Associate Professor

PhD. of Chinese Ancient Literature, Institute for Ancient Books Studies, East China Normal University. Master of Chinese Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, Peking University. Bachelor of History, Department of History of Literature College, Shanghai University. Research interests are academic history and cultural history of China, especially Chinese historical documents such as rare books, manuscripts, rubbings, Bamboo Strips, etc. 1990-1994 Assistant Researcher, Shanghai Museum of Natural History; 1998-2006 Associate Librarian, Historical Documents Center of Shanghai Library; 2005-2008 Post-doctoral Fellow, Research Center of Historical Geography, Fudan University; 2006-2008 Associate Professor ,Department of Chinese Language & Literature, East China Normal University; Now associate professor at the National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies, Fudan University, and member of China Association of Sino-foreign Relationship History. Book Authored: The Biographical Annals of Shen Zeng-zhi (1850-1922), (Zhonghua Publishing House,Beijing,2007); Books Edited: Collected Poems and Writings of Chen Bao-chen (1848-1935), the Adviser of the Last Emperor of China (2 vols, Co-editor, Shanghai Classic Publishing House, 2006); Selections of Rare Rubbings Collected in Shanghai Library, (2 vols, associate editor, Shanghai Classic Publishing House, 2005); Letters Written by Celebrities of Ming Dynasty Collected in Shanghai Library, (8 vols, associate editor, Shanghai Press of Scientific & Technological Documents, 2002).

Although I knew that history is a garbage can ever since my hot youth nonage, I buried my head all days into those old discarded materials such as oracle bones, bronzes, stone tablets, bamboo slips and silk, manuscript fragments, etc. I was totally oblivious of the sufferings of life by indulging myself in my works. I am quite conscious of my ignorance like Socrates while being familiar with the famous proverb‘Chi tutto vuole, tutto perde’and notwithstanding I am bound up with my hobbies. I live to follow the divine arts of poetry, painting and calligraphy, in proportion to my love for them and my devotion to them.

My research areas ranged from zoology to anthropology and archaeology in this first half of my life. In the past decade, I lay my interests in a modern Chinese scholar, Shen Zeng-zhi (1850-1922), who was well-known for his encyclopedic knowledge on ancient Chinese culture. After publishing The Biographical Annals of Shen Zeng-zhi in 2007, I became engaged in compiling Mr. Shen's complete works. I hope to fulfill this long-cherished wish, for I believe without any doubt that “injurious distance should not stop my way”.