Degrees
2020   Ph.D. Philosophy | The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2016    M.Phil. Chinese Philosophy | Fudan University

AoS: Chinese philosophy (traditional and modern) | Comparative moral and political theory
AoC: Ethics (applied and normative) | Global philosophies and religions
Research interests: reason and emotion, identity and selfhood, freedom and equality, humanism and idealism, universalism and relativism, ethics of emerging technologies

Publications

Books – Monographs

• Forthcoming. 仁德自由论：初谈儒学具体之仁的当代意义 [Chinese translation of Humane Liberality]. Northwest University Press 西北大学出版社 (海外中国哲学研究译丛).
• 2024. Humane Liberality: A Confucian Proposal. Rowman and Littlefield. (Featured on Studies in Classical Chinese Political Philosophy; discussed on the Collaborative Learning Project (recording [China]); reviewed in The Review of Politics)

Books – Other

• Under review. Editor, Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Li Zehou. Springer.
• 2023. Translator and editor, Li Zehou, The Humanist Ethics of Li Zehou. SUNY Press.
• 2021. Co-editor, Confucian Political Philosophy: Dialogues on the State of the Field, with Yong Huang. Springer.
• 2018. Translator, Li Zehou, The Origins of Chinese Thought: From Shamanism to Ritual Regulations and Humaneness. Brill. *Awarded Outstanding Academic Title of 2019 by the American Library Association’s Choice magazine

Journal Issue

• 2021. Co-editor, with Liangjian Liu, Yang Guorong’s Philosophy of Affairs, special issue of Contemporary Chinese Thought 52.3.

Journal Articles, Book Chapters, and Reviews

• Forthcoming July 2026. “Dai Zhen and John Rawls on What Is Right.” In Dao Companion to Dai Zhen’s Philosophy, ed. Zemian Zheng. Springer.
• 2026a. “Prioritizing the ‘Sage’ in the Laozi,” with Paul J. D’Ambrosio. In Dao Companion to the Philosophy of the Daodejing, ed. Ai Yuan and Xiaogan Liu. Springer.
• 2026b (published online first; print article forthcoming 2027). “Being Rational about Confucian ‘Reason’: An Assessment of Liang Shuming’s Theory of Lixing.” Asian Philosophy 37.2.
• 2025a. “The Moral Self and Its Relations.” In Four Exemplars of Ru 儒 (Confucianism): Beyond Comparative Philosophy, ed. Paul J. D’Ambrosio, Dimitra Amarantidou, Geir Sigurðsson, and Hans-Georg Moeller. Springer.
• 2025b. “Progressive Confucianism: Its Proponents and Prospects.” The Philosophical Forum: A Quarterly 56.1-2.
• 2025c. “Emotion as Substance: A Concrete Humanist Moral Framework.” In The Philosopher Li Zehou: His Thought and His Legacy, ed. Jana S. Rošker and Roger T. Ames. SUNY Press.
• 2025d. “Dao as the Origin: One of the Four Classics of the Yellow Emperor.” In Global Philosophy: A Sourcebook, ed. Mohammed Rustom. Equinox.
• 2025e. “A More Confucian Path to Equality.” Dao: A Journal of Chinese Philosophy 24.
• 2025f. Book Review: Tseng, Roy: Confucian Liberalism: Mou Zongsan and Hegelian Liberalism for The Review of Politics 87.2.
• 2024a. “Political Confucianism and Contemporary Chinese Debates with Western Liberalism.” In Chinese Philosophy and Its Thinkers: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, vol. 3, ed. Selusi Ambrogio & Dawid Rogacz. Bloomsbury Academic. 
• 2024b. [as Roberto A. Carleo III] “Careful Contingency: Confucian Thinking alongside the Mexistentialists.” Symposium on “Accidentality? Thinking alongside Mexican Existentialists,” with Carlos Sánchez, Gregory Doukas, and Imogen M. Sullivan. Journal of World Philosophies 9.
• 2023a. “A Particular Sort of Rationalist Humanism.” In The Humanist Ethics of Li Zehou. SUNY Press.
• 2023b. “Li Zehou’s Concrete Humanism: His Legacy in Confucian Tradition.” Chinese Literature and Thought Today 54.1-2.
• 2023c. [Chinese translation of 2023b] “Li Zehou de juti zhi ren: Rujia chuantongde sixiang yichan” 李泽厚的具体之仁——儒家传统的思想遗产, trans. Li Xiaoqi 李晓淇, Yuan Dao 原道 45.
• 2023d. “On Franklin Perkins on ‘Doing What You Really Want.’” Chinese Literature and Thought Today 54.3-4.
• 2022. “The Gongfu Approach to Teaching and Doing Chinese Philosophy Across Cultures.” Asian Studies 10.3.
• 2021a. “Confucian Freedom: Assessing the Debate.” Asian Philosophy 31.3.
• 2021b. “The Philosophy of Affairs,” with Liangjian Liu, Contemporary Chinese Thought 52.3.
• 2021c. “On Confucian Public Reason.” In Confucian Political Philosophy: Dialogues on the State of the Field. Springer.
• 2021d. “Introduction: Contemporary Confucian Political Philosophy,” with Yong Huang. In Confucian Political Philosophy: Dialogues on the State of the Field. Springer.
• 2021e. “Dai Zhen’s Critique of Song Confucian Ideology.” In Critique, Subversion, and Chinese Philosophy: Socio-Political, Conceptual, and Methodological Challenges, ed. Hans-Georg Moeller and Andrew Whitehead. Bloomsbury Academic.
• 2020a. “Is Free Will Confucian? Li Zehou’s Confucian Revision of the Kantian Will.” Philosophy East and West 70.1.
• 2020b. “Confucian Post-Liberalism.” Asian Studies 8.1.
• 2018a. “Perspectives on the Methods of Chinese Philosophy.” Review of Tan, Sor-Hoon, ed., The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy Methodologies. Journal of World Philosophies 3.
• 2018b. “Translator’s Introduction.” In Li Zehou, The Origins of Chinese Thought: From Shamanism to Ritual Regulations and Humaneness. Brill.
• 2018c. Book Review: Elstein, David, Democracy in Contemporary Confucian Philosophyfor Philosophy East and West 68.2.
• 2016a. “On Li Zehou’s Philosophy: An Introduction by Three Translators,” with Paul J. D’Ambrosio and Andrew Lambert. Philosophy East and West 66.4.
• 2016b. Book Review: Li Zehou, Huiying Sangdeer ji Qita 回應桑德爾及其他 for Philosophy East and West 66.3.
• 2016c. Book Review: Chen Lai 陳來, A Record of Chen Lai’s Confucian Thought: Response to and Reflection on Contemporary Times 陳來儒學思想錄—-時代的回應和思考 for Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 15.1.
• 2015. “Chinese Philosophy Looks at Girls,” with Paul D’Ambrosio. Girls and Philosophy. Open Court.