I am Professor of History, Asian Studies, and Philosophy at the Pennsylvania State University. Primarily a specialist in late imperial Chinese intellectual history, I have published extensively on a wide range of topics, such as Confucian hermeneutics, religiosity, ethics, and historiography. My books include Cheng-Zhu Confucianism in the Early Qing<\/em>, and Mirroring the Past. <\/em>His dozens of articles have appeared in major outlets such as Dao, Philosophy East and West, Journal of Chinese Philosophy<\/em>, Journal of World History, <\/em>and the Journal of the History of Ideas<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n I am currently writing a book on a late imperial Chinese commentarial tradition known as the Gongyang New Script School, whose focus was not so much the literal and philological meanings of the classical Confucian texts as their broader philosophical messages. In the process of such a study, I hope to construct a Confucian theory of reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cZhu Xi\u2019s Hermeneutics.\u201d In Huang Yong, ed., Dao Companion to Zhu Xi\u2019s Philosophy<\/em>. Dordrecht and New York: Springer Publishing, 2020. Pp. 47-70.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c<\/em>Poetry, Literature, Textual Study, and Hermeneutics.\u201d In <\/em>Philip J. Ivanhoe, ed. Zhu Xi: Selected Writings.<\/em> New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. 70-89.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cConfucian Exegesis, Hermeneutic Theory, and Comparative Thought.\u201dIn Ming Dong Gu. ed. Why Traditional Chinese Philosophy Still Matters: The Relevance of Ancient Wisdom for the Global Age<\/em>. New York: Routledge, 2018. Pp.118-132.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cRepresentations of Kongzi as the \u2018Uncrowned King\u2019 (suwang<\/em>) in some Qing Exegeses.\u201d In Paul Golding, ed. A concise Companion to Confucius<\/em>. London & Malden MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. Pp. 286-304.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThinking Across Cultures: Western Hermeneutics and Chinese Exegesis.\u201d In Bruce B. Janz, ed., Place, Space and Hermeneutics<\/em>. Dordrecht and New York: Springer Publishing, 2017. Pp. 519-531.<\/p>\n\n\n\nResearch related to commentary<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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