Xu Yanping, born in 1968 in Xishui, Hubei, is a professor and doctoral supervisor in the field of Chinese classical philology. His research focuses on Qing dynasty literature and Qing dynasty philology. He has undertaken 10 national and provincial research projects and has published several works including Annotated Catalogue of Family Collections in the Qing Dynasty (3 volumes, 2017), A Collection of Family Collections in the Qing Dynasty (201 volumes, co-edited with Zhang Jian, 2015), Continuation of the Collection of Family Collections in the Qing Dynasty (201 volumes, edited, 2018), Elite Families and Literary Inheritance in the Qing Dynasty (2012), Genealogies of Elite Families in Qing Dynasty Literature (2010), and Southeastern Academies and Scholarship and Literature in the Qing Dynasty (2007). As a participant, he has co-edited with friends Zhang Jian and Peng Guozhong Collection of Rare Books in Modern and Contemporary China (7 editions already published). He has won many awards, including the second Chinese Government Publication Award for Books in 2010, the first prize of the National Excellent Ancient Books in 2016, the 6th Wu Yuzhang Humanities and Social Science Award for Young Scholars in 2012, and the second prize of the Ministry of Education’s Outstanding Achievements in Humanities and Social Sciences in 2020. His undergraduate course “Ancient Chinese Literature (I)” was selected as one of the first 100 excellent courses at Nanjing University.