He Ping is a professor and doctoral tutor of the College of Arts at Nanjing Normal University and a famous literary critic. He is the author of The Essay, He Ping Literary Review, The Life of an Unknown Person, The Dignity of Reconstructing Prose, and so on. He won the Shanghai Literature award, and the Contemporary Writers Review award, among others. In 2017, he started hosting the “Flower City Concern” section of “Flower City,” introducing newcomers to the literary field in the form of one topic per issue.