Prof. ZHANG, Ellen Ying
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Professor

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3411-7283

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CEC 1009

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0000-0002-7282-9542

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Director, Centre for Applied Ethics
Associate Director, M.A. in Ethics and Public Affairs
Member of Bioethics International’s World Council for Ethical Standards in Healthcare (US)
Member of Editorial Board ofJournal of Religious Ethics

Degree B.A., Beijing Normal University, China
M.A., Renmin University, China
M.A., Rice University, U.S.A.
Ph.D., Rice University, U.S.A.

Work Experience: Temple University, U.S.A.


Courses Taught: GEND3005 Gender, Society, Culture
LSE 7060 Globalization: Cultural and Ethical Issues
LSE 7050 Traditional Values and Moral Challenges in Modern China
RELI 3027 Existentialism and Nihilism
GDAR 1076 Sex, Gender, and Chinese Thought
GDAR1945/ GDSS1945 Sharing Values: InterreligiousDialogue on Real Issues in the Real Life
RELI 3005 Daoist Religion
REL 7010 Graduate Seminar
REL 7071 Research Postgraduate Seminars
REL 7080 RPG Research Methodology Seminar in Religion and Philosophy

Teaching Areas: Chinese Philosophy and Religion
Western Philosophy
China Studies
Globalization
Gender Studies


Research Areas: Philosophy of Religion; Chinese Philosophy (Daoism and Buddhism); Comparative Philosophy and Ethics

Current Projects: FNRA: “Chinese and Cross-Cultural Health Humanities” (project leader)
“War and Peace: A Comparative Perspective” (a collaborative project with scholars from US and UK)
“Bioethics, Multiculturalism and Religion” (a project organized by UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights

Recent Publications: “Forgetfulness and Flow: ‘Happiness’ in Zhuangzi’s Daoism.” Science, Religion & Culture, Vol. 5, Issue 2, 2019, 1-8 (double-column).
“Informed Consent: A Critical Response from a Buddhist Perspective” Studia Bioethica, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2019, 20-38.
“Daoism, Utopian Imagination and Its Discontents” in Imagination: Cross-Cultural Philosophical Analyses. eds. Hans-Georg Moeller and Andrew Whitehead (London/New York: Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, 2018), 103-126.
“Neurogenomics and Neuroeudaimonics: Bioethical Challenges from a Buddhist Perspective” in Interreligious Perspectives on Mind, Genes and the Self, eds.Joseph Tham, Alberto Garcia. (London: Routledge, 2018), 31-49.
“‘Weapons Are Nothing but Ominous Instruments’: The Daodejing’s View on War and Peace.” Journal of Religious Ethics, Vol. 3, 2012, 473-502.

Selected Outputs “Po: Jizang’s Method of Deconstruction.” in Dao Companion to Buddhist Studies. eds.Wawrytko, S and Wang, Y. (Dordrecht/New York: Springer, 2018), 189-216.
“Negative Certainties: Nāgārjuna’s Challenge to Kant on the “Togetherness of Intuitionand Concepts” Intuition: Kant and Asian Philosophy, ed. Stephen R. Palmquist (NewYork/London: Routledge), 2018, 122-136.
“When the Ground of Being Encounters Emptiness: Tillich and Buddhism.” in Paul Tillichand Asian Religion, eds. Keith Chan. (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter publishers, 2017), 87-107.
“Human Rights and Freedom in Bioethics: A Philosophical Inquiry in Light of Buddhism” in Religious Perspectives on Bioethics and Human Rights, eds. Joseph Tham, Kai Man Kwan, Alberto Garcia (Dordrecht/New York: Springer, 2017), 77-89.
《我喜歡思奔,和陳昇的歌——寫在歌詞裡的十四堂哲學課》台北: 時報出版, 2018. 336頁.

Selected Conference Presentations: “Huang-Lao’s Concept of Peace and War”. Just War and Military Ethics in Comparative Perspective: East Asia and the West. University of Virginia, US. Dec. 8-10, 2019.
“Motherhood and Reproduction: ART from a Buddhist Perspective.” The 7th Conference on Bioethics, Multiculturalism and Religion (UNESCO Chair in Bioethics), Casablanca,Morocco. Nov. 9-11. 2019.
“War and Peace according to the DDJ,” 11th International Conference on Applied Ethics, Center for Applied Ethics, Kyoto University, Dec. 2018.
“Critique and Subversion: Rethinking Yang Zhu’s Conception of Self.” 22ndSymposium of the Académie du Midi. Alert-les Baines, France. May 20-25, 2018.
“The Concept of Peace in Pre-Han China.” Conference on Western-Chinese Ethics on War and Peace. University of Virginia, US. Nov. 30 - 1 Dec. 1, 2018.

SelectedResearch Grants: Initiation Grant for FNRA 2019-2021. The Project Title: “Chinese and Cross-Cultural Health Humanities: Body, Mind, and Well-Being in the Contemporary Context”. (HK$512,000).
GRF 2015-17. Project Title: “Early Daoist Philosophies of War and Peace and Its Contemporary Explications”. (HK$134,464)
The United Board (teaching grant), 2014-2017. Project Title: “Asia Interreligious Development Network,” collaboration with Prof. Reza Horshmand of the GE office, HKBU. (US$120,000).