Brian Bruya
University of Hawai'i
Department of Philosophy 808-956-6030
2530 Dole St., Sak. D-301 fax: 956-9228
Honolulu, HI 96822 bruya@hawaii.edu
Education
• Ph. D. candidate in Philosophy, University of Hawai'i, 1999-present.
• Master of Arts in Philosophy, University of Hawai'i, 1997-99.
• Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Chinese Languages & Literature, University of Washington, 1985-88, 1991-92.
• Intensive training in Modern and Classical Chinese, Inter-university Program for Chinese Language Studies in Taipei (a.k.a. The Stanford Program), 1989-1990.
• Training in Modern and Classical Chinese, National Taiwan Normal University's Mandarin Training Center, 1988-1989.
Employment
• Graduate Assistant: Managing Editor, Shuhai Wenyuan Classical Chinese Digital Database and Interactive Internet Worktable; U. H. Department of Philosophy; August 2000 - present.
• Lecturer, Philosophy 100, Introduction to Philosophy, U. H. Department of Philosophy, Summer 2003, Autumn 2002.
• Graduate Assistant: Teaching Assistant (Philosophy 110, Introduction to Formal Logic); U. H. Department of Philosophy; School Year 1999-2000.
• Graduate Assistant: Research Assistant (preparing grant applications for Shuhai Wenyuan project); U. H. Department of Philosophy; School Year 1998-99.
• Book Reviewer, Eastern Religion Editor, free-lance; Amazon.com; 1996 - 2002.
• Translator, free-lance; 1990 - 1997.
• Instructor of Chinese Philosophy, part-time; University of Washington Experimental College, Seattle; April 1996 - February 1997.
• Translator of Research Articles and Exhibit Literature; National Palace Museum, Taiwan, Department of Antiquities; 1990 - 1991.
Publications and Scholarship
Books/Volumes
• Editor, Chinese Collections in the Digital Library, a special issue of The Journal of Digital Information, Vol. 3, No. 2, October, 2002 (http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/?vol=3&iss=2).
• Editor, Shuhai Wenyuan: Classical Chinese Digital Database and Interactive Internet Worktable, http://www.shuhai.hawaii.edu.
Articles/Papers/Posters
• "Shuhai Wenyuan Interactive Internet Worktable: Studying Ancient Chinese Philosophy On-Line" (at various stages of the project), invited speaker, Asian Studies Development Program annual conference, Phoenix, 2003; poster, Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities, Tuebingen, July 2002; presentation, European Association of Chinese Studies conference, Moscow, August 2002; presentation, Asian Studies Development Program Summer Institute for Infusing Asian Studies into the Undergraduate Curriculum, Honolulu, July 2001; presentation, NSF Digital Libraries Initiative Principal Investigators Conference, Roanoke, June 2001.
• "The Rehabilitation of Spontaneity and Daoist Notions of Natural Action", Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy panel at the Eastern meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Philadelphia, 2002.
• "Chaos in Early Chinese Aesthetics", Aesthetics and Chaos: Investigating a Creative Complicity (International Association for Aesthetics Yearbook, Vol. 6). Turin: Trauben, 2002; also read at School of Hawaiian Asian and Pacific Studies International Graduate Student Conference, Honolulu, March 2002.
• "Emotion, Desire, and Numismatic Experience in René Descartes, Zhu Xi, and Wang Yangming", first read at International Workshop on Emotions and the Analysis of Chinese Sources, Cortona, Italy, November 2001; published in Ming Qing Studies, 2001.
• "Li Zehou's Aesthetics as a Marxist Philosophy of Freedom", first read at International Convention of Asia Scholars, Berlin, August 2001; then International Congress of Aesthetics, Tokyo, August 2001; published in Dialogue and Universalism, June/July, 2002.
• "The Archeology of Emotion in Early Chinese Texts", first read at Association of Asian Studies Pacific Conference, Eugene, June 2000; invited to European Association of Asian Studies Conference Roundtable on Emotions in Chinese History, Turin, August 2000; honorary presentation, International Society for Chinese Philosophy conference, Beijing, July 2001; published in Ming Qing Studies, 2001.
• "Strawson and Prasad on Determinism and Resentment", Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, Vol. XVIII, No. 3.
• "Habit & Spontaneity", American Academy of Religion Eastern International Regional Conference, Ithaca, NY, March 2001.
• Over four hundred commissioned Eastern Philosophy and Religion book reviews, articles, and interviews on-line at http://www.amazon.com.
Workshops
• "Teaching Early Chinese Culture with the Shuhai Wenyuan Website", Asian Studies Development Program, Honolulu, July 24 - August 4, 2003.
Reviews
• Jane Geaney's On the Epistemology of the Senses in Early Chinese Thought. China Review International (forthcoming).
Translations
• Tang, Yijie. "Emotion in Pre-Qin Ruist Moral Theory", Philosophy East & West (forthcoming), translated in collaboration with Hai-ming Wen.
• Tsai, Chih Chung. Wisdom of the Zen Masters: The Quest for Enlightenment, (New York: Anchor/Doubleday, 1998).
• Tsai, Chih Chung. The Dao of Zhuangzi: The Harmony of Nature, (New York: Anchor/ Doubleday, 1997).
• Tsai, Chih Chung. Confucius Speaks: Words to Live By, (New York: Anchor/Doubleday, 1996).
• Tsai, Chih Chung. The Tao Speaks: Lao-Tzu's Whispers of Wisdom, (New York: Anchor/ Doubleday, 1994).
• Tsai, Chih Chung. Sunzi Speaks: The Art of War, (New York: Anchor/Doubleday, 1994).
• Tsai, Chih Chung. Zen Speaks: Shouts of Nothingness, (New York: Anchor/Doubleday, 1994).
• Tsai, Chih Chung. Zhuangzi Speaks: The Music of Nature, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992).
• Chi, Jo-hsin, "An Examination of Molded Gourd Ware from the Ch'ing Imperial Palace," National Palace Museum Bulletin, Vol. XXVI, Nos. 3 & 4, 1991.
• Teng, Shu-ping, "From Severance to Linkage: Communicating with Heaven in Prehistoric China," National Palace Museum Bulletin, Vol. XXVI, Nos. 1 & 2, 1991.
• Chang, Lin-sheng, "An Examination of Bronze Weaponry in the National Palace Museum: Axes, Dagger-Axes, and Swords," presented at the China Institute in America, 1991.
Grants, Honors, and Awards
• Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii Doctoral Student Excellence in Research Award, 2003.
• Dai Ho Chun Graduate Fellowship, 2003-04.
• National Science Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Libraries Initiative Award for the Shuhai Wenyuan project (project creator, grant application author), 2000-03 .
• Chung-fong & Grace Ning Chinese Studies award, separately 2000, 2001, 2002.
• Chun Kwon Lau Memorial Scholarship, separately 2000, 2001, 2002.
• Wing-tsit Chan Graduate Fellowship in Chinese Philosophy, 2000-02.
• East-West Center Degree Fellowship, 2000-02.
• East-West Center Travel Award, 2001.
• Winner of the Charles Wei-hsun Fu Foundation-International Society for Chinese Philosophy Essay Contest in Asian Philosophy (English category), 2001.
• University of Hawai'i Arts & Science Advisory Council award, separately 2000, 2001.
• Chun Ku and Soo Yong Huang Graduate Scholarship, separately 2000, 2001.
• Participant of University of Chicago's Creel Workshop on early Chinese linguistics, 2000.
• John and Mae Esterline Prize, honorable mention for best graduate paper at Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast Conference, 2000.
• Bank of Hawai'i Educational Enrichment Scholarship, 2000.
• East-West Center Degree Fellowship, 1998-99.
• Research Corporation of the University of Hawai'i Research Fellowship, 1997-1998.
• Mortar Board Scholarship, University of Washington, 1991-92.
• Bismark H. Turner Trust Scholarship, U.W. 1985-88, 1991-92.
• Scholarship to Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies in Taipei, 1989-90.
• Member Phi Beta Kappa.
Service to the Profession
• Chair, Association of Chinese Philosophers in America panel, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Annual Conference, Washington, 2003 (upcoming).
Languages
• Modern Standard Chinese
• Classical Chinese
• Japanese (written)