Education

PhD 2018 (Anthropology)，Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology/University of Leipzig;

MA 2010 (Sociology), University of Chicago;

MA 2009 (Sociology), Peking University;

BA 2006 (Sociology), Peking University;

BA 2006 (Art), Peking University.

Work Experience

Peking University:

    Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology

Research Interests

Historical anthropology

Folk beliefs of the Han people

Sino-tibetan relations

Theory of civilization

Courses Taught 

Undergraduate courses:

    Anthropological Theory

    Anthropological Lectures

    Visual Anthropology

    Myth, Folklore and Popular Culture in Europe

Graduate courses:

    Anthropological Theory

    Historical Anthropology

Selected Publications (since 2017)

Zhang, Fan. 2024. "Summer Happiness: Performing Good Life in a Tibetan Town," in Positions: Asia Critique. 32 (1): 171-90;

Zhang, Fan. 2021."Edicts and the Edible: Digesting Imperial Sovereignty in Lhasa," in Sino-Tibetan Buddhism across Ages. Leiden: Bril.;

Fan Zhang. 2021. "The Cosmopolitanism of Local Society: Tibetan Opera, Heritage and Museum" Folklore Studies. 04 : 65-77. (in Chinese)

Fan Zhang. 2019. "Transcendent Space, Mandala and Our Holy Empire: Multiple Spatial Imaginations of Mount Wutai and Multiple Identifications in the 18 th Century" Shehui. 39(06) : 149-186. (in Chinese)

Fan Zhang. 2019. "Descubriendo el tesoro occidental: El Tíbet en la historiografíacosmopolita Qing" istor: Revista de Historia Internacional. 78 : 23-38.

Fan Zhang. 2018. "Why does anthropology need ‘civilization’? Review on the Supra-Societal Systems: Civilization and China (Chaoshehui Tixi: Wenming yu Zhongguo) by Mingming Wang" in Cargo. Revue Internationale d’Anthropologie Culturelle & Sociale. 8 ： 219-22.