Professor, Director

BA, MA and PhD, Department of History, Fudan University, director of Shanghai Museum,director of the National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies. Research areas include: history of Chinese thought and culture, Chinese ritual and the history of ritual system, cultural heritage and museum culture, etc. Monographs include: Study on Chinese Ritual System, and A Critical Review of “Reading in Dongshu”. Presently engaged in the research project on “History and Heritage of Confucius Temples” and is concurrently a member of the Executive Committee of Chinese Association of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, and a research fellow at Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology at Fudan University. Elected as one of the “Popular Teachers” by undergraduate students, and “Outstanding Supervisor” by the University.

I had conducted my graduate and doctoral research on Chinese ritual, thoroughly examining the historical development and sorting out the developmental trends of Chinese ritual. I’ve published a collection of edited works Home in Debris (1998), which explored the contemporary significance of ancient ritual culture. My research interest later expanded to the cultural heritage and museology, and I contributed considerably to the building of the UniversityMuseum by redesigning the display and rearranging the exhibits, while initiating a series of seminars. Other publications include Family Ritual of Zhuzi and Other Issues in Chinese Ritual Study (2006), A Critical Analysis of the Style of General Study on the Five Rituals (2007) and Popularization of ‘Family Ritual of Zhuzi’ in the Ming and Qing Periods (2009). More recently, I’ve attempted to conduct a comprehensive research on the history and heritage of Confucius Temples, drawing inspiration from various studies on the history of education, Confucianism, ritual conventions, architecture and heritage protection.