Yu Bin

Yu Bin, born in 1960 in Nanjing, Jiangsu, is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Humanities of Nanjing University and heads the program in comparative literature and world literature. His writing spans foreign literature, biography, documentary prose, and essays. His works include biographies such as Zhang Ailing: A Biography and Zhou Zuoren, which probe the lives and inner worlds of modern Chinese writers, as well as Shiji yu Xinji, Tiqian Huaijiu, and Yilin World Classics Lectures, which combine scholarship with accessible prose. He also compiled A Hundred Years, Many People, Many Things from the oral recollections of Yang Yi, preserving personal memory and the texture of an era through interviews. His writing is grounded in solid research and a plain, readable style, balancing academic rigor with general appeal. Ten of his works are held in this collection, covering foreign literature, biography, documentary writing, essays, and law; among them are translations and commentaries related to the works of Alain de Botton.