ZHANG Longxi, MA, Peking (’81) and Ph. D., Harvard (’89), had taught at Peking, Harvard, and the University of California, Riverside, and is currently Chair Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation at the City University of Hong Kong. He is an elected foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities (2009) and of Academia Europaea (2013). He is President of the International Comparative Literature Association for 2016-19. He serves as an Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of World Literature and an Advisory Editor of New Literary History. He has published more than 20 books and numerous articles in both English and Chinese in East-West comparative studies. His major English book publications include The Tao and the Logos: Literary Hermeneutics, East and West (Duke UP, 1992; Korean translation 1997); Mighty Opposites: From Dichotomies to Differences in the Comparative Study of China (Stanford UP, 1998); Allegoresis: Reading Canonical Literature East and West (Cornell UP, 2005; Japanese translation 2016); Unexpected Affinities: Reading across Cultures (Toronto UP, 2007); and most recently, From Comparison to World Literature (SUNY Press, 2015; Japanese translation 2018). 

Mirror of Enigma and Mirror of Magic:

Textual Evidence for Setting the Ground of East-West Comparative Literature