A wide-ranging exploration and critical assessment of the work of a major figure in Chinese and comparative philosophy.

Offers a new perspective on the relationship between religion and the creation of the first Chinese empires.

Challenges the idea held by many prominent twentieth-century Sinologists that early China experienced a “language crisis. ”

An encounter between Franke’s philosophy of the unsayable and Eastern apophatic wisdom in the domains of poetry, thought, and culture.

Critical reflections on the work of Angus Charles Graham, renowned Western scholar of Chinese philosophy and sinology.

Sheds new light on pre-modern Chinese gender relationships in the context of marriage, male Confucian literati self-presentation, and social networks.

Reassesses didacticism in seventeenth-century Chinese vernacular fiction and challenges the view that the late Ming was a notoriously immoral time.

Using Li Zehou’s theories of aesthetics, argues for the importance of the arts to philosophy.

Discusses contemporary Confucianism's relevance and its capacity to address pressing social and political issues of twenty-first-century life.

Reveals cultural paradigms and historical prejudices regarding the role of birthing and women in the reproduction of society.

Analyzes the use of anecdotes as an essential rhetorical tool and form of persuasion in various literary genres in early China.

Presents a new view of the Chinese revolution through the lens of the local Communist movement in Hainan between 1926 and 1956.

A comparative analysis of Confucianism and the American Transcendentalist and Pragmatist traditions.

Addresses Ming Dynasty philosopher Wang Fuzhi’s neo-Confucianism from the perspective of contemporary ecological humanism.

Confucian philosopher Xunzi’s moral thought is considered in light of the modern focus on self-realization.

Considers the role of hiddenness in the history of cultural production in premodern China.

Looks at the Daoist Zhuangzi's critique of Confucianism.

Shows how the text evolved from a non-narrative historical record into a Confucian classic.

A comprehensive analysis of the transformations of ancient history in early Chinese texts.

Challenges the accepted wisdom about women and gender roles in medieval China.

A new translation and commentary of the Analects for contemporary audiences.

Discusses the conditions of possibility for intercultural and comparative philosophy, and for crosscultural communication at large.

Discusses philosophers Mencius and Aristotle as socio-ecological thinkers.

Using Chinese thought, explores how non-Western thought can structure generally applicable social and political theory.

Four Warring States texts discovered during recent decades challenge longstanding understandings of Chinese intellectual history.