LIANG Zhan

Liang Zhan is a researcher at the Institute of Foreign Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His main research areas are comparative literature and the history of Chinese and Western thought and culture. He is the author of “Subversion and Survival: German Thought and the Formation of Lu Xun’s Early Conception of the Self” (2007), Political Geography, Ethnography, and the Conception of a Cosmopolitan World: The Genealogy of Civilizationalist Knowledge around Kang Youwei’s “The Book of Cosmos” (2016), The Imperial Imagination: Political Discourse in Kafka’s “When the Great Wall of China Was Built” (2017), Universal Difference, Colonialism, and the Unfinished Community: Benedict Anderson’s Nationalist Imagination (2020), and other monographs and essays.