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ZHU Chengming

College of Liberal Arts, Chongqing University (Campus A)

No. 174 Shazhengjie, Shapingba

Chongqing, 400044, China

E-mail: zhvchm@163.com

Education and Professional Experience:

09/2003 – 06/2007, English Language & Literature, School of Foreign Languages, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin Province. B.A.

09/2008 – 06/2011, Sanskrit and Pāli, Dept. of South Asian Studies, School of Foreign Languages, Peking University. M.A.

09/2012 – 06/2016, Sanskrit and Pāli, Dept. of South Asian Studies, School of Foreign Languages, Peking University. Ph.D.

07/2016 – 08/2018, Lecturer, Division of Classical Studies, Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Chongqing University, China.

Since 09/2018, Associate Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Chongqing University, China.

Funded Research Project:

The National Social Science Fund of China, “Translation and Investigative Research of Ancient Indian Manul of Politics, Arthaśāstra”, Research Project No. CW 2017-2023.

Courses:

For Undergraduates: Eastern Philosophy; Plato’s Republic; Latin (Elementary & Intermediate); The Big Questions (English Course)For Graduates: EAP (Philosophical & Legal; Bilingual); Classical Humanities & Philosophy

Publications:

Books:

《轨则、礼法与实利：吠陀时代到<利论>的政治思考》，2025待出。

Ṛta, Dharma and Artha, Political Thinking in Ancient India from Vedic Period to Arthaśāstra, forthcoming in 2025.

Translation (from English & German to Chinese):

沃格林著，2016，《记忆：历史与政治理论》，上海：华东师范大学出版社(Shanghai: Southeast Normal University Press)。

The Original: Voegelin, Eric. 2002, Anamnesis, On the Theory of History and Politics, Columbia: University of Missouri Press. (German Version: Anamnesis, zur Theorie der Geschichte und Politik, München: R. Piper & Co. Verlag, 1966)

Translation (from Sanskrit to Chinese):

憍底利耶著，2020，《利论》，北京：商务印书馆(Peking: The Commercial Press)。

The Original: Kangle, R. P. 2010 (1972). The Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra, Pt. I: Sanskrit Text and Glossary. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.

Articles (all in Chinese, titles translated into English):

“Ānvīkṣikī in Indian Philosophy”, in: World Philosophy, 2015(5): 150-159.

“The Divergence of Being in Greek and Indian Philosophy”, in: World Philosophy, 2016(1): 151-159.

“āstika and nāstika, Brāhmaṇism and Buddhism”, in: World Philosophy, 2017(5): 150-159.

“Critique of vidyā.”, in: Natural Dialectics, 2017(10): 95-100.

“Voegelin’s Philosophy of Consciousness and Its Theoretical Relevance in Deeper Dialogue between East and West Intellectual Tradition”, in: Thought and Culture, 2022(XXIX): 92-115.