Professor of Philosophy at Grand Valley State University, U.S., Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Beijing Normal Uni-versity, Former Executive Vice Director of the Institute for Ad-vanced Humanistic Studies at Peking University, President of the Society of Asian and Comparative Philosophy (SACP). Ma-jor research fields: comparative studies of Chinese (particularly the Confucian tradition) and Western philosophy; Selected publications: Understanding the Analects of Confucius – A New Translation of Lunyu with Annotations (2017), Confucius – The Man and the Way of Gongfu (2016), On Confu-cius (2002), etc.