Zhou Has Book Published
28 August 2003 Zhou Has Book Published
Jinghao Zhou, assistant professor of Asian languages and cultures, had his book, Remaking Chinas Public Philosophy for the Twenty-first Century, published by Praeger Publishers in August 2003. Zhou uses the prism of public philosophy, for the first time either in the United States or China, to examine Chinese society, modernization, globalization, and democratization as a whole. Challenging conventional thinking in Asian studies, he systematically examines China in seven aspects: history, ideology, economy, politics, religion, education, and China's future, and does so from both Eastern and Western perspectives. This scholarly work can contribute profoundly not only to nonviolent process of Chinas democratization, but to international peace and development as well. The book can be used for various courses related to Asian studies.
Zhou is currently working on another book, Remaking Chinas Public Philosophy and Chinese Womens Liberation, under contract with an American press. Zhou will continue developing the central concept of public philosophy in womens studies and view womens liberation as an integrated part of nonviolent revolution of Chinas modernization and democratization in a global context. By using an integrated analytical methodology, the book will synthesize all other approaches in womens studies and open up a new way to resolve the unresolved womens problem in communist China. This book can be also used for Asian Studies courses.
Zhou comes from mainland China and published more than 40 academic articles in Chinese publications before he came to the U.S.