Jiwei Ci

Ph.D. (Edin)
Email : jiweicihkucc.hku.hk
Telephone : (852) 28592796
Fax : (852) 25598452

Jiwei Ci was born in Beijing and studied in Beijing and Edinburgh. Before coming to Hong Kong, he had taught in Beijing and had been an Andrew Mellon Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center, a Fellow at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina, and a Member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He teaches various subjects in moral and political philosophy, from time to time also offering courses on continental philosophy and on Confucianism. His research interests include theories of justice, the philosophical and cultural dimensions of capitalism, and the ethics and politics of communist and post-communist China. He is the author, in English, of Dialectic of the Chinese Revolution: From Utopianism to Hedonism (Stanford University Press, 1994) and, in Chinese, of a study of the moral psychology of justice entitled Zhengyi de liangmian (SDX, 2001).