Qian Jiaoru (錢佼汝)　former professor of English at Nanjing University, graduated from the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature of Nanjing University in 1964 majoring in English, studied at the University of Sydney from 1979 to 1981 where he received his MA degree in English, was invited by Cornell University in 1986 as senior visiting scholar and joined UNESCO in 1993 as senior reviser in the Translation Division at its headquarters in Paris where he worked till his retirement in 2003. His publications include essays in Chinese and English on stylistics, contemporary literary criticism and a translation of Fredric Jameson's The Prison-House of Language.

《英語語言文學論文集(英文版)》內容簡介：Upon the publication of this collection of essays by Professor Qian Jiaoru over years of a variety of English teaching, translating and research experiences, I would like to express my heart-felt congratulations to him in the form of this preface, which I have the pleasure of writing at his request. Honestly, when he first asked me if I could do him this favor, I was a little hesitant because I had just arrived at Shihezi University in Xinjiang as a visiting professor with new people to meet and new things to attend to. But after reading the first few essays he sent me, I felt sure they were going to make a good collection worthy of strong recommendation not only to students of English language and literature but to scholars in this field as well.