Professor Gao Xinhua (b. 1977) is a native of Zoupingxian, Shandong Province. He attended Beijing University from 1996 to 2000 in the School of International Relations, obtaining, in 2000, a BA degree in Legal Studies. From 2003 to 2010, he was a graduate student in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of Beijing University, focusing on the study of Ancient (Traditional) Literature, with an emphasis on the literature of the pre-Qin period and the Qin and Han dynasties, under the mentoring of Professor Ying Chun and Professor Fu Gang, ultimately obtaining an MA degree and a Ph.D degree in Literature. In September 2010, he joined the staff and faculty of the Ancient Chinese Literature Research Institute of the School of Literature and Journalism (now the School of Literature) of Shandong University. In the undergraduate curriculum in the School of Literature, Professor Gao offers various courses, including: " Ancient (Traditional) Chinese Literature (The sections on the Qin, Han, Wei, Jin, and Southern and Northern Dynasties)”; "History of Chinese Culture"; and "History of Chinese Aesthetic Culture". At the graduate level, Professor Gao offers courses to MA students, including: "Studies of Poetry and Prose in Ancient China", "Studies of Novels and Opera in Ancient China " and " Intensive Reading in the “Art and Literature Gazette” [yiwenzhi] in The History of the Han Dynasty[Han Shu]". Professor Gao has authored more than ten papers and scholarly articles published in such journals as Wen-Shi-Zhe (A Journal of Literature, History and Philosophy), Chinese Musicology, and The Library Journal. He has written a vernacular translation, with commentaries and annotations, of A New Account of the Tales of the World (Shishuoxinyu), Shandong Pictorial Publishing House 2012. He has also taken part in a Major Project in Writing and Editing Key Textbooks and Teaching Materials sponsored by the Ministry of Education, participated in the preparation of education. Part of the key textbook: A History of Ancient Chinese Literature, (apublication of the National Project of Marxist Theory Research and Construction, ProfessorYuan Shishuo, chief editor,) Higher Education Press, 2016. He supervised, as principal investigator, a research project sponsored by the National Foundation for the Social Sciences, titled: "Comparative Studies of More Recently ExcavatedHistorical Texts and Documents and the History of Previous Writingsand Publications on Their Subjects", and a research project sponsored by the Shandong Provincial Program of Social Sciences Development, titled: "Studies of the Forms and Styles of Writing of the Scholars and Philosophers of the Pre-Qin Era". In addition, he has also undertaken various research projects innovated under the aegis of partial seeding subsidies in funding awarded by the Chinese Post-doctoral Training Program.

Contact Information: Email address: gaoxinhua@sdu.edu.cn