Presentation
I hold a Master’s degree in Literature from Northwest Normal University and a PhD in History from Fudan University. I have conducted research visits at and the University of Exeter in UK,Université Rennes 2 in France, Nankai University, and Shandong University in China. My training has spanned classical Chinese philology and the study of Asian art, religion, and history, in the course of which I completed my doctoral dissertation, ‘A Study of the Zhuyi Men（諸夷門，Barbarian Sections）in Riyong Leishu（日用類書，Daily-use Encyclopedias）of Ming dynasty’, my postdoctoral report, ‘A Study of the Yuan-Ming Murals of Shanxi Temple Shrines,’ and the monograph ‘Yizhi Luecheng: Studies in Asian Art and History,’ among other works. I am currently conducting research under the title ‘Reframing the Other: Description and Picturing about the Barbarians in Ming Qing Riyong Leishu’
Research thematics
- Research on the ancient Silk Road in the context of the history of knowledge
- Taoist texts, Taoist art, and social life of the Sui-Tang-Five dynasties period, centered on the Laozi Huahu jing (P.c.2005 and related manuscripts)
- Research on Yuan-Ming murals, sculpture, and architecture centered on Shanxi temple shrines
- Non-religious and religious literary works among the Chinese manuscripts of Dunhuang, from the perspectives of manuscript studies and social history
- Sino-French academic exchange since the 1950s, centered on Dunhuang studies and Sinology
CRCAO research programmes
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