Guoxiang Peng#
| Membership Number: | 7390 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
| Affiliated section(s): | SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CHINA |
| Homepage(s): | http://mypage.zju.edu.cn/en/pgx |
| Publication Link: | https://person.zju.edu.cn/en/pgx#775920 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 - present, Qiu Shi Distinguished Professor, School of Philosophy, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
- 2026 (spring semester, Jan.-May), Visiting Professor, the Chinese University of Hong Kong
- 2018 (May-June), Visiting Professor, Yenching Academy, Peking University, China.
- 2011 - 2013, Research Fellow and Director of the Center of Cultural China, Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies; Professor, Philosophy Department, Peking University, Beijing, China
- 2008 - 2011, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- 2010 (spring semester, Jan.-May), Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- 2005 - 2007, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- 2003 - 2004 (full academic year), Arthur L. Andrews Chair Visiting Professor of Asian and Pacific Studies, Centers for Chinese Studies and Philosophy Department, University of Hawaii, the United States.
- 2003 - 2004, Associate Research Fellow (Associate Professor), Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China
- 2001 - 2003, Assistant Research Fellow (Assistant Professor), Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China
Fields of Scholarship
- Confucianism and Chinese philosophy
- Chinese intellectual history and religions
- Comparative studies in Chinese and Western philosophy and religions
Honours and Awards
- 2024 - 2025 Fellow, Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Israel
- 2023 June-August Visiting Research Fellow, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
- 2019 - 2020 Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin), Germany
- 2017 May Tin Ka Ping Visiting Scholar, Centre for East Asian and Comparative Philosophy, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- 2016 Kluge Chair in Cultures and Countries of the North, Library of Congress, USA. The first appointed Asian scholar
- 2016 November Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- 2014 Awardee Revisit Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany
- 2014 June - August Visiting Research Fellow, Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders,” the University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- 2013 Feb. - March Visiting Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
- 2012 Sept. - Oct. Visiting Scholar, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- 2012 May - August Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany
- 2012 January, Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Department of Philosophy, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- 2009 Visiting Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
- 2009 Sept.-Nov. and 2010 (June-August), Humboldt Fellow, Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe, International Research Consortium for Research in the Humanities, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany
- 2009 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Federal Ministry for Education and Research, Germany
- 2008 Guohua Distinguished Scholar Award, Tsinghua University, China
- 2007 - 2008 (full academic year), Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University, the United States
- 2006 Feb.-March, Visiting Scholar, Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies, Wesleyan University, the United States
- 2004 Sept.-Dec., Research Associate, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University, the United States




