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1 CURRICULUM VITAE Last Updated November 17, 2020 Paul R. Goldin CURRICULUM VITAE last updated November 17, 2020 Paul R. Goldin Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations University of Pennsylvania 847 Williams Hall Philadelphia, PA 19104 (215) 898-7466 [email protected] https://ealc.sas.upenn.edu/people/prof-paul-r-goldin Academic Position: Professor. Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations (EALC), University of Pennsylvania (Penn), 2007-present. Associate Professor. EALC, Penn, 2002-07 (Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies until 2004). Assistant Professor. Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Penn, 1996-2002. (Member of EALC, History, and Religious Studies graduate groups.) Department Offices: Chair. EALC, 2007-13. Graduate Chair. Graduate Group of EALC, 2014-17. Undergraduate Chair. EALC, 2003-07 (AMES until 2004). Publications: I. Books. 2020 The Art of Chinese Philosophy: Eight Classical Texts and How to Read Them . Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691200781, 978- 0691200798. B126.G655 2020. Review: The Arab News (April 14, 2020); Times Literary Supplement (Summer Books List 2020). 2020 Paul R. Goldin and Elisa Levi Sabattini, trs. Lu Jia’s New Discourses : A Political Manifesto from the Early Han Dynasty . Leiden and Boston: Brill. viii + 134 pages. ISBN 978-9004419599, 978-9004419889. JC47.L8 2020. 2019 Kongzi zhi hou—Zhongguo gudai zhexue yanjiu 孔子之後 —中國古代哲學研究 . Tr. Chen Jianing 陳家寧 . Daxiang xueshu yicong. Zhengzhou: Daxiang. ISBN 1 978-7571104078. [Chinese translation of After Confucius .] 2011 Confucianism . Ancient Philosophies 9. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press; rpt., Abingdon, U.K., and New York: Routledge, 2014. viii + 169 pages. ISBN 978-0520269699, 978-0520269705 (California); 978- 1844651771, 978-1844651788 (Routledge). BL1853.G65 2011. Reviews: Chinese Historical Review 18.2 (2011): 207-9; Journal of Chinese Religions 39 (2011), 107-9; Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2011/09/03); International Journal of Philosophical Studies 20.2 (2012): 294-98; Metapsychology Online Reviews 16.3 (2012); Dao 11.2 (2012): 241-45; China Review International 19.1 (2012): 67-71; Religious Studies Review 43.4 (2017): 422. 2005 After Confucius: Studies in Early Chinese Philosophy . Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. x + 266 pages. ISBN 0824828429. B126.G65 2005. Reviews: International Philosophical Quarterly 45.3 (2005): 421; Journal of Chinese Philosophy 32.4 (2005): 649-53; Journal of Chinese Religions 33 (2005): 158-62; China Review International 13.1 (2006): 117-21; Études chinoises 25 (2006): 224-32. 2002 The Culture of Sex in Ancient China . Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. viii + 231 pages. ISBN 0824824059, 0824824822. HQ18.C6 G63 2002. Reviews: China Review International 9.2 (2002): 423-27; Journal of Asian Studies 61.4 (2002): 1343-45; Taipei Times (August 18, 2002); Études chinoises 22 (2003): 185-229 (a review article covering several books); Journal of Chinese Philosophy 30.2 (2003): 280-83, with response in 31.1 (2004): 125-27; Archiv Orientální 72.1 (2004): 149-50; Journal of the American Academy of Religion 72.4 (2004): 1031-34; Asiatische Studien 60.4 (2006): 1060-66. 1999 Rituals of the Way: The Philosophy of Xunzi . Chicago and La Salle, Ill.: Open Court. xvi + 182 pages. ISBN 0812694007. B128.H7 G64 1999. Reviews: China Review International 8.2 (2001): 380-87; Journal of Asian Studies 60.4 (2001): 1152-55; Philosophy East and West 52.4 (2002): 498-500, with response in 53.4 (2003): 591-92; Dao 4.2 (2005): 375-78, with response in 5.1 (2005): 204-6; Monumenta Serica 53 (2005): 486-87. Books edited and co-edited. In preparation Yuri Pines and Paul R. Goldin, eds. Dao Companion to China’s fa Traditions: The Philosophy of Governance by Impersonal Standards . Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. 2020 Constance A. Cook and Paul R. Goldin, eds. A Source Book of Ancient Chinese Bronze Inscriptions . Revised edition. lxviii + 358 pages. Early China Special Monograph Series 8. ISBN 978-0-9969440-1-4. CN1160.S68 2020. 2020 Han Fei zhexue 韓非哲學 . Tr. Feng Yanyan 馮艷艷 . Ed. Qu Xiangdong 屈向 東. Fajia xinlun congshu. Beijing: Falü. 305 pages. ISBN 978-7519746124. [Chinese translation of Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Han Fei , published by the Chinese Ministry of Justice.] 2018 Routledge Handbook of Early Chinese History . London and New York. xx + 2 526 pages. ISBN 978-1138775916. DS741.5 .R68 2018. 2017 A Concise Companion to Confucius . Blackwell Companions to Philosophy 65. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons. ix + 398 pages. ISBN 978-1118783870. B128.C8 C573 2017. 2016 Constance A. Cook and Paul R. Goldin, eds. A Source Book of Ancient Chinese Bronze Inscriptions . Early China Special Monograph Series 7. Berkeley: Society for the Study of Early China. lxviii + 352 pages. ISBN 978-0-9969440- 0-7. CN1160.S68 2016. 2015 Yuri Pines, Paul R. Goldin, and Martin Kern, eds. Ideology of Power and Power of Ideology in Early China . Sinica Leidensia 124. Leiden and Boston: Brill. 348 pages. ISBN 978-9004299290. JQ1510.I34 2015. Reviews: Frontiers of Literary Studies in China 10.3 (2016): 505-11; Sixiangshi 思想史 7 (2017): 165- 74; Journal of the American Oriental Society 138.2 (2018): 439-41; T’oung Pao 104.4-5 (2018): 673-79. 2012 Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Han Fei . Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy 2. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. x + 288 pages. ISBN 978- 9400743175, 978-9400743182. B128.H34 D36 2013. Reviews: Dushu 讀書 2013.8, 50-58; Dao 13.3 (2014): 425-29; Religious Studies Review 40.3 (2014): 172. 2005 Victor H. Mair, Nancy S. Steinhardt, and Paul R. Goldin, eds. Hawai’i Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture . Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. xxvi + 679 pages. ISBN 0824827856. DS721.H338 2005. Reviews: China Review International 12.2 (2005): 515-20; China Quarterly 185 (2006): 205-6. 2003 R.H. van Gulik. Sexual Life in Ancient China: A Preliminary Survey of Chinese Sex and Society from ca. 1500 B.C. till 1644 A.D . Ed. Paul R. Goldin. Sinica Leidensia 57. Leiden: Brill. xl + 380 pages. ISBN 9004126015. HQ18.C6 G8 2003. Review: Nan Nü 7.1 (2005): 71-91. II. Articles. a. Articles in journals. In press “Xunzi yu Hanchao zaoqi zhexue” 荀子與漢朝早期哲學 . Tr. Guo Dingwei 郭 鼎瑋 . Guoxue xuekan 國學學刊 . [Chinese translation of “Xunzi and Early Han Philosophy.”] 2020 “The Diversity of Perspectives on Language in Daoist Texts and Traditions.” Dao 19.4: 619-24. 2019 “Lunyu zhong suojian de Kongzi jiqi dizi: Chuantong shijiao de jichu” 《論語》 中所見的孔子及其弟子：傳統視角的基礎 . Tr. Qin Jinnan 秦晉楠 . Zhexue men 哲學門 10: 101-20. [Chinese translation of “Confucius and His Disciples in the Lunyu : The Basis for the Traditional View.”] 3 2019 “Zhongguo gudian zhexue zhong de fei yanyi lunzheng” 中國古典哲學中的非 演繹論證 . Tr. Qin Jinnan. Zhexue men 10: 121-39. [Chinese translation of “Non-Deductive Argumentation in Early Chinese Philosophy.”] 2018 “Two Notes on Xie He’s 謝赫 ‘Six Criteria’ ( liufa 六法 ), Aided by Digital Databases.” T’oung Pao 104.5-6: 496-510. 2018 “‘Zhongguo meiyou chuangshi shenhua’ jiushi yizhong shenhua” “中國沒有創 世神話”就是一種神話 . Tr. Xie Bo 謝波 . Fudan xuebao (Shehui kexue ban) 復旦學報（社會科學版） 5: 83-94, 117. [Chinese translation of “The Myth That China Has No Creation Myth.”] 2017 “Qi de hanyi jiqi jiji yiyi” 氣的含義及其積極意義 . Tr. Tong Tsz Ben 唐梓彬 . Ed. Timothy W.K. Chan 陳偉強 . Sino-Humanitas 人文中國學報 24: 305-39. 2017 “Some Shang Antecedents of Later Chinese Ideology and Culture.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 137.1: 121-27. 2016 “Han Fei de zisishuo” 韓非的自私說 . Tr. Chen Jianing 陳家寧 . Guoxue xuekan 2016.4: 14-23. [Chinese translation of “Han Fei’s Doctrine of Self-Interest,” below. Reprinted in Fajia xueshuo jiqi lishi yingxiang 法家學説及其歷史影響 . Ed. Song Hongbing 宋洪兵 . Shanghai: Guji, 2018. Now included in Kongzi zhi hou .] 2013 Erica F. Brindley and Paul R. Goldin. “Guest Editors’ Introduction.” Heng xian and Early Chinese Philosophy: A Special Volume and Translation Based on the Proceedings of the Conference “Reading and Understanding the Heng xian .” Dao 12.2: 141-44. 2013 Erica F. Brindley et al . “A Philosophical Translation of the Heng xian .” Dao 12.2: 145-51. 2013 “Heng xian and the Problem of Studying Looted Artifacts.” Dao 12.2: 153-60. 2012 “Han Law and the Regulation of Interpersonal Relations: ‘The Confucianization of the Law’ Revisited.” Asia Major 25.1: 1-31. 2011 “Persistent Misconceptions about Chinese ‘Legalism.’” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 38.1: 88-104. [With response to editor in 38.2: 328-29.] 2010 “The Hermeneutics of Emmentaler.” Warring States Papers 1: 75-78. 2010 Paul R. Goldin 金鵬程 and Daniel Sou 徐誠彬 . “Jianbo yanjiu Xiwen lunzhu mulu” 簡帛研究西文論著目錄 . Ed. Dai Weihong 戴衛紅 and Wu Wenling 鄔 文玲 . Jianbo yanjiu 簡帛研究 2010: 272-90. 2008-09 “What Does Confucius Have to Do with Santa Claus?” SL Magazine (Winter 2008-09): 36-39. 4 2008 “Appeals to History in Early Chinese Philosophy and Rhetoric,” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 35.1: 79-96. 2008 “The Myth That China Has No Creation Myth,” Monumenta Serica 56: 1-22. 2008 “When zhong 忠 Does Not Mean ‘Loyalty,’” Dao 7.2: 165-74. 2007 “Xunzi and Early Han Philosophy,” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 67.1: 135-66. 2006 “The Cultural and Religious Background of Sexual Vampirism in Ancient China,” Theology and Sexuality 12.3: 285-307. Reprinted in Religion, Sexuality, and Spirituality: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies . Ed. Jason H. Prior and Carole M. Cusack. London and New York: Routledge, 2016. III, 36-57. 2005 “The Theme of the Primacy of the Situation in Classical Chinese Philosophy and Rhetoric,” Asia Major 18.2: 1-25. 2005 “Why Daoism Is Not Environmentalism,” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 32.1: 75-87. 2004 “A Further Note on yan 焉 and an 安,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 124.1: 101-2.
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