Ge Zhaoguang is Professor at the National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies and the Department of History at Fudan University, Shanghai, China. He received his BA and MA from the Department of Chinese Literature & Language, Peking University in 1982 and 1984. From 1992 to 2006, he was a faculty member of Tsinghua University, University Affairs Committee and a Professor in the Department of History. Since 1997, he had been a visiting professor at Hong Kong Baptist University, Kyoto University (Japan), City University of Hong Kong, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), and National Taiwan University. He was the first Princeton Global Scholar and a Visiting Professor at Princeton University from 2010-2013. Professor Ge is a specialist in medieval Chinese religion and history. He is a leading scholar of the intellectual and institutional history of Chan (i.e., Zen) Buddhism in China, but is well known to scholars of history, literature, and religion in general. He is prominent among sinologists in United States.
Books
- Ge, Zhaoguang. An Intellectual History of China: Knowledge, Thought, and Belief Before the Seventh Century CE. Trans. Michael S. Duke and Josephine Chiu-Duke. Boston: Brill, 2014.
- Ge, Zhaoguang. Here in “China” I Dwell: Reconstructing Historical Discourses of China for our Time. Trans. Jesse Field, and Qin Fang. Brill, Boston; Leiden;, 2017.
Journal Articles
- Ge, Zhaoguang. “Tang–Song Or Song–Ming: The Significance of a Perspective Shift in Chinese Cultural and Intellectual History.” Frontiers of History in China 1.1 (2006): 61-83.
- Ge, Zhaoguang. “A Stranger in a Neighbor’s Home: Western Missionaries in Beijing, as seen by Korean Envoys in the Mid-Qing Period.” Chinese Studies in History 44.4 (2011): 47-63.
- Ge, Zhaoguang. “How Many More Mysteries are there in Ancient China?: After Reading Li Xueqin’s Lost Bamboo Slips and Silk Manuscripts and the History of Learning.” Contemporary Chinese Thought 34.2 (2002): 75-91.
- Ge, Zhaoguang. “A Stranger in a Neighbor’s Home: Western Missionaries in Beijing, as seen by Korean Envoys in the Mid-Qing Period.” Chinese Studies in History 44.4 (2011): 47-63.
- Ge, Zhaoguang. “Why is it the “History of Thought”?: Reflections on the ‘Chinese Philosophy’ Issue.” Contemporary Chinese Thought 37.1 (2005): 43-9.