Dr. Edward Chung achieves remarkable publication record
Dr. Edward Chung, director of Asian Studies and professor of religious studies at UPEI, has been busy. Since 2015, he has published five scholarly books—four monographs and one edited volume, three of which have been published since October 2020.
The three books published since October 2020 are The Great Synthesis of Wang Yangming Neo-Confucianism in Korea (Lanham, New York, and London: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing, 2020); The Moral and Religious Thought of Yi Hwang (Toegye): A Study of Neo-Confucian Ethics and Spirituality, Palgrave Studies in Comparative East-West Philosophy (PSCEWP) series, no. 4 (New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan [Springer Nature], 2021; and a forthcoming edited volume, Emotions in Asian Philosophy and Religion: Korean Confucian, Comparative, and Contemporary Perspectives, PSCEWP series, no. 5 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022 [April]).
For The Great Synthesis of Wang Yangming Neo-Confucianism in Korea, Dr. Chung received an Award of Research Excellence in Global Korean Studies in December 2021 from the Government of South Korea.
Publications prior to 2020 include A Confucian Way of Life and Thought: The Chasŏngnok (Record of Self -Reflection) by Yi Hwang (T’oegye), Philosophy and Religion series (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2016) and University Press Scholarship Online by Oxford UP, and Korean Confucianism: Tradition and Modernity (Seognam: The AKS Press, 2015). These books have been well received by reviewers.
In addition, Dr. Chung guest-edited and published a peer-reviewed international journal issue in December 2019 with the theme, “Good and Evil in Korean Philosophy, Religion, and Spirituality”; the issue included five articles by eminent scholars including him. Since 2019 he also published seven more journal articles and book chapters and presented eight major papers on Neo-Confucianism and comparative philosophy/religion at the 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 annual meetings of the American Philosophical Association, the 2021 annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, and the 2021 annual conference of the International Society of Korean Philosophy.
Dr. Chung thanked the AKS, an international graduate university in Korean Studies, and the Ministry of Education, Government of South Korea, for three of his books through two Korean Studies project grants to UPEI since 2014. He also expressed appreciation to his colleagues at UPEI for their support of his work.
“Publishing is an essential part of our work as academics,” said Dr. Neb Kujundzic, dean of arts at UPEI. “I congratulate Dr. Chung on his hard work and excellent publication record.”
