chinese bet365 games best slots. Professor Zhang has also taken part in authoring ten other monographs and has authored and published more than 120 academic articles and reviews in such publications as Literary Review, Wen-Shi-Zhe (A Journal of bet365 games best slots, History and Philosophy), and Miscellaneous Publications ofStudies in Modern Chinese bet365 games best slots. He has won more than a dozen prizes and incentive awards for his research endeavors, such as the Prize for Outstanding Achievement in the Social Sciences in Shandong Province, the Liu Xie Prize for Literary Criticism, the Qilu bet365 games best slots Award and the Prize for OutstandingAchievement in Researchin Higher Education in Shandong Province. He is currently undertaking the research project "A Study of Narratology in Mo Yan's Novels" sponsored by the National Foundation for the Social Sciences.
A catalog of works authored by Professor Zhang Xuejun
Monographs:
A History of the Various Schools and Branches of Writing in Chinese Contemporary Novels, Shandong University Press, 1st edition, 1996; 2nd edition, 2000; 3rd edition, 2007
Modernism in Contemporary Chinese Novels, Shandong University Press, 2005
An Exploration of the Art of Contemporary Chinese bet365 games best slots, People's bet365 games best slots Press, 2010
Emotion in bet365 games best slots,Shandong Friendship Publishing House, 2008
Ba Jin and Reading, Tomorrow Publishing House, 1999
Lu Xun’s Art of Satire, Shandong University Press, 1994
Works in whose writing or editing Professor Zhang has participated:
Five Hundred Topics in Modern and Contemporary Chinese bet365 games best slots, Shandong Education Press, 2007, (Role: Associate Chief Editor)
The Spirit of Contemporary Chinese bet365 games best slots, Shandong Education Press, 2003, (Role: Contributing 90,000 words)
Studies of Full-Length Novels That Focus on the Subject of Reform and Open-Up Policy in the New Period, Shandong University Press, 2000, (Role: Contributing 45,000 words)
In addition, Professor Zhang also contributed toward A History of Chinese bet365 games best slots in the Twentieth Century, Mo Yan: An Eccentric Genius, On Schools and Branches of Thought in Chinese Novels in the New Era, Biographies of Chinese and Foreign Thinkers in Aesthetic Education, An Appreciative Reading of Masterpieces in Chinese Epistolary Writings in the Modern Era, A Glossary of Chinese bet365 games best slots, A Glossary of The Works of Contemporary Chinese bet365 games best slots.
Papers and articles:
“[Jorge Luis] Borges and Contemporary Avant-garde Novelsin China”, Literary Review, No. 6, 2004. This article has been translated into English, and included in Frontiers of Literary Studies in China
“A Survey Study of the Degree to Which Literary Works For Which the Mao Dun Literary Prize Has Been Won Are Accepted and Appreciated By the Reading Public”,Miscellaneous Publications ofStudies in Modern Chinese bet365 games best slots, No. 8, 2012
“Multilayered Texts and Image Narratives”, A Journal of Discourses From Taishan, No. 1, 2016
“The Judgment of the Soul in Repeated Narrative”, Review of Contemporary Writers, No. 1, 2017
“Existential Explorer”, Contending Voices in bet365 games best slots and Art, No. 4, 2010
“A Survey Study of the State of Appreciation for the Writings of Mo Yan on the Part of Today’s College and University Students”,Contending Voices in bet365 games best slots and Art, No. 2, 2014
“Humanistic Concerns in Novels Revolving Around the Subject of Mining Catastrophe”, Reviews of Works of Fiction, No. 2, 2007
“Artistic Transformation in the bet365 games best slots of the New Era”,Contending Voices in bet365 games best slots and Art, No. 2, 2009
“The Spiritual Journey of Those Who Seek”, Appreciating Masterpieces of Writing, No. 5, 2009
“The Theory of Creativity in Luo Weizhang’sMid-length Novels”,Contending Voices in bet365 games best slots and Art, No.6, 2008
“The New Century: What Was Avant-garde Is Coming Back Again”, Contending Voices in bet365 games best slots and Art, No. 6, 2007
“Mr. Sun Changxi's Achievements in Studying Lu Xun and Modern bet365 games best slots", Wen-Shi-Zhe (A Journal of bet365 games best slots, History and Philosophy), No. 5, 2011
“The Narrative Form in Avant-garde Writing”, Wen-Shi-Zhe (A Journal of bet365 games best slots, History and Philosophy), No. 3, 2003
“Symbols and Fables in Contemporary Chinese Novels”, Journal of Theoretical Studies, No. 5, 2005
“The Fate of Modernism in China”, A Journal of Discourses From Taishan, No. 5, 2005
“Psychological and Philosophical Implications of Modernist Novelsin Taiwan”, Social Sciences in Shandong, No. 4, 2005
“The Narrative Trap in Can Xue’sNovels”, The Contemporary Literary World, No.6, 2004
“The Poignant cri de coeur of the Soul in Agony”, Academic Journal of Shandong University, No. 5, 2005
“Artistic Creation that Has Been ‘Nationalized’”,Journal of Theoretical Studies, No. 6, 2006
“The Consciousness of the Absurd in Contemporary Novels”, Academic Journal of Shandong University, No. 5, 2003
“A Brief Discussion of Lu Xun’sThought on Aesthetic Education”, Journal of Theoretical Studies, No. 5, 2001
“From Mainstream Narrative to Feminist Texts”, Social Sciences in Shandong, No.6, 2003
“A Commentary on Zhang Hua's The Evolution of Popular Novelsin Modern China”, Social Sciences in Shandong, No.1, 2001
“The Logical Trajectory of Literary Development in the New Era”, Journal of Theoretical Studies, No.7, 1999
“A Summary of the Seminar on FiftyYears of bet365 games best slots in the New China”, Wen-Shi-Zhe (A Journal of bet365 games best slots, History and Philosophy), No. 2, 1999
“Long stretches the road between the living and the dead; Tender the heart grieving with bereavement’s sorrow”,Lu XunStudies Monthly, No. 1, 1999
“Pioneering Works in Studies of bet365 games best slots in Translation in the Modern Period”,Social Sciences in Shandong, No. 9, 1999
“The Historical Evolution of Modernist Novels in the New Era”,Wen-Shi-Zhe (A Journal of bet365 games best slots, History and Philosophy), No. 2, 1997
“The Aesthetic Character of the ‘Novels of the Urban Marketplace’ in the New Era”,Qilu Academic Journal, No.1, 1997
“The Disintegration of Form and the Reconstruction of Meaning”, Reviews of Works of Fiction,No.3, 2016
“Tales of Romance and Adventure About the Ways of the World in The Garrison of Tianjin in the Olden Days”, Popular bet365 games best slots Review, No. 3, 1996
“The Historical Evolution of Humanity as A Central Theme of bet365 games best slots”, The Contemporary Literary World, No. 1, 1995
“Aesthetic Pursuit in ‘Looking for One’s Roots’ Novels”, Wen-Shi-Zhe (A Journal of bet365 games best slots, History and Philosophy), No. 2, 1994
“A Re-evaluation of the ‘New Realism’ Novels”, Academic Journal of Shandong University, No. 2, 1996
“The Characteristics of Regional Culture in the ‘Looking for One’s Roots’ bet365 games best slots”, Academic Journal of Shandong University, No. 3, 1994
"Mo Yan's Novels and Western Modernist bet365 games best slots", Qilu Academic Journal, No. 4, 1992
“On the Phenomenon of Novels Increasingly Turning into Prose Essays in the New Era”, The Contemporary Literary World, No. 2, 1992
“Tears and Smiles for One Who Departs From the World Prematurely, in His Prime”, Wen-Shi-Zhe (A Journal of bet365 games best slots, History and Philosophy), No. 1, 1991 “Is Realism Romanticism or Classicism?”Academic Journal of Shandong University, No.1, 1991
“A Summary of the Seminar on Forty Years of Contemporary bet365 games best slots in China”,Wen-Shi-Zhe (A Journal of bet365 games best slots, History and Philosophy),No. 1, 1990
“A Few Points of Reflection on the ‘Looking for One’s Roots’ bet365 games best slots”, Social Sciences in Shandong, No. 1, 1988
“From Classicism to Realism”, Wen-Shi-Zhe (A Journal of bet365 games best slots, History and Philosophy), No. 6, 1987
“To Attain the Ends of Democracy, One May Need to Employ Non-democratic Means”, Academic Journal of Shandong University No. 4, 1987
“A New Crop in Mao Dun Studies”, Qilu Academic Journal, No. 3, 1986
Awards and Prizes:
· A Level-2 Prize for Outstanding Achievement in the Social Sciences in Shandong Province, in 2006, for “[Jorge Luis] Borges and Contemporary Avant-garde Novelsin China” (1/1)
· A Level-3 Prize for Outstanding Achievement in the Social Sciences in Shandong Province, in 2012, for An Exploration of the Art of Contemporary Chinese bet365 games best slots(1/1)
· A Level-3 Prize for Outstanding Achievement in the Social Sciences in Shandong Province, in 2009, for“The New Century: What Was Avant-garde Is Coming Back Again” (1/1)
· A Level-3 Prize for Outstanding Achievement in the Social Sciences in Shandong Province, in 2007, forModernism in Contemporary Chinese Novels (1/1)
· A Level-3 Prize for Outstanding Achievement in the Social Sciences in Shandong Province, in 1998, forA History of the Various Schools and Branches of Writing in Chinese Contemporary Novels (1/1)
· A Level-3 Prize for Outstanding Achievement in the Social Sciences in Shandong Province, in 1995, forLu Xun’s Art of Satire(1/1)
· The Liu Xie Prize for Literary Criticismin Shandong Province, in 2011, for “The Theory of Creativity in Luo Weizhang'sMid-length Novels”(1/1)
· The Liu Xie Prize for Literary Criticismin Shandong Province, in 2002, for “Rising From Writing from Shallow Desire” (1/1)
· The Qilu bet365 games best slots Award, (Prize for Outstanding Literary Criticism [Theory] in Shandong Province), in 2005, for “[Jorges Luis] Borges and Contemporary Avant-garde Novelsin China” (1/1)
· A Level-2 Prize for OutstandingAchievement in Researchin Higher Education in Shandong Province, in 2001, for Studies of Full-Length Novels That Focus on the Subject of Reform and Open-Up Policy in the New Period(3/4)
· A Level-3 Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Research in Higher Education in Shandong Province, in 2006, for Modernism in Contemporary Chinese Novels (1/1)