Hu Jihua, a professor at the Beijing Second Chinese College, died at the age of 59

The Paper (www.thepaper.cn) reporter learned from Hu Jihua's relatives that Professor Hu Jihua, vice dean of the School of Culture and Communication of Beijing Second Chinese College, died in Beijing at the age of 59 at 7:24 a.m. on December 21, 2021 due to ineffective medical treatment.

The resume provided by Hu Jihua's relatives shows: Hu Jihua, male, from Taihu Lake, Anhui. He holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from Anhui Normal University, a Master of Arts degree from Sichuan Normal University, a Doctor of Literature from Beijing Normal University, and a postdoctoral fellow in Comparative Literature from Chinese Min University. Professor of Beijing Second College of Foreign Chinese, Leader of the Discipline of Comparative Literature and World Literature, Master Tutor of Comparative Literature and World Literature, Vice Dean of the School of Culture and Communication. Backbone teachers of young and middle-aged people in Beijing, academic backbone of Beijing Second College of Foreign Chinese, academic backbone of the academic innovation team of "Extraterritorial Academic Culture and Chinese Comparative Literature" of Beijing Talent Strengthening Education Program.

Hu Jihua

Professor Hu Jihua's main research areas are comparative literature research and contemporary Western aesthetics. His research interests include comparative poetics and classical mythological philosophy. His major scientific research achievements include the monographs "Cultural Nostalgia and Aesthetic Symbolism" (Beijing Publishing House, 2005), "Ethical Turn in the Postmodern Context: On Levinas, Derrida and Nancy" (Jinghua Publishing House, 2006 edition), "Rebuilding the Tower of Babel" (Fujian Education Press, 2015 edition), "Romantic Gnosis" (Peking University Press, 2016), "Offside Thinking and Poetic Space" (Fudan University Press, 2017), etc., and the main translations of "Struggle for Recognition" (Shanghai Century Publishing Group, 2005), The Politics of Fraternity and Others (Jilin People's Publishing House, 2006), The Myth of Light and Time: The Visual Aesthetics of Avant-garde Cinema (Sichuan People's Publishing House, 2006), Cynicism and Postmodernity (Shanghai People's Publishing House, 2008), Mythological Studies (Shanghai People's Publishing House, 2012), Travel of Time: Feminism, Nature, and Power (Henan University Press, 2012), etc He has published more than 50 papers in core academic journals, and his main research projects include: "Zong Baihua and Chinese Comparative Poetics", "New Theories of Deconstructed Poetics", etc.