Profile
From September 1984 to July 1988, Qiu Yafen studied in the Department of Japanese, Xi’an Foreign Languages Institute, China, and earned her Bachelor of Arts. From April 1991 to 1997, she studied in Japan and gained her Master of Arts and completed the PhD course at Graduate School of Modern Society and Culture, Niigata University. In 2003, she received her Doctor of Arts in Japanese Literature at Graduate School of Humanities, Fukuoka University, Japan and Doctor of Arts in Chinese Literature at the Department of Chinese, Sun Yat-sen University, China in 2007.
From August 1988 to March 1991, Qiu Yafen taught at the Department of Tourism, Xi’an Foreign Languages Institute. In 1997, she was employed by School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University, and subsequently became lecturer, associate professor, professor, Head of the Department of Japanese and PhD. Supervisor. In 2002, she was selected as a member of “Thousand-Hundred-Ten” Program, supported by Department of Education of Guangdong Province.

Academic Expertise
Japanese Literature, Sino-Japanese Comparative Literature

Academic Affiliation
Trustee of China Association for the Study of Japanese Literature
Trustee of International Society for Akutagawa Ryunosuke Studies
Trustee of Guangdong Foreign Literature Association

Academic Exchanges: attended international academic conferences in Japan, Korea and Taiwan
2002.07 - 2003.06    Visiting scholar at Tokai University, Japan
2011.09 - 2012.02    Visiting scholar at Daito Bunka University, Japan

Courses Offered
Undergraduate Courses: Practical JapaneseⅠ,Ⅱ,Ⅲ,Ⅳ; History of Japanese Culture, History of Japanese Literature, Japanese ReadingⅠ,Ⅱ,Ⅲ,Ⅳ and etc.
Postgraduate Courses: Literary Thoughts of Modern Japan, History of Sino-Japanese Cultural Exchange, and Sino-Japanese Comparative Literature

Major Academic Achievement 
Akutagawa Ryunosuke’s Literature and China, 1999, Guangzhou: Flower City Publishing House
Akutagawa Ryunosuke’s China, 2010, Japan: Hanashoin Kijima Printing
The Research of Relationship between Puppet Operas in China and Japan, 2013, Guangzhou: Guangdong Higher Education Press