Faculty

Hu Xiangnong
Young Associate Research
Pre-Qin Confucianism; Zhuangzi; normative ethics; comparative philosophy
E-mail:
huxiangn@fudan.edu.cn
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Research Areas

COURSES


Undergraduate: Mencius; Great Learning and Doctrine of the Mean; Topics in the Study of Chinese Philosophy Overseas; Ancient Chinese Thought

 

Graduate: Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism (EMA); Academic English (for Chinese philosophy)

 

 

GRANTSANDAWARDS

 

 

The Magnolia Talents Program of Shanghai (Young Talents), the Municipal Government of Shanghai.

Postgraduate Research Output Award 2021, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

ICS Mok Hing Cheong Postgraduate Scholarship, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong PhD Fellowship, Research Grants Council of HKSAR.

The CUHK Vice-Chancellor HKPFS Scholarship, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Commendation for Excellent Academic Performance, Department of Philosophy, University College London.

Dean’s List Scholar, University of Toronto.

Research Areas

PUBLICATIONS/Academic Achievements

 

Edited Books:

 

1.       2024. Contemporary Confucianism 現代儒學. Issue 15, Zhuangzi’s Philosophy from a Modern Perspective現代視野下的莊子哲學. Beijing: Commercial Press.

 

2.       2024. Ethics in the Zhuangzi: Dialogues on the State of the Field. First editor, co-edited with Yong Huang. Cham: Springer.

 

Book Chapters:

 

1.       2024. “A Zhuangzi Who Is Attentive to the World of Man: Rethinking Zhuangzi’s Ethics in the Light of Eske Møllgaard’s Interpretation.” In Ethics in the Zhuangzi: Dialogues on the State of the Field, ed. Xiangnong Hu and Yong Huang. Cham: Springer.

 

2.       2023. “Is Mencius a Consequentialist? Rethinking the Relationship between Yi (Righteousness) and Li (Benefit) in the Mencius.” In Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Mencius, ed. Kim-chong Chong. Cham: Springer.

 

Selected Papers:

 

1.       2024. “The Mind Aspect of Mengzi’s Concept of Heart-Mind and Its Role in Self-Cultivation.” The Journal of East Asian Philosophy 4 (2): 137–154.

 

2.       2024. “A Reflection on Howard Curzer’s Interpretation of Mengzi 1A7: Does King Xuan of Qi Feel Compassion for the Ox?” Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 23 (4): 579–602.

 

3.       2023. “A New Critique of Mou Zongsan’s Kantian Interpretation of Mengzi’s Ethics.” Asian Philosophy 33 (2): 94–109.

 

4.       2023. “The First Systematic Dialogue between Virtue Epistemology and Chinese Philosophy: Review of Yong Huang’s Ernest Sosa Encountering Chinese Philosophy: A Cross-Cultural Approach to Virtue Epistemology 美德認識論與中國哲學之間的首次係統性對話:評黃勇編《當索薩遭遇中國哲學:跨文化視野下的美德認識論》.” International Studies on Confucianism 國際儒學 4 (3): 160–168.

 

5.       2022. “Yi (Optimal Appropriateness) and Li (Benefit) in the Mengzi: Against the Consequentialist Interpretation.” The Journal of East Asian Philosophy 2 (1): 71–91.

 

6.       2021. “The Relativity of Ren (Humaneness): Reexamining 2A6 and 6A6 of the Mengzi from the Perspective of Self-Introspection in Experience.” Asian Studies 9 (1): 181–201.



Research Areas

COURSES


Undergraduate: Mencius; Great Learning and Doctrine of the Mean; Topics in the Study of Chinese Philosophy Overseas; Ancient Chinese Thought

 

Graduate: Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism (EMA); Academic English (for Chinese philosophy)

 

 

GRANTSANDAWARDS

 

 

The Magnolia Talents Program of Shanghai (Young Talents), the Municipal Government of Shanghai.

Postgraduate Research Output Award 2021, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

ICS Mok Hing Cheong Postgraduate Scholarship, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong PhD Fellowship, Research Grants Council of HKSAR.

The CUHK Vice-Chancellor HKPFS Scholarship, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Commendation for Excellent Academic Performance, Department of Philosophy, University College London.

Dean’s List Scholar, University of Toronto.