Zhang Dongli
time: 2026-01-08

Name: Zhang Dongli  

Sex: Male  

Ethnicity: Han  

Native place: Jiaozuo, Henan Province  

Education: Ph.D. (graduate)  

Title/Position: Professor, Vice-Dean  

 

Research fields:  

- Sinicization of Marxism  

- Traditional Chinese culture and social governance  

- Comparative Ideological and Political education  

 

Department: teaching and research Section for “Introduction to Mao Zedong Thought and the Theoretical System of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics”  

E-mail: ctdlz@scut.edu.cn  

 

Education  

Sun Yat-sen University – Ph.D. in Law  

 

Professional Experience  

July 2009 – present  South China University of Technology (SCUT)  

 

Teaching  

Undergraduate courses:  

- “Introduction to Mao Zedong Thought and the Theoretical System of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics”  

- “The Sinicization of Marxism and the Mission of Young Students”  

- “Marxist Theory and Practice”  

 

Postgraduate course:  

- “Special Topics on the Intellectual History of China’s Reform and Opening-up”  

 

Teaching Awards (selected)  

- Second Prize, 6th Guangdong Provincial Young-University-Teacher (Undergraduate) Teaching Competition  

- First Prize, “High-Quality Ideological & Political Lesson of Southern Guangdong”  

- Second Prize, Guangdong Provincial Academic-Degree & Postgraduate Education Society Achievement Award  

- Excellent Educational Case, Integrated K-12 Party-History Lesson Exhibition, Guangdong Provincial Department of Education  

- Excellent Party-History Lesson, University Ideological & Political Courses, Guangdong Provincial Department of Education  

- First Prize, Grass-roots Party Secretary Work Case, Guangdong Provincial Education Working Committee  

- SCUT “Faculty Teaching Honour System” Excellence Award (Undergraduate)  

- SCUT Outstanding Class Teacher  

- National University Counsellor of the Year (nominee)  

- Guangdong Provincial Advanced Individual in Student Affairs  

- First Prize, Guangdong Provincial Department of Education Education-Evaluation-Reform Essay Contest  

 

Teaching-Research Projects (Principal Investigator)  

- Guangdong Higher Education Teaching-Revolution Project: “Research on Adaptive Learning Paths in Ideological and Political Classrooms Based on Deep Learning”  

- SCUT Teaching-Research Project: “Study on Large-Class Tiered-Teaching Models for University Ideological and Political Courses”  

- Guangdong Education-Science Planning Project (Moral-Education Stream): “Risk Assessment and Countermeasures of General-Purpose Large AI Models to University Ideological and Political Work”  

 

Research  

Projects (selected):  

- National Social Science Fund General Project: “Research on Improving the Effectiveness of Digital Social Governance”  

- MOE Humanities & Social Science Planning Fund Project: “Interactive Influence of University-Student Thinking Between Mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan”  

- Guangdong Provincial Philosophy & Social Science Projects:  

  – “Traditional-Cultural Dimension of Social Governance with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era”  

  – “Motives and Mechanisms for Young Volunteers Participating in Social-Governance Innovation”  

- Guangzhou Municipal Philosophy & Social Science Planning Projects:  

  – “University-Student Participation in Promoting Guangzhou’s New-Era Civic-Civilization Practice Centers”  

  – “Improving the Institutionalization, Standardization and Proceduralization of Whole-Process People’s Democracy”  

- National Party building Research Association Projects:  

  – “Risk Assessment and Countermeasures of General-Purpose Large AI Models to University Party building Work”  

  – “Research on Functional Party Branch Building”  

- Guangdong University Party building Research Association Project: “Optimizing the Intra-University Political Ecology Through School-Based Party-History Education”  

- Guangdong Provincial University Ideological and Political Education Project: “Training Models for University Counsellor Teams”  

- Other SCUT humanities & Social Science research projects (20+ in total)  

 

Monographs  

Editor-in-chief: Confucian People-Oriented Social Governance (China Social Sciences Press); co-editor of several other books  

 

Papers  

More than 40 academic journal articles, some fully reprinted by RUC Photocopies.