Professor Zheng Chun was born in Ziboxian, Shandong Province, in 1963, to a family whose ancestral home is in Mei xian, Guangdong Province, In1980, he was admitted to the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Shandong Universityand obtained a BA degree in 1984. Afterward, he continued to study at Shandong University, pursuing graduate studies at the master's and doctoral levels. He received his MA in 1998, and his Ph.D in Literature in 2002. Since graduating with the baccalaureate degree in 1984, he has stayed on to work as a member of the staff and faculty at his alma mater. He was appointed as Lecturer, then Associate Professor, and eventually Professor. He is currently a Professor in the School of Literature (formerly the Department of Chinese Language and Literature) of Shandong University, and serves also as a Dissertation Advisor for Ph.D students. In addition to his faculty position, Professor Zheng also serves as General Secretary of the Steering Committee for Chinese Language Teaching in Higher Education of the Ministry of Education. Professor Zheng’s primary fields of research are: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature, and The Overseas Education Background of Modern Chinese Writers.

Professor Zheng has authored and published two academic monographs: The Overseas Education Background of Writers and Modern Chinese Literature, (Shandong Education Press), and Spirit and Limitation: An Analysis of Polarity in Chinese Literature in the Twentieth Century, (Shandong University Press). He has also edited many volumes and collections, including: The Shandong Literature and Art Review Series(The Review of Poetry and Songs Volume), and A Collection of Commemorative Essays on the 110th Anniversary of the School of Literature of Shandong University. Professor Zheng has authored and published more than fifty scholarly papers and articles in various journals such as the Literary Review, Studies in Literature and Art,Miscellaneous Publications in Modern Chinese Literature, and Wen-Shi-Zhe (A Journal of Literature, History and Philosophy). In addition, Professor Zheng has published many articles in newspapers and periodicals such as Guangming Daily, China Reading Weekly, and Social Science Weekly. He has undertaken and completed one research project sponsored by the  National Foundation for the Social Sciences, a Research Project in the Humanities and Social Sciences sponsored by the Ministry of Education, and another Key Research Project under the aegis of the Commission on Educational Reform in Higher Education in Shandong Province. For his academic achievements, Professor Zheng has received many awards, includinga Level-2 Prize for Outstanding Achievement in the Social Sciences in Shandong Province (2008)” and the Liu Xie Prize for Literary Criticism. Currently Professor Zheng is undertaking a research project sponsored by the National Foundation for the Social Sciences and another project under the aegis of the Shandong Provincial Commission for Social Sciences Planning.

Contact information: E-mail address: zc@sdu.edu.cn