Deborah
A. Sommer 司馬黛蘭
Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies 宗教學系
哥倫比亞大學宗教博士
Gettysburg College 葛德斯堡大學
300 North Washington Street
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 賓夕法尼亞
郵編 :17325-1486 美國 USA
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Email/電子郵箱 :
dsommer@gettysburg.edu,
das9@caa.columbia.edu
Office: 309 Weidensall Hall
Spring 2014 office hours: Tuesdays 1:30-2:15 and 5:15-6:15; Weds. 5:15-6:15; Thurs. 1:30-2:15, or by
chance at any time.
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Whenever possible, I provide links to full-text copies of
articles below. If the links are
temporarily dysfunctional, you may find additional full-text articles on my
page in the Religious Studies faculty section of Gettysburg College's
"Cupola" repository (www.cupola.gettysburg.edu) of open-access
documents.
Full-text copies of selected works are also available on my
page at Academia.edu. If you would like a scanned copy of any other
articles listed below, just me an email at dsommer@gettysburg.edu or das9@caa.columbia.edu.
My main
field of research is premodern Chinese intellectual
history, and my major areas of interest are the ritual, visual, and somatic
aspects of the Confucian tradition.
Currently I am completing a book project titled The
Afterlife of Confucius: Depictions of the Sage Beyond the Analects, which explores the religious and
philosophical significance of constructed imaginings of the body of Confucius.
Selected Publications.
2014.
"Conceptualizations of Earth and Land in Classical Chinese
Texts." In James Miller, Dan Smyer Yu, and Peter van der Veer, eds.,
Religion and
Ecological Sustainability in China.
London: Routledge, forthcoming May 2014:
29-47.
2013. "Taoism and the Arts" and
"Confucianism and the Arts." In Frank Burch Brown, ed., The
Oxford Handbook of Religion and the Arts. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2013: 379-387 and 388-395, respectively. To order this volume from Oxford, click here.
2013.
"早期 '地'
和 '土'之观"
(Concepts of earth and land in early Chinese texts).
In 《中国宗教多元与生态可持续性发展研究》(Religious Diversity and
Ecological Sustainability in China), edited by Su Faxiang
苏发祥and Dan Smyer
Yu 郁丹.
(Beijing 北京: Xueyuan
chubanshe 學苑出版社, 2013): 149-163.
For the English-language version of this volume forthcoming from Routledge in May 2014, see above.
2013. "《庄子》中关于身体的诸概念" (Concepts of the body in
the Zhuangzi).
中国哲学史 2013年第一期：45-52. (Zhongguo zhexue shi [History of
Chinese Philosophy] 2013.1): 45-52. This
is a Chinese version of the article "Concepts of the Body in the Zhuangzi"
published in the second edition of Experimental
Essays on Zhuangzi. To read this Chinese version, click here.
2012. "The Ji
Self in Early Chinese Texts." In
Jason Dockstader, Hans Georg Möller,
and Günter Wohlfart, eds., Selfhood East and West: De-Constructions of
Identity. Nordhausen,
Germany: Traugott Bautz,
2012: 17-45. Band 8 of the series "Weltphilosophien
im Gespräch." Selected papers from the
eighteenth symposium of the Académie du Midi,
"Identity--East and West," Alet-les-Bains, France, 2010. ISBN
3-88309-458-1, www.bautz.de. Full
text version of the article is available here
courtesy of the copyright holder, Verlag Traugott Bautz GmbH, who has
kindly given permission to make this article accessible. To purchase a copy of this volume, please
visit their website at http:/bautz.de/joomla/ or http://bautz.de/neuerscheinungen-2012/best_9783883096889.html.
2010.
"Concepts of the Body in the Zhuangzi." In Victor Mair, ed., Experimental
Essays on Zhuangzi, 2d ed. Dunedin, FL: Three Pines Press, 2010:
212-228. To purchase this book from
Three Pines Press, click here. A full-text copy of this article is also
available on my
page in the "Cupola" repository of open-access documents at
Gettysburg College.
2009. "Recent
Western Studies of Zhu Xi" (朱子研究在西方). In Wu Zhen 吴震, ed., 《宋代新儒學的精神世界：以朱熹為中心》（Song Dynasty Neo-Confucianism: A
Focus on Zhu Xi). Shanghai: East China
Normal University Publishing Company 上海：華東師範大學出版社, 2009: 35-51.
2008.
“Boundaries
of the Ti Body.” Asia Major 21.1 (2008): 293-324. Link to the free full-text article is
courtesy of the Asia Major website.
2008.
"Ming Taizu's Legacy as
Iconoclast." In Sarah Schneewind,
ed., Long Live the Emperor! Uses of the Ming Founder across Six Centuries of East Asian History.
Minneapolis: Society for Ming Studies, 2008: 73-86. Ming Studies Research Series,
No. 4. (This is the same article
published in Ming Studies 50 (Fall 2008): 91-106.)
To order a copy of this volume from the Society for Ming Studies, click here.
2007. 文革中的批孔運動和孔子形像的演變 (Images
for Iconoclasts:
Depictions of Confucius in the Cultural
Revolution).
In Chinese.
Henry Yan, trans. In Yongyi Song 宋永毅, ed., 文化大革命: 歷史真相和集體記憶 (The
Cultural Revolution: Historical Truth & Collective Memories). 2 vols. Hong Kong: Tianyuan
shuwu 田園書屋, 2007: 822-840.
2007. "Images for Iconoclasts: Images of
Confucius in the Cultural Revolution."
East-West Connections: Review of
Asian Studies 7.1 (2007): 1-23. Publication of the Asian Studies Development Program. To download this article from read the East-West Connections website, click here.
2006. "早期儒家的仪式和牺牲：与精神世界的联系" (Chinese translation of my 2004 article
"Ritual and Sacrifice
in Early Confucianism: Contacts with the Spirit
World." Translated
by Cheng Gongrang 程恭让,
Li Shumin 李淑敏, and Liu Junhua 刘君花of Capital Normal University 首都師範大學 ,
Beijing. Published in Duo
Yuan 多元 /Pluris (2006, pp. 188-202), an annual
journal produced by the Philosophy Department 哲學系 of
Capital Normal University and Capital Normal University Press首都師範大學出版社.
2006.
"Angkor Wat" and
"Borobudur." In Religion
Past and Present: Encyclopedia of Theology and Religion. 12 vols.
Leiden: Brill, 2006. Previously published in German in 1999 in
the Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, as
noted below.
2005. "Decentering
Imperial Women: Confucian Fertility Sacrifices in the Ming Dynasty." Alam-e-niswan/Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies 12.2 (2005):
17-29.
2005. "Cheng Hao,"
"Cheng Yi," and "Iconography: Confucian Iconography." In the Encyclopedia of
Religion, 2d edition. New
York: Macmillan, 2005.
2005. "Chinese Religions in World Religions
Textbooks." Religious Studies
Review 31.1-2 (2005): 4-8. Access
this article at the Wiley Online Library here.
2004.
"The Art and Politics of Painting Qianlong at Chengde"
and "A Letter from a Jesuit Painter in Qianlong's Court at Chengde." In New
Qing Imperial History: The Making of Inner Asian Empire at Qing Chengde. Edited
by James A. Millward, Ruth W. Dunnell,
Mark C. Elliott, and Philippe Foret. (London: RoutledgeCurzon,
2004), pp. 136-145 and 171-184, respectively.
These
articles were written for the 1994 NEH Summer Institute "Reading the
Manchu Summer Palace at Chengde: Art, Ritual, and Rulership in Eighteenth Century China and Inner Asia."
For reviews of this book, see Nicola di
Cosmo's review in Journal of Asian Studies 66 (May 2007): 550-552.
To
order a copy of New Qing Imperial History
from Routledge, click here.
2004. "Ming Taizu's Legacy as Iconoclast." Ming Studies 50 (Fall 2004):
91-106. To visit the Ming Studies website, click here.
2004.
"Ritual and Sacrifice in Early Confucianism: Contacts with the
Spirit World," in Confucian Spirituality, Volume I, edited by Mary
Evelyn Tucker and Tu Wei-ming. (New York: Crossroad
Publishing Company, 2003), pp. 197-218.
Also provided all cover photos and inside photos for both Volume I and
Volume II (Volume II is by the same editors and was published by Crossroad in
2004).
For
reviews of Volume 1, see the following:
John Makeham, in Sophia: International Journal for Philosophy
of Religion, Metaphysical Theology and Ethics 43.2 (October 2004):142-146.
2003. Eighty-seven entries (36,000 words, or 68
pages) for the Routledge Curzon Encyclopedia
of Confucianism edited by Yao Xinzhong.
(London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003). 2 vols.
For reviews of this work, see the
following:
Joseph A. Adler, in Religious
Studies Review 30.4 (October 2004): 267-268.
J. M. Boyle, in Choice
41.9 (May 2004):1635-1636.
Booklist Reference Books Bulletin 100.12 (February 15, 2004):
1093.
John Berthrong,
in Journal of Chinese Religions 32 (2004): 286-290.
2002. "Destroying Confucius: Iconoclasm in the
Confucian Temple" in On Sacred Grounds: Culture, Society, Politics, and the Formation
of the Cult of Confucius, edited by Thomas A. Wilson. Cambridge: Harvard East Asian Monographs,
2002: 95-133.
For
reviews of this book, see the following:
Romeyn Taylor, in Journal of Asian Studies 64.2 (May
2005): 463-464.
Kai-wing Chow, in Journal of
Chinese Religions 32 (2004):
284-285.
Keith Knapp, in Religious
Studies Review 30.2-3 (July 2004):
237-238.
James McMullen, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and
African Studies 67.3 (2004): 419-421.
Joseph A. Adler, "The Confucian Body," in China
Review International 10.2 (Fall 2003): 351-362.
2001. "Warrants for Women's Religious
Authority in Chinese Religious Traditions." In Azza Karam, ed., Woman's Place: Religious Women as Public
Actors. (New York: World Conference on Religion and Peace, Women's Program,
2001), pp. 67-79.
1999. "Angkor Wat"
and "Borobudur." In the German edition of the Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart (RGG).
Tubingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1999.
1995. "邱濬与明代儒像废存之议"
(Qiu Jun and Confucian iconoclasm in the Ming
dynasty). Translated into Chinese by Wong Sin-Kiong 黄贤强. In Zhu Ruikai 祝瑞开, ed., 《宋明思想和中华文明》 (Song and
Ming thought and Chinese culture).
(Shanghai 上海: Xuelin chubanshe 学林出版社, 1995), pp. 437-444.
1994. "Images into Words:
Ming Confucian Iconoclasm." National Palace Museum Bulletin
29.1-2 (1994): 1-24.
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Selected book reviews
Forthcoming
2014. Review of Dao
Companion to Neo-Confucian Philosophy. John Makeham, ed. (Dordrecht:
Springer, 2010. xliii
+ 488 pages). Dao: A Journal of
Comparative Philosophy 13.2 (June 2014).
2006. Review of Hsieh Liang-tso
and the Analects of Confucius: Humane Learning as a Religious Quest, by Thomas Selover (New York:
American Academy of Religion and Oxford University Press, 2005). Journal of Asian Studies 65.3 (August
2006): 611-612.
2004. Review of Rivers of Paradise: Moses,
Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and Muhammad as Religious Founders. Edited by David
Noel Freedman and Michael J. McClymond. (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans
Publishing Company, 2001). Journal of
Chinese Philosophy 31.4 (December 2004): 549-552.
2001. Review
of Meeting of Minds: Intellectual and Religious Interaction in East Asian
Traditions of Thought, edited by Irene Bloom and
Joshua Fogel
(Columbia University Press, 1997).
Philosophy East and West 51.2 (2001): 318-320.
2001. Review
of The Religious Thought of Chu Hsi, by Julia Ching (Oxford and New
York: Oxford University Press, 2000). Journal
of Chinese Religions 29 (2001): 286-288.
1999. Review
of Transformations of the Confucian Way, by John Berthrong (Westview Press, 1998).
Journal of Chinese Religions 27 (1999): 130-131.
1998. Review
of Mencius and Early Chinese Thought, by Kwong-loi Shun (Stanford University Press, 1997). Journal of Chinese Religions 26
(1998): 184-185.
Recent conference participation 会议
Nov. 23-26, 2013. Discussant for
the panel "The Neo-Confucian Problem of Evil." Confucian Traditions Group. Annual meeting of the
American Academy of Religion, Baltimore.
October 11-13, 2013. "Studies of Yan Fu 嚴復in the West." 2013. Bilingual keynote presentation in Chinese and
English. Presented at the conference "严复：中国与世界国际学术会议" (International Conference
on Yan Fu: China and the World).
Convened at the Institute for the Humanities, Peking University北京大学人文学苑 . Sponsored by the Institute of Modern History
of Academia Sinica, Taiwan 台湾中央研究院近代史研究所 and by the Fujian Educational Press福建教育出版社.
June 28,
2013. "西方文化中的各种孔子形象" (Depictions of Confucius in the West.) In Chinese. Paper presented at a half-day forum on
philosophy and the arts led by President Zhen Zhongyi
甄忠义 at
the Hebei Academy of Fine Arts 河北美术学院.
June 24-26, 2013.
"Western Studies of the Qingming
Festival." Paper presented (in
Chinese) at the Filial Piety Culture Week Conference 慈孝文化学术研究会, Jiexiu,
Mianshan, Shanxi Province, 山西，介休，绵山 China. Sponsored
by the Shanxi Province Committee of the
Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference 中国人民政治协商会议山西省委员会, the Research Association of the
Culture of Emperor Yan and the Yellow Emperor 中华炎黄文化研究会, the Advanced Research Institute
for Humanities and Religious Studies at Beijing Normal University 北京师范大学人文宗教高等研究院, the Party Committee of Jinzhong City 中共晋中市委员会, and the People's Government of Jinzhong City 晋中市人民政府.
May 31-June
1, 2013. "Metaphor and Inscription in the Thought of Qiu Jun." Paper presented by invitation at the conference “Reading,
Textual Production, and Literati Culture in Late Imperial China.”
Cosponsored by the Asian Studies Program of Penn State, the Confucius Institute of Penn State, and the
Department of Chinese Culture of Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Conference convened at Penn State, State
College, Pennsylvania.
April 4-5, 2013. Moderator for the panel "Facts and
Values in Neo-Confucianism." International Conference on Nature and Value in Chinese and Western
Philosophies, the Inaugural Rutgers Workshop on
Chinese Philosophy. Rutgers
University.
Nov. 2, 2012. "The Body of Confucius in Han
Apocrypha." Paper presented at the
Columbia University Seminar on Neo-Confucian Studies. Heyman Center for
the Humanities, Columbia University.
Sep. 27-29, 2012. "Hidden
Violence: Reinventing Visual Histories of Desecration at Qufu." Paper presented at the panel “Violence
Perpetrated and Reinvented: Cultural Revolution Narratives of Confucius’s
Birthplace.” Also served as panelist at
the round table “Whither Confucianism: The State of Confucianism and
Contemporary Chinese Politics and Society.”
New York Conference on Asian Studies, State University
of New York at New Paltz.
March 6-9, 2012. “Ritualized Landscapes? Conceptualizations of the Earth and the
Ritual Management of Natural Resources in Classical Chinese Texts.” Paper presented at the conference and book
workshop “Religious
Diversity and Ecological Sustainability.”
Conference convened at the Central University for Nationalities,
Beijing. Conference sponsored by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of
Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen; Central
University for Nationalities; and the Yale
Forum on Religion and Ecology.
June 7-8,
2011. "A Body of Signs: Depictions
of Confucius in the Apocrypha."
Paper presented at the International conference "Body and Person in
China," Vilnius University, Lithuania.
I was one of three co-organizers for this conference.
June 7-8,
2011. Co-organizer (with Vytis Silius and Loreta Poskaite of Vilnius
University) of the international invited conference "Body and Person in
China." International invited
conference sponsored by the Confucius Institute and the Centre of Oriental
Studies of Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania. Convened at Vilnius University.
May 4, 5,
and 6, 2011. Series of lectures
presented to undergraduate and postgraduate students at the Chiang Ching-kuo International Sinological
Centre, Charles University, Prague. May 4: "Beyond the Analects: Unusual
Depictions of Confucius." May 5:
Images for Iconoclasts: Depicting Confucius in the Cultural Revolution." May 6: "Depictions of Confucius in the
West."
Apr. 6,
2011. "Depictions of Confucius in
the West." University of Iceland,
Reykjavik. Public lecture sponsored by
the Northern Lights Confucius Institute of the University of Iceland.
Mar.
30-April 1, 2011. Three-day series of
lectures and seminars at Tartu University, Tartu, Estonia. Mar. 30: "Relations between the Human
World and the World of Spirits in Confucianism." Mar. 31: "Depictions of Confucius in the
Cultural Revolution." April 1:
"Concepts and Depictions of the Human Body in Confucianism and other
Schools of Chinese Thought."
Sponsored by the Asian Studies program at Tartu University.
Mar. 18,
2011. Attended the Fourth Nordic
Confucius Institute Working Meeting, Helsinki, Finland as one of the
representatives from the Confucius Institute at Vilnius University, Lithuania. Convened at the Confucius Institute at the
University of Helsinki.
Feb.
28- Mar. 4, 2011. "Tales of Confucius at Lotus Tower
Temple." Invited paper presented at
the international conference "The Lotus Sutra and Confucianism." Sponsored by Rissho
Kosei-kai. Shonan Conference Center, Kamakura, Japan.
Dec. 2-3, 2010. "Confucianism
and Globalization: The Survival and Transformation of Traditional Cultures in
Hypermodern China." Paper
presentation at the conference "Challenges of the Modern World: Dynamics
for the Humanities." Institute for
the Humanities, Mykolas Romeris
University, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Sep. 23-25, 2010. "Confucius in Tibet: Chinese Sources for
Understanding Confucius in the Bon Tradition." Paper presentation at the conference
"Buddhism in Nordland." Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia.
May 24-28, 2010. "Self and
Embodiment in Early Chinese Texts: The
Concept of Ji 己 as Self." Paper presentation at the
conference "Self and Identity East and West." 18th Symposium of the Académie du Midi. Organized by the Department of Philosophy at
the University of Trier. Alet-les-Bains, France.
Dec. 28-31,
2009. "聖人孔子游西藏"
(Sages and Apocryphal Canons: Confucius in Tibet). Paper presentation (in Chinese) at the
conference "The Canon, Sages, and Tradition in Chinese Culture." Institute of Chinese
Philosophy, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Nov. 5-7,
2009. "Concepts of the Body in the Zhuangzi." First International Summit on Laozi and Daoist Culture.
China World Hotel and Great Hall of the People,
Beijing.
June 14-17,
2009. "Secular and Sacred:
Contemporary Confucian Ritual Revivals in China.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of
the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy. Asilomar Conference
Center, Monterey, California.
April 27-28,
2009. "Confucius in
Tibet." Paper presented at the 2009 international colloquium of the Société Européene pour l'Etude des Civilisations de l'Himalaya et de l'Asie Centrale. Conference
theme: La creation artistique face aux contraintes politiques et religieuses, de l'Himalaya à l'Asie central, de l'antiquité à nos jours. Collège de France, Paris.
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Recent Public Lectures 讲座
October 10, 2013. "西方世界中的儒家文化" (Understandings of Confucius and Confucianism
in the West.) Lecture presented at the
Institute of Ethnology and Sociology 民族学与社会学学院, Central University for
Nationalities 中央民族大学, Beijing. For a poster for this event, click here.
Dec. 14, 2012. “西方文化中的孔子” (Confucius in the West). In Chinese. Fujian
Hwa Nan Women’s College 福建華南女子學院, Fuzhou, China.
March 16, 2012. “早期中國文獻中的身體與自我概念”
(Concepts of Body and Self in Early Chinese Texts). In Chinese. Sponsored by the Chinese Philosophy Institute
中國哲學研究所of the Department of Philosophy,
Sun Yat-sen University 中山大學哲學系, Guangzhou, China. Click here for a poster designed
for this event by Prof. Yang Rong.
March 15, 2012. “《論語》之外的孔子” (Confucius Beyond the
Analects). In Chinese. Guangzhou
City Polytechnic 廣州市職業學院, Guangzhou. Sponsored by the Classical Chinese Studies
Lecture Series 國學經典講習團of the Chinese Studies Institute 國學院at Guangzhou City
Polytechnic. Click here for a poster for this event
created by Prof. Yang Rong.
March 9,
2012. “孔子在西藏” (Confucius in Tibet). In Chinese. Lecture presented at the Institute of
Ethnology and Sociology民族学与社会学学院, Central University for
Nationalities (Minzu University 中央民族大學), Beijing.
Dec. 14, 2011. “西方文化中的孔子” (Confucius in the West). In Chinese. Fujian
Hwa Nan Women’s College 福建華南女子學院, Fuzhou, China.
Nov. 17, 2011. “東歐漢學的過去與現在” (Chinese Studies in Eastern
Europe, Past and Present). In Chinese. Sponsored
by the Department
of Philosophy, Sun Yat-sen
University, Guangzhou, China. Click here
for a poster designed by colleagues at the Department of Philosophy for this
event.
July 25-29,
2011. Lecturer on Confucianism at the
Tallinn Summer School "World Philosophy: East Asian Thought
Systems." Tallinn University,
Tallinn, Estonia.
April 6,
2011. "Depictions of Confucius in the West." University of Iceland, Reykjakik. Public lecture sponsored by the Northern
Lights Confucius Institute.
Nov. 26, 2010. "Images of
Confucius, Past and Present."
Presentation made at the inauguration of the Confucius Institute, Centre
of Oriental Studies, Vilnius University.
Nov. 24, 2010. "Liu Xiaobo and the Nobel Peace Prize in the Media." Institute of Political
Science and International Relations, Vilnius University.
Nov. 17,
2010. "How to Steal a Sheep: An Introduction to Confucian and Legalist
Thought in China." Lecture
presented at the Faculty of Law, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius,
Lithuania.
Nov. 1, 2010. "How to Kill
Confucius: Images of Violence from the 1974 Anti-Confucius Movement." Department of Philosophy, University College
Cork, Cork, Ireland. November 1, 2010.
Oct. 28, 2010.
"Revitalization of Confucian Rituals in Contemporary China:
Explorations of a Participant-Observer."
Center of Social Anthropology, Vytautas Magnus
University, Kaunas, Lithuania. October
28, 2010.
Oct. 27,
2010. "Confucianism and Globalization: The Revitalization of Traditional Cultures in
Modern China." Public lecture
presented at the Center of Oriental Studies, Vilnius University, Lithuania, as
part of "Kinijos Dienos
Lietuvoje 2010" (Lithuania-China Forum/China
Culture Week in Lithuania 2010).
Sponsored by the Center of Oriental Studies, the Embassy of the People's
Republic of China in Lithuania, and the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
August 28, 2010. "Where is 'evil' or 'the devil' in
Chinese Thought?" Lecture presented
at the World Religions Workshop at Devil's Pit at Menuo
Juodaragis (Black Horned-Moon Festival), Trakai, Lithuania.
Feb. 26, 2010. "The Afterlife
of Confucius: Images of the Master, Past and Present." Peggy and Marc Spiegel
Center for Global and International Programs, Roger Williams University. Bristol, Rhode Island.
Jan. 7, 2010. "文革中的批林批孔和孔子形象的演變"
(Depictions of Confucius during the Anti-Confucius Movement of the Cultural
Revolution). Lecture presented at the
Institute for Chinese Philosophy, Sun Yat-sen
University. Guangzhou, China.
Jan. 5, 2010. "西方文化中的孔子畫像"
(Illustrated Depictions of Confucius in the West). Lecture presented at the Institute for
Chinese Philosophy, Sun Yat-sen University. Guangzhou, China.
Nov. 5,
2009. "西方文化中的孔子畫像" (Illustrated Depictions of Confucius in the
West). In Chinese. Lecture presented at the Center for Chinese
Studies Abroad, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing..
May 5,
2009. "Images of Confucius, Past
and Present." Keynote speech for
the inauguration of Pace University's Confucius Institute. New York City.
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Academic positions and professional experience
2003 to present. Associate Professor,
Department of Religion, Gettysburg College.
Chair from 2005 to 2009.
2005-present, 1999-2002. Co-chair
or co-organizer for the University Seminar on Neo-Confucian Studies, Columbia
University.
Responsibilities include locating speakers, maintaining an international
electronic mailing list for circulating papers, and co-chairing sessions for a
monthly seminar on Chinese intellectual history convened at Columbia
University.
2010-2011. Visiting Fulbright Professor,
Centre of Oriental Studies, Vilnius University, Lithuania. Courses
taught in Fall 2010: Confucianism (advanced undergraduate and postgraduate
seminar taught in classical Chinese), Visual Propaganda in Modern China
(postgraduate students). Courses taught
in Spring 2011: Chinese Buddhism (undergraduate lecture course), Seminar in
Chinese Buddhist Texts (seminar in classical Chinese, for undergraduate and
postgraduate students); Body Studies and
Representations of the Body (postgraduate students).
Fall 2004. International Fellow 國際問題研究所研究員 of
the Institute for International Research (IIR) at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center,
Nanjing 南京大學 - 約翰斯。鶴普金斯大學中美文化研究中心 . The Center is managed jointly by Johns
Hopkins University and Nanjing University; funding for the
IIR is also provided by the Luce and Ford Foundations. Research
project: "The Face of Confucius as the Face of the Nation: Cultural and
Political Meanings of Modern Representations of the Sage."
1998-2003.
Assistant Professor, Department of Religion,
Gettysburg College. 1998-2003.
1999-2002. Member of the Board, Board of Directors, ASIANetwork Consortium.
1993-98. Assistant
Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Butler University.
1992-93. Visiting
Assistant Professor, Department of Religion and Philosophy, Southwestern
University.
1991-92. Visiting
Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, St. Lawrence
University.
1986-1988.
Translator, Department of Painting and Calligraphy, National Palace
Museum, Taiwan.
11/85-7/86. Assistant to the Project
Editor, Encyclopedia of Religion, Macmillan, New York.
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Education
1993. Ph.D.,
Department of Religion, Columbia University.
Thesis: "Ch'iu
Chün's
(1421-1495) On the Conduct of Sacrificial Offerings."
1987. Master of
Philosophy, Columbia University. Field
exams: Chinese and Japanese religion and intellectual history.
1984-1985. One year
of Chinese language training at the Inter-University Program (the Stanford
Center), Taipei.
1983. Master of Arts
with Distinction, Columbia University.
Thesis: "Hsün Tzu on the Nature, the Mind, and Self-cultivation."
1978. Bachelor of Arts (Phi Beta Kappa),
Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University.
Junior year abroad student at the University of
Lancaster, Lancaster, England, 1976-1977.
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