Permanent Honorary Director: Prof. Jao Tsung-i
Honorary Director: Prof. Albert Chan, President Emeritus
Director: Prof. Chen Zhi
Associate Director: Dr. Adam Craig Schwartz
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow: Dr. Shen Sicong
Research Associate: Mr. Li Jiangqi
Part-time Research Associate: Dr. Dong Xianliang
Senior Research Assistant: Dr. Richard Joachim Sage
Assistant Manager: Ms. May Lai
Executive Assistant: Ms. Shen Yanfei
Prof. Chen holds a Bachelor's degree in History from Peking University and an MPhil in Chinese Literature from Nanjing University. He also has a PhD degree in Chinese Studies from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, U.S.A. Upon graduation, he started his teaching life at the National University of Singapore and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He joined the Hong Kong Baptist University in 2000, and currently serves as Director of the Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology, and President of Beijing Normal University – Hong Kong Baptist University United International College.
His research interests lie in the areas of Shijing studies, bronze inscriptions, ancient history, and intellectual history. His publications include The Legacy of the Odes, Documents, Ritual Music, Interviews with Yu Ying-shih, Papers on Interdisciplinary Study of the Book of Odes, The Shaping of the Book of Songs: From Ritualization to Secularization, etc. He also has had dozens of papers in Chinese and English published in renowned academic journals in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and overseas. Prof. Chen is the Editor of the Early China Book Series, Chief Editor of the Bulletin of the Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology, and Associate Editor of Journal of Early Chinese Philosophers.
See also: https://artsbu.hkbu.edu.hk/about-us/our-community-of-teachers-and-researchers/prof-chen-zhi
Email: chenzhi@hkbu.edu.hk
Dr. A.C. Schwartz holds a PhD degree in East Asian Languages and Civilizations (Chinese) from the University of Chicago. He currently serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, and Associate Director of the Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology. His ability to work comparatively is a result of advanced training at the Oriental Institute (Ancient Egyptian Language and Civilization). He formerly was Visiting Assistant Professor at New York University and Visiting Research Fellow at Yale University. He specializes in early Chinese civilization, with an emphasis on oracle bone inscriptions, bronze inscriptions and bamboo manuscripts. His first monograph The Oracle Bone Inscriptions from Huayuanzhuang East. Translated with an Introduction and Commentary was recently published in the winter of 2019.
See also: https://artsbu.hkbu.edu.hk/about-us/our-community-of-teachers-and-researchers/dr-adam-schwartz
Email: acschwartz86@hkbu.edu.hk
Dr. Shen holds a PhD degree in Chinese Philology from the Fudan University. She is mainly engaged in the study of pre-Qin, Qin and Han scripts and excavated documents. She is now focusing not only on the interpretation of the texts written in the wooden manuscripts, such as the names of the ancient people they contain, but also on the historical-geographical issues recorded in the wooden slips of the Han Dynasty discovered in the area at the western side of the Great Wall. She has published several academic articles in journals such as Excavated Documents, Bamboo and Silk Manuscripts, The Study of Chinese Characters.
Email: scarlettshen@hkbu.edu.hk
Dong Xianliang earned his PhD from the Department of Chinese and History at City University of Hong Kong in 2021. Previously as an academic fellow at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, City University of Hong Kong, and Hong Kong Shue Yan University, he is currently undertaking research and editing work at Jao-Tsung I Academy of Sinology, Hong Kong Baptist University.
His research is centered around three main subjects of interest: the body, language, and materials, and how they intersect. Various representations are explored across a range of historical periods, geographical areas, and mediums: from early modern Chinese medical books, to contemporary Sinophonic performances, to Cold War sociocultural events. In addition to his academic work, Dong is also engaged in transforming knowledge into practice as a creative writer, researcher, or dramaturg. He collaborates with libraries, museums, performing arts groups, and individual artists to apply his research in innovative ways. For more information and publications, please visit his website at www.dongxlyan.com or email him at xldong@hkbu.ed.hk.
Dr. Sage holds a Magister Artium (M.A.) in Sinology (major), Chinese Art & Archaeology and Mongolian Studies from the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich and a Ph.D. in Chinese Language and Literature from Hong Kong Baptist University. His research focuses mainly on early Daoist texts and their commentarial traditions, early Buddho-Daoist interaction and interconnection, and the political instrumentalization of exegetical literature.
He recently was a Research Fellow at the International Consortium for Research in the Humanities at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Visiting Lecturer at the Institute of Sinology of the University of Munich. Currently, he is a Senior Research Assistant at the Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology where he participates in the first complete translation of the Guoyu as well as that of selected works of Prof. Jao Tsung-i into English (Xuantang anthology). Furthermore, he is part of the international research project “Global Reception of the Classic Zhuangzi,” and has several publications on Han to Song era Daoist literature forthcoming and in preparation.
Email:rj_sage@hkbu.edu.hk
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