Rate My Professor Yifeng Xie

Professor Yifeng Xie serves as Professor and Director of the History Department at Yuelu Academy, Hunan University, where he also holds the position of Doctoral Supervisor. A native of Changsha, Hunan Province, he earned his Bachelor of History from Sichuan University (2006-2010), Master of History from Zhejiang University, School of Humanities (2010-2012, supervised by Associate Professor Wu Zhengqiang), and PhD from Fudan University's Institute of Literature and History (2012-2017, supervised by Professor Ge Zhaoguang), with a focus on Asian Religions, Art, and History. His doctoral dissertation, titled "Continuity in Transformation: The Relationship between Daoism, Politics, Society, and Culture in the Two Song Dynasties," was awarded Fudan University's Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in 2020. Xie joined Yuelu Academy in June 2017. He was selected as the sole mainland Chinese doctoral student for the Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Fellowship (August 2014-January 2016), conducting research at Harvard's Yenching Institute and Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations under cooperating supervisor Professor James Robson. Additionally, he served as a fully funded Visiting Scholar at Harvard University's Department of History of Art and Architecture (September 2019-August 2020, invited by Professor Eugene Wang) and has been a Visiting Research Fellow at Harvard's Chinese Art Media Lab since 2021 for a two-year term.