Educational Background & Work Experience

When	Where	What on	What for
Mar.2022- Aug.2022	School of Modern Languages & Cultures, Durham University	On Oversea Dissemination of Classic Chinese Songs	Senior Visiting Scholar
Dec.2014-	School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University	“American Civilization” “American Literature”	Professor
Sep.2013-Aug.2014	Center of American Studies, Columbia University, NYC	“An Ethical Reading of Bernard Malamud”	Visiting Scholar
Feb.2007- Jul.2007	History of American Civilization, Harvard University, MA	A Panoramic History of American Civilization	Visiting Scholar
Sep.2003 Nov.2014	School of English, Shanghai Jiao Tong University	“American Culture” “American Literature”	Associate Professor
Sep.2001- Aug.2003	University of International Business & Economics (Beijing)	“Advanced English” “Introduction to American literature”	Associate Professor
Sep.1998- Aug.2001	China’s Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing)	American Civilization	Ph.D
Jul.1992- Aug.1998	Xi’an Foreign Languages University (Xi’an, Shaanxi)	Teaching reading, writing, listening, and speaking in English	Lecturer
Sep.1989- Jul.1992	Xi’an Foreign Languages University (Shaanxi)	British and American Literature	Master’s
Sep.1985- Jul.1989	Shanxi University (Taiyuan, Shanxi)	English Language and Literature	Bachelor’s

 

Awards:

2016: The Bernard Malamud Scholar by the Bernard Malamud Society (USA).

2015: A Distinguished Prize of "Excellent Textbook" by Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU).

2013: A Prize for Teaching by SJTU: "How to Teach a Course of Liberal Education: A Case Study of 'American Civilization'".

2011: A Distinguished Prize of "Excellent Textbook" by SJTU.

2011: A Prize of "Excellent Textbook for Colleges and Universities" by Shanghai Municipal Committee of Education.

2011: A Distinguished Prize of "Excellent Teacher" by SJTU.

2008: A Prize of “Excellent Teacher” by SJTU.

2006: A Prize of “Excellent Teacher” by “SJTU Alumni Association in Silicon Valley, USA”.

2000: A Second Prize for an article entitled “A Lonely Trip: On Blithedale Romance”, by Graduate School of the CASS, Beijing.

 

Teaching and Research

Academic Projects:

2025: A Key Fellowship by China’s National Program of Social Sciences for Translating Chinese Academic Classics (Beijing): A Intellectual History of Chinese Chan Buddhism (From Chinese into English).

2022: A National Project: The Idea of Cultural Community in American Jewish Literature《美国犹太文化共同体思想》. [This is a sub-project of the China’s National Grand Program of Social Sciences chaired by Professor An-feng SHENG (生安锋) of Tsinghua University: A Study on the Ideology of Cultural Community in American Ethnic Literatures《美国族裔文学中的文化共同体思想研究》]

2021: “e品e领” project, SJTU: Chanting and Chorusing of “Ode to Young China《少年中国说》朗诵及吟唱”

2017: A Shanghai Municipal Project for Key Courses: American Culture under the Historical Perspective.

2016: A Fellowship by China’s National Program of Social Sciences for Translating Chinese Academic Classics (Beijing): A History of Traditional Chinese Ethics (From Chinese into English).

2015: A Teaching Project for "Course Teaching in English", SJTU: American History under the Cultural Perspective.

2014: A Teaching Project by the Center of Teaching and Development, SJTU: How to Crack the Bottleneck of College English Education.

2011: A Fellowship by China’s National Program for Social Sciences (Beijing): An Ethical Reading of Bernard Malamud.

2010: A Prize for Teaching, SJTU: “Introduction to American Civilization”.

2010: A Fellowship for Originality in Social Sciences, SJTU: An Ethical Study of Bernard Malamud.

2008: A Key Project of National Planning for Publishing (Peking University): A Panoramic History of American Civilization for Colleges.

2007: A Fellowship by Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, New York: A Panoramic History of American Civilization for Colleges.

2007: A Fellowship for “985 Schools” Program, SJTU: 20th Century Jewish American Literature in the Cultural Horizon.

2005: A Textbook Fund Project by Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU): A Panoramic History of American Civilization for Colleges.

2003: Part of a Key Project of China’s Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing): “On Jewish American Citizenry” (One of the Chapters of On the American Citizenry).

 Publications:

2023: The Ethical Mystery of the Sphinx Riddle，Iris Online Journal of Arts and Social Sciences， https://irispublishers.com/iojass/fulltext/the-ethical-mystery-of-the-sphinx-riddle.ID.000501.php

2023: The Multi-perspectives of God’s Grace, Frontiers of Literary Theory (Vol. 26), Feb. 2023, pp.193-212.

2022: Book in Chinese, A Holistic Literary Criticism: Bernard Malamud’s Historical, Philosophical and Ethical Dimensions, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press.

2021: Book Translated into English, A Panoramic History of Traditional Chinese Ethics [Yi-ting ZHU (朱贻庭)]. Springer -Verlag, ISBN: 978-981-16-1252-7. （Introduction: ​ https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzAwNTA5MzM1MQ==&mid=2651305644&idx=1&sn=db7ce3b47404c324af52f0bcafe88bb7&chksm=80d2f424b7a57d32af83392d5ddbf9b766e7c3f9bd33528d588de4f471f49d7d130fcb9e8226&scene=27 ）

2020: Thesis, “How to Crack the Ethical Enigma of Sphinx?” in Shakespeare and Asia (Edited By Jonathan Locke Hart), Routledge.

2020 (Thesis): Imran, Muhammad, Yuee Chen, Wei Xiaofei, and Samina Akhtar. "Veiled courage: Inside the women’s resistance against violence through their writings." Asian Journal of Women's Studies 26, 2020, no. 3: 74-93. (Web of Science-SSCI) & Scopus Indexed

2019 (Book Review): Muhammad Imran & Xiaofei Matthew Wei, “A transition from empire to nation in Southern”, Postcolonial Studies, ISSN: 1368-8790 (Print) 1466-1888 (Online) Journal homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/cpcs20. (Web of Science-SSCI) & Scopus Indexed.

2019 (Book Review): Samina, Akhtar, and Wei Xiaofei. "The wind in my hair: my fight for freedom in modern Iran." British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 47, no. 3 (2019): 500-501. (Web of Science-SSCI) & Scopus Indexed.

2019 (Book Review): Muhammad Imran & Xiaofei Matthew Wei, “Faith and feminism in Pakistan: religious agency or secular autonomy?” Asian Journal of Women's Studies, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2019. DOI: 10.1080/12259276.2019.1602243. (Web of Science-SSCI) & Scopus Indexed.

2019 (Book Review): Muhammad Imran, Yuee CHEN, Wei Xiaofei, and Samina Akhtar. "A Critical Study of Coordinated Management of Meaning Theory: A Theory in Practitioners’ Hands." International Journal of English Linguistics 9, no. 5 (2019): 301-306. (Web of Science-SSCI) & Scopus Indexed

2019: Thesis, “The Paper-Moon Love of Blanche Dubois: an Enigmatic Issue in a Streetcar Named Desire”, Scientific Journal of Research & Reviews – SJRR. https://irispublishers.com/sjrr/pdf/SJRR.MS.ID.000510.pdf

2016: Thesis, “The Enigma of Pimp in Malamud’s Story”, British and American Literature Studies, (CSSCI)，2016.12.

2016: Thesis, “The Ethical Approach in Literary Criticism”, Journal of China's Social Sciences, 2016.8;

2014: Thesis, "The Apollonian and Dionysian Spirits in Bernard Malamud", Journal of China's Social Sciences, 2014.6;

2014: Thesis, "How to Crack the Bottleneck of China's College English Education", Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies, 2014.7;

2013: Book in English (Revised), A Panoramic History of American Civilization for Colleges. Beijing: Peking University Press;

2011: Thesis, "Wild Life and Weird Works: How to Interpret Philip Roth", Foreign Literature Studies, (A&HCI)，2011.6.

2011: Thesis, "The Sapped Grape of Language Poetry", Foreign Literature Studies, (A&HCI)，2011.6.

2011: Thesis, "Spinoza in I. B. Singer's The Estate", British and American Literature Studies, (CSSCI)，2011.5.

2010: Thesis, “A Modern Achilles: An Ethical Study of The Snail House and Winesburg, Ohio”, Journal of Graduate School of China Academy of Social Sciences.（CSSCI），2011.5;

2011: Book, A Panoramic History of American Civilization in Chinese. Beijing: Peking University Press;

2010: Thesis, “An Ethical Study of The Snail House and Winesburg, Ohio”, 2010 Collection of Shanghai Socio―Sciences Association. Shanghai People’s Press;

2009: Thesis, “The Modernity of Contemporary Jewish Americans”（CSSCI）, The Frontier of Thoughts;

2009: Book, The Jewishness in Jewish American Literature. Kunming: Guangxi Normal University Press;

2008: Book in English, A Panoramic History of American Civilization for Colleges. Beijing: Peking University Press;

2008: Thesis, “The I-Thou Complex of David Levinsky”. Teaching of Foreign Languages（CSSCI）. Xi’an: Xi’an Foreign Languages University;

2006: Thesis, “The Kindling in Noah's Ark”, Foreign Literature（CSSCI）. A paper presented at the conference of “Space, Politics, and Literature” hosted by the School of English in Anhui University;

2005: Thesis, “The Lost Paradise”, copied by Foreign Literature Study（CSSCI）which is sponsored by Renmin University Duplication Center. Beijing: Renmin University Press;

2005: Thesis, “On Jewish American Citizenry”, Book Chapter of the key project On the American Citizenry sponsored by American Studies Institute of China’s Academy of social Sciences. Beijing: China’s Academy of Social Sciences Press;

2005: Thesis, “The Lost Paradise”, Foreign Literature（CSSCI）. Beijing: Beijing Foreign Languages Institute;

2005: Thesis, “A Cultural Perspective of the Language Interface”, Language Interface. Shanghai: Fudan University Publishing House. Presentation at the international conference of “”Language Interface” hosted by the School of English of Fudan University;

2003-2004: Mini-Essays. “Hitch on the Star and Emerson”, “On Chiasmus”, “On Spoonerism”, “Metaphor & Metonymy”, “On Antimetabole”, “On Anaphora”, etc, all published in English for Science and Technology Learning (EST), sponsored by The School of English in Shanghai Jiao Tong University

2002: Thesis, “On the Assistant and ‘I-Thou’ Philosophy”, Foreign Literature（CSSCI）, Beijing Foreign Languages Institute

2002: Translated Book. Hope vs Reality: The History of Japan’s Striving for Permanent Membership of the Security Council in UN by Reinhard Drifte, translated in collaboration with Zengjie Gao and Yuee Chen (me ranking the second). Beijing: Oriental Publishing House

2002: Book. Young USA, in collaboration with Mansu Qian and Lily Liu (me ranking the second), Shanghai: Shanghai Literature & Arts Press

2002: Thesis, “A Lonely Trip: On Blithedale Romance”, UIBE School Journal, Publishing House of University of International Business and Economics (UIBE)

2002: Thesis, “The Impact of Romanticism on Language”, Northeast Normal University Journal, Changchun, Jilin Province

2001: Thesis, “Can English Become a World Language?” (Aug.), 21ste Century, Chinese Youth International Communication Center

2001: Thesis, “Meditation on the Language of English” (Jun.), 21ste Century, Chinese Youth International Communication Center

2001: Dissertation, “The Jewish Spirit in Jewish American Literature”, Ph.D Dissertation.

1996: Thesis, “Hardy and a Letter”, A Collection of Essays in English Academia. Xi'an Foreign Languages Institute.

1989: Thesis, “Three Determining Factors in Tess’s Destiny”, Master’s Thesis.