WANG Jie
Changjiang Distinguished Professor, Ministry of Education of the PRC; Professor of College of Media and International Culture, Zhejiang University; Vice-president of China Association of Aesthetics; Vice-president of China Society for Anthropology of Arts; Deputy Director of Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Zhejiang University; Director of Center for Contemporary Marxist Aesthetics; Director of Professor Committee of College of Media and International Culture; and Editor-in-chief of Research on Marxist Aesthetics. 
Chief expert of Fundamental Questions of Contemporary Aesthetics and Criticism, a major bidding project of The National Social Science Fund of China. 
His main works include Looking for Utopia: Crises and Reconstruction of Modern Aesthetics, Culture and Society: Marxism and Development of Chinese Literature Theory in 20th Century, and Research on Aesthetic Illusion; the translated works include Culture, Governance and Society and Aesthetic Ideology; and the edited works include textbooks like Aesthetics, etc.
 
Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities & Social Sciences
Nanjing University
9th floor YifuBuilding
22 Hankou Road
Nanjing 210093
P. R. China
 
Tel: +86-25-83592980 Tel: +86-138-519-39072
 
Email: wjie5710@126.com, wjie@nju.edu.cn
 
Personal Details
 
Gender: Male Date of birth: 10/1957
 
Degree: Ph.D
 
Academic Status: Professor of School of Liberal Arts, Nanjing University
 
Administrative Position: Deputy Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities & Social Sciences, Nanjing University
 
Education
 
1991 Ph.D in Literature and Arts, Shandong University
 
1988M.A. in Literature and Arts, Guangxi Normal University
 
1982B.A. in Philosophy, Wuhan University
 
Research Interest
 
Western Marxism, literary theory, and aesthetic anthropology. The first to raise the concepts “Chinese Marxist Aesthetics” and “Aesthetic Anthropology” in the academic circles in China. Top in the field of Marxist aesthetics, the theory of aesthetic illusion and ideology, the problematic and theory of Chinese Marxist aesthetics, and aesthetic anthropology based on Marxism. Four monographs, ninety-five academic articles, one translation, and two kinds of teaching material have been published.
 
Career & Appointments
 
Current appointments:
 
Professor at Nanjing University. Deputy Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences and Dean of the Research Institute for Aesthetics, Nanjing University
 
The supervisor of doctoral programs in Nanjing University, Shangdong University and Wuhan University
 
Member of The Expert Evaluation Committee of Ministry of Education of Undergraduate. Member of Chinese Literature Expert's Team of National Agency Section Fund. Committee member of Chinese Academics Teaching Guides Committee of Ministry of Education. Vice-president of National Society of Marxist and Leninist Art and Literary Cri