Born on August 16, 1962, in Ruichang, Jiangxi Province.
In 1980, in Shandong University to study philosophy. In 1984, obtained a Bachelor of Philosophy degree with a thesis on Spinoza's concept of nature.
In 1986, admitted to the Institute of German Philosophy at Hubei University. In 1989, received a Master of Philosophy degree from Wuhan University for researching Gadamer's ontological hermeneutics.
In 1989, in the Department of Philosophy at Wuhan University for a doctoral degree. In 1992, obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree with a study on Schelling's speculative romantic philosophy.

From 1995 to 2003, worked in the Department of Philosophy at Hunan Normal University, promoted to Professor of Philosophy in 1997 and became a doctoral supervisor in 1999.
From 2001 to 2003, as a Humboldt Scholar in Germany, engaged in research on Schelling's philosophy of revelation at Berlin, with Professor Hans Poser as the supervisor.
Since 2003, Professor at the School of Philosophy, Fudan University, and Academic Leader of the Ethics discipline.

Selected as a New Century Talent by the Ministry of Education in 2007.
Promoted to Second-Level Professor of Liberal Arts at Fudan University in 2013.
In 2016, founded the semi-annual journal Academia Ethica and served as its Editor-in-Chief.
Appointed as a Distinguished Professor of the Changjiang Scholars by the Ministry of Education in 2017.
Designated as a Distinguished Professor at Fudan University in 2022.

Academic affiliations: Vice President of the Chinese Ethical Society; Executive Director of the Chinese Society for Foreign Philosophy. Executive Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Complete Works of Hegel (People's Publishing House Edition) edited by the late Mr. Zhang Shiying. Rotating Director of the German Philosophy Society of the Chinese Society for Modern Foreign Philosophy; Director of the Global Ethics Research Center at Fudan University.

Published more than 200 academic papers in:
Berliner Schelling Studien (Germany), Journal of Global Ethics, Philosophy and Culture Monthly (A&HCI), Dao Feng: A Christian Journal of Philosophy (A&HCI, Hong Kong), Social Sciences in China, Philosophical Research, Philosophical Trends, Journal of Peking University, Journal of Fudan University, etc.

Authored and translated 20 monographs and classic works. Representative translations include Schelling's On the Essence of Human Freedom and Related Objects of Philosophical Inquiry, Bruno Dialogue, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (annotated and introductory edition), Hegel's Elements of the Philosophy of Right, etc.

Main academic monographs:
Enlightenment Ethics and the Public Order of Modern Society: Reaffirming the Moral Cause of German Classical Philosophy (2013),
Schelling (1995), Schopenhauer (1997), Schleiermacher (1999),
Deontic Ontology Ethics (2022),
Classical Practical Philosophy and Virtue Ethics (2024),
Enlightenment Ethics and Classical Utilitarianism (2024).