Biography

Dr. Lü Chentong is Lecturer in The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen). Before joining HSS, Dr. Lü obtained BBA and MA/MPhil/PhD in Chinese Studies degrees from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She researches premodern Chinese intellectual history, especially the Song-Yuan-Ming period. She speaks fluent Mandarin, Cantonese, Wu (Zhejiang dialect), and English, intermediate French, and has some (but limited) knowledge of German, Italian, Japanese, and Sanskrit. She is also a calligraphy national first prize winner and a nature lover.

Research
History, philosophy, religion, and art of ancient China (especially the Song-Yuan-Ming period)

Awards and honors
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Publications

Hoyt Tillman, Christian Soffel, and Lu Chentong. "The Practical Learning in the Late Song and Yuan." In Chinese Philosophy and Its Thinkers: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, edited by Selusi Ambrogio & Dawid Rogacz. Bloomsbury, forthcoming.


Lu Chentong, "Interiorization of Thunder Ritual and the Development of Its Metaphysics--Convergence of State and Popular Ritual in the Ming Dynasty Founding as Reflected in the Construction of Divine Empyrean Lineage and Ritual" (in Chinese), Conference on Ritual, Religion and Chinese Society, as Retirement Ceremony of Professor John Lagerwey, CUHK, May 2023


Lu Chentong. "Cultural and Political Authority in Fourteenth Century China: Song Lian (1310-1381) as Practitioner of the Dao and Architect of the Ming Empire." PhD diss., The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2019.