Xiaoping Wang, Ph.D. (2010), University of Texas at Austin, is distinguished professor of comparative literature at Tongji University, and adjunct professor of the Institute of Arts and Humanities of Shanghai Jiaotong University, China. He has published more than 100 articles and numerous monographs, including Contending for the "Chinese Modern": The Writing of Fiction in the Great Transformative Epoch of Modern China 1937-1949 (Brill, 2019); Postsocialist Conditions: Ideas and History in China's "Independent Cinema", 1988-2008 (Brill, 2018); Ideology and Utopia in China's New Wave Cinema: Globalization and Its Chinese Discontents (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018); and China in the Age of Global Capitalism: Jia Zhangke's Filmic World(Routledge, 2019).

Through in-depth textual analyses covering a variety of media, ranging from fiction, poetry, film to theoretical works as well as cultural phenomena, Xiaoping Wang explores newly emerging social and cultural fashions in contemporary China in the age of global capitalism.