Huang Tingjian and His Three Modern Readers: Chen Sanli, Chen Yinke, and Qian Zhongshu

Huang Tingjian and His Three Modern Readers: Chen Sanli, Chen Yinke, and Qian Zhongshu

Guest Lecture

Huang Tingjian and His Three Modern Readers: Chen Sanli, Chen Yinke, and Qian Zhongshu

 

Speaker
Dr. Haifeng Shang
Tenured Associate Professor, The Education University of Hong Kong

Moderator
Prof. Dr. Axel Schneider
Professor of the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen

Date & Time

Tuesday, 7 July 2026
16:00–18:00

Venue

KWZ, Room 0.608
Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14
37073 Göttingen

Language

English with Chinese

Organizer

Department of East Asian Studies (Ostasiatisches Seminar), University of Göttingen

In cooperation with

  • Centre for Modern East Asian Studies (CeMEAS)
  • East Asian Classics Academe

Dr. Haifeng SHANG is a tenured associate professor at The Education University of Hong Kong. Born in Beijing, he earned his Ph.D. from Nanjing University. He has served as associate head of the Department of Literature and Cultural Studies at EdUHK, as a senior research scholar at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, and as a postdoctoral fellow at Academia Sinica in Taiwan. He has also been invited to several leading institutions as an academic visitor, including Harvard University in the US, the University of Tokyo in Japan, Sungkyunkwan University in Korea, the National University of Singapore, and the University of Göttingen in Germany. Dr. Shang is the principal investigator of three Research Grants Council-funded projects on the Song Dynasty’s literati, including Su Shi and Huang Tingjian, and on the religious idea of “Perfect Enlightenment” in East Asian art and literature. He is the author of two books: Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment: A New Translation (2021) and Two Encyclopedias of Incense from the Northern Song (2023).