Ming Dong Gu is Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is the author of Fusion of Critical Horizons in Chinese and Western Language, Poetics, Aesthetics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), Sinologism: An Alternative to Orientalism and Post-colonialism (Routledge, 2013); Chinese Theories of Reading and Writing (SUNY Press 2005), Chinese Theories of Fiction (SUNY Press 2006)), and Anxiety of Originality (Nanjing University Press, 2009). He is the editor of Translating China for Western Readers (SUNY Press, 2014), Why Traditional Chinese Philosophy Still Matters (Routledge 2018), and Routledge Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature (2019), and co-editor of Nobel Prize Winners on Literary Creation (Peking University Press, 1987), and Collected Essays on the Critical Inquiry of Sinologism (China Social Science Press, 2017). He has published numerous articles in journals, including New Literary History, Poetics Today, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Diacritics, Narrative, Journal of Narrative Theory, Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Modern Language Quarterly, Journal of Aesthetic Education, Literature and Psychology, Comparative Literature, Comparative Literature Studies, Canadian Review of Comparative, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, Translation Review, Philosophy East & West;  Journal of Asian Studies, Asian Philosophy, Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Journal of Oriental Studies, Monumenta Serica, Philosophy and Literature, Journal of Modern Literature, D.H. Lawrence Review and many others.