Huang Yangxing
黄阳兴

Field of Study

Years of Stay at HYI

Aug 2024 to Dec 2024

Huang Yangxing is a professor, the director of the Academic Research Department, and a curator at the Shenzhen Museum. He earned both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in history from Fudan University, with a focus on Chinese Buddhist history and art. In 2008, Huang received his Ph.D. from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Fudan University, concentrating on Tantric Buddhism of the Tang Dynasty and the literature of the Middle and Late Tang Dynasty. 

Since 2008, he has been working at the Shenzhen Museum, where he is dedicated to the preservation, research, and exhibition planning of ancient cultural relics. His expertise includes exhibitions on Chinese Buddhist sculpture art, as well as related exhibitions on Chinese calligraphy, painting, and ancient cultural artifacts. He has authored the monograph “Images, Mantras, and Magic: Impact of Esoteric Buddhism on Literature of the Middle and Late Tang Dynasty.” 

Currently, Huang is researching the history of Tantric art in the Tang Dynasty and exploring related topics, such as Chinese Buddhist material culture from the perspective of cross-civilizational communication. He is also deeply interested in the relationship between ancient Chinese calligraphy and painting, ancient ceramics, the exchange of Eastern and Western civilizations, and the connections between ancient artifacts and classical literature. 

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