On June 25, 2021 during a sitting of the Examination Board at the Faculty of Asian and African Studies, Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Olga A. Bonch-Osmolovskaya, junior researcher at the IOM RAS, defended a dissertation titled “Confucian exegetics in ancient and early medieval China: towards a historical typology of Confucian commentary” [Конфуцианская экзегетика в древности и раннем средневековье: историческая типология конфуцианского комментария] for the degree of candidate in historical sciences (specialisation 07.00.09 — Historiography, source study and historical research methods).

After the defence, the Examination Board decided to grant the degree of candidate in historical sciences to Olga A. Bonch-Osmolovskaya.

The text of the dissertation, examiners’ reports, the decision of the Examination Board and other documents are available on the Saint Petersburg University Examination Boards website.

A photo after the defence: Artemiy M. Karapetyants, Doctor of Sciences in Philology, Professor at the Institute of Asian and African Studies at Lomonosov Moscow State University, official opponent, Olga A. Bonch-Osmolovskaya, Irina F. Popova, Corresponding Member of the RAS, Director of the IOM RAS, research supervisor