Zhang Guangmang is the Vice Director, Professor, and Ph.D. Supervisor of the Chinese New Literature Research Center of Nanjing University, a “”Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences” of the Ministry of Education. He is also the chief editor of Modern Chinese Literature Research (a CSSCI collection of papers) and the Vice President of Jiangsu Academy of Literature. He serves as the Executive Director of the Chinese Society of New Literature and the President of the Jiangsu Contemporary Literature Research Association, among other positions. He was selected for the Ministry of Education’s “New Century Excellent Talents” support program, the Jiangsu Province “Qinglan Project” outstanding young backbone teachers, and the first batch of middle-aged and young scientific and technological leaders in the “333 High-level Talents Training Project” in Jiangsu Province. In 2005, he was awarded the honorary title of “Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow” by the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Human Resources on the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the postdoctoral system in China. In 2021, he was awarded the honor of “Literary Research Force” by the Nanjing City Literary Promotion Association. He has won the first, second, and third prizes of the provincial Philosophy and Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award, the first prize of the provincial University Philosophy and Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award, the National Excellent Teaching Achievement Award, the first Tang Tao Youth Literature Research Award, the fourth Jiangsu Province “Purple Mountain Literature Award”, the first Jiangsu Province Literary Award for Literary Criticism, Contemporary Writers Review Award, the seventh Hongyan Literary Award, and the Nanjing Library Tao Feng Book Award. He has published more than ten academic monographs, including Enlightenment, The Chaos of Modernity, Chinese Modern and Contemporary Enlightenment Literature Trend, Chinese Contemporary Enlightenment Literature Trend, Moral Changes and Literary Transformation, Between Sensitivity and Rationality, and After Literature Returns to Human Nature, and has published more than 200 academic papers in Chinese Social Sciences, Literary Review, Literary and Artistic Contention, and other publications.