Faculty

Assistant Professor

Xinya College, Tsinghua University

Email: yandi927@126.com

2015 – 2019 PhD in Classics

Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge

2009 – 2013 BA in Philosophy

Boya College (Liberal Arts College), Sun Yat-sen University

Ancient: Greek, Latin, Ancient Chinese, Bronze Inscription and Oracle (Beginner)

Modern: Chinese (Native), English (Fluent in Speaking and Writing), German (Reading), French (Reading)

Greek Mythology

Greek Literature, especially Greek drama

Greek Philosophy, Plato

Comparative Study, between ancient Greek and Roman civilization and Chinese civilization

Reception Study on Western Classics in China, history of classical scholarship

Books

2022 Oedipus Tyrannus, Commentary with a New Translation, The Commercial Press. (forth coming. In Chinese)

2022 Autochthony and Athenian Democracy, SDX Joint Publishing Company.

Articles

2022 “Chinese and Eurasian Civilization: a Comparative View on the Relation between Divine Being and Human Being”, in Classics and Interpretation （《经典与解释》）, forth coming.

2022 “Iconography and Mythic Narrative : the Transformation of Medusa’s Image”, in Cultural Relics in Southern China （《南方文物》）forth coming.

2022 “Pandora and the Reversal of Gods and Human Being: God-Human Order in Hesiod”, in Cultural Relics in Southern China （《南方文物》）, forth coming.

2021 “Citizen and Citizenship in Euripides’ Ion”, in Research in Classics（《古典学研究》）, 8 (2021), pp. 37-50.

2021 “The Quarrel between Poetry and Philosophy in Oedipus Tyrannus”, in Foreign Literature Review（《外国文学评论》）, 02 (2021), pp. 112-130.

2021 “Louis Gernet’s Anthropologie de la Grèce antique”, in Cultural Relics in Southern China （《南方文物》）, 01 (2021), pp. 82-85.

2020 “Why Should Tragedy be ‘Read’?”, in Shanghai Review of Books （《上海书评》）, 22th December, 2020.

2020 “Euripides’ Dionysus: A Literary Interpretation on Greek’s Reception of the Dionysian Mysteries”, in Foreign Literatures （《国外文学》）, 02 (2020), pp. 70-77.

Translations

2018 《埃斯库罗斯-奥瑞斯提亚》 Simon Goldhill, Aeschylus: the Oresteia, SDX Joint Publishing Company.

2021. 06 – 2022. 01 “Study on Theban Plays”，China Postdoc Science Foundation (Project Number：2021M691827)

2021．04 - 2022．03 “Research on Tutor Training System for General Education”，Tsinghua University Founding（Project Number：202104J035）

2022 “Ancient Greek Civilization”

2022 “Elementary Greek”

2020 “Ancient Greek Civilization”

2021- Reviewer of Foreign Literature Review.

2017 – Coordinator of International Cooperation and Exchange, Boya College, Sun Yat-sen University

2016 – 2017 Co-Organiser, the 5^th Classical Workshop, Boya College, Classical Centre of Sun Yat-sen University

2015 – 2016 Co-Consul, Graduate Interdisciplinary Seminar, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge

2013 Co-Founder, Annual Classical Knowledge Competition, Boya College, Sun Yat-sen University

2018. 2- 2018. 9 Princeton University, Department of Classics

Visiting Student Researcher Collaborator

2017. 9- 2018. 2 Harvard University, Faculty of Classics

Research Assistant