Current Position:  

Professor of English Literature

Deputy Chair, English Department, School of Foreign Studies

Deputy Director, European Studies Centre

Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China PRC   

Member of International Ibsen Committee

August 2002 – present, associate professor, English Department, School of Foreign Studies, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China 

Sept. 1992 –July 1997, assistant professor and lecturer, English Department, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China 

PhD in Literature  (August 1997 – June 2002), University of Oslo, Norway

MA in British Literature (Sept. 1989-July1992), Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China

BA in English (Sept. 1985-July 1989), Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China 

Member of Ibsen Society of America

Member of China Association of American Literature 

Ibsen Medal  (March 2002)

Distinguished Researcher, School of Foreign Studies, 2003 & 2004 

BOOK

 Henrik Ibsen and Modern Chinese Drama, Oslo Academic Press, Norway, 2004, 320 p  

ESSAY

“Hamsun’s View on Nature”, Journal of Nanjing University, No. 6, 2004

“Samuel Beckett’s Meatheatre”, Contemporary Foreign Literature, No. 3, Nanjing, 2004

 “Ibsen and Fin-de-siecle: A Study of the Artists in Ibsen’s Plays”, in Wang Ning (ed), Ibsen in China, Tianjin People’s Press, 2004.

“A Brief Introduction to Scandinavian Literature”, Criticism, No.2, Nanjing, 2004.

“ Samuel Beckett, the Rewriting of Novel in Drama, Contemporary Foreign Literature, No. 4, Nanjing, 2003

“On Scandinavian Neo-Romanticism”, Foreign Literature Studies, No. 4, Wuhan, 2003 (co-author)

“Ibsen and Chinese ‘Problem Play’”, Ibsen Studies, No. 1, 2003

“Influence or Intertextuality”, Foreign Literature Studies, No. 2, Wuhan, 2003

“Peer Gynt and Ah Q: the Dissolved Self”, X International Ibsen Conference, New York, 2003. www.ibsensociety.liu.edu/conferencepapers/peergynt.pdf

“Hedda and Bailu: Portraits of ‘Bored’ Women”, Comparative Drama (Michigan, USA), vol. 35, 2002

“The Chinese Translations of Ibsen”, Perspectives: A Study of Translatology (Danmark/England), 9:3, 197-214, 2001

“The Thematic Imagery in The Master Builder”, Proceedings for IX International Ibsen Conference, 493-500, Bergen 2001

“Dramatic Poetry: Ibsen and Modern Chinese drama, in Wang Ning (ed.) Ibsen and Modernity: China and West, 147-166, Tianjin Baihua Wenyi Press,  2001

“Literature and Culture Studies”, in Gu Jiazhu (ed.) A Guide to Cross-culture Studies, Nanjing: Nanjing Normal Universtity Press, 2000

“ Ibsen and Modern Chinese Drama”, Foreign Literature Studies, No.1, Wuhan, 1998

“The Development of Feminism – from Ibsen to Bernard Shaw”, Foreign Literature Studies, No.3, Wuhan, 1997

“Bernard Shaw --- Advocate of Feminist Movement”, Academic Journal of PLA Foreign Institute, No.2, Luoyang, 1997

“The Art of Expression in the Plays of Becket”, Suzhuo University Academic Journal, No.4, Suzhou, 1993

“A Study of the Characters in the Major Stage Plays of the Theatre of the Absurd”, Foreign Literature, Peking University, No.4, Beijing, 1992

“A Comparative Study of the Absurd Literature in the West and in China”, Nanjing Normal University Academic Journal, No.3, Nanjing, 1992

 Books edited 

He Chengzhou & Kan Jie (trs & eds) Selected Letters of famous Writers, Oriental Publishing House, Shanghai 2000

Fan Z.G, Tong S.X & He Chengzhou (eds), Yinyu Yufa Cidian (A Dictionary of English Grammar), Heilongjiang People’s Publishing House, 1994

Fan Z.G. & He Chengzhou (eds), Guide to English Test of Academic Qualifications, Vol. 2 English Reading Comprehension, Vol.3 Translation from English to Chinese, Jiangsu Yilin Press, 1993

Fan Z.G & He Chengzhou (eds), Preparatory to Test of English Proficiency, Jiangsu Education Press, 1992

 Frye; Northrop.  The Great Code – the Bible and Literature, trs. (from English to Chinese) Hao Zhenyi, Fan Zhenguo & He Chengzhou, Peking University Press, 1998 

International Symposium on Critical Inquiry: End of Theory, Tsinghua University, China, June 11-15, 2004. Title of my speech: Ecocriticsm in the Age of Globalization

International Symposium on Culture, Humanities and Politics, Nanjing University, China, May 26-29, 2004. Title of my speech: Globalization, Literary Studies and Ecocriticism

10th International Ibsen Conference, Brooklyn, New York, June 1-7. Title: Peer Gynt and Ah Q: the Loss of Self.

Invited to give a speech on Norwegian literature at the Association of Chinese Writers Jiangsu, Dec.8, 2003

China Symposium, 21st Century Bridge, Pacific Lutheren University (Washington), March 2003   Title: Under the Western Influence: a Reflection on Contemporary Chinese Drama. http://www.plu.edu/%7Ewangctr/chinaschedule.html

Co-organiser of National Conference of American Literature, Nanjing Univeristy, Nanjing, 18-21 Otc. 2002   Title: Desire Under the Elms and Thunderstorm: Intertextuality Reconsidered

Co-organiser of the International Ibsen Conference, Fudan University, Shanghai, 12-16 Sept. 2002   Title: Influence or Intertextuality: Miss Julie, Hedda Gaber and Three Sisters

College of Liberal Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, 13 March, 2002   Title: 20th century Chinese Revolution with Reference to the Film Farewell, My Concubine

Annual Conference for SASS (Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies), Chicago, April 25-29, 2001    Title:  Hedda and Bailu - Portraits of Two “Bored” Women

Ibsen in Translation Conference, Oslo, September 1-2, 2000  .Title. The Chinese Translations of Ibsen - A Look at the Problems in Secondary Translation

9th International Ibsen Conference, Bergen, June 6-11, 2000    Title:  Thematic Imagery in The Master Builder:  A Chinese Approach

University of Oslo, April 28, 1998   Title: Reception and Metamorphosis – From Ibsen’s Nora to Chinese “Noraism”

International Ibsen Conference, Beijing, June 25-29, 1999   Title:  Dramatic poetry: Ibsen and Chinese Modern Drama