Hong Zeng, Assistant Professor of Chinese at Carleton College, lecturing Professor at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. She got her first Ph. D in English and American Literature from Beijing Foreign Studies University, second Ph. D in comparative literature from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research fields include comparative literature, Chinese literature and film, 20th Century English, and American poetry and novels. She has published four books: Semiotics of Exile in Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming); Apollonian and Dionysian: Patterns of Imagery in Edith Wharton's Tragic Novels (Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, 2008); An English Translation of Contemporary Chinese Poet Hai Zi (Edwin Mellen, 2005); A Deconstructive Reading of Chinese Natural Philosophy in Literature and the Arts (Edwin Mellen, 2004).