About ICS

• Lorraine J. and Herrlee G. Creel Distinguished Service Professor of Early Chinese Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, The University of Chicago

Professor Shaughnessy received his bachelor’s degree in Theology from the University of Notre Dame and obtained his M.A. (1980) and Ph.D. (1983) degrees both in Asian Languages from Stanford University. During the year 1974–1977, he studied under Aisin-gioro Yu-yun in Taipei, Taiwan. His professional career took off at the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago in 1984. He was awarded the Lorraine J. and Herrlee G. Creel Distinguished Service Professor in Early Chinese Studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations of the University of Chicago in 2006.

Professor Shaughnessy has been devoted to the cultural and literary history of China’s Zhou dynasty (c. 1045–249 B.C.), the period that has served all subsequent Chinese intellectuals as the Golden Age of Chinese civilization. Much of his work has focused on archaeologically recovered textual materials from this period, from inscriptions on ritual bronze vessels cast during the first centuries of the first millennium B.C. through manuscripts written on bamboo and silk during the last centuries of the millennium. At the same time, he also works on the received literary tradition of the period, especially the three classics: Zhou Yi (Book of Changes), Shang Shu (Classic of History), and Shi Jing (Classic of Poetry). An important aspect of his scholarly work has been the attempt to bridge western and Chinese traditions of scholarship. He has written most of his technical scholarship in Chinese.

Professor Edward L. Shaughnessy has delivered two public lectures during his visit, you may find more details here.

• Senior Lecturer of History Department at Loyola University, Chicago
• Visiting period: September 1 – December 31, 2023
• Research Interest: Gender Studies, Religions in Asia, Modern East Asian History, and Chinese and East Asian Medicine, Science and Technology

Publications:

Communicating with the Gods: Spirit-Writing in Chinese History, co-edited by Schumann Matthias. Leiden: Brill, 2023.

“Female Alchemy, Health or Immortality?”, in Situating Religion and Medicine in Asia: Methodological insights and innovations, edited by Michael Stanley-Baker, UK: Manchester University Press, 2022.

“Gender as a Useful Category of Analysis in Chinese religions: with two case studies from the Republican Period”, Concepts and Methods for the Study of Chinese Religions.  Volume III, Key Concepts in Practice. Edited by Paul R. Katz and Stefania Travagnin. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019.

“Female Alchemy: An Introduction”, Taoism: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies, edited by Russell Kirkland with the assistance of Caroline Piotrowski. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2015.

“Yi-Li Wu, Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China.” Social history of medicine: the journal of the Society for the Social History of Medicine, Vol.25(4), 2012.

• Professor of Department of Asian and North African Studies, at Ca’ Foscari University, Italy.
• Visiting period: September 10, 2023 – January 10, 2024
• Research Interest: Chinese ceramics (history and technology), Chinese archaeology, Early Chinese art, Contemporary Chinese art, Chinese art history

Publications:

“Conversing with the past: the value of copying in Chinese painting” Raffaello and Zhang Zeduan. New Perspectives on Perspective Firenze: Mandragora, 2021. Website: https://iris.unive.it/handle/10278/3741479

“The Mechanics of Change: The Aesthetics of Chinese Ceramics in the Northern Song (960–1127) and Early Jin (1127–1234) Dynasties.” The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, In Marcello Ghilardi and Hans-Georg Moeller (eds). London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. 213–240.

L’arte cinese. I. Dalle origini alla dinastia Tang. 6000 a.C. – X secolo d.C. [Chinese art. I. From the origins to the Tang dynasty. 6000 BC – 10^th century AD]. Torino: Giulio Einaudi Editore S.p.A., 2016.

Il celeste Impero. Dall'Esercito di Terracotta alla Via della Seta, co-edited by Maurizio Scarpari. Milano: Skira, 2008.

Ceramica Cinese. Evoluzione tecnica dal neolitico alle Cinque Dinastie, Venezia: Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina, 2004.

• Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Chinese Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK.
• Visiting period: April 17 – July 14, 2023
• Research Interest: Sensory history, Early cinema, and print culture of late Qing and Republican China

Publications:

Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Shanghai Filmmaking: Crossing Borders, Connecting to the Globe, 1922-1938 Leiden: Brill, 2014.

Sensing China: Modern Transformations of Sensory Culture, co-edited by Wu, Shengqing and Xuelei, Huang. New York: Routledge, 2023.

• Professor, Department of Sociology, Nanjing University, China
• Visiting Period: August 1 – Oct 31, 2023

Professor Deng Yanhua (Ph.D., The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) is a Professor of Sociology at Nanjing University, China. Professor Deng’s research centres on Political Sociology, Contentious Politics, and Environmental Sociology. Her book 《中國農村的環保抗爭》 was published in 2016. Her recent studies appear in The China Quarterly, The China Journal, Journal of Contemporary China, Journal of Peasant Studies, Modern China, Political Studies, Social Sciences in China, Sociological Studies, and Management World.

• Professor and Chair, East Asian Studies, University of Alberta
• Visiting period: April 14 – July 14, 2023

Professor Christopher Lupke (Ph. D. Cornell University) is a Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta. A scholar of modern and contemporary Chinese literature and cinema, his books include The Sinophone Cinema of Hou Hsiao-hsien: Culture, Style, Voice, and Motion and a translation of Ye Shitao’s monumental work, A History of Taiwan Literature which won the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for the translation of a scholarly book from the Modern Language Association. Professor Lupke is conducting a research project entitled “The Grammar of Filiality: Ritual and Reproduction in Modern Chinese Fiction and Film” during his visit to the Institute of Chinese Studies.

• Visiting Period: September 1 – December 31, 2023
• Position: Assistant Professor, University of Virginia, USA
• Research Interest: Anthropology, Gender, Sexuality Studies, History, Decolonization

Publications:

 “Social Work and Anthropology: Traversing, Trading, and Translating Across Boundaries”, Qualitative Social Work, 20 (6), 2021, 1415-1425.

“Interrogating “Diversity””. Public Culture, 31 (2), May 2019.

“Queering Chinese crossings in late twentieth century Jamaica: Larry Chang & the Gay Freedom Movement”. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 24:8, 2022, 1309-1327.

“Review of Lyndon K. Gill, Erotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean. “Anthurium, 17(1): 3, 2021, 1–3.

“(Re)storying Japanese Canadian Histories: Artistic Engagements”. Cultural Studies <-> Critical Methodologies, 21 (3), 2021, 264-275.

“Anti-homosexuality and nationalist critique in late colonial Jamaica: Revisiting the 1951 Police Enquiry”. Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 63, 2020, 81-96.

• Visiting Period: September 1 – December 31, 2023
• Position: Assistant Professor, Soochow University, China
• Research Interest: Chinese classical tale, vernacular religion, Ming-Qing illustrated texts

Publications:

“Chinese Folklore for the English Public: Herbert A. Giles’ 1880 Translation of Pu Songling’s Classical Tales,” Comparative Literature, 73, no.4 (2021), 442-62.

“Pu Songling’s “Shibian” 屍變 and Vampiric Chases in the Chinese Tradition of Strange Narratives”. T'oung Pao, 108.5-6 (2022), 738-777.

“On the Night the Dead Return: Five Accounts of Fatal Revenants (Sha) from ‘Nighttime Talks’ in Eighteenth-Century Beijing”, Folklore, 134:3 (2023), 395-417.

“小泉八雲對中國故事的二次加工及其創作理念的轉變” [Lafcadio Hearn’s Reworking of Chinese Tales and His Search for “Weird Beauty”], in 比較文學與世界文學研究論文集 [Comparative Literature and World Literature, Collected Essays], eds. Ji Jin and Wu Yuping, Soochow University Press, 2019, 127-42.

 “Five Late-Ming and Early-Qing Analogues of the Liaozhai zhiyi Tale‘Shibian’”, Renditions—A Gateway to Chinese Literature and Culture, no.98 (Autumn 2022), 20-28.

• Visiting Period: September 1 – December 31, 2023
• Position: Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Research interests: Political Science, Political Economy, Chinese Politics

Publications:

 “Chinese Public Opinion about US-China Relations from Trump to Biden”. Journal of International Politics, 21st Century China Center Research Paper, No. 2022-06.

“China’s Local Government Debt: The Grand Bargain”. The China Journal, 87, 2022, 40-71.

“Standing By: The Spatial Organization of Coercive Institutions in China”.  Social Science Research, Vol 94, 2021.

“Commanding Support: Values and Interests in the Rhetoric of Alliance Politics”. International Interactions, 47:3, 2021, 477-503.

“What Drives Consumer Activism During Trade Disputes? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Canada”. International Journal, Volume 76, Issue 1, 2021, 68-84.

“Business as Usual? Territorial Disputes and Economic Exchanges between China and Japan”. International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, Volume 19, Issue 2, 2019, 213-236.

• Visiting Period: April 26 – June 30, 2023
• Position: Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Research interests: Modern Chinese History, Hong Kong History, British Colonialism, Sino-British Relations, State-Society Relations, Political Culture and Cold War History

Publications:

“Covert Colonialism: Governance, Surveillance and Political Culture in British Hong Kong, c. 1966-97.” Manchester University Press, 2023.

“Remembering British Rule: The Uses of Colonial Memory in Hong Kong Movements”, in Matthew Roberts (ed.), Memory and Modern British Politics: Commemoration, Tradition and Legacy. Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.

“Chinese Illicit Immigration into Colonial Hong Kong, c. 1970-1980”. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 49:2 Apr 2021, 339-367.

“Public Opinion Polls and Covert Colonialism in British Hong Kong”. China Information, 33(1), Mar, 2019, 66-87.

• Associate Professor, Department of History, Nanning Normal University, China
• Visiting Period: January 3 – April 2, 2022

Professor Li Yufeng (Ph.D., East China Normal University, China) is an Associate Professor of Department of History at Nanning Normal University, China. Professor Li’s research centres on history of modern China. His studies appear in Modern Chinese History Studies, Jiangxi Social Sciences, Journal of Liaocheng University and Journal of Ancient Books Collation and Studies.

• Visiting Period: September 1 – December 31, 2022
• Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Australian National University, Australia
• Research interests: Southeast Asian History and Literature, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Chinese and Sinophone Literature, Chinese Diaspora, Translation and Memory

Publications:

“Language, Translation and (Chinese) Malaysian Literature”. In William Tham, ed. Paper / Text: Essays on the Dynamics of Malaysian Literature. Kuala Lumpur: Gerakbudaya. 2020, 51-65.

 “Towards ‘Malaya as Method’: Revisiting Nusantara thoughts through ‘Malaya’”. In Show Ying Xin and Ngoi Guat Peng, eds. Revisiting Malaya: Uncovering Historical and Political Thought in Nusantara. Kuala Lumpur & Hong Kong: Strategic Information & Research Development Centre (SIRD) & Inter-Asia School. 2020, 1-14.

“Narrating the racial riots of May 13, 1969: Gender and Postmemory in Malaysian Literature.” South East Asia Research. 29(2), 2021, 214-230.

 “Polemic, Reality and Chinese Malayan Revolutionary Literature: Jin Zhimang and His Practice of ‘Here and Now’”. ROUTER: A Journal of Cultural Studies. 32, 2021, 1-46.

 “After Silencing: Politics of Memory and Contemporary Cold War Narrative of the Left in Singapore and Malaysia”. Taiwan Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 15(2), 2020, 95-130.

 “Mapping the South Seas: The Communist Fiction of Ng Kim Chew.”Sun Yat-sen Journal of Humanities 41(July), 2016, 97-116.

• Visiting Period: September 1 – December 31, 2022
• Position: Assistant Professor, Occidental College, USA
• Research interests: Premodern Chinese Literature, Music and Intellectual History during China’s Tang-Song Transition Period

Publications:

 “Qian Qianyi (1582–1664): Poems.” The Artful Recluse: Painting, Poetry, and Politics in 17th–Century China, ed. Peter C. Sturman and Susan S. Tai (Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Munich: Delmonico Books/Prestel, 2012), 192–195.

Zong-qi Cai ed., How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology (Columbia University Press, 2018). Co-translated with Wanmeng Li. (Submitted and will be published by Joint Publishing in China in 2022)

Paula Vasano, “Getting There from Here: Locating the Subject in Early Chinese Poetics.” Co-translated with Wanmin Zhang. Gudai wenxue lilun yanjiu congkan 35, March 2013, 20-43.

Pauline Yu, “Metaphor and Chinese Poetry.” Co-translated with Wanmin Zhang. Gudai wenxue lilun yanjiu congkan 33, Nov 2011, 20-33.

• Visiting Period: July 12 – December 31, 2021
• Position: Associate Professor, College of William and Mary, USA
• Research interests: Modern Chinese humanities (film, media, and literature), cultural studies, and critical theory, with particular emphases on western Marxism, gender and sexuality studies, and postcolonial and transnational studies 

Publications:

“The Art of Useless: Fashion, Media, and Consumer Culture in Contemporary China”. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021.

“The Geopolitical Aesthetics: The Migrant Workers, Performance, and Globalization in Jia Zhangke's Film The World (2004).” Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature. 18.1, 2021, 170-187.

“Socks and Revolution: The Politics of Consumption in Sentinels under the Neon Lights (1964).”The Cold War and Asian Cinemas, co-edited by Poshek Fu and Man-Fung Yip. New York: Routledge, 2020, 158-173.

“Decaffeinated England: Thames Town and its Discontents.” Verge: Studies in Global Asias. 2.1, 2016, 76-83.

“Dirty Fashion: Ma Ke’s Fashion ‘Useless,’ Jia Zhangke’s Documentary Useless, and Cognitive Mapping.” Journal of Chinese Cinemas 9. 3, 2015, 253-270.

“‘Mao’s Children are Wearing Fashion!’” The Changing Landscape of China’s Consumerism. Ed. Alison Hulme. Oxford: Chandos Publishing, 2014. 23-55.

• Visiting Period: October 4 – December 24, 2021
• Position: Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China
• Research interests: Modern Chinese History

Publications:

“Records of Enemies and Puppets: Qingcha Diwei Dang’an Xiaozu Dang’an in Modern Chinese History,” Twentieth Century-China, 45:3, October 2020, 369-377.

“Staging China’s “Age of Extremes”: Divergent Radicalizations among Chinese Youth in Europe, 1922–1924,” Twentieth-Century China, 44:1, January 2019, 33-52.

‘Young China’ in Europe: Life and politics of May Fourth youth in Europe, 1919-1923,” Historical Research, 91:252, May, 2018, 353-374.

“Partyfing Sichuan: The Chinese Youth Party in Sichuan 1926-1937,” Frontiers of History in China, 8:2, 2013, 223–258.

• Visiting Period: September 1 – December 31, 2021
• Position: Assistant Professor, Kent State University, USA
• Research interests: Artisanal experience in late imperial China, materiality of calligraphy, cross-cultural interaction between China, Korea, and Japan

 Publications:

“From Epigraphy to Inscribing Objects: Recarving Ancient Relics into Inkstones,” Orientations, vol. 51, no. 6, 2020, 64-71.

“Lan Ying 藍瑛 (1585-1664 or later), Rock (寶晉齋石)”; “Fang Hengxian 方亨咸 (act. c. 1647-1678), Painting and Calligraphy (書畫冊) (after 1659)”; and “Jiang Shijie 姜實節 (1647-1709), Landscape (山水扇面) (1701).” In The Artful Recluse: Painting, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century China, edited by Peter C. Sturman and Susan S.

• Visiting Period: September 15 – January 15, 2020
• Position: Assistant Professor, Grinnell College, USA
• Research interests: Pre-modern Chinese Literature

Publications:

“Divorcing North and South: Gender, Poetry and Politics in Early Medieval China,” The Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia (JOAS), 49, 2017, 50-70.

Translated Xiaofei Tian’s chapter “From the Eastern Jin through the Early Tang (317–649),” in The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature, edited by Kang-i Sun Chang and Stephen Owen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011). Chinese translation published by Shenghuo, dushu, xinzhi sanlian shushe in 2013, 232-324.

“The Lost Learning of an Ancient Sage: the Religious Characteristic of the Flood-like qi” (Wangsheng de yiduan juexue: lun haoran zhi qi de zongjiao shuxing “往聖”的一段“絕學”：論浩然之氣的宗教屬性), Chinese Culture Research 中國文化研究 2, 2005, 48-59.

“Tracing the Dark Palace Calendar” (Xuangong lifa de zuizong 玄宮曆法的追踪), New Asia Journal 新亞論叢, 3, 2003, 1-4.

“From a Talented Poetess to a Jealous Wife: The Transformation of Su Hui and the Late Tang Literary Culture”. Nan nü, 22, 2020, 1-35.

• Visiting Period: May 21 – August 20, 2019
• Position: Research Associate, Doshisha University, Japan
• Research interests: Japanese Modern Literature, Late Qing Literature

 Publications:

《摩登哥児（モダンガール）としての中國人女子留學生――崔萬秋〈新路〉を読む 》（作為摩登哥兒的中國留日女學生 讀――崔萬秋〈新路〉），《野草》（日本中國文芸研究會會刊）第97號，2016年2月。

《賈寶玉、日本へ行く――南武野蛮〈新石頭記〉を読む 》（賈寶玉的日本之行――讀南武野蛮〈新石頭記〉），《饕餮》（中國人文學會會刊）第24 號，2016年9月。

《余計者としての〈留學生〉――張資平〈一班冗員的生活〉を中心に》（多餘的「留學生」 ――以張資平〈一班冗員的生活〉為中心，《現代中國》（日本中國現代學會會刊第 90 號，2016年9月。（收錄神奈川大學中國人留學史研究會論文集•《中國人留學生と「國家」・「近代」・「愛國」》（中國留學生與「國家」・「近代」・「愛國」），東方書店，2019年3月）

《〈親和〉と留學生――太宰治〈惜別〉を中心に》（〈親和〉與留學生――以太宰治〈惜別〉為中心）《同志社文學》（同志社大學国文學會會刊）第82號，2015年3月。

《〈アジアの子〉試論――時代に迫られた留學生たち》（試論〈亞洲之子〉――為時代所迫的留學生們）《同志社国學》 （同志社大學国文學會會刊）第79號，2013年12月。

《〈寅次郎的故事〉深受日本民眾歡迎的原因淺析》《華南日本研究第3輯》，2010年7月。

• Visiting Period: September 16 – December 23, 2019
• Position: Assistant Professor, Ca’ Foscari University, Italy
• Research interests: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature, Translation Studies

 Publications:

“L’oeuvre narrative de Yu Dafu en italien et en français : spécificités, problèmes et stratégies de traduction”[Yu Dafu’s Fiction in Italian and French: Specificities, Problems, and Translation Strategies], Lille, ANRT, 2014.

“Traduire un texte entre les langues. Retour sur l’expérience de traduction de Hong bai hei” [Translating a Text Between Languages. Some Remarks on the Translation of Hong bai hei], TRANS, 22, 2017.

“A City That Never Existed: Xiao Bai’s Literary Remaking of 1931 Shanghai”, Journal of Architecture and Urbanism 41, 2017, 92-100.

“Qiu Xiaolong’s 'Death of a Red Heroine' in Chinese Translation. A Macro-Polysystemic Analysis”, Annali di Ca’ Foscari, Serie Orientale 51, 2015, 95-108.

“Stratégies humoristiques et stratégies de traduction dans Shenme shi laji, shenme shi ai de Zhu Wen” [Humour and Translation Strategies in Zhu Wen’s Shenme shi laji, shenme shi ai], Impression d'Extrême-Orient, 3, 2013.

“La traduction et la lettre, ou le ryokan du lointain : vers une pratique de la différence dans la traduction des langues orientales” [Translation and the Letter, or the Ryokan in the Distance: Towards a Practice of Difference in the Translation of East Asian Languages], Impressions d'Extrême-Orient, 2, 2011.

• Visiting Period: May 7 – August 15, 2019
• Position: Assistant Professor, Valparaiso University, USA
• Research interests: Chinese Language, Literature and Culture

 Publications:

“Yuedu Tao Yuanming 閱讀陶淵明”. Beijing: Zhonghua shuju 中華書局, 2016. 291. Chinese Translation of Reading Tao Yuanming: Shifting Paradigms of Historical Reception (427 - 1900), by Wendy Swartz. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2008.

“Zhonggu wenxue zhong de shi yu shi 中古文學中的詩與史” (The Interaction of Poetry and History in Medieval Chinese Literature). Shanghai: Fudan University Press, 2020.

“Lore and Verse: Poems on History in Early Medieval China”. State University of New York Press, 2022.

• Professor, National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies and the Department of History, Fudan University, Shanghai

Professor Ge is Professor at the National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies and the Department of History at Fudan University. He is a leading scholar of history, literature and religion. His works include: A History of Chinese Zen Buddhist Thought: From the 6th to 10th Century (1995, 2006); An Intellectual History of China (Volume 1-2, 1998, 2000); Here in ‘China’ I Dwell: Reconstructing Historical Discourses of China for Our Time (2011, its English translation was recently published by Brill in 2017); Inner and Outer in Historical China (2017), etc.

• Professor Emeritus, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles

Professor Chou Hung-hsiang, student and research assistant of Professor the Honourable Jao Tsung-I in his early teaching years, is now Professor Emeritus of the Department of Asian Language and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles. Professor Chou is a renowned scholar in the study of oracle bone script, his research interests are Chinese archaeology and ancient culture. Professor Chou’s major publications include Bibliography of Studies of Xia History and Xia Culture, The Imperial Records of Shangyin Dynasty and Oracle Bone Collections in the U.S.

• Professor of Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University

Professor Yuan Xingpei, whose ancestral home is Wujin, Jiangsu, was born in Jinan, Shandong. Professor Yuan serves as Professor of Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Director of Faculty of Humanities, Dean of Institute of Traditional Chinese Culture, Director of International Academy for China Studies, and Editor-in-chief of Studies in Sinology at Peking University. Professor Yuan has held the posts of President of Central Institute of Chinese Culture and History, Vice-Chairman of China Democratic League, as well as member of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council. He was also a member of the Eighth and Ninth National Committees of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and member of the Tenth Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress.

• Former Member, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Institut de France
  Former Director, École Française d'Extrême-Orient

Leon VANDERMEERSCH was born in 1928, France (Department: North). He received Diploma in Chinese (1948) and Vietnamese (1951) from Paris Institute for Eastern Languages, and National PhD in Law (1950), in Literature (1975) from Paris University. His rich academic experiences include: Research Fellow in Kyoto University (1959-1961 and 1964-1965), in Hong Kong University (1981-1964); Teacher in Vietnam Middle School (in Saigon :1951-1954, in Hanoi:1954-1955); Research-Member of the French Institute for Far-Eastern Studies (EFEO) (1956-1966); Lecturer in the University of Aix-en-Provence (1966-1973), in the University of Paris7 (1973-1979); Professor in the University of Paris7 (1973-1979); Director of Research-Work in Paris Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE) (1979-1993, Professorship in History of Confucianism); French Director in Tokyo French-Japanese House (1981-1984); Director of EFEO (1988-1993); Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres Correspondent Member. His most important books include Wangdao; or, The Royal Way (Wangdao ou la Voie royale), The New Chinese World (Le nouveau monde sinisé) and so on. He was awarded the Prix Stanislas Julien prize, the nobel prize in sinology studies, in 1980.

• Renowned Swedish Sinologist
  Member, Selection Committee of Nobel Prize in Literature

Prof. Nils Göran David Malmqvist was a leading Swedish sinologist. After receiving a degree from the Uppsala University, Professor Malmqvist followed the studies of ancient Chinese literature and Chinese phonology under renowned Prof. Bernhard Karlgren at Stockholm University in 1946 and then obtained his Fil. Lic. in Chinese from this university. In the following 60 more years, Professor Malmqvist had actively involved himself in Chinese literary studies and translation and has taught Chinese in top universities in Europe and Australia. Professor Malmqvist was a prolific writer with extensive interest in Chinese culture. Over the years, he had published widely in English and Swedish on Chinese history and literature. He had translated over 30 volumes and some 200 literary pieces from Chinese. He had made great contributions in promoting academic and cultural exchanges between Sweden and China (including Hong Kong) as well as between the Western and the Chinese cultures. His distinguished achievements had earned him numerous awards, such as the Knighthood of the Northern Star, the Royal Prize by Swedish Academy, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Translation Prize.