Professor Cong Xinqiang, a native of Linyi, Shandong Province, was born in October 1974. He holds a Ph.D degree in Literature, and is currently a Professor in the School of Literature of Shandong University, and serves as a Dissertation Advisor for Ph.D students. Professor Cong has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He was also one of the first group of Literature and Art Critics-on-Contract of Shandong Province, anExpert Special Consultantfor the Zhang Wei Writing Studio of the Shandong Writers Association, and a Special Consultant Researcher at the Wang Dingjun Literary Research Center (Research Association). In addition to his faculty and academic positions, Professor Cong also serves asVice President and General Secretary of the Shandong Provincial Association for the Study of Contemporary Literature, and Vice President of the Shandong Association for the Study of Mo Yan. Professor Cong’s primary field of teaching and research is Contemporary Chinese Literature. He has authored and published, in academic journals at home and abroad,a series of papers and articles, representatively on the subject areas of the relationship between religion and literature, and studies of Mo Yan and his literary writings.
Professor Cong has authored and published five monographs, including: Christian Culture and Contemporary Chinese Literature, (Shandong Literature and Art Publishing House, 2009); Religious Dimensions of Contemporary Chinese Literature, (Chinese Social Science Press, 2018); and A Study of Mo Yan's Full-length Novels, (Shandong University Press, 2019). He has co-authored five other monographs, including:Nationality and Cosmopolitanism: Thematic Studies of Contemporary Chinese Literature, (Shandong University Press 2010). He is Chief Editor of The Principle of Global Dialogue and the Future of the Humanities, (Chinese Social Sciences Press, 2016), and the Executive Editor of the three-volumesetThirty Years of Mo Yan Studies (Shandong University Press, 2013). He has supervised several major research projects sponsored by the Ministry of Education and at the provincial level, including "Studies of the Relationship between Chinese Literature and World Religion since the Beginning of the New Era", "A Study of the Subjective Consciousness in Mo Yan's Creative Work", and "A Chronological History of Literature in Shandong in the New Century".Professor Cong also serves as the head of "The Convergence of Cosmopolitanism and Nativism: A Study of Mo Yan’s Literary Road and the Evolution of Chinese Literature", a sub-project of a major open-bidding research project sponsored by theNational Foundation for the Social Sciences. For his achievements in academic research and writing, Professor Cong has received various prizes and awards, including the Liu Xie Prize for Literary Criticism, and the Taishan Award for Literature and Art (in Creative Literature).
At the School of Literature, Shandong University, Professor Cong offers courses for undergraduate students, including: “History of Contemporary Chinese Literature” and “The Study of the Works of Mo Yan and Other Contemporary Writers”. His courses in the graduate curriculum include: “Methods in the field of Humanities”, and “Contemporary Chinese Literature and World Religious Cultures”.
Contact information: Email address: congxinqiang@sdu.edu.cn.
A catalogue of Professor Cong Xinqiang’s academic works
Scholarly Monographs (sole-author):
1) Christian Culture and Contemporary Chinese Literature, (Shandong Literature and Art Publishing House, 2009)
2) Religious Dimensions of Contemporary Chinese Literature, (Chinese Social Science Press, 2018)
3) A Study of Mo Yan's Full-length Novels, (Shandong University Press, 2019)
4) A Study of the Subjective Consciousness in Mo Yan's Creative Work, (Shandong University Press, 2019)
5) The “New Generation” Novels and Cultural Extension in the Field of Perception of the Literature of the New Era, Shandong University Press, 2019
Participated in the Writing/Editing/Compilation of:
1) Beauty Across the Centuries: An Appreciative Reading of Masterpieces of Chinese Prose and Essays in the Twentieth Century, (Shandong Education Press, 2003) (participating writer)
2) Splendor Transcendent of Time and Space: An Appreciative Reading of Masterpieces of Chinese Novels in the Twentieth Century, (Shandong Education Press, 2003)(participating writer)
3) The Spirit of Contemporary Chinese Literature, (Shandong Education Press, 2003)(participating writer)
4) The Spiritual Orientation of Literature in the New Era, (Shandong University Press, 2006)(participating writer)
5) Nationality and Cosmopolitanism: Thematic Studies of Contemporary Chinese Literature, (Shandong University Press 2010) (co-authored, second author)
6) The Principle of Global Dialogue and the Future of the Humanities, (Chinese Social Sciences Press, 2016)(Chief Editor)
7) Thirty Years of Mo Yan Studies,(three volumes), (Shandong University Press, 2013) (Executive Chief Editor)
Published academic papers and articles:
1) “Poetryand Songs Among Common Folk: One Possibility of A Way Out of the Current Quandary for Contemporary Chinese Poetry”, Academic Journal of Liaocheng Teachers College, No.6, 1999
2) “The Double Variation of Planar Presentation and Philosophical Inquiry: An Investigation of the‘New Generation’ Novels”, Literature of the Times, No.1, 2000
3) “Christian Culture and BeiCun'sWriting Novels”, Academic Journal of Jining Teachers College, No. 2, 2001
4) “An Exploration of Human Nature: A Review of Tie Ning's New Work The Bathing Women”, Appreciating Masterpieces of Writing, No. 2, 2001
5) “Comparison and Push-back: The ‘New Generation’ Novels in the Field of Perception of the Literature of the New Era”, Journal of Theoretical Studies, No. 5, 2001
6) “Christian Culture and Chinese Literature in the New Era”, Wen-Shi-Zhe (A Journal of Literature, History and Philosophy), No. 6, 2001
7) “Repression and Rebellion: On the ‘Father-Son Conflict’ in Yu Hua's Novels”, The Contemporary World of Literature, No. 6, 2001
8) “The Banner of Desire: On the Central Theme of Discourse in the ‘New Generation’ Novels”, Academic Journal of Zaozhuang Teachers College, No.1, 2002
9) “A Summary of the Symposium on the Developmental Trends of Literature in the New Century”, Shandong Literature, No.1, 2002
10)“Retrospection and Anticipation: A General Review of the Vanguard Novelists in the ‘Shandong Army’ of Literature”,Shandong Literature, No. 4-5, 2002
11) “Christian Culture and the Value Construct of Chinese Literature”, Academic Journal of Hebei Normal University, No. 1, 2003
12)“Theology and the Structural Dimensions of ‘Postmodernism’”, Humanistic Writings, Shandong University Press, 2004.
13) “ ‘With Love For All’ Realism: A Resource that is Lacking”, Young Thinkers, No. 1, 2005
14)“A Study of Modernist Novels: Problems and Methods”, Comparative Literature in China, No. 4, 2005
15)“Existence and Nothingness”, The Contemporary World of Literature, No. 4, 2005
16) “The Divine Dimensions of Hai Zi's Poetry”, Journal of Theoretical Studies, No. 5, 2005
17)“Shi Tiesheng and Christian Culture”, Humanistic Writings,Shandong University Press, 2005
18)“The Choice of ‘the Son of God’: On Chen Yingzhen and Christian Culture”, Humanistic Writings, Shandong University Press, 2006
19)“Returning to the Ontology of Literary Studies”, Wenyibao, August 5, 2011
20) “A Critique and Reflection on Contemporary Political Ecology”, Shandong Literature, No. 11, 2011
21)“On Wang Dingjun's Creations and the Christian Spirit”, The Arts and Literature Forum, (Taiwan), December 2011
22)“Life: The Experiential and the Rational”, Shandong Literature, No. 2, 2012
23)“Humankind, In the Whirlpool of History and Ethics: On Mo Yan's Frog”,Literature of the Times,No. 9, 2012
24)“The Construction, Deconstruction, and Reconstruction of ‘The Red Classics’”, Reviews of Works of Fiction, No. 1, 2013
25)“Humankind, Between the Secular and the Sacred:On Zhao Defa'sFull-lengthNovel The Masculine and the Feminine Ways”, A Journal of Discourses From Taishan, No. 3, 2013
26)“The Maturing of Breaking Out of the Cocoon”, Hundred Schools Review, No. 3, 2013
27)“On ‘Sensory Impression’ and ‘Illusion’ in the World of Feng Tang's Novels”,Hundred Schools Review, No. 4, 2013
28) “A Review of Thirty Years of Mo Yan Studies”, A Journal of Discourses From Taishan, No. 6, 2013
29)“The Urban Landscape: A Type of Literary Narrative in the 1990s”, Shandong Literature, No. 10, 2013
30) “History of Life and History of the Spiritin The History of Love”, Wenyibao, November 25, 2013
31)“Christian Culture and Mu Dan's Poetic and Dramatic Creations”,The Academic Journal of Christian Culture, December 2013
32)“ ‘The Principle of Global Dialogue’ as Problem and as Method”, in Comparative Literature in China, No. 2, 2014
33)“Christian Culture and the Inner Transcendence of the Contemporary Literary Spiritin Taiwan”, Academic Journal of Shandong University, No. 3, 2014
34)“Revolutionary Ethics, Secular Ethics, Religious Ethics: On Three Ethical Forms in Contemporary Chinese Literature”, Hundred Schools Review, No. 3, 2014
35)“From The Night of Writing to The Beauty of Life”, Journal of Theoretical Studies, No. 6, 2014
36)“ ‘The Principle of Global Dialogue’and Its Various Dimensions”, Reviews of Chinese Books, No. 9, 2014
37)“On the Feminine Subjectivity Consciousness in Mo Yan's Creative Works”, Academic Journal of Shandong Women's University, No. 4, 2015
38)“On the Controversy and the Implications of Mo Yan's Writing of The War of ResistanceAgainst Japan”, Hundred Schools Review, No. 5, 2015
39)“A Broad Discussion of A Study of Mo Yan's Creative Works from the Perspective of Feminist Culture”, Miscellaneous Publications ofStudies in Modern Chinese Literature, No. 7, 2015
40)“ ‘The Literary Life’: The Orientation of Literature in the Context of the Principle of Global Dialogue”, Social Sciences in Shandong, No. 11, 2015
41) “Individual Narrative, Family Ethics, Chinese Stories”, Literature of the Times, No. 9, 2015
42)“The Restoration and Return of ‘Loyalty and Faith’”, the "Cultural Vision" column of The Public’s Daily, November 13, 2015
43)“A Thought on Re-creating the Splendor of Qilu Literature”, the "Cultural Vision" column of The Public’s Daily,December 18, 2015
44)“The Question of the Tendencies in the Studies of Mo Yan, and the Responses to the Question”, Academic Journal of Weifang University, No. 1, 2016
45)“Christian Culture and the Construction of ‘A Love For All’ Realism”, in Academic Journal of Macao Polytechnic Institute, No. 3, 2016
46)“The Transformation in the Scenery and Outlook in the Rural Areas and the Perfusion of Humanistic Feelings and Thoughts”, Shandong Literature, No.4, 2016
47)“The Symbiotic Interaction of Ethics and History”, Wenyibao, August 31, 2016
48)“The Consciousness of the Community of Human Destiny in The Anthropocene”, the "Cultural Vision" column of The Public’s Daily, November 4, 2016
49)“The Single Master Pharmacologist: The Continuation and Disruption of Civilization”, the "Cultural Vision" column of The Public’s Daily,December 9, 2016
50)“On the Influence of Lu Xun’sForging the Swords on Mo Yan”, A Journal of Discourses From Taishan, No. 12, 2016
51)“Mo Yan's "Self-interpretation" Phenomenon and Its Extension”, Reviews of Chinese Books, No. 12, 2016
52)“Another Kind of ‘On Chen Yingzhen’”, Literature of the Times, No. 1, 2017
53)“Transformation and Transcendence of ‘Anthropocentrism’: On Zhao Defa'sNew Full-length Novel The Anthropocene”, in Review of Contemporary Writers, No. 2, 2017
54)“Ethics: Balancing and Transcending History", Cultural China (Hong Kong), No. 4, 2017
55)“On the Paradigm Shift inThe History of the Literary Life”, Social Sciences in Shandong, No. 10, 2017
56)“Cultural Self-Confidence, Chinese Stories, Globalization: Notes On A Symposium on ‘Mo Yan and China’s Cultural Self-Confidence’”, Zhongguancun Magazine, No. 10, 2017
57)“On the ‘Introversiveness’ in Lu Ye’s Poems and His Spirit of Poetics”,Hundred Schools Review, No. 5, 2017
58)“The Narrative of the World of the Blind: From Shi Tiesheng to Bi Feiyu”, Humanistic Writings, Shandong University Press, 2017
59) “The Red Sorghum Clan in the Literary Context of the 1980s”, in Literary Studies of Mo Yan, Shandong Friendship Publishing House, 2017
60)“From Zhao Shuli to Mo Yan”,Academic Journal of Jinan University, 2018
61)“Cultural Self-Confidence: Dialogue with ‘Self’ and ‘The Other’: With Reference to Mo Yan and His Literary World as an Example”, The Eastern Forum, No. 1, 2018
62)“A Review of Studies on Mo Yan in the Wake of His Receiving the Nobel Prize”, Academic Journal of Shandong University, No. 3, 2018
63)“On the Imagery inYou on the High Plains”, Chinese Literary Criticism, No. 4, 2018
64)“An Elegy for the Fracturing of Civilization and a Cry of Anxiety: On The Grass-Eating Clanand Its Ambiguities”, Qilu Academic Journal, No.5, 2018
65)“On the ‘War of Resistance Against Japan’, ‘Love’ and ‘View ofHistory’ in The Red Sorghum Clan”, in Academic Journal of Shandong Normal University, 2019