A visit by Dr Shi Jicheng, Associate Professor of the Center for Research on Chinese Excavated Classics and Paleography at Fudan University
(From left to right) Zhang Zixuan, Duan Chenggui, Dr Shi Jicheng, Dr Shen Sicong, Guo Qianmeng, and Guan Jinglin
On 22 January 2024, Dr Shi Jicheng, Associate Professor of the Center for Research on Chinese Excavated Classics and Paleography at Fudan University, visited the Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology. Both institutions have engaged in steadfast research collaboration, and Dr Shi’s visit served to add lustre to scholarly interaction between the two and was thus of great significance. Dr Shi Jicheng shares the fruits of his research
Dr Shi currently works as an Associate Professor at the Research Center, and his interests focus on research on excavated documents, especially the paleography of unearthed literary material of the Warring States period and the Qin and Han dynasties. On this visit, he shared the fruits of his research into seals with staff and students of the Academy, taking the Shizhongshanfang yinju 十鐘山房印舉 as an example, introducing and explaining the situation pertaining to the editorial compilation and inclusion criteria of seals. To those present, he was able transmit a deeper understanding of issues such as the manufacture, cataloguing, and circulation of seals of different types, their physical forms, and collations of their imprints. Dr Shi’s personable manner and rigorous scholarship make him truly a model young scholar worthy of emulation. We earnestly hope that in the future the Academy and the Research Center will have more opportunities for scholarly exchange and to learn from one another.
