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Term: Oct. 2021 ～
The following 15 researchers are working at the Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto University.
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:Tenure-track Type
● Chao-jung CHING Associate Professor
Research Interests: History and Philology of Ancient China and Pre-Islamic Central Asia
Research Topic: Boom of writing and rise of “Huns” in Inner Asia
Host Department: Institute for Research in Humanities
Previous Affiliation: Collège de France
Short Introduction
Before being associated with various sobriquets such as “Graveyard of Empires”, Inner Asia was one of the greatest cultural melting pots in the world. Its aridness has preserved numerous sites, which shed light on the network of exchanges in historical times.
During my study at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, I started investigating numerous manuscripts discovered from this region that are presently kept in Europe and other countries. In 2009, I began to organize fieldwork around Ancient Kucha, a kingdom situated between the Tianshan mountains and the Taklamakan Desert. One of the main results of this fieldwork was published as L. Zhao and X. Rong (eds.), Cave Inscriptions in Ancient Kucha (3 vols. 2020). In addition, I have taken other approaches for my individual research, such as the decipherment of the “Kucha- Kharoṣṭhī” script, and the comparative analysis of expedition records. In 2015, I learnt non-destructive digital microscopy at Ryukoku University. As to the History of Central Asia in a broader sense, I helped to open a seminar at the Collège de France in 2021 by critically reading Chinese classics together with archaeological and linguistical data.
During my Hakubi project, I will integrate my research ideas and experiences in order to reconstruct the prosperity of pre-Islamic Inner Asia from the perspectives of philology and cultural history.
Research activity status (external page)
Latest News
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Mar. 8, 2023
Associate Professor CHING Chao-jung (Institute for Research in Humanities) and others published a book, "Ancient Central Asian Writings in the National Museum of Korea II—Written Materials Excavated from the Tarim Basin" (National Museum of Korea).
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Mar. 8, 2023
Associate Professor Ching Chao-jung (Institute for Research in Humanities) published a paper.(Studies on the Inner Asian Languages)
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Aug. 30, 2022
Associate Professor Ching Chao-jung (Institute for Research in Humanities) published a paper.
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Aug. 30, 2022
Associate Professor Ching Chao-jung (Institute for Research in Humanities) published a paper.
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Aug. 30, 2022
Associate Professor Ching Chao-jung (Institute for Research in Humanities) published a paper.
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Jan. 13, 2022
Hakubi Seminar Announcement (210th meeting)
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Nov. 17, 2021
Associate Professor Chao-jung Ching (Institute for Research in Humanities) read a paper at the Second International Codicological Conference “Oriental Manuscripts: Scriptoria, Monastic Libraries and Book Workshops in the East in the Middle Ages”, Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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Oct. 8, 2021
Associate Professor Chao-jung CHING (Institute for Research in Humanities), together with Dr. ZHAO Li (Kucha Academy), Prof. RONG Xinjiang (Peking University) and Dr. OGIHARA Hirotoshi (6th-batch), received Prix Ikuo Hirayama 2021 from the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Institut de France for the publication of the Cave Inscriptions in Ancient Kucha (2020, Shanghai).
