Chung-ying Cheng

Cheng received his B.A. from National Taiwan University in 1956, his M.A. from University of Washington in 1958, and Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1963. He joined the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1963. He has lectured at numerous prestigious institutions such as Yale University and Oxford University. He also served as Chair of Department of Philosophy at National Taiwan University and Director of the Graduate Institute of Philosophy at Taida. Currently, he is Visiting Chair Professor in Chinese Philosophy at King's College London, Visiting Professor at Peking University and Tsinghua University, Distinguished Chair Professor at Renmin University, and Visiting Chair Professor of Humanities at Shanghai Jiaotong University.

Cheng's research interests are in the areas of Chinese logic, the I Ching and the origins of Chinese philosophy, Confucian and Neo-Confucian Philosophy, the onto-hermeneutics of Eastern and Western philosophy, and Chan (Zen) philosophy. Recently, he has specifically worked on the philosophy of c-management and Confucian Bio-Ethics as they relate to the Chinese tradition, and on how Chinese culture relates to world culture. He founded the Journal of Chinese Philosophy published by Blackwell Publishers in 1973 and has served as Editor-in-Chief since then.[1][2]

• Contemporary Chinese Philosophy, ed. with Nicholas Bunnin. . Malden and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2002. 429 pages.
• A Treatise on Confucian Philosophy: The Way of Uniting the Outer and the Inner, Beijing: China Social Sciences Publishers, 2001, 431 pages.
• Ontology and Interpretation, (in Chinese), Beijing: Sanlian Publishers, 2000. 382 pages.
• C Theory: Chinese Philosophy of Management (in Chinese), Shanghai:Xueling Publishers, 1999. 458 pages
• Light of Wisdom: The Contemporary Application of Chinese Management Philosophy (Ed. w/Zhou Hanguang). Shanghai: Chinese Textile University Press, 1997.
• C lilun: Yijing guanli zhexue. [C Theory: The Yijing philosophy of management].Taibei: Dongda Tushu Chubanshe, 1995.
• Wenhua, lilun yu guanli: Zhongguo xiandaihua de zhexue xingsi. [Culture, Ethics, and the Philosophy of Management]. Guiyang: Guizhou Renmin Chubanshe, 1991.
• Shiji zhi jiao de jueze: Lun Zhong-Xi zhexue zhong de huitong yuronghe. [Choice at the Turn of a New Century: On the Interflux and Integration of Chinese and Western Philosophy]. Shanghai: Zhishi Chubanshe, 1991.
• The Distribution of Power and Rewards: Selected Essays from the Conference on Democracy and Social Justice East and West (Co-ed. w/James Hsiung). Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1991.
• New Dimensions of Confucian & Neo-Confucian Philosophy, Albany: New York University Press, 1991.

“Transforming Confucian Virtues into Human Rights: A Study of Human Agency and Potency in Confucian Ethics” in Wm deBary (Ed.) Confucianism and Human Rights. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.

• The Yijing as Creative Inception of Chinese Philosophy // Journal of Chinese Philosophy 2008, vol. 35 (2), p. 201–218.
• Logic and Language in the Chinese philosophy // Journal of Chinese Philosophy 1987. Volume 14, Issue 3, p. 285-307.
• Chinese Philosophy in America, 1965-1985: The Retrospect and Prospect // Journal of Chinese Philosophy 1986, Vol.13, Issue 2, p. 155-165.