Editorial  Advisory  Board

Honorary Editor-in-Chief:  

Huang Phoebe Phong, Harvard University, United States

Editors-in-Chief:

Zhang Lianqiao, Guangzhou University, China

Dai Dengyun, Guangzhou University, China

Editorial Assistants

Deng Aiqin, Huang Jiajun, Wu Wenting,Zhang Junyi, Zhang Xu

Members of Editorial  Advisory  Board:

Nguyen Anh Dan, University of Education, Hue University, Vietnam

Huang Dezhi, Jiangsu Normal University, China

Victor Fan，King's College London, United Kingdom

Liu Hongwei, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China

Lin Hua, University of Victoria, Canada

Qiu Huanxing, Ocean University of China, China

Duan Jifang, South China Normal University, China

Wang Jin, Jinan University, China

Toming Jun Liu, California State University--Los Angeles, United States

Vicki Kirby, University of New South Wales, Australia

Stefan Kramer, University of Cologne, Germany

Florence Kuek, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia

Jiang Lan, Saint Peter's University, United States

Liu Maosheng, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China

Song Mingwei, Wellesley College, United States

Tomasz Mizerkiewicz，Adam Mickiewicz University，Poland

Wu Na, Trinity Western University，Canada

Federico Picerni, University of Bologna, Italy 

Long Qilin, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Jin Qiong, Guangzhou University, China 

Wang Taohua, Sun Yat-sen University, China

Song Weijie, Rutgers University, United States

John Whalen-Bridge, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Chen Xi, Hunan University, China

Shan Xiaoming, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), China

Wang Yiyan, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Ouyang Youquan, Central South University, China

Jiang Yuqin, Shenzhen University, China

Editors-in-Chief Introduction

Professor Zhang Lianqiao

Zhang Lianqiao is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor in the discipline of Comparative Literature and World Literature at the School of Humanities, Guangzhou University. He also serves as Deputy Director of the Literature Department and holds the title of "Hundred Talents Program Distinguished Young Scholar" at Guangzhou University. In 2013, he obtained his Doctor’s Degree in Comparative Literature and World Literature from Central China Normal University, studying under Professor Nie Zhenzhao—a Foreign Fellow of the British Academy, Foreign Member of the Academia Europaea, and editor-in-chief of the A&HCI-indexed journal Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature. In 2009, he earned his Master’s Degree in the same discipline from Northeast Normal University under the supervision of Professor Liu Jianjun. In 2006, he graduated from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Guizhou Normal College (formerly Guizhou Education College), with a Bachelor’s Degree. From July 2017 to February 2018, he worked as a Visiting Scholar at the Department of English, University of Cambridge. In 2012 and 2010, he conducted research as a Visiting Scholar at The Chinese University of Hong Kong twice—first as a "Dacheng Visiting Scholar" and later as a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Religious Studies and Chung Chi College.

Zhang Lianqiao’s research focuses on Comparative Literature and World Literature, contemporary American drama studies, Literary Ethical Criticism, narratology (including unnatural narratology), and cross-cultural communication. He has presided over the Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Sciences Research Project titled "A Study of Paradox Poetics in Contemporary American Drama" and the Guangdong Provincial Philosophy and Social Sciences Planning Project "A Study of Paradox Issues in Contemporary American Drama". Additionally, he has participated in multiple Major/Key Projects of the National Social Science Fund of China, covering topics such as the theoretical construction of Literary Ethical Criticism and the localization of European and American literature in China. He has successively taken part in Major Projects of the National Social Science Fund of China led by Professors Nie Zhenzhao, Liu Jianjun, Yang Gexin, and Liu Maosheng. Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, his research promotes the practical application and international dissemination of Literary Ethical Criticism, and builds a dialogue bridge between Chinese and Western dramatic exchange and ethical research. His relevant achievements have won high recognition from academic circles at home and abroad.

His major academic achievements include the monograph Identity Confusion and Ethical Choice: A Study of Edward Albee’s Plays (Science Press, 2016) and the edited volume Appreciation of Centennial Nobel Literature Classics (Nanjing University Press, 2017). Moreover, four edited works—such as A Study of Ethical Criticism in Contemporary Western Films and Ethical Criticism of 20th Century Western Drama—have been completed and are pending publication. He has published numerous papers in A&HCI and CSSCI core journals. Among these, his A&HCI-indexed paper includes "Transmission Pathways and Critical Practices of Ethical Literary Criticism in Malaysia: A Case Study of Florence Kuek’s An Ethical Literary Criticism of Han Suyin’s Autobiography—Braving Irrationality" (forthcoming in Kritika Kultura, 2026). His CSSCI-indexed papers have been published in journals like Foreign Literature Studies, Contemporary Foreign Literature, and Jiangxi Social Sciences, focusing on themes such as dramatic ethics and narratological theories. His achievements are included in various international and domestic core indexing systems, including A&HCI, CSSCI, ESCI, and Scopus. Many of his papers have been reprinted or cited academically, and his academic achievements have won the Provincial Excellent Achievement Award in Philosophy and Social Sciences on multiple occasions.

Zhang Lianqiao concurrently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the international journals Journal of Chinese Education and Evaluation and Journal of Literary Writing and Evaluation; he is also a peer reviewer for journals including the A&HCI-indexed Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature, and Executive Editor and peer reviewer for the ESCI/Scopus-indexed Forum for World Literature Studies. In addition, he holds the positions of Deputy Secretary-General of the Drama Research Branch of the Chinese Association for Comparative Studies of Languages and Cultures, and Deputy Secretary-General of the Guangdong Foreign Literature Society. He acts as an evaluation expert for the Ministry of Education’s undergraduate education teaching assessment and normal professional certification. He has also served as a panel convener, host, and commentator at numerous international and domestic academic conferences. He has delivered English keynote speeches or panel presentations at international academic conferences (e.g., the Annual Conference of the International Association for Ethical Literary Criticism) held by institutions such as Queen Mary University of London, Kyushu University (Japan), Korea University (South Korea), and the University of Malaya, promoting the international expression of Chinese literary criticism theories and the mutual learning and integration of Chinese and Western literary research discourses.