Chen Jianhong received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, in 2006. He taught philosophy at Nankai University, Tianjin, China, from 2006 to 2015, and currently is professor and chairman of the Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai) at Sun Yat-sen University. He has published, in English and in Chinese, on a variety of topics in political philosophy and religious studies, with a particular focus on Leo Strauss, Carl Schmitt, and Thomas Hobbes.  

JUN-HYEOK KWAK, Ph.D.Sun Yat-sen Professor, Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen UniversityEmail: jhkwak@mail.sysu.edu.cn | junkwak0512@gmail.com RESEARCH AREASPolitical Philosophy; Contemporary Political Theory; Comparative Political Philosophy; Global Justice. EDUCATION• Ph.D. in Political Science, University of Chicago, August 2002.ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS• Sun Yat-sen (Yixian) Professor, Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University, China, January 2024-present.• Head of Political Philosophy and Ethics, Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University, China, March 2021-present.• One Hundred Talented Professor, Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University, China, March 2016-Feburary 2021.• Professor, Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University, China, March 2016-present.• Co-Director, Institute for Values and Ethics, Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea, March 2013-February 2016.• Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Korea University, January 2010-February 2013.• Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Korea University, September 2007-December 2009.• Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea, February 2005-August 2007.• Research Assistant Professor, Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University, September 2003-January 2005.• Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago, September 2002-August 2003.• Visiting Scholar / Visiting Professor: Rikkyo University, July 2025; European University Institute, June-August 2006; University of Bologna, December 2005-February 2006.EDITORIAL AND SERIES ROLES• General Editor, Routledge Series of Political Theories in East Asian Context, February 2011-present.• Co-Editor, Journal of Social and Political Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press, September 2021-August 2026.• Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Asiatic Studies, September 2007-March 2010.PUBLICATIONSMonographs• Machiavelli and Republican Leadership: Conflict, Innovation, and Education of Potential Tyrants. Routledge, forthcoming 2027.• Machiavelli's Silence. Korean. Seoul: Kachi, forthcoming 2027.• 《马基雅维利政治哲学导论》 [Introduction to Machiavelli's Political Philosophy]. Chinese. Beijing: China Social Sciences Press, 2025. ISBN 9787522749662.• 《西方政治哲学导论》 [Introduction to Western Political Philosophy]. Chinese. Beijing: China Social Sciences Press, 2023. ISBN 9787522716091.• Political Philosophy, Vols. I-II. Korean. Seoul: Minumsa, 2016. ISBN 9788937433009 and 9788937433016.• Re-Reading Machiavelli: Realist with Imagination. Korean. Seoul: Minumsa, 2014. ISBN 9788937487996. Received the Excellent Scholarly Book Award from the National Academy of Sciences, South Korea, 2015.• Domination and Non-domination: Reading Machiavelli's Il Principe. Korean. Seoul: Minumsa, 2013. ISBN 9788937488139. Received the Excellent Scholarly Book Award from the National Academy of Sciences, South Korea, 2014.• Beyond Border and Prejudice: Interviews with Contemporary Political Theorists. Korean. Paju: Hangilsa, 2010. ISBN 9788935662210. Winner of the 2011 Best Book Award for the Humanities, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, South Korea.Edited Books• Shame across East and West. Edited with Krista Thomason and Ken Cheng. Routledge, 2025. ISBN 978-1-041-12972-1.• Relationality across East and West. Edited with Ken Cheng. Routledge, 2025; paperback edition, 2026. ISBN 978-1-032-91538-8.• Modernities in Northeast Asia. Edited with Ken Cheng. Routledge, 2023; paperback edition, 2025. ISBN 978-1-032-50560-2.• Machiavelli in Northeast Asia. Edited by Jun-Hyeok Kwak. Routledge, 2022; paperback edition, 2024. ISBN 978-1-032-25691-7.• Global Justice in East Asia. Edited with Hugo El Kholi. Routledge, 2019; paperback edition, 2021. ISBN 978-0-367-28098-1.• Leo Strauss in Northeast Asia. Edited with Sungwoo Park. Routledge, 2019; paperback edition, 2021. ISBN 978-0-367-21097-7.• Republicanism in Northeast Asia. Edited with Leigh Jenco. Routledge, 2015; paperback edition, 2017. ISBN 978-0-415-74668-7.• Patriotism in East Asia. Edited with Koichiro Matsuda. Routledge, 2015; paperback edition, 2017. ISBN 978-0-415-73715-9.• Inherited Responsibility and Historical Reconciliation in East Asian Context. Edited with Melissa Nobles. Routledge, 2013; paperback edition, 2019. ISBN 9780415535694.• Still Nationalism? An Intellectual History of Patriotism. Edited with Hongsik Cho. Korean. Paju: Hangilsa, 2012. ISBN 9788935662364.• Entangled Modernities. Edited with Henry Em. Korean. Seoul: Humanitas, 2009. ISBN 9788964371046.Peer-Reviewed Articles• “From Remonstrance to the Ethics of Public Office: Democratic Persuasion under Reversed Verticality.”Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. October 2, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-026-10584-6[A&HCI]• "Nationalism and Imperialism: Yi Kwangsu's Collaboration in Colonial Korea." Journal of the History of Political Thought 17(1): 120-137, 2026. Co-authored with Shaowei Tang. Chinese. [CSSCI]• "Shame and Democratic Civility: A Critique of Martha Nussbaum's View of Constructive Shame." Journal of Sun Yat-sen University 65(4): 289-301, 2025. Translated by Xiaoya Hua. Chinese. [CSSCI]• "Displacing the Christian Theodicy of Hell: Yi Kwangsu's Search for the Willful Individual in Colonial Modernity." Religions 16(1): 78, 2025. Co-authored with Mengxiao Huang. [A&HCI] https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16010078• "Deliberation with Non-domination: 'The Political' in Aristotle's Politics." Journal of Sichuan University 254(4): 36-44, 2024. Chinese. [CSSCI]• "Prudent Leadership: Machiavelli's Thought on Conflict in the Discourses on Livy." Wuda Philosophical Review 33(1): 1-22, 2024. Co-authored with Jintao Peng. Chinese. [CSSCI]• "Individuality with Relationality: Ahn Changho's Modern Transvaluation of Confucianism." Philosophy East and West 73(3): 677-697, 2023. [A&HCI]• "A Confucian Reappraisal of Christian Love: Ahn Changho Contra Augustinian Studies Conducted in South Korea." Religions 14(6): 177, 2023. [A&HCI] https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14060777• "Non-domination with Nothingness: Supplementing Pettit's Theory of Democratic Deliberation." Journal of Social and Political Philosophy 2(1): 60-77, 2023.• "Reconsidering Pandemic Nationalism: Civil Compliance in Times of Crisis." The Journal of International Studies 43(4): 31-48, 2022. Co-authored with Jiawen Li. Chinese. [CSSCI] Reprinted in Renmin University Photocopied Materials, Ethics, no. 1, 2023.• "Confucian Role-Ethics with Non-Domination: Civil Compliance in Times of Crisis." Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 25: 199-213, 2022. [A&HCI]• "Non-domination and Neo-Roman Republicanism." Journal of the History of Political Thought 13(2): 1-17, 2022. Co-authored with Philip Pettit; translated by Mengxiao Huang. Chinese. [CSSCI]• "Interview with Philip Pettit: Neo-Roman Republicanism and Northeast Asia." Comparative Political Theory 2(1): 52-68, 2022. With Philip Pettit.• "Reciprocal Non-domination: A Critique of Pettit's Theory of Democratic Deliberation." Journal of Sichuan University 237(6): 20-29, 2021. Chinese. [CSSCI] Reprinted in Renmin University Photocopied Materials, Political Science, no. 2, 2022.• "Deliberation with Persuasion: The 'Political' in Aristotle's Politics." Australian Journal of Political Science 56(3): 318-333, 2021. [SSCI]• "Overcoming Victimhood: Forward-Looking Apology with Reciprocal Non-domination." Korean Journal of Political Science 29(3): 245-274, 2021. [KSSCI]• "On Aristotle's Political Friendship: A Republican Reconsideration." Study and Exploration 309(4): 56-63, 2021. Co-authored with Mengxiao Huang. Chinese. [CSSCI]• "Global Justice without Self-Centrism: Tianxia in Dialogues on Mount Uisan." Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 20(2): 289-307, 2021. [A&HCI]• "Sociopolitical Conditions for the Common Good with Diversity: On Pettit's Just Freedom." China Scholarship 42: 404-411, 2020. Chinese. [CSSCI]• "Republican Liberation and Non-domination: Democratic Republicanism and the March First Movement." Korea Observer 50(2): 269-286, 2019. [SSCI]• "Aristotle's Conception of Citizen Rights: A Critique of Fred Miller." Morality and Civilization 220(3): 108-117, 2019. First author; co-authored with Mengxiao Huang. Chinese. [CSSCI]• "Global Citizenship: An Interpretation in Classical Republicanism." The Journal of International Studies 40(1): 97-116, 2019. First author; co-authored with Mengxiao Huang. Chinese. [CSSCI] Reprinted in Renmin University Photocopied Materials, Political Science, no. 7, 2019.• "Democratic Leadership: Machiavelli and Populist Republicanism." Journal of the History of Political Thought 10(1): 160-185, 2019. Translated by Runjie Ou. Chinese. [CSSCI]• "Republican Patriotism and Machiavelli's Patriotism." Australian Journal of Political Science 52(3): 436-449, 2017. [SSCI]• "Reciprocal Non-domination: Machiavelli contra Neo-Roman Republicanism." Journal of the History of Political Thought 6(2): 73-94, 2015. Chinese. [CSSCI]• "Reciprocal Non-domination and Historical Reconciliation." Waseda Asia Review 15: 35-41, 2014. Japanese.• "Non-dominative Leadership: Re-appropriation of Pedagogical Rhetoric in Machiavelli's The Prince." Korean Political Science Review 47(5): 27-50, 2013. Korean. [KSSCI]• "Nationalism and Democracy Revisited: The Limits of Democratic Nationalism in South Korea." The Korean Journal of International Studies 11(1): 143-171, 2013. [KSSCI]• "Leo Strauss's On Tyranny and Machiavelli's Patriotism." The Korean Review of Political Thought 20(2): 1-21, 2012. Korean. [KSSCI]• "Liberal Neutrality and Agonistic Politics: The Judicial Review of the Constitutional Court Reconsidered." Korean Political Science Review 44(5): 1-27, 2010. Co-authored with Seung-Hun Hong. [KSSCI]• "Consequential Paternalism: Reconsidering the Leadership of Park Chung-Hee." National Strategy 16(4): 5-31, 2010. Korean. [KSSCI]• "The Candlelight Vigils in South Korea: Neoliberal Protesters with National-Democratic Discourses." Korean Journal of Political Science 18(2): 291-315, 2010. Co-authored with Gye-won Jo. [KSSCI]• "Reconsidering the Comfort Women Case: Inherited Responsibility as Civic Responsibility." Korea Observer 41(3): 329-349, 2010. [SSCI]• "Politics of Aspiration: Machiavelli and Classical Republicanism." Japanese Journal of Political Thought 10: 153-182, 2010. Japanese.• "Coexistence without Principle: Reconsidering Multicultural Policies in Japan." Pacific Focus 24(2): 161-186, 2009. [SSCI]• "Human Rights and Republicanism." The Korean Review of Political Thought 15(1): 33-55, 2009. Korean. [KSSCI]• "Civic Responsibility: Classical Republicanism and Citizenship." Korean Journal of Political Science 16(2): 127-149, 2008. Korean. [KSSCI]• "Domination through Subordination: Yi Kwangsu's Colonial Collaboration." Korea Observer 39(3): 427-452, 2008. [SSCI]• "On Authority in Machiavelli's Discourses." Korean Political Science Review 42(2): 23-44, 2008. Korean. [KSSCI]• "Why and Which Republicanism?" The Journal of Asiatic Studies 51(2): 133-163, 2008. Korean. [KSSCI]• "Cicero's Classical Republicanism." The Korean Review of Political Thought 13(2): 132-154, 2007. Korean. [KSSCI]• "Political Rhetoric and Democratic Leadership: Unpacking Aristotle's Rhetoric." National Strategy 13(1): 41-65, 2007. Korean. [KSSCI]• "Democratic Leadership: Machiavelli Supplementing Populist Republicanism." Korean Journal of Political Science 14(3): 115-142, 2007. [KSSCI]• "Multicultural Coexistence and Social Integration." Korean Journal of Political Science 15(2): 23-41, 2007. Korean. [KSSCI]• "Reconsidering Judicial Review: Constitutional Adjudication and Reciprocal Non-domination." Korean Political Science Review 40(4): 1-25, 2007. Korean. [KSSCI]• "Democracy and Republicanism: Two Principles of Constitutional Framework." Korean Political Science Review 39(3): 33-57, 2005. Korean. [KSSCI]• "Deliberative Democracy and Reciprocal Non-domination." National Strategy 11(2): 141-168, 2005. Korean. [KSSCI]• "The Politics of Domination: Yi Kwangsu and Nationalism." Japanese Journal of Political Thought 5: 17-35, 2005. Japanese.• "Non-domination and Contestability: Machiavelli contra Neo-Roman Republicanism." Korean Political Science Review 38(4): 219-239, 2004. [KSSCI]• "Rhetorical Meanings of Political Change in Machiavelli's Discorsi." Korean Political Science Review 38(3): 29-53, 2004. Korean. [KSSCI]• "National Identity and Democratic Citizenship: The Principle of Liberty as Non-domination in the Global Era." Social Science Studies 12(2): 34-66, 2004. Korean. [KSSCI]• "Patriotism without Nationalism and the Peace Principle of Non-domination." The Journal of Asiatic Studies 46(4): 311-340, 2003. Korean. [KSSCI]• "On Conflict in Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy." The Korean Review of Political Thought 9: 171-194, 2003. Korean. [KSSCI]Book Reviews• Review of Jin Y. Park, Marginality: Solidarity and the Fight for Social Change. Columbia University Press, 2025. Journal of Social and Political Philosophy 5(1): 250-252, 2026.Book Chapters• "Democratic Civility with Relational Non-domination: A Critique of Martha Nussbaum's View of Constructive Shame." In Shame across East and West, edited by Jun-Hyeok Kwak, Krista Thomason, and Ken Cheng, 64-80. Routledge, 2025.• "Individuality with Relationality: Transvaluation of Confucianism with Mutual Love." In Relationality across East and West, edited by Jun-Hyeok Kwak and Ken Cheng, 113-131. Routledge, 2025.• "Relationality without Hierarchy: Hong Daeyong's Reappraisal of Tianxia." In Tianxia in Comparative Perspective: Alternative Models of Geopolitical Order, edited by Roger Ames, Sor-hoon Tan, and Y. H. Yang, 21-38. University of Hawaii Press, 2023.• "Overcoming Victimhood: Forward-Looking Apology with Reciprocal Non-domination." In As Aporia, Reconciliation and Justice, edited by Naoyuki Umemori, 337-369. Akashi Shoten, 2023. Japanese.• "Introduction: Modernities in Northeast Asia." In Modernities in Northeast Asia, edited by Jun-Hyeok Kwak and Ken Cheng, 3-16. Routledge, 2023. Co-authored with Ken Cheng.• "Introduction: Machiavelli and Northeast Asia." In Machiavelli in Northeast Asia, edited by Jun-Hyeok Kwak, 3-13. Routledge, 2022.• "Reappraisal of Tianxia with Non-domination." In Global Justice in East Asia, edited by Hugo El Kholi and Jun-Hyeok Kwak, 158-170. Routledge, 2020.• "Reception of Leo Strauss in Northeast Asia." In Leo Strauss in East Asia, edited by Jun-Hyeok Kwak and Sungwoo Park, 3-12. Routledge, 2019.• "Religious Nationalism and Non-domination: Ahn Changho's Cosmopolitan Patriotism." In Religion and Nationalism in Asia, edited by Giorgio Shani and Takashi Kibe, 124-138. Routledge, 2019.• "Non-domination and Shame Culture: Reconsidering Criminal Punishment in Republicanism." In Republicanism in Northeast Asia, edited by Jun-Hyeok Kwak and Leigh Jenco, 39-53. Routledge, 2017.• "Patriotism and Nationalism: 'Republican Patriotism' in the Northeast Asian Context." In Patriotism in East Asia, edited by Jun-Hyeok Kwak and Koichiro Matsuda, 28-46. Routledge, 2017.• "Classical Meanings of Citizenship." In Global Citizenship and Global Governance, edited by Jae-chang Park et al. Hong Kong: YMCA, 2011.• "Political Philosophy of Niccolò Machiavelli." In Understanding Human Beings through Classics, edited by Jung-kyu Choi et al. Taegu: Kyungpook National University Press, 2010. Korean.• "Contemporary Appropriations of Republicanism." In Political Science Handbook 2, Vol. 1, edited by The Korean Political Science Association et al. Seoul: Bupmunsa, 2008. Korean.• "Republicanism." In Political Science Handbook 1, Vol. 1, edited by The Korean Political Science Association et al. Seoul: Bupmunsa, 2007. Korean.Translations• The Prince. Translated by Jun-Hyeok Kwak. Korean. Seoul: Minumsa, forthcoming 2027. Funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Italy.• Just Freedom. Translated with Cheyoung Yoon. Korean. Paju: Hangilsa, 2019. Originally published by Philip Pettit, Norton, 2014. ISBN 9788935668069.• Republicanism. Translated by Jun-Hyeok Kwak. Korean. Paju: Nanam, 2012. Originally published as Republicanism by Philip Pettit, Oxford University Press, 1997. ISBN 9788930085465. Translation supported by the Korea Research Foundation, 2007 (KRF-2007-B00003).• The Principles of Representative Government. Translated by Jun-Hyeok Kwak. Korean. Seoul: Humanitas, 2004. Originally published by Bernard Manin, Cambridge University Press, 1997. ISBN 8990107060. Winner of the 2004 Good Book Award, Korea Publication Ethics Commission.SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS• "The Hegemon under Relational Non-domination: Supplementing 'Tianxia' with a Regulative Principle." Tianxia: Idea, History, and Comparison, Renmin University, December 6, 2025.• "Taming Value Rivalries: Peaceful Coexistence through Relational Non-domination." The 8th World Humanities Forum 2025, The Humanities in the Age of AI Transformation: Exploring Paths to Coexistence, Andong International Convention Center, South Korea, November 5, 2025.• "Supplementing Filial Piety with Relational Non-domination: A Reappraisal of the Confucian Idea of Caring Responsibility." Chinese Philosophy and World Philosophies, Xidian University, October 18, 2025.• "Global Justice with Relational Non-domination: Rectifying Chinese Cosmopolitanism with the Confucian Notion of Shu." International Political Science Association, Seoul, July 14, 2025.• "Democratic Civility beyond Reciprocal Non-domination." Chinese Foreign Philosophy Association Annual Congress 2024, Sun Yat-sen University, November 23, 2024.• "Democratic Civility with Relational Non-domination." Beijing International Conference on the Philosophy of Normativity, Beijing Normal University, November 2, 2024.• "Family-hood with Non-domination: A Republican Reappraisal of Confucian Views of Caring Relationality." International Symposium of Comparative Political Philosophy, Wuhan University, China, July 23, 2024.• "Relational Non-domination: Supplementing the Neo-Roman Republican Views of Civility." 31st World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Seoul, Korea, July 9, 2024.• "Shame with Reciprocal Non-domination." Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, April 6, 2024.• "Inclusive Shame for Peaceful Coexistence: Historical Reconciliation with Reciprocal Non-domination." Asian Political and International Studies Association Annual Congress 2023, Merdeka Tower Business Center, Warmadewa College, Denpasar, Indonesia, June 29-July 1, 2023.• "Christian Love with Confucian Filial Piety: Ahn Changho contra Augustinian Studies in South Korea." American Southern Political Science Association, Summer Virtual Meeting 2023, June 16-17, 2023.• "Religion and Nationalism: Ahn Changho's Cosmopolitan Patriotism." International Political Science Association RC 43 Colloquium, The Nation as a Sacred Community, Queen's University Belfast, UK, May 31, 2023.• "Non-domination with Relationality: A Critique of Pettit's Theory of Democratic Deliberation." Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, April 8, 2022.• "Confucian Role-Ethics with Non-Domination: Civil Compliance in Times of Crisis." Swiss Political Science Association Annual Meeting, University of Lausanne, February 3, 2022.• "Religious Nationalism and Non-domination." 26th World Congress of Political Science, International Political Science Association, Lisbon, July 10-15, 2021.• "Global Justice without a Center: Hong Daeyong's Reappraisal of Tianxia." Tianxia in Comparative Perspective: Alternative Models of Geopolitical Order, Berggruen Research Center, Peking University, April 17-28, 2021.• "Deliberation and Persuasion: The 'Political' in Aristotle's Politics." Phenomenology and the 'Political' Conference, Chinese University of Hong Kong, May 8-12, 2019.• "Reappraisal of Tianxia with Non-domination." Rethinking Global Political Thought, Narratives of Order Workshop, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, May 25, 2018.• "Politics of Shame: Historical Reconciliation and Nationalist Interpellation in Northeast Asia." ISA Annual Meeting, University of Hong Kong, June 17, 2017.• "Historical Reconciliation with Reciprocal Non-domination: A Forward-Looking Approach to Inherited Responsibility in Northeast Asia." ISA Asia-Pacific, City University of Hong Kong, June 25, 2016.• "Religious Nationalism with Reciprocal Non-domination: Ahn Changho's Humanitarian Cosmopolitanism." International Symposium, Beyond Nationalism? Peace-building and Religion in Asia and Europe, Institute of Global Concern, Sophia University, Japan, December 22, 2014.• "Amorphous Comparative Political Theory: Another Journey beyond East and West." Future of the History of Ideas Conference, University of Sydney, August 11-12, 2014.• "Niccolò Machiavelli and Republican Patriotism." Quincentenary Celebration of The Prince International Symposium, Tianjin Normal University, May 25-26, 2013.• "Non-domination and Shame Culture: Reconsidering Criminal Punishment in Republicanism." SSK Joint Workshop, Chung Cheng University, Taiwan, December 2012.• "Leo Strauss's Thoughts on Tyranny and Korean Society." Routledge Series of Political Theories in East Asian Context Workshop, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, September 14, 2012.• "Republican Patriotism in Northeast Asian Context." Joint Conference of Civil Society Research Group, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, December 2011.• "Deliberative Democracy with Reciprocal Non-domination: Making Non-domination a Regulative Principle." Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 2011.• "Historical Reconciliation and Reciprocal Non-domination: Reconsidering Inherited Responsibility in the Comfort Women Case." American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., September 2010.• "Democratic Leadership: Machiavelli's Interpretation of the Gracchi in Discorsi." Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 2010.• "Liberal Neutrality and Agonistic Politics: The Judicial Review of the Korean Constitutional Court Reconsidered." Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 2010.• "Global Citizenship with Civic Responsibility." American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, September 2009.• "Two Nationalisms in South Korea." World Congress for Korean Politics, Korean Political Science Association, August 2009.• "Political Agency without Civic Responsibility." Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 2009.• "Republican Constitutionalism and East Asian Values." Joint Conference of Korean and Japanese Political Thought Associations, Tokyo, June 2007.• "Democratic Leadership: The Ciompi Revolt of 1378 in Machiavelli's Istorie Fiorentine." International Political Science Association World Conference, Fukuoka, July 2006.• "Ambiguous Civil Society in Post-Democracy of South Korea." Asian Conference on Democracy and Electoral Reforms, Manila, Philippines, November 2004.• "On Leadership: An Interpretation of Book 1, Chapter 37 in Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy." Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 2000.• "Interaction Between Ideological Constraint and Human Practice: The Democratization of South Korea in 1987." Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 1999.SELECTED INVITED TALKS• “Relational Non-domination: A Normative Reconstruction of Political Realism.” Streamline Talk Series, Department of Politics and Public Administration, the University of Hong Kong, May 14, 2026•“Realism with Hope: From the Power to Non-domination." Wangyue No. 18 Lecture Series, School of Philosophy and Social Development, Shandong University, April 17, 2026.•  "Taming the New Cold War with Relational Non-domination." Human Peace and Healing Workshop, Institute of Convergence Science, Yonsei University, Seoul, September 12, 2025.• "Machiavelli's Thoughts on Democratic Leadership." Political Philosophy Workshop, Waseda University, Tokyo, July 12, 2025.• "Democratic Civility with Relational Non-domination: A Critique of Martha Nussbaum's Constructive Shame." MAPPE Seminar, University of Hong Kong, September 12, 2024.• "Machiavelli's Republicanism and Republican Leadership." Philosophy Seminar, School of Humanities, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, September 5, 2024.• "Machiavelli's Republican Leadership." Wuhan Summer School of Political Philosophy, Wuhan University, China, July 19, 2024.• "Shame and Civility." Rikkyo Political Studies Workshop, Department of Law, Rikkyo University, June 25, 2024.• "Political Emotion and Democratic Civility: Taming Public Shamelessness in the Age of Discontent." Global Asia Research Center Lecture Series, Waseda University, June 24, 2024.• "Confucian Political Thought and Political Philosophy: Focusing on Individuality with Relationality." Naver Open Forum, Today's World, Korea, August 12, 2023.• "Socratic Machiavelli and His Republicanism." International Philosophy Summer School, Fudan University, China, August 5-6, 2023.• "Inclusive Shame and Historical Reconciliation." Lecture Series of Global Asia Research Center, Waseda University, Japan, July 19-21, 2023.• "Historical Reconciliation with Reciprocal Non-domination." Political Philosophy Research Seminar, Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, November 28, 2019.• "Deliberation and Persuasion: The 'Political' in Aristotle's Politics." Political Philosophy Lecture, Peking University, China, September 25, 2019.• "Global Justice without a Center: Reappraisal of Tianxia with Non-domination." Current Project Seminar, University of Sydney, Australia, March 21, 2019.• "Historical Injustice and Inherited Responsibility." Political Theory Workshop, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, UK, November 2, 2018.• "New Cosmopolitanism: Global Justice with Reciprocal Non-domination." Rikkyo Political Studies Workshop, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan, June 1, 2018.• "Machiavelli and Republicanism." Ludao Philosophical Forum, Huaqiao University, China, April 13, 2018.• "Republican Patriotism." Global Asia Lecture, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, January 18, 2018.• "Historical Reconciliation with Reciprocal Non-domination." FAH/PHIL Guest Lecture, University of Macau, China, April 7, 2017.• "Patriotism." Naver Open Forum, Culture Inside and Outside, Korea, August 19, 2016.• "Republicanism." Education Broadcasting System, Korea, June 14, 2016. Televised nationwide in South Korea.• "Machiavelli and Us: Democratic Leadership." AFP Program, Seoul National University, Korea, April 25, 2016.• "Machiavelli." Naver Open Forum, Culture Inside and Outside, Korea, September 5, 2015.• "Liberty as Non-domination for Social Justice." Forum on Ethics, Renmin University, China, October 13, 2014.• "Machiavelli and Us: Revisiting Democratic Leadership." Political Philosophy Lecture, Tianjin Normal University, China, June 13, 2014.• "Deliberative Democracy with Reciprocal Non-domination." Philosophy Workshop, Nankai University, China, June 12, 2014.• "Historical Reconciliation with Reciprocal Non-domination: A Forward-Looking Approach to Inherited Responsibility in Northeast Asia." Open Lecture of the Social Science Research Institute, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan, November 7, 2013.• "Historical Reconciliation and Inherited Responsibility." 75th Asia Seminar, Waseda University, Japan, June 2013.• "Republicanism in East Asian Context." Philosophy Workshop, Nankai University, China, May 23, 2013.• "Nationalism and Democracy Revisited: The Strange Hollowness of Civil Society in South Korea." Forum of the Department of Law, Rikkyo University, Japan, November 8, 2012.• "Niccolò Machiavelli and Republican Patriotism in East Asian Context." Center for European Studies Lecture, Peking University, China, October 17, 2012.• "Democratic Nationalism with Reciprocal Non-domination: Nationalisms and the Democratization of South Korea in the 1980s." Workshop at the Department of Sociology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, February 2011.• "Multicultural Coexistence and East Asian Community." Migration and Multiculturalism Workshop, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, December 2010.• "Historical Reconciliation and Inherited Responsibility." 2009 International Colloquium, Waseda University, Japan, December 2009.• "Global Citizenship with Civic Responsibility." YMCA Forum on Global Citizenship, Tokyo, Japan, October 2008.• "Judicial Review and Republican Constitutionalism." 66th Monthly Meeting of the Association for the Study of the Constitution, Constitutional Court of Korea, Korea, June 2006.• "A Democratic Commonality before Burgeoning Civil Society." Seminario di Dipartimento, Dipartimento di Politica, Istituzioni, Storia, University of Bologna, Italy, January 2006.PEER REVIEW SERVICEReviewer for American Political Science Review, International Migration Review, Ethics, Australian Journal of Political Science, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Nations and Nationalism, Journal of Social and Political Philosophy, Society, Dao, Journal of Political Studies, Philosophy East and West, Comparative Political Theory, Japanese Journal of Political Science, Korean Political Science Review, Korean Journal of International Studies, and Zhexue Yanjiu.AWARDS AND HONORS• Yixian (Sun Yat-sen) Excellent Scholar Award, Sun Yat-sen University, 2024.• First-Class Course Award, Key Issues in Political Philosophy, Sun Yat-sen University, 2022.• Excellent Teaching Award, Undergraduate Teaching, Sun Yat-sen University, 2021.• Excellent Service Award, Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University, 2020.• Excellent Scholarly Book Award, Re-Reading Machiavelli (2014), National Academy of Sciences, South Korea, 2015.• Premi e contributi per la traduzione, Machiavelli's Il Principe, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Italy, 2014.• Excellent Scholarly Book Award, Domination and Non-domination (2013), Ministry of Culture and Tourism, South Korea, 2014.• Excellent Scholarly Book Award, Neo-Republicanism (translation, 2012), National Academy of Sciences, South Korea, 2012.• Best Book Award for the Humanities, Beyond Border and Prejudice (2010), Ministry of Culture and Tourism, South Korea, 2011.• Excellent Teaching Award, Korea University, for the best lecture evaluated by registered students, 2008.• Good Idea Award, National Research Foundation, for scholarly collaboration and networking, 2007.• Excellent Teaching Award, Korea University, for the best lecture evaluated by registered students, 2005.• Excellent Teaching Award, Korea University, for the best lecture evaluated by registered students, 2004.• Lynde and Harry Bradley Dissertation Fellowship, 1999 and 2000.• Mellon Foundation Fellowship, 1998.RESEARCH GRANTS - PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR / PROJECT LEAD• English Curriculum Building Project for Graduate Students, funded by Sun Yat-sen University, 2024-2025. RMB 30,000; approx. US$4,000.• One Belt and One Road Initiative Project, Different Paths of Modernity and Their Relevance to Politics and Peaceful Coexistence in Northeast Asia, funded by the Institute for the One Belt and One Road Initiative at Sun Yat-sen University, 2019-2022. RMB 300,000; approx. US$45,000.• English Curriculum Reform Project, funded by the Education Department, Sun Yat-sen University, 2018-2020. RMB 120,000; approx. US$18,000.• Ministry of Education Research Fund in China, Civic Virtue and Global Justice in East Asia, 2017-2019. RMB 100,000; approx. US$15,000.• English Backbone Curriculum Project, funded by the Education Department, Sun Yat-sen University, 2016-2018. RMB 500,000; approx. US$75,000.• One Hundred Talents Professor Research Fund, funded by Sun Yat-sen University, 2016-2021. RMB 500,000; approx. US$72,000.• Contributi per la traduzione di opere letterarie e scientifiche italiane, funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Italy, for the study and translation of Machiavelli, 2014. KRW 10,000,000; approx. US$10,000.• SK Research Grant, funded by SK Corporation for the Routledge Series of Political Theories in East Asian Context, 2012-2013. Approx. US$20,000.• Social Science Korea Grant, funded by the National Research Foundation for the research project Civic Solidarity: In Search of a Korean Model for Social Integration, with Gil-sung Park and Man-sup Park, 2010-2013. NRF-2010-330-B00151; KRW 94,000,000 per year; approx. US$94,000.• Basic Research Grant for Research Group, funded by the National Research Foundation for basic research on urgent current issues. Sole Project Manager for Multicultural Coexistence and East Asian Community, 2010. NRF-2010-B00009; KRW 150,000,000 per year; approx. US$150,000.• Research Grant for Military Education, funded by the Ministry of National Defense, South Korea. Sole Principal Investigator for Patriotism and Military Ethics, 2010. KRW 40,000,000; approx. US$40,000.• Basic Research Grant for Individual Scholars, funded by the National Research Foundation for individual research on urgent current issues. Sole Principal Investigator for Historical Reconciliation and Inherited Responsibility, 2009. KRF-2009-327-B00010; KRW 20,760,000; approx. US$20,000.• Asia Security Initiative Scholarship, MacArthur Foundation. Sole Principal Investigator for Making Citizens Responsible for Historical Injustices, 2009. KRW 3,000,000; approx. US$3,000.• Humanities Korea Grant, funded by the National Research Foundation for research groups. Participant and Head of the First Division in Northeast Transnational Space, Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University, 2008-2009. KRF-2008-R0812291; KRW 800,000,000 per year; approx. US$800,000.• Translation Grant, funded by the National Research Foundation for the translation of Philip Pettit's Republicanism, 2007. KRF-2007-B00003; KRW 18,800,000 per year; approx. US$18,800.• 2007 POSCO Asia Research Grant, funded by POSCO TJ Park Foundation. Sole Principal Investigator for Municipal Policy Model for Multicultural Cooperation, 2007. KRW 15,000,000; approx. US$15,000.• New Scholar Grant, funded by the National Research Foundation. Sole Principal Investigator for Democratic Authority, 2005. KRF-2005-004-B0007; KRW 9,031,000; approx. US$9,000.• Provincial Government Research Grant, funded by Gyeongsangbuk-do. Project Manager for Municipal International Cooperation, 2005. KRW 75,000,000; approx. US$75,000.• Jee-Hoon Research Grant, declined, funded by Jee-Hoon Foundation at the Research Institute of Korean Studies for Patriotism before Nationalism in Korea, 2004. KRW 3,000,000; approx. US$3,000.RESEARCH GRANTS - COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS• National Research Fund in China, funded by the Ministry of Education in China for the project Thomas Hobbes at the Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai), 2018-2020. Annual funds of RMB 300,000; approx. US$35,000.• Brain Korea 21, funded by the National Research Foundation for graduate studies in the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Korea University, 2007-2011. Annual funds of KRW 300,000,000; approx. US$300,000.• Humanities Korea, funded by the National Research Foundation for research collaboration at the Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University, 2008-2010. Annual funds of KRW 100,000,000; approx. US$100,000.• Imperative Research Institute Grant, funded by the National Research Foundation for research collaboration at the Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University, 2004. Annual funds of KRW 111,168,000; approx. US$111,000.

Dr. LU Yi is now a research associate at the Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University.He obtained his Ph.D. from Fudan University and finished his joint doctoral program at University Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) from September 2015 to March 2017. His current research interests include psychoanalysis, eastern and western ethics, contemporary French philosophy, philosophy of gender and body.He is currently working on the translation and research of the original texts of Freud and Lacan.

Dr. Jiming QIN has recently joined the Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai) in Sun Yat-sen University as an Associate Professor. Jiming QIN holds a doctorate in philosophy from Renming University of China. Before joining the Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai), he was a lectureship Fellow as well as Post-doctoral Fellow in Sichuan University, and he has taught Research on the history of Confucian Classics. He has published several articles in many journals including Confucius Studies, the History of Chinese Philosophy, etc. And his researches are supported by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation and National Social Science Foundation. His current research interests include Confucian Classics and Traditional Chinese Political Philosophy.

Prof. Itay Shani has recently joined the Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai). After having received his Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario, Canada, in 2004, Prof. Shani worked as a teaching associate at Western Ontario, as well as at the University of Haifa in Israel before taking up post-doctoral positions at Wits University and the University of Johannesburg in South-Africa. Prior to joining SYSU he held the position of a research professor at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, South-Korea since 2010.

Wang Kun holds a doctorate in philosophy from Shandong University, with research experience in the University of Hawaii at Manoa of one academic year. Before joining the Department of Philosophy(Zhuhai) as associate Professor, she was a Post-doctoral Fellow at Perking University, and has got certification for this post-doctoral work experience. Dr. Wang has published articles in fine journals. Her researches are supported by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation and National Social Science Foundation. Dr. Wang's current research interests include Confucian Ethical studies, linguistic philosophy, political philosophy.

Yuan Yongfeng is an Associate Professor of the Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai campus) at Sun Yat-sen University in China. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou campus) in 2014. He taught mathematical and inductive logic at Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, from 2015 to 2017. Now he has published some articles in Synthese, Journal of Logic and Computation, Philosophical Trends, and Studies in Logic, etc. His current research interests include formal logic, epistemology, philosophy of consciousness, cognitive psychology, and philosophy of science.