Wolfgang Kubin, a Sinologist at the University of Bonn, famous for his blunt assessments of popular contemporary Chinese literature—he described Wei Hui’s Shanghai Baby as “trash” and Jiang Rong’s Wolf Totem as “fascist”—has been designated as “Poet-in-Residence” by Beijing’s Renmin U:

今年春季学期，顾彬应邀成为中国人民大学文学院第3届驻校诗人。人大文学院“国际写作中心”于近日举行了顾彬诗歌朗诵会，文学院院长孙郁教授为顾彬颁发了驻校诗人聘书。