Wang Dun (王敦) is an assistant professor of Chinese in the Chinese Department at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China. He grew up in Beijing and received his B.A. from the Chinese Department, Peking University. He earned his M.A. in 2004 and Ph.D. in 2008 in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at University of California, Berkeley. His doctoral dissertation, “Give Me a Day, and I will Give You the World”: Chinese Fiction Periodicals in Global Context, 1900-1910—under the direction of Professor Andrew F. Jones—examines the role of modern fiction in the reshaping the Chinese cultural landscape in the early twentieth century. His research interest in early modern Chinese narrative also serves as a sounding board for his explorations of contemporary Chinese culture and society.