Daniel K. Gardner

Professor

Daniel K. Gardner, Dwight W. Morrow Professor, specializes in the intellectual and cultural history of pre-modern China. He received his A.B. from Princeton University and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. His most recent books are The Four Books: The Basic Teachings of the Later Confucian Tradition ( Hackett Publishing, 2007), and 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 Analects differently.

Phone: 413-585-3718
Office: 138 Elm Street #4
Email: dgardner@smith.edu
Office Hours:  On Sabbatical Spring 2008 and Fall 2008

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