Dr Yanxia Zhao PhD

Yanxia Zhao

Contact Details

School of Cultural Studies
Confucius Institute
Tel: 01570424 860 (360)
Mobile: 07817000386
E-mail: y.zhao@tsd.ac.uk

Location

27 College Street Lampeter

Campus

Lampeter Campus

Job Title

Lecturer and Chinese Liaison Officer

Role in the University

Teaching and research duties required as a lecturer; China affairs liaison

Background

Education and Qualifications

2007-2010

UNIVERSITY OF WALES, LAMPETER, UK

Postgraduate Certificate of ‘Teaching in Higher Education’,

Will submit on 1st September 2010.            

May 2008

ONLINE COURSE

Certificate of ‘Moodle4teachers—First Step’                              

April 2008

HANBAN & BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CULTURE AND LANGUAGE    

Certificate of ‘Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language’

2002- 2005

 

UNIVERSTITY OF WALES, LAMPETER                                 

PhD under the title of ‘On the Ethical Relationship between

Father and Son: A Comparative Study of Xunzi and Paul ’

Research based on Comparative Study of Christianity and

Confucianism

1999-2001

UNIVERSITY OF WALES, LAMPETER                                   

MPhil in Comparative Philosophy, Upgraded to PhD

1995-1997

RENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA, Beijing     

Postgraduate Diploma of Philosophy

1980- 1984

NANKAI UNIVERISTY, Tianjin, China                                            

Bachelor Degree of Philosophy

Area of Competence and Specialty

Substantially involved in developing programmes for MA in Culture and Society:

East and West and Single Honours BA Chinese Studies, and also in the establishment of the Confucius Institute at the University of Wales, Lampeter. Preparing and teaching various modules for Chinese Studies, including Chinese language. Supervising and assessing BA research projects and MA dissertations and having publications of books and articles in traditional Chinese philosophy and ethics.

Member of

British Association for Chinese Studies;

American Association for Chinese Philosophy;

British Association for Religious Studies

Academic Interests

Relationship between Chinese religion and Christianity

Family ethical relationship, such as parents and children, husband and wife

Chinese idea of Body and Soul

Daoist Yangsheng Theories and Practices

Chinese religion and philosophy in general

Publications

Articles and contributions to edited Volumes:

1. ‘On the Modernization of the Confucian Concept of Harmony’ in Liming Wang (ed) Rising China in the Age of Globalization, 2010.

2. ‘Confucius Education in Today's China’in Hong Fan (ed) China in the 21st Century: Culture, Politics and Business，Routledge，2009

3. Jiazhi, Lunli Jiazhi yu Daode Jiazhi 价值，伦理价值与道德价值（‘Value, Ethical Value and Moral Value’）, in Zhongguo Qingnian Xueyuan Xuebao, Vol.1, 1995.

 

Individual Authored Books:

1. Rujia yu jidujiao fuziguanxi bijiao, Beijing: Shehui Kexue Chubanshe, June 2010

2. Father-Son in Confucianism and Christianity: A Comparative Study of Xunzi and Paul, Brighton and Portland: Sussex Academic Press, 2007, pp.1-245

3. Zunshi, Xiaoqin Jingyou尊师，孝亲，重友 (Respect Your Teachers, Honour Your Parents and Revere Your Friends), Beijing: Zhongguo Qingnian Chubanshe (China Youth Press), 1997(won the first class prize of The Whole China Reading Books for the Youth).

4. Zhonghua Chuangtong Meide Tujie 中华传统美德图解Introduction of Chinese Traditional Virtues by Picture, Beijing: 21 Shiji Chubanshe (21st Century Press), 1996, (won the first class award of the China National Library Prize)

5. Chuantong Meide 传统美德Traditional Moral Cultivation, Beijing: Jinghua Chubanshe (Jinghua Press), 1995 (won the Third prize of the University Books Award of the Youth University for Political Science; One of the good book that was recommended to the youth by the Beijing City Government).

 

Co-authored Books: 

1. Chinese Religion: A Contextual Approach, Co-Author with Prof. Xinzhong Yao, April 2010, published by Continuum International Publishing Group at London and New York

2. Shehui Zhuyi Qiye Wenhua Jianshe 建设社会主义企业文化（Establishing Socialist Enterprise Culture）, Beijing: Zhongguo Qiye Wenhua Chubanshe , 1995.

3. ZM Lilun ZM理论 (ZM Theory), Beijing: Renmin Chubanshe (The People’s Press), 1995, (co-author, won the Second Prize of Beijing Social Science Book Award)

4. Chuantong ren diode yu xiandai ren diode 传统人道德与现代人道德 (Traditional people’s Morality and Modern people’s Morality), Beijing Gongren Jiaoyu Chubanshe (Worker’s Education Press), 1989, (part chapters of this book was translated into English and published in Australia)

 

Translations:

1. Jen and Agape: Comparative Studies between Confucianism and Christianity, (Trans.), Beijing: Shehui Kexue Chubanshe, 2002

2. The 21th Century Humanism (Co-trans.), Beijing: Renmin Chubanshe (The People’s Press), 1998.

Additional Information

Conference papers:

1. ‘Xunzi’s Notion of Yi and Its Influence on Traditional Chinese Idea of State’, paper presented at the 2002 Annual Conference of the British Association for Study of Religions.

2. ‘Confucian Education in Modern China: Challenge and Opportunities’, paper presented in the international conference entitled as ‘China in the 21st Century: Culture, Politics and Business’, 6-8, June 2007 at UCC, Cork, Ireland.

3. ‘On the Modernization of Confucian Concept of Harmony’, paper presented in Rising China in the Age of Globalisation: The Inaugural International Conference of the UCD Confucius Institute for Ireland and the Irish Institute for Chinese Studies, July, 2007 at Doblin, Ireland.

4. ‘On the impact of Confucian Ethics on Modern Chinese Economy’, paper presented in The Third Sino-German Symposium: A Cross-Culture Comparison of the Relationship between Economic Ethics and Technical Ethics, on 20-24th July 2008 at the University of Stuttgart

5. 10th February 2010, in TRS Seminar Series of the University of Wales Lampeter to give a paper entitled as ‘Chinese religion: A Contextual Approach’.

6. Annual Conference of American Asian Philosophy on 17th to 20th February 2010 at Chicago, present paper entitle ‘On Chinese Concept of Harmony’ with no personal attending

7. Speaker of the conference entitled as ‘Religion and the Charitable Society in China’ on 1-3July 2010 at the Pavilion115 New Cavendish Street, University of Westrninster London, with paper entitles ‘Daoism in the Field of Chinese Charity’.

8. Speaker of the Yangsheng Forum of the Third Daoist Cultural Festival to be held by Whole China Daoist Association at Qingcheng Daoist Temple and Sichuan University of China from 16th to 19th September 2010, with paper: Modernization and Internationalization of Daoist Yangsheng tradition

Seminars and Workshops

1. Chinese Religion: A Contextual Approach in Department of Theology and Religious Studies of UWL Research Seminar Series on the 10th February 2010

Organizing Conference and Workshops

1. To organize The International Symposium on Education and Ethics in Chinese and British Primary and Secondary Schools at the University of Wales Lampeter from 11-12th September 2007.  

2. To organize an international conference for the launch of the Centre for Daoist Studies: The Embodiment of the Dao: Daoist Yangsheng (道家养生) and the cultivation of health and vitality, at the Lampeter Campus of the University of Wales Trinity and Saint David on 23rd to 24th October 2010.