Notes on Contributors
Jason T. Clower
is professor of comparative religion at California State University, Chico. He studies the Buddhist-Confucian relationship and the history of modern Chinese thought.
John Jorgensen
is an independent scholar specialising in East Asian Buddhism, especially early Chan Buddhism. He has also written on Korean new religions and translated Korean Buddhist texts.
Lin Chen-kuo 林鎮國
is Professor Emeritus at National Chengchi University. In addition to cross-cultural philosophy (Buddhism, Confucianism, modern Western philosophy), his research is particularly focused on logic and epistemology in contexts of Mādhyamika, Yogācāra, and Sinitic Buddhism.
Liu Leheng 劉樂恆
is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wuhan University. A researcher specializing in Chinese philosophy, Confucian philosophy and Contemporary New Confucianism, his research focuses on the modernization of Chinese heartmind philosophy and Confucian thought.
John Makeham
is Professor Emeritus at La Trobe University and The Australian National University. Specializing in the intellectual history of Chinese philosophy, he has a particular interest in Confucian thought throughout Chinese history and in the role played by Sinitic Buddhist thought as an intellectual resource in pre-modern and modern Confucian philosophy.
Sang Yu 桑雨
is a postdoctoral researcher in the Institute of Philosophy at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, and a visiting fellow in the Australian Centre on China in the World at the Australian National University. Her research focuses on Chinese philosophy, in particular Buddhism and New Confucianism, and the intellectual history of modern China.
Ady Van den Stock
is a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University (Department of Languages and Cultures). His research is focused on modern Chinese philosophy, religion, and intellectual history, specifically twentieth-century and contemporary Confucianism, Sino-Islamic traditions of thought, and “ethnic minority philosophy.”