the china project...
Chinese Visiting Scholars Program
The China Project can assist visiting Chinese scholars wishing to finance their study of process thought at the Claremont Center for Process Studies.
Postdoctoral Program
A Postdoctoral Program welcomes Chinese scholars with Ph.D degrees to do postdoctoral research at the Center for Process Studies.
Non-Chinese Scholars Program
The China Project also arranges non-Chinese process scholars to lecture in China.
Past Visiting Scholars
Dong, Hui (董慧)
Associate Professor at School of Marxist Studies, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China (view bio) |
Feb. 2009 – May 2009
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Gu, Yulan (顾玉兰)
Dean of School of Politics and Law, Yancheng Normal University, China (view bio) |
Dec. 2007 – Mar. 2008 |
Qu, Yue Hou (曲跃厚)
Professor at the LogisticsCommandAcademy in Beijing, China (view bio) |
Dec. 2001– May 2002 |
Pei, Yong (裴勇)
Director of Policy Research Department at the State Administration for Religious Affairs of China (view bio) |
Sept. 2005– Dec. 2005 |
Wang, Xiaohua (王晓华)
Professor of Literature in Shenzhen University (view bio) |
Mar. 2002– May 2002 |
Yang, Fubin (杨富斌)
Professor and Dean in School of Law and Politics of Beijing International Studies University (BISU), China (view bio) |
Oct. 2009 – Jan. 2010 |
Yu, Yih-hsien (俞懿娴)
Professor at the Department of Philosophy in TunghaiUniversity in Taiwan (view bio) |
Jun. 2005– Aug. 2005 |
Yu, Yong-yue (Helen) (余永跃)
Professor at Wuhan University in the school of Political Science and Public Administration, China (view bio) |
Apr. 2007– Sep. 2007 |
Zhang, Lianguo (张连国)
Professor at the LawSchool of ShandongUniversity of Technology, China (view bio) |
Feb. 2009– Aug. 2009 |
Zhang, Nini (张妮妮)
Professor of Beijing Foreign Studies University, China (view bio) |
Jun. 2004 – Dec. 2004 |
Zhang, Wenxi (张文喜)
Professor of Philosophy at People’s University of China (view bio) |
Feb. 2007– May 2007 |
Hui Dong is an associate professor at the School of Marxist Studies, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China. She received her Bachelor Degree in Politics Education from Wuhan University, her Master Degree in Philosophy and Ph. D in Philosophy from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Her expertise is in Marxist philosophy, foreign Marxism and postmodernism. She received the project from The China Scholarship Council in 2006 and did her research as a visiting scholar in the department of philosophy in University at Buffalo from Jan. 2006 to Jan. 2007. She was awarded the first prize in 2007 from the Sino-US Process Philosophy Summary Academy and received a scholarship as a visiting scholar in the Center for Process Studies in 2009.
董慧, 哲学博士,现为华中科技大学马克思主义学院副教授。2006年2月-2007年2月,美国纽约州立大学布法罗分校哲学系访问学者;2009年2月-2009年4月,美国加利福利亚州克莱蒙研究生大学神学院,美国过程中心访问学者。研究兴趣及领域主要是马克思主义哲学,国外马克思主义及后现代过程哲学。出版专著《社会活力论》一部,并发表多篇译文及论文。参与过多项国家级课题,目前正在主持一项国家社科基金青年项目及华中科技大学校青年基金.
Selected Publications
- “Postmodern Agriculture Is Possible” Process Perspectives 31.3 (2009).
- “Whitehead’s Reflection on Modern Science and Its Inspiration in Studies" Dialectics of Nature 6 (2009).
- “Postmodern Agriculture is Possible.” Marxism and Reality 5 (2008).
Yulan Gu is the Dean of School of Politics and Law, Yancheng Normal University, Jiangsu Province, China. She has a background in social philosophy and published numerous books and articles. Her doctorate thesis was awarded as one of the most distinguished dissertations by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China.
顾玉兰,江苏盐城师范学院法政学院院长,教授,博士,江苏省高校“青蓝工程”中青年学术带头人培养对象,江苏省思想政治理论课教学指导委员会委员,主要从事社会哲学研究。主持和参与国家及省部级科研项目6项,著有个人专著2部,发表学术论文40多篇。曾获“南京师范大学科技之星”、“三育人先进个人”等多项荣誉称号,并有多项科研成果获奖。其中,博士学位论文《列宁社会发展理论研究》荣获“全国优秀博士学位论文提名奖”。
Selected Publications
- “Whitehead’s Concept of Harmony and Its Relevance to Creating a Harmonious Society in China.” Journal of YanchengTeachersUniversity2 (2009).
- “On University’s Core Competence: a Process Philosophical Perspective.” Journal of YanchengTeachersUniversity 2 (2005).
- “The Comparison of Post-modernism and the Viewpoint of Sustainable Development.” Journal of Yan’an University 2 (2002).
Yong Pei received his undergraduate training in International Law from Law School of Jilin University in Northeast of China in 1992 and subsequently finished his master’s degree from Peking University in the area of Buddhism and Chinese Philosophy in 1995. Besides serving as director of Policy Research Department at the State Administration for Religious Affairs of China, he currently holds the following academic honors: Research Fellow of Religious Studies Center of China and Senior visit scholar of Process Studies Center of Claremont Graduate University, CA. In addition, he has authored many papers on Political, Philosophical and Religious issues and co-authored or co-translated several books.
裴勇,1969年出生,汉族。1992年毕业于吉林大学法学院国际法系国际法专业,法学学士,1995年毕业于北京大学哲学系中国哲学专业,哲学硕士。2005年美国克莱蒙研究生大学(CGU)过程研究中心(CPS)高级访问学者。中美后现代发展研究院高级研究员。1995年至今供职于国家宗教事务局,现任政策法规司副司长。主要分管政策研究、组织起草有关工作文件、文稿和政策研究报告。
Selected Publications
- “Toward a Postmodern Eco-culture.” World Cultural Forum 8 (2004).
- Zürcher, Erik. .The Buddhist conquest of china: The Spread and Adaptation of Buddhism in Early Medieval China. Trans. Yong Pei. Jiangsu People’s Press, 1998.
- “Back to Feng Youlan——A studies of the texts of history of Chinese Philosophy in the Last 70 years.” PekingUniversity Graduate Academic Journal (1994).
Wang Xiaohua is an associate professor of literature in Shenzhen University. More than 100 of his academic papers have been published in Foreign Literature Review, Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, Academic Monthly, Social Science Abroad, Literature and Art Criticism, etc. He also published 5 books, three of which are detailed below. His work is also well received aboard, and has been invited to be a visiting scholar in the U.S. and England, and a visiting professor in Korea.
王晓华生于上个世纪六十年代,文学博士,深圳大学文学院中文系教授,深圳大学文艺学研究中心副主任,中国文艺理论研究学会理事。从事文学、文化、哲学研究,致力于建立个性化的思想体系体系,在国内外重要期刊发表论文130篇,出版专著 《个体哲学》(上海三联书店2002年7月出版)、《压抑与憧憬——曹禺戏剧的深层结构》(中国社会科学出版社2001年出版)、《西方生命美学局限研究》(黑龙江人民出版社2005年出版)、《生态批评》(黑龙江人民出版社2008年出版)等多部。先后担任香港中文大学(2000年)、美国克莱蒙特大学(2002年)、英国兰开夏大学(2005)、韩国东义大学(2008~2009)访问教授。报告。
Selected Publications
- Between Modern and Post-Modern Age . Hei Long Jian People’s Publishing House, 2005.
- Philosophy of Individual . Shanghai Sanlian Publisher, 2002.
- Depression and Imagination: the Depths Structure of Caoyu’s Drama. China Social Science Publishers, 2001.
Yang Fubin is a professor and dean in School of Law and Politics of Beijing International Studies University (BISU), China. And he is the director of the Center for Process Studies established in BISU. Dr. Yang graduated and received his doctor degree of philosophy from Renmin University of China. His main interest has been in modern Western philosophy since he was a visiting teacher in Beijing University (1983-1984). In recent years his main endeavor is translating and studying the process philosophy of Whitehead and constructive postmodernist thought concerning with it. He is also very interested in studying legal philosophy from the perspective of process thought and constructive postmodernist thought.
杨富斌 教授,1958年4月5日生于河北邯郸,毕业于中国人民大学哲学系,获博士学位,中共党员,现为北京第二外国语学院法政学院院长、教授,旅游法律与产业规制研究中心主任。社会兼职主要有全国历史唯物主义学会人的发展研究会副会长,北京市法学会环境资源法研究会常务理事,中国法学会法理学研究会理事。主要研究方向:哲学、法理学和旅游法学,主要讲授现代西方哲学、美国法律概况和法理学。从2000年左右开始关注过程哲学,先后参加了在北京师范大学、美国加州克莱蒙特研究生大学、奥地利萨尔斯堡、印度班加罗尔召开的怀特海哲学大会,翻译出版了怀特海的代表作《过程与实在》,并在《国外社会科学》、《黄山学院学报》和《日本研究》(北京大学日本研究所编)等学术期刊上发表《怀特海哲学述评》、《怀特海过程思想与中国哲学》、《过程思想与东方哲学》等论文. 目前正在研究和撰写《怀特海哲学导论》,对怀特海过程思想与中国传统思想、西方分析哲学和现象学以及马克思的唯物辩证法思想等进行比较,并结合现代科学特别是量子力学、相对论和复杂性理论,以及当代中国社会和思想实际,对过程哲学思想做系统阐述,做出中国学者具有中国特色的探索和解读。
Selected Publications
- Whitehead’s Process Philosophy and Eastern Philosophy . China, Huangshan Transaction, 2, 2005.
- Whitehead, A. N.Process and Reality. Trans., China: City Press in Beijing, 2003.
- Commentary on Whiteheadinan Process Philosophy. Social Sciences Abroad , 5 (2003).
Yue Hou Qu is a Professor at the Logistics Command Academy in Beijing. A native Beijing resident, he received his master’s degree from Beijing University in 1987 and his Bachelor’s degree from Nanjing University in 1982. He has published his own and translated works by David Griffin and John Cobb Jr.
曲跃厚是北京居民,他于1987年从北京大学获得硕士学位。1982年他从南京大学获得学士学位。他是多数文章的作者,并且翻译过大卫格里芬和小约翰科布的论文。
Selected Publications
- Hard core doctrine of process philosophy and its theological interests, Seeking Truth (2007).
- Translated Process Theology by John Cobb, Jr. and David Ray Griffin, Beijing: Centre Translation Press (1999).
- Toward to a postmodern philosophy of education, Philosophy Studies (2005).
Yih-hsien Yu is professor at the Department of Philosophy, Tunghai University in Taiwan. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1988 and her Masters in Education in 1983 from Taiwan National Normal University. In the past decades, her major interest in philosophy focused on Alfred North Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism, basically its historical development, and its relevance with both Chinese philosophy and contemporary Western philosophy.
俞懿娴,生于台湾台北市,祖籍浙江绍兴。自幼习读《论语》、《大学》,浸润于儒家思想,及长接触老庄列子等道家思想。后就读国立台湾师范大学教育学系,同时涉猎佛教经典。1984年获政府教育部公费奖助,赴美国纽约哥伦比亚大学教师学院(Teachers College)攻读「教育哲学」博士学位.但因对于纯哲学之兴趣日增,转攻哥大Graduate School of Arts and Sciences之哲学博士学位课程.获哥大哲学博士学位,即受时东海大学哲学研究所所长程石泉先生之召,返台任教迄今.自2002年起,开始参与国际学术组织Center for Process Studies举办之活动.
Selected Publications
- “Creativity in the Book of Changes and Process Thought: With Special Reference to Whitehead.” Zhouyi Studies (English Version) 5.1 (2008):131-151.
- Yu, Yih-hsien. Whitehead on Religion and Science, Uinversaitas, Monthly Review of Philosophy and Culture 409 (2008):57-72.
- Whitehead’s Philosophy of Nature. Taipei: Zhong-Zheng Bookstore, 2001.

Yong-yue (Helen) Yu holds a Ph.D. in economics, and a postdoctoral in politics. She is currently a professor at Wuhan University in the school of Political Science and Public Administration, and director of its Ideological and Political Education department. Her main research interest is in the development of Western China and the construction of the corporate cultural. She is the author and editor of numerous books and journals.
余永跃,1967年生,经济学博士,政治学博士后,现任武汉大学政治与公共管理学院教授,教研室主任,湖北省炎黄学会会员,中国国际公共关系协会会员。主要研究方向为中国西部开发、企业文化建设。近年来出版的著作和教材有《当代中国西部大开发的制度创新》(独着)、《公共关系学》(参编)、《公共关系学通识教程》(主编)、《领导学导论》(主编)等,参译德国著名经济学家齐默尔曼主编的英文著作《经济学前沿问题》(《Frontiers in Economics》),并在《马克思主义研究》、《马克思主义与现实》、 《光明日报》理论版、《中国教育报》理论版、《中国人口科学》、《武汉大学学报》、《江汉论坛》、《当代青年研究》、《中国社会科学文摘》等重要学术期刊发表学术论文数十篇,主持和参与各类科研课题多项。
Selected Publications
- “Review of sustainable agricultural development model.” On Economic Problems. (2008).
- “Constructive Postmodernism and Western China Development.” Management Science and Engineering (2008).
- “Research on the state of mind of the female only child college student.” Contemporary Young Research (2006).
Lianguo Zhang received his Ph.D. in history from the East China Normal University in 1991. He is currently a professor at the Law School of Shandong University of Technology. He has long been engaged in the teaching and research of political and administrative studies. He has taught various class history classes such as: political thought in China, contemporary Western political thought, Eastern philosophy and modern subjects such as organizational behavior. In recent years, he is engaged in ecological cultural and social governance research. He has won several teaching excellence and outstanding achievement awards. In addition, he has independently published 4 academic books, edited four books and published more than 50 papers.
张连国,1962年12月生,教授,博士,中共党员。山东理工大学学术委员会委员,硕士生导师。2000年在山东工程学院(山东理工大学)被聘为教授。1982-1986山东师范大学毕业,1991年在中央民族大学获历史学硕士学位,1998年在华东师大获得历史学博士学位。长期从事政治与行政学专业的教学科研工作,先后教授过中国政治思想史、中国法律思想史、中国通史、当代西方政治思潮、比较政治学、东方哲学与现代化、组织行为学等课,近年来从事生态文化与社会治理研究。多次获得先进工作者称号和教学优秀奖;获得山东省优秀社科成果奖1等奖 1项,2等奖1项,3等奖1项。独立出版学术著作4部,参编著作4部,发表论文50余篇。
Selected Publications
- The Scientific Paradigm of General Circular Economics People’s Publishing House, 2007
- “The Philosophical basis of Circular Economics.” Journal of Shandong Social Science, 2 (2005).
- The Paradigm of Ecological Economics. Mass Publishing House, 2006.
Nini Zhang is a professor of Beijing Foreign Studies University. She has her M.A. in Philosophy (1988) from the Peking University and Ph.D. in philosophy from Renmin University of China (2004). In recent years she has been focusing her academic interests on ecological philosophy and ecofeminism. She has published several books and over 30 articles on said topic.
张妮妮,北京外国语大学哲学社会科学学院教授,北京大学哲学硕士(1988),中国人民大学哲学博士(2004),美国过程研究中心访问学者(2004.6-2004.12)。近年来主要研究方向是生态哲学和生态女性主义
Selected Publications
- Translated Charlene Spretnak’s The Resurgence of the Real (2001).
- Construction of Spiritual Civilization, 1998 (book).
- Translated John B. Cobb, Jr.’s “The Philosophy of Whitehead” in Founders of Constructive Postmodern Philosophy (1995).
Wenxi Zhang is currently a professor at the People’s University of China in Dongyang city, Zhejiang province. He is supervisor of Ph.D.candidates. He received his bachelor degree in 1987 from Hangzhou University, Master degree in 1995 from Zhejiang University, and Doctor Degree in 2002 from Fudan University. His area of expertise includes historical materialism, Marx’s philosophical anthropology, and Marxist political philosophy.
张文喜1961年生,浙江东阳人,教授博士生导师。1987年,1995年,2002年分别毕业于原杭州大学哲学系、浙江大学马列所、复旦大学哲学系,获学士、硕士、博士学位。2004年入选新世纪浙江省151人才培养人员;美国过程研究中心、克莱蒙研究生大学访问学者(2007年)。
Selected Publications
- “The Contemporary Meaning of Whitehead’s View of Freedom.” World Cultural Forum , 1 (2008).
- “Marx and Whitehead’s Encounter.” World Cultural Forum , 4 (2007).
- 颠覆形而上学:马克思和海德格尔之论. 中国社会科学出版社,2004年