HOYT CLEVELAND TILLMAN (Chinese name, Tian Hao 田浩)
Professor of Chinese History
School of International Letters & Cultures (480) 838-1895 (Home)
Arizona State University (480) 965-2480 (Office)
Tempe, AZ 85287-0202 (480) 965-6281 (Department)
E-Mail: Hoyt.Tillman@asu.edu (480) 965-0135 (Fax)
EDUCATIONAL DEGREES
Harvard University Ph.D. 1976 History and East Asian Languages
Harvard Graduate Prize Fellowship from Ford Foundation
(Includes IUP Stanford Center, Taipei, 1970-71)
Harvard University M.A. 1970 Regional Studies: East Asia
Ford Foundation’s University Graduate Prize Fellowship
National Defense Foreign Language Fellowship, 1968-69
University of Virginia M.A. 1968 History
Scholarship from Woodrow Wilson Foundation
Belhaven College B.A. 1966 History
Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and
Universities
ACADEMIC TEACHING EMPLOYMENT
Arizona State University 1988 — Professor
(in the School of International Letters and Cultures
since August 2012; earlier in History Faculty,
merged into School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, 2008.)
Barrett Honors College Honors Disciplinary Faculty;
Ph.D. Program in the Human and Social Dimensions
of Science and Technology, School of Life
Sciences.
Center for Asian Research, Council on EAS;
Biology & Society Program in the School of Life
Sciences;
Institute for Humanities Research;
Center for Study of Religion & Conflict;
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance
Studies.
Renmin (People’s) University of China (2011-2016) Honorary Visiting Chair Professor,
School of History
Peking (Beijing) University fall 2010 Visiting Professor, International Academy for Chinese Studies
National Taiwan University spring 2009 National Science Council Chair Professor,
Department of History
Peking (Beijing) University fall 2003 Visiting Professor, Center for Studies of
Ancient (Premodern) Chinese History
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (Munich) fall 2000 Visiting Professor, Sinology
University of Washington winter-spring 1996 Visiting Professor
University of Hawaii summer 1994 Visiting Professor
Arizona State University 1981-88 Associate Professor
Arizona State University 1976-81 Assistant Professor
Harvard University 1972-76 Teaching Fellow to Senior (Head)
Tutor, East Asian Studies
ACADEMIC RESEARCH POSITIONS
Renmin University of China, School of History, Honorary Visiting Chair Professor, April through July, 2011.
Peking University, Beijing, International Academy for China Studies, Visiting Professor, September through December, 2010.
Huadong (East China) Normal University in Shanghai, Institute for Research on
Ancient Texts, January through August, 2010.
Peking University, Beijing, Center for Studies of Ancient Chinese History, Visiting
Research Professor and Zhuanjia, September 2003 through December 2004.
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany, Institut für Ostasienkunde—
Sinologie, Visiting Professor with Alexander von Humboldt Prize, 2000-01.
Academia Sinica, Institute of History & Philology, Visiting Research Professor,
January-July, 2009; May-August, 2007; April, 2000; fall 1996; July-October
1994.
National Central Library, Center for Chinese Studies, Visiting Professor, July to
October 1994.
Academia Sinica, Institute for Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Visiting Professor,
June 1993.
Princeton University, East Asian Studies, Visiting Fellow, spring 1990.
Peking University, Beijing, Department of History, Visiting Research Scholar,
1982 84.
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, Institute of Philosophy, Visiting
Research Scholar, 1982 83.
Harvard University, East Asian Research Center, Resident Associate in Research,
summer 1977.
AWARD/PRIZE for ACHIEVEMENTS in RESEARCH (major ones)
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Prize (Humboldt-Forschungspreis),
nominated and hosted by the Institut für Ostasienkunde—Sinologie,
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München (Munich), Germany, 2000-01.
Peking University, Center for Studies of Ancient Chinese History, Beijing, Research
Affiliate, 2004-.
Renmin University of China, School of History, Honorary Chaired Professor, 2011-2016.
Hangzhou Shifan (Normal) University, (Honorary) Director of the International Song
Research Center within the Academy for China Learning (Guoxueyuan), 2011-
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL GRANTS
Research Grants:
U.S. Department of Education Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad, “Evaluating Revivals of Confucian Values in Contemporary China: A Case Study of the Zhu (Xi) Family Association,” January-December, 2010, for research at Huadong (East China) Normal University’s Institute for Research on Ancient Texts in Shanghai and at Peking University’s International Academy for China Studies in Beijing.
J. William Fulbright Foundation, Fulbright Senior Scholars Program, Council for
International Exchange of Scholars (CIES), US Department of State, alternate 2010-11.
Institute for Asian and Pacific Research, Japan; P.I. Professor Yuyama Tomiko included me in this grant, “Invention of Identities and Development of Pluralism -- from the Perspective of Asia/China,” 2010-2013.
Peking University’s International Academy for China Studies, Beijing, September-December, 2010.
National Science Council (Taiwan), research collaboration and teaching two courses at
National Taiwan University, January-July, 2009.
American Council of Learned Societies, “Tang Song Transition: An International Project for Reevaluating Tang – Song Change and Continuity,” Conference Planning Grant, 2005-06.
American Council of Learned Societies, CSCC Fellowship – American Research in the
Humanities in the PRC, for research at the Center for Studies of Ancient
Chinese History, Peking University, Beijing, July-December 2004.
J. William Fulbright Foundation, Fulbright Senior Scholars Program, Council for
International Exchange of Scholars (CIES), US Department of State, for research
at the Center for Studies of Ancient Chinese History, Peking University, Beijing,
2003-04.
Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Program (U.S. Department of Education),
2003-04, declined.
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Feodor Lynen-Forschungsstipendien;
postdoctoral grant for Dr. Christian Soffel (LMU, Munich) to do research
with me at ASU, 2002-03, renewed 2003-04.
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, research grant for joint project with Peking
University’s Zhongguo Gudaishi Yanjiu Zhongxin (Center for Studies of Ancient
Chinese History) and Academia Sinica’s Shiyusuo (Institute of History &
Philology), 2001-02 and 2002-03; non-cost extension to 8/2004.
Wu Foundation Grant, 1996-97.
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, senior scholar grant, 1994-95.
National Central Library, Center for Chinese Studies, visiting researcher grant,
Summer 1994.
Pacific Cultural Foundation, summer 1993.
American Council of Learned Societies, 1989-90.
National Endowment for the Humanities, 1988-89.
National Academy of Sciences, Committee for Scholarly Communications with China,
August 1991,May 1985, 1983-84, 1982-83.
Department of Education, Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Program, 1982-83
(jointly with CSCC grant).
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, 1980.
Publication Subvention Grant:
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, for Cultural Authority and Political Culture in
China, co-authored with Christian Soffel, Spring 2012.
Conference Grants:
Academia Sinica (Taiwan) and the Institute for Study of Ancient Texts at Huadong
Normal University (Shanghai), funding enabled me to host an international
conference at Arizona State University on Zhu Xi’s Classical Learning and its Development and Influence in East Asia, May 7-8, 2012.
American Council of Learned Societies, conference on Cultural Values in North China
during the 12th and 13th Centuries, held in Dec. 1983 at Oracle Conference
Center, AZ, 1981. Project led by Stephen H. West.
Institutional Grant:
Japan Foundation, Support Program for Japanese Studies, Faculty Expansion Grant
Program, historian of pre-modern Japan. Applied with colleague and project
director Winston Kahn, three-year grant, 1993-96.
Teaching Resources Grants (for revising or creating courses):
Department of Education through the East Asian Program, Center for Asian Studies,
Arizona State University, 1991.
Department of Education through the Southwest Institute for Research on Women,
1986.
Travel Grants:
Harvard University, Fairbank Center, International Conference on Benjamin Schwartz, sponsored by Harvard University and East China Normal University and the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Dec., 2006.
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation through University of Buffalo, for international
conference on Sanguo (Three Kingdoms) era culture, Sichuan, May-June, 2001.
National Central Library, Center for Chinese Studies, for international conference on
Chu Hsi Studies, November, 2000.
Academia Sinica, Institute of History and Philology, for special invited lectures, April-
May, 2000.
Academia Sinica, Institute for Chinese Literature and Philosophy, to attend the
International Conference on Chu Hsi Studies, Taiwan, May 1992.
National Academy of Sciences, Committee for Scholarly Communications with China,
to attend an international conference on Sung history, sponsored by Hebei
University and Peking University, Aug. 1991.
Chinese University of Hong Kong, to attend an international Sung history conference,
Hong Kong, July 1995.
American Council of Learned Societies, to attend an international conference on the
Sung, sponsored by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Dec. 1984.
UNIVERSITY POSTDOCTORAL AWARDS
President Crow’s Investment in the Humanities program, with funding from his
award from the Carnegie Foundation, for launching “China’s Daos Today,” by six
ASU investigators headed by Stephen Bokenkamp, as well as with research
collaborators in China and from other U.S. universities, 2014-15.
Institute for Humanities Research Publication Subvention Grant, for Cultural
Authority and Political Culture in China, December 2011.
Institute for Humanities Research Competitive Seed Grant Program, with Stephen
Bokenkamp, Huaiyu Chen, Yong-kyun Oh, 2009.
Asian Research Grant, ASU Center for Asian Research, 2006, 2007.
Interdisciplinary Fellow, Biology and Society Program, ASU, spring 2000.
A.T. Steele Travel Grant, Center for Asian Studies, 1998, 2002, 2003.
Publication subvention grant, ASU Vice-President for Research, CLAS Dean, &
History Dept., winter 1996-97.
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, international travel grant to conference, 1996.
Teaching Enrichment Award, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, summer, 1995.
Humanities Research Award (from the Graduate College and the Interdisciplinary
Humanities Program), 1988, 1992.
History Associates Award to an Outstanding Faculty Member, 1987-88 (fourth year
of the award).
ASH (Arts, Social Science, Humanities) Grants, 1988, 1989, 1991.
College Grant for Travel to International Conference, Xi'an, China, 1987.
College Mini Grants for Research Materials, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1992.
College Summer Research Program, 1986, 1987, 1989.
Graduate Research Assistant/Associate Support Program, 1985.
Sung China Conference Grant (half of travel to match grant from ACLS to attend
International Conference on the Sung in Hong Kong, Dec., 1985).
Dean's Research Award, College of Liberal Arts, summer 1981.
Provost's Research Incentive Award, 1981.
Dean's Research Enrichment Award, Graduate College, 1978.
Faculty Grant In Aid Awards, summers 1977, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1999.
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
Cultural Authority and Political Culture in China: Exploring Issues with the Zhongyong and the Daotong during the Song, Jin and Yuan Dynasties, Co-authored with Christian Soffel. Muenchener Ostasiatische Studien; Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012; 223 pages.
Pangguan Zhuzixue: Luelun Songdai yu xiandai jingji, jiaoyu, wenhua, zhexue (Bystander Perspectives on Zhu Xi Studies: Essays on Song and Modern Economics, Education, Culture and Philosophy). Shanghai: Huadong Shifan Daxue chubanshe (East China Normal University Press), 2011; xiv + 257 pages.
Lishi yu wenhua de zhuisuo: Yu Yingshi jiaoshou bazhi zhushou lunwenji (Historical and Cultural Explorations: Essays Honoring the 80th Birthday of Professor Ying-shih Yü), Tian Hao (Tillman), ed. Taipei: Linking (Lianjing) Books, 2009; xxiii + 960 pages.
Zhu Xi de siwei shijie (zengdingben). Expanded and revised edition of my Zhu Xi’s World of Thought. Taipei: Yunchen wenhua (Asian Culture), 2008; 553 pages.
Also a version in PRC characters by Nanjing: Jiangsu Renmin chubanshe (People’s Press), 2009; xxix + 376 pages.
Chanyuan zhi meng xinlun (New Discussions of the Shanyuan Treaty), co-edited with
Zhang Xiqing, et al. Shanghai: Shanghai Renmin (People’s) Press, 2007; vi + 211 pages.
10-13 shiji Zhongguo wenhua de pengzhuang yu ronghe (Cultural Conflict and Synthesis in China from the 10th to the 13th Centuries), co-edited with Zhang Xiqing and Huang Kuan-chung. Shanghai: Shanghai Renmin (People’s) Press, 2006; vi + 609 pages.
Songdai sixiangshi lun (Collected Essays on the History of Thought in the Song Dynasty), an anthology of 18 essays edited by Tian Hao (Tillman). Beijing: Zhongguo shehui kexue wenxian chubanshe (Social Sciences Documentation Publishing House, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), 2003; iii + 661 pages.
Business as a Vocation: The Autobiography of Mr. Wu Ho-su. My translation (with an Introduction and Epilogue) of Huang Chin-shing’s Ban shiji de fendou: Wu Huoshi xiansheng koushu zhuanji (Taibei: Yunchen wenhua, 1990). Cambridge: East Asian Legal Studies Program of Harvard Law School and distributed by Harvard University Press, 2002; xlii + 262 pages.
Gongli zhuyi de rujia: Chen Liang dui Zhu Xi de tiaozhan (Utilitarian Confucianism: Chen Liang’s Challenge to Zhu Xi), with my new Preface to the Chinese edition. Translated by Jiang Changsu. Haiwai Zhongguo yanjiu congshu (Collectanea of Chinese studies from overseas) series, edited by Liu Dong, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing. Nanjing: Jiangsu Renmin (People’s) Press, 1997; xvi + 206 pages. New edition in Fenghuang (Phoenix) Series, Jiangsu Renmin (People’s) Press, January, 2012; xv + 192 pages.
Zhu Xi de siwei shijie (Zhu Xi's World of Thought). Revised and significantly expanded version of Confucian Discourse for a Chinese audience. China Monograph Series edited by Huang Chin-shing. Taipei: Yunchen wenhua (Asian Culture), 1996; 429 pages. Translated from traditional Chinese characters into PRC characters for a monograph series edited by Tang Yijie of Beijing University, and published; Xi’an: Shaanxi Province Normal University (Shaanxi shifandaxue chubanshe), 2002, vii + 358 pages.
Also in Korean, Juheeui Sayu Sagye (Translated by National Seoul University Professor Byounghwon Kim). Seoul: Kyoyook Kwahag sa (Educational Science Society), 2010; 390 pages.
China under Jurchen Rule: Essays on Chin Intellectual and Cultural History. Co-edited with Stephen H. West. Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture, edited by David L. Hall and Roger T. Ames. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995, xxi + 385 pages.
Ch’en Liang on Public Interest and the Law. Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy Monograph Series, no. 12, edited by Henry Rosemont. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994, xxi + 150 pages.
Confucian Discourse and Chu Hsi’s Ascendancy. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1992, xv + 328 pages.
Utilitarian Confucianism: Ch’en Liang’s Challenge to Chu Hsi. Cambridge: Harvard East Asian Monograph Series, no. 101, Harvard University Press, 1982; xvi + 304 pages.
Refereed Articles and Essays:
“Modernizing Tradition or Restoring Antiquity as Confucian Alternatives: A View from Reading Wedding Rituals in Contemporary China” (Li zhi shu tu: Zhuzi jiali xiandaihua yu huifu guli de jianxing: yi dangdai Rujia huli wei shijiao de fenxi) (in English and Chinese). First author with Margaret Mih Tillman, in Guy Alitto, ed., Reconstituting Confucianism for the Contemporary World. Beijing: Foreign Languages Research Press, forthcoming, 2015; to also appear in Lin Ching-chang and Tian Hao (Hoyt Tillman), eds., Zhuzi jingxue ji qi zai Tong Ya de liuzhuan yu fachan (Zhu Xi’s Classical Studies: Their Development and Influence in East Asia). Taipei: Wan Juan Lou, forthcoming.
“Ghosts, Gods, and the Ritual Practice of Local Officials during the Song: With a Focus on Zhu Xi in Nankang Prefecture,” second author with Chen Xi, Journal of Song and Yuan Studies, No. 44, forthcoming, fall, 2015.
“The Confucian Canon’s Pivotal and Problematic Middle Era: Reflecting on the Northern Song Masters and Zhu Xi,” second author with Yin Hui, Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 14.1 (March, 2015):95-105.
“Southern Sung Confucianism.” In Cambridge History of China. Edited by John Chaffee and Denis Twitchett. 5.2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015, pp. 727-790.
“Zuo xiang pushi jiazhi? Zhuzi jiali zhi gean yanjiu” (Evolving toward Universal Values? The Case of Zhu Xi’s Family Instructions) in Rujia de quanqiuhua yu zaidihua (Confucian Globalization and Localization), edited by Yang Zuhan, (National Central University Press), forthcoming, 2015.
“Wode Zhongguo yanjiu de bujie zhi yuan” (My Life with Chinese Studies), Guoji Hanxue yanjiu tongxun (International Sinology Research), Peking University’s Academy of Chinese Studies, No. 10 (December 2014): 291-306; Huazhong Guoxue (Middle China University National Studies, a journal of the Middle China University of Science and Technology), Vol. 3 (2014 [2015]): 9-18; and Lishi wexian yanjiu (Research on Historical Documents), Huadong Shifan Daxue (East China Normal University), Vol. 34 (2014 [2015]): 314-323.
“Zhuzi jiaxun zhi lishi yanjiu” (Historical research on Zhu Xi’s Family Instructions), included in Zhu Jieren, Zhuzi jiaxun (Zhu Xi’s Family Instructions). Shanghai: East China Normal University Press, 2014, pp. 33-47.
“Hao Jing dui Wujing, Zhongyong he Daotong de fansi” (Hao Jing’s Reflections on the Five Classics, the Zhongyong and the Transmission of the Way). Zhongguo Wenzhesuo jikan (Journal of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica), 24.1 (March 2014): 73-94; early version eventually published in Zhong Ri Han jingxue guoji xueshu yantaohui (International Conference on Classical Studies in China, Japan and Korea), edited by the Chinese Department of Hong Kong Baptist University and the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy of Academia Sinica. Taipei: Wanjuanlou Library Co., 2015, pp. 51-77.
“Nan Song difangguan de guishenguan yu difang shijian: yi Zhu Xi wei zhongxin de kaocha” (Southern Song Local Officials’ Views of Ghosts and Spirits and Their Local Practices: A Study Centered on Zhu Xi), second author with Chen Xi, Renwen Luncong (Humanities Essays and Studies), Wuhan University and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Press, 14.2 (December 2014): 113-124.
“Between Diversity and Harmony: Envisioning Confluences,” Taiwan Journal of East Asian Studies, published by National Taiwan University’s Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 11.2 (December 2014): 221-245.
“Cong Wujing dao Sishu: yi Songdai li li de tupo yu ronghe wei zhongxin” (From the Five Classics to the Four Books: A Study Centered on the Break and Fusion of Ritual and Principle), Second author with Yin Hui, Zhongguo zhexueshi (History of Chinese Philosophy) 2 (2014):103-108.
“Remodeling Confucian Wedding Rituals to Address China’s Youth Culture Today: A Case of Using the Classics to Respond to Recalcitrant Problems,” first author with Margaret Mih Tillman, Taiwan Journal of East Asian Studies, published by National Taiwan University’s Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 10.2 (December 2013): 221-246.
“Zhuzi wenhua fuxing de qianzaili: yi Zhuzi hunli xianzaiban wei li” (Figuring the Potential for a Revival of Zhuzi Culture: An Analysis Based on Chinese Student Responses to the Modernized Zhuzi Wedding Ritual). First author with Margaret Tillman. In Zhexue yu shidai (Philosophy and the Times). Edited by Chen Lai. Shanghai: Huadong (East China) Normal University Press, 2012, pp. 107-117.
“Ruxue yanjiu de xin fangxiang: dui ‘xinruxue’ yu ‘daoxue’ zhi qubie de kaocha tujing” (A New Direction in Confucian Scholarship: Approaches to Examining the Differences between Neo-Confucianism and Tao-hsueh), in Patricia Ebrey, Zhang Cong and Yao Ping, eds., Dangdai Xifan Hanxue yanjiu jicui (Collection of Contemporary Western Sinological Research), Shanghai: Shanghai Guji (Ancient Texts) Publishing House, 2012, pp. 1-21.
“Zhu Xi yanjiu zai Meiguo: yi Chen Rongjie, Yu Yingshi yu Tian Hao wei zhongxin” (Zhu Xi Studies in America: Taking Wing-tsit Chan, Ying-shih Yü and Hoyt Tillman as center of discussion). In Fudan wenshi jiangtang (Fudan University Lectures on the Humanities). Edited by Fudan daxue wen shi yanjiuyuan (Fudan University’s National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies). Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 2011, vol. 4, pp.103-124.
“Lai zi Menggu zhengfu dangzhong de guandian: Hao Jing dui Tang Song wenhua zhuanbian yu lianxu de fanxing” (A Perspective from the midst of the Mongol Conquest: Hao Jing’s Reflections on Cultural Change and Continuity from Tang to Song). In Yudi, kaogu yu shixue xinshuo—Li Xiaocong jiaoshou huanli wenji (New Discussions of Territory, Archeology and History: A Commemorative Volume for Professor Li Xiaocong’s Retirement). Edited by Cheng Yi’nong. Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 2012, pp. 476-479.
“Explorations into Song-Yuan Intellectual History: Any Contemporary Relevance?” Chung Kuk Hak Po (Journal of Chinese Studies, Korean Society for Chinese Studies), 64 (2011):537-569 (Korean, 537-551 & English, 552-569).
“Xijie lianli: Zhuzi jiali·hunli de xiandaihua” (A Joyful Union: The Modernization of the Wedding Rituals from the Zhu Xi Family Rituals). Co-author with Tian Mei (Margaret Tillman). Zhongguo Renleixue pinglun (China Anthropology Review), 19 (2011):140-156; a revised version published in Renwen yu jiazhi (Humanity and Values). Edited by Chen Lai and Zhu Jieren. Shanghai: Huadong (East China) Normal University Press, 2011, pp. 225-241.
“A Joyful Union: The Modernization of the Zhu Xi Family Wedding Ceremony.” Second author with Margaret Tillman. Oriens Extremus, 49 (2010):115-42.
“Rujia wenhua ruhe chuangxin?” (How to revitalize Confucian Culture?). Zhonghua dushu bao (China Reading Weekly, Beijing), No. 191 (October 20, 2010), pp. 1, 9; a shorter version reprinted in Fujian’s Sanming ribao (Sanming Daily), October 17, 2010, p. A3.
“Zhang Shi’s Philosophical Perspectives on Human Nature, Heart/Mind, Humaneness and the Supreme Ultimate.” In Neo-Confucian Philosophy. Edited by John Makeham. Dordrecht: Springer, 2010, pp. 125-151.
“Quanqiuhua jinchengzhong, ruhe chuangxin Rujia wenhua? Yi Shijie Zhuzhi Lianhehui wei lizi” (How to Revitalize Confucian Culture in an Era of Globalization? Taking the World Zhu Family Association as an Example). In Zhuzi wenhua (Zhu Xi Culture), 6 (2010): 23-27.
“Ruxue lunli he jingshi sixiang: tantao Chen Liang, Chen Huanzhang he Shibusawa Eiichi de guandian” (Confucian Ethics and Statecraft Thought: An Inquiry into the Ideas of Chen Liang, Chen Huanzhang and Shibusawa Eiichi). In Lishi yu wenhua de zhuisuo: Yu Yingshi jiaoshou bazhi zhushou lunwenji (Historical and Cultural Explorations: Essays Honoring the 80th Birthday of Professor Ying-shih Yü). Edited by Tian Hao (Tillman). Taipei: Linking (Lianjing) Books, 2009, pp. 107-133.
“Shehui, jingji lingyu zhong xuanzexing de Rujia jiazhiguan he shequn guanxiwang” (Selected Confucian Networks and Values in Society and the Economy). In Zhongguo Ruxue (Chinese Confucianism). Edited by Wang Zhongjiang and Li Cunshan. Beijing: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Press, 2009, vol. 4, pp. 287-315.
“Zhu Xi yu Daoxue de fazhan zhuanhua” (Zhu Xi and the Transformation of Learning of the Dao Confucianism). In Songdai xinruxue de jingshen shijie – yi Zhuzixue wei zhongxin (The Intellectual World of Neo-Confucianism in the Song Dynasty: Taking the study of Zhu Xi as the Center of Discussion). Edited by Wu Zhen. Shanghai: Huadong (East China) Normal University Press, 2009, pp. 10-23.
“Lishi shijie zhong de Rujia he Ruxue” (Historical Worlds of Confucians and Confucianism). Transcribed interview conducted by Ge Huanli. Linyi Shifan Xueyuean Xuebao (Journal of the Linyi Normal College, Shangdong Province), 31.4 (August, 2009): 40-44.
“Rujia jiaoyu shi geti zijue huoshi jiyou zhihui de chuandi?” (Is Confucian Education Individual Self-Realization or the Transmission of Wisdom?) Gujin Lunheng (Disquisitions on the Past & Present), Academia Sinica, 19 (2009): 93-110.
“Bei Mei Songdai Ruxue he Zhu Xi yanjiushi yanbian: 60 huigu” (Evolution of North American Research on Song-era Confucianism and Zhu Xi: Reflections on the last 60 Years), a report for the anniversary issue of the founding of the PRC. Zhongguo Shehui Kexue Bao (Chinese Social Science Today). Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, No. 25 (September 22, 2009), p. A12.
“Distant Echoes of Chen Liang’s Statecraft Thought? Chen Huan-chang and Shibusawa Eiichi on Confucian Ethics and Economics.” Studies in Chinese History, a trilingual journal published in Tokyo, Japan. 18 (2008):1-26.
“Gensui Shihuazi Laoshi yanjiu Songdai sixiangshi: lun Zhu Xi he tian” (Researching Song Intellectual History with Benjamin Schwartz: Discussions of Zhu Xi and the ‘Mind of Heaven’) In Shihuazi yu Zhongguo (Schwartz and China). Edited by Xu Jilin and Zhu Zhenghui (Changchun: Gilin chuban jituan, 2008), 154-70. Earlier version in Huadong shifan daxue xuebao (Journal of East China Normal University, Shanghai), 1 (2008): 1-8 and 17.
“A Perspective from the midst of the Mongol Conquest: Hao Jing’s Reflections on Cultural Change and Continuity from Tang to Song.” In Jitiao yu bianzou: 7-20 shiji de Zhongguo guoji xueshu yantiao hui. (Keynote and Variation: International Scholarly Essays on China from the 7th through the 20th Centuries). Edited by Huang Kuan-chung, et al. Taipei: Cheng-chi University, 2008, vol. 3, pp. 21-28.
“Yingxiong huozhe shengren? Fenxi Chen Shou he Pei Songzhi de Zhuge Liang” (Hero or Sage? Analyzing Chen Shou’s and Pei Songzhi’s Zhuge Liang). In Deng Guangming jiaoshou bainain yandan jinian lunwenji (Volume to Commemorate the 100th Anniversary of Deng Guangming’s Birth). Beijing: Zhonghua, 2008, pp. 385-395.
“Either Self-realization or Transmission of Received Wisdom in Confucian Education? An Inquiry into Lü Zuqian’s and Zhu Xi’s Constructions for Student Learning.” In Educations and Their Purposes: A Philosophical Dialogue among Cultures. Edited by Roger Ames and Peter Hershock. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2008, pp. 270-288.
“Les académies confucéennes dans en Chine au temps des Song (Xe-XIIIe siécle).” In Les Lieux de savoir: Espaces et communautés (Sites of learning: Spaces and communities). Edited by Christian Jacob, et al. Paris: Albin Michel, 2007, pp. 323-342.
“The Treaty of Shanyuan in the Eyes of Western Scholars.” Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies. Sungkyunkwan University’s Academy of East Asian Studies, Seoul. 5.2 (October 2005): 135-156. Chinese version in Chanyuan zhi meng xinlun (New Discussions of the Shanyuan Treaty). Shanghai: Shanghai Renmin (People’s) Press, 2007, pp. 92-112.
“Some Historical and Philosophical Sources of the Sanguo yanyi: Sima Guang and Chen Liang on Zhuge Liang.” In Three Kingdoms and Chinese Culture. Edited by Kimberly Besio. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007, pp. 53-72.
“Song, Jin, Yuan wenhua sixiang pengzhuang yu ronghe: Tanjiu Hao Jing de Yi-Xia guan, zhengtonglun yu daoxue yanbian” (Confrontation and Unification of Song, Jin and Yuan Cultural Thought: Exploring Hao Jing’s view of Chinese and Barbarians, the Legitimate Succession of Dynasties, and the Evolution of the Learning of the Way Confucianism). In 10-13 shiji Zhongguo wenhua de pengzhuang yu ronghe (Cultural Conflict and Synthesis in China from the 10th to the 13th Centuries). Co-edited with Zhang Xiqing and Huang Kuan-chung. Shanghai: People’s Press, 2006, pp. 21-61.
“Creativity and Evolving Confucian Traditions: Some Reflections on Earlier Centuries and Recent Developments.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 33.2 (2006); 213-23. Earlier Chinese version in Ruxue yu dangdai wenming (Confucianism and Modern Civilization). Edited by Zhang Xuezhi, et al. Beijing: Jiuzhou Press, 2005, vol. 3, pp. 1131-1137.
“Narratives of Transmissions of the Way: The Case of Hao Jing’s Perspective on North China Confucians,” (in Korean). Daedong munhwa yeon’gu (Study of Eastern Culture). Academy of East Asian Studies, Sungkyunkwan University. 52 (2005): 469-486.
“Lishixue shiyezhongde zhengzhi wenhua” (Historical Perspectives on Political Culture). With Deng Xiaonan, et al. In Dushu (Reading), No. 10 (October 2005), pp. 116-132; the abstract of my presentation at the forum are on pp. 116-118.
“Songdai Zhongguo de rujia shuyuan” (Confucian Academies during the Song dynasty). Hunan Daxue Xuebao (Journal of Hunan University), 19.6 (November 2005):3-9.
“Dui Chen Liang sixiang zhongyaoxingde ruogan fansi,” (Reflections on Some Important Aspects of Chen Liang’s Thought). In Chen Liang yanjiu: Yongkang xuepai yu Zhejiang jingshen (Chen Liang Research: The Yongkang School of Thought and the Zhejiang Spirit). Edited by Lü Dunji and Chen Chengge. Shanghai: Guji (Ancient Texts) Publishing House, 2004 , pp. 15-22.
“Some Current Activities in Song Studies at Peking University’s Center for Studies of Ancient Chinese History.” Journal of Song and Yuan Studies, 34 (2004): 99-107.
“Wode sixiangshi yanjiu” (My Research in Intellectual History). Zhongguo Sixiangshi Yanjiu Tongxun (Bulletin of Chinese Intellectual History Research). Published by the Institute of History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing. 3 (2004): 7-11.
“Zhu Xi’s Prayers to the Spirit of Confucius and Claim to the Transmission of the Way.” Philosophy East and West, 54.4 (2004): 489-513.
“Selected Confucian Networks and Values in Society and the Economy.” In Politics of Affective Relations: East Asia and Beyond. Edited by Daniel Bell and Chaihark Hahm. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books of Rowman and Littlefield Publishing, 2004, pp. 121-147.
“Wode sixiangshi yanjiu” (My Research in Intellectual History). Zhongguo sixiangshi yanjiu tongxun (Bulletin of Chinese Intellectual History Research). Institute of History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing. 3 (2004):7-11.
“Suowei ‘Zhuzi de shecang’ yu dangdai Daoxue shecun he zhengfulide shidafu de guanxi” (The so-called “Master Zhu’s Granary” and the relationship between the Learning of the Way Confucian Fellowship and scholar-officials in the government of the era). Haungshan Xueyuan Xuebao (Journal of Huangshan University), 96.6.4 (August 2004): 26-28.
“Yu Yingshi: Zhu Xi de lishi shijie” (Yu Ying-shi’s Historical World of Zhu Xi). Hunan Daxue Xuebao (Journal of Hunan University), 18.5 (September 2004): 35-38. Also published in Zhuzi quanshu yu Zhuzixue (The Complete Works of Zhu Xi and Zhu Xi Studies). Edited by Zhu Jieren and Yan Wenru. Shanghai: Huadong (East China) Normal University Press, 2005, pp. 208-218.
“Textual Liberties and Restraints in Rewriting China’s Histories: The Case of Ssu-ma Kuang’s Re-Construction of Chu-ko Liang’s Story.” In The New and the Multiple: Sung Senses of the Past. Edited by Thomas H.C. Lee. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2004, pp. 61-106.
“Yin ‘luan’ er daozhi chuangshang: Hanzu shiren dui Mengguren ruqin huiying zhi yanjiu” (Psychological Trauma Caused by a Sudden Catastrophe: A Case Study of the Response of Intellectuals of Han Nationality to the Mongolian Invasion). Beida Shixue (Clio at Beida). Department of History, Peking University. 10 (2004): 69-91.
“Confucian Ethics and Modern Chinese Development.” In China’s Traditions: Wings or Shackles for China’s Modernization. Edited by Gerd Kaminski. Vienna, Austria: Ludwig Boltzmann Institute, 2003, pp. 9-18.
“Ruxue yanjiu yige de xin zhixiang: Xinruxue yu daoxue zhi jian chayi de jiantao” (A new direction in Confucian research). Translated by Yang Lihua. In Songdai sixiang shilun. Edited by Tian Hao (Tillman). Beijing: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Documents Press, 2003, pp. 77-97.
“Xingdong zhong de zhishi fenzi yu guanyuan: Zhongguo Songdai de shuyuan he shecang” (Intellectuals and officials in action: Song era academies and granaries). Translated by Yang Lihua. In Songda sixiangsh lun. Edited by Tian Hao (Tillman). Beijing: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Documents Press, 2003, pp. 475-488.
“Chen Liang lun gong yu fa” (Chen Liang on Public Interest and the Law). Translated with Jiang Changsu, In Songdai sixiangshi lun. Edited by Tian Hao (Tillman). Beijing: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Documents Press, 2003, pp. 518-576.
“Yin ‘luan’ er zhi de xinli chuangshang: Hanzu shiren dui Menggu ruqinren zhi huiying yanjiu” (Experiencing disorder as trauma: Research on responses to the Mongol invasion). Taida wenshizhe xuebao (Taiwan University’s Humanitas Taiwanica), 58 (2003): 71-93.
“Historic Analogies and Evaluative Judgments: Zhuge Liang as Portrayed in Chen Shou’s Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms and Pei Songzhi’s Commentary.” In Dimensionen der historischen Kritik in China.” Special issue edited by Achim Mittag. Oriens Extremus, 43 (2002): 60-70.
“Reassessing Du Fu’s Line on Zhuge Liang.” Monumenta Serica, 50 (2002): 295-313.
“Cong Songdai sixiangshi lundao jindai jingji fazhan” (Discussing Modern Economic Development from the Vantage Point of Sung-era Intellectual Lineages). Zhongguo Xueshu (China Scholarship), 10 (2002): 167-92.
“Reflections on Classifying ‘Confucian’ Lineages: Re-inventions of Tradition in Song China.” In Rethinking Confucianism: Past and Present in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. Edited by Benjamin Elman, et al. Los Angeles: UCLA, Asia Pacific Center Monograph Series, 2002, pp. 33-64.
“Shixue yu wenhua sixiang: Sima Guang dui Zhuge Liang gushi de chongjian” (Historiography and Cultural History: A Discussion from Sima Guang’s Reconstruction of Zhuge Liang’s Story). Shiyusuo jikan (Journal of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, 73.1 (March 2002): 1-35.
“Does Confucianism Have a Role in East Asian Economy, Social Networks and Civil Society? Some Reflections from the Perspective of the Song Era and the 20th Century.” Global Economic Review. Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. 31.1 (2002): 13-26.
“Zhu Xi de guishen guan yu daotung guan” (Zhu Xi’s conceptions of spirits and the succession to the transmission of the Way). In Mairu 21 shijie de Zhuzixue: jinian Zhu Xi danchen 870 zhounian, shishi 800 zhounian lunwenji (Zhu Xi studies entering the 21st century: a volume of essays commemorating the 870th anniversary of Zhu Xi’s birth and the 800th anniversary of his death). Edited by Zhu Jieren. Shanghai: Huadong (East China) Normal University Press, 2001, pp. 171-183. A revised version in traditional Chinese characters was published in (Chung Tsai-chun) ed., Zhuzixue de kaizhan: xueshu pian (Developing Zhu Xi studies: research articles). Edited by Zhong Caijun. Taipei: Center for Chinese Studies. The National Central Library in Taiwan, 2002. Vol. 1, pp. 247-261.
“Praying to the Spirit of Confucius and Claiming the Transmission of the Way: Linking Zhu Xi’s Views on Guishen and the Daotong.” In Guoshi fuhai kai xinlu: Yu Yingshi jiaoshou rongtui lunwenji (National history floating across the sea and opening new venues: an anthology dedicated to Professor Yü Ying-shih on his retirement). Edited by Chou Chih-p’ing and Willard Peterson. Taibei: Lianjing Publishing Co., 2002, pp. 159-204.
“Benjamin I. Schwartz” (an essay on his life and works to accompany his final essay). Philosophy East and West, 51.2 (2001): 183-86. Translated into Chinese by Luo Xinhui, “Shihuazi xiaozhuan,” and published in Kaifang shidai (Open Times), May 2001, pp. 5-7.
“Chen Liang lun gong yu fa” (Chen Liang on Public Interest and the Law). Translated with Jiang Changsu. In Song Yuan shidai de falu, sixiang yu shehui (Law, thought, and society during the Sung-Yuan period). Compiled and edited by Liu Liyan (Lau Nap-yin). Taipei: Guoli bianyiguan (National Bureau for Compilation and Translation), 2001, pp. 131-179.
“Historical Reflections on Government,” (introduction and two translations from Chen Liang’s works). In Sources of Chinese Tradition. Edited by Wm. Theodore de Bary and Irene Bloom. 2nd edition. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999, 1:644-651.
“Arising to Defend Zhuge Liang: Chen Liang’s Reaction to the He Boshi beilun.” In Deng Guangming jiaoshou jiushi huadan lunwenji (Volume Honoring Professor Deng Guangming’s 90th Birthday). Edited by Tian Yuqing, et al. Shijiazhuang: Hebei Education Publishing House, 1997, pp. 499-515.
“One Significant Rise in Chu-ko Liang’s Popularity: The Impact of the Jurchen Invasion.” Hanxue yanjiu (Chinese Studies). National Central Library. 14.2 (1996): 1-35.
“Cong xun lishi shang de Lü Zuqian” (Reconstructing the historical Lü Zujian). Translated by Ji Xiaobin, Niu Pu, and myself. Dalu zazhi (Continent Magazine). Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. 91.2 (August 1995): 1-12.
“Ho Ch'ü-fei and Chu Hsi on Chu-ko Liang as a Scholar-General.” Journal of Sung and Yuan Studies, 25 (1995): 77-94.
“Introduction.” Co-authored with Stephen H. West. In China under Jurchen Rule: Essays on Chin Intellectual and Cultural History. Edited by Hoyt Tillman and Stephen H. West. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995, pp. 1-20.
“Overview of Chin History and Institutions.” In China under Jurchen Rule: Essays on Chin Intellectual and Cultural History. Co-edited with Stephen H. West. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995, pp. 23-38.
“Confucianism under the Chin and the Impact of Tao-hsueh.” In China under Jurchen Rule, Co-edited with Stephen H. West. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995, pp. 71-114.
“Cong xun lishi shang de Lü Zuqian” (Reconstructing the historical Lü Zujian). Dalu zazhi (Continent Magazine). Academia Sinica. 91.2 (1995):1-12.
“A New Turn in Sung Intellectual History.” Journal of Sung and Yuan Studies, 24 (1994): 347-350.
“Bashi niandai zhongye yilai Meiguo de Songdai sixiangshi yanjiu” (New work on Song-era intellectual history in the U.S.A. since the mid-1180s). Translated by Jiang Yifang. In Zhongguo wen-zhe yanjiu tongxun (Newsletter of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy). Taiwan: Academia Sinica. 3.4 (December 1993): 63-70. A Korean translation by Paul Byounghwon Kim was published in Issues in East Asian Philosophy, 12 (2005): 292-307.
“'Renshuo': Zhu Xi yu Zhang Shi lun ren” (“On Humaneness”: Zhu Xi and Zhang Shi Discuss Humaneness). Translated together with Niu Pu. In Guoji Zhuzi xue huiyi lunwenji (Conference Volume from International Conference on Zhu Xi Studies). Taiwan: Academia Sinica Institute for Chinese Literature and Philosophy, 1993, vol. 1, pp. 599-614.
“Nan Song Daoxue jia Hu Hong zhi xin xing lun” (Southern Song Daoxue Thinker Hu Hong's Discussion of Mind and Human Nature). In Zhou Yiliang xiansheng bashi shengri jinian lunwenji (Collection of Essays Commemorating the 80th Birthday of Professor Zhou Yiliang). Edited by Zhou Shaoliang, et al. Beijing: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Press, 1993, pp. 485-492.
“Lun Lu Jiuyuan dui Zhu Xi quanwei de tiaozhan” (Lu Jiuyuan's Challenge to Zhu Xi's Authority). In Guoji Songshi yantaohui lunwen xuanji (Selected Essays from an International Conference on Song-era History). Edited by Deng Guangming and Qi Xia. Baoding: Hebei University Press, 1992, pp. 150-157.
“A New Direction in Confucian Scholarship: Approaches to Examining the Differences between Neo-Confucianism and Tao-hsueh.” Philosophy East and West, 42.3 (1992): 455-74; also “The Uses of Neo-Confucianism, Revisited: A Reply to Professor de Bary,” 44.1 (1994): 135-42.
“Encyclopedias, Polymaths, and Tao-hsueh Confucians: Preliminary Reflections with Special Reference to Chang Ju-yü.” Journal of Sung and Yuan Studies, 22 (1990-92): 89-108.
“Intellectuals and Officials in Action: Academies and Granaries in Sung China.” Asia Major, 4.2 (1991):1-15.
“Yan Fu’s Utilitarianism in Chinese Perspective.” In Ideas Across Cultures. Edited by Paul Cohen and Merle Goldman. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990, pp. 63-84.
“Jin chao sixiang yu zhengzhi gaishuo” (On the Thought and Political Institutions of the Jin Dynasty). Co-authored with Yu Zongxian. In Ryū Shiken Hakushi shōju kinen Sōshi kenkyū ronshū (Collected Studies on Song-era History Dedicated to Professor James T.C. Liu in Celebration of his Seventieth Birthday). Edited by Kinugawa Tsuyoshi. Kyoto: Dōhōsha, 1989, pp. 29-42.
“Jindai sixiangjia Li Chunfu he Songdai Daoxue” (Li Chunfu, a Thinker of the Jin Era and Song-era Daoxue Confucianism). Dalu zazhi (Continent Magazine). Academia Sinica. 78.3 (1989): 9-13.
“Lun Chen Liang yu Daoxue guanxi” (Discussing the Relations between Chen Liang and Daoxue Confucianism). Dalu zazhi (Continent Magazine). Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica. 78.2 (February 1989): 1-5.
“Chu Hsi.” In Great Lives from History: Ancient and Medieval Series. Edited by Frank N. Magill. Pasadena: Salem Press, 1988, vol. 2, pp. 502-506.
“Ch’en Liang on Statecraft: Reflections from Examination Essays in a Sung Rare Book.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 44.2 (1988): 403-431.
“Jindai de Rujiao: Daoxue zai beibu Zhongguo de yinji” (Confucianism under the Jin Dynasty: The Imprint of Daoxue in North China). Zhongguo zhexue (Chinese Philosophy). Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing. 14 (1988): 107-140.
“Zhongguo lishi yizhi zhong de Zhuge Liang: An Lushan panluan qi de tansuo” (Zhuge Liang in Chinese Historical Consciousness: Exploring the Period in the Wake of An Lushan's Rebellion). In Zhou, Qin, Han Tang kaogu yu wenhua guoji xueshu huiyi lunwenji (Collection of Papers from the International Conference on the Archeology and Culture of the Qin, Han and Tang Dynasties). Edited by Zhang Qizhi et al. Xibei daxue xuebao (Academic Journal of Northwest University, Xi’an), 18 (1988): 133 46.
“Reflections on Symmetry in Chinese Thought.” In Symmetry in a Cultural Context. Edited by Dénes Nagy. Tempe: Arizona State University, 1988, pp. 50 58.
“Consciousness of T’ien in Chu Hsi's Thought.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 47.1 (1987): 31 50.
“Cong Nan Song moqi keben Quandian Longchuan Shuixin er xiansheng wencui de ‘Hanlun’ kan Chen Liang yu Song Ru Daoxue de guanxi” (Chen Liang and Song-era Confucian Daoxue: Reflections on his ‘Essays on Han Dynasty’ from the Late Southern Song Edition of his Works). Tansuo (Explorations). Chinese Academy of Social Sciences of Zhejiang Province. 4 (1985): 20 25.
“Wushi niandai chuqi Meiguo de dui Hua zhengce” (U.S. Policy toward China in the Early 1950s). Lishi yanjiu (Historical Research). Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing. 5 (1983): 154 163.
“Nationalism Reflected or Transcended in Literature,” (my editorial introduction). In Adjoining Cultures as Reflected in Literature and Language; Proceedings of the XV TH Congress of the Fédération Internationale des Languages et Littératures Modernes. Edited by John X. Evans. Tempe: Arizona State University, 1983, pp. 125 130.
“The Development of Tension between Virtue and Achievement in Early Confucianism: Attitudes toward Kuan Chung and Hegemon (Pa) as Conceptual Symbols.” Philosophy East and West, 31.1 (1981): 17 28.
“Proto Nationalism in Twelfth Century China? The Case of Ch’en Liang.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 39.2 (1979): 403 28.
“Divergent Philosophic Orientations toward Values: The Debate between Chu Hsi and Ch’en Liang.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 5.4 (1978): 363 89.
“The Idea and Reality of the 'Thing' during the Sung: Philosophical Attitudes toward Wu.” Bulletin of Sung and Yuan Studies, 14 (1978): 68 82.
“Review Article on Escape from Predicament: Neo Confucianism and China's Evolving Political Culture.” Philosophy East and West, 28.4 (October 1978): 503 509.
“Professor James T.C. Liu's Analysis of Reforms in Traditional China.” In Reform in Nineteenth Century China. Edited by Paul Cohen and John Schrecker. Cambridge: Harvard Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University Press, 1976, pp. 14 15.
Invited Publications:
“Hao Jing dui wenhua zhuanbian yu lianxu de fanxing” (Hao Jing’s Reflections on Cultural Change and Continuity). In Salutation: A Festschrift for Burton Watson. Edited by Jesse Glass and Phil Williams. Tokyo: Ahadada Press, forthcoming.
“2011-2012 nian Meiguo Zhuzi yanjiu” (American Research on Zhu Xi for 2011 and 2012). In Zhuzixue nianjian (Zhu Xi Studies Yearly Report), edited by Zhuzixue hui (Association for Zhu Xi Studies). Xiamen: Xiamen University Press, 2013, pp. 136-137.
“Houzhong que guanghui de wangxi” (The Dignity and Magnificence of Past Memories). In Yanyuan liuyun: Shijie wutaishang de Beida waiguo liuxuesheng (Passing Clouds of Statements from Yanyuan: Beida Foreign Students on the World Stage). Edited by Xia Hongwei, et al. Beijing: Peking University Press, 2010, pp. 156-159.
Book jacket blurb for the Chinese version of Peter Bol’s Neo-Confucianism in History (Lishi shang de lixue). Hangzhou: Zhejiang Press, 2010.
“Hao Jing’s Reflections on the Classics and the Zhongyong.” Taiwan Daxue Renwen Shehui Gaodeng Yanjiuyuan (National Taiwan University’s Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences Newsletter), 4.3 (September 2009): 35-37.
“Bei Mei Songdai Ruxue he Zhu Xi yanjiushi yanbian: 60 huigu” (Evolution of North American Research on Song-era Confucianism and Zhu Xi: Reflections on the last 60 Years), a report for the anniversary issue of the founding of the PRC. Zhongguo Shehui Kexue Bao (Chinese Social Science Today). Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing. 25 (September 22, 2009): A12.
“Sushulou de huixiang” (Recalling the Qian Mu House). In Qian Mu xiansheng sixiang xing yi yanjiu lunwenji (Volume of research essays on Master Qian Mu’s thought, conduct and friendship). Chief editor Huang Zhaoqiang. Taipei: Dongwu (Soochow) University’s Management Section for the Qian Mu House, 2009, pp. 355-356.
“Lue tan Meiguo de Zhu Xi yanjiu” (Brief Discussion of American Research on Zhu Xi). Zhongguo Shehui Kexue Bao (Chinese Social Science Today). Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, 25 (August 25, 2009): 9.
“Yi Beida, yi laoyou” Remembering Beijing University and Old Friends). Honglou feixue: Haiwai xiaoyou qingyi Beida, 1947-2008 (Red buildings and flying snow: Personal reflections of foreign friends of Peking University, 1947-2008). Chief editor, Lin Jianhua. Beijing: Beijing University Press, 2008, pp. 84-90.
Book jacket blurb for Confucius Now, edited by David Jones. Chicago: Open Court, 2008.
“A Frog in a Well Surveys the Heavens: Reflections on Confucianism from a Remote Space.” Transactions of the International Conference of Eastern Studies. Tōhō Gakkai (The Institute of Eastern Studies), Tokyo. 52 (2007): 99-100.
“Professor Jin and Friendships across Boundaries: Personal Reflections by Hoyt Tillman.” In Jin Qicong Xiansheng zheshi zhounian jinian wenji (Volume commemorating the first-year anniversary of the death of Professor Jin Qicong). Edited by Jin Shi, Yoshimoto Michimasa, and Aisin Gioro Ulhicun. Kyoto: East Asian Historical Culture Research Association, 2005, pp. 11-12.
“‘Daoxue,’ ‘Lixue’ gainian de shiyong” (Usages of the concepts Daoxue and Lixue), Summary of a discussion between Tian Hao (Hoyt Tillman), Jiang Guanghui, and others. Zhongguo Sixiangshi Yanjiu Tongxun (Research Bulletin on Chinese Intellectual History). Institute of History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, 4 (December, 2004): 8-10.
“Ping Yu Yingshi de Zhu Xi de lishi shijie” (Review Essay of Professor Yu Yingshi’s Zhu Xi’s World of Thought). Shijie Zhexue (World Philosophy), 4 (2004): 103-107.
“Jin Qicong Xiansheng Jiaxu” (Eulogy letter to the family of Professor Jin Qicong). Jin
Qicong Xiansheng yongchui buxiu (Eulogies for Professor Jin Qicong, 1918-
2004). Beijing, 2004, p. 17.
“Rujia wenhua ji Huizhou wenhua luyou” (Confucian culture and Huizhou cultural tourism). Huizhou yanjiu, 24 (2003), pp. 34-35.
“Xueshu yanjiu de kuaji jiaoliu” (Exchanges in Scholarly Research Transcending
International Boundaries). Translated by Peng Shanshan. Zhonghua Dushu Bao
(News for China Readers), November 12, 2003.
“Culture and Politics in Traditional China: Confucian Works in Chinese History and
Philosophy Reevaluated.” Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Kosmos, 79 (July
2002): 34-35.
“Yu Deng Guangming jiaoshou duihua” (Dialogues with Professor Deng Guangming). In Yang zhi ji (Looking up at the Mountain: A collection in memory of Professor Deng Guangming). Edited by Deng Xiaonan. Shijiazhuang: Hebei Educational Press, 1999, pp. 388-397.
“Duiyu lishiyuyan yanjiusuode yixie geren huiyi” (Some Personal Reflections Concerning the Institute of History and Philology). In Xin xueshu zhi lu (Along New Pathways of Research: Essays in Honor of the 70th Anniversary of the Institute of History and Philology). Compiled and published by the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, 2 vols. Taipei: Academia Sinica, 1998, vol. 2, pp. 1049-1051.
“A New Turn in Sung Intellectual History.” Journal of Sung and Yuan Studies, 24 (1994): 347-350.
“Reflecting on Song and Jin Studies in Contemporary China: A Report on China Conferences, August 1991.” Journal of Sung and Yuan Studies, 22 (1990-92): 233-237.
“Foreword” to Benjamin I. Schwartz's China's Cultural Values. Tempe: Arizona State University, Center for Asian Studies Monograph Series, 1985, pp. i ii; reprinted, 1993.
“Researching Sages and Heroes in Chinese History in China.” China Exchange News [National Academy of Sciences, Committee for Scholarly Communications with China], 13.2 (June 1985): 17 20.
Encyclopedia Entries:
“The Yoshida Letter.” In Encyclopedia of Chinese-American Relations. Edited by Yuwu Song. Jefferson, NC & London: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2006, pp. 327-328.
Essays on Zhu Xi, Lü Zuqian, Chen Liang, three works associate with Zhu Xi (Jinsi lu, Zhuzi Wenji, and Zhuzi Yulei), and five philosophical terms (chijing, jingshi zhi yong, jujing qiongli, li yi fenshu, Zhedong xuepai). In The Encyclopedia of Confucianism. Edited by Yao Xinzhong. Richmond, England: Curzon Press, 2003, Vol. 1, pp. 47-49, 65, 303, 304-305, 310-311, 367-368, 402-404; Vol. 2, pp. 810, 839-843, 849, 850-851.
“Zhu Xi’s Rivals and Followers.” In Encyclopedia of Chinese Philosophy. Edited by Antonio S. Cua, et al. New York: Routledge Press, 2003, pp. 903-910.
“Cheng Hao” and “Cheng Yi” (two entries). In Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 10 vols. Edited by Edward Craig. London: Routledge, 1998, vol. 2, pp. 300-303.
American Historical Associations' Guide to Historical Literature. Edited by Mary Beth Norton, et al. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995, vol. 1, pp. 293-294; (I did twenty-four entries on “Neo-Confucianism”).
Editor (See also above under Books and below under Service, Editorial Boards):
Guoji Song Yanjiu (International Song Research), founding editor of this academic journal sponsored by the Institute for Chinese Learning (Guoxue Yuan) of Hangzhou Normal University and published by Shanghai’s Guji (Ancient Texts) Press, 2011— .
Bulletin of Sung and Yuan Studies. Book Review Editor, 1986-89.
Adjoining Cultures as Reflected in Literature and Language; Proceedings of the XV TH Congress of the Fédération Internationale des Languages et Littératures Modernes. Editor for Section 1, pp. 125-148. Tempe, Arizona State University, 1983.
Selected Papers in Asian Studies, Vol. 2. Albuquerque: Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, 1977, 187 pages.
Book Reviews in these Scholarly Journals:
American Historical Review
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
Philosophy East and West
Journal of Asian Studies
Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Journal of the American Oriental Society
Asian Forum
Bulletin of Sung and Yuan Studies
Journal of Sung and Yuan Studies
Dao
Shijie Zhexue (World Philosophy)
Songshi yanjiu tongxun (Research on the History of the Song era)
Asian Thought and Society
Papers Read at Professional Meetings and Universities:
“The Issue of Universal Values in Zhu Xi’s Philosophy and Their Current Significance in China.” International conference on Zhu Xi and his Efforts for Renewal: Innovation, Social Reform and Epistemology, University of Trier, Germany, 7/11-12/2015.
“Wode Zhongguo yanjiu de bujie zhi yuan” (My Life with Chinese Studies). International Conference on Reflections on and Prospects for International Sinological Research (Guoji Hanxue yanjiu zhi hugu yu qianzhan) sponsored by Peking University’s International Academy for China Studies (Beijing Daxue Hanxue yanxiu jidi), 9/2-4/2014.
“Nan Song defang guan de guishenguan yu defang jisi shixian: yi Zhu Xi wei zhongxin de kaocha” (Southern Song Local Officials’ Views on Spirits and Local Ritual Practice: An Inquiry Centered on Zhu Xi), Special invited lectures: Taiwan Normal University, 3/10/2014; Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 6/5/2014; Peking University Center for Research on Ancient Chinese History, 6/20/2014.
“Zuo xiang pushi jiazhi? ‘Zhuzi jiaxun’ zhi ge’an yanjiu” (Evolving toward Universal Values? The Case of Zhu Xi’s Family Instructions). Second International Conference on Contemporary Confucianism, National Central University, Zhongli, Taiwan, 9/24/2013; International Conference on Contemporary Reflections on Zhu Xi’s Philosophy, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, National Taiwan University, 3/14-15, 2014; Huazhong University of Science and Technology School of History, 6/9/2014; Wuhan University Department of History, 6/10/2014; Capital Normal University Department of History, 6/23/2014; Hangzhou Normal University International Song Studies Research Center, 6/27/2014.
“The Canon’s Pivotal and Problematic Middle Age.” Co-author with Hui YIN. American Historical Association Annual Meeting, panel no. 191: Recurrent Lives of the Confucian Classics in China. New Orleans, 1/5/2013.
“Between Diversity and Harmony: Envisioning Confluences.” The 10th International Conference on New Significance of Chinese Civilization in the 21st Century: Interactions and Confluences in East Asian Thought. Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences at National Taiwan University, Taipei, 10/26/2012.
“Remodeling Confucian Wedding Rituals to Address China’s Youth Culture Today.” International Conference on the Importance of Classics Education: Contemporary Issues, Classical Insights, East and West. Institute for the Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences at National Taiwan University, Taipei, 10/25/2012; Huazhong University of Science and Technology School of History, 6/6/2014.
“Li zhi shu tu: Zhuzi jiali xiandaihua yu huifu guli de jianxing – yi dangdai Rujia hunli wei shijiao de fenxi” (Rituals' Divergent Paths: Implementation of Modernization of Zhu Xi's Family Rituals and the Restoration of Ancient Rituals, an Analysis from Perspectives of Contemporary Confucian Weddings), Zhu Xi’s Classical Studies: Their Development and Influence in East Asia, an international conference sponsored by Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Academia Sinica and East China Normal University and held at Arizona State University, and held at Arizona State University, 5/7-8/2012.
“Clashes of Cultures: The Revival of Confucianism in China as in Confucian Wedding Rituals,” Foundation for Inter-Cultural Dialogue Lecture Series, Turkish Cultural Center, Tempe, 3/29/2012.
“Zhuzi wenhua fuxing de qianzaili: yi Zhuzi hunli xianzaiban wei li” (Figuring the Potential for a Revival of Zhuzi Culture: Chinese Student Responses to the Modernized Zhuzi Wedding Ritual), Philosophy and the Times: International Conference on Zhu Xi Learning, White Deer Grotto Academy (Bailudong Shuyuan), 10/19-22/2011.
“Zhuzi jiali hunli de xiandai banben” (The Modernized Version of the Wedding Ceremony from Zhu Xi’s Family Rituals), special invited lecture delivered at Shoudu Shifan (Capital Normal) University, 5/25/2011; Xibei (Northwest) University, 5/30/2011; Zhongguo Renmin (People’s) University, 6/23/2011; Hangzhou Shifan (Normal) University, 10/17/2011; and National Chi Nan University, 10/23/2012.
“Zhuzi jiali hunli de xiandai banben” (The Modernized Version of the Wedding Ceremony from Zhu Xi’s Family Rituals), Special presentation for Song History Conference, Department of History, Fudan University, Shanghai, 12/29/2010.
“Tantao Song-Yuan sixiangshi” (Exploring Song and Yuan Intellectual History), Special Guest Lecture Sponsored by Fagushan (Dharma Law Mountain), delivered at the Center for Studies of Ancient Chinese History and the Department of History, Peking University, Beijing, 12/10/2010.
“Zhu Xi yanjiu: yi Zhu Xi de siwei shijie wei zhongxin” (Zhu Xi Research: Centering on Zhu Xi’s World of Thought), Special lecture and discussion with the Intellectual History Section, Institute of History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, 12/8/2010.
“Zengjin Zhuzi xue yu xiuzheng dangdai shehui fengsu de huodong: yi Shijie Zhushi Lianhehui wei li” (Advancing Zhu Xi Studies and Rectifying Contemporary Culture: Using the Example of the World Zhu Family Association), International Conference on Zhu Xi’s Confucianism and Contemporary Society, as the Second Cross-Straits Symposium on National Studies, sponsored by the Xiamen Yundang Academy and Xiamen University’s Institute for Chinese Studies, pp. 26-38. 11/27-28/2010, www.ydsy.org
“Zhu Xi yu Daoxue: Fangfa yu Jieguo” (Zhu Xi and Daoxue: A Discussion of Some Methods and Results), Renmin University Historiography Lecture Series, Number 13, Beijing, 11/17/2010.
“Zhuzi jiali hunli de xiandai banben” (The Modernized Version of the Wedding Ceremony from Zhu Xi’s Family Rituals), Special quest lecture, Shandong University, Jinan, 11/13/2010.
“Lun Zhu Xi de siwei shijie” (Discussing Zhu Xi’s World of Thought), lecture and discussion with History Department graduate students, Shandong University, Jinan, 11/12/2010.
Commentator on T.J. Hinrichs’ and Li Fenhui’s papers for panel, “Yi-ness Between Reading and Writing: Medical Identities in Song,” at Exploring Identities: Medical Texts in Material Form and Experiences Based on Body, an International Workshop on New Perspectives in the Medical History of Premodern China, Peking University Department of History, Beijing, 11/20-22/2010.
“A Joyful Union: The Modernized Version of the Wedding Ritual from the Zhu Xi Family Rituals,” distributed in my absence at “Reconstituting Confucianism for the Contemporary World,” an international academic conference held at the University of Chicago, 10/29-30/2010.
“Quanqiuhua jinchengzhong, Rujia wenhua ruhe chuangxin?” Yi shijie Zhushi Lianhehui wei lizi” (During an Era of Globalization, How to revitalize Confucian Culture? Using the Example of the World Zhu Family Association), paper presented at the 2010 Quzhou China International Forum on Confucianism: Confucian Culture and the Spirit of the Age, Quzhou, Zhejiang, pp. 1-9; 9/27-28/2010.
“Explorations into Song-Yuan Intellectual History: Any Contemporary Relevance?” Keynote Speech delivered in Chinese and translated into Korean. The 30th International Conference on Chinese Studies. Songkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea. Sponsored by the Korea Society for Chinese Studies 韩国中国学会, pp. 21-53, 8/19-20/2010.
“Rujia sixiang yu jingji fazhan?” (Confucian Thought and Economic Development?) Liang’an xueshu zuotan, sponsored by the World Federation of Zhu Family Associations, held at National Chiayi University, Taiwan, 7/18/2010.
“Zhu Xi yu Songdai sixiangshi,” (Zhu Xi and Song Intellectual History), Special lecture for the Research Center on Ancient Chinese Texts, Shanghai Normal University, 6/10/2010.
“Lü Zuqian dui xuesheng suexi de rougan xiangfa” (Some of Lü Zuqian’s thoughts about students studying), paper presented at the “Shixianzhong de Tang-Song Sixiang, liyi yu zhidu guoji xueshu tiaolunhui” (International Conference on the Thought, rituals and Institutions of Medieval China in Practice), Conference sponsored by the School of History, Renmin University of China, the History Department of Tsinghua University, and the Chinese Tang History Association, held in Beijing, 5/28-30/ 2010.
“Hao Jing lun wujing” (Hao Jing on the Classics), International Conference on Chinese, Japanese and Korean Classical Scholarship, sponsored by the Hong Kong Baptist University’s Department of Chinese Languages & Literature and Academia Sinica’s Institute for Chinese Literature and Philosophy, 5/27-28/2010.
“Songdai sixiangshi yanjiu” (Song Intellectual History Research), Guest Lecture at Yuelu Academy, Hunan University, 4/23/2010.
“Zhongguo xueshu sixiang zai Xifang: Wode yixie xiangfa” (On Chinese Scholarly Thought in the West: Some of my Thoughts), Wuhan University and Central China University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 4/21-22/2010.
“Song-Yuan guji ciliao de ‘Yao Shan’” (A Medicine Mountain of Song and Yuan Historical Materials), Quest Lecture to Graduate Students, Department of History, Central China University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 4/21/2010.
“Songdai sixiangshi” (Song Intellectual History), Invited Lecture, Department of Philosophy, Shanghai Normal University, 3/31/2010.
“Wenshu, zhengling, xinxi goutong guoji xueshu taolunhui” (An International Conference on Documents, Decrees, Communications), commentator on papers for Peking University’s Center for Studies of Ancient Chinese History, Beijing, 3/27-28/2010.
“Song-Yuan guji ciliao de ‘Yao Shan’” (A Medicine Mountain of Song and Yuan Historical Materials), Special Quest Lecture, College of Humanities, Huadong (East China) Normal University, 3/11/ 2010.
“Zhongguo xueshu sixiang zai Xifang” (On Studies of Chinese Academic Thought in the West), Zhejiang University Eastern Symposium Series Lecture, 3/15/2010.
“Song-Yuan lishi yu wenhua: Luelun wo zhixue de xiangfa yu jingyan” (Song-Yuan History and Culture: Discussions of my Ideas on and Experience in Conducting Studies), Invited Lecture for Chinese Department, National Taiwan University, 2/23/2010.
“Exploring Revivals of Confucianism in Contemporary China,” for Panel on “1949-1989-2009: A 60-Year Retrospective on China” for the Launch Celebration of the School for Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University, 10/14/2009; and for the workshop on “Religions and Revolutions in Modern Chinese History and Literature,” SHPRS, 11/25/2009.
Chair and commentator for Panel on Imperial Period at the international conference, “Confucianism for the 21st Century?” Conference celebrating the centennial of Sinology at the University of Hamburg, sponsored by the Asian and African Institute, 9/21-23/2009.
“Jieyu” (Concluding Comments in Response to Papers), Liangan Zhuzixue yu dangdai shehui lunli yanjiuhui (Conference on Cross-straits Zhu Xi Studies and Contemporary Social Ethics), National Taiwan University, sponsored by NTU’s Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities & Social Sciences, and Taiwan’s Research Association for Zhu Xi Studies, 7/16/2009.
“Hao Jing lun wujing” (Hao Jing’s Discussion of the Five Classics), National Taiwan University, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Taipei, 6/17/2009.
“Lilun, shijian yu cishan shiye: yiming Songshi xuezhe dui Lin Anwu jiaoshou yicheng de bianyuan huiying” (Theory, Praxis and Charity: One Song Historian’s Peripheral Reflections on Professor Lin An-wu’s Agenda), Conference on Tzu-chi Culture, Religious Practice and Healing, Tzu-chi (Ciji) University, Hua-lien (Hualian), Taiwan, 6/14/2009.
“Wenge dui Zhu Xi de piping” (Criticism of Zhu Xi during the Cultural Revolution), Academia Sinica, Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, 6/4/2009.
“Wode Zhu Xi yanjiu” (My Recent Research on Zhu Xi), National Taiwan University, Department of History, Intellectual History Studies Group, Taipei, 5/26/2009.
“Songdai sixiangshi yu dangdai wenhua” (Song-era Intellectual History and the Culture of Our Own Era), invited lecture at the National Dong Hwa University, Hua-lien, Taiwan, 6/15/2009; National Chung Hsing (Zhongxing) University, Tai-chong, Taiwan, 5/1/2009; National Chengkung (Chenggong) University, Tainan, Taiwan, 4/30/2009,
“Songdai yu jindai jiaoyu: dui Lü Zuqian he Zhu Xi youguan xuesheng xuexi lilun jiangou zhi tantiao” (Song-era and Modern Education: An Inquiry into Lü Zuqian’s and Zhu Xi’s Views and Structures for the Education of Students), International Chinan University, Department of History, Puli, Taiwan, 5/21/2009; Suchou (Dongwu) University, Department of History, Taipei, 5/7/2009; Symposium on Song History, National Normal University, Taipei, 4/12/2009.
“Songdai sixiangshi yu women dangdai jiaoyu” (Song era intellectual history and education in our own era), lecture and discussion with high school teachers in an M.A. program at National ChengChi University, Taipei, Taiwan, 3/21/2009.
“Historical and Contemporary Challenges between China and the U.S.” at Facing Contemporary Challenges: Religious Diversity & Public Discourse, sponsored by the Arizona Humanities Council and Religion & Applied Ethics Studies, Arizona State University, West Campus, 11/13/2008.
“Zhu Xi yanjiu zai Meiguo: yi Chen Rongjie, Yu Yingshi yu Tian Hao de yanjiu wei zhongxin” (Zhu Xi Research in America: Reflections on Wing-tsit Chan, Ying-shih Yü and Hoyt Tillman), National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai, 10/27/2008.
“Zhu Xi yu Daoxue” (Zhu Xi and the Learning of the Dao Confucianism), One of two keynote addresses at Songdai xinruxue de jingshen shijie – yi Zhuzixue wei zhongxin (International Conference on the Intellectual World of Neo-Confucian in Song Dynasty: Taking the study of Zhu Xi as the Center of Discussion), Fudan University College of Philosophy, 10/25-26/2008.
“Chu Hsi as seen from the 12th century and the 21st century,” Huafan University, Taiwan, 5/30/2007.
“A Frog in a Well Surveys the Heavens: Reflections on Confucianism from a Remote Space,” Invited by Professor Hiroshi IHARA to give this paper at the 2007 annual International Conference of Eastern Studies, Tokyo, May 2007.
“Yingxiong houzhe Shengren? Fenxi Chen Shou he Pei Songzhi de Zhuge Liang Lun” (Hero or Sage? Analyzing Chen Shou’s and Pei Songzhi’s Discussions of Zhuge Liang), Paper presented at the International Conference Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Professor Deng Guangming, Peking University, Beijing, China, March, 2007.
“Gensui Shihuazi Laoshi yanjiu Songdai sixiangshi: lun Zhu Xi he tian” (Researching Song Intellectual History with Professor Schwartz: Discussions of Zhu Xi and Heaven) Paper presented at the International Conference on Commemorating the Ninetieth Anniversary of the Birth of Professor Benjamin Schwartz, sponsored by Harvard University and East China Normal University and the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Dec., 2006.
“Song, Jin, Yuan wenhua sixiang pengzhuan yu ronghe” (Cultural Thought Conflict and Synthesis in the Song, Jin and Yuan Eras), Lecture for the Department of History, National Taiwan University, Dec. 2006.
“Some Examples of the Relevance of Song Confucian Thought to Modern China,” Lecture for the Institute of Modern Chinese Thought, East China Normal University, Shanghai, Dec. 2006.
“The Making of a Hero: Zhuge Liang,” Salon of the Senses, Phoenix, 1/9/2006.
“Crossing the Frontiers between the Southern Song and the Jin and Yuan: Exploring the Case of Hao Jing’s Comments on Learning of the Way Confucianism,” American Oriental Society Western Branch’s annual meeting, ASU, 11/4-5/2005.
“Either Self-realization or Transmission of Received Wisdom in Confucian Education? An Inquiry into Lü Zuqian’s and Zhu Xi’s Constructions for Student Learning,” Ninth International East-West Philosophers’ Conference, Honolulu, East-West Center, 5/29-6/11/2005.
“Xifang xuezhe yanzhongde Chanyuan zhi meng” (The Treaty of Shanyuan in the Eyes of Western Scholars), International Conference on the Treaty of Chanyuan, Puyang, Henan, 12/2-5/2004.
“Yu Yingshi xiansheng dui Zhuzi yanjiu de zhuanbian” (Professor Yu Yingshi’s turn toward Zhu Xi Studies), Lishixue de guanli zhong de zhengzhi wenhua: Du Zhu Xi de lishi shijie, (Political Culture from the Perspective of Historians: Reading Zhu Xi’s Historical World, a conference sponsored by Sanlian Press, Peking University’s Center for Studies on Ancient Chinese History, 11/27/2004.
“Xueshu yanjiuzhongde zhuangxin yu jinlu,” (Creativity and Advancement in Scholarly Research) at College of Humanities and Social Sciences of Zhongguo Jiliang Xueyuan (China’s College of Measurement), Hangzhou, 10/29/2004.
“Dui Chen Liang sixiang de zhongyaoxing ruogan fansi,” (Some Reflections on the Importance of Chen Liang’s Thought) at the International Conference on Chen Liang, sponsored by Zhejiang University and Academy of Social Sciences and Jinhua’s County Government, Hangzhou, 10/29-30/2004.
“Song, Jin, Yuan wenhua sixiang pengzhuang yu ronghe: Tanjiu Hao Jing de Yi-Xia guan, zhengtonglun yu daoxue yanbian” (The Confrontation and Unification of Song, Jin and Yuan Cultural Thought: Exploring Hao Jing’s view of Chinese and Barbarians, the Legitimate Succession of Dynasties, and the Evolution of the Learning of the Way Confucianism), International Conference on Cultural Confrontation and Unification in China, 900-1300, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, 7/2004.
“Jin-Yuan dai beibu wenshi dui Cheng-Zhu zhexue de fanyin: Shenjiu Hao Jing de Daoxue lun” (Reactions to Cheng-Zhu Philosophy by Jin and Yuan Era Intellectuals in North China: Exploring the Case of Hao Jing’s Comments on Learning of the Way Confucianism), International Conference on Frontiers of Philosophy, Anhui University, Hefei, 10/22-24/2004.
“Dui chuangzaoli yu Rujia chuantong yanbian de ruogan fansi” (Creativity and Evolving Confucian Traditions: Some Reflections on Earlier Centuries and Recent Developments), International Confucius Association Conference, Beijing, 10/9-12/2004.
“Lun Hao Jing” (On Hao Jing), Academia Sinica, Institute of History and Philology, 10/6/2004.
“Sima Guang’s Historiography,” Institute of Historical Studies, National Seoul University, 10/1/2004.
“Zhu Xi’s Prayers to Confucius,” Sungkuankyuan University, Seoul, 9/30/2004.
“Lun Zhu Xi yanjiu yu xiandai jingji fazhan” (Discussing Zhu Xi research and modern economic development), Beijing Shoudu Daxue (Beijing Capital University), 9/16/2004; Yuelu Academy, Hunan University, 12/7/04, and Zhongyang Minzu Daxue (Central University for Minorities), Beijing, 12/15/2004.
“Xiantan sixiangshi ruogan yanjiu jieguo” (Discussing Some Results from Intellectual History Research), Department for Research on Intellectual History, Institute of History, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, 8/31/2004.
“Wode Zhu Xi Yanjiu” (My Research on Zhu Xi), Special University Lecture Series Sponsored by the Humanities & Social Science Administration, Jilin University in Changchun, 6/22/2004; somewhat different version also presented as lectures at the Department of History, Peking University, Beijing, 12/5/2003, at Beijing Normal University, 5/20/2004.
“Luelun Zhongguo Sixiangshi” (Discussion of Chinese Intellectual History), lecture at Northeast Normal University in Changchun on 6/23/2004, and Dalian Normal University, 6/29/2004.
“Meiguoren de Liao-Jin shi Yanjiu,” (American Research on the Liao and Jin History), lecture at Dalian University, Center for Research on the History of Northeast China, 6/27/2004.
“Zhu Xi de Shijie,” (Zhu Xi’s World), lecture at the Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, 9/7/2004.
“Cong Zhuge Liang de gushi lai lun Sima Guang de shixue,” (Discussing Sima Guang’s historiography from the perspective of his account of Zhuge Liang), Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 12/20/03, and Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, 12/21/03.
“Zhu Xi de lishi shijie” (Zhu Xi’s Historical World: Introducing Professor Yu Yingshi’s Recent Work), Conference on Zhu Xi Research, Wuyishan, Fujian, China, 11/29-12/1/2003.
“Zhuzi yanjiu,” (Research on Zhu Xi), Center for Research on Song Dynasty History, Hebei University, Baoding, China, 11/7/2003, Department of History, Peking University, Beijing, 12/5/03, and Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 12/19/03.
“Luelun Zhu Xi de sixiang” (A discussion of Zhu Xi’s thought), Center for Research on Huizhou Culture, Huangshan College, Huangshan, 10/27/03.
“Confucian Ethics and Modern Chinese Development,” at the International Symposium, “China’s Traditions: Wings or Shackles for China’s Modernization,” held at the Vienna City Hall, June 2-3, 2003, sponsored by the Departments of International Relations and Science and Research of the Vienna City Government, the Sohmen-China-Foundation, the Boltzmann Institute for Research on China, and the Austrian Association for Research on China.
“Confucian Lineages, Social Networks, and a Possible Role in the Economy and Civil Society: Some Reflections on the Song-Jin Era and the 20th Century,” International Conference on Social Networks and Civil Society: A Comparative Approach, City University of Hong Kong, 3/2-4/2002.
“Cho Shik and Nammyong Studies: Preliminary Reflections and Questions from Afar,” (My paper translated into Korean and read by Jeong-il Lee), International Conference on Nammyong Studies, Korea, 8/16-18/2001.
“Songdai sixiangshi yu jindai jingji fazhan” (Song-era intellectual history and modern economic development), Graduate Seminar, Department of History, Peking University, Beijing, 6/5/2001, and university lecture for Department of History, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 5/27/2001.
“Sima Guang yu Chen Liang de chonggou Kongming gushi de sikao” (Sima Guang’s and Chen Liang’s Reconstruction of Zhuge Liang’s Story; Some Historical Sources of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms), International Conference on Sanguo (Three Kingdoms) Culture, Sichuan, 5-6/2001.
“Zhu Xi on Guishen and the Daotong,” China’s Past and Future, a conference celebrating the retirement of Professor Yü Ying-shih, Princeton University, 5/4-5/2001.
“Re-inventions of Tradition in Song China and Their Relevance to Current Debates over Confucianism in East Asian Economic Development,” Sinology Seminars: University of Bonn 4/30/2001, University of Marburg 6/13/2001, Free University of Berlin 6/17/2001, University of Würzburg 6/22/2001, University of Bochum 7/10/2001, and University of Hamburg 7/12/2001.
“Praying to the Spirit of Confucius and Claiming the Transmission of the Way: Linking Zhu Xi’s Views on Guishen (ghosts) and the Daotong,” Einladung zum Wolfgang Bauer Gedächtnis-Vortrag, Institut für Ostasienkunde—Sinologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (University of Munich), 2/5/2001.
“Reassessing Du Fu’s Line on Zhuge Liang,” 28th Annual Meeting of Deutscher Orientalistentag, Bamberg, Germany, 3/2001.
“Zhu Xi de guishen lun yu daotong guan” (Zhu Xi’s discussion of spirits and his dogma of the transmission of the Way), International conferences commemorating the 800th anniversary of Zhu Xi’s death held at East China (Huadong) Normal University, Shanghai, 10/2000, and at the National Central Library, Taipei, 11/2000.
“Zuowei chuangshang de ‘luan’: Guanyu dui Menggu ruqin zhi huiying de yanjiu,” (Disorder as trauma: Research on responses to the Mongol invasion), International Song History Conference, Baoding, China, 8/2000.
“China’s historic capitals,” lecture at Renmin (People’s) University, Beijing, 7/8/2000.
“Shixue yu wenhua sixiang: cong Sima Guang lun Zhuge Liang tan qi,” (Historiography and Cultural History: A Discussion from Sima Guang’s Comments on Zhuge Liang), Special invited lecture at the Institute of History & Philology, Academia Sinica, 5/27/00; also delivered at the National Jinan University, 5/3/00, and the National Taiwan University, 5/4/2000.
“Zhuzi yu Songdai wenhuashi,” (Zhu Xi Studies and Song-era Cultural History), Special invited seminar presentation, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, 5/1/2000.
“Confucian Business Culture? Reflections from a Case Study of Shinkong’s Founder Wu Ho-su,” Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2/25/2000.
“Sima Guang’s Historiography” and “My Recent Research,” two lectures at the University of Arizona, Tucson, 1/18/00.
“The Roman Empire and Han China,” ASU Solis Diaboli Classics Club, 10/13/99.
“Reflections on Classifying ‘Confucian’ Lineages With Special Reference to Song-era Re-inventions of Tradition,” Conference on “Rethinking Confucianism in Asia at the End of the Twentieth Century” sponsored by the University of California Pacific Rim Research Program, and the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, 5/28-6/1/99.
“Sima Guang’s Historiography: the Case of Zhuge Liang’s Story,” invited lecture at the University of Toronto, 3/11/99.
“Zhu Xi on the Spirits,” Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Boston, 3/13/99.
“Zhuge Liang lun: fenxi Chen Shou de Sanguo zhi he Pei Songzhi de zhu,” (On Zhuge Liang: Analyzing Chen Shou’s Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms and Pei Songzhi’s commentary), International Conference on Intellectual Arts of the Wei Jin and Northern & Southern Dynasties (Wei Jin Nanbeichao xueshu), paper read in absentia, Taipei, 12/98.
“Recent Developments in Song Studies in the U.S.,” Conference on Song and Western Xia Studies, Yinchuan, Ningxia, 8/98.
“An Overview of Many Confucianisms in Song China and an Example of the Implications for Modern Controversies,” international workshop on “The Problem of Confucian Theory & Practice in Different Historical Contexts,” UCLA, 5/30/98; and University of Heidelberg, 6/23/98.
“The Concept of Nature in Traditional China,” in conjunction with the special exhibit “World within Worlds,” Phoenix Art Museum, 4/98.
“Textual Liberties and Restraints in Rewriting China’s Histories: The Case of Sima Guang’s Re-Construction of Zhuge Liang’s Story,” invited lecture at Yale University’s History Department, 10/97.
“Texts and Contexts: Ch’en Shou, P’ei Sung-chih, and Ssu-ma Kuang on Chu-ko Liang,” Conference on Historical Thinking and Historical Culture in Sung China, Nassau, Bahamas, 1/6-10/97.
“Zhuge Liang,” Regional Seminar of the Qigong Association, Arizona State University, 8/96.
“Du Fu on Zhuge Liang,” Western Washington University, Bellingham, 5/96.
“Contextualizing Chinese Thought and Culture,” Department of History and Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, 1/18/96.
"The Concept of Qi in the Mencius (Mengzi)," Regional Seminar of the Qigong Association, University of Arizona, Tucson, 8/95.
"Cong Song ru He Chufei yu Zhu Xi dui Zhuge Liang de pingjia huiying Liu Zujian xiansheng de jujiang shuo" (Exploring Ho Chufei's and Zhu Xi's evaluations of Zhuge Liang to respond to Professor James T.C. Liu's view of scholar-generals), National Central Library, Taipei, Taiwan, 9/94.
"Public Interest and the Law: Chen Liang's View," annual meeting of the western branch of the American Oriental Society, University of California, Berkeley, 10/93.
"The Confluence of Buddhism and Confucianism," NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers, University of Hawaii, 6/93.
"Songdai dui Zhuge Liang de pingjia" (Evaluations of Chu-ko Liang during the Sung dynasty), Colloquium on Sung History, Taipei, Taiwan, 6/93.
"Making a National Hero: Some Sung Views of Chu-ko Liang," (oral presentation and discussion in Chinese), Institute for Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, 6/93.
"Sung Intellectual History in the U.S. since the mid-1980s, (oral presentation and discussion in Chinese), Institute for Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, 6/93.
"New Works in Song Intellectual History," at the panel, "Song Studies: The State of the Field," Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Los Angeles, 3/93.
"Studying Chinese Thinking in Historical Contexts, Some Personal Reflections," UCLA/USC Center for Chinese Studies Regional Conference on "What's Wrong with Chinese Intellectual History?" Southern California China Colloquium, UCLA, 2/93.
"Chinese Thinking and Confucian Research," Interdisciplinary Humanities Lecture, Arizona State University, 10/92.
"Chu-ko Liang as Hero: Reflections on the Sung Stage," Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Tucson, Arizona, 10/92.
"Confucian Thinking in an Age of Turmoil," gallery talks for the international exhibition, Transcending Turmoil: Painting at the Close of China's Empire, 1796-1911, Phoenix Art Museum, 9/92.
"Reflecting on Confucian Discourse," Institut für Ostasienkunde – Sinologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany, 7/92.
"'Renshuo': Zhu Xi yu Zhang Shi lun ren" ("On Humaneness": Zhu Xi and Zhang Shi Discuss Humaneness), International Conference on Chu Hsi, sponsored by the Institute for Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 5/92.
"Confucian Discourse and the Debate between Chu Hsi and Lu Chiu-yüan," University (Regional) Seminar on Neo-Confucian Studies, Columbia University, 10/91.
"Wuji er taiji: lun Lu Jiuyuan dui Zhu Xi quanwei de tiaozhan" (Debate over the Ultimate: Lu Jiuyuan's Challenge to Zhu Xi's Authority), International Conference on Sung History Research, Beijing, 8/91.
"Chu-ko Liang: From Regional Hero to National Hero," Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, New Orleans, 4/91.
"Community Action by Intellectuals and Official Action: Some Reflections on Sung," (summarized in Chinese), International Conference held at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 7/90.
"The Development of Tao-hsüeh Confucianism in the Southern Sung," East Asian Studies lecture, Princeton University, 2/90.
"Tao-hsüeh Confucianism, A Broader Way than Chu Hsi?" Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Washington, D.C., 3/89.
"Reconstructing the Fellowship of the Tao in Twelfth-Century Confucianism," University Humanities Lecture sponsored by the Graduate College, ASU, 2/89.
"Reflections on Symmetry in Chinese Thought," Symmetry in a Cultural Context, An Interdisciplinary Workshop, ASU, 3/88.
"Zhongguo lishi yizhi zhong de Zhuge Liang: An Lushan panluan chi de tansuo" (Chu ko Liang in Chinese Historical Consciousness: Exploring the Period in the Wake of An Lushan's Rebellion); International Conference on the Archeology and Cultural History of the Qin, Han and Tang Dynasties; Xi'an, China, 10/87.
"Encyclopedias, Erudites and Sung Confucians," Annual Meeting of the Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Tucson, 10/87.
"Reflections on Chin Thought and Institutions," Regional Seminar in Neo Confucian Studies, Columbia University, 3/87.
"Ch'en Liang's Discourse on Public Interests and its Relation to Laws," Neo Confucian graduate seminar, Columbia University; and The Southern California China Colloquium sponsored by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, 3/87.
"Themes in Chinese Confucian Thought and Their Fate in Modern China," Belhaven College, 5/86.
"Ch'en Liang on Statecraft: Reflections from Examination Essays in a Sung Rare Book," Conference on Sung Dynasty Statecraft in Thought and Action, sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies, Scottsdale, Arizona, 1/86.
"The Eighteenth Century in the Context of Chinese Thought," The Elegant Brush: Chinese Painting under the Qianlong Emperor, 1735 1795, Phoenix Art Museum, 9/85.
"Cong Nan Song moqi keben Quandian Longchuan Shuixin er xiansheng wencui de 'Hanlun' kan Chen Liang yu Song Ju Daoxue de guanxi" (Chen Liang and Song-era Confucian Daoxue: Reflections on his 'Essays on Han Dynasty' from the Late Southern Song Edition of His Works); International Symposium on the History of the Sung Dynasty, Hangzhou, China, 5/85.
"Journey to the East," Asian Studies Colloquium of the Center for Asian Studies, Arizona State University, 2/85.
"One Step in Relating Sung and Chin Intellectual History: The Introduction of Southern Sung Confucian Tao hsüeh into North China," (delivered in Chinese), International Conference on the Sung, sponsored by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 12/84.
"Images of Chu ko Liang: Observations on Three Historical Wu hou Temples, April May, 1984," Annual Meeting of the Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Santa Fe, 11/84.
"The Theme of 'Inner Logic' in my Research on Chinese Cultural History," (delivered in Chinese), Peking University, Beijing, China, 6/84.
"Confucianism under the Chin Dynasty: The Introduction and Impact of Sung Confucian Tao-hsüeh," International Conference on Cultural Values in North China during the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries, sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies, Oracle, Arizona, 12/83.
"Chu Hsi's Ethics and Philosophy of Mind: An Inquiry into Parallels between T'ien, T'ien hsin, and Tao hsin," International Conference on Chu Hsi, Honolulu, Hawaii, sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies and the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies of the University of Hawaii, 7/82.
"Reflections on a Tao hsüeh Stage in Ch'en Liang's Development," Annual Meeting Western Branch of the American Oriental Society, ASU, 2/82.
"Intellectual Diversity in Sung China: Chu Hsi and Ch'en Liang," Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Chicago, 4/82.
"Statecraft in Traditional China," Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington, D.C., 12/80.
"Proto Nationalism in Twelfth Century China?" Center for Asian Studies Colloquium, ASU, 11/78.
"The Idea and the Reality of the 'Thing' (Wu) during the Sung: Philosophical Attitudes Toward Wu," Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Chicago, 4/78.
"Neo Confucianism and China's Political Culture: Reflections on the Controversy over the Role of Sages or Supermen," Phi Alpha Theta History Meeting, ASU, 10/78.
"Thomas Metzger, Neo Confucianism, and China's Evolving Political Culture," Harvard University, East Asian Research Center, Summer Seminar, 8/77.
"Ethical Orientations in Early Confucianism," Annual Meeting of the Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Flagstaff, Arizona, 10/76.
"Religion in Chou Times," Harvard University—American Council of Learned Societies Workshop on the Classical Period of Chinese Thought, 8/76.
"Motivational Ethics and Ethics of Social Orientation: Mencius in the Context of the Analects and the Hsün Tzu," Harvard University—ACLS Workshop on the Classical Period of Chinese Thought, Cambridge, 8/76.
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
American Historical Association Committee for the John K. Fairbank Prize for best
book on East Asia, 1800 to present. Member, 1996, 1997; Chair, 1998.
American Council of Learned Societies, one of five representative grant awardees
selected to be interviewed by the visiting evaluating committee from the National Endowment for the Humanities as part of ACLS application for continued NEH funding, 2006.
External referee for tenure and/or promotion decisions: University of Georgia; Harvard
University; University of Colorado; University of Hawaii, University of British
Columbia, etc.
External referee for hiring evaluations: Renmin University of China; National Taiwan
University; Tsinghua University (Taiwan); Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica (Taiwan), the Institute for Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica; Columbia University; and University of Hong Kong, etc.
Host of International Conference:
Zhuzi Classical Studies and its Transmission and Development in East Asia, funded by
Academia Sinica and the Institute for Research on Ancient Texts at Huadong
(East China) Normal University, and held at ASU, May 6-8, 2012.
Translator and assistant composer of grants:
Proposal for Beijing University, Center for Research on the Middle Period of
Chinese History, for a subvention to publish the index to Sung collected works,
awarded by the Harvard-Yenching Institute at Harvard University, 1992.
Proposal for Beijing University, Center for Research on the Middle Period of Chinese
History, to compile an index to Sung collected works, awarded by the
Harvard Yenching Institute at Harvard University, 1984.
Proposals for Wang Teh yi's compiling of indices to biographical materials for Sung
personages, for Yüan personages, and for Ming personages, awarded by the
Harvard Yenching Institute at Harvard University, 1971 through1983, and
1985. (Wang was Professor of History, National Taiwan University.)
Grant Reviewer for:
Department of Education, Taiwan.
National Science Council (Guokehui), Taiwan.
International Institute for Education Fulbright, national committee for research
awards for graduate students and graduating seniors applying for China and
Mongolia
American Council for Learned Societies (Evaluated Grant Categories for Junior
and Senior Professors, as well as for the Luce/ACLS dissertation completion.)
National Endowment for the Humanities (Fellowships)
National Endowment for the Humanities (Research Centers)
School for Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Committee for Scholarly Communications with China
Fulbright-Hays Fellowships
Editor:
Guoji Song Yanjiu (International Song Research), founding editor of this
academic journal sponsored by the Institute for Chinese Learning (Guoxue
Yuan) of Hangzhou Normal University and published by Shanghai’s Guji
(Ancient Texts) Press, 2011— (First issue to appear early 2014).
Editorial or Executive Advisory Committee:
Asia Major, Institute of History & Philology, Academia Sinica, 2009—
Zhongguo xueshu (China Scholarship), a journal in Chinese studies edited by Dr.
Liu Dong, sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute and published by the
Commercial Press, 1999—
Journal of Sung—Yuan Studies, 1991—
International Song Research (Guoji Song Yanjiu), founding chief editor, 2011—
Tang Song Historical Research, Renmin University of China, 2011—
Bulletin of Sung—Yuan Studies, 1986-90
Monograph Series on Song History at Hebei University Press, China, 2003-05.
Advisory Committee:
International Song Research Center (Honorary) Director, Hangzhou Normal
University, 2011-
Lantian Research Center, Xibei (Northwest) University, Xi’an, China, 2011—
Committee for Prize for Best Publication on Zhuzi by a junior scholar, World Zhu
Family Association, 2006-.
Song Studies Center, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 2005-2010.
Institute for Multicultural and Multidisciplinary Research, Nankai University,
Tianjin, China, 2006-2009.
Department of History, National University for Minorities, Beijing, 2005-09.
Center for Research on Huizhou Culture, Huangshan College, China, 2003-05.
Book Manuscripts Evaluated for:
Asia Center, Harvard University Press
Cambridge University Press
Princeton University Press
Council on East Asian Studies (Harvard University Press)
University of Hawaii Press
American Council of Learned Societies for their Series at the University of
California Press
Duke University Press
State University of New York Press
University of Arizona Press
University of California, Berkeley, Center for Chinese Studies Monograph Series
W. W. Norton & Co.
Arizona State University, Asian Center's Monograph Series
The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Journal manuscripts evaluated for:
Dao
Philosophy East and West
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
Asia Major
Journal of Asian History (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet, Muenchen)
Journal of Chinese Philosophy
Journal of Song and Yuan Studies
Additional affiliations beyond ASU:
International Song Research Center (Honorary) Director, Hangzhou Normal
University, 2011-
Renmin University of China’s Research Center for Tang & Song Historical
Studies, Beijing, affiliated researcher, 2011-
Lantian Research Center, Xibei (Northwest) University, Xi’an, China, affiliated
researcher, 2011-12.
Renmin University of China, Honorary Visiting Chair Professor, Department of
History, 2011-2016.
Huazhong (Central China) University of Science and Technology, Honorary
Guest Professor, Wuhan, 2010-.
John K. Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University, Associate
in Research, 1977 79, 1983 84.
Southern California China Colloquium, UCLA, 1976–90s.
Regional Seminar in Neo Confucian Studies, Columbia University,
Corresponding Member, 1975–90s.
Major Professional Memberships:
American Historical Association
Association for Asian Studies
American Oriental Society
Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
Phi Alpha Theta (History Fraternity)
T’ang Studies Society
SERVICE to UNIVERSITY
Faculty Head, East and Southeast Asian Section, School of International Letters & Cultures, 2015-16.
Senator, University Senate, 2014-15
Senator, College of Liberal Arts, 2014-2015
Faculty Advisor, Cultural Association for the Performing Arts (a student club learning and performing
martial arts and artistic dances), 2013-
Search Committee, SILC, position in modern Chinese, 2014-15.
Search Committee, SILC, Postdoc fellow in modern Chinese literature, 2014.
Organized and chaired a panel of graduate student papers for the Western Conference of the Association
for Asian Studies annual meeting, hosted by ASU’s Center for Asian Research, October 2014.
ASU-Humboldt Foundation Initiative to establish bridges for ASU to the Alexander von Humboldt
Foundation in Germany through my Humboldt Prize and research collaborations, 2000-.
Exchange Agreement between ASU and Peking University’s Center for Studies of Ancient Chinese
History in Beijing, facilitated establishing ASU’s first exchange agreement with China’s premier
university. Agreement for faculty research exchange and research cooperation, 2004-.
East Asian Council Chair, Center for Asian Research, 2011-.
East and Southeast Asian Faculty Committee, SILC, 2012-.
ASU Confucius Institute Advisory Board, 2012-.
ASU Chinese Cuban Archive Project, Advisor to Librarian Qian Liu, 2012-.
Science and Society in East Asia Reading Group, 2012-13.
Institute for Humanities Research Pre-modern Texts Group, 2012-13.
Search Committee for Late Imperial Chinese Literature, SILC, 2013.
Committee Chair to make promotion and tenure report to Personnel Committee, SILC, 2012.
Secured retiring U of Arizona faculty donations of significant portions of their personal libraries to the
ASU Library, from Brian McKnight 2011-12, and from Jing-shen Tao 2008.
External referee for promotion & tenure decision: ASU Library, 2012.
Executive Committee, Center for Asian Research, 2006-2008.
Publications Committee, Center for Asian Research, 2006-2008.
Grants Committee, Center for Asian Research, 2006-2008.
CLAS Dean’s Faculty Advisory Committee (reviews promotion & tenure files), 2007-08.
Search Committee, Asian History Instructor, 2008.
Search Committee, Modern Japanese History, 2007-08.
Search Committee, Chinese Buddhism, Department of Religious Studies, 2007-08.
Asian Section Coordinator, History Department, 1993-94, 1998-2000, 2005-2008.
Chair, Dudley Award for Outstanding Student of Asian Studies, History Department, 2002, 2003, 2005-
08. Student Awards Committee, 2011-12.
Fulbright Fellowships, campus committee, Honors College, 2006.
Director's Advisory Committee, Center for Asian Studies, 1977-78, 1980-81, 1984-85, 1990-91, 1995-
2000, 2001-2003, 2005-2006.
Library Committee, Center for Asian Studies, Chair, 1980-82, 1984-88, 1990-94, 1998-2000, 2001-
2003.
Personnel and Advisory Committee, Department of History, 1977-79, 1991-92, 2002-03
Traditional China Workshop, Center for Asian Studies, Organizer, 2002-2007.
Chaired ad hoc group to persuade ASU to resume line in Modern Japanese History, 2002-03.
Humanities Interdisciplinary Program, Graduate Board Member, 1988-2000.
Chair, Promotion & Tenure Committee, History Department, 1999.
Curriculum Committee, History Department, 1993-94, 1998-2000.
Faculty Advisor, Phoenix Qigong Association, ASU, 1994-1999.
Humanities Interdisciplinary Program, Undergraduate Humanities Committee on Global Cultures, 1994.
Assistant Chair (Interim), Department of History, 1992.
Participant, Seminar on Scholarly Communication, sponsored by the Arizona Council of University
Presidents and the Arizona University Libraries Council, January 1994.
Humanities Research Awards Committee, 1993.
University Exchanges Committee, Center for Asian Studies, 1992-1994.
Search Committee for Premodern Japan, History Department, 1993-94.
Search Committee for Modern Southeast Asianist, 1998.
Graduate Committee of History Department, 1979-1982, 1986-1988.
Humanities Working Group for Assistant Dean Aiken, 1986-87.
Publications Committee, Center for Asian Studies, 1980-1982.
Fulbright-Hays Scholarship Committee, 1979-1982.
Search Committee for History Department Chair, 1981 and 1991.
Search Committee for Director of Center for Asian Studies, 1979 and 1988.
Committee on the A. T. Steele Collection (Center for Asian Studies), 1980-81, 2006.
Senator, Faculty Senate, 1979-1981.
Review Committee for Faculty Grant-in-Aid Program, 1980.
Faculty Senate Committee on University Service (vice Wilson), 1979-80.
Committee on the Future of the History Department, 1979-80.
Asian Center Committee on Chinese Blanket Order for Library, 1978-79.
Lecture and Colloquium Committee, Asian Center, 1976-1979.
Dean's Committee to Evaluate Center for Asian Studies, 1977-78.
United Fund Drive Representative, History Department, 1976 77.
TEACHING
Courses Taught at ASU
Graduate Courses:
History of Chinese Thought (Seminar)
History of Chinese Thought (Readings in Chinese Texts)
China: Ritual & Politics
Song Confucians
Confucianism
Comparative Topics: Asian Thought and Society
China's Classics
Song-era China
China's Heroes
Reading and Conference Courses on Chinese History
Historiography of China
Undergraduate Courses: [almost all also for credit in Honors College]
Chinese Cultural History (I and II)
Chinese Thought and Way (Classical to Han)
Chinese Thought and Way (From Han to Present)
Chinese Science and Medicine (in History Department; History & Philosophy of
Science Program, Department of Philosophy; and Biology & Society
Program)
Chinese Medicine (in History Department and Biology & Society Program of the
School of Life Sciences)
Chinese Medicine in Global Perspectives (for Freshman Learning Community:
Medicine, Culture, and Healing)
Interpreting China's Classics (in History Department and Humanities Program)
Mencius and Laozi (in Religious Studies)
Confucian Texts (11th to 13th centuries) (in History and Languages & Literatures)
Senior Seminar on Confucianism
Senior Seminar on Chinese Thinkers
China (Traditional)
China (Modern)
Asian Civilizations (Traditional)
Asian Civilizations (Modern)
Course taught at Renmin University of China, Beijing, summer 2011
Graduate Course: English Academic Writing of Historical Studies
Course taught at Peking University, Beijing, fall 2010
Graduate Seminar: American Sinology
Courses taught at National Taiwan University, spring 2009
Graduate Seminar: International Journal Articles: Reading & Writing History
Advanced undergrad & graduate students: Intellectual History of China
Course taught at Peking University, Beijing, with Professor Deng Xiaonan, fall 2003
Graduate course: Western Scholarship on Tang to Ming (618-1368) History
Course taught at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München (U of Munich)
Advanced Seminar on Song Intellectual History, fall 2000
Courses taught at the University of Washington, winter-spring quarters 1996
Upper division course (History Department): China, 960-1644
Survey course (History Department): Chinese Civilization
Senior Seminar on Confucianism (Jackson School of International Studies)
Teaching at Harvard
Senior (Head) Tutor of East Asian Studies, 1975 76: supervised departmental programs; had administrative supervision of honors theses for seniors; and was a Quincy House Tutor.
Sophomore Tutor, 1974 75: taught a course on Late Imperial China for Department of East Asian Studies.
Teaching Fellow, 1972 75, various semesters taught: tutorial on Sinology for Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations; mini-course on Asian Americans within a course on U.S. & East Asia for Department of History; and discussion sections in an introductory course on Chinese Civilization.
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