He Ping

He Ping was born in Haian, Jiangsu, in 1968. He is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Chinese Language and Literature, Nanjing Normal University, as well as a scholar of modern and contemporary Chinese literature and a literary critic. His academic writing concerns the contemporary fate of the prose genre and the immediacy of criticism; his books include On Prose, Rebuilding the Dignity of Prose, and The Return of Criticism, and in 2022 he received the Literary Theory and Criticism Award at the 8th Lu Xun Literature Prize. Six of his works are carried in the library, spanning such categories as inspirational growth, law, management, and biography, including An Illustrated History of Gandhara Civilization, Research on the Right to Social Assistance for Citizens, Dream, Opportunity, Reform, Historical Figures of Nanning, Tea and Tea Culture (2nd Edition), and The Answer to Ability—showing that his reading and writing interests are not confined to literary studies alone.