Qiran Jin is a Ph.D. candidate in Chinese Literature and History at Princeton University. His research interests include early Chinese philology and lexicography, the history of Chinese textual culture, comparative philology, and Qing evidential scholarship. His broad interests also extend to classicism, bronze studies, linguistics, and digital humanities. 

Jin is currently working on his dissertation, which explores lexicon production and information management in early China. Additionally, he is engaged in a second project investigating the interaction between form and meaning in third-century philosophical discourses within the context of Dark Learning. His recent publications include a book that restructures Duan Yucai’s Commentary on the Shuowen jiezi (Duanzhu Shuowen kaojiao qunshu leizuan, Bashu, 2023).