Biography：CHENG Zhangcan

　　Professor Cheng Zhangcan got his BA from Beijing University (1983) and PHD from Nanjing University (1989).Since 1989 he has been teaching at Nanjing University.

　　He had been visiting scholar at Harvard, Oxford, University of Pennsylvania and University of Washington. He had also taught as visiting professor at several other universities such Taiwan University and Hong Kong Baptist University.

　　Since 2003, he served as the Director of Institute of Chinese Classics, Nanjing University. His research over the past thirty years has mainly focused on Chinese literature from Han to Sung Dynasty, ancient Chinese stone inscriptions, ancient Chinese textual culture, the western Sinology.

　　In these fields he has published more than 30 books, including monographs, collection of essays and translation of western Sinology. He is the author of The History of Fu in the Wei Jin Southern and Northern Dynasties (1992), The Great Families and the Literature in Six Dynasties (1998), Essays on the Fu (2005), New Interpretation of the Old Stone Inscriptions (2008), Studies on the Stone Inscribers (2009) and etc. He is also the editor of Researches on Chinese Classics (2003--).

　　At Nanjing University, he has taught courses on traditional Chinese literature, poetics and writing of traditional Chinese poem, ancient Chinese Classics, the history and culture of Jiangsu and Nanjing. Currently he is leading a group of scholars preparing a 9-volume book on the history of ancient Chinese textual culture.

　　He can be reached at 86-25-89680795 or zccheng@nju.edu.cn