Li Qingben is an academic leader of BLCU’s doctoral program of Comparative Literature and World Literature, a professor in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences of BLCU, and a doctoral tutor, who is engaged in the cross-cultural researches on literary aesthetics and comparative poetics as well as the studies of the Chinese cultural, intellectual and academic history. Prof. Li has published more than 50 academic papers in important academic journals in China and overseas. His current academic interests include culture of the Birmingham School, cultural industry and cultural transmission, and ecological civilization and ecological aesthetics.