Wang Binbin, born in November 1962 in Wangjiang County, Anhui Province. He participated in the National College Entrance Examination in 1978 and was admitted to the Luoyang Foreign Language College of the People’s Liberation Army (now known as the PLA University of Foreign Languages), where he was assigned to the Japanese major. After graduating from college in July 1982, he was assigned to work in the army, first in the Ta-pieh Mountains, then in Nanjing. In September 1986, he was admitted to the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of Fudan University to study for a master’s degree in contemporary Chinese literature. In the spring of 1989, he was exempted from the entrance exam and advanced to the doctoral program in the same major. In July 1992, he obtained his Ph.D. in literature. Due to his military status, he returned to the Nanjing Military Region and worked in the Cultural Creation Studio of the Political Department. He left the army in 1999 and began teaching in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Nanjing University.