Fan Jinshi

Fan Jinshi (Chinese: 樊锦诗; born July 1938) is a Chinese archaeologist and heritage specialist who served as director of the Dunhuang Research Academy between 1998 and 2014.[1] She spends most of her life in Mogao Caves, Dunhuang, currently working as an honorary president and professional researcher in Dunhuang Research Academy, as well as a part-time professor and a doctoral supervisor in Lanzhou University.[2] Fan began working in Dunhuang in 1963, at the age of 25.[3] She has been venerated as "Daughter of Dunhuang" for her over 50 years of devotion to studying and preserving Dunhuang Grottoes.[4] She is an early proponent of Dunhuang Academy in contemporary China, and creates a series of effective Cave preservation approaches for grottos.

Fan Jinshi
樊锦诗
3rd Director of Dunhuang Research Academy
In office
April 1998 – December 2014
Preceded byDuan Wenjie
Succeeded byWang Xudong
Personal details
BornJuly 1938 (age 82)
Beijing, China
Political partyCommunist Party of China
Spouse(s)
Peng Jinzhang
​
(m. 1966⁠–⁠2017)​
Children1 son
ResidenceDunhuang, Gansu, China
Alma materPeking University
OccupationArchaeologist, politician
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese樊錦詩
Simplified Chinese樊锦诗
In this Chinese name, the family name is Fan.

She was a delegate to the 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. She was a member of the 8th, 9th and 10th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Biography

Early life

Fan was born in Beijing and was raised in Shanghai.[3] Her ancestral home is in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.[5]

Education

Fan Jinshi graduated from School of Archaeology and Museology(previously under the Department of History) in Peking University in 1963.

Career

After graduation, she was dispatched to Dunhuang, where she worked in the Dunhuang Institute of Cultural Relics (now Dunhuang Research Academy). In August 1984 she became deputy director of the Dunhuang Research Academy, rising to director in April 1998, after working 35 years there. In January 2015 she served as honorary director there.[3] She also served as a part-time professor and doctoral supervisor at the Lanzhou University.

She is the most important people to promote Digital Dunhuang (数字敦煌) project, which allows the public internationally to visit Mogao Caves online.

Personal life

Fan was married to her university classmate Peng Jinzhang (Chinese: 彭金章; 1937–2017) in 1966. He was also an archaeologist. The couple has a son.[4]

Works
  • Fan Jinshi (2013). The Caves of Dunhuang. Scala Arts Publishers Inc. ISBN 9781857598742.
  • Fan Jinshi; Zhao Shengliang (2009). The Art of Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang: A Journey Into China's Buddhist Shrine.
  • Fan Jinshi; Willow Weilan (2013). Dunhuang: Buddhist Art at the Gateway of the Silk Road: Exhibition April 19 to July 21, 2013.
  • Fan Jinshi. Dunhuang Grottoes.
  • Fan Jinshi, ed. (2016). 丝绸之路与敦煌文化丛书 [Silk Road and Dunhuang Culture Series] (in Chinese). Nanjing, Jiangsu: Jiangsu Fine Arts Publishing House.
  • 解读敦煌 [Interpretation of Dunhuang] (in Chinese). East China Normal University Press. 2016. ISBN 9787567546691.
  • 莫高窟史话 [Historical Tales of Mogao Grottoes] (in Chinese). Nanjing, Jiangsu: Jiangsu Fine Arts Publishing House. 2016. ISBN 9787534426681.
  • Fan Jinshi (2019). Gu Chunfang (ed.). 我心归处是敦煌：樊锦诗自述 [My Heart is in Dunhuang: Readme of Fan Jinshi] (in Chinese). Beijing: Yilin Press. ISBN 9787544779548.

Variety show
DateEnglish titleChinese titleRoleNotes
2017Lingting Dajia聆听大家Herself[6]

References
  1. "Fan Jinshi: A kaleidoscope of progress". chinadaily. 26 February 2010. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  2. School of History and Culture, Lanzhou University (18 May 2016). "Fan Jinshi, Honorary Director and Part-time Professor of Dunhuang Studies Research Institute of Lanzhou University Delivered a Speech at the Symposium on Philosophy and Social Sciences Hosted by Xi Jinping". The News of Lanzhou University. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
  3. "Fan Jinshi: A lifetime of devotion". gbtimes. 19 November 2014. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  4. Eileen Cheng (8 September 2015). "Fan Jinshi: 'Daughter of Dunhuang'". womenofchina. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  5. Zhang Yujie (2019-04-09). 似水如沙久相伴——记敦煌研究院名誉院长樊锦诗. china.com (in Chinese).
  6. 口述实录：聆听大家之樊锦诗. ccdi.gov.cn (in Chinese). 2017-01-17.
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