Kenneth W. Holloway, PH.D.

Associate Professor, Department of History Levenson Professor of Asian Studies Contact: Department of History Florida Atlantic University 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, FL 33431 Office: (561)297-1328 Email: Kenneth.Holloway@fau.edu Education: Ph.D. The Recently Discovered Confucian Classic the Five Aspects of Conduct, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, August 9, 2002 BA with High Honors in Chinese, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, May 16, 1993. Academic Appointments: Associate in Research, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University, 2011-2012 Director Asian Studies Certificate Program, fall 2007 to spring 2011 Associate Director, Center for Body, Mind and Culture, fall 2006 to spring 2009 Levenson Professor of Asian Studies, fall 2005 to present Assistant Professor of History, Florida Atlantic University, 2004 to present Work in Progress: The Quest for Morality in Ancient China This book manuscript is under contract at Oxford University Press, having successfully passed peer review. My project involves the analysis of religion in the Xing zi ming chu , a text that was discovered in the Guodian tomb, and in the Shanghai corpus. The final manuscript will be 80,000 words in length and will be forthcoming in 2012. Publications: Blind Peer Reviewed Book: Guodian: The Newly Discovered Seeds of Chinese Religious and Political Philosophy Oxford University Press January 2009, 254 pages in length Blind Peer Reviewed Articles: An inquiry into the Xing zi mingchu from the perspective of the Five Aspects of Conduct Taiwan Journal of East Asian Studies 6,1 (June 2009): 203-210, Chinese. Religion in The Five aspects of Conduct Confucian Culture Studies , 1 (June, 2007) 49-55, Chinese. This article appeared in the inaugural edition of the journal edited by Guo, Qiyong , Dean of the School of the Humanities, at Wuhan University and President of the International Society for Chinese Philosophy.

Unity in the Guodian Bamboo and Silk Research , (2005) 1-6, Chinese. The journal is edited by Li, Xueqin , Director, Institute of History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and President of the National Association of Pre-Qin History. The Five Aspects of Conduct Introduction and Translation Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 15:2 (2005), 179-198, English. Book Chapter: How Guodian and Received Texts Use Humanity and Righteousness Differently, in Gu wenzixue lungao , ed. Zhang, Guangyu and Huang, Dekuan (Hefei: Anhui Daxue, 2008), 354-79. Editorial review Conference Proceedings: Can an Understanding of Guodian Manuscripts Help Bridge Divisions in Chinese Buddhism? in Proceedings of the Second World Buddhist Forum (Beijing: Preparatory Office of the World Buddhist Forum , 2009), 361-72. Invitation Book Review: Roger T. Ames and David L. Hall, Focusing the Familiar: A Translation and Philosophical Interpretation of the Zhongyong (University of Hawaii Press, 2001). Review published in the Journal of Chinese Philosophy 31.1 (March 2004), pages 129-131. Editorial review Professional Conferences and Lectures:

Truths and Higher Truths in Xing zi mingchu (invitation) Inspirations and Challenges from Silk and Bamboo-slip Texts: Philosophical Investigation Based on Based on Interdisciplinary Researches, Renmin University, Beijing China (co-sponsored by
the Chinese University of Hong Kong, National Taiwan University, and Renmin University), October 28-30, 2011. The Transition from Immanent to Transcendent: Situating Religion in the Xing zi mingchu between the Analects and the Dao de jing (invitation) Columbia University Early China Seminar, October 1, 2011 Ritual as a Marker of Religious Community in Pre-Qin China (refereed on basis of abstract) appearing on a panel Ritual and its Malcontents, Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, October 30-November 1, 2010. The Dao that Bridges the Human and the Cosmic in Xing zi ming chu (invitation) Contemporary Reflections on Epistemological Issues, International Academic Conference and Graduate Student Symposium, National Taiwan University September 79, 2010. The Perfection of Harmony in the Guodian and Shangbo Xing zi ming chu (invitation) Conference on Chinese Classics and Thought, Rutgers University (co-sponsored by Rutgers University, National Taiwan University and Jilin University), June 28-29, 2010. Is the Dao clearly distinguished in pre-Qin Confucianism? (invitation) Fudan University, June 10, 2010. Was Dao seen as single or multiple, and how did this impact self-cultivation in Guodian Manuscripts(invitation) East China

Normal University, May 31, 2010. Tracing Character Patterns in the Study of Recently Discovered Chinese Manuscripts (invitation) Carnegie Mellon University, February 8, 2010. Can an Understanding of Guodian Manuscripts Help Bridge Divisions in Chinese Buddhism? (invitation by Ven. Hsing-yun, founder of the Fo-kuang shan Temple and three universities) Second World Buddhist Forum: Wuxi, China and Taipei, Taiwan March 26-April 2, 2009. Looking at the Early Development of Self-Cultivation in China from the Perspective of Newly Excavated Manuscripts (invitation) Nanhua University December 29, 2008. An inquiry into the Xing zi mingchu from the perspective of the Five Aspects of Conduct Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Science, National Taiwan University (invitation) December 24, 2008. This presentation resulted in the following publication An inquiry into the Xing zi mingchu from the perspective of the Five Aspects of Conduct Taiwan Journal of East Asian Studies , June 2009. Respondent, panel on the End of Tokugawa History at the Southern Japan Seminar, Florida International University Institute for Asian Studies, March 1, 2008 How the Manuscripts Discovered at Guodian Challenge Traditional Views of China (invitation) The University of Arizona, February 18, 2008 Early Confucian Syncretism (refereed on basis of abstract) appeared on a panel I organized at the American Academy of Religion Meeting November 19, 2007. The panel, Confucianism, What is at Stake in a Religion, explored four aspects of the intellectual, archaeological, and political environment that produced Confucianism. Guodian Religion (invitation) Columbia University Early China Seminar, November 3, 2007 Moral Transformation in the Analects and Dao De jing (invitation) New York University, May 21, 2007 The Rectification of Names in the Analects and Daodejing? (refereed on basis of abstract) American Academy of Religion, November 20, 2006 This presentation resulted in a book chapter that will be included in the Quest for Morality in Early China. Religion in The Five aspects of Conduct (refereed on basis of abstract) Wuhan University, International Conference on New Discoveries of Chu Bamboo Slips June 27, 2006. This presentation resulted in the following publication: Religion in The Five aspects of Conduct (Confucian Culture Studies), June, 2007. Confucian Government: A Nation of Families (refereed on basis of abstract) Vanderbilt University, the 47th American Association for Chinese Studies Conference, October 22nd 2005 The Political Philosophy of Unity in Early China (invitation) National Taiwan University, May 20th 2005. This presentation resulted in the following publication: Unity in the Guodian, Jianbo yanjiu (Bamboo and Silk Research), 2005. Rhetorical Analysis of the Guodian Texts (invitation) University of Pennsylvania, Conference on Chinese Rhetoric, May 23-4 2004 Harmony in the Guodian (refereed on basis of abstract) Mount Holyoke College, Third International Conference on Excavated Chinese Manuscripts: Confucianism Resurrected, April 2325 2004

The Guodian AristocracyMeritocracy Hybrid (refereed on basis of abstract) Annual Meeting Association for Asian Studies. This paper appeared on the panel I organized entitled Principled Succession: Changing Perceptions of the Sage King in Early China, March 5, 2004. Attaining Unity: a Prevalent Trend in Guodian Texts (invitation) University of Massachusetts, Warring States Working Group, December 7, 2003 StateFamily Relations in the Guodian Texts (invitation) New York University, Early China Roundtable, April 26, 2003 The Guodian Five Aspects of Conduct a Structural Methodology (invitation) Columbia University, University Seminar on Neo-Confucian Studies, February 7, 2003 The recently discovered Confucian Wuxing text (refereed on basis of abstract) Annual Meeting Association for Asian Studies, March 11, 2000 Structural Analysis of The Five Aspects of Conduct (refereed on basis workshop application, 10 graduate students from North America were selected) University of Chicago, Creel Workshop on Early Chinese Paleography, July 3-12, 2000 The Wu-sying Document (invitation) Lehigh University, Warring States Working Group, October 9, 1999 Argument Structure in Chapters 14:5 and 21:5 of the Springs and Autumns of Mr. Lyu (invitation) University of Massachusetts, Warring States Working Group, April 25, 1998 Li Hua: Rediscovering a Founder of Neo-Confucianism (refereed on basis of abstract) Ohio State University, Midwest Conference on Asian History and Culture, March 18, 1998 Benevolence in the Analects and Lu-shi chun chiu (refereed on basis of abstract) Mid Atlantic Regional Association for Asian Studies, October 26, 1997 Conferences/panels organized: Conference on Art and Ritual in Asian Cultures This was the second conference of the Center for Body, Mind, and Culture. I organized it with the Center director, Richard Shusterman, and it took place on March 20-21, 2009. The presentations included the following: Roger Ames (U of Hawaii) "Confucian Role Ethics: Family Feeling as the Entry Point for Moral Competence"; Aoki, Takao, (Hiroshima U, Japan) "The Japanese Art of Noh Theater"; Daniel Bass, (Lynn U) " Dying Traditions and Living Culture in the Up-country of Sri Lanka"; Brian J. Bruya, (Eastern Michigan U) " The Somatic Arts in China and their Conceptual Basis in Ritual"; Michael Fuller, (U of California, Irvine) " 'I stand alone:' Historical Grounds for the Role of Corporeal Selfhood in the Classical Chinese Poetic Tradition"; Paul Goldin, (U of Pennsylvania) " Why Mozi Is Included in the Daoist Canon Or, Why There Is More to Mohism Than Utilitarian Ethics"; Tomie Hahn, (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) " Performing Biracial Embodying Ritual"; Kambayashi, Tsunemichi, (Ritsumeikan U, Japan) "The Floral Aesthetics in the Middle Ages of Japan"; Krystyna Wilkoszewska, (U of Krakow, Poland) "Woman's Body in the Japanese Aesthetics. The transcultural approach."

Minding the Body: Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives This inaugural conference of the Center for Body, Mind, and Culture was organized with the Center director, Richard Shusterman. It took place March 29 and 30, 2007. Arthur C. Danto, Johnsonian Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Columbia University and Art Critic for The Nation, delivered a keynote presentation on "The Body in Philosophy and Art." The March 30 presentations included the following: Mark Johnson (U of Oregon) on "The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetic Dimensions of Human Understanding"; Mark Csikszentmihalyi (U of Wisconsin at Madison) on "Material Virtue: Ethics and the Body in Early China"; Shaun Gallagher (U of Central Florida) on "Pathologies of the Lived Body"; Jane Caputi (Florida Atlantic U) on "The Pornography of Everyday Life"; and Marlaine Smith (Florida Atlantic U) on "Touch as Therapy"; as well as commentary and full-panel discussion with additional faculty. Confucianism, What is at Stake in a Religion This panel was part of the Annual American Academy of Religion Meeting in San Diego, November 19, 2007. It explored four aspects of the intellectual, archaeological and political environment that produced Confucianism. By working in an interdisciplinary manner we provided a robust answer to the question of what is at stake in Confucianism as a religion. Naturally, these papers related to the foundation of religion even beyond Confucianism, since later traditions such as Buddhism were transformed by making contact with perpetual elements of this early tradition. The panel was presided over by Keith Knapp (The Citadel) and featured lectures by Yu Jiang (Florida Atlantic U) on Tomb Space and Burial Goods in the Western-Zhou Date Yu Cemetery, Soon-ja Yang (U of Pennsylvania) on Li and Fa in the Hands of NonConfucian Political Philosophers, Brian Bruya (Eastern Michigan University) on Spontaneity in Confucian Self-cultivation, and Kenneth Holloway on Early Confucian Syncretism. The respondent was Mark Csikszentmihalyi (U Wisconsin, Madison). Topics and Themes in Asian Philosophy and Thought This was the first conference I organized was on March 31, 2006, and I worked with Clevis Headley of the Department of Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University. The conference featured the following papers: Paul Goldin (U of Pennsylvania) on The Myth That China Has No Creation Myth; Yu Jiang (Florida Atlantic U) on Subordination and Filial Piety in Western Zhou Bronze Inscriptions; and Moss Roberts (NYU) on Why Confucius eschewed religion. Additional papers were presented by faculty at Florida Atlantic University. Respondents were Richard Shusterman, Eminent Scholar & Professor of philosophy, (Florida Atlantic U), Steven Heine, (Florida International U), and Kenneth Holloway. Principled Succession: Changing Perceptions of the Sage King in Early China This is a panel I organized at the Annual Meeting Association for Asian Studies, in San Diego on March 5, 2004. Government debates in early China often cited sage kings when discussing important ideals. From the early Zhou through the Han, the lessons drawn from these ancient figures underwent a continuous evolution. Recently discovered bronze and bamboo texts have added to our understanding of this phenomenon.

Examining this requires an interdisciplinary approach that includes religion, material culture, political history, philosophy, and hermeneutics. Our panel began with the religious and political contexts of the traditional Zhou rites of succession, and the evolving role of Yu in cultic practices. Next, in the Guodian texts, the Yao-Shun myth was used to argue for the harmonization of meritocratic and aristocratic methods of government. This was followed by a discussion in the Mencius of family-anti-family aspects of the legend of Yaos abdication to Shun. Finally, in the Han, the Yao-Shun myth becomes an active part of succession debates, ultimately resulting in Wang Mang claiming descent from Shun to support his claim of legitimacy over the Han royal house, which had come to be associated with Yao. The panel was presided over by John S. Major (independent), and featured papers by the following: Constance A. Cook, (Lehigh U) Sage King Yu, a Sacred Vessel, and the Way of the Former Kings: Zhou Period Sacrilege or Just Another Ancestor? Kenneth W. Holloway The Guodian Aristocracy-Meritocracy Hybrid, Moss Roberts (NYU) Mencius Treatment of the Yao Shun Legend, Gopal Sukhu (CUNY, Queens) The Myth of Yao and Shun in the Evolution of Han Political Ideology. The discussant was Sarah Allan (Dartmouth). Courses Taught at Florida Atlantic University: Please note that every class I teach contains a significant writing component. This includes my History of Civilization class, where half the grade is based on the writing and revising of a term paper. Seminar in Early Chinese Intellectual History (WOH 6937) spring 2011 History of Civilization 1 (WOH 2012), spring 2011 Women in Asian History (ASH 3384), spring 2011 History of Modern China (ASH 4404), fall 2010 Zen and Buddhsim (ASH 4603) Religion in East Asian History (ASH 4930) Senior Seminar (HIS 4935), fall 2009 China: Tradition and Transformation (ASH 4930.2), fall 2009 Anarchism in Ancient China (ASH 4930.1), fall 2009 Seminar in World History (WOH 6937), spring 2009 Confucianism and Human Rights (ASH 4930), spring 2009 Introduction to Historical Study (HIS 3150), spring 2009 History of East Asia (ASH 3300), fall 2008 History of Civilization 1 (WOH 2012), fall 2008 History of Modern Japan (ASH 4442), spring 2008 Introduction to Historical Study (HIS 3150), spring 2008 History of Eastern Ideas (ASH 4600), spring 2008 Readings: Non-Western History (WOH 5935), fall 2007 Women in Chinese History (ASH 4930), spring 2007 Early History of Japan (ASH 4930), spring 2007 History of Civilization 1 (WOH 2012), spring 2007 Senior Seminar (HIS 4935), fall 2006

Modern China (ASH 4404), fall 2006 History of Eastern Ideas (ASH 4600), spring 2006 Introduction to Japanese History (ASH 4442), spring 2006 History of Civilization 1 (WOH 2012), spring 2006 Introduction to Asian History (ASH 4930), fall 2005 Readings: Non-Western History (WOH 5935), fall 2005 Women in Chinese History (ASH 4930), spring 2005 History of Modern Japan (ASH 4442), spring 2005 History of Civilization 1 (WOH 2012), spring 2005 History of East Asia (ASH 3300), fall 2004 History of Modern China (ASH 4404), fall 2004 Awards: 2005 and 2006 Summer Scholarship Award 2006-2007 Frances Edelman Fellowship 2010-2012 NEH Title 6A grant Service: Institute of International Education, National Security Education Program, David L. Boren Graduate Fellowships reviewer 2011 American Academy of Religion Confucian Studies Group Steering Committee 2010-present Co-directed NEH Title 6A grant 2010-2011, I am on sabbatical the second year of the grant so I have an interim director to fill in my responsibilities. I gave up my involvement with the Center for Body Mind and Culture to pursue this grant. Faculty advisor for Phi Alpha Theta History Honors Society 2006-2011 Founding Director of Florida Atlantic University Asian Studies Certificate program 2008-2011 2006-2007 Founding Member of the Board of Directors, Florida Chapter of the Chinese Language Teachers Association; received their Service Award Graduate and undergraduate curriculum committee, Department of History, Florida Atlantic University 2006-2011 I have given four lectures to high school students and three community lectures since arriving at Florida Atlantic University. In addition, I have lectured on my first book Guodian at the University of Pennsylvania Bookstore, and at the Norton Museum in West Palm Beach. Memberships in Academic Organizations: American Historical Association American Academy of Religion Association for Asian Studies The Society for the Study of Early China University Seminar on Early China, Columbia University

Phi Beta Kappa Phi Alpha Theta, National History Honor Society Phi Sigma Iota, International Foreign Language Honor Society Gold Key International Honor Society Foreign Languages: My reading knowledge of classical Chinese and Japanese is a cornerstone of my research. In addition, I speak, read, and write Mandarin Chinese with native fluency. Citizenship: United States, United Kingdom