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    Western Political Thought in Dialogue with Asia (edited book)
    with Antony Black, Brett Bowden, Bruce Buchan, Fred Dallmayr, Nelly Lahoud, Cary J. Nederman, Philip Nel, Makarand Parajape, Anthony Parel, Vicki A. Spencer, Alistair Swale, and Peter Zarrow
    Lexington Books. 2008.
    Western Political Thought in Dialogue with Asia is a unique collection of essays that examines the exchange of political ideas between Western Europe and Asia from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century. The contributors to the volume call for globalizing the scope of research and teaching in the history of political thought
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    Five. Territorial Boundaries and Confucianism
    In David Lee Miller & Sohail H. Hashmi (eds.), Boundaries and Justice: Diverse Ethical Perspectives, Princeton University Press. pp. 89-111. 2002.
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    Axiological Rules and Chinese Political Philosophy
    with Zhao Dunhua, Albert H. Y. Chen, Yong Huang, Qianfan Zhang, and Shu-Hsien Liu
    Journal of Chinese Philosophy 34 (2): 161-178. 2007.
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    Moral autonomy, civil liberties, and confucianism
    Philosophy East and West 52 (3): 281-310. 2002.
    Three claims are defended. (1) There is a conception of moral autonomy in Confucian ethics that to a degree can support toleration and freedom. However, (2) Confucian moral autonomy is different from personal autonomy, and the latter gives a stronger justification for civil and personal liberties than does the former. (3) The contemporary appeal of Confucianism would be strengthened by including personal autonomy, and this need not be seen as forsaking Confucian ethics but rather as an internal …Read more
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    Confucian Perfectionism: A Response to Kim, Angle, Wong, Li, Chiu, and Ames
    Philosophy East and West 67 (1): 82-95. 2017.
    I would like to begin by thanking all the contributors to this symposium, especially Yvonne Chiu, who organized a book conference at the University of Hong Kong and edited this symposium. I am very grateful to the contributors for their thoughtful and challenging comments, from which I have learned a great deal. Within the limited space of this article, I regret that I am not able to address fully or adequately all the issues raised by the contributors. I thank Sungmoon Kim for raising challengi…Read more
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    Perfectionism
    with Franz Mang
    Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. 2022.
    In contemporary Anglo-American political philosophy, perfectionism is widely understood as the idea that the state may, or should, promote valuable conceptions of the good life and discourage conceptions that are worthless or bad. As such, debates over perfectionism occupy a central place in contemporary political philosophy because political philosophers are deeply concerned about whether or not a liberal state is permitted to promote any particular ethical or religious doctrine or impose it on…Read more
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    Is popular sovereignty a useful myth?
    with Franz Mang
    In Melissa S. Williams (ed.), Deparochializing Political Theory, Cambridge University Press. pp. 149-173. 2020.
    Popular sovereignty is one of the most widespread but poorly understood notions in modern politics. Exalted as the highest principle of democratic legitimacy, the idea of popular sovereignty has been given various but broadly similar formulations. . . .
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    Is Democracy Coming to Knock on China’s Door? A Reply to Jiwei Ci’s Democracy in China
    Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 21 (3): 451-466. 2022.
    Jiwei Ci’s Democracy in China: The Coming Crisis presents an extraordinarily rich set of ideas regarding the important subject of the prospect of democracy in China. The book argues that it is in the interest of the Chinese Communist Party to immediately begin to prepare China for democracy, as that is the only way to save the party and China from imminent crises of legitimacy, governance, and stability. Drawing upon Tocqueville’s discussion of equality of conditions in America, Ci argues that a…Read more
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    This paper suggests that liberal democratic governments adopt a reconciliatory approach to conscientious disobedience. Central to this approach is the view – independent of whether conscientious disobedience is always morally justified – that conscientious disobedience is normatively distinct from other criminal acts with similar effects, and such distinction is worthy of acknowledgment by public apparatus and actors. The prerogative applies to both civil and uncivil instances of disobedience, a…Read more
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    Public Reason Confucianism Without Foundation?
    Journal of Social Philosophy 50 (2): 134-144. 2019.
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    Freedom, the Good, and China's Moral Crisis
    Philosophy East and West 68 (2): 583-589. 2018.
    Although it is widely believed that post-Mao China has fallen into a moral crisis, there are few scholarly analyses of its nature, causes, and consequences. Jiwei Ci's Moral China in the Age of Reform–1 fills this gap by giving an unusually penetrating and insightful account of this crisis. There is much in Ci's account that one can find thought-provoking and enlightening. Any good analysis of a crisis not only gives a good diagnosis but also sheds light on a possible solution. While the diagnos…Read more
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    The Ethics and Politics of Compassion and Capabilities (edited book)
    Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong. 2007.
  • Nrf2 is involved in maintaining hepatocyte identity during liver regeneration
    with Y. Zou, J. Lee, S. M. Nambiar, M. Hu, W. Rui, Q. Bao, and G. Dai
    © 2014 Zou et al. Nrf2, a central regulator of the cellular defense against oxidative stress and inflammation, participates in modulating hepatocyte proliferation during liver regeneration. It is not clear, however, whether Nrf2 regulates hepatocyte growth, an important cellular mechanism to regain the lost liver mass after partial hepatectomy. To determine this, various analyses were performed in wild-type and Nrf2-null mice following PH. We found that, at 60 h post-PH, the vast majority of hep…Read more
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    Reply to Ci Jiwei
    Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 14 (4): 589-591. 2015.
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    Since the very beginning, Confucianism has been troubled by a serious gap between its political ideals and the reality of societal circumstances. Contemporary Confucians must develop a viable method of governance that can retain the spirit of the Confucian ideal while tackling problems arising from nonideal modern situations. The best way to meet this challenge, Joseph Chan argues, is to adopt liberal democratic institutions that are shaped by the Confucian conception of the good rather than the…Read more
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    Reply to Stephen C. Angle
    Philosophy East and West 64 (3): 798-799. 2014.
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    'Self-Restriction' and the Confucian Case for Democracy
    Philosophy East and West 64 (3): 785-795. 2014.
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    Making sense of Confucian justice
    Philosophy East and West 44 (3): 559-575. 1994.
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    Political Authority and Perfectionism: A Response to Quong
    Philosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche 2 (1). 2012.
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