Zeng Fanren

Zeng Fanren (Chinese: 曾繁仁; pinyin: Zēng Fánrén; born 10 January 1941) was the president of Shandong University from February 1998 until July 2000 and prior to his title of university president he was Executive Vice President. Zeng currently is the Director of the Research Center for Literary and Artistic Aesthetics as well as having the titles of Chief Expert in Shandong University’s “985” Project in“Aesthetic Culture Research” and Chief Expert in the “Western Literary Theory”Project of the Ministry of Education’s National Project of Marxist Theory Research and Construction. He is a leading professor in the field of aesthetics and a founding father of contemporary Chinese ecological aesthetics.