Chai Dong, male, Han ethnicity, born in Hejin, Shanxi. He joined the university as a faculty member in November 2022 and currently holds the position of Lecturer. In 2022, he earned his Doctor of Letters (Ph.D.) in Oriental History from the Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University, Japan.

  Contact Email: chaid2016@foxmail.com

  Primary Research Fields and Interests: History of the Wei, Jin, Northern and Southern Dynasties, Sui, and Tang periods, with a particular focus on rituals, titles, political transitions (abdication/revolutions), and the imperial institution during this era.

  Courses Taught:

  Ancient Chinese History (Part 1)

  Special Topics in Wei, Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties History

  Special Topics in Ancient Chinese Social and Economic History

  Twelve Lectures on Chinese History

  Introduction to Chinese Culture

 Major Academic Achievements and Awards:

  I. Academic Papers

  1."The Accession Ceremony in the Abdication (Shanrang) of the Wei, Jin, Northern and Southern Dynasties, Sui, and Tang Periods: Focusing on the Location of Accession and the Gaodai Sacrifice to Heaven," The Toyo Gakuho, Vol. 104, No. 1, June 2022, pp. 31–60.

  2."On the Titles of Wanghou and Wang Taizi in the Six Dynasties, Sui, and Tang Periods: Centering on Cases in Abdication (Shanrang)," Shūkan Tōyōgaku, No. 120, 2019, pp. 1–21.

  3."The Shaowei Banquet and Xiangshi Banquet in the Imperial Examinations of the Tang and Five Dynasties Periods" (First Author), Studies on Imperial Examination, Vol. 1, 2015, Beijing: Thread-binding Books Publishing House, pp. 11–17.

  II. Translated Monograph

  (Japanese) Kawai Yasushi, A Study on the Aristocratic System of the Southern Dynasties, "Japanese Scholars' Studies on Ancient China Series," Shanghai: Fudan University Press, September 2022.

  III. Translated Articles

  1.(Japanese) Mita Tatsuhiko, "Temple Systems of the Three Kingdoms and Five Barbarians Periods and the Temple Title 'Taizu'," Collected Papers from the Young Scholars Exchange Conference on Six Dynasties History and Archaeology (2016–2020), Nanjing: Nanjing University Press, July 2023, pp. 48–66.

  2.(Japanese) Okabe Takefumi, "(Book Review) Xu Chong, Reading and Discriminating Sounds: Historical Writing and the Political Culture of Wei-Jin Elites," Journal of the Chinese Society of Wei, Jin, Northern and Southern Dynasties History, Vol. 3, Guilin: Guangxi Normal University Press, June 2022, pp. 207–220.

  3.(Japanese) Kawai Yasushi, "Okazaki Fumio's Theory on the Aristocratic System of the Southern Dynasties," Collected Papers on Medieval Chinese History, Vol. 5, Beijing: The Commercial Press, 2018, pp. 17–27.