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| Photo | Name | From | Current Academic Level | Biography | |
| 玉照法影 | 姓名 | 來自 | 資歷 | 略傳 | |
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Aizaz Ahmed 艾常在 |
Pakistan 巴基斯坦 Beijing Language and Culture University |
MA student 碩士在讀 |
Aizaz Ahmed (艾常在) is a Pakistani scholar in the first year of a five-year Master’s-to-PhD program in Sinology & China Studies at Beijing Language and Culture University. His academic interests focus on Sino-Pakistan relations and the development of Sinology in South Asia, particularly in Pakistan. He holds a prior MA in Indo-Pak History from University of the Punjab, which shapes his interest in comparative civilizational study, Gandhara–China Buddhist exchanges, historical connectivity, and contemporary diplomatic narratives.
Having lived and studied in both Islamabad and Beijing, Aizaz combines historical curiosity with lived cross-cultural experience. He produces bilingual Chinese–English content on cross-cultural communication and actively engages in youth diplomacy through Model United Nations and academic forums, fostering dialogue between South Asia and China. |
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Altan Erdem Aras 安道明 |
Turkey 土耳其 Peking University |
MA student 碩士在讀 |
Altan Erdem Aras is a Master’s student at the Yenching Academy of Peking University, where he studies China Studies. He graduated from his bachelor’s program in Political Science and International Relations at Boğaziçi University in 2023. He wrote his master’s thesis at the Yenching Academy on Chinese foreign policy during the Cold War and Sino-Turkish relations. His other research interests include Chinese diplomatic history and political theory. |
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Thorin Beard 德索倫 |
United States 美國 University of British Columbia |
Working 在職 |
Thorin Beard completed his undergraduate studies at the University of North Georgia in 2024, obtaining Bachelor of Arts degrees in East Asian Studies and Chinese for Global Professionals, summa cum laude. An alumnus of the Chinese Flagship Program, he was awarded the Boren Scholarship in support of his attendance and completion of his Capstone academic year at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taipei. During Capstone, he had the opportunity to intern at the National Palace Museum and conduct an intercultural research project concerning its English audio tour. He is working as a Chinese interpreter in Atlanta, Georgia, and enjoys continued study of East Asian history, politics, and languages. |
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Martina Benigni 林明月 |
Italy 意大利 Sapienza University of Rome |
PhD student 博士在讀 |
Martina Benigni graduated in Languages, Cultures, Literature, Translation at Sapienza University of Rome. After a brief period of study at Beijing Language and Culture University, she obtained her Master’s degree in Oriental Languages and Civilizations at Sapienza University of Rome (2022), where she completed a Second Level Master’s degree in Specialized Translation (2023), and where she is completing a PhD course in Civilizations of Asia and Africa. She spent two semesters at Shanghai University, respectively in 2024 and 2025, and three months at Leiden University in late 2025. She focuses on contemporary Chinese literature, particularly women’s poetry and the related writing and dissemination practices. |
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Nadine Bregler 傅佩琳 |
Germany 德國 University of Hamburg |
Postdoctoral Fellow 博士後 |
Nadine Bregler is currently a Glorisun Postdoctoral Fellow specialising in medieval Chinese history and manuscript studies. Her research centres on previously overlooked Buddhist poetry collections dating from the ninth to the twelfth centuries. Focusing on the transition from manuscript culture to the introduction of print, she examines how texts were compiled, organised, and edited during the Song dynasty (960–1279), particularly in light of the loss of many Tang-era (618–907) manuscripts.
Nadine Bregler completed her PhD at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Culture at the University of Hamburg in 2025. Her doctoral thesis analysed literary multiple-text manuscripts from Dunhuang, reassessing their use and value for both producers and later users. She has published in edited volumes, including Saved from Desert Sands: Re-discovering Objects on the Silk Roads (Brill, 2024), where she discusses the handling and use of manuscripts as objects, and Graffiti Scratched, Scrawled, Sprayed: Towards a Cross-Cultural Understanding (De Gruyter, 2023), in which she examines Chinese graffiti in Dunhuang. |
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Michael Cavayero 柯偉業 |
USA 美國 Peking University |
Working 在職 |
Michael Cavayero is Assistant Professor and Research Professor of Chinese Art History and Theory at Peking University’s School of Arts. He is also cross-appointed as Research Professor at the Research Center for Aesthetics and Aesthetic Education at Peking University. His main research and teaching interests center on the interrelationship between art and religion, with a focus on the impact of Buddhist philosophy, art, and aesthetics on premodern Chinese aesthetics and painting theory.
柯偉業（Michael Cavayero），北京大學藝術學院助理教授、研究員、博士生導師，北京大學美學與美育研究中心研究員。曾任北京大學外國語學院南亞學系博雅博士後、北京大學佛教典籍與藝術研究中心助理研究員。2023年聯合國教育、科學及文化組織（UNESCO）“絲綢之路青年研究基金”獲得者。主要研究美術史、佛教史。著有 Disciplinary Rituals in Dunhuang Buddhism （Brill, 2023）（譯著），並在 Religions、《北京大學學報(哲學社會科學版)》《世界宗教研究》《新美術》等期刊發表論文。近二十年來，其藝術作品亦多次被國際一流美術館、藝術機構及私人藏家展覽與收藏。 |
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Ven Godamune Chullanaga Thero | Sri Lanka 斯里蘭卡 Banaras Hindu University (BHU) |
PhD student 博士在讀 |
Ven Godamune Chullanaga Thero is a Theravada Buddhist monk and scholar currently pursuing a PhD in Pali and Buddhist Studies at Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, India. He holds an MA in Buddhist Philosophy from the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, a Master of Buddhist Studies from the University of Hong Kong, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Education and Master of Education from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.His research interests include the comparative study of Theravada tradition, with a focus on Buddhist counselling practice and mindfulness-based education. He works to integrate classical Buddhist contemplative frameworks with contemporary approaches to mental well-being and learning.Ven Chullanaga worked as a secondary school teacher and visiting lecturer in Sri Lanka. He has presented his research at several international conferences and is committed to fostering cross-cultural dialogue between Buddhist traditions and modern educational systems. |
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Cristian de Silveria 陳天武 |
Brazil 巴西 Peking University |
MA student 碩士在讀 |
Cristian de Silveira is a PhD student in Art History at Peking University. His research focuses on transcultural exchanges along the Silk Road, particularly through the reception and transformative nature of Buddhist iconography in Chinese visual culture. By the integration of various comparative methodologies, semiotics through interdisciplinary frameworks, and material analysis, he hopes to frame his work as a way to challenge simplistic narratives of diffusionistic cultural exchanges, and superficial interpretations over religious image production. |
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Necati Demircan | Turkey 土耳其 Shanghai University |
PhD student 博士在讀 |
Necati Demircan received his bachelor’s degree from the International Relations at Sakarya University in 2017. From 2018 to 2021, he completed his master’s degree in International Relations and Diplomacy at Shanghai University. Demircan is currently a PhD candidate in the Global Studies at Shanghai University. He is also an editorial board member of Belt and Road Initiative Quarterly (BRIQ). |
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Jonah Dunch 唐約拿 |
Canada 加拿大 Peking University |
MA student 碩士在讀 |
Hailing from Edmonton, Canada, Jonah Dunch has studied and worked at educational institutions on both sides of the Pacific. He is currently a Yenching Scholar at Peking University, where he is studying classical Chinese thought and culture on the Philosophy and Religion track. Prior to coming to the Yenching Academy, he completed a BA Honors in Philosophy at the University of Alberta, studied Chinese language at the Taiwan Normal University Mandarin Training Center, completed an MA in Philosophy at the University of Toronto, and worked as a Global Writing and Speaking Fellow at NYU Shanghai. Jonah’s primary research interests are in metaethics and moral psychology, particularly the normativity of the emotions, and in the history of Chinese philosophy, particularly the late classical Confucian thinker Xunzi. With a background in theatre and cultural journalism, he is an associate editor at The Hinternet, an online magazine of essays and fiction. |
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Andrea Fülöp 傅春桃 |
Hungary 匈牙利 Eötvös Loránd University |
Working 在職 |
Andrea Fülöp, born in Hungary in 1968, is a Sinologist and language educator. She graduated from the Department of Chinese at Eötvös Loránd University, where she later pursued doctoral studies, and was also awarded a scholarship for further study at Nanjing Normal University. Her career spans academic research, language teaching, and cross-cultural communication, with a longstanding commitment to the reciprocal teaching and promotion of Chinese and Hungarian.
She has worked as a language instructor, dictionary editor, and translator and manager in corporate settings, and is currently teaching at Eötvös Loránd University and the Confucius Institute. Her research initially focused on the customs and cultures of China’s various ethnic groups, later expanding into the field of Chinese religious history, with particular attention to the development of Daoism and Buddhism, as well as the historical and intellectual foundations of qigong traditions (such as the Zhongyuan and Emei lineages). Drawing on her extensive teaching experience, she has in recent years developed a strong interest in comparative studies of Chinese and Hungarian, especially in terms of linguistic structure and pedagogy, and plans to consolidate these insights into future academic publications and teaching materials. 傅春桃 (Fülöp Andrea)，1968年生於匈牙利，漢學家與語言教育者。畢業於羅蘭大學中文系，後於該校從事博士研究，並曾獲南京師範大學獎學金進修。其職業生涯橫跨學術研究、語言教學與跨文化交流多個領域，長期致力於漢語與匈牙利語的雙向教學與推廣。曾任語言學校教師、詞典編輯及企業翻譯與管理人員，現於羅蘭大學及孔子學院任教。其研究興趣始於中國各民族風俗文化，後拓展至中國宗教史領域，尤其關注道教與佛教的發展脈絡，並延伸至氣功傳統（如中原與峨眉體系）的歷史與思想背景。同時，她在長期教學實踐中積累了豐富經驗，近年來尤爲關注漢語與匈牙利語在語言結構與教學方法上的比較研究，計劃將相關成果整理爲教材與學術著述。 |
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Jesse Green | United States 美國 Yale University |
PhD student 博士在讀 |
Jesse Green is a sinologist with research interests in book history, culture, connoisseurship, as well as material culture, literary history, and women writers. He received his BA in Chinese and Asian Studies at UC Berkeley and his MA in classical Chinese literature at Fudan University in Shanghai. He is a PhD candidate at Yale University. His dissertation, tentatively titled “Books and Power Dynamics in Early Modern China” analyzes the problematic relationship between books and power in late Ming to early Qing China, focusing on Qian Qianyi as the central case. |
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Phoebe Haines | United Kingdom 英國 / United States 美國 Peking University |
PhD student 博士在讀 |
Phoebe Zhao Haines is a PhD candidate at Peking University’s School of Arts, and a graduate of the University of Cambridge, the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, and Tsinghua University. A mezzo-soprano opera singer, she made her debut at the Salzburg Festival in 2014 and has performed in more than thirty countries, including major stages and TV programmes in China. She recently appeared in the ‘Echoes of Tang Poetry’ concerts with the Philadelphia Orchestra at Beijing’s NCPA and New York’s Lincoln Center. Her research interests include xiqu, Chinese art song, and the lived experiences and professional realities of performers. |
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Matthew Hale | United States 美國 Harvard University |
Working 在職 |
Matthew A. Hale is a translator, editor, researcher, and writer currently based in Nashville, Tennessee, after having lived in China for fifteen years. His recent work has focused on academic texts dealing with Buddhism, history, anthropology, and social movements. Hale’s Ph.D. dissertation examined several smallholder organizations in China’s New Rural Reconstruction Movement from 2006 to 2012. He has studied Modern Chinese since the 1990s, Literary and Buddhist Chinese since the 2000s, and a few other languages, including Classical and Modern Tibetan. His personal interests include birdwatching, Ashtanga yoga, communist theory, and the intersection between Buddhism, activism, and mental health. |
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Dávid Jónás 嚴達翰 |
Hungary 匈牙利 Eötvös Loránd University |
Working 在職 |
Dávid Jónás 嚴達翰 is an Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Chinese Studies, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) and a final-year PhD candidate in the Chinese Studies programme at ELTE. He teaches Modern and Classical Chinese, as well as courses on Chinese and Tibetan Buddhism.
His research focuses on Chinese and Tibetan Buddhism, with particular emphasis on Chinese Buddhist philology. His doctoral dissertation examines the three Chinese translations of Nāgārjuna’s Suhṛllekha (Letter to a Friend). As part of the ELTE ‘Hungarian Tripiṭaka’ project, he is translating Buddhist sutras into Hungarian, including Pure Land texts and the Lotus Sūtra. He has advanced proficiency in Chinese (HSK5), Japanese (JLPT N2), and Tibetan. |
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Jeffrey Kotyk 康傑夫 |
Canada 加拿大 Max Planck Institute for the History of Science |
Working 在職 |
Jeffrey Kotyk is a Research Scholar and Group Leader of the “Heavens in Your Hand” project at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. His research focuses on East Asian Buddhism, the history of astronomy, and transregional exchanges between China and Japan. He received his PhD from Leiden University in 2017, specializing in Buddhist astrology and calendrical science in the Tang dynasty. In 2024, he published the monograph Sino-Iranian and Sino-Arabian Relations in Late Antiquity and completed two translations for the BDK English Tripiṭaka series. He is currently writing a major monograph on astronomy and cosmology in China and Japan. He reads Classical Chinese and Japanese, and his research emphasizes primary sources and cross-cultural analysis.
康傑夫，現任德國馬克斯·普朗克科學史研究所研究學者及“手中之天”項目組長。主要研究領域為東亞佛教、天文學史與中日跨區域交流史。2017年獲荷蘭萊頓大學博士學位，專攻唐代佛教占星術與天文曆法。2024年出版專著《晚古中伊中阿關係》，並完成兩部BDK英譯佛典。目前正撰寫關於中日天文學與宇宙論的專著。精通古典漢語與日語，研究注重原始文獻與跨文化比較。 |
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Elena Kozhevnikova 列娜 |
Russia 俄羅斯 Peking University |
PhD student 博士在讀 |
I am Elena Kozhevnikova (列娜), originally from Russia, a PhD candidate at Peking University’s School of Chinese as a Second Language, where I specialise in applied linguistics and second language acquisition of definiteness in L2 Chinese. Supported by the New Sinology Fellowship (Hanban Full Scholarship), my work bridges cognitive linguistics, applied linguistics, and translation studies. I hold a B.A. in Chinese and English translation and Oriental Studies from Far Eastern Federal University, and an M.A. in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language from Peking University. With over 10 years of teaching experience in China, I am trilingual in Russian, Chinese, and English and am passionate about multilingual education, cross-cultural exchange, and second-language acquisition. |
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Roman Lashin 張力允 |
Russia 俄羅斯 Sun Yat-sen University |
Postdoctoral Fellow 博士後 |
Roman Lashin (張力允) is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Chinese, Sun Yat-sen University Zhuhai. He completed his PhD in Chinese Literature at Hong Kong Baptist University, supported by the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme, and his MA in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature at Zhejiang University. His research interests lie at the intersection of Chinese literature and intellectual history, comparative and world literature, and critical university studies. His peer-reviewed work has appeared in Hong Kong Studies, the Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies (2024 Young Scholar Award Finalist), and Writing Chinese. |
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Johanna LIDÉN 李珊娜 |
Stockholm University 斯德哥爾摩大學 / University of Hamburg 漢堡大學 |
Postdoctoral Fellow 博士後 |
Johanna Lidén, Post-doctoral Fellow at Stockholm University/Hamburg University. Her doctoral research on Taizhou Confucianism (Thesis title: “The Taizhou Movement: Being Mindful in Sixteenth Century China”) has in her present post-doctoral project broadened to include the link between Neo-Confucianism and education. In 2013, Johanna spent six months as a visiting scholar at the University of British Columbia. Her interest in Confucianism goes back to studies in Chinese Philosophy at Nanjing University and her experience of ‘educational reality’ derives from many years employment as an Upper Secondary School teacher in Stockholm. |
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Rodolfo Maggio 馬道夫 |
Italy 意大利 University of Helsinki |
Postdoctoral Fellow 博士後 |
Rodolfo Maggio is an anthropologist of the Asia-Pacific region currently working at the University of Helsinki. Since 2011, he has been conducting ethnographic fieldwork in the Solomon Islands, with a focus on intercultural relations, moral economy, and religion. He is a member of the ERC Project “Properties of Units and Standards”. During his most recent field trips in 2024 and 2026, he researched the Chinese presence and influence in Honiara, Marovo Lagoon, and Malaita. Besides his forthcoming publications, this work is featured in Global Knowledge Production about China by Julie Chen (2026: 190-91), Garland Magazine, and the Nordic Asia Podcast. |
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Joseph Walsh Millette | United States 美國 Columbia University |
PhD student 博士在讀 |
Walsh Millette is a PhD candidate in the department of art history and archaeology at Columbia University in New York. He studies art and architecture of the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties, and for his dissertation is preparing a site study of the Daoist ritual complex at Mount Wudang in today’s Hubei province. Before joining Columbia, he was a Yenching fellow at Peking University, where he also received the China Government Scholarship, and where he completed a masters thesis on late nineteenth century landscape photography from Xinjiang. |
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Ishati Motla | India 印度 / Germany 德國 Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) |
Visiting Scholar 訪問學者/ PhD student 博士在讀 |
Ishati Motla is a Ph.D. candidate in Buddhist Studies at Nava Nalanda Mahavihara, India. Her doctoral research, titled “Food, Dietary Habits and Monastic Codes as Reflected in Pāli Literature,” examines the ethical and disciplinary dimensions of food practices in early Buddhist monasticism. Working with primary sources such as the Vinaya Piṭaka and Nikāyas, her research analyzes how dietary regulations reflect core Buddhist principles including moderation, non-harm, and renunciation. Her broader interests include early Buddhist ethics, monastic discipline, and Pāli textual traditions. She has presented her research at international conferences, including the International Association of Buddhist Studies (IABS). |
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Michael Norton 諾麥克 |
USA 美國 Harvard University |
PhD student 博士在讀 |
Michael Norton is a PhD Candidate in History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. Prior to beginning his doctoral work, he received his MA from Tsinghua University (2019), where he studied Chinese Buddhist art and archaeology of the Northern and Southern Dynasties. He received his BA in Chinese Language and Asian Studies with a minor in Art History from Vassar College (2014). His research addresses Buddhist cosmological imagery, ecological themes in sculpture and painting, and visual depictions of sound and acoustic motifs. in mediating the relationship between the body and the cosmos. Additionally, he is interested in the representation of gender in Chinese painting, the role of zoomorphic and environmental imagery in sculpture and painting, and visual depictions of sound and acoustic motifs. He has previously worked as a visiting instructor at both Boston College and Vassar College.
諾麥克是美國哈佛大學藝術與建築史系的博士生。2019年畢業於清華大學美術學院藝術史論系，獲得碩士學位，研究中國南北朝佛教美術考古。2014年自美國瓦薩學院（Vassar College）獲得學士學位，主修中國語言與亞洲研究，並輔修藝術史。他的博士論文以中國佛教宇宙圖像為核心，探討其在佛教壁畫、雕塑等媒體中如何調和身體與宇宙的關係。此外，他對中國繪畫中性別表現、雕塑與繪畫中的動物形象與環境題材以及聲音與聲學主題的視覺再現亦有興趣。他曾在美國波士頓學院與瓦薩學院擔任訪問講師，講授「中國藝術史」、「佛教美術考古」等課程。 |
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Benjamin Porteous 熊本恩 |
United States 美國 Yale University |
PhD student 博士在讀 |
Ben studies the intellectual history of ancient and early medieval China and the Western Classical world. He has particular interests in early Buddhist literature in Chinese, Dunhuang manuscripts, commentary, and cosmology. His work has appeared in Sino-Platonic Papers, Harvard Library Bulletin, 日本古写経研究所研究紀要 and 印度學佛教學. He works with sources in Classical Chinese, Classical Greek, and Latin. Ben is currently enrolled in a joint Phd between the Departments of Religious Studies and Classics at Yale University. Before Yale, Ben completed his BA Hons and MA in East Asian Studies at Harvard University (where his thesis won the Joseph Fletcher Prize) and taught modern Chinese for a year in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, also at Harvard. |
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Rev Sandamadulle Sumanasara Thero 常龍法師 |
Sri Lanka 斯里蘭卡 Fudan University |
PhD student 博士在讀 |
Rev Sandamadulle Sumansara Thero (常龍) is a Sri Lankan scholar, lecturer, and researcher specializing in Buddhist studies and Chinese philosophy. He holds dual bachelor’s degrees in Pali and Sanskrit, and Sinhala languages from the Oriental Society in Sri Lanka, and in Chinese Language and Literature from Beijing Language and Culture University. He also holds a Master’s degree in Buddhist Studies from the University of Kelaniya and completed a second Master’s degree in Chinese Philosophy (Taoism) at Sun Yat-sen University. He is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Religious Studies (Yogācāra) at Fudan University. Professionally, he began his career as a Pali instructor and has worked as a Chinese language lecturer and Head of the Chinese Department at ICBN Campus. He is also the founder and president of Chinese language and cultural center in Sri Lanka, promoting cross-cultural understanding. He has translated and published works including 《論語》, 《大學》, 《中庸》, 《道德經》, and 《四十二章經》, and has published several research papers including indexed journal. His research focuses on comparative philosophy, particularly the dialogue between Chinese Buddhism and Theravāda traditions. |
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Morgan Rocks | United States 美國 College of the Holy Cross |
Working 在職 |
Morgan Rocks is currently a visiting assistant professor at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. He teaches courses in Asian history in the history department and the college’s Montserrat Program for first-year students. He researches Chinese anarchists, the networks of correspondence and print culture in which they enmeshed themselves over the first half of the 20th century and how various anarchists in China imagined revolutionary possibilities. His current project traces these flows of letters, books, and journals between anarchists in China and North America and how ideas of anarchism and radical possibility transformed after 1949. |
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Richard J. Sage 杰螞 |
Germany 德國 |
Independent Scholar/Lecturer 獨立學者/講師 |
Richard J. Sage, Ph.D., is an independent scholar and translator. He previously held research and teaching positions at the University of Hong Kong, the University of Munich, the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg, and the Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology, Hong Kong Baptist University. A scholar of Chinese intellectual history, philosophy, and religions, he studies Daoist traditions and their intersections with Buddhist and Confucian thought, focusing on hermeneutics, textual practices, and the political instrumentalization of the ancient Chinese textual corpus. His work has appeared in T’oung Pao and Asia Major and includes contributions to translation and edited volumes, such as Bloomsbury’s Cultural History of Chinese Literatures and De Gruyter’s Works of Philosophy and Their Reception. |
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Michael Schonken 司邁恩 |
United States 美國 Tsinghua University |
PhD student 博士在讀 |
Michael Schonken is a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at Tsinghua University, Beijing, specialising in comparative studies of Chinese and Western religious and philosophical traditions. He holds a bachelor’s degree in cultural anthropology and a master’s degree in education, and integrates these interdisciplinary backgrounds into his research. His work examines how long-standing religious and philosophical systems are reinterpreted in response to new understandings of gender while remaining grounded in their historical values. His academic interests include, Chinese Buddhist and Daoist philosophy, Christian theology, and ethics, with a particular focus on sexuality, hermeneutics, and comparative religious thought. |
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Valeriia Solostova 靈風 |
Russia 俄羅斯 Kazan Federal University |
Working 在職 |
Valeriia Solostova is an independent sinologist specialising in historical Chinese linguistics and East Asian language contact. She holds a B.A. in Oriental and African Studies from Kazan Federal University, where she graduated with highest honors. Her research explores how sustained contact with Inner Asian and Buddhist traditions shaped the Chinese language across the imperial period. She is particularly interested in Buddhist translation, northern Chinese varieties, and the social life of literary genres. She is currently investigating Manchu-influenced Mandarin as a socially recognized contact variety in late Qing Beijing, focusing on bannermen performance genres and administrative texts as key sites of linguistic transmission. |
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Balázs Szigethy 孔茗 |
Hungary 匈牙利 Eötvös Loránd University |
PhD student 博士在讀 |
Balázs Szigethy is a PhD student at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), with a Master’s degree in Economics. His academic background combines humanities, linguistics, and applied interdisciplinary research. Before entering doctoral studies, he worked for fourteen years in the film industry, gaining extensive experience in large-scale project coordination, cross-cultural collaboration, and narrative structures. In parallel, he has long been engaged professionally as a Hungarian–Chinese translator and interpreter, specializing in academic, cultural, and technical contexts.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, he concluded his film career and began doctoral research with a focus on the historical evolution of Chinese characters. His research investigates how ancient palaeographic materials, early script forms, and traditional lexicographic sources can inform more effective strategies for teaching modern Chinese characters to second-language learners. In particular, his work critically examines the limitations of the traditional bùshǒu (部首) system and the historically accumulated piānpáng (偏旁) approach, and proposes a more systematic, component-based analytical framework. By integrating diachronic script analysis with modern pedagogical needs, his research seeks to reduce conceptual ambiguity for both learners and teachers and to contribute to a clearer, cognitively grounded methodology for Chinese character instruction. Balázs Szigethy（孔茗）現爲布達佩斯羅蘭大學（Eötvös Loránd University，簡稱 ELTE）博士研究生，擁有經濟學碩士學位。其學術背景橫跨人文科學、語言學與跨學科應用研究。攻讀博士之前，曾在影視行業工作十四年，積累了大型項目管理、跨文化協作以及敘事結構方面的豐富經驗，同時長期從事匈牙利語—漢語的翻譯與口筆譯工作，主要涉及學術、文化及技術領域。 新冠疫情期間，他結束了影視行業的職業生涯，正式轉向博士研究，研究重點爲漢字的歷史演變及文字學問題。其研究關注古文字材料、早期文字形態與傳統字書如何爲現代漢字教學，尤其是對外漢字教學，提供新的理論與實踐支持。研究特別反思了傳統部首（部首）體系及歷史形成的偏旁分析方法在教學中的侷限性，並提出一種更爲系統、基於構件的分析框架。通過結合歷時文字學研究與現代教學需求，該研究旨在爲學習者與教師減少概念混亂，併爲現代漢字教學建立更清晰、具認知基礎的方法論。 |
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Aybike Seyma Tezel | Turkey 土耳其 Indiana University |
Working 在職 |
I am a historian and archaeologist of premodern China and Inner Asia, holding a dual Ph.D. in Central Eurasian Studies and Anthropology from Indiana University, Bloomington, where I serve as a research associate. I also teach at Nazarbayev University. My research integrates textual and material evidence to examine nomadic empire formation, political authority, ritual practice, and cross-cultural exchange across the Mongolian Plateau and northern China from the fourth to eighth centuries. My current book project, The Rou-ran Qaghanate: State, Society, and Diplomacy in Early Medieval Eurasia, positions this understudied empire as central to Silk Roads history and the broader development of nomadic imperial traditions. |
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Laura Torma 祹絡嵐 |
Hungary 匈牙利 Eötvös Loránd University |
PhD student 博士在讀 |
Laura Torma is currently an assistant lecturer and PhD student at Eotvos Lorand University researching contemporary Chinese literature. She did her undergraduate degree at Eotvos Lorand University in Chinese Studies and her MA in Translation and Interpreting. Previously, she was awarded a Chinese-Hungarian bilateral government scholarship to study at Beijing Foreign Studies University (2018), as well as the Xin Hanxue Jihua research scholarship at Fudan University (2024). Her research interest broadly include contemporary Chinese literature and Chinese diasporic literature with a particular focus on zhiqing literature. |
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Motia Zaman | Pakistan 巴基斯坦 National University of Modern Languages Islamabad Pakistan |
Working 在職 |
I graduated from Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU) in 2021 and completed my MPhil in Chinese Philosophy from the National University of Modern Languages (NUML), Pakistan. I currently serve as a Chinese Lecturer and Coordinator at the Confucius Institute, NUML, since September 2023. Previously, I taught HSK Level 4 at the China Study Center, UET Lahore. My research focuses on Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (TCFL), including HSK Level 5, as well as Chinese philosophy, literature, history, and culture. My current work examines the role of Chinese language teachers in shaping sinological understanding in the Global South. I am also working on a book project reflecting on my five years of academic and cultural experience in China. |
