Event Announcement 

Lecture Title:  Substance and Immediate Presence: Wang Longxi’s Theory of Innate Moral Knowledge (Liangzhi) 

Time: April 2nd, 18:00 - 20:00 (Evening)  

Location: Room 0801, Lide Building, Renmin University of China  

Speaker Profile:  

Wu Zhen holds a Ph.D. in Literature from Kyoto University and is currently a Professor and Doctoral Advisor at the School of Philosophy, Fudan University. His concurrent positions include:  

- Executive Vice Dean of the Shanghai Confucian Academy, Fudan University  

- President of the Shanghai Confucian Association  

- Vice President of the Chinese Society for the History of Philosophy  

- Standing Council Member of the Chinese Society for Japanese Philosophy  

- Academic Committee Member of the International Confucian Association  

- Council Member and Academic Committee Member of the Nishan World Center for Confucian Studies  

- Council Member of the Zhu Xi Society  

- Council Member of the Japanese Inoue Enryo Global Association  

- Founding Member of the Society for Cultural Interaction in East Asia, among others.  

He previously served as a Dual-appointment Researcher at the Institute of Literature and History, Fudan University; a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, National Taiwan University; a COE Visiting Professor at the Center for Cultural Interaction Studies, Kansai University, Japan; and a Foreign Researcher at the Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University, Japan.  

He has authored over ten monographs, including Studies on the Post-Yangming School, Research on the Taizhou School, New Explorations in East Asian Confucianism, The Conceptual Imagination of the Confucian Religion Movement, Re-reading Zhu Xi’s Thought, A Study of the Thought Behind the Late Ming–Early Qing Moral Exhortation Movement, and Zhu Xi’s Learning and Wang Yangming’s Learning: An Outline of Neo-Confucianism in the Song and Ming Dynasties.  

Tencent Meeting ID: 91477361562  

Bilibili Live Stream ID: 22391891