Ding’an Wang

Wang Ding’an is a professor at the College of Foreign Languages, Zhejiang University of Technology. He holds his Ph.D. from Fudan University. He has published Sacrifice as if They Were Present: Confucian Funeral and Sacrifice Contrasted from the Perspective of Western Learning and translated two volumes of Chinese Superstitions as well as the textbook Introduction to Comparative Literature. He has presided over projects funded by the National Social Science Fund and Zhejiang social science planning projects, participated in major projects of the National Social Science Fund, Ministry of Education projects, and numerous other projects. He has been awarded the second prize for Social Science Outstanding Achievement by the Hangzhou Social Science Federation. More than 20 articles of his articles have been indexed by A&HCI and CSSCI.

His main research is interdisciplinary as it focuses on the rites exchanged between Chinese and Western cultures during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, looking at religion, comparative literature, and cultural anthropology.