Yin Dexiang , professor of Comparative Literature with the College of Humanities and Media. He is also a researcher at the Biography Center of Shanghai Jiaotong University and a member of the editorial board of Modern Life Writing Studies. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Chinese Language and Literature from Harbin Normal University (1987), a Master's degree in World Literature from Peking University (1995), and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature & World Literature from Nanjing University (2006). He was a visiting scholar supported by the K.C. Wong Education Foundation at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge (September 2009 - February 2010), and a visiting scholar sponsored by the China Scholarship Council at the Oriental Institute, University of Oxford (September 2011 - August 2012). He has received numerous accolades, including Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation of Nanjing University (2008), the Third Prize of the 16th Zhejiang Philosophy and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievement Award (2011), the Second Prize of the Zhejiang Provincial Scientific Research Achievement Award for Higher Education Institutions (2011), the First Prize of the 16th Ningbo Philosophy and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievement Award (2020), etc.
Professor Yin’s primary academic research areas encompass Sino-Western literary and cultural relations, Chinese and Western biographies, and British literature. He has completed research projects supported separately by National Social Science Fund, Ministry of Education, and Zhejiang Provincial Social Science Fund. His publications include "Across the East and West Seas: Cultural Observation, Identification and Choice in the Diaries of the Late Qing Diplomats to the Western Countries" (Peking University Press, 2009), "Textual Research on the Late Qing Overseas Bamboo Ballads" (China Social Sciences Press, 2016). He also published over 40 academic papers in journals such as "Literary Review," "Music Research," "Chinese Comparative Literature," "Foreign Literature Review," and "Cowrie: A Journal of Chinese Comparative Literature."
