Professor Kong Fanjin, born in March 1942, graduated from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of Shandong University in 1967. He is currently Professor, and Dissertation Advisor for Ph.D students, in the School of Literature. Professor Kong is a member of the Chinese Language Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, a member of the Chinese Writers Association, an executive director of the Chinese Association for Studies in Modern Literature, and Vice President of the Chinese Association for Studies in Modern Literature of Shandong Province.

Professor Kong’s primary research field is: Chinese literature and the currents of literary thought in the Twentieth century. He has authored and published a number of significant scholarly works, including:

· Liu Qing'sTheory of Creativity, (co-authored with Xu Wendou)

· Books in Modern Chinese Literature, the Supplemental Series,(Chief Editor)

· A History of Chinese Literature in theTwentieth Century,(Chief Editor)

· Paradox and Choice

· Getting Out of History’s Forbidding Ravine

· Reading China, (Chief Editor)

· The Great Wave Over the Last Hundred Years: Writings on the Liberation of Thought in China in the Twentieth Century, (Chief Editor)

· Interpretations of Poetry in the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, (Chief Editor)