Mao Jian is a Professor at East China Normal University. Her specialties are Chinese Cinema and modern and contemporary Chinese Literature. Prof. Mao received her Ph.D. in Literature from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She is also a columnist in multiple magazines and newspapers in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. She has published twenty books including Notes on Film, When the World Turns Right, A Slow Smile, Either With You, Or Without You, This Is It, After All These Years, Exceptions, Forever and Three a Half Seconds, The Tiger in the Bathroom, and Short Night, Long Dream.