PENG, Guoxiang

Visiting Professor

LLB. (Najing University); M.Phil. (Peking University); Ph.D. (Peking University)
Rm 436C
guoxiang.peng@gmail.com

Brief Biography

Before joining Zhejiang University and being appointed a Qiushi Distinguished Professor in 2014, Guoxiang Peng served as a professor at both Peking University and Tsinghua University in China. He has also been a visiting professor or visiting scholar at universities around the world, including the University of Hawai‘i, Harvard University, and Wesleyan University in the United States; Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, and Freie Universität Berlin in Germany; the National University of Singapore; National Taiwan University; City University of Hong Kong; and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has also held research fellowships at leading institutions worldwide, such as the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, and Academia Sinica. He also served as the vice president and later as the president of the International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy.

He was the 2016 Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the North at the Library of Congress (USA) and the 2009 recipient of the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. His academic service includes membership on the editorial boards of the Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture, Journal of East Asian Philosophy, Studies in Chinese Religions, Frontiers of Philosophy in China, Comparative and Continental Philosophy, European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, and History of Chinese Philosophy, among others.

(More information can be found in Guoxiang Peng’s Curriculum Vitae)

Research Interests

  1. Confucianism and Chinese Philosophy
  2. Chinese Intellectual History and Religions
  3. Comparative Studies in Chinese and Western Philosophy and Religions

Selected Publications

Selected Publications

Books

  1. 《海天寥廓：唐君毅的精神、思想與生活世界》，香港：中華書局，2025。
  2. 《身心修煉：儒家傳統的功夫論》，上海：上海三聯書店，2022，第二次印刷，2024。
  3. 《良知學的展開：王龍溪與中晚明的陽明學》，新增訂版，上海：上海三聯書店，2023；「三聯—哈佛燕京學術叢書」增訂版系列，北京：三聯書店，2015；簡體字版，「三聯—哈佛燕京學術叢書」，北京：三聯書店，2005；繁體字版，「中國哲學叢刊」，臺北：學生書局，2003。
  4. The Confucian Tradition: Between Religion and Humanism. 21th Bridge Publishing House, 2023。
  5. 《中國哲學方法論：如何治中國哲學》，上海：上海三聯書店，2020。
  6. 《儒家傳統：宗教與人文主義之間》，增訂版，北京：北京大學出版社，2019；北京：北京大學出版社，2007。
  7. 《重建斯文：儒學與當今世界》，完整增訂版（繁體），臺北：華藝學術出版社，2019；修訂版（簡體），浙江大學出版社，2018；「近思文叢」，北京：北京大學出版社，2013。
  8. 《智者的現世關懷：牟宗三的政治與社會思想》，「聯經學術叢書」，臺北：聯經出版公司，2016。
  9. 《近世儒學史的辨正與鉤沉》，簡體字版，北京：中華書局，2015；「允晨叢刊」，繁體字版，臺北：允晨出版公司，2013。
  10. 《儒家傳統的詮釋與思辨：從先秦儒學、宋明理學到現代新儒學》，「中青年哲學家文庫」，武漢：武漢大學出版社，2012。
  11. 《儒家傳統與中國哲學：新世紀的回顧與前瞻》，石家莊：河北人民出版社，2009。

Book or proceedings chapters

  1. “Ideal Personality and the Ways to Achieve it in Neo-Confucianism: The Teachings of Wang Yangming and His Followers as an Example,” the last chapter of The Routledge Companion to Chinese Philosophy, edited by Brook Ziporyn and Stephen C. Walker, 2026, pp. 451-461.
  2. “Rethinking Nationalism, Patriotism, and Cosmopolitanism: A Confucian Perspective,” in Confucianism for the Twenty-First Century, edited by Chun-chieh Huang and John Tucker, Global East Asia, Vol. 10, Brill, V&R unipress, 2023, pp. 255-268.
  3. 〈攬才禮士憑身教 浮海招魂以人文：余英時先生九十壽慶志感〉，《如沐春風：余英時教授的為學與處世：余英時教授九秩壽慶文集》，臺北：聯經出版公司，2019，頁274-310。
  4. “Confucianism as a Religious Tradition: Understanding, Feature, and Significance.” In H. C. Gunther edits, Menschenbilder: Ost und West. Verlag Traugott Bautz, 2018, pp. 85-105.
  5. “Inside the Revival of Confucianism in Mainland China: The Vicissitudes of Confucian Classics in Contemporary China as an Example.” In Philip J. Ivanhoe and Sungmoom Kim edit., Confucianism, A Habit of the Heart: Bellah, Civil Religion, and East Asia. SUNY Press, 2016. Chapter 3, pp. 71-84.
  6. “Dialogical Confucianism as a Religious Tradition in a Global Context,” 鄭宗義、林月惠合編：《全球與本土之間的哲學探索：劉述先先生八秩壽慶論文集》（臺灣：學生書局，2014），頁815-831。
  7. 〈周海門與佛教：歷史與思想〉，《近世中國的儒學與書籍：家庭、宗教、物質的網絡》（臺北：中央研究院近代史研究所，2013），頁47-102。
  8. Death as Ultimate Concern in the neo-Confucian Tradition: Wang Yangming’s Followers as an Example. In Philip J. Ivanhoe and Amy Olberding edit., Mortality in Traditional Chinese Thought. State University of New York Press, 2011, pp.271-295.
  9. Dialogical Confucianism as a Religious Tradition in a Global Context. In 2009 Civilization and Peace, Seoul: The Academy of Korean Studies, 2010, pp.51-66.
  10. 〈身心修煉：朱子經典詮釋的宗教學意涵〉，《理解、詮釋與儒家傳統：中國觀點》，臺北：中央研究院中國文哲研究所，當代儒學研究叢刊，2010年，頁193-258.
  11. 〈黃宗羲佚著《理學錄》考論〉，《文化與歷史的追索：余英時教授八秩壽慶論文集》，臺北：聯經出版公司，2009年12月，頁213-271。
  12. 〈儒家傳統的身心修煉及其治療意義：以古希臘羅馬哲學為參照〉，楊儒賓、祝平次編：《儒學的氣論與工夫論》，臺灣大學出版中心，2005，頁1-45。

(More publications including more than 100 journal articles can be found in Guoxiang Peng’s Curriculum Vitae)