Fan Jinshi is a Chinese archaeologist and heritage specialist who served as director of the Dunhuang Research Academy between 1998 and 2014.
15 Facts About Fan Jinshi
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Fan Jinshi spends most of her life in Mogao Caves, Dunhuang, currently working as an honorary president and professional researcher in Dunhuang Research Academy, as well as a part-time professor and a doctoral supervisor in Lanzhou University.
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Fan Jinshi has been venerated as "Daughter of Dunhuang" for her over 50 years of devotion to studying and preserving the Dunhuang Grottoes.
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Fan Jinshi was an early proponent of the Dunhuang Academy in contemporary China, and pioneered a series of effective preservation approaches for grottos.
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Fan Jinshi was a delegate to the 13th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.
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Fan Jinshi was a member of the 8th, 9th and 10th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
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Fan Jinshi was born in Beijing and was raised in Shanghai.
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Fan Jinshi's given name, Jinshi, means "beautiful poetry" in Chinese.
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Fan Jinshi's father was a graduate of Tsinghua University and was reportedly passionate about Chinese classical art and culture, a passion he passed on to Fan.
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Fan Jinshi graduated from School of Archaeology and Museology in Peking University in 1963.
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Fan Jinshi first visited Dunhuang in 1962, on a school-organized trip to the Dunhuang Institute of Cultural Relics.
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Fan Jinshi served as a part-time professor and doctoral supervisor at Lanzhou University.
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Fan Jinshi married her university classmate Peng Jinzhang in 1966.
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Reportedly, as Fan Jinshi's flourishing career kept the couple apart, Peng resigned his position as deputy director in the Department of History at Wuhan University in 1986 in order to live closer to her.
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Fan Jinshi was the subject of a Shanghai Huju opera called "The Daughter of Dunhuang".