Zhang Qicheng

Zhang Qicheng was born in 1958 in Shexian, Anhui Province. He holds a PhD in philosophy from Peking University and is the founding dean of the School of Chinese Classics at Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, where he is a second-tier professor and doctoral supervisor. He has long engaged in research on Chinese classics, the Yi studies, and Chinese medicine culture, and is a contemporary Yi scholar and Chinese medicine culture scholar. As the fifteenth-generation inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage “Zhang Yitie” medical family, he emphasizes the continuity of medical tradition and culture. He has published more than forty academic works, five of which are included in the library, covering silk and bamboo medical prescriptions from the pre-Qin and Han periods, interpretations of Chinese medicine culture, textual criticism of the Danbo father and son’s medical texts, medical affairs of the Imperial Medical Bureau, and cultural topics. His subjects span medicine, health, and culture, and his writing combines academic textual research with accessible explanation, exerting a sustained influence on the dissemination of Chinese medicine culture.