Zhengxiang Wei

Dr. Zhengxiang Wei is associate professor of international political ethics in the department of philosophy and senior research fellow of the Center for the Study of Morality and Religion at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. She has served as a project official in charge of International Cultural Exchange for the International Economic Project on Cooperation and International Trade sponsored by UNICEF, the Canadian International Development Agency, and the Chinese Government, and has also held executive positions in international investment and import/export corporations. Before assuming her present position at Tsinghua University, she taught Chinese philosophy for three years at the University of South Carolina. Professor Wei is an editor of Annals of Chinese Philosophy published by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and assistant to the chief editor of the Tsinghua Philosophy Annals. A participant in the state-funded project "Studies In Modern Western Values and The Ethical Order in the Process of Chinese Modernization," she is director of the project "The Globalization of International Politics and the Crisis of International Morality" funded by the Beijing Municipal Government. She has published Mild Peace: Power and Morality in International Politics; Western Ethical Classics in the 20th Century; Modern Foreign Ethical Thoughts on Morality; Studies In Social Ethics; and Moral Quality Education in the New Century, and she is the Chinese translator of The Knowledge of Man and Between Man and Man by Martin Buber; Ethical Conflicts in Finance by Prindl and Prodham; and Dependent Rational Animals: Why Human Beings Need the Virtues by Alasdair MacIntyre.

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