Dr. Chuan Xu
Instructor
Email: c.xu@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-6284
Mailing Address:
Chinese/Russian Studies
Dalhousie University
6135 University Avenue
P. O. Box 15000
Halifax, NS, Canada B3H 4R2
Office: McCain 2117
Dalhousie University
6135 University Avenue
P. O. Box 15000
Halifax, NS, Canada B3H 4R2
Office: McCain 2117
Chuan Xu holds a PhD in Chinese philosophy and religion from the Graduate Theological Union of Berkeley, California. Her main research interests are in the thought of Laozi and Zhuangzi, interdisciplinary gender studies, and methodologies in teaching Chinese as a second language. Currently she is teaching Mandarin Chinese classes at Dalhousie University.
Selected Publications:
- “Poststructuralist Feminism and the Problem of Femininity in the Daodejing.” The Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 19 (Spring 2003): 47-64.
- “Zen and Forms of Knowing.” Tripod, Hong Kong, (Sept.-Oct. 1997): 34-41.