1973- 1976 graduated from the automobile department of Chang 'an University (formerly Xi 'an Highway Jiaotong University).
198 1 admitted to the Chinese Department of Shaanxi Normal University to study for a master's degree. He studied under Professor Ma Jiajun, a foreign literature expert, and obtained a master's degree in world literature from Jinan University. After that, he was admitted to the doctoral program of literature and art in the Chinese Department of Beijing Normal University. He studied under Professor Huang, an assistant doctoral tutor, Professor Tong Qingbing, and Professor Huang suddenly returned to Daoshan. Professor Zhou of Shandong University directed the doctoral thesis. Received a doctorate in literature from Beijing Normal University. In the mid-1990s, with the support of international funds, he went to tulane university (New Orleans) to study for a postdoctoral position in the English Department under the guidance of Professor Skoll Dunn, director of the English Department in tulane university, USA and a famous English literature expert.
Since 1984, he has taught in the Chinese Department of Shaanxi Normal University as a lecturer, associate professor and professor, and once served as a professor in the Chinese Department of Hainan Normal University.
1987- 1990 graduated from the Chinese Department of Beijing Normal University with a doctorate in literary theory. Degree: Doctor of Literature
1993- 1996 postdoctoral fellow in comparative literature, English Department, tulane university, USA. Postdoctoral fellow in American comparative literature.
1999 Up to now, he has been a professor at the College of Literature of Suzhou University, a full-time researcher at the Oriental Literature Research Center of Peking University, director of the Comparative Literature Research Center of Suzhou University, chairman, professor and doctoral supervisor of the Academic Committee of the College of Literature. At the same time, he is a professor at many universities in the United States, Japan, South Korea and China, distinguished professor.
Professor Fang is the pioneer and founder of comparative civilization culturology in China, and comparative civilization culturology in China is a new international discipline. Fang came into contact with this subject while studying in the United States, and began a long research course. In 2003, his first theoretical monograph "Comparative Culturology", which systematically introduced the discipline of comparative culturology to China and the world, was published by Guangxi Normal University Press. This book was appraised by the International Society for Comparative Civilization as the first book of comparative civilization culturology in China, representing the beginning of comparative civilization culturology in China.
(The picture shows the special page of Professor Fang introduced by the International Society of Comparative Civilization. )
This is also one of the few contemporary China humanities and social sciences scholars introduced by international organizations. China Social Sciences (20 1 1, 2 15) and other newspapers reported this progress. Professor Fang published nearly ten monographs on comparative civilization and culture, which laid the foundation for China to go global. He is called the founder of comparative civilization culturology in China or the father of comparative literature civilization culturology.
First, the father of China's comparative civilization culturology
In the subject of Comparative Civilization and Culture, Fang named this subject and made the following important contributions:
1. Initiate the discipline of comparative civilization history: In 2008, the book Taoni Civilization was published in China, which is the first comparative civilization history divided by times in the world. In the preface of this book, the author expounds the whole significance of writing this book, that is, to unveil a historical civilization, make it brilliant, make its achievements and values indelible, and make its significance stretch:
From 10000 years ago to nearly 4000 years ago, that is, from the late Paleolithic to the arrival of the metal age, there was a huge clay civilization belt across the earth. The lettering and clay tablets of ancient pottery show the leap of human consciousness and spirit, which we call "clay civilization". It is distributed between 20 and 40 degrees north latitude in the northern hemisphere, starting from the Yangtze River and Yellow River basins in China in the east, reaching the Indus Plain under the southern slope of the Himalayas in the south, passing through the Iranian Plateau and Mesopotamia Plain in the west, and reaching the Mediterranean coast. Even in Central and Central America, a large number of ancient clay civilization sites can be seen. [ 1]
When this book spread to Japan, Professor Shun Ito Taro, President of the World Society of Comparative Civilization, wrote to Fang, in which he wrote. [2] Taro Shun Ito is a famous scholar of comparative civilization in the world. He was the president of the International Society of Comparative Civilization, and published more than 20 books, among which Comparative Civilization (1986) has long been well known by China scholars.
2. A new theoretical system of disciplines has been constructed, which is an unprecedented contribution to the development of international comparative civilization culturology in the past 100 years.
Different from all previous definitions of comparative civilized culture, the author points out that this subject is to study the identity and differences of different civilizations and cultures in the world. It is a comparative study with eastern and western civilizations as the main research object, the regularity of the development of different civilization systems in the world as the center and the dialectical concept as the guidance.
3. It is the first time to put forward a systematic theory that can cover the world's major national civilizations, which is very important for the study of comparative civilizations.
1. Asia-Pacific civilization system: It can also be called Pacific Rim civilization or Asia-Pacific civilization, including China, Japan and Korea from Northeast Asia to the west coast of the United States. There is no specific route for the origin and migration of this civilization. It is estimated that this civilization system originated in the Asian continent, spread to America through the Bering Strait in ancient times, and also distributed in a vast area from Southeast Asia to the South Pacific.
2. South Asian civilization system: a civilization system that spans the Asia-Pacific civilization system from South Asia to Southeast Asia and centers on the Indian Peninsula and the Indian Ocean. It also spread to Southeast Asia, which had a great influence in ancient times and spread to some countries and regions in East Asia and West Asia.
3. Mediterranean-Atlantic civilization system: from the Mediterranean to the north and west, including Eastern Europe, Northern Europe and Western Europe to Siberia, Russia. This civilization originated in the Mediterranean and then moved westward to the Atlantic coast. There are some differences between East and West Europe and South and North Europe, but the basic types are the same.
4. Arab civilization system in the Middle East: from Arabian Peninsula and West Asia to Turkey in Europe, parts of Southeast Asia and South Asia, Pakistan, Iran and even Afghanistan, Africa, Egypt and Tunisia (historically closely related to West Asia and Mediterranean civilization). This is a civilized system mainly divided by the spread of Islam.
5. Oceania civilization system in North America: North America includes the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, mainly due to the combination of local civilization and foreign civilization formed by the development of maritime transportation after16th century. Foreign civilization is mainly the Mediterranean-Atlantic civilization tradition brought by European immigrants, which occupies the mainstream position in North America.
6. Latin American civilization system: with Latin America as the main body, the three ancient traditional civilizations in America, Maya civilization, Aztec civilization and Inca civilization, were destroyed by western colonists and mixed to form a new civilization system.
7. African civilization system: African ancient civilization has a long history, and its ancient power is recorded in the Bible. North African civilization is also one of the earliest civilizations in the world. After the opening of global sea routes, East and West Africa, South Africa and Central Africa have formed a regional civilization system in Africa on the basis of ancient civilization traditions, religions and national identities.
8. Jewish civilization system: Israel is a country re-established with an ancient Jewish civilization. This civilization is mainly composed of Jewish people and religions. In addition to Israel, there are a large number of Jews distributed in other countries in the world, mainly in Europe and America. They have largely maintained the tradition of Jewish civilization.
4. Fang put forward the third viewpoint of the history of world civilization: first, the historical form of world civilization began in the clay sculpture era.
That is, utensils, pottery and clay tablets are regarded as the symbols of the origin of civilization, which breaks through the theoretical ban of western scholars on refining industrial bronzes. Second, advance the initial period of world civilization to the Neolithic Age, which is about 6000 BC to 3000 BC. After 3000 BC, the bronze age came, and the connection between this age and the iron age was from 500 BC to 22 BC1year. According to Zhang Guangzhi's research, the Qin Shihuang era in China was the real beginning of the Iron Age.
[1] Fang: Preface to Clay Civilization, Shandong Fine Arts Publishing House, 2008, p. 1.
[2] English letter written by Professor Taro, President of Japanese Society of Comparative Civilization, to Professor Fang of Soochow University in China, May 6, 2009, 5438+03.
5. First of all, it is pointed out that from the perspective of transcending the boundaries of a single country and nation, there are four major cultural renaissance movements in modern history with worldwide influence, namely, Latin American cultural renaissance, Jewish cultural renaissance, Islamic renaissance and Confucian renaissance.
Second, the representative of China's comparative literature "New Dialectics"
Fang constructed a new dialectical theoretical system of China's comparative literature in ten works and nearly a hundred papers, including Higher Principles of Comparative Literature. For the construction of theoretical system, please refer to the core academic journals China Social Sciences, Foreign Social Sciences, Foreign Literature Review, Marxist Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Theory Research, Foreign Literature Research, China Comparative Literature, Literary Criticism Series, Academic Monthly, Guangming Daily and Literary Review.