GENERAL/CONTACT INFORMATION

Name                   YANG Suoqiang

Academic Title             Professor and PhD supervisor

Gender                    Male

Date of Birth               April, 1964                                    

Place of Birth             Shaanxi Province, P. R. China

Mailing Address              Chinese Calligraphy Department

School of Humanities and Social Science

Xi’an Jiaotong University

No.28, Xianning West Rd.

Xi’an, Shaanxi 710049

P. R. China

Telephone                   +86-139 9123 5717

E-mail                      yangsuoqiang@163.com

Research field

• Chinese Calligraphy Aesthetics

• Calligraphy History and Calligraphy Creation

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITES

• Director of Institute for Interdisciplinary Research of Calligraphy Art and Information Technology of Xi'an Jiaotong University

• Member of the Education Committee of China Calligraphers Association

• Member and Academic Committee of Calligraphy Education Professional Committee of Chinese Education Society of the Ministry of Education

• National Outstanding Arts Dissertation Evaluation Expert of the Ministry of Education

• Evaluation Expert for Calligraphy Textbook in Nationwide Primary and Secondary Schools of the Ministry of Education

• Academic Committee of ATHENS INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH

• Editorial Board of Asian Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities and Athens Journal of Philosophy

• Member of Chinese Calligraphers Association

• Director of the academic committee of Shaanxi Calligrapher Association,

• Academic consultant of China calligraphy daily,

• Editorial board member of College calligraphy,

• Distinguished professor and doctoral supervisor of Shihan University, South Korea.

Main Achievements

• Presided over and participated in more than 38 research projects supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Social Science Fund of China, Social Science Fund of Shaanxi province, etc.

• Published more than 100 academic papers in domestic and international journals and 4 monographs like Calligraphy Research—Yang Suoqiang calligraphy academic essays

• Won the third Prize in the 8^th National Calligraphy Seminar, Nomination Award in the 1^st National Seal Script Exhibition, the First Prize of Art Teaching Achievements of Xi'an Jiaotong University and more than 30 other awards

• Participated and delivered keynote speeches in “the 7^th International Conference on History” held in Athens, Greece in December, 2009 and in “the Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities 2010” held in Osaka, Japan in June, 2010 and the "20th International Conference for Chinese philosophy" " held in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in August 2017 and "The XXIV World Congress of philosophy" held in Beijing in August 2018.

Current Teaching Interests & Courses Taught

• Thematic Studies of Chinese Calligraphy Aesthetics   (for PhD students)

• Calligraphy Aesthetics                           (for Master students)

• Theory and Practice of Seal Script                  (for Undergraduate students)

Research COLLABORATORS & THESES

Supervised more than 50 graduate students and theses

Calligraphy works

杨锁强  虎虎生威  H47cm×W38cm  纸本  2022年