WEN, HAI-MING 溫海明
CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
Ph. D. Candidate in Comparative Philosophy, University of Hawai'i,
2000-present;
Chair of Ph. D. Committee: Professor Roger T. Ames;
Committee members: Professor Eliot Deutsch;
Professor Arindam Chakrabarti;
Professor James Tiles;
Master of Arts in Chinese Philosophy, Peking University (PKU), Beijing, China, 1996-99;
Bachelor of Science in Psychology, East China Normal University (ECNU), Shanghai, China, 1990-94.
EMPLOYMENT
Graduate Assistant, Editor: Shuhai Wenyuan Classical Chinese Digital Database and Interactive Internet Worktable, Philosophy Department, University of Hawaii, 08/2000 – present;
Editor of Campus and Yijing: Tom.com Company, Beijing, 05/2000-08/2000;
Editor and journalist: Magazine CHINA CAMPUS, Beijing, 1999-04/2000;
Editor of Newspaper Xiamen Engineering Machinery: Xiamen Engineering Co. Ltd., Xiamen, Fujian, China, 1994-96;
“‘Seeking Harmony not Sameness’: Comparative Philosophy and East-West Understanding – Professor Roger T. Ames’ Lectures on Comparative Philosophy” (ed.), published by Peking University Press, Peking University, 2002.
Articles
“From Substance Language to the Vocabularies of Process and Change: A Comparison between the Translation of Key Philosophical Terms of ‘The Doctrine of the Mean’ and ‘Focusing the Familiar’”, in Tao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, Global Publications, SUNY Binghamton, forthcoming;
“The Philosophy of Zhouyi Bianzheng” (with Ma Heng-jun), in Bentiquanshixue, No.2, Peking University Press, 2002;
“On Zhu Xi’s Thought about Hetu and Luoshu”, Studies of Yijing, No.3, 2000;
“On Young Zhu Xi’s Yixue”, in Southeast Academic Research: Journal of Fujian Social Sciences Society, No.1, 2001;
“On Wang Yang-ming's Yixue”, in Studies of Yijing No.3, 1998.
Roger T. Ames, “My Road to Comparative Philosophy”, in Academy, 2001(2), Vol. 12, p. 165-166, edited and published by Philosophy Department, Peking University, 2001; also in Cross-cultural Dialogues, Vol. 8, Shanghai Cultural Press, 03/2002. (The article was originally published as “In Defense of Philosophical Intemperance” in Of Fortune and Friends, pp. 37-39.);
Tang, Yi-jie, “Emotion in Pre-Qin Ruist Moral Theory”, translated in collaboration with Brian Bruya, Philosophy East & West (forthcoming);
Stephen Rowe, “Cultivating Mutual Growth: A Socratic Approach for the Post-9-11 World”, (The article was originally presented in Harvard Yen-ching Institute, March 15, 2002);
“The Classic of Changes (Yijing)” (translation of some selections, with John L. Trowbridge) in Robin R. Wang, ed., Images of Women in Chinese Thought and Culture: Writings on Women from the Pre-Qin through the Song Dynasty, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2003;
Peter K. Bol, “Su Shih and Culture”, in American Scholars on Sung Intellectual History, edited and introduced by Hoyt Cleveland Tillman, published by Liaoning University Press,1999. (The article was originally published in Sung Dynasty Uses of the I Ching, by Kidder Smith, Jr., Peter K. Bol, Joseph A. Adler, and Don J. Wyatt. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990, pp. 56-99.)
Wing-tsit Chan Graduate Fellowship in Chinese Philosophy, East-West Center, Department of Philosophy, and Center for Chinese Studies, University of Hawaii, 2000-02;
East-West Center Conference Scholarship for participation and paper presentation at the American Philosophy Association (APA) Pacific Meeting held March 27-30, 2002 in Seattle, WA. 04/2002;
Chung-fong and Grace Ning Chinese Studies Fund, for attendance at “Digital Library: IT Opportunities and Challenges in the New Millennium” conference, Beijing, 07/2002;
Chung-fong and Grace Ning Chinese Studies Fund, Center for Chinese Studies of University of Hawaii and Peking University, summer exchange scholar, 06/2002-07/2002;
Fellowship, the George E. Taylor Symposium on Cultural Conflict and Mediation, the symposium is sponsored by the Kluckhohn Center, the East-West Center, and the Conflict Resolution Program at the Matsunaga Peace Institute, 02/2002;
Taoism Scholarship, Philosophy Department of Peking University, 1997-98;
Award for Student Activist at University Level, East China Normal University, 1992-93.
“From Substance Language to the Vocabularies of Process and Change: A Comparison between the Translation of Key Philosophical Terms of ‘The Doctrine of the Mean’ and ‘Focusing the Familiar’”, American Philosophy Association (APA) Pacific Meeting, Seattle. Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, panel titled: “The Light of David L. Hall and Roger T. Ames: Focusing the Familiar through Uncommon Conceptions of the Doctrine of the Mean in Confucianism and Platonic/Aristotelian Formulations”, March 27-30, 2002;
“Relationship of Language and Truth in Chinese Philosophy”, in the “Chinese Philosophy and the Trends of the 21st Century Civilization”, The 12th International Conference on Chinese Philosophy, by International Society on Chinese Philosophy, Chinese Social Academy, Beijing, China, July 21-24, 2001;
“Comparative Philosophy and the Communication between the Civilizations of East and West”, in the “Philosophy and Globalization” international academic Conference, by ACPA and the Department of Philosophy of Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, China, July 1-4, 2001;
“The Philosophy of Zhouyi Bianzheng”, in the “Chinese Culture in Global Dialogue” international academic Conference, by ACPA (Association of Chinese Philosophers in American) and Institute of Modern Chinese Thought and Culture, ECNU, Shanghai, China, June 25-27, 2001;
“On the explanation of Zhongyong and Cheng in Ames and Hall’s Focusing the Familiar”, in the East-West Center International Graduate Student Conference, Honolulu, March 2001;
Digital Library – IT Opportunities and Challenges in the New Millennium, in National Library of China, Beijing, China, July 9-12, 2002.
Association of Chinese Philosophers in America (ACPA);
Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy (SACP).