RESEARCH AFFLIATIONS AND AWARDS

Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo, Japan

Visiting Scholar from May – October 2019, funded by The Japan Foundation Scholarship

PUBLICATIONS 

Monograph:

Rethinking Asuka Sculpture – A Revised Conception of Buddhist Spread in East Asia, 538-710. Leiden: Brill, 2024.

Book Chapter:

“Magnifying Statuettes: Reconsidering the Artistic Production of the Earliest Buddhist Statues in Japan.” In Dynamics of Interregional Exchange in East Asian Buddhist Art, 5th-13th Century, edited by Dorothy Wong. Wilmington: Vernon Press. 2022

Journal Articles:

“Anchoring the Sacred in the Mundane: Construction of the Great Buddha Bend in Baodingshan, Dazu”, Archives of Asian Art, vol. 74 (2024), issue 2, pp. 129-151.

“The Neglected Dress—Re‑Evaluating the Iconography of the ‘True Visage’ (Zhenrong) Mañjuśrī”. Religions 15:432 (2024).

《7-8世紀佛教肉身信仰的興起芻議》,《佛教文化研究》2025年第14辑

《汉地偶像崇拜传统与佛教入华的关系再谈》，《世界宗教文化》，2024年第4期

《从法身到肉身—初唐佛像样式转变的观念背景试论》，《复旦学报》2023年第1期《汉地二至六世纪佛像神圣观念新探》，《复旦学报》2021年第5期

《汉地早期造像记的发展—从印度的角度观察》，《艺术学研究》2020年第4期

《飞鸟时期止利造像制作背景的再考—关于传播渠道对于图像认知的影响》，《艺术史研究》2020年第23辑

《飞鸟前期佛像服饰问题研究》，《东南文化》2019年第2期

CONFERENCES

“The Development of Chinese Donative Formulae from the Third to the Fifth Century: Through an Indic Looking Glass”

Session organizer and presenter for the panel “Through Contact to Construct: Translation of Texts, Images and Objects in Pre-modern Asia”, at AAS-in-Asia, online, 2020/8/29

“The Spread and Institutionalization of the Practice of Image Making as a Means of Accruing Merits: An Epigraphic Perspective” 

Presenter at the Glorisun 2020 International and Intensive Program on Buddhism with Princeton University, online, 2020/7/10

“Decoding History in Visual Forms: The Context for the Production of Tori Statues” (in Japanese)

Presenter at the conference “East Asia Constructed from Buddhist Art—A Perspective from the Korean Peninsula”, University of Tokyo, 2019/7/4

“Medium and Metamorphosis: Reconsidering the Artistic Production of the Tori-style Statues” 

Session organizer and presenter for the panel “Tradition, Transmission, and Transformation: East Asian Buddhist Perspectives” at Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Denver, United States. 2019/3/23

“A Study of the Dress Problems of the Earliest Buddhist Statues in Japan”

Presenter at European Association for Chinese Studies Biennial Conference, Glasgow, United Kingdom. 2018/8/30

“The Depiction of Monastic Robes on Buddhist Statues of the Asuka Period” (in Chinese)

Presenter at Buddhism in the Northern Dynasties, Tang and Song and its social context – Shandong Linqu Bailong temple ruin archaeology conference, Shandong, China. 2017/8/14

RESEARCH AFFLIATIONS AND AWARDS

Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo, Japan

Visiting Scholar from May – October 2019, funded by The Japan Foundation Scholarship