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The Achievements of Zhang Bowei,
Professor of Chinese Literature at Nanjing University
It has already been more than thirty years since Professor Zhang Bowei
began to teach at Nanjing University in 1984. Besides being speciallyappointed professor at Nanjing University, he is now the Director of theInstitute for the Study of Sinitic Texts and Cultures, which he founded atNanjing University. He has taught in Kyoto University, Institute of Liberal
Arts and Sciences, the Chinese Department of Hankuk University of Foreign
Studies, the Chinese Literature Department of National Taiwan University,and serves as a Visiting Professor at the School of Humanities at the Hong
Kong University of Science and Technology.
Professor Zhang Bowei takes curriculum andteaching seriously, and also advocates exploration and opening new territories in academics.
He has received the “Baogang educational
award for excellence in teaching” (1996),“Institutes of higher education in Jiangsu province, Hongshanshu teaching award” (1999),“National teaching accomplishment, secondplace award” (2001), “National excellence incurriculum” (2005), “Member of institutes ofhigher education in Jiangsu province withexcellence in teaching” (2008) and otherteaching awards. He has also received the“National institutes of higher education excellence in human and social
sciences curriculum award” (1995, 1998, 2006, 2009, 2013, 2015), the“National library recognition award” (1999), “National excellence in organizing ancient archives bibliographical award” (2003), “East China regional
ancient archives excellence in bibliographical arts award” (2012), “Koreanresearch Wolong academic award” (2016) and other research awards.
Beginning in the 1990s, Professor Zhang Bowei has devoted all his energy topromoting East Asian sinological research. Since the year 2000, he has instituted at Nanjing University a program of “Inter-regional Sinitic archiveresearch,” with “two books and one journal”—that is, Inter-regional Sinitic
archived materials compendia, Inter-regional Sinitic archival researchcompendia and Journal of collected inter-regional Sinitic archival research

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which will move forward and outward with stable steps. The East Asianarchival materials that he treats include Bibliography of the Chosun dynasty(朝鮮時代書目叢刊, Zhonghua Book Company, 2004), Collected complete
compilation of female authored poetry and essays from the Chosun dynasty(朝鮮時代女性詩文集全編, Fenghuang Press, 2011), Annotation of the Lettered
Chan Buddhists of Shimen (注石門文字禪, Zhonghua Book Company, 2012),
Collected annotations and exegeses of the Japanese New Accounts of Tales ofthe World (日本世說新語注釋集成, Fenghuang Press, 2019) and others. His
related research works include A brief discussion of the eastward transmissionof Qing dynasty poetic conversations (清代詩話東傳略論稿, Zhonghua BookCompany, 2007), Collected research on East Asian Sinitic archived material(東亞漢籍研究論集, Taiwan University Press, 2007), The Sinosphere as amethod (作為方法的漢文化圈, Zhonghua Book Company, 2011), Introductionto inter-regional Sinitic archival research (域外漢籍研究入門, Fudan UniversityPress, 2012), Methods and practice in the research of East Asian Siniticliterature (東亞漢文學研究的方法與實踐, Zhonghua Book Company, 2017),
Wind and moon in the same sky: China and East Asia (風月同天：中國與東亞,Jiangsu People’s Press, 2017; Zhonghua Book Company, Hong Kong Branch,2019) and others. Besides these, in English there are Rethinking theSinosphere: Poetics, Aesthetics and Identity Formation as well as
Reexamining the Sinosphere: Cultural Transmissions and Transformations(with Professors Nanxiu Qian and Richard J. Smith; Cambria Press 2020).
The book “The Methods and Practice in the Research of East Asian Sinitic
Literature” was translated into Korean and published by Korea UniversityPress, in 2018. He is the chief editor of Journal of collected inter-regional
Sinitic archival research (域外漢籍研究集刊, Zhonghua Book Company) which
since 2005 has published 20 issues.

A Commemorative Photo after Professor ZHANG Bo-wei’s Lecture at
Kyoto University Clock Tower Centennial Hall on December 10, 2018.
From left in the front row: Professors YOKOYAMA Hiroshi, ZHANG
Bowei, KŌZEN Hiroshi, and HIROTA Shōji.