Tong Ling, born in March 1981 in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree (1999-2003), Master’s degree (2003-2006) and Ph.D. (2006-2009) in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature from Nanjing University. He studied abroad at the Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University, Japan (March 2007-August 2008). He has worked as a lecturer (2009-2012) and associate professor (2012-2017) at the School of Liberal Arts, Nanjing University.

He is currently a professor, doctoral supervisor, and vice dean of the School of Liberal Arts at Nanjing University; a researcher at the Institute for the Study of Han-Chinese Culture Outside China at Nanjing University; and a part-time researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences at Nanjing University. He is also a member of the Early Medieval China History Society (EMCH), a council member of the Society of Wei, Jin and North-South Dynasties History in China, an academic committee member of the China Imperial Examination Museum (Nanjing), and the editor-in-chief of the series of books on Chinese medieval academic thoughts. He has served as a visiting associate researcher at the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences at Taiwan University (July-August 2013), a visiting associate professor at the Institute for Research in Humanities at Kyoto University (March-June 2016), and a visiting scholar at the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences at Peking University (March-June 2017). He has also been invited to participate in international academic conferences and short-term academic visits at universities such as the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, and Korea University.

He was selected as one of the second batch of “Ten Thousand Talents Program” outstanding young scholars, the fifth batch of “Ten Thousand Talents Program” leading figures in philosophy and social sciences, and a national cultural celebrity and “Four Batches” talent recognized by the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party.

His research interests include: Medieval Chinese Academic, Thought and Literature during the Six Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties; The Classics History of Medieval China; Ancient East Asian History; The Culture of Sixteen Kingdoms Period and Northern Dynasty AD304~589; Oversea Chinese Classics; Study on the Old Manuscripts; Study of Wen xuan, and so on.

E-mail: tongling@nju.edu.cn  

TONG Ling / School of Liberal Arts (Yang Zongyi Building) / Nanjing  University / 163 Xianlin Road / Qixia District, Nanjing, 210023 P.R. China