Short Biography

LONG Qilin (1981-), is a professor, doctoral supervisor, and postdoctoral cooperative supervisor at the School of Humanities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He holds a Ph.D. in Literature from Sun Yat-sen University, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chinese at the University of Macau, a visiting scholar at the Department of Chinese at Fudan University, the Asia Center at Harvard University, the Department of Chinese at Peking University, and the University of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He mainly engages in research on contemporary Chinese ecological literature, the phenomenon of intertextuality between Chinese literature and text, and Chinese culture and literature in the transitional period. He has been selected for the Guangdong Province Excellent Young Teacher Training Funding Program (2015), the Guangdong Special Support Program for Young Cultural Talents (2017), the Guangzhou High level Talents Program (2019), and the Shanghai Oriental Talents Program Youth Project (2024). He has published over 180 academic papers in journals such as "Literary Review," "Series on Modern Chinese Literature Research," "Southern Literary World," "Literary Competition," and "Academic Research," hosted 5 National Social Science Fund projects, independently published 6 academic monographs including "Eco-China: Literary Presentation and Cross-cultural Studies," and "A Preliminary Discussion on the Intertextuality of Text and Text in Chinese Literary Research Works." Also published a collection of essays and novels titled "Refusing to Forget in Silence" (Shanghai Sanlian Bookstore 2020) and a literary review titled "Between Professional Discourse and Popular Discourse" (China Federation of Literary and Art Circles Press 2025).He has been selected for the publication plan of the Chinese Literature Critics Association's "Woodpecker Literature Collection - Literary Critics' Works Collection" (2024), the 7th "Woodpecker Cup" Chinese Literature and Art Criticism Excellent Short Comment Works (2022) by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the second prize of the 9th Philosophy and Social Science Excellent Achievement Award in Guangdong Province (2021), and the second prize of the 14th Social Science Excellent Achievement Award in Hunan Province (2020).

Project

Environmental Crisis in Chinese Ecological Literature and the World of Human Life

In 1976, China ended the Cultural Revolution and subsequently implemented the policy of reform and opening up, reintegrating into the world. Along with China's modernization process, in addition to the increasingly abundant material achievements and diverse values, there are also increasingly common and serious environmental problems. The modernization process in China is largely industrialization, and the industrial and mining enterprises commonly built throughout the country which could provide sufficient material resources for large-scale production, but also bring far-reaching environmental problems, such as sea, land, air, and even underground pollution. The environmental crisis not only poses a direct challenge to species diversity, but also accelerates the problem of animal and plant mortality and extinction, and has a profound impact on the lives of the Chinese people. People's consumption of food, clothing, housing, and transportation has brought greater pressure to the natural environment, which in turn affects people's daily lives, exhibiting signs of a vicious cycle. Chinese ecological literature works vividly depict the environmental problems brought about by this industrialization process, and also see the efforts made by the Chinese government in addressing environmental issues. After 2012, there has been a creative phenomenon in Chinese ecological literature that praises the response, transformation, and achievements of China's ecological environment. It is not only the efforts of the Chinese government to respond to environmental crises, but also the acceptance and literary presentation of mainstream ideology by Chinese writers.