Miao Huaiming, male, born in July 1968 in Pingyu, Henan. He received his Bachelor’s degree (1990), Master’s degree (1996), and Doctoral degree (1999) in Chinese Language and Literature from Beijing Normal University, and completed his postdoctoral research at the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Nanjing University in 2001. He is currently a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Liberal Arts at Nanjing University, as well as the founder and host of the WeChat public account “gudaixiaoshuo123” (Ancient Chinese Fiction Network). Email address: mhm@nju.edu.cn.