Fanren Zeng, former president of Shandong University (1997-2000), director of Shandong University Research Center for Literary Theory and Aesthetics and director of Shandong University Research Center for Ecoaesthetics and Ecoliterature, a leading professor in the field of aesthetics, with research interests in theory of aesthetic education, the history of Western aesthetics and ecoaesthetics. He has published many books recently including An Introduction to Ecoaesthetics (2010), Ecoaesthetics in the Dialogue between China and the West (2012), Exploration and Dialogue in Aesthetics in the Era of Ecological Civilization (2013), Fifteen Lectures on Aesthetic Education (2012).