Shi-xu is Changjiang Distinguished Professor, Director of the Institute of Discourse and Cultural Studies, and Director of the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Discourse Studies, Zhejiang University, China. He is founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Multicultural Discourses and the General Editor of Cultural Discourse Studies Series. His books in English include: Cultural Representations, A Cultural Approach to Discourse, Read the Cultural Other (lead-editor), and Discourse as Struggle (editor).