Shen Xiayan holds a doctorate in Literature and is currently a professor at Jinan University’s College of Liberal Arts engaged in contemporary Chinese literary criticism and cultural studies. Her titles include Consumer, Memory and Narrative and Second Reality, and she has published more than sixty academic papers to date. She has previously worked with Flower City magazine, the Chinese college of Guangdong’s University of Foreign Studies, and served as vice-chair of the Guangdong Provincial Literary Critics Association. She was the seventh visiting researcher of the China Modern Literature Museum, and the first Guangdong provincially signed literary critic.