About the Author

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Tongdong Bai is a professor at Fudan University in Shanghai. He holds a BS degree (nuclear physics) and an MA degree (philosophy of science) from Peking University, and a PhD degree (philosophy) from Boston University. He was an associate professor of philosophy at Xavier University in Cincinnati. His most recent books are (both in Chinese): A New Mission of an Old State: Classical Confucian Political Philosophy in a Contemporary and Comparative Context and Tension of Reality: Einstein, Bohr, and Pauli in the EPR Debates. His research is focused on the contemporary relevance of Confucian political philosophy.

Praise For…

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“Bai’s volume is a welcome addition to the variety of introductory texts on Chinese philosophy that have recently or are about to hit the market. . . . Bai raises a range of thought-provoking ideas while very clearly demonstrating that the ideas of Chinese political thinkers from the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods resonate with many contemporary issues in political philosophy and have the potential to provide us with interesting and in some cases extremely different ways of looking at political and social organization.”
 
— China Journal