PERSONAL

Name: Wu Zhen

DOB: 1957

Email: wuzhen@fudan.edu.cn

EDUCATION

1978-1982: B.A. in History, East China Normal University, China

1982-1985: M.A. in Philosophy, Fudan University, China

1990-1996: Ph.D. in Literature, Kyoto University, Japan

Work Experience

1999-Present: Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, School of Philosophy, Fudan University

Academic Affiliations

Vice Chair, Chinese Society for the History of Philosophy

Chair, Shanghai Confucian Research Association

Executive Vice Dean, Shanghai Academy of Confucianism, Fudan University

Board Member and Academic Committee Member, International Confucian Association

Board Member and Academic Committee Member, Nishan World Center for Confucian Studies

Vice Chair, China Zhu Xi Studies Association

Standing Director, Chinese Society for Studying Japanese Philosophies

Board Member, International Association for Inoue Enryo Research, Japan

Research Fellow, Institute of Confucianism, Chungnam National University, South Korea

AREAS OF STUDY

Chinese Philosophy

Confucian Culture

Neo-Confucianism

East Asian Confucianism

PUBLICATIONS/Academic Achievements

Monographs: 

Rereading the School of Wang Yangming, The Commercial Press, 2024.

A Study of Yangming's Disciples, Revised and Enlarged Edition, Shanghai People's Publishing House Co., Ltd., 2023.

In-depth Reading of Chuan Xi Lu, Shanghai People's Publishing House Co., Ltd., 2023

A Chronological Study of the Exhortation Activities of the School of Wang Yangming (1522–1602), Revised Edition, Shanghai People's Publishing House Co., Ltd., 2023.

A Study of the Taizhou School's Thought, Shanghai People's Publishing House Co., Ltd., 2023.

A Concise Outline of Neo-Confucianism in Song and Ming Dynasties, Peking University Press, 2022.

The Conceptual Imagination of the Confucianism Movement: Rethinking the Problem of Politics and Religion in China, Fudan University Press, 2019.

Selected Classics of Chinese Traditional Culture: Chuan Xi Lu, National Library of China Publishing House, 2018.

Rereading Zhu Xi's Thought, SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2018.  

New Explorations on East Asian Confucianism, Peking University Press, 2018.  

A Study of the Thought of the Exhortation Movement in Late Ming and Early Qing Dynasties, Revised and Enlarged Edition, Shanghai People's Publishing House, 2016.  

Ten Discourses on Confucian Thought: Wu Zhen's Academic Essays, Kong Xue Tang Publishing House, 2016.  

A Study of Yan Maoyou's Thought, Oriental Publishing Co., Ltd., 2015.  

When Chinese Confucianism Encountered Japan, East China Normal University Press, 2015.  

Selected Papers:

“Originality-Actuality” as a Philosophical Methodology: A Reading of Araki Kengo’s Buddhism and Confucianism, Wang Yangming Studies, No. 1, Nishogakusha University, Japan, 2020. 

“Ideological Shifts between the School of Mind and the School of Qi,” Journal of Fudan University, No. 1, 2020. 

“Zhu Xi’s View of Life-giving Generativity in the Theory of Pattern and Vital Force: With the Issue of Pattern Generate Vital Force as the Core,” Journal of Tsinghua University, No. 6, 2019. 

“The School of Zhu Xi and the School of Wang Yangming in the Horizon of Neo-Confucianism,” Philosophical Researches, No. 5, 2019. 

“The School of Zhu Xi in East Asian: A Rich Display of Chinese Philosophy,” Philosophical Trends, No. 1, 2019. 

“Revisiting Why We Need to Rewrite the History of Neo-Confucianism in Song and Ming Dynasties,” China Philosophy Yearbook 2018, China Social Sciences Press, December 2018. 

“The Theory of ‘Unity of Knowledge and Action’ as a Conscientious Ethics: Centering on ‘Where One Thought Moves Is Both Knowledge and Action’,” Academic Monthly, No. 5, 2018.

“On the Notion of ‘Unifying Ren’ in Wang Yangming’s Thoughts on Ren,” Philosophical Researches, No. 1, 2017.

Edited Books:

The Spiritual World of Neo-Confucianism in Song Dynasty: Centering on Zhu Xi’s Thought,  East China Normal University Press, 2009.

Thought and Literature: Japanese Scholars’ Research on Neo-Confucianism, East China Normal University Press, 2010.

Chinese Confucianism Research in a Globalized Perspective, Kong Xue Tang Publishing House, 2015.

New Perspectives on Neo-Confucianism(Volumes I & II), The Commercial Press, 2021.

New Explorations on the School of Zhu Xi in East Asian: Inheritance and Innovation of the School of Zhu Xi in China, Japan and Korea(Volumes I & II), Fudan University Press, 2020.

Collected Works of Wang Ji, Phoenix Publishing House, 2007.

COURSES

Graduate Courses:

In-depth Reading of Chuan Xi Lu

Selected Readings of Original Texts in Chinese Philosophy

Research on the School of Mind in Confucianism

The School of Zhu Xi and the School of Wang Yangming 

Undergraduate Courses:

Philosophy of Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties (Honors Course)

Research on Neo-Confucianism

The School of Zhu Xi and the School of Wang Yangming

GRANTS AND AWARDS

Multi-volume New Compilation of the History of Neo-Confucianism in Song and Ming Dynasties (Major Project of the National Social Science Fund of China)

Collection and Research of Master Zhu's Family Rituals Literature in East Asia and Its Ideological Study (Other Project of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission)