Fang Xudong

Fang Xudong

Professor

Email:  xdfang@philo.ecnu.edu.cn

Office: 2407, Building of philosophy, Minhang Campus

Basic Information

  • Ph.D. in Philosophy

  • Professor, Doctoral Supervisor of Chinese Philosophy

Research Fields

  • Confucianism (especially Neo-Confucianism) and Practical Ethics.

Academic Experience

  • Postdoctoral researcher of Department of Philosophy, Renmin University of China (2001-2002)

  • Visiting scholar of Department of Philosophy, Harvard University (2006-2007)

  • Visiting scholar of Department of Philosophy, University of Oxford (2009-2010)

  • Visiting scholar of Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University (2015 - 2016)

Adjunct Academic Posts

  • Fellow of Confucianism Institute, Peking University.

  • Fellow of Shanghai Institute for Research of Confucianism, Fudan University.

  • Standing Director of the Confucius Society of China, the Zhuzi Society of China and the Shanghai Confucianism Society

  • Member of the Chinese Philosophical History Society.

Academic Achievements

Nearly 100 papers have been published in Philosophical Research, Oriental Journal, Dao and other professional journals at home and abroad, including 'Respecting Virtue and Engaging Learning--Study of Wu Cheng's Philosophical Thought'(Renmin Publishing House, 2005),'A Commentary Biography of Wu Cheng '(Nanjing University Press, 2005), 'A History of Chinese Confucianism-Song Yuan Volume' (Co-authored, Peking University Press, 2011), and 'The Painting Comes After the Plain Groundwork: The Interpretations and Philosophical Studies of the Classics' (Peking University Press, 2012), 'Investigating the Principles of Human Nature and Destiny'(East China Normal University Press, 2015), 'Nine Papers of Neo-Confucianism--Centralizing on Zhu Zi School'(The Commercial Press, 2016), 'Study of Essential Doctrines of Neo-Confucianism'(SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2019). He has also translated 'Wittgenstein' (China Bookstore, 2002), 'Wittgenstein’s Poker' (Changchun Publishing House, 2003), compiled 'Lectures on the History of Chinese Thought' (Shanghai University Press, 2006), and'Neo-Confucian in Hong Kong' (Shanghai Literature and Art Press, 2017). He is the editor-in-chief of 'Series of Overseas Chinese Philosophy Study'(East China Normal University Press, 2011).