FUJITA Katsuhisa is now an Honorary Professor at Ehime University. He received his doctorate in literature from Osaka City University in 1998. From 1985 to 2015, he had been a lecturer, Associate Professor and Professor at Ehime University before he retired in 2015. His main research fields are ancient Chinese history, Chinese excavated materials, and historical materials of the Records of the Grand Historian (Shi-ji). He has published several monographs, including Study of Historical Materials of the Warring States Period in Shi-ji (2008), Study of Shi-ji Liechuan of the Warring States Period (2011), Study of the History of Qin and Han Dynasties in Shi-ji (2015), State and Information Communication in Ancient China: A Study of the Bamboo and Wooden Slips in Qin and Han Dynasties (2016).