Teaching - Courses and Students

Professor Tu teaches a variety of graduate and undergraduate courses including one Core course basically intended for undergraduates. These courses include Confucian Humanism, Confucian Ethics, Modern Chinese Intellectual History, and Taoism. In addition, he is the advisor for a number of Ph.D. students at several universities.

Courses

Chinese History 116c: Modern Chinese Intellectual History

Chinese History 240r: Readings in Chinese Intellectual History

Chinese History 251: Confucian Ethics: Conference Course

Chinese History 260: Taoism: Conference Course

Freshman Seminar 37k: China's Confucian Classics

Moral Reasoning 40: Confucian Humanism

Ph.D. Students

Name

Year

School / Department

Jacqueline Armijo-Hussein

Harvard University, The Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies

Dissertation: "Sayyid 'Ajall Shams al-Din: a Muslim from Central Asia, serving the Mongols in China, and bringing 'civilization' to Yunnan"

Chi-Cheng Chak

Academia Sinica

Kang Chan

Harvard University, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Dissertation: "The Uncultivated Man and the Weakness of the Ideal in Classical Chinese Philosophy"

Peter Chang

Harvard University, Divinity School

Hsi-Yuan Chen

Harvard University, The Committee on History and East Asian Languages

Dissertation: "Confucianism encounters Religion: The Formation of Religious Discourse and the Confucian Movement in China"

Weigang Chen

Harvard University, The Committee on the Study of Religion

Dissertation: "Confucian Marxism: Democracy, Hegemony, and Intellectuals in Marxist Theory"

Yang Cheng

University of California at Berkeley, Asian Studies

Yifan Cheng

University of California at Berkeley

Ping-Tzu Chu

Harvard University, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilization

Dissertation: "Traditional Building and Cultural Competition in Southern Song China (1162-1220): The Way, the Learning, and the Texts"

Paul Goldin

Harvard University, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Dissertation: "The Philosophy of Xunzi"

Brian Hoffert

Harvard University, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Dissertation: "Evolution in Zhuangzi's Philosophy"

Margaret Izutsu

Harvard University, Divinity School

Dissertation: "Bereavement in Japan: A Self-Critically Christian Appraisal of the PsychoSocial Benefits of Confucian Elements in Nominally Buddist Rites"

Youngmin Kim

Harvard University, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Dissertation: "Redefining the Self's Relation to the World: A Study pf Mid-Ming Neo-Confucian Discourse"

Yong-Pil Kim

Harvard University, Harvard Divinity School

Dissertation: "God and Self-Cultivation in Chong Yak-yong"

Ming-Chun Lee

Harvard University

Eske Mollgaard

Harvard University, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Dissertation: "Aspects of Early Confucian Ethics"

David Mozina

Harvard University

David Mungello

The University of California at Berkeley, History Department

Soung Nah

Harvard University, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Dissertation: "Language and the Ultimate Reality in Sung Neo-Confucianism: The Nature and Inevitability of 'Ch'i'""

Mary Phillips

The American University, Department of Sociology

Wen-Jie Qin

Harvard University, The Committee on the Study of Religion

Dissertation: "The Buddhist Revival in Post-Mao China: Women Reconstruct Buddhist on Mt. Emei"

Dominic Sachsenmaier

Harvard University

Guo-Chou Shi

Harvard University, The Committee on the Study of Religion

Antwaun Smith

Harvard University

Kit Smith

The University of California at Berkeley

Jennie Song

Harvard University, The Committee on the Study of Religion

Dissertation: "The Confucian Five Relationships as a Sacred Ritual"

Chia-Fu Sung

Harvard University, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Jiang Wu

Harvard University, The Committee on the Study of Religion

Dissertation: "The Formation of a Chan Buddhist Denomination : The Early Huangbo (Obaku) School in Seventeenth-century China"

Baofeng Yu

Harvard University, The Committee on the Study of Religion

Qin Zhou

Harvard University, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

 

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