Campus Digest

Distinguished Sinology scholar shares new findings on Tang imperial family

22 Oct 2015

Professor David McMullen, an internationally renowned Sinologist from the University of Cambridge, was invited by the Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology and the Department of Chinese Language and Literature to speak at the Lecture Series by Distinguished Scholars of Sinology recently.

Professor McMullen gave two lectures, “Li Longji and the Grand Narrative” and “Breaching the Walls”, explaining his latest research findings on the Tang imperial family. Both lectures attracted an audience from the university community and the general public.

Professor McMullen is a prominent expert in Tang history, who formerly served in the Faculty of Oriental Studies and as President of the British Association for Chinese Studies. He has been considered as one of the most recognised experts in Chinese intellectual history in the West for the past 30 years. He focuses on excavated classics, with special attention to the value of Tang epigraphs.