Ouyang Youquan, Ph.D. (Arts), Professor and Ph.D. supervisor at the School of Liberal Arts, Central South University. His main research is on theory of literature and art, aesthetics and the cultural industry. His work on online literature and digital culture as well as on the cultural industry has had an extensive influence in China. He has published more than 250 articles in scholarly journals such as Zhongguo Shehui Kexue (中国社会科学), Literary Review (文学评论) and Literature and Art Studies (文艺研究), as well as over ten monographs including The Ontology of Online Literature (网络文学本体论, Beijing: CFLAC Press, 2004), Internet Transmission and Social Culture (网络传播与社会文化, Beijing: Higher Education Press, 2005) and Studies in Literature and Art in the Digital Context (数字化语境中的文艺 学, Beijing: China Social Sciences Press, 2005).
(Source: author biography on a 2011 paper published in Social Sciences in China)