Director of the German Studies Center (ZDS) at Peking University and head of the Department of German Philology.

Rewards and further activities: laureate of the Feng Zhi Award for the Research of the German Literature (1992); laureate of the Lu Xun Award for Literary Translation (the only national award for translators in China; 2005); vice president of the Chinese Research Society for German Literature; jury member of the Goethe Institute Beijing in the program for the promotion of literary translation, laureate of the Award for Literary Translation of the Chinese Book-Trade (2016).

Primary research interests: German prose fiction of the 20th century, German literary criticism