Personal Profile

Name: Xing Lijun

Associate Professor

Born in 1969 in Baishan, Jilin

Ph.D. in Philosophy

Biography

From 1987 to 1991, Xing Lijun studied at the Department of Geography at Northeast Normal University, earning a Bachelor of Science degree. From 2001 to 2006, he attended the School of Politics and Law at Northeast Normal University and the Department of Philosophy at Peking University, obtaining a Master's and a Ph.D. in Philosophy. He is currently a faculty member at the School of Social Sciences at Shenzhen University. His research focuses on Marxist philosophy and contemporary Western Marxist theories of capitalism. He has published over twenty papers, including "Totality in an Age of Difference: An Analysis of Jameson's Thought on Totality" (Jiangxi Social Sciences, 2007, Issue 10), "From Conceptual Logic to Production Logic" (Social Science Front, 2008, Issue 3), "American Workers and Kautsky's Early Concept of Social History" (Foreign Theoretical Trends, 2008, Issue 7), and "The End of Utopia of Happiness—Statist Happiness and Its Deconstruction" (Social Science Front, 2010, Issue 5). He has translated works such as Beyond the Great Story: History as Text and Discourse (Beijing Normal University Press) and The Fetishism of Information: Critique and Deconstruction (Social Sciences Academic Press).