Publications


home - areas of specialization - research projects - selected publications - conference papers - courses taught - asian studies minor - awards and honors - links - current courses


Publications

A. Books

  • The Yijing and Chinese Politics: Classical Commentary and Literati Political Acitivism in the Northern Song Yijing Period, 960-1172 (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005) [Click here for a synopsis of the book]

  • Nation, Modernity, and the Restructuring of the Field of Cultural Production in China: Beyond the May Fourth Paradigm, co-edited with Kai-wing Chow, Hung-yok Ip, and Don C. Price (Lexington Books, forthcoming).

  • The Politics of Historical Production in Late Qing and Republican China, co-edited with Robert Culp (B. J. Brill, forthcoming).

  • Revolution by Recovering the Past: The Guocui Group in Early Twentieth-Century China (in preparation)
  • The Yijing and Social Identity: The Song Learning in Qing China (in preparation).

     

B. Articles

  • “Chinese Modernity and the Restructuring of the Field of Cultural Production” (co-authored with Kai-wing Chow” in Nation, Modernity, and the Restructuring of the Field of Cultural Production in China: Beyond the May Fourth Paradigm (Lexington Books, forthcoming).

  • “From Babbitt to “Bai Bide”: Interpretations of New Humanism in Xueheng” in Nation, Modernity, and the Restructuring of the Field of Cultural Production in China: Beyond the May Fourth Paradigm (Lexington Books, forthcoming).

  • Entry entitled “Zhou Dunyi” in Encyclopedia of Philosophy, second edition, edited by Donald M. Borchert (New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2005).

  • “Constancy in Change: A Comparison of James Legge’s and Richard Wilhelm’s Interpretations of the Yijing,” Monumenta Serica 53 (Fall 2005).

  • “Redefining the Civil Governance: The Yichuan yizhuan of Cheng Yi,” Monumenta Serica 52 (2004): 199-219.

  • “Cultural Identity and Local Self-Government: A Study of Liu Yizheng’s History of Chinese Culture,” Modern China 30.4 (October 2004): 506-542.

  • “National Essence, National Learning, and Culture: Historical Writings in Guocui xuebao, Xueheng, and Guoxue jikan,” Historiography: East and West 1.2 (Fall 2004): 240-287

  • “Revolution as Recovery: The Use of History in Minbao and Guocui xuebao,” Asian Profile 32.1 (February 2004): 7-20.

  • "Plurality of Chinese Modernity: A Review of Recent Scholarship on the May Fourth Movement," Modern China, 29, 4 (October 2003): 493-509. (Co-authored with Hung-yok Ip and Chui-chun Lee.).

  • "Human Agency and Change: A Reading of Wang Bi's Yijing Commentary," Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 30, 2 (June 2003): 223-242.

  • "Being and Non-Being: A Comparison of the Yijing Commentaries of Wang Bi, Kong Yingda, Hu Yuan, and Zhang Zai." In Hanxue zongheng [Excursions in Sinology], edited by Li Zhouran, Lo Yuet-keung, and James St. Andre (Hong Kong: Commerical Press, 2002), 195-232.

  • "Zhang Zhidong's Proposal of Reform: A New Reading of the Quan xue pian." In Rethinking the 1898 Reform Period: Political and Cultural Change in Late Qing China, edited by Rebecca Karl and Peter Zarrow (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002), 77-98.

  • “Eremitism, Sagehood, and Public Service: The Zhouyi kouyi of Hu Yuan,” Monumenta Serica 48 (November, 2000): 67-92.

  • "Military Governance versus Civil Governance: A Comparison of the Old History and the New History of the Five Dynasties." In Imagining Boundaries: Changing Confucian Doctrines, Texts and Hermeneutics, edited by Kai-wing Chow, John B. Henderson, On-cho Ng (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999), 85-106.

  • "Teaching the Book of Changes," Education About Asia, vol.2 no.2 (Fall 1997): 26-31.

  • "Ethnic and Cultural Pluralism: Gu Jiegang's Vision of a New China in His Studies of Ancient History," Modern China, vol. 22, no.3 (July 1996): 315-339.

  • "Song dai de yixue" (The Yijing Studies of the Song Dynasty), Jiuzhou xuekan, vol.4, no.1 (1991): 109-120.

C. Encyclopedia Entries

  • Twenty-six entries (about 11,950 words in total) on Confucianism of the early Northern Song and the late Qing Dynasty. In Encyclopedia of Confucianism, edited by Xinzhong Yao (London: Curzon Press Ltd, forthcoming).

  • Entries entitled "Zhou Dunyi," "Cheng Hao," "Cheng I," and "Song Neo-Confucianism" (total number of words 20,000). In Encyclopedia of Chinese Philosophy edited by Antonio Cua (New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 2003).

  • Entries entitled "Zhang Zhidong," "Ti-yong theory," "Debate on Science and Philosophy of Life," "V.K. Ting" and "Liang Shu-ming." In Modern China: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Nationalism, edited by Ke-wen Wang (New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1998).

  • Entries entitled "Chen Yinke," "Feng Yulan," "Gu Jiegang," "Hu Shi," 'Liang Qichao," "Liu Yizheng," "Qian Mu." In A Global Encyclopedia of Historiographical Writing, edited by Daniel Woolf (New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1998).

D. Book Reviews

  • Review of Bent Nielsen, A Companion to Yi Jing Numerology and Cosmology (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003), China Review International, 2005.

  • Review of On-cho Ng, Cheng-Zhu Confucianism in the Early Qing (Albany: State University of New York), Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, 2005.

  • Review of Edward Slingerland, trans., Confucius Analects (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2003), Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 2005.

  • Review of Rudolf G. Wagner, Language, Ontology, and Political Philosophy in China: Wang Bi’s Scholarly Exploration of the Dark (Xuanxue) (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003), Journal of Asian Studies 63.4 (November, 2004): 1114-1116.

  • Review of Norman J. Girardot, The Victorian Translation of China: James Legge’s Oriental Pilgrimage (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), Bulletin of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica 24 (March, 2004): 331-333.

  • Review of Mark Csikszentmihalyi and Philip J. Ivanhoe, ed., Religious and Philosophical Aspects of the Laozi (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999), China Review International 9.2 (Fall 2002): 394-6.

  • Review of John B. Henderson, Construction of Orthodoxy and Heresy: Neo-Confucian, Islamic, Jewish, and Early Christian Pattern (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998), Journal of Asian Studies 58. 3 (August 1999): 779-781.

  • Review of Frederic Wakeman, Jr. and Wang Xi, eds., China's Quest for Modernization: A Historical Perspective (Berkeley: The Institute of East Asian Studies Press, 1997), Journal of Asian and African Studies, 33: 4 (1998): 388-9.

  • Review of Hoyt Cleveland Tillman, Ch'en Liang on Public Interest and the Law (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994), Journal of Oriental Studies, vol. 34 (1996): 115-117.

  • Review of Richard John Lynn (trans.), The Classic of Changes: A New Translation of the I Ching as Interpreted by Wang Bi (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), Journal of Oriental Studies, 33:2 (1995): 280-282.

  • Review of Richard J. Smith, Fortune-Tellers & Philosophies: Divination in Traditional Chinese Society (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, Inc., 1991), Journal of Oriental Studies, vol. 31:1 (1993): 123-124.