xiaofei matthew wei, professor of jewish american literature and american history in shanghai jiao tong university, obtained his ph.d at chinese academy of social sciences (2003) and visited harvard university (2007) and columbia university (2013-14). he has single-handedly chaired several academic projects, international as well as national, among which, the national project of social sciences for translating chinese classics (2016), the national project of social sciences (2011) and the gilder lehman institute project (new york, 2007) are of great significance. in 2016, wei became the first recipient of the annual bernard malamud scholar award sponsored by trinity university and the bernard malamud society of usa. wei has authored a number of essays and monographs. his english textbook a panoramic history of american civilization for colleges (2008, revised version in 2013), proofread by prof. howard woods, a renowned canadian linguist, and published by peking university press, the most prestigious university presses in china, is now of considerable influence in the country and has won a prize of shanghai municipal committee of education (2011) and twice grand prize of shanghai jiao tong university (2011, 2015). another book in chinese, the jewishness in jewish american literature (2009), is an influential dissertation in china on four celebrated jewish american writers, abraham cahan (1860－1951), isaac bashevis singer (1904―1991), bernard malamud (1914-1986), and saul bellow (1915－2005). having just accomplished a chinese monograph an ethical reading of bernard malamud, to be published in 2019, he is presently engaged in translating into english a chinese textbook, the history of traditional chinese ethics, which is to be published by springer in 2021.（魏嘯飛，中國(guó)社會(huì)科學(xué)院外國(guó)文學(xué)所博士，上海交通大學(xué)外國(guó)語(yǔ)學(xué)院教授，博士生導(dǎo)師，哈佛大學(xué)美國(guó)文明系、哥倫比亞大學(xué)美國(guó)研究中心訪問(wèn)學(xué)者，全國(guó)美國(guó)文學(xué)研究會(huì)理事，國(guó)家社科基金項(xiàng)目通訊評(píng)審專家，中華學(xué)術(shù)外譯項(xiàng)目通訊評(píng)審專家，上海交通大學(xué)優(yōu)秀教師特等獎(jiǎng)（2011），美國(guó)馬拉默德協(xié)會(huì)學(xué)術(shù)研究基金（2016）；英文專著《美國(guó)文明史英文教程》（北京大學(xué)出版社, 2008；2013）榮獲上海市普通高等學(xué)校優(yōu)秀教材獎(jiǎng)（2011），并兩度榮獲上海交通大學(xué)優(yōu)秀教材特等獎(jiǎng)（2011；2015）；獨(dú)立主持國(guó)家社科基金一般項(xiàng)目《馬拉默德的倫理指向》（2011），國(guó)家社科基金中華學(xué)術(shù)外譯項(xiàng)目《中國(guó)古代倫理思想史》（2016），北京大學(xué)出版社“十一五”國(guó)家重點(diǎn)出版規(guī)劃項(xiàng)目（2007；2011）和the gilder lehrman institute of american history, nyc研究項(xiàng)目（2007），參加中國(guó)社會(huì)科學(xué)院院級(jí)重大課題b類項(xiàng)目“美國(guó)市民社會(huì)研究”（2005）并主持完成子項(xiàng)目“美國(guó)猶太市民階層研究”；發(fā)表多篇論文和數(shù)部專著，論文“失落的精神家園”（《外國(guó)文學(xué)》，2005）被中國(guó)人民大學(xué)書報(bào)資料復(fù)印中心全文轉(zhuǎn)載，專著《美國(guó)猶太文學(xué)與猶太特性》（廣西師范大學(xué)出版社，2009）為國(guó)內(nèi)較早的美國(guó)猶太文學(xué)研究重要參考書）