Editorial  Advisory Board

Honorary Editor-in-Chief:  

Robert T. Tally Jr., Texas State University, United States

Editors-in-Chief:

Xinlin Mei, Zhejiang University of Technology, China

Ying Fang,  Zhejiang University of Technology, China

Editorial Assistants

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Members of Editorial  Advisory Board:（updating）

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Editors-in-Chief Introduction

Professor MEI Xinlin

MEI Xinlin, a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Humanities of Zhejiang University of Technology, serves as a chief expert and Deputy of the Center for Cultural Geography, a Key Research Center of Philosophy and Social Sciences of Zhejiang Province, as well as Director of the Institute for the Southern Song Ancient Capital at the same university.

Besides, he serves on the Ministry of Education’s Steering Committee for Cultural Quality Education of Higher Education Institutions, as the chair of the Academic Committee for the Society of A Dream of Red Mansions, and on the editorial advisory boards of Literary Heritage and Studies on “A Dream of Red Mansions”. He has ranked among the recipients of Special Government Allowances of the State Council, Distinguished Experts of Zhejiang Province, and National Outstanding Teachers.

Mei’s principal research interests include cultural geography, redology, the history of Chinese scholarship, and the development of higher education think-tanks. As the originator of the concept of “New Literary Geography”, he has dedicated his career to establishing the discipline of Chinese literary geography and developing its theoretical framework. He is the chief editor of Chinese Literary Geography, which has been incorporated into the program of “Original Textbooks of Philosophy and Social Sciences for Higher Education in the New Era” and aims to transform academic research achievements of literary geography into educational outcomes for talent cultivation.

He has chaired/ is chairing two major projects sponsored by the National Social Science Fund of China, “Compilation and Research of the Chronological History of the Eastern Zhejiang School and Related Documents” and “Literature Sorting and Theoretical Research of Chinese Literary Geography”, as well as other National Social Science Fund projects such as “Research on the Urbanization Process of Jiangnan and the Transformation of Chinese Classical Literature” and “Research on Newspaper Novelists and Story Writers in Modern Shanghai”. He has published more than 150 academic articles in journals including Social Sciences in China (Chinese and English editions), Literary Review, Literary Heritage, and Xinhua Digest and has authored or edited fifteen scholarly works, including Principles of Literary Geography, The Forms and Evolution of Chinese Literary Geography, The Philosophical Spirit of A Dream of Red Mansions, Chinese Academic Chronicle, Modern Chinese Academic Chronicle, and Report of the Development of Chinese University Think-Tanks.

As the first or sole author, he has received multiple awards, including two second prizes and one third prize of the Outstanding Scientific Research Achievements Award of the Ministry of Education (Humanities and Social Sciences), one award of The Second “Three Hundreds” Original Publishing Project Book Award of the National Press and Publication Administration and six first prizes of the Philosophy and Social Sciences Achievement Award issued by the Government of Zhejiang Province.

Professor FANG Ying

FANG Ying, a professor and doctoral supervisor of Comparative Literature and World Literature at the School of Humanities, Zhejiang University of Technology, serves as Deputy Director of the Research Center of Cultural Geography of Zhejiang U of Technology, a Key Research Center of Philosophy and Social Sciences of Zhejiang Province. She used to be a professor of English Literature at the School of Foreign Languages, Zhejiang Gongshang University, where she sat on the University Academic Committee and was elected as a member of “The Westlake Fellows Program”.

She is currently a Vice President of the Geographical and Spatial Literary Studies Branch of Chinese Association for Comparative Studies of Languages and Cultures, a council member of the Narratology Studies Branch of China Association of Sino-Foreign Literary & Arts Theories and a standing council member of Zhejiang Association for Foreign Literature & Comparative Literature. She serves as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Geographical and Spatial Studies, a guest editor of Kritika Kultura (an A&HCI journal), and as an Editor-in-Chief of the “Translation Series of the Western Geographical and Spatial Literary Studies”.

She has chaired two projects sponsored by the National Social Science Fund of China and two provincial-ministerial level projects, all centered on spatial literary studies. Her major scholarly publications include the monographs Spatial Literary Criticism (2024) and Spatial Narrative of Fiction (2017), academic translations of Robert T. Tally Jr.’s Topophrenia: Place, Narrative, and the Spatial Imagination (Chinese edition in 2025) and Spatiality (Chinese edition in 2021, listed among CNKI’s “2024 TOP 1% Highly Cited Books”), and a collection of essays, Spatial Literary Studies in China (Ying Fang & Robert T. Tally Jr. eds, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). She has also published over 50 papers and translations in such top journals as Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature, Foreign Literature Studies, Foreign Literature, Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, and Journal of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. Her academic achievements have been recognized with the First Prize (2025), Second Prize (2023) and Third Prize (2019) for Philosophy and Social Sciences Achievement Award issued by the Government of Zhejiang Province, as well as the 2024 and 2025 TOP 1% Highly Cited Scholar, according to the statistics of China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI).