Jianxin Ding is a Professor at the Department of English, School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-Sen University. He has been selected as a member of the “Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University Supported by the Ministry of Education in China” and the “Hundred Talents of Sun Yat-Sen University”. At Sun Yat-sen University, he serves as Director of the Language Studies Institute. He also serves as Dean of the School of Foreign Languages, Nanfang College of Sun Yat-sen University.Professor Ding is one of the key scholars in the fields of Critical Discourse Studies, Functional Linguistics, Cultural Studies, and Marginal Discourse Analysis in China. He has completed a number of Philosophical and Social Science Research Projects funded by Guangdong Province, Ministry of Education and the National Social Science Foundation. He has published extensively in prominent academic journals. He has also published several monographs, including Language Studies in Critical Perspective, Critical Discourse Analysis of Narration: A Social-Semiotic Approach, A Cultural Turn: Genre Analysis and Discourse Analysis, etc. As the editor-in-chief of Liberal Education Series, he has published roughly 20 textbooks. He is the editor-in-chief of the Nankai Discourse Studies Series, as well as the executive editor-in-chief of the journal Academic Research in East Asia.