Guozhong Duan Author

Guozhong Duan received his PhD in literary studies from the University of Texas at Dallas and is currently an associate professor of foreign studies in Yangzhou University, China. He has published numerous Chinese and English articles in journals and volumes including Journal of Qinghua University, Journal of Zhejiang University, Journal of Dr. Sun Yat-sen University, and Social Sciences Abroad, and Routledge Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature.

Ming Dong Gu is the Ketherine R. Cecil Professor in the Bass School of Arts, Humanities, Technology at the University of Texas at Dallas. He has authored 5 English monographs and edited three English volumes. His recent publications include: The Nature and Rationale of Zen/Chan and Enlightenment (2024); Fusion of Critical Horizons in Chinese and Western Language, Poetics, and Aesthetics (2021), and Routledge Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature (2019). In addition, he has published more than 160 articles in English and Chinese journals.