Guohua ZHU
Name: ZHU, Guohua
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: May 7, 1964
Place of Birth: Jiangsu Province, China
Title: Professor and Dean of School of International Chinese Studies, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
Fax: 86-21-52712300
Tel: 86-21-62233237 (office) 86-21- 52712300 (home) 13761498930（mobile）
Email: ghzhu@zhwx.ecnu.edu.cn
Postal Address: Room 1503, Building 46, Century Tongle, Lane 100, Shunyi Road, Putuo
District, Shanghai 200063.
Education:
Post-doctoral Research: Fudan University, Shanghai
Ph.D.: Dept. of Chinese Language and Literature, Nanjing University
B.A.: Dept. of Chinese Language and Literature, East China Normal University
Employment and Experience:
2006 to date: Professor, Dept. of Chinese Language and Literature, East China Normal University, Shanghai
2015: Senior Visiting Scholar, École normale supérieure, Pairs, France.
2008--2009: Visiting Scholar, Duke University, Durham, NC, US.
2003-2006: Associate Professor, Dept. of Chinese Language and Literature, East China Normal University, Shanghai.
2001-2003: Post-Doctoral Scholar, Fudan University, Shanghai
1994-2001: Associate Professor, Dept. of Chinese, Southeast University, Nanjing
1986-1994: Lecturer, Dept. of Chinese, Southeast University, Nanjing
Academic Affiliations:
1. Editor-in-chief (since 2016) of Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
2. Executive Director (since 2020) of Global Institute of Chinese Language Teacher Education
3. Professor of Chang Jiang Scholars Program (Ministry of Education, China)
4. Vice President (since 2020) of Chinese Academy of Literary Theory
5. Editorial Board Member, Comparative Literature and Culture, USA
Areas of Academic Interests:
Cultural Sociology, Aesthetics, Western Marxism, Chinese Ancient Poetry, Literary Theory
Current Research Project:
2014---: “Study on the Frontier Literary Theories in Contemporary Western World”, Key National Research Project funded by National Foundation of Social Sciences and Philosophy
Courses Recently Taught:
Aesthetics (for junior), Literary Theory (for junior), Contemporary Western Marxism Aesthetics (for graduates), Reading Chinese Ancient Poetry (for junior), Literary Sociology (for graduates)
Grants, Prizes and Awards (Incomplete):
1. 2003: Shanghai Social Sciences Grant for the Research Project “Bourdieu’s Theory of Aesthetics”
2. 2006: National Social Sciences Grant for the Research Project “Aesthetic Modernity across Cultures: The Case of Chinese Reception of Adorno and Benjamin”
3. 2006: Third Prize of Shanghai Social Sciences Achievements for the paper: “Literature and Economic Capital: The Symbolic Struggle in Literary Field”
4. 2007: Selected into MOE New Century Talent Support Program
5. 2007: Post Research Program of Philosophy and Social Science Foundation, MoE, China: “Study on Bourdieu’s Sociological Poetics”
6. 2008: Literature and Power: A Critical Survey of the Legitimacy of Literature, Second Prize Reward, by 9th Excellent Achievements Program in Philosophy and Social Science, Shanghai Municipal Government
7. 2009: Selected into Shanghai Pujiang Talent Program
8. 2014: Popular Culture Theory and Chinese Context of Adorno (Journal Article), Second Prize Reward, by 12th Excellent Achievements Program in Philosophy and Social Science, Shanghai Municipal Government
9. 2014: Key National Research Project funded by National Foundation of Social Sciences and Philosophy: “Study on the Frontier Literary Theories in Contemporary Western World”
10. 2018: First Prize of Shanghai Social Sciences Achievements for monograph: The Cultural Logic of Power
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books:
1. 2004 The Cultural Logic of Power, Shanghai Joint Publishing Co. ISBN 7542618830, 205 pp.
2. 2006 Literature and Power: A Critical Survey of the Legitimacy of Literature, East China Normal University Press, Shanghai. ISBN 7561747993, 230 pp.
3. 2012 Motley Thoughts, Shanghai Liberty Arts Press, Shanghai. ISBN 9787532144464, 12 + 392 pp.
4. 2014 Literature and Power: A Critical Survey of the Legitimacy of Literature, revised version, Peking University Press, Beijing. ISBN 9787301243022, 260 pp.
5. 2016 The Cultural Logic of Power：Bourdieu’s Sociological Poetics, Shanghai People Press, Shanghai. ISBN 9787208134287, 468 pp.
Journal Articles and Reviews
(1) “A Comparative Study on the Aesthetics of Zhang Chengzhi and Aitmatov”, Art Critic, 1986 (02).
(2) “On the Features and Functions of Academic Culture”, Contemporary Youth Research, 1990 (01): 14-17.
(3) “The Story of the Stone and One Hundred Years of Solitude”, in Three Hundred Questions of Comparative Literature, Shanghai Art and Literature Publishing House, 1990.
(4) “Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears and Contemporary Chinese Philosophy of Love”, in Three Hundred Questions of Comparative Literature, Shanghai Art and Literature Publishing House, 1990.
(5) “Another Kitsch: On Bitter Cultural Trip”, Contemporary Writers Review, 1995 (02): 57-60.
(6) “Theory of Literature and Art: Another Possible Approach”, Study of Art, 1995 (01).
(7) “The Female Wooers in Chinese Love Literature”, Journal of Nanjing Normal University (Social Science Edition), 1995 (02):79-82+125.
(8) 1996 “On Author’s Remuneration in Ancient China”, Southeast Culture, (04):119-124.
(9) “A Conceptual Distinction between Popular and Elite Literature”, Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 1996 (04): 6-14. Reprinted in Xinhua Digest and in Theories of Literature and Art by Information Center for Social Science of Renmin University of China, 1996 (10).
(10) “Rethinking the Criteria of Literary Criticism”, Jianghai Academic Journal, 1996 (06):137-143.
(11) “A Brief Review on Duiwenti Fu”，Social Science Forum of Southeast University, 1996 (1).
(12) “Lin Yutang’s View of Humor”, Taiwan, Hongkong and Overseas Chinese Literature Review and Studies, 1996 (03):55-58.
(13) “The Characteristics of the Aesthetics of Landscape”, Aesthetics and Fine Arts Studies, 1996 (2).
(14) “Talks of Author’s Remuneration in Ancient China”，Knowledge of Literature and History, 1997 (1).
(15) “On Jin Yong Studies”, Literature and Art Criticism, 1997 (03):48-54.
(16) “On Critical Strategies of Popular Literature Criticism”, Literature & Art Studies, 1997 (06): 83-88.
(17) “Cai Yong’s Tragedies”, Reading, 1998 (04):109-113.
(18) “A Scream Covered by Red Cloth: Approaching Cui Jian”, Journal of Southeast University, 1999 (02):109-112.
(19) “The Possibility of Art after the End of Art”, Literature and Art Forum, 1999 (04):41-48.
(20) “The Characters in the Dream of the White Chamber: The Ruled Rulers?”, Contemporary Writers Review, 1999 (06):93-96.
(21) “Choosing Winter: An Interpretation of Lu Xun’s Nihilism”, Literature and Art Forum, 2000(04): 58-62.
(22) “Zi Gong and Confucius”, Confucius Studies, 2000 (03):119-122.
(23) “A Perspective of the Logic of Power: An Critical Introduction of Literary Legitimacy”, Jianghai Academic Journal, 2000 (04): 165-170.
(24) “A Study on the Stigma Attached to Wang Anshi”, Jiangsu Social Sciences, 2000 (05):148-152.
(25) “The Literary Power: A Sociological Interpretation”, Wild Prairie, 2001 (01).
(26) “The Literary Power in the Age of Printing”, Academic Journal of Jinyang, 2001 (04):88-94.
(27) “The Plural Approaches Towards Literary History”，Social Sciences in China, 2001 (04): 142-145.
(28) “Wandering Between Literature and History: The Silhouettes in the Twilight”, Journal of Southeast University (Philosophy and Social Science Edition), 2001 (03):130.
(29) “Literary Power: The Cultural Capital of Literature”, Seeking Truth, 2001 (04):74-79.
(30) “The Narrative Discourse of Poetics”, Literary Theories News, 15 Sept., 2001.
(31) “Literature and Symbolic Culture”, Tianjin Social Sciences, 2002(01):110-117.
(32) “Visual Culture Studies”, Cultural Studies, Tianjin: Tianjin Academy of Social Sciences Press, 2002. Reprinted in Academics of University, ed. Wang Yichuan, Beijing: Higher Education Press, 2002. (Translated Work)
(33) “The Genealogy of Popular Literature”, Literature & Art Studies, 2002 (03):31-36.
(34) “Farewell Songs of Streets and Lanes”, Ethnic Arts Quarterly, 2002 (02):25-27.
(35) “The Historical Genesis of a Pure Aesthetic”, Ethnic Arts Quarterly, 2002(03):16-22. (Translated Work)
(36) “How is the Academic Legitimacy Possible?”, Academic Forum, 2002 (04):176-181.
(37) “How is the Academic Debate Possible?”, Journal of Wuhan University of Science and Technology, 2002 (04):101-104.
(38) “Bourdieu: A Clear-minded Cultural Gladiator”, Social Science Weekly, 28 Feb, 2002.
(39) “The Literary Power of in the Era of Oral Literature”, Seeking Truth, 2003 (01):96-100.
(40) “Is Film the Terminator of Literature”, The Frontier of Literature, 2003 (01):170-184. Reprinted in Theories of Literature and Art by Information Center for Social Science of Renmin University of China，(04), 2003.
(41) “Reflexive Sociology Studies”, in International Studies of Social Sciences, Shanghai: Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, 2003.
(42) “The Literary Power in the Age of Mass Media”, Zhejiang Social Sciences, 2003 (04):155-162.
(43) “The Logic of the Literary Field”, Cultural Studies, 2003 (04). Reprinted in Theories of Literature and Art by Information Center for Social Science of Renmin University of China, (10), 2003.
(44) “The Practical Use of Bourdieu”, Cultural Studies, 2003(04): Tianjian: Tianjin Academy of Social Sciences Press. (Translated Work)
(45) “Political Power and Literature in the Classical Age”, Tianjin Social Sciences，2003(06):113-119.
(46) “‘How Pathetic It Is to Flog a Dead Horse’: An Interpretation on Han Yu”, Chinese Self-learning Guide, 2003(05):32-34.
(47) “Are Chinese People Leading a Poetic Life?”, Literature and Art Forum, 2003(06):15-18. Reprinted in The Avant-garde Theories of Literature and Art in the New Century, ed. Zhang Weimin, Beijing: People’s Literature Publishing House, 2003.
(48) “Continuity and Rupture: The Bourdieu’s Philosophical Resources”, Modern Philosophy, 2003(04):108-115.
(49) “Bourdieu, Historical Reason, Ecology of Postcolonial Culture and Others”, Observations of the Society, 2003(02):34-35.
(50) “The Social Definition of Photography”, in Visual Culture Studies: A Reader, Guilin: Guangxi Normal University Press, 2003，reprinted in Selected Papers on Western Photography, ed. Gu Zheng, Hanghzou: Zhejiang Photographic Press, 2003. (Translated Work)
(51) “The Efficacy of Reason”, Social Science Weekly, Jun. 2003.
(52) “When Culture Becomes Capital”, Social Science Weekly, Aug. 2003.
(53) “Reflection upon Cultural Studies in China”, Oct. 2003.
(54) “Strangers: The Genesis of Bourdieu’s Academic Habitus”，Hebei Academic Journal，2004(01):61-66.
(55) “The Intellectual Field: Bourdieu’s Disenchantment of Intellectuals”, Jiangsu Social Sciences, 2004(01):99-103.
(56) “Habitus and Capital: Bourdieu’s Main Conceptual Tools”, Journal of Southeast University (Philosophy and Social Science Edition), 2004(01):33-37+74-124.
(57) “Field and Practice: On Bourdieu´s Main Conceptual Tools”, Journal of Southeast University (Philosophy and Social Science Edition), 2004(02):41-45+126.
(58) “Social Space and Social Class: On Bourdieu’s Theory of Class”, Jianghai Academic Journal, 2004(02):80-85.
(59) “Legitimate Taste‚ Aesthetic Disposition and Class Distinction”, Reading, 2004(07):52-61.
(60) “Symbolic Violence and Gender Domination”, Journal of Social Theory, Nanjing: Nanjing University Press, 2004(02).
(61) “Social Condition of Artistic Encoding”, Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2004(04):89-97. Reprinted in Theories of Literature and Art by Information Center for Social Science of Renmin University of China, 2004(11).
(62) “Western Jade and Eastern Stone”, Chinese Self-learning Guide, 2004(04):13-18.
(63) “The Emotion in Exile”，in Criticism, Nanjing: Jiangsu Literature and Art Publishing House, 2004(1).
(64) “The Way of Great Learning Les in…”, Observations of the Society, 2004(05).
(65) “The Dialectics of the End of Art”, Art Observation, 2004(07):15.
(66) “Art Museum: Fake Cultural Promise”, Ethnic Arts Quarterly, 2004(03):88-91+108.
(67) “Pierre Bourdieu: A Middle-brow Taste”, Academics in China, 2004(01).
(68) “Economic Capital and Literature: The Symbolic Struggle in the Literary Field”, Social Sciences Shanghai China, 2004(09):113-121. Reprinted in Theories of Literature and Art by Information Center for Social Science of Renmin University of China, 2004(12).
(69) “Questioning the Body Writing”, Literature and Art Forum, 2004(05):77-79.
(70) “Benjamin: The Struggler Against the Disappearance of Aura”, Review, 2004(11-12).
(71) “Recitation, Canon and Cultural Conservatism”, Southern Weekly, 22. Jul. 2004.
(72) “Lingering between Theology of Art and Literary Politics”, The Fulfilled Review, 2004(03).
(73) “Wacquant: Bourdieu’s Theory of Suicide”, Frontier of Literature, 2004(08). (Translated Work)
(74) “The Aesthetic Modernity in Chinese Context”, Tianjin Social Sciences, 2005(02):103-107+143.
(75) “Literary Modernity and The Historical Genesis of Literary Field”, Hebei Academic Journal, 2005(04):139-146.
(76) “Non-identity and Mimesis: On Adorno’s Aesthetic Logic”, Fujian Tribune (The Humanities & Social Sciences), 2005(8): 41-47.
(77) “Modernity: A concise Delineation of the Concept”, The Fulfilled Review, 2005(04).
(78) “Pierre Bourdieu in Context of Contemporary Literary Theory”, Social Sciences Shanghai China, 2005(12):96-104.
(79) “The Allegorical Structure of Aura”, Hundred Schools in Arts, 2006(01):6-10.
(80) “The Dialectical Structure of Benjamin’s Poetics of Allegory”, Research on Marxist Aesthetics，2006(00):234-242.
(81) “Possibilities of the Canonization of Literature”, Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2006(02):44-51.
(82) “Letters upon Body, Culture and Power”, Chinese Self-learning Guide, 2006(06).
(83) “The Educational System‚ Legitimate Language and Social Reproduction”, Humanities and Art, 2006(07).
(84) “Several Levels of Academic Language”, Fujian Tribune (The Humanities & Social Sciences), 2006(10):75-78. Reprinted in Theories of Literature and Art by Information Center for Social Science of Renmin University of China, 2007 (05).
(85) “Disenchantment‚ deconstruction‚ and the Autonomy of Popular Culture”, Literary Review, 2006(06):20-26.
(86) “The Reversed Economic World: The Structure of the Literary Field”, Tianjin Social Sciences, 2006(06):101-106.
(87) “Pure Language‚ Experience‚ Idea and Messiah Time”, Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences), 2006(05):61-66.
(88) “National Cultural Identification and the Reinvention of Canon”, Journal of Yunnan University (Social Sciences Edition), 2007(02):62-69+95-96. Reprinted in Cultural Studies by Information Center for Social Science of Renmin University of China, 2007(12), and in China University Academic Abstracts, 2007(04).
(89) “The Disenchanted Reading of Disenchantment Theory: The Research Strategy of Bourdieu’s Sociological Poetics”, Journal of Northwest Normal University (Social Sciences), 2007(03):1-5.
(90) “The Predicament of Artistic Criticism in the Age of Mass Media：The Dispute of between Bai Ye and Han Han”, Hundred Schools in Arts, 2007(03):12-16.
(91) “The Literary Criticism in the Age of Mass Media”, Journal of Sichuan University (Humanities & Social Sciences), 2007(03):37-44.
(92) “A Reflection on Reflective Sociological Poetics”, Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2007(03):71-77. Reprinted in Theories of Literature and Art by Information Center for Social Science of Renmin University of China, 2007(09).
(93) “A Theoretical Thinking on Quantitative Assessment of Academic Research”, Journal of Yunmeng, 2007(04):18-19.
(94) “Modernity and Critical Theory”, Heilongjiang Social Sciences, 2007(04):81-86.
(95) “Knowledge and Wisdom: A Cross-Context Analysis of the Idea of the Ending of Arts”, Literature and Arts Studies, 2008(03):13-25.
(96) “From Wisdom to Knowledge: The Logic Start of Theories of Literature and Art”, Literature and Art Forum, 2008(05):16-25.
(97) “Form”, in A Syntopicon: An Index to The Great Ideas, Beijing: Huaxia Publishing House, 2008. (Translated Work)
(98) “Continuity and Rupture: The Sociological Origin of Bourdieu’s Thought”, Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences), 2010,42(04):51-56+64.
(99) “Another Story of Traveling Theory: The Reproduction of Benjamin’s Theory of Mechanical Reproduction in China”, Literature & Art Studies, 2010(11):36-46. Reprinted in Chinese Social Science Digest, 2011(04).
(100) “The Dialogue on Consumerism and Body”, Literature and Art Forum, 2011(05):112-131.
(101) “The Possibility of Literary Theory Textbook of Anti-Essentialism”, Academia Bimestrie, 2011(05):26-31.
(102) “The Reproduction of Benjamin’s Theory of Mechanical Reproduction of Art in China, Neohelicon, 2011(38): 71–84.
(103) “Motley Thoughts”, Reading, 2012(04):120-130.
(104) “Adorno’s Theory of Popular Culture in China”, Literature & Art Studies, 2012(11):5-15. Reprinted in Xinhua Digest, 2013(05), and in Cultural Studies by Information Center for Social Science of Renmin University of China, 2013 (03).
(105) “Bourdieu in the Clamorous World”, in Difference vol. 7, ed. Jin Huimin, Zhengzhou: Henan University Press, 2013.
(106) “The localization of the Critique of Critical Aesthetics in China”, Literature and Art Forum, 2014(01):116-118.
(107) “The Long Revolution: The Localization of Western Thought in China and the Prospect of Academic Creation in China”, Tianjin Social Sciences，2014(03):100-107. Reprinted in Xinhua Digest, 2014(18),
(108) “What is Allegory”, China Book Review, 2014(09):62-66.
(109) “Chinese Practice and T. W. Adorno’s Theory of Mass Culture”, Neohelicon, 2014(41):489-502.
(110) “The Reproduction of Culture and Society: A Sketch of Bourdieu’s Educational Sociology”, Journal of East China Normal University(Humanities and Social Sciences)，2015, 47(05):173-189+224.
(111) “The Economy of Linguistic Exchange and Symbolic Power: A Sketch of Bourdieu’s Theory of Language”, Journal of Xuzhou Institute of Technology (Social Sciences Edition), 2015, 30(06):22-31.
(112) “Class Habitus and Middle-brow Arts: Bourdieu’s Theory Photography”, Fujian Tribune, 2016(08):68-77.
(113) “The Hotel on a Cliff: Adorno, Zhao Yong and the Possibility of Cultural Criticism”, China Book Review, 2017(05):60-62.
(114) “The Conflict Between the Old and New Ways of Imagination: Another Interpretation of Yu Dafu’s Dissipation as a Literary Event”, Soochow Academic, 2017(04):108-117+2+161.
(115) “When Literature Becomes a Feast for Ears and Eyes: The Pursuit of ‘The Readers’”, Journal of Education and Media Studies, 2017(05):16-18.
(116) “Two Types of Aesthetic Modernity: Literary Events of Yu Dafu and Osacr Wilde”, Journal of Yangzhou University (Humanities and Social Sciences Edition), 2017,21(05):5-28.
(117) “The Politics out of Cultural Politics: Rethinking the Reception of Frankfurt School to China”, Journal of Lanzhou University, 2018,46(01):85-93.
(118) “The Realization of a Localized Literary Theory”, Zhejiang Social Sciences, 2018(10):123-126.
(119) “From the ‘Other’ to the ‘Master Narrative’:
The Chinese Journey of the Frankfurt School”, Comparative Literature and Culture, 2018, 20(03):
(120) “The End of the Nobel Era and the Reconstruction of
the World Republic of Letters”, Comparative
Literature and Culture, 2018, 20(7):
(121) “The Invention of Body Representation in Modern China: Case Study of Liu Haisu and the ‘Model Event’”, Literary and Artistic Forum, 2019(02):34-43.
(122) “Survival Crisis: How Can Humanities Respond to Contemporary China”, Exploration and Free Views, 2019(04):8-10.
(123) “How ‘The Longevity Department’ Get Formed”, Literature and Art Forum, 2019(08):32-34.
(124) “The Invention of Body Representation in Modern China: Case Study of Liu Haisu and the ‘Model Event’”, Comparative Literature Studies, 2019, 56(03)：587-603.
Translated Monograph
The Political Ontology of Martin Heidegger. Shanghai: Academia Press, 2009.
Collection of Essays
Buddy’s Days in the States, Beijing: China Renmin University Press, 2012.