Wang Yi

Wang Yi holds a doctorate in literature from Fudan University and is dean of the School of Chinese at South China Business College, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. He was previously a professor at the School of Literature, Liaoning Normal University, and lectured on "The Spirit of Wei and Jin" in CCTV's Lecture Room. Long engaged in research and translation in the humanities and social sciences, he has published dozens of translated works, including The Botany of Desire, A Green History of the World and The Nazi Doctors, and is the author of On Chinese Folk Art. His works span a wide range of subjects, from China's imperial system and garden aesthetics to ecological civilization, modern African history and British defence, combining scholarly monographs with writing for general readers. Eighteen of his titles are held in this collection.