Mao is a professor with a Ph.D., vice president of the Shanghai Film Critics Society, and a renowned writer and film critic.
Research Interests: Modern and contemporary Chinese literature. Courses Offered: Special Studies on Chinese Film and Television, History and Works of British Literature, and Chinese Romance Literature in the 20th Century.
Papers: Goodbye Then, Xinhua Digest, Vol. 4, 2020; Of Pestilence and Love, New Left Review, Vol. 123, 2020; He's Remembering, He's Questioning: A Discussion of Peter Handke: Introduction, Library Journal, Vol. 12; Continuous Rhyme: 'Bourgeois' Between History and Literature, Literary and Artistic Contention, 2019, Vol. 10; Cool Wind, Autumn Moon: Landscape and Chinese Potential in Xu Anhua's Films, Southern Cultural Forum, Vol. 4, 2019; Can Novel Keep its Established Edge?, Literary and Artistic Contention, Vol. 10, 2018; Semiotics of Romance: Tony Leung and Three Films about Shanghai, Literary and Artistic Contention, Vol. 9, 2017; Aesthetic Grammar of Bourgeois II, Theory and Criticism of Literature and Art, Vol. 3, 2017, etc.
Publications: Winter is Coming, Very Sinful, Very Beautiful: Mao Jian's Film Notes, When the World Goes Right, Smile Slowly, Not Without You, Not With You, Messy, All These Years, Exception There's a Tiger in the Bathroom, Never Let Go, Forever and Three and a Half Seconds, and We Know Nothing About Films.
Her Winter is Coming was awarded the Top Ten Best Books of the Year in 2020, and There's a Tiger in the Bathroom won the Essayist Award of Chinese Literature Media Award in 2015.
