ZHANG MEIHONG, full professor of philosophy at Lanzhou University, holds an MPhil from Lanzhou University and a DPhil from East China Normal University. He joined the faculty here at his alma mater in late 2019, after more than a decade of teaching at Northwest Normal University across the Yellow River in the same city. As an academic visitor of the 2016-2017 academic year, he conducted his research in comparative philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford. He has been a council member of the Confucius Institute of China since 2015, and a council member of the Society for the History of Chinese Philosophy since 2022.

He has recently completed a National Social Sciences Fund project, Philosophy of Life in Confucian Tradition, funded by the National Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences of China. His current research specialties and teaching interests focus on Chinese philosophy, moral philosophy, and comparative philosophy between China and the West. Many of his articles have been published in journals including Philosophy Dynamics, History of Chinese Philosophy, Religions, and UNIVERSITAS-Monthly Review of Philosophy and Culture, etc. He is also the author of “Ceaseless Tao and Sages’ Style: A Study on Wuzi’s Theory of One Body in the Northern Song Dynasty” (2015), and the guest editor of a special issue of the journal Religions entitled “Ethical Concerns in Early Confucianism”. Two of his works were awarded the first and second prizes of “the Outstanding Achievements in Philosophy and Social Sciences” by Gansu Provincial Government in 2019 and 2023.

E-mail: zmh@lzu.edu.cn