Chenyang Li is Professor of Philosophy at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he founded the philosophy program. His primary areas of research are Chinese philosophy and comparative philosophy. He is author or editor of eighteen books, including The Confucian Philosophy of Harmony (Routledge, 2014), The Tao Encounters the West (SUNY Press, 1999), The Sage and the Second Sex (The Open Court, 2000), with Daniel Bell The East Asian Challenge for Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2013), with Peimin Ni Moral Cultivation and Confucian Character (SUNY Press, 2014), with Franklin Perkins Chinese Metaphysics and Its Problems (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and most recently (with Dascha Düring and Sai Hang Kwok) edited the volume Harmony in Chinese Thought: A Philosophical Introduction (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021). He was a senior visiting fellow at the City University of Hong Kong, an American Council on Education ACE fellow, and an inaugural
Berggruen Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioural Sciences at Stanford University.
