Daniel K. Gardner , Dwight W. Morrow Professor of History, treats the broad sweep of Chinese history in his teaching, but in his research specializes in the intellectual and cultural history of pre-modern China. His books include Chu Hsi and the Ta-hsueh: Neo-Confucian Reflection on the Confucian Canon (Harvard University Press, 1986) , Learning to be a Sage: Selections from the Conversations of Master Chu, Arranged Topically (University of California Press, 1990), and most recently, Zhu Xi's Reading of the Analects: Canon, Commentary, and the Confucian Tradition (Columbia University Press, 2003), an extended analysis of how--and why--different commentators over the centuries read the enormously influential text of the Confucian Analects differently.

He teaches survey courses on the emergence of China (c.1000 B.C. to A.D. 700) and China in transformation (A.D. 700-1900), and colloquia on a variety of topics, such as medieval thought and art in China (team taught with Marylin Rhie); knowledge, power, and the arts in Imperial China; and the modern legacy of Confucianism in East Asia.

He received his A.B. from Princeton University and his Ph.D. from Harvard University.

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E-mail: dgardner@smith.edu