damarantidou@um.edu.mo
Tel
(853) 8822 9152
Office
E21-4111
Consultation Hours
Mondays, 12:00-13:00
Thursdays, 12:00-13:00
Dimitra AMARANTIDOU
易冬蘭
Education
Ph.D. in Chinese Philosophy, East China Normal University
M.A. in China Studies, Nanjing University
B.A. in English Language and Literature (Major in Linguistics), University of Athens
Research Interests
Irony and Paradox in Early Chinese thought, Early Confucianism, East-West Comparative Philosophy, Translation
Professional Experience
2020-2022 Assistant Professor of Chinese Philosophy, Shanghai Normal University
2023– Editor for Book Reviews (China/Southeast Asia), Philosophy East and West
2021– Fellow and Teacher of the Center for Intercultural Learning, East China Normal University
2017-2021 Instructor of Chinese and Western Philosophy, IES Abroad Shanghai
Courses Regularly Taught
Early Confucianism
Neo-Confucianism
Introduction to early Chinese Thought
Introduction to Ethics East and West
2019 Essay Award
Paradigms of Change and Changing Paradigms in Chinese Philosophy 3rd Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Philosophy (EACP). University of Ghent, Belgium.
2018 Essay Award
Second International Forum of Young Confucian Scholars-Mencius Research Academy 第二屆國際青年儒學論壇ˑ孟子研究院. Henan, China.
2018 Essay Award
Power and Creativity 50th Annual Conference of Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy (SACP). Pedagogical University of Krakow, Poland.
- The ‘Bad’ Confucius: Unappealing Lessons from Confucian Morality. Philosophy Compass. Forthcoming. (A&HCI)
- Teaching Laughter Seriously: The Humour of the Analects and the Zhuangzi in Chinese Philosophy Classrooms. In Yearbook for Eastern and Western Philosophy vol. 7, De Gruyter. Forthcoming.
- The‘Form-is-Content’Model: Interpreting He 和 and Li 禮. In Echoes of the Past, Visions for the Future: the Power of Ideas to Navigate the China-West Legal and Political Divides. Edited by Anna Irene Baka and Tiziana Lippiello. London: Palgrave Macmillan. Forthcoming.
- Diverse Fates in Homer: How Are They Meant to Be?. With Hao Chunpeng 郝春鹏. Philosophy and Literature, Johns Hopkins University Press. Forthcoming. (A&HCI)
- On Deborah Sommer’s‘Unusual Depictions of Confucius: Cultural Encounters.’With Hui Xianzhe 惠賢哲. Chinese Literature and Thought Today 55(1-2) (May 24, 2024). DOI: 10.1080/27683524.2024.2321114. (A&HCI)
- Translative Trends in Three Modern Greek Renderings of the Daodejing. Religions (February 20, 2023), DOI:10.3390/rel14020283. (A&HCI)
- The Irony of Confucius. Philosophy Compass 17(5), 2022. (A&HCI)
- 以謎為匙:四種當代西方道家釋讀中的反諷與吊詭 [The Riddle As Key: Irony and Paradox in Four Contemporary Readings of Daoism]. 道家⽂化研究 34 (Research into Daoist Culture) (August 2022): 212-242. (CSSCI)
- Irigaray and Confucius: A Collaborative Approach to (Feminist) Agency. With Paul J. D’Ambrosio. Journal of Chinese Philosophy (May 27, 2022) 49: 150-162, DOI:10.1163/15406253-12340056. (A&HCI)
- The Touch of Kongzi’s Irony: Reflections on Methodology. In Yearbook for Eastern and Western Philosophy (vol. 5), De Gruyter, 2022.
- Teaching (Chinese/Non-Western) Philosophy as Philosophy: The Humble Gatekeeper. With Paul J. D’Ambrosio and Tim Connolly. Teaching Philosophy 44(4): 1-22, 2021. (A&HCI)
- Confucius’s Irony: Silent Subversion and Critique in the Analects. In Critique, Subversion, and Chinese Philosophy: Socio-Political, Conceptual, and Methodological Challenges. Edited by Hans-Georg Moeller and Andrew Whitehead. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
- Creativity in the Analects: How to Break the Rules in the Right Way. International Communication of Chinese Culture 7(3): 337-348, 2020.
Book Reviews
Daoist Encounters with Phenomenology: Thinking Interculturally About Human Existence. Edited by David Chai. Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 21, with Fabian Heubel. Published 15 July, 2022, pp. 481-485. DOI: 10.1007/s11712-022-09844-w.
How to Think About the Climate Crisis: A Philosophical Guide to Saner Ways of Living. By Graham Parkes. Bloomsbury Academic 2021, Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 21, Published online: 12 April, 2022, pp. 331-333. DOI: 10.1007/s11712-022-09834-y.
Confucius: The Analects, Adapted and Illustrated by Chih-chung Tsai. Translated by Brian Bruya. Teaching Philosophy 42(3) 2019, pp. 295-297. DOI: 10.5840/teachphil2019423109.
Translations
The Annotated Critical Laozi: With Contemporary Explication and Traditional Commentary 老子注譯及評價 . By Chen Guying 陳鼓應,《老子今注今譯》(co-translator), Brill, 2020.
Studies in Contemporary Chinese Philosophy 當代中國哲學研究 by Guo Qiyong 郭齊勇 (co-translator), Brill, 2018.
Zhuangzi’s Philosophy 莊子思想世界. By Yang Guorong 楊國榮, Albany: SUNY Press. Forthcoming, 2025.
Twenty Discourses in Chinese Philosophy 中國哲學二十講 . By Yang Guorong 楊國榮. Forthcoming.