Gao Wei
Associate Professor, PhD
Research areas:
History of Japanese thought (Japanese mythology, Sino-Japanese Comparative Confucianism, Japanese Taoism);
Area Studies (Japan's cultural psychology, cultural strategy, cultural industry).
Email: gwlibrary@163.com
Personal Profile:
He received his doctorate degree at Peking University, master degree at Beijing Foreign Studies University, and bachelor degree at Sun Yat-sen University. He is currently an associate professor and Master’s degree supervisor in the Japanese Department and East Asian Studies Center, School of Foreign Languages, Shenzhen University. He is a committee member of the Chinese Japanese Philosophy Association.
Overseas Research Experience:
International Center for Japanese Cultural Studies (Kyoto, Japan) (May 2020-August 2020, visiting researcher)
Department of History and Literature, Ritsumeikan University (September 2014 to August 2015, guest researcher)
Department of Literature, Meiji University, Japan (2011.03-2011.08, guest researcher)
Publications:
monograph
"Nativist Discourse on Hua-Yi in Tokugawa Japan and Their Perspective on Self and Others ", Social Sciences Academic Press, 2018.10.
Papers:
1. Misreading of Zhu Xi's Thought on Human Desire in Early Modern Japan: A Study Tracing the Critical Discourse of Ancient Learning Scholars on “No Desire”, Journal of Sichuan University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition) (CSSCI), No.2, 2021.
2. " Mythical Notions and Mythology in Modern Japan: A Study Based on Conceptual History of ‘Myth’”, Journal of Sichuan University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition) (CSSCI), No.2, 2021.
3. "Interpretation of Japanese Mythology and Zhu Xi Learning in Tokugawa Japan: A Case Study of Hayashi Razan's Mythology", Journal of Suzhou University of Science and Technology (Social Science Edition), No. 1, 2021.
4. An Analysis of the Relationship between Yangming School’s Concept "Sincerity" in the in the Closing Days of Tokugawa Japan and National Learning, Studies of Japanese Studies, Tokyo: Hakuteisha, No. 16, 2020.07.
5. " Japan-Centrism Discourse and the Research on Chinese Mythology: A Study on the Views of Kokugaku on Mythology in Edo Period ", Taiwan Journal of East Asian Civilization Studies (THCI Core, Taiwan Humanities Citation Index Core Journal), 2018.12.
6. An Analysis of Hirata Atsutane's View on Japan via His Theology of the Spirit World" , Collected in Yangming Studies and East Asian Culture, Guizhou People's Publishing House, 2017.04.
7. The Tribute Theory of Scholars in Late Edo Period -- A Review of the Hua-Yi Thought, Studies of Japanese Studies (Seventh Series), East China University of Science and Technology Press, 2017.06.
8. A Brief Analysis of Motoori Norinaga's View of China -- Based on the Investigation of His View of Chinese Literature, Saint, and Mandate of Heaven, collected in Japanese Self-Portrait and His Portrait, China Social Sciences Press, 2016.07.
9. Perspective on Self and others during the ‘Northern Crisis’ in late Edo-era via Hirata Atsutane’s work ‘Chisima no Siragami", Japanese Studies, Tokyo: White Disha, December 2015.
10. Changes in Hua-Yi Thought before and after Ming-Qing Transition, Association of Asian Thought and Culture Studies, No.7, 2015.07.
11. "Motoori Norinaga’s Mononoaware Theory, "Japanese Language and Culture Studies", Yanbian university press, 2014.06.
Translations:
1. (Co-translation) [Japan] Sakai Tomio: Rural Regeneration in Japan, Social Sciences Academic Press, 2019.03.
2. (Co-translation) [Japan] Igarashi Akio, On Japanese Politics, Peking University Press, January 2015.
Research projects:
1. Research on Chinese Mythology in Modern Japanese Sinology (19YJC770007),2019.03-2022.03, Humanities and Social Sciences Research Project of the Ministry of Education, in progress.
2. Examination of Modern Japanese Mythology and Modern Mythology (The Scientific Research Project of Young Teachers of Shenzhen University), 2019.07-2022.06, Completed.
3. Japanese Modern Sinology Thought and the Construction of Japanese Cultural Nationalism (2016WQNCX126),2017.04-2019.07, Key platform and scientific research project of Guangdong Education Department, completed.
4. Research on Japanese Traditional Chinese Studies (Young Teachers of Humanities and Social Sciences Support Project of Shenzhen University),2017.01-2019.07, Shenzhen University, completed.
Projects Participated in:
Compilation of Historical Materials and Research on Historical Documents and Cultural Relics of Qing Dynasty Court Drama (Major Project of National Social Science Foundation, 20&ZD270)
The 4th participant of sub-project "Collection, Collation and Research of Overseas Qing Palace Opera Documents and Cultural Relics"
Courses offered:
General Theory of the History of Japanese Thought (postgraduate course), Study of the History of Japanese Thought (undergraduate course), History of Japan (undergraduate course);
Japanese Modern Literature Interpretation and Thought Study, Japanese Modern Literature interpretation and thought Study, Japanese Modern Confucianism thought Study, Japanese mythology and Modern Mythology.
