My research interest lies in exploring the intellectual history of early China in light of excavated materials, especially the interconnection between the intellectual system, primarily based on the Hundred Schools of Thought, and folklore religious traditions. I am curious about the role of folklore culture and mythologies in the early Chinese political and cultural landscape. I am also interested in the role of early religious discourses that are absent from the received tradition in the history of narrative and intellectual systems. I want to examine their position in the contemporaneous genealogy of knowledge by integrating newly excavated materials into the current research framework for relevant issues and, on that basis, investigate their role in the formation of the cultural identity of the intellectual group. I am currently working on the Wu ji 五紀 Chapter of the Tsinghua Bamboo Slips.
Yinuo Jin
Cohort Year:
2025
Research Interests:
Early China
Education:
BA: Tsinghua University (Philosophy), 2023; MA: University of Chicago (Divinity), 2025.