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Diana Arghirescu, Director of Research, Observatoire de l’Asie de l’Est, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada.
Diana Arghirescu has a dual training, both in philosophy and in sinology, and received her doctorate in East Asian Studies (Song-dynasty thought) from the University Paris 7, France. She is a former student of National Taiwan Normal University, an award holder of the Chiang Ching- Kuo Postdoctoral Fellowship, and a visiting scholar (Confucian studies) at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, National Taiwan University. She is currently teaching Chinese Philosophy, Comparative Philosophy (Western/Chinese) and Chinese language and culture at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). DA is a co-founder of the Observatoire de l’Asie de l’Est, UQAM (in 2011), and has served as its Director of Research since 2011 to present. She is the author of De la continuité dynamique dans l’univers confucéen: Lecture néoconfucéenne du Zhongyong 中庸 (Paris: Editions du Cerf, 2013), a monograph on Zhu Xi’s thought. It includes the complete philosophical translation of Zhu Xi’s commentary Zhongyong zhangju, and a cross-cultural hermeneutics (Chinese/Western philosophy). She has published in the journals Philosophy East and West, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Comparative and Continental Philosophy, and in a collective volume on Zhu Xi’s philosophy. Her current research projects include the connections between Cheng-Zhu school and Chan Buddhism during the Song dynasty.
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