Mortality in Traditional Chinese Thought: Mortality in Traditional Chinese Thought

Contributors

297 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS CONTRIBUTORS Roger T. Ames is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa and editor of Philosophy East & West. His most recent publications include translations of the following Chinese classics: Yuan Dao: Tracing Dao to its Source (1997) and Sun Bin: The Art of Warfare (2008, SUNY Press), both with D. C. Lau; the Confucian Analects (1998) and the Classic of Family Reverence: A Philosophical Translation of the Xiaojing (2009), both with H. Rosemont; and Focusing the Familiar: A Translation and Philosophical Interpretation of the Zhongyong (2001) and A Philosophical Translation of the Daodejing: Making This Life Significant (2001), both with D.L. Hall. He has also authored many interpretative studies of Chinese philosophy and culture, including Thinking Through Confucius (1987), Anticipating China: Thinking Through the Narratives of Chinese and Western Culture (1995), and Thinking From the Han: Self, Truth, and Transcendence in Chinese and Western Culture (1997), all written with D. L. Hall and published by SUNY Press. He has most recently been engaged in attempting to define Confucian role ethics (with H. Rosemont) and writing articles promoting a conversation between American pragmatism and Confucianism. Mark Berkson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Religion at Hamline University. Mark received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in Religious Studies and Humanities. His work has appeared in such journals as the Journal of Religious Ethics, TeJusaching Theology and Religion, and the Journal of Buddhist-Christian Studies, as well as in edited volumes published by SUNY Press and Blackwell Publishers, among others. He is currently working on a book entitled Holding On and Letting Go: Confucians and Daoists on Good Deaths and Exemplary Lives. Mark Csikszentmihalyi is a Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published several books on early Chinese religion and philosophy and edits the Journal of Chinese Religions. Currently he is putting together a translation of a set of Song dynasty essays on the Zhuangzi. Jue Guo is an Assistant Professor in Comparative Religion at Western Michigan University, specializing in early China from the Warring States 297 298 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS period to the Han (i.e., fourth century B.C.E. to second century C.E.) with a focus on practice and beliefs, particularly on a popular level that is not associated with traditional and institutionalized religions. Widely utilizing recently discovered archaeological materials including tomb objects and texts along with historically transmitted literature, she aims to explore the multifaceted religious world of early China through the lens of practices in people’s daily lives. Currently she is writing a book on a fourth-century B.C.E. Chu tomb (Baoshan Tomb 2) and the divination manuscripts found in it. Philip J. Ivanhoe, who earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University, is a Reader-Professor of Philosophy at City University of Hong Kong. He has written, edited, or co-edited more than a dozen books and published more than thirty articles and numerous dictionary and encyclopedia entries on Chinese and Western religious and ethical thought. Among his more recent publications are Readings in the Lu-Wang School of Neo-Confucianism (Hackett Publishing Company) and the co-edited anthology Working Virtue: Virtue Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems (with Rebecca Walker, Oxford University Press). Among his forthcoming works are The Essays and Letters of Zhang Xuecheng (Stanford University Press) and the co-edited anthology Taking Confucian Ethics Seriously: Contemporary Theories and Applications (with YU Kam-por and Julia TAO, SUNY Press). Tao Jiang is Associate Professor in the Department of Religion at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, teaching Buddhism, classical Chinese thought and comparative philosophy. He is the author of Contexts and Dialogue: Yogācāra Buddhism and Modern Psychology on the Subliminal Mind (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2006). His articles have appeared in Philosophy East & West, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Journal of Indian Philosophy, Continental Philosophy Review, and Dao. Amy Olberding, who earned her Ph.D. from the University of Hawai‘i in 2001, is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oklahoma. Her work has appeared in Philosophy East and West, Dao, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy and Literature, and International Philosophical Quarterly. Guoxiang Peng 彭國翔 is a Professor of Chinese philosophy, intellectual history and religions at Peking University in Beijing. He is also secretary general of the Chinese Society for Confucian Studies and one of the executive editors of the Journal...