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Publications Top BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS AUTHORED -
Lunyu xin 論語心 (The Heart of the Analects). Hong Kong: Tang's Books, 2006. 212 pp. Revised with a postscript in 2007.
Xin-Ma yishen 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 -
1. “The Seven Worthies of the Bamboo Groves” forthcoming in Xiaogan Liu ed., Dao Companion to Daoist Philosophy, in the Dao Companion to Chinese Philosophy Series (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer Academic Publishers, 2009).
2. “Huang Yao” forthcoming in Leo Suryadinata ed., Southeast Asian Personalities of Chinese Descent: A Biographical Dictionary (2009).
3. “Beyond Good and Bad: Confucius on Human Nature” (in Chinese), forthcoming in Zheng Jixiong ed., Key Terms and Chinese Intellectual History (Taipei: Xuesheng shuju, 2009).
4. “Teacher-Disciples, 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). Chinese Philosophical Series XXVII. Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Change Series III, Asia, Vol. 27, pp.27-59.
5. 〈“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。
6.〈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。
7. “Buddhism,” in The Encyclopedia of Singapore (Singapore: Editions Didier Millet, 2006), pp.74-75.
8. 〈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。
9. “The Buddhist Shadow in Tang Chuanqi: Narrative Structure and Strangeness” (in Chinese), in Ku Cheng Mei ed., Buddhism and Buddhist Art of the Tang (Hsinchu: Chue Feng Buddhist Art and Culture Foundation, 2006), pp.317-333.
10. “Buddhist Storytelling in Early Medieval China --- The Case of the Commentary on the Vimalakīrti-sūtra” (in Chinese), in Ge Xiaoyin ed., Literature and Religion During the Han-Wei and Six Dynasties (Shanghai: Shanghai Guji chubanshe, 2005), pp.512-537.
11. “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.
12. “Rectitude and Compliance --- The Wife in Liu Xiang’s Lienü zhuan” (in Chinese), in Xiong Tieji and Zhao Guohua eds., Thought and Culture in Qin-Han China (Singapore: Hope Publishing, 2005), pp.355-375.
13. “Song Learning in Liu Baonan’s Correct Meanings of the Analects” (in Chinese), in Peng Lin ed., Classical Learning and Culture in Qing China (Beijing: Beijing University Press, 2005), pp.193-212.
14. “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.
15. “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.
16. “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.
17. “Freedom in the Analects,” in Chen Rongzhao ed., Confucianism and World Civilizations (in Chinese). (Singapore: Department of Chinese Studies and Global Publishing Co, Inc., 2 vols., 2003), 2:785-796.
18. “A Buddhist Ancestor and a Chinese Relative: A Study of the Narrative Structure of the Full-length Novel” (in Chinese), in Gu Meigao and Huang Lin eds., Aspects of Ming Fiction (Shanghai: Xuelin Publishing House, 2002), pp.42-64.
19. “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.
20. 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)
21. “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 -
1. Philosophy and Religion in Early Medieval China. Co-editor and contributor. Albany: State University of New York Press, forthcoming in 2009.
2. Interpretation and Literature in Early Medieval China. Co-editor. Albany: State University of New York Press, forthcoming in 2009.
3. Jingxue de duoyuan mailuo 經學的多元脈絡 (The Multiple Dimensions of Classics Studies). Coedited with Neo Peng Fu 梁秉賦. 375 pp. Taipei: Xuesheng shuju, 2008.
4. Luming youyou --- Xinjiapo Guoli daxue Zhongwenxi yanjiusheng lun Rujia wenhua 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. Hanxue Zongheng 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. Jingzuo qigong quanshu 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 -
1. 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 JOURNAL -
1. “From a Dual Soul to a Unitary Soul: The Babel of Soul Terminologies in Early China,” forthcoming in Monumenta Serica (Germany), Vol.55 (2007).
2. “Peng: A Hermeneutic Exploration of Analects Exegeses” (in Chinese), Bulletin on Pre-Qin Philosophers (Shanghai), Vol.2 (2008).
2. “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.
3. “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.
4. “Where Is the Gender Issue?: Zhu Xi's Hermeneutics in Analects 17.25” (in Chinese), in Chinese Studies (Taipei) 25.2 (Dec. 2007), pp.131-163. A simplified Chinese version appears in Bulletin on Chinese Philosophy and Culture (Guilin), Vol.3 (Oct. 2008), pp.157-185.
5. “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.
6. “Tao Cannot Be Embodied: The Intellectual Background in Wei-Jin China” (in Chinese), in Bulletin on Chinese Philosophy and Culture (Guilin), Vol. 2 (Nov. 2007), pp.94-112.
7. “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), pp.316-341.
8. “Sharing the Same Gate in the Analects: The Cultural and Historical and Dimensions of Intellectual Thought” (in Chinese), in Academic Monthly (Shanghai), Vol.4 (2007), pp.130-133.
9. “My Second Self: Matteo Ricci’s Friendship in China,” Monumenta Serica (Germany), Vol.54 (2006), pp.221-241.
10. “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.
11. “Recovering a Buddhist Voice on Daughters-in-law: The Yuyenü jing,” History of Religions (United States), May 2005, 44.4, pp.318-350.
12. “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.
13. “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.
14. “Philosophical Groundings and Pedagogical Problems in Zhu Xi’s Elementary Learning” (in Chinese), Zhu Zi Xuekan (Journal of Studies on Zhu Xi), Inaugural Issue (2004), pp.25-37.
15. “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.
16. “Stories from Kumārajīva’s Homilies,” Renditions, Number 61 (Spring 2004), pp.7-18.
17. “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.
18. “Wandering and Imaginal Realms in the Analects and Zhuangzi,” Monumenta Serica (Germany), 51 (2002), pp.75-93.
19. “Fin-de-siè-cle Spiritual Inward-turning: Clues from the Caigentan” (in Chinese), Asian Culture, Vol.26 (2002), pp.136-153.
20. “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.
21. “The Idea of Self in the Analects” (in Chinese), Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies, New Series, XXXI, No.4 (2001), pp.375-394.
22. “To Use or Not to Use: The Idea of Ming in the Zhuangzi,” Monumenta Serica, Vol.47 (1999), pp.149-168.
23. “Beyond Dualities: The Literary Structure of the First Chapter of the Zhuangzi,” Asian Culture, Vol.23 (1999), pp.59-75.
24. “From Analogy to Proof: An Inquiry into the Chinese Mode of Knowledge,” Monumenta Serica (Germany), Vol.43 (1995), pp.141-158.
25. “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.
26. “New Wonder Tales of Qi: Excerpts,” Renditions, Vol.37 (1992), pp.77-85.
27. “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 -
1. Review of Beata Grant, Eminent Nuns: Women Chan Masters of Seventeenth-Century China (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2008), Journal of Chinese Religions.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. 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.
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