Rewards and further activities: vice dean of the School of Foreign Languages at Peking University; vice director of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Peking University; deputy leader of the Guidance Committee for German Philology of the Chinese Ministry of Education; vice president of the Chinese Research Society for Foreign Literature Theory and Comparing Poetology; laureate of the Feng Zhi Award for the Research of German Literature (1996)

Primary research interests: newer German literature, German drama and theater