About - YU Xin

Yu Xin

is Professor in the Department of History at Fudan University, and is also a researcher at the Center for Research on Ancient Chinese History at Peking University. He is the author of Shendao renxin: Tangsong zhiji Dunhuang minsheng zongjiao shehuishi yanjiu [Way of Gods, Life of Humans: Social History of the Livelihood Religions in Dunhuang during the Tang and Song Dynasties] (Beijing, 2006), and Zhonggu yixiang: xieben shidai de xueshu xinyang he shehui [Mapping the Extraordinary: Knowledge, Faith and Manuscript Culture in Medieval China] (Shanghai, zon). He is currently working on religion and natural history (bowuxue) in medieval China.