Wang Jianping
王建平

Field of Study

Years of Stay at HYI

Feb 2018 to Aug 2018

University Affiliation

Jianping Wang is a retired professor of Islamic Studies in Shanghai Normal University; and currently a visiting library research fellow of HYI. He received his PhD in religious studies from the University of Lund, Sweden (1996). He has been at Harvard-Yenching Institute several times to conduct research on the Harvard-Yenching Library collections on Islam in China, and has been a visiting scholar at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Durham University, Cornell University, Yale University, Hong Kong University of Sciences and Technology, Southern Connecticut State University, and the University of Copenhagen.

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