Tony Bennett is Research Professor in Social and Cultural Theory in the Centre for Cultural Research at the University of Western Sydney,and a Professorial Fellow in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne.He has held previous positions as the Professor of Sociology at the Open University in the UK,where he was also a Director of the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-cultural Change,and as Professor of Cultural Studies in the Faculty of Humanities at Griffith University,Brisbane,where he was also Director of the Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy.He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.Tony Bennett has published extensively in the areas of literary and aesthetic theory,cultural studies,critical museology and cultural sociology.This is an interview with Professor Bennett by Professor Wang Jie,from the Nanjing University,now working at the Shanghai Jiaotong University,and Professor Xu Fangfu,from the China University of Petroleum (Beijing),at the Nanjing University on May 12,2009.