Kun Wang

Dr. Kun Wang is the Executive Director of the Institute for Advanced Humanities Studies at Zhejiang Normal University, holding a Ph.D. in History and a postdoctoral degree in Philosophy. He is a specially appointed professor and doctoral supervisor under the Shuanglong Scholars program at Zhejiang Normal University. He has been a visiting researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences at National Taiwan University and has been invited for academic exchanges at Temple University, the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, and Luhansk University in Ukraine. Currently, he serves as a director of the Chinese Zhu Xi Society and Vice President of the Zhejiang Zhu Xi Society. He is recognized as a leading mid-career academic in Zhejiang, a “Zhejiang Talent”, and a member of the “151 Talent Project’s third level” in Zhejiang Province. His main research areas are Chinese intellectual history, Confucianism, process philosophy, and political thought. He has led three national-level projects and five provincial/ministerial-level projects, published six books including “Confucius and Twentieth-Century Chinese Thought” and “The First Handshake Between Whitehead and Chinese Philosophy,” and authored over 70 academic papers published in journals such as “Philosophical Research,” many of which have been reprinted or excerpted in “Xinhua Digest” and “Chinese Social Sciences Digest.”