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Paul R. Goldin

Department Chair

Professor
Chinese Thought

   

Education:   Ph.D., Harvard University, 1996.

   

Research Interests:

My main area of research is Warring States China (5th to 3rd centuries B.C.). Although my focus is intellectual and cultural history, the study of this period is necessarily interdisciplinary and my work also involves archaeology, art history, literature, and philosophy. I am currently composing a book-length history of classical Chinese philosophy which was commissioned by the University of Hawaii Press.

Selected Publications:

After Confucius: Studies in Early Chinese Philosophy (Hawaii, 2005)
The Culture of Sex in Ancient China (Hawaii, 2002)
Rituals of the Way: The Philosophy of Xunzi (Open Court, 1999)
In addition, I edited the new release of R.H. van Gulik's classic study, Sexual Life in Ancient China (Brill, 2003), and co-edited, with my colleagues Victor H. Mair and Nancy S. Steinhardt, the Hawaii Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture (Hawaii, 2005)
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Prof. Goldin's bibliographies and other research resources can be found here

Prizes/Awards/Fellowships:

Weiler Faculty Humanities Research Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2006.
Project Grant, China & Inner Asia Council, Association for Asian Studies, 1997.

 

Courses:

EALC 1 (Introduction to Chinese Civilization); EALC 131/531 (Introduction to Classical Chinese Thought); EALC 34/RELS 184 (What Is Taoism?); EALC 239/639 (Sex and Society in Ancient China); EALC 240/640 (Early Chinese History); EALC 241/641 (Law in Pre-Modern China); EALC 721/722 (Advanced Classical Chinese); EALC 740 (Sinological Methods).

           
           
East Asian art

 

Fall 2008
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