Name: Zheng Yunyan

Email: yunyan2016@sina.com

Position: Associate Professor

Areas of expertise: history of books

Research interests: historical literature, historical theory and historiography, cultural exchanges of China and the West, history of books, legal history and culture

Qualifications: Doctor’s Degree

Courses: China in World History; Seminar of Chinese Legal History; Chinese Ancient Literature; China and the World in History; Brief Chinese History; History of Cultural Exchange between China and the West in Modern Times

Publications: Selected Articles (in Chinese): On the “Disappeared Legalists” in the History of Bibliography during Ming and Qing Dynasties (2023); The Millennium Problems on Reading Ancient Books: Re-evaluating the Impacts of “New Culture Movement” (2020); The Three Modes of Knowledge Communication and Integration in the Mutual Learning between Chinese Civilization and Western Civilization (2019); The Foreign Correspondents of the Commercial Press: English Advance Subscription for Congshu Jicheng (2018); The Collision between China and the West: on the Rise of the Study of Chinese Traditional Legal History in the Republic of China (2017); The Event of Changing Residence of the Macartney Embassy in Beijing (2014).  Articles (in English): The Spreading of the Contagious Books Conception during the Turn of the 19th and 20th Century (2016); Library History: Seeking the Origin of the Chinese Library from Its Tradition (2014). Books (in Chinese): A Comparative Research on Provincial Chorography of China and Britain in the Eighteenth Century (2018). Translated Book (from English to Chinese): Kent Guy. The Emperor’s Four Treasuries: Scholars and the State in the Late Chien-lung Era (2019).

Research Grants: “Re-evaluating the Undercurrent: A Study on the Works of Legalists in Ming and Qing China” (Humanity and Social Science Post-funded Project by the Ministry of Education of China, 2021)