Dr. Mingzhou Chi

Lecture, Post-doctoral fellow

30 Xueyuan Road, Beijing, 100083, China

Email: mingzhou@ustb.edu.cn

Academic interest:

Research interests include technological history of South Asia and Southeast Asia. My field mainly focuses on the history of architectural culture and technology in south and southeast Asia, as well as the history of material and cultural exchanges between China and India, the theory of ancient architecture and residence (Vāstu vidyā).

Education:

2015-2019 PHD. The Department of South Asian Studies, Peking University. Major: Indian language and literature

2012-2015 MA. The Department of South Asian Studies, Peking University. Major: Indian language and literature

2003-2008 BE. The Department of Architecture, Xi’an Jiaotong University. Major: Architecture

Research experiences:

Key projects:

The Study of Medieval South Asia’ residential culture based on architectural texts, National Social Science Foundation of China (NSFC).

A study of Indian medieval residential theory, 68th China Postdoctoral Science Foundation.

Selected Publications:

In Chinese:

 Chi Mingzhou, “Architecture, tradition of subjugating the land, and wooden wedges: The discussion on the imbalance of the remaining amount of wedge-shaped magic implements in India and Tibet,” The World Religious Cultures, 2020, no.2, pp:181-188.

 Chi Mingzhou, “A mixture of pearl shells and sour dates”: discussing the bane of ancient indian science and technology in Al-Biruni’s view,” Journal of Dialectics of Nature, 2019, no.12, pp: 47-53.

 Chi Mingzhou, “The Garbhagṛha in the heavenly palace: Interpretation of spatial sequence of Hindu temples,” The World Religious Cultures, 2018, no.6, pp: 58-64.

 Chi Mingzhou, “Perception of direction and direction deities in India and their relationship with the orientation of temples,” Science Culture Review, 2018, no.1, pp: 66-78