Basic Information

Liu Liangjian (Sky Liu) received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from East China Normal University (ECNU), Shanghai. Since 2006 he has worked for the Department of Philosophyat ECNU, where he is now a professor, and an assistant dean. Liu is also a professor of the Institute of Modern Chinese Thought and Culture, ECNU. Liu is the author of An Introduction to the Linguistic Philosophy based on the Experience of Chinese Language (Beijing, 2015), Heaven, Humans, and Interrelationship: A Metaphysical Interpretation of Wang Chuanshan (Shanghai, 2007; 2015), as well as many Chinese and English articles concerning ethics, linguistic philosophy, history of Chinese philosophy and comparative philosophy in Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, Contemporary Chinese Thought, etc. He is also the Chinese translator of Barry Allen’s Knowledge and Civilization (Hangzhou, 2010) and Karyn L. Lai’s An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy (Beijing, 2013), and one of the co-translators of Zabala Santiago’s The Remains of Being (Shanghai, 2015). He can be reached at skyliuchina@163.com.

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Current Positions

• Professor, Department of Philosophy/Institute of Modern Chinese Thought and Culture, East China Normal University.

• Assistant Dean, Department of Philosophy, East China Normal University.

• Editor of Thought and Culture (sixiang yu wenhua), a semiyearly Chinese journal under the patronage of the Institute of Modern Chinese Thought and Culture.

• Guest researcher, Center for Wattimo’s Philosophy and Archives, Pompeu Fabra Universit, Spain.

Specialties

• Chinese philosophy, comparative study of Chinese and Western philosophy, linguistic philosophy.

Education

• Ph.D. (2001-2006)       Philosophy      East China Normal University (Shanghai)

• B.A.  (1997-2001)      Philosophy       East China Normal University (Shanghai)

Theses Topics

• Ph.D.: “The Metaphysics of Wang Chuanshan”

• B.A.: “Human beings-knowing-the world: The Philosophy of Feng Qi”

Academic Editorial Board

• Member, Editorial Board, Purlieu: A Philosophical Journal (Texas,America)

Professional Activity

• Sept.2008 –Sept.2009Visiting scholar at the Institute of Indology, Mainz University, Germany

Teaching Experiences

• June 2006-     Assistant Professor (since 2006), Associate Professor (since 2010), and Professor (Since 2017), Department of Philosophy, East China Normal University.

Publications I

• Books (in Chinese)

• 2016.  Philosophy of Wang Chuanshan (Wang chuanshan zhexue yanjiu王船山哲學研究), Shanghai上海: Shanghai renmin chubanshe上海人民出版社.

• 2015.  An Introduction to the Linguistic Philosophy based on the Experience of Chinese Language (Han yuyan zhexue fafan 漢語言哲學發凡), Beijing北京: Gaodeng jiaoyu chubanshe高等教育出版社.

• 2007.  Heaven, Humans, and Interrelationship: A Metaphysical Interpretation of Wang Chuanshan, Shanghai上海: Shanghai renmin chubanshe上海人民出版社.

Publications II

Articles (in Chinese; selected)

1. 2017b. “Virtue Democracy: Beyond Democracy without Governing by Virtue”, Datong, ed. by Fang Zhaohui, Haitian chuban jituan, No.1: 199-215.

2. 2017a. “The Concept of ‘Thing’ in Guo Xiang and the Zeitgeist in the Jin Dynasty of Romanticism and Submission to Conventionality”, Journal of Shanxi Normal University, No.1: 11-15.

3. 2016b. “A Moral Philosophy based on the Doctrine of Vital Energy and Affective Mindset: Wang Fuzhi’s Study of Mencius and Its Contemporary Significance”, Academic Monthly, No.7: 38-44.

4. 2016a. “ Guoxiang’s Commentaries on Zhuangzi: From a Perspective of Classical Hermeneutics”, Journal of Social Sciences Tianjing,No.3:43-49

5. 2015b. “A Concept of Justice from the Perspective of Nature-human Community”, Philosophical Study, No.5:55-62.

6. 2015a. “Language and Social-political Order.” In Journal of South China Normal University, No. 1:58-62.

7. 2014b. “ ‘To Be’, ‘Shi’ and Different Features of Western and Chinese Thought.” In Qinghai Social Science, No. 6: 55-62.

8. 2014a. “A Proposition, a String of Names and Two Different Conceptions of Truth.” In Thought and Culture. Edited by Yang Guorong. Shanghai: East China Normal University Press.

9. 2013b. “The Diverse Understandings of the Relation between Body and Mind: A Dimension of the             Thought in the Period Weijin and Southern and Northern Dynasties.” In Journal of Sun Yat-             sen University, No. 3: 133-139.

10. 2013a. “Kang Youwei’s the Book of Great Harmony and Principles of Political Order in the World .” In Journal of East China Normal University, No.2: 52-58.

11. 2012b.  “On the Linguistic Philosophy of Daizhen.” In Thought and Culture. Edited by Yang Guorong. Shanghai: East China Normal University Press.

12. 2012a.  “Between Human Beings and Things: A Perspective of Huang Zhongxi’s Philosophy.” In Journal of Xuehai, No. 1: 160-164.

13. 2011.   “Is it possible for Virtue Ethics to be founded upon a Theory of Human Nature? : Shuttling Between Confucian Ethics and Virtue Ethics”. In Journal of East China Normal University, No. 3: 34-38.

14. 2010c.  “Being in Dream or Being Awake: On the Concept of Nation-state in Modern China.” In Thought and Culture. Edited by Yang Guorong. Shanghai: East China Normal University Press.

15. 2010b.  “A Philosophical Interpretation of The Odes.” In Journal of Humanities, No. 3: 35-39.

16. 2010a.  “The Meaning of ‘Going Rambling without Destination’: A Comparative Study of Xiang Xiu and Guo Xiang’s Understanding and that of Zhi Dun.” In Journal of East China Normal University, No.3: 26-31.

17. 2009. “Old Wine in New Bottles: Yan Fu’s Understanding of Science, and a Methodological Reflection of the Study of Modern Chinese Thought.” In Journal of East China Normal University, No. 2: 40-45.

Publications III

Articles and Book Reviews (in English; selected)

1. 2017.   “It’s Time to Change the World, So Interpret It!: On Vattimo and Zabala’s Hermeneutic Communism”, Making Communism Hermeneutical, ed. by Silvia Mazzini and Owen Glyn-Williams, Spinger Nature, Chapter 21.

2. 2016.   “Thinking through Kang Youwei’s Doctrine of Datong (Great Unity) and World Political Order in a Glocal Age”. In Pillip Tolliday eds. Asian-Pacific Between Conflict and Reconciliation, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, pp.219-236.

3. 2015.   Review of Cai Qinghua’s The Differentiation between Words and Meaning and the Basic Theses in the Philosophy of Language. In Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, No. 1, Spring 2015.

4. 2013b.  Review of Peng Guoxiang’s Interpretation and Examination of Confucian Tradition, Journal of Chinese Philosophy. 40:3/4.

5. 2013a.  “Virtue Ethics and Confucianism: A Methodological Reflection,” in Virtue Ethics and Confucianism, ed. by Stephen C. Angle and Michael A. Slote,Routledge.

6. 2012b.  “Yang Guorong and His Concrete Metaphysics” (the guest editor’s Introduction). Contemporary Chinese Thought.no. 4, Summer, 2012.

7. 2012a.  Review of Huang Chun-chieh’s The Confucian Classics and Their Ideas in the Cultural Interaction in East Asia: Interaction, Transformation and Syntheses. In Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy.Vol. 11, No.3, September 2012.

8. 2004.  “Contemporary Chinese Studies of WANG Fuzhi In Mainland China,” Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy,Vol.3,No.2,Summer 2004.

Publications Ⅳ

1. 2015.  Zabala Santiago. The Remains of Being. Shanghai: Huadong shifan daxue chubanshe. (With Wu Wenyi and Wu Xiaofan.)

2. 2013.  Karyn L. Lai. An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy. Beijing: Shijie Tushu Chuban Gongsi.

3. 2010.  Barry Allen. Knowledge and Civilization. Hangzhou: Zhejiang University Press.