Wenqing Zhao

Education

Ph.D., Philosophy, City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong China

Books

Zhao, W., Nahmias, E., & Pogler, T. (2020). The Natural Method: Essays on Mind, Ethics, and Self in Honor of Owen Flanagan. MIT.

Journal Articles

(2025). What is an Emotion? An Early Chinese Perspective from the Xing Zi Ming Chu. Philosophy East and West, (76-2).

Zhao, W. (2025). Conceptual Misalignment as a Method: A Case Study of Chinese Philosophy in the Anglophone Context. Journal of World Philosophies, 10(1).

Zhao, W., Luo, S., & Yin, S. (2024). Introduction: Agency, Democracy, and China: The Political Philosophy of Ci Jiwei. Comparative Political Theory, 1.

Zhao, W. (2022). Huang Zongxi’s Confucian Political Moralism. British Journal of History of Philosophy, 30(6). 973-999.

Zhao, W. (2021). Review of The Art of Chinese Philosophy: Eight Classical Texts and How to Read Them. Journal of World Philosophies , 6(1).

Zhao, W. (2014). Is Contemporary Chinese Society Inhumane? What Mencius and Modern Empirical Psychology Have to Say?. Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, 13(3). 343-360.

Zhao, W. (2013). Ethical Reflections on the Clinical Practice of Informed Consent in China. Chinese and International Philosophy of Medicine, 11(1). 10-21.

Book Chapters

Zhao, W., & Flanagan, O. (2025). Moral Alchemy: A New Look at the Korean Four-Seven Emotion Debate. Oxford Handbook of Korean Philosophy Oxford University Press.

Zhao, W., & Xu, A. (2024). Gendered Independence and Submission: Wang Fengyi's Moral Philosophy of Education and Manchukuo. Confucianism at War: 1931-1945 Routledge.

Zhao, W. (2021). A Confucian Reasoning on Two Controversial Issues in Reproduction. Multicultural & Interreligious Perspectives on the Ethics of Human Reproduction - Protecting Future Generations (pp. 73-82). Springer.

Zhao, W. (2021). Understanding Death Rate: Issues in the Philosophy of Statistics During COVID-19 (In Chinese). Building Chinese Bioethics in the Time of COVID-19 City University of Hong Kong Press.

Zhao, W. (2018). Confucian Bio-Philosophical Naturalism: A Response to Ruiping Fan’s Religious Confucianism. Interreligious Perspectives on Mind, Genes, and the Self (pp. 287-301). Routledge.

Zhao, W. (2017). The Self and Its Good Vary Cross-Culturally: A Dozen Self-Variations and Chinese Familial Selves. Self, Culture, and Consciousness: Interdisciplinary Convergences on Knowing and Being (pp. 287-301). Springer.

Zhao, W. (2015). A Confucian Worldview and Family-Based Informed Consent: A Case of Concealing Illness from the Patient in China. Informed Consent: East Asian and American Perspective (pp. 231-243). Springer.

Bridging Worlds: Core Issues Facing Mexica Medicine in Modern Healthcare.

Presentations

Zhao, W. A Confucian Perspective on Prolonged Grief Disorder. Zhejiang University Philosophy Colloquium.

Zhao, W. First Princeton Zhuangzi Reading Group. First Princeton Zhuangzi Reading Group.

Zhao, W. (2025, October 24). Spiritual Traditions and Biotechnological Futures. Spiritual Traditions and Biotechnological Futures. Harvard University: Global Observatory for Genome Editing.

Zhao, W. (2025, May 24). Conceptual Misalignment as a Method: A Case Study of Classical Chinese Philosophy. CEACOP Talk Series.

Zhao, W. (2025, January 24). Revamping the Past for a Better Future. Center for East Asian and Comparative Philosophy Center Talk Series. City University of Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong.

Zhao, W. (2025, April 24). What is An Emotion? An Early Chinese Perspective on the Xing Zi Ming Chu. Neo-Confucian Seminar at Columbia University. Columbia University

Zhao, W. A Chord Theory of Meaning: Cases from Early Chinese Philosophy. Early China Roundtable. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Zhao, W. From Conceptual Misalignment to Conceptual Engineering: A Case Study on Emotion from Early Chinese Philosophy. The Socratic Society at PSU. Portland State University: Portland State University.

Zhao, W. Why Study Philosophy Comparatively and Cross-Culturally?. Invited Talk at the Department of Philosophy, University of Puget Sound. Tacoma, Washington: University of Puget Sound.

Zhao, W. Fa in Huang Zongxi: A Confucian Reasoning of Legitimacy in the 17th Century. 1st Oxford Symposium on Comparative Political Philosophy. Oxford, U.K: Oxford.

Zhao, W. The Theory of Emotion in Chinese Medicine. Invited Talk at the Department of Philosophy, Shandong University. Shandong, China

Zhao, W. Well-Being in the Philosophy of Chinese Medicine. St. Louis Happiness and Well-Being Capstone Conference, St. Louis.

Zhao, W. Gendered Bio-Philosophical Naturalism in Chinese Philosophy. Stanford Center for Advanced Behavioral Science (CABS). Palo Alto

Zhao, W. Confucianism Naturalized. UNESCO Bioethical Challenges in Neurogenomics Conference.

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