Philippe Major Editor

Thierry Meynard is Doctor in Chinese Philosophy from Peking University with a thesis on the religious thought of Liang Shuming (2003), published in English as The Religious Philosophy of Liang Shuming (2010). Since 2006, he is professor of philosophy at Sun Yat-sen University, China. He is also director of the Archives for the Introduction of Western Learning, and the executive director of the Research Center on Canton and international exchanges. 

Philippe Major is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for European Global Studies of the University of Basel. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the National University of Singapore, where he wrote his thesis on modern Confucianism in Republican China, and an MA in History from National Taiwan University. Situated in the fields of modern Chinese philosophy and modern Chinese intellectual history, his work focuses on the issues of the politics of tradition and antitradition, textual authority, and epistemic hegemony.