Education
B.A., School of Foreign Languages, Peking University (201209-201607)
M.A., School of Foreign Languages, Peking University (201609-201907)
Exchange Student, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University (201710-201809)
Ph.D., School of Foreign Languages, Peking University (201909-202307)
Visiting Student, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University (202111-202204)
Work Experience
Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Tsinghua University, (202607-present)
Boya Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Foreign Languages, Peking University, (202307-202607)
Research Interests
Japanese text-image relations, especially emaki and gahō; comparative studies of East Asian civilizations.
Courses
Elementary Japanese; Introduction to Japanese Culture.
Publications
Articles
"The Eastward Transmission of Military Strategy and the Formation of Japanese Subjectivity." Intercultural Dialogue, vol. 53, Dec. 2025. [in Chinese]
"The Formation of Japanese War Tale Picture Scrolls and Their Chinese Sources." Journal of Nanjing Arts Institute (Fine Arts & Design), no. 3, 2024. [in Chinese]
"The Origins and Transformations of the Japanese Gagaku Piece Taiheiraku." Journal of Beijing Dance Academy, no. 2, 2024. [in Chinese]
"The Japanese Picture Scroll Yamai no Soshi as Genre Painting: A Comparison with Song-Dynasty Images." Ancient Civilizations, no. 1, 2023. [in Chinese]
"A Study of Japan’s First Treatise on Painting, Gado Yoketsu: With a Discussion of Japan’s Reception of Ancient Chinese Painting Theory." Japanese Language Learning and Research, no. 4, 2022. [in Chinese]
"A Preliminary Study of Japanese Rare Books Donated by the Koa-in in the Peking University Library." Weiming Asia-Pacific Review, vol. 12, Dec. 2021. [in Chinese]
"On the Narrative Features of Peeping Scenes in The Tale of Genji." Journal of Oriental Literature Studies, vol. 9, Social Sciences Academic Press, May 2021. [in Chinese]
"The Transformation of the Return-Soul Incense Story in Early Modern Japanese Painting." Literature and Image, Peking University Press, May 2019. [in Chinese]
"Shaka Goichidaiki Zue: Vernacularization and Visualization of Buddha’s Biography in Nineteenth-Century Japan." Religions, vol. 15, no. 1, 2024.
"Representations of Korea in Fuzoku Gaho: Focusing on the Special Issues on the First Sino-Japanese War." Journal of Japanese Language and Culture, vol. 74, Apr. 2026. [in Japanese]
"Narrativization in the Spencer Collection Chōryō Emaki." Ajia Yugaku, no. 318, Apr. 2026. [in Japanese]
"The Formation of the Spencer Collection Kanyōkyū Emaki: In Comparison with Chōryō Emaki." Kokugo Kokubun, vol. 94, no. 8, Aug. 2025. [in Japanese]
"A Study of the Creative Method of the Amakusa Edition of The Tale of the Heike." Studies in Japanese Language and Culture, vol. 12, Sept. 2019. [in Japanese]
Books
Executive Editor. Selected Theories of Ancient Oriental Art: Translations of Ancient Japanese Treatises on Painting. Guangdong Education Publishing House, 2024. [in Chinese]
Research Grants
Principal Investigator
Publication Project for Excellent Doctoral Dissertations, National Social Science Fund of China, 2024.
General Program, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, 2024.
National Program for Postdoctoral Researchers, 2023.
Participant
Major Project, National Social Science Fund of China: "Digital Collection and Study of Pictorial Documents of Ancient World Civilizations," 2025.
Major Project, National Social Science Fund of China: "A History of World War Literature," 2022.
Major Project, Key Research Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ministry of Education: "Oriental Literature and Mutual Learning among Civilizations: Comparative Studies of Illustrated Editions of Ancient Oriental Literature in Multiple Languages," 2022.
Major Project, National Social Science Fund of China: "Collection and Study of Historical Materials on Illustrated Editions of Ancient Oriental Literature," 2016.
Email
xiangwei@tsinghua.edu.cn
