Huang Yang
Professor of History/Classics, Chair of the History Department, Fudan University

My name is Huang Yang. I am professor of Ancient History and also the head of the History Department at Fudan University in Shanghai. At the moment, I am working on a project which is a comparative study of Greek and Chinese ideas of the barbarian.Classical civilization is relevant to China in several respects. Firstly, I think, like Chinese civilization, classical civilization is a cultural heritage not only for the west but for the whole of mankind. It’s a treasure house that one can find valuable things to any society, including China. More specifically, I think that studying classical civilization will enable us to learn from a different way of thinking that’s not fully developed in Chinese tradition. Also, it will allow us to better understand western civilization. Personally, democracy, like modern western democracy and its ancient origin, is one of my topics of study and interests. It’s relevant to China since we’ve been trying to democratize the country and democracy is still in a beginning state in China. It is important for Chinese student and scholars to be able to understand classical works and authors accurately. In order to achieve that, we need to do a lot of things like learning Greek and Latin, we need especially grammar resources. I would like to see accurate translations of classical works. There are some translated into Chinese now, but most of them are translated from modern European languages, not the original ones.

 

Officers


Asbury J. Clarke Professor of Classical Studies, Dickinson College
Betty Gage Holland Professor of Roman History, Emory University, Distinguished Guest Professor at Shanghai Normal University
Professor of Classical Studies, Dickinson College

Advisory Board


Helen A. Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor of Classics, University of Chicago
Davidson Kennedy Professor of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Dickason Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics and History, Stanford University
Professor of History, Shanghai Normal University
Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History, Harvard University
Anthon Professor of Latin Language and Literature, Columbia University

Editorial Board


Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Zhejiang University
Professor of Classics, Northeast Normal University, Director, Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations
Assistant Prof. of Ancient Greek History, Zhejiang University
Professor of History/Classics, Chair of the History Department, Fudan University
Assistant Professor of English Literature, Peking University
Associate Professor, Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations Northeast Normal University
Assistant Professor of History/Classics, Nanjing University
Professor of History/Classics, Renmin University
Professor of History, Fudan University

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University of New Hampshire

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