Shih-Wei
Hsu
Redes sociales
I am a Ramón y Cajal research fellow at PROA of ILC, specializing in Egyptology. I completed my Bachelor's degree in German Language and Literature at the Chinese Culture University (Taiwan) and pursued my Magister's degree in Egyptology, Assyriology, and Semitic Languages at Heidelberg University (Germany), followed by a Ph.D. in Egyptology at the Free University of Berlin (Germany). My doctoral research focused on figurative expressions in ancient Egyptian texts, with a particular emphasis on royal inscriptions. This thesis was published in 2017 as a monograph titled "Bilder für den Pharao. Untersuchungen zu den bildlichen Ausdrücken des Ägyptischen in den Königsinschriften und anderen Textgattungen" in the series Probleme der Ägyptologie 36, by Brill Publishing.
I have held various visiting scholar positions globally, participated in multiple archaeological excavations, and have been actively involved in teaching and supervising both undergraduate and graduate students at Nankai University Tianjin (P.R.China). I also contribute to monographs, edited volumes, and academic articles related to ancient Egyptian culture, literature, texts, and figurative language.
Monographs
1. Beiträge zur Entwicklung der Königsinschriften, unpublished Magister Thesis, Heidelberg 2006
2. Images of the Pharaoh, Saarbrücken: Golden Light Academic Publishing, 2015 (ISBN: 978-3-639-73787-5)
3. Bilder für den Pharao. Untersuchungen zu den bildlichen Ausdrücken des Ägyptischen in den Königsinschriften und anderen Textgattungen, Probleme der Ägyptologie 36, Leiden: Brill 2017 (ISBN: 978-90-04-34779-3)
Edited Books
1. Shih-Wei Hsu, Vincent Pierre-Michel Laisney and Jan Moje (eds), Ein Kundiger, der in die Gottesworte eingedrungen ist. Festschrift für den Ägyptologen Karl Jansen-Winkeln zum 65. Geburtstag, Ägypten und Altes Testament 99, Münster: Zaphon 2020 (ISBN: 978-3-96327-094-9)
2. Shih-Wei Hsu and Jaume Llop Raduà (eds), The Expression of Emotions in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, Culture and History of Ancient Near East 116, Leiden: Brill 2021 (ISBN: 978-90-04-43075-4)
3. Benedict Davies, Gabriella Dembitz, Shih-Wei Hsu and Hana Navrátilová (eds), Ramesside inscriptions, translated and annotated: notes and comments, volume VII, Addenda, London: Wileys 2022 (ISBN: 978-0-631-18441-6)
Articles
1. “The famous Pharaoh – Ramesses of Great”, in: Historical Monthly 255 (2009), 104–110 (traditional Chinese)
2. “The status and rights of women in Ancient Egypt”, in: Thought and Words 47/1 (2009), 251–293 (traditional Chinese)
3. “The Palermo Stone: the Earliest Royal Inscription from Ancient Egypt”, in: Essays of the Third Annual Conference of the Taiwanese Society of Young Academics for Humanities and Social Science in Europe, Berlin 2009, 43–73
4. “The Griffin – the ancient Egyptian mythical animal”, in: Historical Monthly 261 (2009), 92–96 (traditional Chinese)
5. “The Palermo Stone: the Earliest Royal Inscription from Ancient Egypt”, in: Altorientalische Forschungen 37/1 (2010), 68–89
6. “The ‘Griffin’ as a visual and written image for the king”, in: Göttinger Miszellen 231 (2011), 45–56
7. “The figurative expressions in the ancient Egyptian wisdom literature”, in: 6 Thought and Words 50/1 (2012), 71–100 (traditional Chinese)
8. “The Development of Ancient Egyptian Royal Inscriptions”, in: Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 98 (2012), 269–283
9. “Figurative expressions referring to animals in royal inscriptions of the Eighteenth Dynasty”, in: Journal of Egyptian History 6/1 (2013), 1–18
10. “Figurative Expressions in the Ancient Egyptian Royal Inscriptions of the 18th Dynasty”, in: Languages, Literary Studies and international Studies: An international Journal 10 (2013), 105–122 (traditional Chinese)
11. “The Use of Figurative Language concerning the Death of the King”, in: Archív Orientální 82/2 (2014), 201–209
12. “Curse of the pharaohs? The ancient Egyptian threat-formulae of the pharaohs”, in Bulletin of Historical Research 52 (2014), 183–202 (traditional Chinese)
13. “Pharaos Körper: Tiere als bildliche Ausdrücke in den Königsinschriften”, in: Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur 43 (2014), 143–157
14. “Ancient Egyptian Royal Inscriptions and Ideology”, in Chung-Hsing Journal of History 28 (2014), 1–26 (traditional Chinese)
15. “Bildliche Ausdrücke im Dienst der Königsideologie“, in Neunert, Gregor, Henrike Simon, Alexandra Verbovsek and Kathrin Gabler (eds), Text: Wissen – Wirkung – Wahrnehmung. Beiträge des vierten Münchner Arbeitskreises Junge Ägyptologie (MAJA 4), 29. Nov. bis 1. Dez. 2013, Göttinger Orientforschungen, 4. Reihe: Ägypten, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2014, 167–178
16. “The Images of Love: The use of Figurative Expressions in Ancient Egyptian Love Songs”, in: Orientalia 83/4 (2014), 407–416 (appeared in 2015)
17. “You up; I down: Orientational metaphor concerning to ancient Egyptian kingship in royal iconographies and inscriptions”, in: Essays of the 8th Annual Conference of the Taiwanese Society of Young Academics for Humanities and Social Science in Europe, Paris 2015, 41–60
18. “Der Stier als Symbol des altägyptischen Königtums”, in: Aula Orientalis 33/2 (2015), 243–254
19. “You up – I down: Orientational Metaphors concerning ancient Egyptian Kingship in royal iconography and inscriptions”, in: M. Cristina Guidotti and Gloria Rosati (ed.), Proceedings of XI International Congress of Egyptologists (ICE XI), August 23–30, 2015, Florence, Archeopress Egyptology 19, London: Archeopress 2017, 277–280
20. “A short comment on swHt sbot ‘legitimate egg’”, in: Tamás A. Bács and Horst Beinlich (eds), 8. Symposium zur ägyptischen Königsideologie/8th Symposium on Egyptian Royal Ideology. Constructing Authority: Prestige, Reputation and the Perception of Power in Egyptian Kingship, May 12–14, 2016, Budapest, 7 Königtum, Staat und Gesellschaft früher Hochkulturen 4,5, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2017, 123–130
21. “Captured, defeated, tied and fallen: Images of Enemies in ancient Egypt”, in: Göttinger Miszellen 252 (2017), 71–87
22. “The Pharaoh lives forever: Royal Eternal Life in Ancient Egyptian Royal Inscriptions”, in: Orientalia 86/2 (2017), 273–284
23. “Coincidence or Intension? A Case Study on the Usage of Determinatives of King Merenptah’s Inscriptions”, in Languages, Literary Studies and international Studies: An international Journal 20 (2018), 117–150. (traditional Chinese)
24. “The Development of Historiography of ancient Egypt”, in Historical Inquiry 63 (2019), 235–290. (traditional Chinese)
25. “Translation and comments on the instruction of Ani”, in Nankai Historical Studies 31/2 (2019), 207–227. (simplified Chinese)
26. “The Inefficient Communication of Kingship in the Twenty-fifth Dynasty”, in Julia Burka (ed.), 9. Symposium zur ägyptischen Königsideologie/9th Symposium on Egyptian Royal Ideology. Egyptian Royal Ideology and Kingship under Periods of Foreign Rulers — Case Studies from the First Millennium BC. Munich, May 31– June 2, 2018, Königtum, Staat und Gesellschaft früher Hochkulturen 4, 6, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2019, 81–92
27. “The wretched one becomes the strong bull — The Development of Literary Images of Nubians in Ancient Egyptian Royal inscriptions”, in Shih-Wei Hsu, Vincent Pierre-Michel Laisney and Jan Moje (eds), Ein Kundiger, der in die Gottesworte eingedrungen ist. Festschrift für den Ägyptologen Karl Jansen-Winkeln zum 65. Geburtstag, Ägypten und Altes Testament 99, Münster: Zaphon 2020, 83–90
28. “A Comparison of Figurative Language in Royal Inscriptions: A Case Study of the Stelae of Thutmose III and Pi(ankh)y”, in Maria H. Trindade Lopes, Joanna Popielska-Grzybowska, Jadwiga Iwaszczuk and Ronaldo G. Gurgel Pereira (eds), Ancient Egypt 2017. Perspectives of Research, Travaux de I’institut des cultures méditeeranéenes et orientales de l’ancadémie polonaise des sciences tome 6, Warsaw; Wiesbaden: Polish Academy of Sciences (IKŚiO PAN); Harrassowitz 2020, 85–95
29. “Observations on Unpublished Scarabs of the Ducal Museum Gotha”, in: Aula Orientalis 38/2 (2020), 255–261
30. “The Expression of Emotions in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia: An Introduction”, in Shih-Wei Hsu and Jaume Llop Raduà (eds), The Expression of Emotions in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, Culture and History of Ancient Near East 116, Leiden: Brill 2021, 1–22 8
31. “‘I wish I could die’: Depression in ancient Egypt”, in Shih-Wei Hsu and Jaume Llop Raduà (eds), The Expression of Emotions in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, Culture and History of Ancient Near East 116, Leiden: Brill 2021, 52–87
32. “The Ancient Egyptian Ideas of ‘Death’ in Conceptual Metaphor Theory”, in Aula Orientalis 39/1 (2021), 97–107
33. “Analyzing the Relationship between the Ancient Egyptian Royal Inscriptions and Propaganda”, in Nankai Historical Studies 34/2 (2022), 133–152 (simplified Chinese)
34. “History of three Intermediate Periods of ancient Egypt Revisited”, in Historical Inquiry 71 (2023), 143–195 (traditional Chinese)
35. “Figurative Language”, In Andréas Stauder and Willeke Wendrich (eds.), UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, Los Angeles (2023)
Miscellanies
1. “Flint Sickle of Ancient Egypt”, in: Xin Lu, Xiaolei Yang and Litian Sun (eds), National Treasure– 100 Objects for introducing the World History, Chengdu: Sichuan People Publishing House 2021, 34–37
2. “Rhind Mathematical Papyri”, in: Xin Lu, Xiaolei Yang and Litian Sun (eds), National Treasure– 100 Objects for introducing the World History, Chengdu: Sichuan People Publishing House 2021, 60–65
3. “The Rosetta Stone”, in: Xin Lu, Xiaolei Yang and Litian Sun (eds), National Treasure– 100 Objects for introducing the World History, Chengdu: Sichuan People Publishing House 2021, 66–71
4. “Ramesses II”, in: Keping Yu (ed.), Zheng Chi Tong Jian, Beijing: Encyclopedia of China Publishing House 2022, 235–303
5. “The Ancient Egyptian Ideas of ‘Death’ in Conceptual Metaphor Theory”, in Ye Ming (ed.), Nankai History 100 Years, Tianjin: Tianjin People’s Publishing House 2023, xx–xx
Reviews
1. Liu, Zhen-Quan, Good Morning! Ancient Egypt (Taipei 2014), in Fu-Jen Journal of History 39 (2018), 121–131 (traditional Chinese)
1. Since September 2017: “Ancient Egyptian amulets from the Ducal Museum Gotha (Herzogliches Museum Gotha)” with permission of the curator Mrs. Uta Wallenstein of the Stiftung Schloss Friedenstein Gotha (Germany) (project manager)
2. February 2017–April 2020: “Ägypten im 1. Jahrtausend, Festschrift für Karl Jansen-Winkeln zum 65. Geburtstag” cooperation with P.D. Dr. Jan Moje and Prof. Dr. Vincent P.-M. Laisney (P. R. China, Germany and Italy) (co-editor)
3. August 2017–January 2021: “The Expression of Emotions in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia” cooperation with Prof. Dr. Jaume Llop Raduà (P. R. China and Spain) (co-editor)
4. May 2018–April 2019: “Ancient Egyptian amulets from the Ducal Museum Gotha (Herzogliches Museum Gotha)” in the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities – Nankai University (P. R. China) (project manager)
5. February 2019–April 2022: “Ramesside Project” of Prof. Dr. Kenneth Kitchen and Dr. Benedict Davies (United Kingdom) (collaborator)
6. September 2019–March 2020: “Series of lectures of ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian Civilization” in the national high foreign Experts project — Nankai University (P.R. China) (invited foreign experts: Anthony Spalinger, Pascal Vernus, Mu-Chou Poo and Jaume Llop Raduà) (project manager)
7. September 2022—November 2022: “Series of lectures for celebrating 200 years of Egyptology” project funded by the Center for Global Civilizations of Nankai University (P.R. China) (invited foreign experts: Roberto Gozzoli, Nozomu Kawai, Mu-Chou Poo and Stephen Vinson) (project manager)
8. October 2023–December 2023: “Series of lectures for the Civilization of Ancient Mesopotamia” project funded by the Center of Global Civilizations of Nankai University (P.R. China) (invited experts: Eckart Frahm, Changyu Liu and Jaume Llop Raduà) (project manager)