Basic Information

Xiaojiao Cui (崔晓姣) is interested in Daoism and the manuscript culture of early China, focusing primarily on the political philosophy of the Laozi and the Huang-Lao school. She received her B.A. from Sun Yat-sen University, and her Ph.D. from Peking University. During conducting her Ph.D., she spent one year at Dartmouth College as a joint Ph.D. student. Her dissertation, “Comparative Study on the Laozi and the Jielao解老, Yulao喻老 Chapters in the Han Feizi”, explores the distinctions and connections between the political philosophy of the Laozi and the Han Feizi. 

  Main Research Field

Her current research utilizes the newly excavated texts to explore the ideological connections between early Daoism, legalism and the school of the military. Other fields of interest include: early Confucianism, Neo-Daoism in the Wei-Jin period.