Ge Zhaoguang is the director of the National Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Fudan University, Shanghai. His work includes many studies of Daoism and Buddhism in the mid-imperial period, and a two-volume synthesis entitled History of Chinese Thought: Knowledge, Thought and Belief (Volume I, origins to seventh century; Volume II, seventh to nineteenth centuries). He has been a Global Scholar at Princeton, among other appointments and honors. His scholarship raises questions of the nation and the meaning of “China.” As a 2013-2016 Neubauer Collegium Visiting Fellow, Ge Zhaoguang was one of four collaborators involved in Judith Farquhar and Haun Saussy’s Neubauer Collegium project, History, Philology, and the Nation in the Chinese Humanities.

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