Professor NIE Zhenzhao FBA MAE is Professor and Yunshan Chair of World Literature and Languages at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. Previously he was a Distinguished Professor and Founding Director of the university-chartered Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of World Literature at Zhejiang University, where he became Emeritus in 2022. He is currently President of the International Association for Ethical Literary Criticism, and has consistently been designated by Elsevier as a Most Cited Chinese Researcher, as well as appears in both the career-long and single-year categories of Stanford University’s World’s Top 2% Scientists List. He is an International Fellow of the British Academy and a Foreign Member of the Academia Europaea.