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Professor Zhi Chen is the President and Chair Professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University (BNBU). He earned a Bachelor's degree in History from Peking University, an MPhil in Chinese Literature from Nanjing University, and a PhD in Chinese Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1999. His career includes teaching positions at the National University of Singapore and the University of Wisconsin-Madison before joining Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) in 2000. At HKBU, he served as Head of the Department of Chinese from 2010 to 2013, Acting Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 2015 to 2017, and Founding Director of the Mr. Simon Suen and Mrs. Mary Suen Sino-Human Institute from 2011 to 2014. He was Founding Acting Director of the Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology from 2012 to 2014 and has been its Director since 2014. Additionally, he acted as Board Director of Wuhan College from 2018, Vice President (Academic) at BNBU from 2018, Provost from 2020, and President of Hong Kong Chu Hai College from 2022 to 2024. A Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities, he was the local convenor for Chinese Language and Literature in the Humanities Panel of the Research Assessment Exercise 2009-14.