His research covers Confucian Classics (especially the study of Rites, and Spring and Autumn Annals), Chinese philology, Chinese intellectual history, as well as Japanese sinology. He's mainly interested in the intellectual history of the Qin-Han periods and the cultural exchange between China and Japan.
Books (Selected):
1. Gongyangzhuan with its Commentary and Sub-Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals, Shanghai: Shanghai Chinese Classics Publishing House, 2014 (1st edition), 2017 (2nd Edition). (Awarded with the National Book Prize (Second Place) for Classical Texts)
2.A Study and Compilation of Han-Dynasty Yili’s Bamboo Slips Excavated from WuWei. co-authored with Zhang Huanjun. Wuhan: Wuhan University Press, 2009
3.Modern Scholarship on Zhongyong in Japan, chief editor, Hong Kong: Zhonghua Book Company,2021. (book manuscript, forthcoming)
Book Chapters:
1.“The Depiction of Musical Instruments and Music Theory in Bai Juyi’s Poems,” Musical Culture in East Asia, Ajia Yugaku. Tokyo: Bensei Shuppan Press, January 2014. (in Japanese)
2.“Reading Notes on Pi Xirui’s Sanli Tonglun,” A New Beginning of Chinese Classics (V1). Beijing: Renmin University Press, 2012.
3.“An Evaluation of the Scholarship in Qing Dynasty on the Ending-Notes of the Yili,” The Chinese Classics and Culture of Qing Dynasty, ed. Peng Lin. Beijing: Peking University press, 2005, 64-76.
Journal Articles (Selected):
1.“Zheng Xuan, ” The Encyclopedia of Ancient History: Asia and Africa, Wiley Online Library. (forthcoming)
2.“A Historical Review of Japanese Scholarship on Zhongyong in the 20th Century,” Zhongguo Jingxue. Guangxi: Guangxi Normal University Press, 2021. (forthcoming)
3.“An Evaluation of the Different Interpretations on ‘Sacrificial Offerings within the Three–Year Mourning Period,’” Research in Arts and Humanities. Beijing: China Academy of Social Sciences, June 2015.
4.“A Brief Study of Yang Fu’s Scholarship on the Yili,” Chinese Classics & Culture (V88). Nanjing: Phoenix Publishing House, 2014.
Book Review:
“A Critique of the Scholarship on the Yili’s Literature in Qing Dynasty,” Journal of Tsinghua University (Philosophy and Social Sciences). Beijing: Tsinghua University Press, 2008(2).
Work in Progress:
