Professor Ma Longqian, born in July 1945, is from Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. He graduated from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of Shandong Universityin 1982, and holds an MA degree in Literature. He is currently a Professor at the School of Literature of Shandong University, a Dissertation Advisor for PhD students, the academic leader in the area of Basic Aesthetics and Literary Aesthetics of the academic discipline of Literature and Art at Shandong University, a National Key Academic Discipline, and Associate Director of the Research Center for Literary and Artistic Aesthetics of Shandong University, a Key Research Base of the Ministry of Educationin the Humanities and Social Sciences. Professor Ma is an expert who enjoys special government subsidies from the State Council. In addition to his academic positions at Shandong University, Professor Ma is also a member of the Chinese Writers Association, a Director of the Chinese Socialist Literary Association, and aVice President of the National Association for Research in Mao Zedong’s Thought on  Literature and Art. Professor Ma is primarily engaged in the teaching and research of the foundational theories in philosophical aesthetics and literary aesthetics, Marxist aesthetics and literary theory, Chinese-Western comparative aesthetics, and contemporary literary criticism. He has published many academic monographs such as Introduction to Practical Construction Aesthetics, Introduction to Contemporary Aesthetic Concepts in Literature and Art, Concept and System Architecture of Subjective and ObjectiveConstructionist Scholarship in Literature and Art, as well as more than a hundred academic articles and scholarly papers. For his research publications and writings Professor Ma has won prizes and awards for Outstanding Achievement in the Social Sciences in Shandong Province many times, the Liu XiePrizefor Literary Criticism in Shandong Province, and the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research in Institutions of Higher Education in Shandong Province.

Professor Ma offers many courses in the curriculum of the School of Literature at Shandong University, including:

For Undergraduate students:

· “Introduction to Literature”

· “Introduction to Aesthetics”

· “Aesthetics in Literature and Art”

· “Special Topics in Marxist Aesthetics”

For MA students:

· “Methods in the Humanistic Sciences”

· “Special Topics in Aesthetic Theory”

· “Special Topics in Literary Theory”

· “History of Chinese Aesthetics”

· “History of Western Philosophy”

For Ph.D students:

· “Foundational Theory in the Study of Literature and Art and in Aesthetics”

· “Methodology and Theoretical System in Aesthetics and the Study of Literature and Art”

· “Research in Chinese Aesthetics”

· “Research in Western Marxist Literary Theory”

· “Comparative Study of Chinese and Western Aesthetics”

Since 2000, Professor Ma’s research production has included the publication of the following monographs and articles/papers:

1. Introduction to Contemporary Aesthetic Concepts in Literature and Art, Shandong University Press, 2000, 250,000 characters, sole author

2. A Comprehensive Review of Cutting-Edge Theories In Literature and Art, Shandong University Press, 2001, 350,000 characters, Editor-in-Chief

3. The Knowledge Economy and Aesthetic Education, Henan People's Press, 2004, 230,000 characters, principal author

4. Methodological Consciousness and Problematization Consciousness,Shandong University Press, 2006, 310,000 characters, sole author

5. “Reflections on the Essence of Aesthetic Education Progressing Toward an Age of Knowledge Economy”, Social Sciences in Shandong, January2000, 12,000 characters, sole author, Category B

6. “Our Understanding of the Philosophical Foundations of the Theoretical System of Contemporary Literature”, The Social SciencesFront, February2000. 5000 characters, sole author, Category B

7. “On the Dual-Subject Structure Characteristic of Literature and Art”, Wen-Shi-Zhe (A Journal of Literature, History and Philosophy), June2003, 8,000 characters, sole author, Category A

8. “On the Beauty-in-Harmony Idea in the Amalgamation of the Philosophy of the Yijing, Confucianism and Daoism in Ancient China”, Research in the Zhou Classic of Change, May2003, 10,000 characters, sole author, Category B

9. “Methodology in Aestheticsand A Perspective on The Ontological Essence of Art”, Academic Journal of Shandong University (Philosophy and the Social Sciences edition), April2002, 10,000 characters, sole author, Category B

10. “A Discussion in Writing on Settling the Issue of the Status of the Academic Discipline of Aesthetic Studies in Literature and Art”, Chinese and Foreign Culture and Literary Theory, April2002, 4,000 characters, sole author, Category B

11. “Progressing From theInterpretation of the Other to Subjective Interpretation”, Eastern Serial Periodicals,vol. 4, September2002, 8,000 characters, principal author, Category B

12. “The Amalgamation Between Confucian and Daoist Thought and the Beauty-in-Harmony Idea in Ancient China”, Confucian Culture (Inaugural Issue), March 2001, 12,000 characters, sole author, Overseas Category

13. “A Discussion of the Essentials in theConcept of ‘Moderation/Harmony’ in Confucian Thought and Its Theoretical Model of ‘Moderation-Restraint-Harmony’”,Confucian Culture (issue no. 2), October, 2002, 10,000 characters, principal author,Overseas Category

14. “On the Essence of Aesthetic Education in the Era of the Knowledge Economy”, Contemporary Education, August, 2002, 12,000 characters, sole author,Overseas Category

15.  “Photographic Literature: Multi-layerComposite Structures of Beauty and Aesthetics”, Wenyibao,July2001, 4,000 characters, sole author

16. “On the State of Composite ArtisticStructure of Photographic Literature”, Wenyibao,November 2001, 7,000 characters, sole author

17.  “Reconsidering the Relationship between Literature and Art”, Wenyibao,December 2001, 5,000 characters, sole author

18. “Online Novels: A Resplendent Emerging Genre”, China Reading News, February 2002, 6,000 characters, sole author

19. “Into the World of Original Online Literature”, China Reading News, April 2002, 6,000 characters, sole author

20. “Original Online Literature in the New Century”, China Reading News, July 2002, 6,000 characters, sole author

21. “Literary Criticism that Comes Close to Reality”, Wenyibao,July 2003, 3,000 characters, sole author

22. “The Origins and Formation of the Composite Structure of Aestheticsof Photographic Literature”, Chinese Art News, February 2003.2, 6,000 characters, sole author

23. “A Perception of the Essential Characteristics of Contemporary Literature and Art From the Perspective of Comparing Literature and Art From Different Historical Conditions and Contexts”, Marxist Aesthetics Studies, March 2003, 10,000 characters, sole author

24.  “Methodological Consciousness and Problematization Consciousness”, Social Sciences in Gansu, April 2002, 5,000 characters, sole author, Category B

25.  “What is Literary Aesthetics?”, Literary Aesthetics Studies, (vol. 1), June 2002.6, 4,000 characters, sole author

26. “On the Aesthetic Characteristics of the Art of Music”, Humanistic Writings, (vol. 5), August 2002, 10,000 characters, principal author

27. “Online Novels: A Resplendent Emerging Genre”, Major Developments on the Literary Scene in China in 2002, January 2003, 6,000 characters, sole author

28. “A Contemporary Interpretation of Mao Zedong's Theory of the Essence of Literature and Art”, Studies in Mao Zedong's Thought on Literature and Art, (vol. 13), July 2003, 10,000 characters, sole author

29. “Online Literature: From Conversion to Originality”, Policy, March 2003, 4,000 characters, sole author

30. “A Historical Reflection on the Study of the Essential Nature of Literature and Art”, Literary Aesthetics Studies, August 2003, 10,000 characters, sole author

31.  “Concepts of Aesthetic Education Progressing Toward an Age of Knowledge Economy”, The Center for China-Western Exchange and Dialogue: On Aesthetics and Artistic Education, October 2003, 10,000 characters, sole author

32. “On the Aesthetic Characteristics in the Art of Painting”,Humanistic Writings, September 2003, 10,000 characters, sole author

33. “About Another Kind of Academic Corruption”, Social SciencesWeekly, September 2003, 3,000 characters, sole author

34. “Photographic Literature: Multi-layerComposite Structures of Beauty and Aesthetics”, Photographic Literature Anthology, January 2003, 4,000 characters, sole author

35. “The State of Composite ArtisticStructure of Photographic Literature”, Photographic Literature Anthology,January 2003, 7,000 characters, sole author

36. “On the Aesthetic Characteristics of the Art of Dance”,Literary Aesthetics Studies, December 2003, 10,000 characters, sole author

37. “A Brief Account of Studies in Marxist Aesthetics”, China Aesthetics Yearbook, December 2003, 10,000 characters, sole author

38. “With the People as the Principal Subject: Marxist Literary Theory with Chinese Characteristics”, Literary Review, February 2004, 5,000 characters, principal author, Category A

39. “Technical Rationality and the Humanistic Spirit of Literature”, in both Xinhua Digest, (no. 19, 2004,) and Wenyibao,July 31, 2004, 5,000 characters, principal author, Category A

40. “Historical Materialism and the Construction of the Study of Literature and Artin Contemporary China”,Academic Journal of the Social Sciences of Jilin University, January 2004, 4000 characters, principal author, Category B

41. “Ma Yifu's Inheritance of, and Development of,Traditional Thought in Confucian Poetics”, Eastern Serial Periodicals,April 2004, 10,000 characters, principal author, Category B

42. “A Comparison of Chinese and Western Reading Theories”, Journal of Theoretical Studies, July 2004, 7,000 characters, second author C

43. “Providing Theoretical Support for the Comprehensive Development of Society, Social Sciences Weekly, November 4, 2004, 4,000 characters, principal author, Category C

44. “The Cultural Rights and Interests of the Masses”, Wenyibao, July 28, 2005, 4,200 characters

45.  “ ‘Popular Culture’ and the Culture of the Masses”, Literary Theory and Criticism, June 2005, 8,500 characters

46. “A Historical Reflection on the Study of the Essential Nature of Literature and Art”, Academic Journal of the Social Sciences of Jilin University,March 2005, 9,000 characters

47. “Structural Characteristics of the Subject-Object Relationship in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Art”, Social Sciences in Jiangxi, June 2005, 10,000 characters

48. “Deepening Our Understanding of the Object and Scope of Aesthetic Culture Research”, Literature and Art Studies, January 2005, 3,000 characters

49. “An Analysis of Liang Shuming's Literary Thought”, Qilu Academic Journal, February 2005, 8,000 characters

50. “On Ma Yifu's Research on the Philosophy of the Yijingfrom His Perspective of ‘The Scholarship of the Six Arts’”,Research on the Zhou Classic of Change, February 2005, 8,000 characters

51. “The Philosophical Foundations of Ma Yifu's Poetic Thought”, Academic Journal of Shenzhen University, February 2004, 8,000 characters, second author

52. “The Logic of the Formation of ‘Literary Theory Studies’ as an Academic Discipline and Its Practical Significance”, Studies in Mao Zedong's Thought on Literature and Art, (vol. 14), November 2005, 5,000 characters

53. “On Cao Mingran's Art of Chinese Painting”, in A Collection of Paintings by Cao Minghao, September 2005, 3,000 characters

54.  “Online Novels: A Resplendent Emerging Genre”, Chinese Literature Yearbook (2003), August 2004, 6,000 characters

55. “The Scientific Character of Literary Theory: Its Humanistic Nature, the Systematic Character of Literary Knowledge, and the Reliability of Its Methodology”,Social Sciences in Gansu, January 2006, 6,000 characters

56. “Reflections on the Relationship Between Literature, Aesthetics and Ideology”, The Theoretical Front in Colleges and Universities,June 2006, 7,000 characters

57. “Reflections on Several Fundamental Theoretical Issues in the Current Phase of Transformation and Transition in Literature and Art”, Social Sciences in Tianjin, May 2006, 9,000 characters

58. “The Fundamental Configuration and the Characteristics of Marxist Aesthetics Research in the New Century”, The People’s University’s Reprints of Newspaper and Periodical Materials: (Aesthetics) Studies in Art, (vol. 3, issue 1,)October 2006, 9,000 characters

59. “On How the Subject-Object Structure in Literature and Art Sets the Parameters for the Category and Form of the Art”, Academia Publishing, May 2006, 12,000 characters

60. “Reflections on the Question of the Relationship Between Literature, Aesthetics and Ideology”, in Theories of Ideology in Literature and Art, Jilin University Press, July 2006, 8,000 characters

61. “Preface” for A Study of the Poetic Thought of Ma Yifu, Qilu Shushe Publishers, June 2006, 4,000 characters

62. “A Brief Discussion of the Relationship Between Literature, Aesthetics and Ideology”, Wen-Shi-Zhe (A Journal of Literature, History and Philosophy),May 2007, 8,000characters

63. “On the Ideological and Theoretical Basis for Retrospection and Reflection on the Process of Development of Literary Theory in the New Era”, Social Sciences in Gansu, April 2007, 7,000 characters

64. “Endless Exchanges Going Back and Forth, The Road Opens Up and Becomes One: The Formation and Development of Concepts of Contemporary Chinese Art Education”, Social Sciences in Tianjin, February 2007, 9,000 characters

65. “On the Demands that Evolution of Form Makes on Contemporary Developments in  Chinese Philosophy”, Social Sciences in Yunnan, March 2007, 6,000 characters

66. “An Analysis of the Current Status of the Study of Marxist Aesthetics in Contemporary China”, Social Sciences in Shandong, October 2007, 12,000 characters

67. “On Zhou Laixiang's ‘Harmonious’ Aesthetic and His Social Ideal”,Marxist Aesthetics Studies, (vol. 10), June 2006, 11,000 characters

68. “Retrospection and Reflection on the Development of Literary Theory in the New Era (Moderator’s Remarks)”, Social Sciences in Gansu, April 2007, 2,000 characters

69. “The Relationship Between Aesthetics, Literature and Ideology”, Marxist Digest, January 2007, 5,000 characters

70. “New Vistas in Marxist Literary Studies”, in Discourses Across the Field of Literature, Shandong Friendship Publishing House, December 2006, 3,000 characters

71. “Proceeding From the Realities of China: Reflections on TechnologicalRationality, theHumanistic Spirit and Literary Modernity”, in Lectures in the Humanities at Hubei Normal University, People's Literature Publishing House, March 2007, 10,000 characters