ZHANG Zhi was born in 1971 and is a associate professor of Department of Chinese Literature, School of Literature and of Journalism and communication, Ocean University of China. He served as an associate professor at Chinese Department of Xiamen University. He obtained his BA degree of engineering from Department of Automation Engineering, Shandong Polytechnic University in 1999. He obtained his MA degree of literature from Institute of Literature at Shanghai Academy of Social Science in 2003, and PhD degree of literature from Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Peking University at 2007. He has been engaged in researches on Chinese modern literature and academy, Chinese and Western literature interaction in recent 400 years, and studies on Lin Shu and Qian Zhongshu.