Cultural theory and critical theory of the 20th century, contemporary Chinese literature and art.

 Topics in Cultural Theory (undergraduate); Modern Thought and Modern Visual Art (graduate).

 Ph.D. in Literature, Beijing Normal University, 2002.

1996–2006: Editor, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, China Social Sciences Press
2006–2014: Researcher, Institute of Foreign Literature, Beijing Foreign Studies University
2014–2019: Professor, School of Chinese Language and Literature, Capital Normal University
2019–present: Professor, Department of Chinese, Tsinghua University

Monographs in Chinese:

The Limits of Michel Foucault (China Social Sciences Press, 2002)

Who is Roland Barthes (Jiangsu People's Publishing House, 2005)

Modernity (Guangxi Normal University Press, 2005)

Body, Space and Postmodernity (Jiangsu People's Publishing House, 2006)

Friedrich Nietzsche and Body (Peking University Press, 2008)

The Factory of Images (Nanjing University Press, 2009)

Technologies of Sensation (Peking University Press, 2011)

What is the Contemporary (New Star Press, 2013)

On Domestic Electric Objects (Henan University Press, 2015)

The Rise of Chinese Avant-Garde Art (co-author, Peking University Press, 2018)

Life as an Intense Movement (The Commercial Press, 2018)

On Eros (Nanjing University Press, 2022)

Affect, Materiality and Contemporaneity (Shandong People’s Publishing House, 2022)

Painting Against the Image (China Social Sciences Press, 2023)

Friendship at the Core of Intimacy (Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House, 2024)

Monograph in English:
On Electronic Household Appliances (Routledge, UK, December 2017)

Edited Works:

Spectres of Nietzsche (Social Sciences Documentation Publishing House, 1999)

The Philosophical Discourse of Postmodernity (Zhejiang People's Publishing House, 2001)

The Faces of Foucault (Cultural and Art Publishing House, 2001)

The Cultural Politics of the Body (Henan University Press, 2003)

Postbodies: Culture, Power, and Biopolitics (Jilin People's Publishing House, 2003)

Eroticism, Expenditure, and General Economy (Jilin People's Publishing House, 2003)

Modernity: The Reader (Henan University Press, 2005)

Producing (Series), Volume 1 (Guangxi Normal University Press, 2004)

Producing (Series), Volume 2 (Guangxi Normal University Press, 2005)

Producing (Series), Volume 3 (Guangxi Normal University Press, 2006)

Neo-Nietzscheanism (Guangxi Normal University Press, 2007)

Deleuze Machines (Guangxi Normal University Press, 2009)

Key Words in Cultural Studies (Jiangsu People's Publishing House, 2007)

The City Culture Studies: A Reader(Peking University Press, 2008)

Reflections on the 40th Anniversary of the May Storm (Guangxi Normal University Press, 2008)

Michel Foucault: A Reader (Peking University Press, 2010)

Biopolitics: Foucault, Agamben, Esposito (Jiangsu People's Publishing House, 2011)

Mourning and Melancholia (Jiangsu People's University Press, 2013)

The Italian Difference (Jiangsu People's Publishing House, 2014)

Towards Speculative Realism (Jiangsu People's Publishing House, 2015)

Selected Works of Foucault (three volumes, Peking University Press, 2016)

The Affective Turn (Jiangsu People's Publishing House, 2016)

Foucault in China (Henan University Press, 2016)

Philosophy of the Event (Jiangsu People's Publishing House, 2017)

Le Pli (Henan University Press, 2018)

Architecture, Space and Philosophy (Jiangsu People's Publishing House, 2019)

Representative Papers:

What is Affect? Foreign Literature, 2017 (02)

The Use and Abuse of Language in Art, Wenyi Yanjiu, 2016 (05)

The Theory of Commodity Value and Commodity Fetishism, Foreign Literature Review, 2016 (04)

Between Language and the Body, Foreign Literature, 2016 (03)

The Mode of Disintegration of “Representation”: Foucault on Painting, Wenyi Yanjiu, 2015 (04)

The Turn to Things, Marxism and Reality, 2015 (03)

Truth in Painting: From Blood-Stained Garment to Father, Wenyi Yanjiu, 2014 (04)

Friendship and Silence in Language: Foucault’s Interpretation of Blanchot, Qiu Shi Xue Kan, 2014 (03)

From Raison d’etat to Biopolitics: Foucault on Governmentality, Cultural Studies, 2014 (01)

Computers: The Evolution of Machines, Wenyi Yanjiu, 2013 (06)

Foucault, Benjamin, and Agamben: What is Contemporary?, Marxism and Reality, 2013 (06)

The Way of Watching Television, Wenyi Yanjiu, 2011 (12)

The City and Plants, Foreign Literature, 2011 (04)

Foucault, Foreign Literature, 2010 (03)

Mobile Phones: Body and Society, Wenyi Yanjiu, 2009 (07)

Will to Power: War, Release, and Aesthetics, Tsinghua Journal, 2008 (01)

Nietzsche’s Epistemological Critique, Foreign Theoretical Dynamics, 2008 (03)

How to Experience the City, Foreign Theoretical Dynamics, 2008 (01)

Nietzsche’s Existential Aesthetics, Foreign Literature, 2007 (03)

The Political Economy of Space Production, Foreign Theoretical Dynamics, 2006 (01)

Enlightenment Modernity, Foreign Literature, 2006 (03)

Power, Rights, and the Body, Dushu, 2005 (12)

The Global Fracture of Political and Economic Order, Wenyi Yanjiu, 2004 (03)

The Turn to the Body, Foreign Literature, 2004 (01)

The Debate Between Foucault and Habermas, Foreign Literature, 2003 (01)

On Foucault’s “The Death of Man,” Tianjin Social Sciences, 2003 (05)

Bataille’s Sacred World, Foreign Theoretical Dynamics, 2003 (04)

Insanity and Structure: The Foucault-Derrida Debate, Foreign Literature Studies, 2002 (03)

The Philosophical Discourse of Postmodernity, Foreign Literature, 2001 (01)

Jacques Derrida: The End of the Book, Foreign Literature, 2000 (01)

On Rubbish, Theory, Culture & Society, 2012 (01) (UK)

Foucault en Chine, L’HERNE, 2011 (France)

Body Politics in the SARS Crisis, positions, Fall 2004 (USA)

The Writing on the Wall, Modern Thought, Issue 10, 2003 (Japan)