Name: Wang Chen-guang

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Xian, Shaanxi, P. R. China

07, 2018—present  School of Humanities, Xidian University

Title: Associate Professor, Huashan Youth Research Elite

Duties: Research and Teaching

09, 2014—06, 2018  Wuhan University, Wuhan

Ph.D. in Chinese Philosophy (Pre-Qin Philosophy & Modern Neo Confucianism)

Rites and Laws in Historical Contexts: Social Structure and Concept Transmutation in Pre-Qin Period

07, 2016—12, 2017  Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica;

03, 2017—08, 2017  Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica 

Title: Visiting Scholars

My research is dedicated to exploring what ideas and concepts have shaped China today, focusing on the interdisciplinary analysis of ideas and institutions, with three periods of time: the pre-Qin, Qing, and modern periods.

The pre-Qin period focuses on the conflict between the centralized jurisdiction of the county system and the autonomy of the feudal system, thus explaining the emergence and evolution of many concepts in the pre-Qin period. In the Qing Dynasty, the focus is on the divergence between new population control and traditional governance models, clarifying the modern crisis and ideological dilemma of ritual and Confucianism, and relieving the crisis of scripture caused by historical positivism. In the modern period, I analyze the context of thinkers through the sociology of knowledge, introduce power, military, and political events into the interpretation of ideas, focus on the relationship between discourse and action in specific time and space, and deconstruct the previous linear academic historical narratives into actions of interest in different contexts.

You can download my work at https://xidian.academia.edu/wcg

1. Translation work，Henry Rosemont Jr. Against individualism: A Confucian Rethinking of the Foundations of Morality, Politics, Family, and Religion, Northwestern University Press, 2021. Isbn: 9787560448657
2. Wang Chen Guang. The Study on Sino-Vietnam Traffic and Vietnam Tributary Envoys in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Chengdu: Bashu Publishing House, 2017. The book is available on all major websites.
3. Wang Chen Guang. Chapter VII: Sun Tzu s Military Philosophy, and Chapter IX: Zhuangzi\\\\\\'s Philosophy in General History of Chinese Philosophy Pre-Qin Volume, edited by Guo Qiyong, Nanjing: Jiangsu People \\'s Publishing House, 2021.
4. Wang Chen Guang. Criminal Law or Ancestor Worship?—A Reanalysis of the Pre-Qin Penal and Virtue Narratives from Tsinghua Jian \\'s Chen Ren (Journal of Bamboo Slip and Silk Studies), 2021, 2, 29-40.
5. Wang Chen Guang. Why Governance and Classics Divide: An Institutional Trace of the "Distinction between Ruist and Legalism" in the Pre-Qin Dynasty (The Humanities Journal), 2021, 1, 186-196.
6. Wang Chen Guang. The Construction of the Concept of the Centralized-Decrees State: Discussing the Intention of ZiChan with ZhuTeng (Nanjing University Law Journal), 2021, 4, 136-149.
7. Wang Chen Guang. The Bourgeoisie and the Revolution: The Psychology of Capital Flight and the Impact of the Regime in Wuhan during the Northern Expedition (Modern China), 2021, 1, 209-230.
8. Wang Chen Guang. On the Creation of the Immortals and Taiyi in Han Dynasty Murals (Religious Studies), 2020, 2, 44-54.
9. Wang Chen Guang. The Impalpable Collaboration of Intellectual: The Power Context of Taiwan s Academic Formation after 1949 (Literature,History, and Philosophy), 2019, 5, 56-68.
10. Wang Chen Guang. Study on Structural Crisis of Ritual Law under Governance Right Horizon (Journal of Huazhong University of Science and Technology), 2019, 4, 126-135.
11. Wang Chen Guang. The Partition Management of Dongting and Qianzhong——Dealing with Boundary in South of Chu and Qin (Journal of Chinese Historical Geography), 2018, 4, 114-131.
12. Wang Chen Guang. On the Rivals of History of Ideas: The Academic Debates and Contemporary Value of Xu Fuguan, New Asia Journal (volume34), Edited by Zhai Zhi Cheng, Published December 2017 by New Asia Institute of Advanced Chinese Studies, 93-147.
13. Wang Chen Guang. The Trend of Intellectual History: On the Differences between Michel Foucault, Quentin Skinner and Xu Fuguan (New Horizons from Tianfu),2017, 4, 34-43.
14. Wang Chen Guang. Return to Chinese Classical Historiography ——The Enlightenment of Zhang Xue-cheng s Hermeneutics ( Journal of Fujian Normal University), 2017, 2, 76-83.
15. Wang Chen Guang. The Difference Between Xu Fuguan and Xiong Shili and Xu’s Strategy of Intellectual History (Confucius Studies), 2017, 3, 143-152.
16. Wang Chen Guang. The Constitutional Conflict and Ethical Issues Raised by Chu\\\\\\'s Expansion to the North - A Discussion on Whether Sons Should Cover Up Their Fathers\\\\\\' Cases (Journal of Chinese Historical Geography), 2016, 2, 97-105.
17. Wang Chen Guang. From Southern Ming Dynasty Unofficial History to Historical Contextualism—— A Study on Hermeneutics of Zhang Xuecheng (The Humanities Journal), 2016, 2, 71-79.
18. Wang Chen Guang. From The Context out of The Crisis: Schleiermacher’s Hermeneutics and The Enlightenment to China (Journal of Xi an International Studies University), 2016, 4, 16-20.
19. Wang Chen Guang, Guy Qi Yong. The Spirit and Characteristics of Chinese Philosophy and its Critique and Adaptation to Modernity  (The Humanities Journal), 2015, 2, 3-13.
20. Wang Chen Guang. Tributary and Creation: Vietnam Envoy Tributary Literature s Study Meaning, Journal of East Asian Humanities (volume1), Edited by Robin Visser, Published December 2014 by China Times Publishing Co., 255-270.
21. Wang Chen Guang. The Confucians Sly Debate Tactics： A Research of Political Pedigree in Han Dynasty (Journal of Yangming Studies), 2015, 2, 300-315

• National Social Science Foundation in China (2021.9-2025.6): The Study of Pre-Qin Legalist Governance Thought in Social Transformation.
• The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2021.1-2022.12): The Study of Social Governance Ideas in the Tsinghua Bamboo Slips of the Warring States.
• The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2019.1-2020.12): The Influence of Classical Ideas on Political Events in the Perspective of Governance
• Research Project of Humanities and Social Sciences of Guizhou Province(2015.1-2017.1): Study on the Transportation of China and Vietnam in Ming and Qing Dynasties and the Issue of Vietnamese Envoys\\\\' Tribute