Chen Zhi (Chinese: 陳致; pinyin: Chén Zhì; born 1964) is a Chinese scholar and researcher in classical Chinese Studies, the Provost of Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (UIC) and Director of the Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology (JAS) at Hong Kong Baptist University.
Life and career
Chen was born in 1964 in Beijing. In 1981, he was admitted to Peking University with a major in History. After graduation, he furthered his study and received his M.Phil. in Chinese Literature from Nanjing University in 1988 and Ph.D. in Chinese Studies from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1999.
His diverse interests in Chinese Studies range from classical studies, early Chinese culture and history, historiography, traditional Chinese poetry, excavated documents such as bronze inscriptions and bamboo and silk writings, and paleography to the intellectual history of the Ming and Qing dynasties.
In addition to his prolific scholarship in various fields of Chinese Studies, which has made him one of the leading figures in the studies of the Confucian classic Shijing (Book of songs) and bronze inscriptions, Chen is also an experienced university administrator. After serving as the Head of Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) between 2010 and 2013, he was appointed Acting Dean of the university's Faculty of Arts between 2015 and 2017. Chen also held the Associate Directorship of HKBU Institute of Creativity between 2011 and 2017 and Directorship of Mr. Simon Suen and Mrs. Mary Suen Sino-Humanitas Institute of the university between 2011 and 2014. From 2012 to 2014, he was appointed Acting Director of the Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology and has been its Director since 2014.
Bibliography
Research projects
Chen Zhi, PI. “Preparation of a Manuscript for a Book Series on Important Bronze Inscriptions of the Western Zhou Dynasty (西周重器銘文滙釋叢書)” [RGC-GRF project no. 241613]. September 1, 2013–August 31, 2016. Chen Zhi, PI. “An Examination of the Evolution of Formulaic Phrases and Poetic Forms in the Excavated Zhou Texts and the Book of Odes (《詩經》與兩周出土文獻中之成語與韻文發展之考察)” [RGC-GRF project no. 240911]. September 1, 2011–August 31, 2014. Chen Zhi, PI. “Three Unheeded Facets of Early Chinese Literature” [FRG1/09-10/062]. May 1, Chen Zhi, PI. “The Lineages, Classical Studies, and Intellectual History under the Ming and Qing Examination System (明清科舉制度下的家族、學術與思想)” September 1, 2008 – August 31, 2010. Chen Zhi, PI. “Chronology of the Works of the Qing Scholars on the Shi jing (清代學者《詩經》研究著述年表)” [RGC-GRF project no. 240707 ]. 2007–2008.
Professional qualifications/Membership
Chen Zhi and Dirk Meyer, eds. The Jao Tsung-I Library of Sinology (Book Series). De Gruyter, 2018- Volume 1 –David S. Nivison. The Nivison Annals: Selected Works of David S. Nivison on Early Chinese Chronology, Astronomy, and Historiography. Edited by Adam C. Schwartz. Volume 2 – Zhang Hanmo. Authorship and Text-Making in Early China. 陳致、麥笛主編：《饒宗頤國學院漢學叢書》，得古意特出版社，2018。叢書第一種——倪德衛著，史亞當編：《倪德衛早期中國自選集》。叢書第二種——張瀚墨著：《早期中國作者模式及文獻形成》。
Chen Zhi, Chief Editor. Bulletin of the Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology (BJAS) (饒宗頤國學院院刊). Volumes 1–5. Hong Kong: Chung Hwa Book Company (Hong Kong) Limited, 2014–2018. Chen Zhi, Associate Editor and one of the two founding editors. Journal of Early Chinese Philosophers (諸子學刊). Volumes 1–11. Shanghai: Shanghai Guji Publishing House, 2007–2015. Zhu Yuanqing 朱淵清 and Chen Zhi, eds. Book Series on Early China by Contemporary Sinologists (早期中國研究叢書). Shanghai: Shanghai Guji Publishing House, 2006–present. (Over 20 books, translated from English and Japanese into Chinese, have been published thus far by world-leading scholars in the field of early China from US, Europe, Japan, Canada and Australia.) Local Convener of Chinese Language and Literature. Panel of Humanities, Hong Kong RAE 2014. 2013–2014. Fellow. Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities. 2014–present.