Wu Zhen is a professor of School of Liberal Arts, Renmin University of China. She has an MA in Literature from Sun Yat-sen University and a PhD in Philosophy from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tokyo and Toyo Bunko in Japan, and has taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Nankai University. Her research interests include the study of Taoism and ancient opera, with particular attention to the interactive evolution of religious ritual, literature and drama. She is the author of A Study of the single copy of the notes and comments on the poetry <Yunmen Zhuan> (2020), Adding Notes to Divinity: The History of the Creation of the Cult of Fa Shan in the Tang and Song Dynasties (2012), co-author of The Historical Sources of Taoism in Hong Kong and Its Modern Transformation, The History and Transmission of Taoist Rituals in Hong Kong, and participant in the translation of Studies in Classical Southern Opera. In recent years, she has focused on Sino-Japanese cultural exchanges, centering on the Japanese reception of ancient mainland music and dance, and the Sino-Japanese circulation of books since modern times. She is the author of See through Fox Window: Personnel and Book Affairs in the History of Sino-Japanese Cultural Exchanges (2019), and her current major work is the compilation and study of the Japanese music book Lesson copy.