Wang Aisong was born in Longhui, Hunan Province in 1965. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Literature from Hunan Normal University in 1985, his Master’s degree in Literature from Nanjing University in 1991, and his Ph.D. in Literature from Nanjing University in 1994. He has been teaching at Nanjing University since 1994 and was appointed as an Associate Professor in 1998 and as a Professor in 2006. He is currently a professor at the School of Liberal Arts of Nanjing University. From September 2004 to August 2005, he was a visiting professor at Yonsei University in South Korea. His main research interests include “Chinese contemporary literary trends” and “narratology of the novel”.