Rong Xinjiang


Rong Xinjiang is a Chinese historian who is a professor at Peking University, currently serving as chairperson of Academic Committee of Department of History and chairperson of Center for Research on Ancient Chinese History. He is also the Cheung Kong Scholars Distinguished Professor of the Ministry of Education, vice chairperson of the Tang Dynasty Institute of China and the Dunhuang and Turpan Institute of China.

Biography

Rong was born in Tianjin in 1960. In 1978, he was admitted to Peking University, where he majored in the Department of History. After graduating in 1985, he stayed at the university and taught there. He was promoted to associate professor in 1988 and to full professor in 1993. From September 1984 to July 1985, he studied at the Sinological Institute, Leiden University in the Netherlands.
He was a visiting scholar at Ryukoku University, the British Library, the Institute of Chinese Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Kyoto University, Free University Berlin, the Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University, and the École Pratique des Hautes Études.

Publications

Selected papers

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Academic books

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Honours and awards