Gao Haibo received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Peking University in 2008. He is an Tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Tsinghua University and is qualified to advise doctoral students. Prior to coming to Tsinghua in 2013, he worked at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences(中国社会科学院, 2008-2013) and was a visiting scholar in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University(2011–2012). He currently serves as Secretary-General of the China Zhu Xi Studies Association(中华朱子学会) and Vice President of the Chuanshan Research Society(船山研究会) under the China Confucius Studies Association(中华孔子学会). His primary research interests are in Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism and modern Chinese philosophy. He is the author of A Study on the Philosophical Thought of Liu Jishan (SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2016) and A Methodological Study in the History of Modern Chinese Philosophy (Tsinghua University Press, 2021). He has also published more than fifty academic papers in Philosophical Researches(《哲学研究》), Philosophical Trends(《哲学动态》), and Morality and Civilization (《道德与文明》).

1. Vigilance in Solitude(慎独) and Sincerity of Will(诚意): A Study on Liu Jishan's Philosophical Thought (Beijing: SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2016)

2. Methodological Studies in the History of Modern Chinese Philosophy (Beijing: Tsinghua University Press, 2021)

3. The Origins of Guoxue(国学), Traditional Chinese Studies Co-authored with Chen Lai, Sheng Kai, Zhao Jingang, and Li Kexin(Guizhou: Kongxuetang Press, 2024)

—Contributed a substantial section on pre-Qin and earlier periods (approx. 60,000 characters)

1. Gao Haibo, “The ‘Cosmic Mind’ in Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism and Its Modern Value”，Guangming Daily, (August 10, 2024)

2. Gao Haibo, “From Zhu Xi to Wang Chuanshan: The Transformation of Will (意志) in Late Neo-Confucian Thought” Chuanshan Journal, no. 2, (April 2024), pp. 49-63.

3. Gao Haibo, “The Modern Development of 'Spiritual Philosophy': A Study of Professor Zhang Xuezhi's Research on Chinese Philosophy,” History of Chinese Philosophy, no. 3, (March 2024), pp. 33-38.

4. Gao Haibo‌, “Generative Vitality and Filial Piety: Luo Jinxi’s Philosophy of Benevolence in Ming Confucianism and Its Modern Significance,” Morality and Civilization, vol. 245, no. 4, (July 2023), pp. 71-81. (CSSCI-indexed journal)

5. Gao Haibo‌, “Autonomy, Heteronomy and Motivation of Moral Practice: Prof. Yang Cho-Hon's Reorientation for Yichuan and Zhuzi's Moral Pattern” Legein Monthly, vol. 576, no. 6, (June 2023), pp. 51-55.

6. Gao Haibo‌, “Fang Yizhi's Criticism on the Learning of the Late Ming and Early Qing Dynasties: Focusing on the Book of Yi Yu”, International Studies on Confucianism, vol. 12, no. 4, (December 2023), pp. 76-84+182.

7. Gao Haibo “Professor Chen Lai’s Contributions to Ming-Qing Confucian Studies,” History of Chinese Philosophy, no. 6, (2022), pp. 20-26+33.

8．Gao Haibo‌, “Yuan Liaofan's Thought of ‘Grasping the Fate in One's Hand’ and Its Modern Meaning”, Beida Journal of Philosophy, vol. 43, no. 2, (October 2022), pp. 258-272.

9. Gao Haibo‌, “A New Interpretation of Wang Yangming's Proposition ‘Knowledge Is the Initiation of Action and Action is the Manifestation of Knowledge’”, International Studies on Confucianism, vol. 7, no. 2 (February 2022), pp. 79-92+170

10. Gao Haibo‌, “Differences in Zhu Xi and Wang Yangming’s Views on Ti-Yong(体用): Focusing on Their Interpretations of 'Ti-Yong-Yi-Yuan(体用一源, The One-Rooted Unity of Substance and Manifestation)' Concept,” Qinghua Guoxue , vol. 1, no. 1, (October 2022), pp. 77-144.

11. Gao Haibo, “Three Approaches to Social Reform Theory and Practice in the Late Ming and Early Qing Based on the Relationship between 'The Method of the Teacher' and 'The way of the Ruler'—Focusing on Wang Gen(王艮), Guan Zhi Dao(管知道), and Huang Zongxi(黄宗羲),” Philosophical Research, no. 5, (May 2022), pp. 72-80.

12. Gao Haibo‌, “Modern Chinese Philosophers’ Consciousness of the Philosophical Methodology and Its Origin in History”, Journal of Tsinghua University (Philosophy and Social Sciences), no. 4, (July 2021), (CSSCI-indexed journal; Reprinted in Shanghai Social Sciences), pp. 167-173+208.

13. Gao Haibo‌, “Autonomy or Heteronomy: A Reflection on Mou Zongsan’s Interpretation of Zhu Xi’s Theory of Ge-Wu-Zhi-Zhi(格物致知, a way to attain the heavenly principle (理，li) through learning from every existence)”, Morality and Civilization, vol. 232, no. 3, (May 2021), pp. 61-70. (CSSCI-indexed journal)

14. Gao Haibo‌, “New Mencius Studies' in Contemporary Confucianism,” Chinese Journal of Contemporary Values, vol. 33, no. 3, (June 2021), pp. 122-125.

15 Gao Haibo‌, “‘The Odes Serve to Stimulate’: Mencius’s Method for the Cultivation of Human Nature in His Teachings of the Odes and Its Modern Significance”, International Studies on Confucianism, no. 2 (June 2020), pp. 119-136+167.

16. Gao Haibo‌, “An Attempted Elucidation on Master Zhu’s Interpretation of the Sentence of Seeking the Lost Mind in Mencius”, The Journal of Asian Philosophy in Korea, vol. 54, no 2, (December 2020), pp. 189-208.

17. Gao Haibo, “"Feng Youlan’s Early Philosophical Methodology and Its Transformation ”History of Chinese Philosophy, no. 6 (November 2020), pp. 113-121. (CSSCI-indexed journal)

18. Gao Haibo, “Materialism, Idealism and Analysis ——Comment on Zhang Dainian’s“Change”and “Constancy”of Morality ”, Journal of Hengshui University, no. 3, (June 2020), pp. 93-99.

19. Gao Haibo, “A Review of the Pursuit of Universality in Northern Song Neo-Confucian Thought: The Cases of Zhou Dunyi, Zhang Zai, and the Cheng Brothers” Philosophical Trends, no. 11, (November 2020) pp. 48-57. (CSSCI-indexed journal)

20. Gao Haibo, "Liu Zongzhou and His Philosophical Text: The Authentic Transmission of Wang Yangming’s philosophical teachings (《阳明传信录》,Yangmingchuanxinlu)", History of Chinese Philosophy, no. 5, (September 2019), pp. 78-85. (CSSCI-indexed journal)

21. Gao Haibo, “A Study on the Force of Moral Practice in Neo-Confucianism,” Morality and Civilization, vol. 222, no. 5 (September 2019), pp. 51–58. (CSSCI-indexed journal; reprinted inHumanities and Art Society [Korea], translated by Jung Jongmo)

22. Gao, Haibo, “A Comparative Study of the Views on Substance and Manifestation (体用，Ti-Yong) in the Thought of Zhu Xi, Wang Yangming, and Xue Kan” in Wang Yangming Studies: Texts and Thought, Chen Lai and Zhang Zhaowei(eds.), Beijing: China Social Science Press, 2019, p.107-123.

23. Gao Haibo, “The Creative Transformation and Development of Chinese Traditional Ethical Thought (道德) Studied in the Historical Development Context of the Concept of Virtue (美德)” History of Chinese Philosophy, History of Chinese Philosophy, no. 4, (November 2018), pp. 5-11+43. (CSSCI-indexed journal)

24. Gao Haibo, “A Study on Zhu Xi’s Earlier View of Zhonghe(中和旧说)”, Philosophical Research, no. 7, (July 2018), pp. 73-80. (CSSCI-indexed journal)

25. Gao Haibo, “On Zhuxi’s Thought of Ti-Yong-Yi-Yuan(体用一源, The One-Rooted Unity of Substance and Manifestation)”, Philosophical Trends, no. 3, (April 2018), pp. 52-59. (CSSCI-indexed journal)

26. Gao Haibo, “Collective Organization — Liang Shuming’s (梁漱溟) Theory and Practice in the Reconstruction of Chinese Society and Culture” , Study on Confucian Classics and Thoughts, vol. 10, no. 00, (March 2018) pp. 260-278.

1. Gao Haibo, “Confucianism”, in Rituals and Practices in World Relegions:Cross-Cultural Scholarship to Inform Research and Clinical Contexts, David Bryce Yaden, Yukun Zhao, Kaiping Peng, Andrew B. Newberg, (eds.), Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2020, pp.87-99.

2. Gao Haibo, “Liu Zongzhou and his Records of Wang Yangming’s Instructions”, in History of Chinese Philosophy, no. 5 (April 2019), pp. 78-85. (CNKI Journal Translation Project—A Bilingual Detabase of Chinsese Academic Journals.)

3. Gao Haibo, “On Master Zhu’s Thinking of Will and the Thought”, in UIA Booklet-2, East Asia Academy for New Liberal Arts(eds.), Tokyo: The University of Tokyo, 2025, (ISSN 2759-517X)

1 Chen Lai, Gao Haibo(eds.), Yu Zhongju and Confucianism during the Ming-Qing Transition, Tianjin: Tianjin People’s Publishing House, 2019.

2 Chen Lai, Gao Haibo(eds.), The Confucius Culture Prize Series: Chen Lai Volume, Beijing: Huaxia Publishing house, 2011.

Collated Classical Texts

Cai-Qing (Ming Dynasty), Li Cunshan, Gao Haibo, and Chen Ming (Collation and Annotation), Peking University Research and Compilation Center for the Confucian Canon(eds.), Ru-Zang(《儒藏》), Beijing: Peking University Press, 2023. (Responsible for the “Mencius” section.)

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Fall, 2019-2020, Readings and discussion on Neo-Confucianism (80614353-0)

Spring, 2020-2021, Introduction to The Confucian Philosophy(00691412-90)

Spring, 2020-2021, Chinese Philosophy (60610132-0)

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