Publications

BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS AUTHORED

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  1. 背上冬陽—文史哲獅城演講錄 (Winter Sunlight on My Back: Lectures in Singapore on Chinese Literature, History, and Philosophy), Kampak, Malaysia: Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman Press, 2018, 164 pp.

  2. 夢中占夢 (Divining Dreams in a Dream: Essays on the Daoist Master Zhuangzi). Singapore: City Bookroom, 2016, 185 pp..

  3. 菜頭粿—給憐愛英才的新加坡老師 (Carrot Cakes: To the Teachers in Singapore Who Care about Students). Singapore: Grassroots Book Room. 215 pp.

  4. 文内文外—中國思想史中的經典詮釋 (Intratextual and Extratextual: Interpretations of Classics in Chinese Intellectual History). Taipei: National Taiwan University Press, 427 pp. (Selected as one of the best 100 books published in Taiwan 2010 by the National Central Library in Taiwan); book review in the Journal of Chinese Philosophy  39.1 (May 2012):160-162 and Malaysian Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 馬來西亞人文與社會科學學報 4.1 (2015):87-93.

  5. 論語心 (The Heart of the Analects).  Hong Kong: Tang's Books, 2006. 212 pp. Revised with a postscript in 2007.

  6. 新馬遺瀋—漫談中華文化與教育 (Ink Droppings in Singapore and Malaysia: On Chinese Culture and Education). Kuala Lumpur: Book-Pro Enterprise, 2004. 210 pp.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

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  1. “Laozi under Analysis and in Parables: In Light of the Early Commentarial Tradition” in a volume on the “Jie Lao” and “Yu Lao” chapters of the Hanfeizi, edited by Eric Hutton and Eirik Lang Harris, forthcoming by the Oxford University Press.

  2. “Yi Duan Is Not Heresy: An Intellectual-historical Inquiry” 異端的思想史考察, in Fan Limei 范麗梅 and Huang Guanyun 黃冠雲 eds., 離詞、辨言、聞道——古典研究再出發, Nankang: Academia Sinica, 2021, forthcoming.

  3. “The Authorship of the Zhuangzi” in Dao Companion to Zhuangzi, edited by Kim-Chong Chong and Kai-yuan Cheng, in the Dao Companion to Chinese Philosophy Series. (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer Academic Publishers, 2020), forthcoming.

  4. “He Yan’s Collected Explanations on the Analects” in Dao Companion to Xuanxue, edited by David Chai, in the Dao Companion to Chinese Philosophy Series. (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer Academic Publishers, 2020), forthcoming.

  5. “Lone-Transformation and Intergrowth--Philosophy and Self-Justification in Guo Xiang’s Commentary on the Zhuangzi” in Dao Companion to Xuanxue, edited by David Chai, in the Dao Companion to Chinese Philosophy Series. (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer Academic Publishers, 2020), forthcoming.

  6. “Qingtan and Xuanxue” in Cambridge History of China, Vol.2: Six Dynasties, edited by Albert Dien and Keith Knapp, forthcoming by Cambridge University Press, 2019, pp.511-530.

  7. “It’s A Jungle Out There: Zhuang Zi and the Rhetoric of Political Persuasion” in New Life for Old Ideas: Chinese Philosophy in the Contemporary World—Festschrift in Honor of Professor Donald J. Munro, edited by Yanmin An and Brian Bruya, Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2019, pp.225-252.

  8. “That Can be Heard of: Tao in the Confucian Analects” 可得而聞—孔門的道論 in Liu Xiaogan, Liang Tao, and Zheng Jixiong eds., 《簡帛思想文獻研究──個案與方法》(Beijing: Dongfang chubanshe, 2019), pp.516-542.

  9. “Making It New without Losing the Old: Lim Boon Keng and the History of Confucianism in Singapore” 進新不失舊——新加坡儒學史上的林文慶 in Tee Boon Chuan 鄭文泉 ed., Past, Present, and Future: Proceedings of The Inaugural International Conference on Southeast Asian Chinese 過去，現在與未來——第一屆東南亞華人研究國際會議論文集 (Kuala Lumpur: Centre for Chinese Studies Research, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, 2019), pp.111-135.

  10. “Philosophy and Practice: Singapore Dharma Master Yanpei and His Hard Buddhism” 理入與行入——新加坡演培法師與硬佛教 in Yang Tianhou and Lin Likuan楊天厚、林麗寬 eds. Proceedings of International Conference on Haiyin Monastery in Mt. Taiwu, Kinmen and Southeast Buddhism 金門太武山海印寺暨東南亞佛教國際學術研討會論文集 (金門縣金門鎮：金門太武山海印寺，2016), pp.437-456.

  11. “A Blueprint for Nation-building in Lim Boon Keng’s Outlines of Confucius’s Teaching, An Essential Guide for Republican China《民國必要孔教大綱》——林文慶的建國方略〉in 魏月萍、樸素晶 eds. Construction and Practices of Confucianism in Southeast and Northeast Asia 東南亞與東北亞儒學的建構與實踐 (Singapore: World Scientific, 2016), pp.79-104.

  12. “What Is the Other Pole?: On the Dual-Pole Thinking of Confucius” 孔子的兩端思想 in Neo Peng Fu 梁秉賦 and Li Chenyang 李晨陽 eds., Pre-Qin Confucianism in Comparative Perspectives 比較視野下的先秦儒學：國際學術研討會論文集 (Singapore: Confucius Institute, Nanyang Technological University, 2016), pp.265-286. Also appears in Fu Rongju 傅永聚 ed., Forum on Confucian Civilization 儒家文明論壇 (The Third Issue, 2 vols.), Qufu: Shangdong renmin chubanshe, 2016, Vol.1:190-203.

  13. “Change Beyond Syncretism: Ouyi Zhixu’s Buddhist Hermeneutics on the Book of Changes” 超越融合主義之易：蕅益智旭對《易經》的佛教詮釋學 in Cheng Chung-ying 成中英 and Feng Jun 馮俊 eds., Setting the Standard for Chinese Philosophy 為中國哲學立法——西方哲學視域中先秦哲學合法性研究 (Beijing: Zhongguo renmin daxue chubanshe, 2016), pp.172-190.

  14. “Liuzi,” in Cynthia Chennault, Keith Knapp, Alan Berkowitz, and Albert Dien eds., Early Medieval Chinese Texts: A Bibliographic Guide. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, 2015, pp.179-187.

  15. “The Seven Worthies of the Bamboo Groves,” in Xiaogan Liu ed., Dao Companion to Daoist Philosophy, in the Dao Companion to Chinese Philosophy Series (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer Academic Publishers, 2015), pp.425-448.

  16. “Environmentalism in Early Confucian and Daoist Philosophies” 簡論先秦儒道二家的環保思想 in Tee Boon Chuan 鄭文泉 ed., New Interpretation of Classical Chinese Canon and Literature 中國古典經學與文學的新詮釋 (Kuala Lumpur: Centre for Chinese Studies Research, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, 2015), pp.3-25.

  17. “Indeterminacy in Meaning: Religious Syncretism and Dynastic Historiography in the Shannüren zhuan” in Joanna de Groot and Sue Morgan eds., Sex, Gender and the Sacred: Reconfiguring Religion in Gender History (Chichester: WILEY Blackwell, 2014), pp.67-82, first published in a Special Issue on Gender and Religion of Gender & History (25.3): 461-476.

  18. “Tension between Intratextual and Extratextual: Zhu Xi’s Reading of Analects 4.7” 文內文外之間的張力——朱熹說《論語·朝聞道》章中的生死觀, in Chen Zhiping 陳支平 and Ye Mingyi 葉明義 eds., 朱熹陳淳研究 (Studies on Zhu Xi and Chen Chun) [Xiamen: Xiamen University Press, 2014], pp.88-102.

  19. “Is Confucianism a Religion?” 儒家思想是一種宗教嗎, in 《見龍在田——南洋孔教會百年紀念特刊》 The Dragon in the Field: The Commemorative Journal of the Centennial Anniversary of the Singapore Nanyang Confucian Association (Singapore: Singapore Nanyang Confucian Association), pp.220-230.

  20. “The Philosophy of Confucius’s Disciples,” in Vincent Shen ed., Dao Companion to Classical Confucian Philosophy, in the Dao Companion to Chinese Philosophy Series. (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer Academic Publishers, 2013), pp.81-117.

  21. “That Can be Heard of: Tao in the Confucian Analects” 可得而聞—孔門的道論 in Zhou Fengwu 周鳳五 ed., Formation, Development, and Evolution: Studies in Pre-Qin Texts and Thought, 2 vols. 《先秦文本及思想之形成、發展、轉化論文集》上下冊  (Taipei: Taiwan University Press, 2013), Vol.1, pp.327-357.

  22. “Confucius and His Community,” in Amy Olberding ed., Dao Companion to the Analects, in the Dao Companion to Chinese Philosophy Series. (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer Academic Publishers), pp.55-79.

  23.  “A New Interpretation of Analects 4.7 with A Comparison of the Confucian and Taoist Views of Tao,”〈《論語·里仁》“朝聞道”章正解——兼論儒、道二家的道論〉(in Chinese) Chen Zhi 陳致 ed., Bamboo Texts, Classics, and Ancient History《簡帛·經典·古史》(Shanghai: Shanghai Guji chubanshe, 2013), pp.381-409.

  24. “Mind-heart and Emotions in the Analects,” in Giusi Tamburello ed., Concepts and Categories of Emotion in East Asia (Roma: Carocci editore, 2012), pp.71-86.

  25. “The Idea of Evil in Early China,” in Laura Torres Zuñiga and Isabel Mª Andrés Cuevas eds., Constructing Good and Evil (Oxford, United Kingdom: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2011), pp.3-10. Download the book at http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/publishing/product/constructing-good-and-evil/

  26. “Destiny and Retribution in Early Medieval China,” in Alan Chan and Yuet Keung Lo eds., Philosophy and Religion in Early Medieval China (New York: SUNY Press, 2010), pp.319-356.

  27. “Beyond Good and Bad: Confucius on Human Nature” 善惡觀以外的孔子性論, in Zheng Jixiong 鄭吉雄 ed., 觀念字解讀與思想史探索 Analyses of Key Terms and Intellectual History  (Taipei: Xuesheng shuju, 2009), pp.73-124.

  28. “Huang Yao” in Leo Suryadinata ed., Southeast Asian Personalities of Chinese Descent: A Biographical Dictionary (Singapore: ISEAS Publishing Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2009), pp.365-368.

  29. "Teacher-Disciple, or Friends?—An Historico-Exegetical Approach to the Analects” in Vincent Shen and Kwong-loi Shun eds., Confucian Ethics in Retrospect and Prospect (Washington, D.C.: The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2008).  Chinese Philosophical Series XXVII.  Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Change Series III, Asia, Vol. 27, pp.27-59.

  30.〈“朋”字的一個思想史考察 --- 以《論語》注釋為例〉，收入勞悅強編，《鹿鳴悠悠---新加坡國立大學中文系研究生論儒家文化》 （新加坡：青年書局，2007），页239-274。

  31.〈大匠誨人，必以規矩 --- 淺談錢賓四先生的學問〉，收入張麗珍、黃文斌合編，《錢穆與中國學術》 （吉隆坡：馬來亞大學中文系暨中文系學生協會，2007），頁43-99。

  32. “Buddhism,” in The Encyclopedia of Singapore (Singapore: Editions Didier Millet, 2006), pp.74-75.

  33. 〈學與術之取捨 --- 新加坡近二十五年來漢學研究之發展〉，收入何啓良、祝家華、安煥然合編，《馬來西亞、新加坡社會變遷四十年》 （馬來西亞新山：南方學院，2006），頁167-194。

  34.  “The Buddhist Shadow in Tang Chuanqi: Narrative Structure and Strangeness” 〈唐代傳奇的佛教影子——從敘事結構說起〉, in Ku Cheng Mei 古正美 ed., 唐代佛教與藝術 Buddhism and Buddhist Art of the Tang (Hsinchu: Chue Feng Buddhist Art and Culture Foundation, 2006), pp.317-333.

  35. “Buddhist Storytelling in Early Medieval China --- The Case of the Commentary on the Vimalakīrti-sūtra” 〈從《維摩詰經注》看中古佛教講經〉, in Ge Xiaoyin 葛曉音 ed., 漢魏六朝文學與宗教 Literature and Religion During the Han-Wei and Six Dynasties (Shanghai: Shanghai Guji chubanshe, 2005), pp.512-537.

  36. “Chinese Glocalism --- Sima Qian’s Historiography as Seen in the Accounts of the Xiongnu” (in Chinese), in Cultural Awareness and Social Development —— Selected Papers from the Forum on Chinese Culture in the Twenty-first Century (Hong Kong: The Commercial Press, 2005), pp.327-332.

  37.  “Rectitude and Compliance --- The Wife in Liu Xiang’s Lienü zhuan” 貞順——《列女傳》中的妻子, in Xiong Tieji 熊鐵基 and Zhao Guohua 趙國華 eds., 秦漢思想與文化 Thought and Culture in Qin-Han China (Singapore: Hope Publishing, 2005), pp.355-375.

  38. “Song Learning in Liu Baonan’s Correct Meanings of the Analects” 劉寶楠《論語正義》中所見的宋學, in Peng Lin 彭林 ed., 清代學術與文化 Classical Learning and Culture in Qing China (Beijing: Beijing University Press, 2005), pp.193-212.

  39. “Storytelling and the Earliest Buddhist Oral Text in China: Clues from Kumārajīva’s Commentary on the Vimalakīrti-sūtra,” in Ching-I Tu ed., Interpretation and Intellectual Change: Chinese Hermeneutics in Historical Perspective (New Brunswick, USA and London, UK: Transaction Publishers, 2004), pp.103-116.

  40. “Filial Devotion for Women: A Buddhist Testimony from Third-Century China,” in Alan Chan and Sor-hoon Tan eds., Filial Piety in Chinese Thought and History (London and New York: Routledge-Curzon, 2004), pp.71-90.

  41. “Finding the Self in the Analects: A Philological Approach,” Kim-chong Chong, Sor-hoon Tan and C.L. Ten eds., The Moral Circle and the Self: Western and Chinese Perspectives (Chicago: Open Court, 2003), pp.249-268.

  42. “Freedom in the Analects” 《論語》中所見的自由自在 in Chen Rongzhao 陳榮照 ed., 儒家思想與現代文明 Confucianism and World Civilizations. (Singapore: Department of Chinese Studies and Global Publishing Co, Inc., 2 vols., 2003), 2:785-796.

  43. “A Buddhist Ancestor and a Chinese Relative: A Study of the Narrative Structure of the Full-length Novel” (in Chinese), in Gu Meigao 辜美高 and Huang Lin 黃霖 eds., 明代小說面面觀 Aspects of Ming Fiction (Shanghai: Xuelin Publishing House, 2002), pp.42-64.

  44. “Negotiating Boundaries: Huang Kan’s (488-545) Early Medieval Confucian Metaphysics,” in Kai-wing Chow et al eds., Imagining Boundaries: Changing Confucian Doctrines, Texts, and Hermeneutics (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998), pp.57-83.

  45. Seven entries on seven Chinese historians in D.R. Woolf ed., A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998), pp.309, 558, 701, 832, 835, 931, 932, 980.  The entries are on

  Sima Qian (145‑85 BCE)
  Fan Ye (398‑445)
  Li Yanshou (612‑678)
  Pei Songzhi (372‑451)
  Shen Yue (441‑513)
  Yan Shigu (581‑645)
  Wang Fuzhi (1619‑1692)

  46. “Fatalism and Retribution in Late Han Religious Daoism,” in Bernard Hung-kay Luk ed., Contacts between Cultures, Vol.4: Eastern Asia: History and Social Sciences (Lewiston/Queenston/Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1992), pp.317-321.

EDITORIAL WORK ON BOOKS

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  1. Philosophy and Religion in Early Medieval China. Co-editor (with Alan K.L. Chan) and contributor. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2010.

  2.  Interpretation and Literature in Early Medieval China. Co-editor (with Alan K.L. Chan). Albany: State University of New York Press, 2010.

  3. 經學的多元脈絡  (Multiple Dimensions of Classics Studies). Co-edited with Neo Peng Fu 梁秉賦. 375 pp. Taipei: Xuesheng shuju, 2008. Edited with Introduction and a chapter.

  4. 鹿鳴呦呦---新加坡國立大學中文系研究生論儒家文化 (Murmurs of the Fawns---Essays on Confucian Culture by NUS Graduate Students in Chinese Studies).  274 pp. Contributing editor. Singapore: Youth Book Co., 2007.

  5. 漢學縱橫 (Excursions in Sinology) (in Chinese and English). Chinese Studies Series 1. Hong Kong: Commercial Press, 2002. 311 pp. Co-edited with Lee Cheuk Yin and James St. André.

  6. 靜坐氣功全書 (Compendium on Meditational Texts). Hong Kong: Yonghua Publishing Company, 1982. 318 pp.  Edited with Introduction.

TRANSLATION WORK ON BOOKS

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  1. (English into Chinese), “A Comparison of the Ethical Theories of G.E. Moore and John Dewey,” by Chang Yin-lin (1932), in 張蔭麟全集 The Complete Works of Zhang Yinlin, 3 vols. (Beijing: Qinghua University Press， 2013), 1: 246-298.

  2. (with Jonathan A. Silk), translation of Fo shuo wei sheng yuan jing 佛說未生冤經 in Jonathan A. Silk, “The Composition of the Guan Wuliangshoufo-jing: Some Buddhist and Jaina Parallels to Its Narrative Frame,” Journal of Indian Philosophy 25 (1997): 224-229.

  3. Yishu yimin yishiming 一書一民一使命, translator (English into Chinese), Vols. 1, 2 & 4, One Book, One People, One Mission, 5 Vols., by Rev. Wendell Karsen (Hong Kong: Federal Publications, 1981-83).

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS

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  1. “Beneath Sensationalized Conflict: Buddhist Conjugal Relation in Early Medieval China” for a Special Issue of Chinese Historical Review (22.1: 5-30) [May 2015] on Women and Gender in Chinese Buddhist Tradition, Guest Editor: Ping Yao

  2.  “It’s A Jungle out There: Political Persuasion in the Zhuangzi” 人間如森林——《莊子》內篇中的政治辯說 in Zhuzi xuekan 諸子學刊 (Bulletin on Pre-Qin Philosophers), Vol.10 (2014), 77-94.

  3.  “On Perfection: Zhu Xi’s Hermeneutics in Analects 3.25” 盡善盡美——從《論語集注》看朱熹的新經學, in 哲學與宗教 (Philosophy and Religion) [Shanghai], Vol.7 (2014), pp.53-70.

  4. “Impoverished or Intermittenly Empty? A New Interpretation of Analects 12.19” 《論語》〈先進〉篇「屢空」辨, in Chinese Studies 漢學研究 32.2(2014):265-291.

  5.  “Indeterminacy in Meaning: Religious Syncretism and Dynastic Historiography in the Shannüren zhuan” for a Special Issue (25.3) [2013]: 461-476 on Gender and Religion of Gender & History, Guest Editors: Joanna de Groot and Sue Morgan. Reprinted in Joanna de Groot and Sue Morgan eds., Sex, Gender and the Sacred: Reconfiguring Religion in Gender History (Chichester: WILEY Blackwell, 2014), pp.67-82.

  6.  “Evidence in the Liezi of Appropriation from the Zhuangzi: With a Discussion of the Errors in Zhu Dezhi’s Liezi Tongyi” 列子因襲莊子擧隅——兼論《列子通義》的紕漏 in 經學研究集刊 (Bulletin of Studies on Traditional Chinese Canons) Vol.15 (Nov. 2013), pp.1-15.

  7. “Academic Learning, Self-Cultivation, and Faith in Early Confucianism” 從學術、修養、信仰論孔門儒學, in Bulletin on Chinese Philosophy and Culture 中國哲學與文化 (Guilin), Vol.9 (2012): 103-130.

  8. “Hearing about the Way Does Not Mean Realization of the Way: A Rejoinder to Professor Liao Mingchun’s Reading of Analects 4.8” 「聞道」並非「達道」——廖名春教授〈《論語》「朝聞道，夕死可矣」章新釋〉讀後 in Xinya xuebao 新亞學報 (Hong Kong), Vol.30 (2012):1-14.

  9. “Confucius and His Disciples” 孔門面貌考釋, in 諸子學刊 (Bulletin on Pre-Qin Philosophers), Vol.5 (2012), 41-58.

  10. Japanese translation (by Nishino Midori) of revised version of “Persuasion and Entertainment at Once: Kumārajīva’s Buddhist Storytelling in His Commentary on the Vimalakīrti-sūtra,” Annal of the Institute for Comprehensive Studies of Buddhism, Taisho University, No.33 (March 2011), pp.307-329.

  11. “Daoist Simulated Sermonization: Hermeneutic Clues from Buddhist Practices,” in Journal of Chinese Philosophy 37.3 (September 2010), pp. 366-380.

  12. “The Confucian Koans: Ouyi Zhixu’s Commentary on the Analects” 儒門公案——蕅益智旭的《論語點睛》, in 北京大學中國古籍文獻研究中心集刊, No.9 (2010), pp.201-221.

  13. “Exegesis and Self Expression: Commentary as Public Sermon in Religious Daoism” 說經注我——從無名氏《太上老君說常清靜經注》看道教講經, in Bulletin on Chinese Philosophy and Culture 中國哲學與文化 (Guilin), Vol. 5 (June, 2009), pp.123-150.

  14. “The Idea of Ming in the Zhuangzi” 以明乎？已明乎——釋《莊子》的「明」義, in 諸子學刊 (Bulletin on Pre-Qin Philosophers), Vol.3 (2009), pp.175-193.

  15. “From a Dual Soul to a Unitary Soul: The Babel of Soul Terminologies in Early China,” Monumenta Serica (Germany), Vol.56(2008): 23-53.

  16.  “Peng: A Hermeneutic Exploration of Analects Exegeses” (in Chinese), Bulletin on Pre-Qin Philosophers (Shanghai), Vol.2 (2008): 33-53.

  17. “Change Beyond Syncretism: Ouyi Zhixu's Buddhist Hermeneutics of the Yijing,” in a special issue on commentaries on the Book of Changes in Journal of Chinese Philosophy (United States), June 2008, pp.273-295.

  18. “Conversion to Chastity: A Buddhist Catalyst in Early Imperial China,” in a special theme issue on women, gender and religion in premodern China, Nan Nü 10.1 (Leiden), March 2008, pp.22-56.

  19.  “Where Is the Gender Issue?: Zhu Xi's Hermeneutics in Analects 17.25” (in Chinese), in 漢學研究 Chinese Studies (Taipei) 25.2 (Dec. 2007), pp.131-163. A simplified Chinese version appears in 中國哲學與文化 Bulletin on Chinese Philosophy and Culture (Guilin), Vol.3 (Oct. 2008), pp.157-185.

  20.  “The Drama of Numskulls: Structure, Texture, and Functions of the Scripture of One Hundred Parables,” in Early Medieval China (United States), Vol. 12 (2006), pp.69-90.

  21.  “Tao Cannot Be Embodied: The Intellectual Background in Wei-Jin China” (in Chinese), in 中國哲學與文化 Bulletin on Chinese Philosophy and Culture (Guilin), Vol. 2 (Nov. 2007), pp.94-112.

  22. “Attacking from the Wrong End: The Love-Hate Complex with Zhu Xi in Liu Baonan's (1791-1855) Correct Meanings of the Analects (in Chinese), in Zhongguo jingxue (Chinese Classical Studies), Vol.2 (2007): 316-341.

  23.  “Sharing the Same Gate in the Analects: The Cultural and Historical and Dimensions of Intellectual Thought” (in Chinese), in 學術月刊 Academic Monthly (Shanghai), Vol.4 (2007), pp.130-133.

  24. “My Second Self: Matteo Ricci’s Friendship in China,” Monumenta Serica (Germany), Vol.54 (2006), pp.221-241.

  25. “The Master Carpenter and His Compasses and Square: A Preliminary Study of Qian Mu’s Scholarship” (in Chinese), Asian Culture, Vol.29 (2005), pp.145-181.

  26. “Recovering a Buddhist Voice on Daughters-in-law: The Yuyenü jing,” History of Religions (United States), May 2005, 44.4, pp.318-350.

  27. “What Happened by the River?: From the Sigh of Confucius to the Interpretation of Zhu Xi” (in Chinese), Bulletin of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, Vol.25 (2005), pp.251-286.

  28. “Observation: On the Experiential Basis, Approach, and Character of Confucius’s Thought” (in Chinese), Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies, New Series, XXXIV, No.2 (2005), pp.73-102.

  29. “Philosophical Groundings and Pedagogical Problems in Zhu Xi’s Elementary Learning” 朱子蒙學中的大道理與小問題, in 朱子學刊 (Journal of Studies on Zhu Xi), Inaugural Issue (2004), pp.25-37.

  30. “The Deceptive Presence of Women in the Classic of Filial Devotion: Some Observations on the Dearth of Filial Daughters in Pre-Tang China” (in Chinese), Bulletin of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, Vol.24 (2004), pp.293-330.

  31. “Stories from Kumārajīva’s Homilies,” Renditions, Number 61 (Spring 2004), pp.7-18.

  32. “Persuasion and Entertainment at Once: Kumārajīva’s Buddhist Storytelling in His Commentary on the Vimalakīrti-sūtra,” Bulletin of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, Vol.21 (2002), pp.89-115.

  33. “Wandering and Imaginal Realms in the Analects and Zhuangzi,” Monumenta Serica (Germany), 51 (2002), pp.75-93.

  34. “Fin-de-siè-cle Spiritual Inward-turning: Clues from the Caigentan” (in Chinese), Asian Culture, Vol.26 (2002), pp.136-153.

  35. “From Role-modeling to Perspectival Switch: A Modern Interpretation of Filial Devotion and Moral Empathy in Early Confucian Thought” (in Chinese), Asian Culture, Vol. 25 (2001), pp.83-96.

  36. “The Idea of Self in the Analects” (in Chinese), Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies, New Series, XXXI, No.4 (2001), pp.375-394.

  37. “To Use or Not to Use: The Idea of Ming in the Zhuangzi,” Monumenta Serica, Vol.47 (1999), pp.149-168.

  38. “Beyond Dualities: The Literary Structure of the First Chapter of the Zhuangzi,” Asian Culture, Vol.23 (1999), pp.59-75.

  39. “From Analogy to Proof: An Inquiry into the Chinese Mode of Knowledge,” Monumenta Serica (Germany), Vol.43 (1995), pp.141-158.

  40. “Moving Boundaries: Implications for the Study of Mystical Texts in Ancient and Medieval China,” Journal of Oriental Studies, Vol. 32, No.l (1994), pp.74-81.

  41. “New Wonder Tales of Qi: Excerpts,” Renditions, Vol.37 (1992), pp.77-85.

  42. “Heshang (‘River Elegy’): A Television Orchestration of a New Ideology in China,” co-author, Asian Journal of Communication, Vol.I, No.2 (May 1991), pp.73-102.

BOOK REVIEWS

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  1. Review of Riding the Wind with Liezi: New Perspectives on the Daoist Classic, edited by Ronnie Littlejohn and Jeffrey Dippmann (Albany, N.Y: SUNY Press, 2011), in Philosophy East and West 63.4 (2013): 686-689.

  2. Review of Philip J. Ivanhoe, Master Sun’s Art of War (Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc, 2011), Journal of Military History 75.4 (July/2011):1275-1276.

  3. Review of Bryan W. Van Norden, translated, Mengzi, With Selections from Traditional Commentaries (Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc, 2008), Philosophy East and West 61.2 (2011):399-402.

  4. Review of Beata Grant, Eminent Nuns: Women Chan Masters of Seventeenth-Century China (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2009), Journal of Chinese Religions, Vol.37 (2009):109-110.

  5. Review of Weijing Lu, True to Her Word: The Faithful Maiden Cult in Late Imperial China (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008), in Nan Nü 11.2 (2009), pp.313-315.

  6. Review of John Makeham, Transmitters and Creators: Chinese Commentators and Commentaries on the Analects (Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Asia Center, 2003), Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 35.1 (March, 2008), pp.179-182.

  7.  Review of Rudolf Wagner, A Chinese Reading of the Daodejing: Wang Bi’s Commentary on the Laozi with Critical Text and Translation (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2003), Monumenta Serica, Vol.54 (2006), pp.524-530.

  8. Review of On-cho Ng, Cheng-Zhu Confucianism in the Early Qing: Li Guangdi (1642- 1718) [Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2001], in Monumenta Serica, Vol.53 (2005), pp.510-513.

  9. Review of John Kieschnick, The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003), Asian Journal of Social Science, Vol.33, No.2 (2005), pp.325-327.

  10. Review of Edward Slingerland tr., Confucius•Analects --- With Selections from Traditional Commentaries (Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2003), China Review International, Vol.11, No.1 (2004), pp.174-179.

  11. Review of Chen Junzhong’s Studies on Buddhism in East Asia and Tibet (Taipei: Dongda, 2003), Bulletin of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, Vol.24 (2004), pp.354-358.

  12. Review of Shang Wei’s Rulin waishi and Cultural Transformation in Late Imperial China (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2003), The China Review, Vol.4, No.1 (Spring 2004), pp.234-237.

  13. Review of J.J. Clarke, The Tao of the West: Western Transformations of Taoist Thought (London: Routledge, 2000), Journal of Oriental Studies, Vol.37, No.2 (2002), pp.279-281.

  14. Review of Kenneth DeWoskin and J.I. Crump, In Search of the Supernatural: The Written Record (California: Stanford University Press, 1996), Journal of Oriental Studies, Vol.34, No.1 (1999), pp.108-111.

  15. Review of Xin Xu and Beverly Friend, Legends of the Chinese Jews in Kaifeng (New Jersey: KTAV Publishing House, Inc, 1995) and Sidney Shapiro, Jews in Old China: Studies by Chinese Scholars (New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc, 1988, Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Spring 1999, pp‑31‑34.

  16. Review of Kathryn Ann Tsai, Lives of the Nuns: Biographies of Chinese Buddhist Nuns from the Fourth to Sixth Centuries (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994), Journal of Oriental Studies, Vol.34, No.1 (1999), pp.113-115.

  17. Review of Isabelle Robinet, Taoist Meditation: The Mao‑shan Tradition of Great Purity, translated by Julian F. Pas and Norman J. Girardot (Albany, New York: State University of New York, 1993), Journal of Oriental Studies, Vol.34, No.1 (1999), pp.103-105.

  18. Review of Richard J. Smith and D.W.Y. Kwok eds., Cosmology, Ontology, and Human Efficacy: Essays in Chinese Thought (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993), Journal of Oriental Studies, Vol.32, No.2 (1994), pp.231‑234.

  19. Review of Derk Bodde, Chinese Thought, Society, and Science: The Intellectual and Social Background of Science and Technology in Pre‑modern China (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1991), Journal of Oriental Studies, Vo1.31, No.2 (1993), pp.318‑320.

  20. Review of Alan K.L. Chan, Two Visions of the Way: A Study of the Wang Pi and Ho‑shang Kung Commentaries on the Lao‑Tzu (Albany, New York: University of New York Press, 1991), Journal of Oriental Studies, Vol.29, No.2 (1991), pp.253‑255.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

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PAPERS FOR SEMINAR, PUBLIC TALK, LECTURE

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