About Jiahao Shen
Jiahao Shen, also known as 沈嘉昊 in Chinese and しんかこう in Japanese Hiragana.
Born and Grew up in Shanghai, China from 1994 to 2014. The fateful falling in love with the History studies, and particularly the Modern China History, at the age of 17, led to the academic studies of History and Asian Studies at James Madison University (Virginia, United States) during 2014.1-2017.12. During the time, the passions, curiosities and massive ambitions and pursuit of the historical studies are considerably beyond any particular regions and cultures, but exploring the intensely compounded and fundamentally interconnected global history of civilizations.
The apparent excessive studies and research ambitions that are expected to be categorized as inadmissible by the modern humanities academic standard, as well as the concerns over the employability issue drove to the 6-year search and settlement period for identifying and processing the stable life with the balance of living job and with the continuous pursuit of the history studies as the independent researcher.
The transition begun with the graduate program of Higher Education: Quantitative Studies at University of Oklahoma (Oklahoma, United States) during 2018.8-2020.12, and then an one-year job position in field of Real Estate Data Analysis at Houston, United States during 2020.10-2022.2.
The eventual failure of the family immigration plan to the America, which mainly quoted the factor of relentlessly increasing restrictions and stagnations of the immigration policies since 2016, critically changed the direction to move to Fukuoka, Japan at 2022.4
While finally landing the job in travel and real-estate industry at 2024.3, which was after two-year Japanese language training from 2022.4 to 2024.3,soonly the severely painful and depressed situation has been fully recognized that the full-time work system is hiddenly but heinously functioning as the agent of complete oppression through the thoroughly systematic disciplinary and indoctrination, brutally and barbarically depriving the personal time and spiritual freedom.
Therefore, since 2024.3, the crucial solution, and more accurately, the self-salvation project must be progressed. The expected 3-4 years of plan of getting permanent residence legitimacy in Japan will be the practical premise for evading the oppressed full-time work system.
Critically, the journey of backing to the own idealized world is the definitive authentic answer.
The immersions into the vibrant gaming worlds to deeply and wholeheartedly explore and perceive the virtual realities, and these immersions genuinely stand as the intellectual seclusion for my own spiritual world.
More essentially, the Postgraduate Studies in World History and Philosophy at King's College London (United Kingdom) through the online learning is expected to be the most crucial matter.
The KCL WHP program formally started at 2024.5 and is expected to complete at 2034.5, to coincide with the personal entry of the age of 40.
The essay titled as The Limited Universalism: The Formation of Medieval Islam and the Lasting Nature of the Islamic World has been published at 2025.1.
The essay titled as Wang Bi, The Ultimate Natural Order and the Re-Imagination of the Idealized World has been published on 2025.8.
The essay tentatively titled Ruan Ji and Ji Kang, The Internal Suffering and the Internalization of the Secluded Idealized World will be published on late October 2025.
The essay on Guo Xiang will be published on 2026.2.
The conclusion essay on examination of the full development of the Wei-Jin Metaphysical Confucianism will be published on 2026.5 to conclude the trilogy on Wei-Jin Medieval China Metaphysical Confucianism.
The two essays on Xie Lingyun and Tao Yuanming, the two great reclusive litterateurs in the Medieval Southern Dynasty, will be respectively published on 2026.7 and 2026.9.
The essay on Southern Liang Dynasty, on its precedent historical formation, and on its flourishing culture and prosperous society, and its ultimate tragedy, will be published on 2027.2.
The essay on Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove will be published on 2027.5.
The essay on Medieval China Metaphysical Poetry will be published on 2027.8.
The essay on Yu Xin, another renowned writer in Southern dynasty, will be published on 2027.10.
The essay on Dao Sheng, the distinguished and transformative Buddhist thinker in the Southern dynasty, will be published on 2028.2.
The landmarked essay on the Making of Medieval Chinese Aristocracy and Medieval China and another related pivotal essay on the Jin Dynasty and Intellectuals are planned but with indefinite publish date.
The humanist research and writing projects under the KCL WHP program will endure the great delays in 2025, 2026 and will likely extend to most of the 2027, due to the decision of allocating significant times to the dedication of the gaming worlds as the more efficient spiritual remedy and rejuvenation during the critical but greatly painful transitional period.
Also the ultimate research focus onto the Medieval China, and mainly for its aristocracy structure and culture under the great unsettlement of political and social order, and the associated Transcendent Naturalism and Intellectual Seclusion profoundly and deeply echo with my pains and my idealism. All the essays relevant with the Medieval China field are also planned to be assembled and published as a book.
On 2027.12.16 the essay tentatively titled The Structure of World History will be published as the commemoration for my 10-year graduation anniversary from James Madison University, which the time represents the most critical years in my life, in both academic and mind status.
If the life transitional period continues to be proceeded, on 2028.2, the essay on Cao Zhi, who is reckoned as the most talented literacy figure in the entirety of Chinese history, is planned to be published.
The essay on Taiping Heavenly Kingdom under the historical context of Modern China is planned to be published but currently with uncertain publication date. The essay will stand as the ultimate symbol for my academic enlightenment at the James Madison University and will serve as the capstone essay for the KCL World History and Philosophy Postgraduate program. The same topic has been presented at conference on 2017 Asian Studies Conference held at JMU.
More broadly, currently with the uncertain date, the Book that tentatively titled as The Road to be Historian: The Macro-Historical Approach will be published to commemorate the academic experiences from James Madison University, which prominently mark the formation of my academic historical mind. The book will encompass the complete rewriting of the essays that originally written at the JMU years.
The KCL WHP program will be both the academic and spiritual symbol for the everlasting wholehearted pursuit of knowledge for History and Humanities, and equally important, the revival of humanist mind in its pure form.
