PhD, Fudan University, 2005
Professor of the History Department, Central China Normal University

RESEARCH INTERESTS

 History of the Ming and Qing Dynasties of China, the history of medical society, and intellectuals in the Lower Yangtze Valley in Late Imperial China.

BIOGRAPHY

I am the author of Songjiang Intelligentsia and Local Society in the Late Ming and Early Qing periods, Beijing: China Social Science Press. 2011. I have published journal articles “Medical Hub, Pharmaceutical Market, and Belief：The Medical Society in Wushan，Hangzhou during the Ming and Qing Dynasties”, Journal of Shanghai Normal University (Philosophy & Social Sciences Edition) 2024(5); “Medical Society and Medical Orthodoxy: A Study on the Yititang Zhairen Yihui(Medical guild) organized by Xu Chunfu, a famous physician in the middle and late Ming Dynasty”, Historiography Research in Anhui, 2024(3); “Confucian Medicine: A Medical Handbook of 19th Century England”, Chinese Medicine and Culture, 2022(1); “The Origin of Teaching and Learning: The Compilation of Physician Biographies in the Draft History of Qing Dynasty and the Inheritance and Writing of Medical History”, Modern Chinese History Studies, 2022(3). 

During the 2017–18 academic year, I was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University.

My current research focuses on the historical development of the Temple of the Medicine King in China from the Ming Dynasty through the Republic of China (1368–1949), examining its role in healing practices, the transmission of medicinal knowledge, commercial markets, and the formation of public space.