Cheng is an associate professor with a Ph.D. His focuses on ancient Chinese literature, and offers courses including Literature Appreciation and Criticism, Chinese Literature, and Ancient Chinese Literature. He hosts the Research on the Narrative Strategy of Writings on Chinese Literature History in the Early 20th Century, a general project of Shanghai Philosophy and Social Sciences, 2018; Methodological Changes in the Study of Western Literature and Ancient Chinese Literature (1900-1949), a youth project of Shanghai Philosophy and Social Sciences, 2012, etc.
Academic Achievements:
Monographs: Interaction of Systems, Ideas and Literature: A Study of Poetry in the Early Northern Song Dynasty, Fudan University Press, March 2013; Good Poems for Children (3 volumes). Textbooks: Chinese Reading and Writing, Vol. 3 and Vol. 4. Papers: More than 30, including Inner Tension of New Poetics in Song Dynasty from Ouyang Xiu's Discourse on Small Preface, Liyun Journal, Vol. 1, 2020; Interplay of Yin and Yang: Ouyang Xiu's Musical Thoughts and Poetics, Theoretical Studies In Literature and Art, Vol. 2, 2020; Reinterpretation of Rhyme and Flow of Literary Concepts: Discernment of Literary Writing in the Six Dynasties in Late Qing Dynasty and Republic of China, Literary Review, Vol. 5, 2019 (reprinted by Social Science Digest, Vol. 1, 2020, and Chinese Social Science Digest, Vol. 2, 2020); Between the Old and the New: Ideological Structure and Republican Scholarship in Huang Kan's Reading Notes of Wen Xin Diao Long, Journal of Nankai University (Philosophy Social Science Edition), Vol. 3, 2019.
