Zhong Zhiqing, Director of the Institute of Jewish Studies at Shanghai International Studies University; Research Fellow and Director of the Department of Oriental Literature at the Institute of Foreign Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Distinguished Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She holds an M.A. in Chinese from Beijing Normal University and a Ph.D. in Hebrew Literature from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel—making her the first Chinese scholar to earn a doctoral degree in Hebrew literature in Israel. She has been a visiting scholar at Tel Aviv University, the British Academy, and the Harvard-Yenching Institute, and has lectured at Harvard University, the University of Cambridge, Wesleyan University, the University of Tennessee, Georgetown University, Tel Aviv University, Ben-Gurion University, Yad Vashem, and numerous universities in China.
She is the author of monographs including 20th-Century Hebrew Literature in Transformation and Studies on Contemporary Israeli Writers, and the essay collection Putting One's Finger on the Wound: Reading Hebrew Literature and Culture. She has also translated multiple works, including A History of Modern Hebrew Fiction, My Michael, A Tale of Love and Darkness, and Scenes from Village Life, and has published numerous academic papers.
She has led and completed major research projects, including a talent-funded project by the Ministry of Personnel on Studies on Contemporary Israeli Writers; a National Social Science Fund of China project on 20th-Century Hebrew Literature in Transformation (selected for the National Achievements Library of Philosophy and Social Sciences); an innovative research project at the Institute of Foreign Literature, CASS, on The Academic History of Hebrew Bible Studies; a National Social Science Fund project on Hebrew Narrative and National Identity; and an innovative research project at the Institute of Foreign Literature, CASS, on The Academic History of Foreign Literature.
