Jia Peitao

Position

Assistant Professor, School of Political Science and Public Administration

Educational Background

PhD (Philosophy), Tsinghua University (Beijing)

Contact

Email：jia.thu@gmail.com

Office Location

424# Huagang South Building

Address

Shandong University Qingdao Campus, 72 Binhai Road, Qingdao, Shandong, China 266237

Profile

Jia Peitao is currently working on the Western political and intellectual history as well as contemporary Anglo-American moral and political philosophy as an assistant researcher at School of Political Science and Public Administration, Shandong University. His current and previous research interests include justice and community, citizenship theory, civic republicanism, egalitarian liberalism, theories of political freedom, totalitarianism and post-totalitarian authoritarianism, comparative approaches to moral egalitarianism, and reflections on political meritocracy.

He was studying and working at Tsinghua University (Beijing) from 2003 to 2017: received his B. Phil. in 2007 and PhD in philosophy in 2014. He was a philosophy major with liberal arts training as an undergraduate student, and started his research on political philosophy with his B. Phil. thesis on liberal and republican reflections on the origins of totalitarianism. After that, he naturally moved on to republicanism (with a cautious deliberation about both the alleged liberal-communitarian debate and various normative problems regarding post-totalitarian political transition and democratization), and then to republican liberalism and citizenship theory. His PhD dissertation, titled as Citizenship and Political Freedom, concentrates on active citizenship as desirable activity (especially liberal moral and intellectual virtues and deliberative democracy) and the relationship between republican negative liberty as non-domination or the absence of dependence and positive political liberty as self-government and the exercise of civic virtues. Subsequently, he has been engaging in developing moral and political philosophy for political transition and social transformation. Furthermore, many a consideration over equality/inequality has brought him back to the Rawlsian theory of distributive justice as well as analytical Marxism.

He writes and publishes academic articles in both Chinese and English. He has also participated in different international conferences and exchange projects. He was a visiting researcher at Queen's University (Kingston, Canada) in the academic year 2011-2012. He was also a EU Marie Curie Fellow at Istituto Universitario di Studi Europei (Turin, Italy) and University of Eastern Piedmont (Novara, Italy) from March to October 2015.

Research Area

· Contemporary political philosophy

· History of political thoughts

Courses

· History of Western political systems

· Contemporary Western political thought

· Theories of political institutions

Projects

· The Fundamental Research Funds of Shandong University: 2018-2020

· The Social Science Foundation of Beijing: 2016-2019

Selected Publication(s)

· “Equ(al)ity and Community in China after 40 Years of Economic Reform”, (forthcoming in January 2019 with Asian Studies)

· “Meritocratic Elitism, Authoritarian Libertarianism, and the Limits of the China Model”, Philosophy and Public Issues 7(1), 2018

· Book Review on Yu Keping’s Democracy in China: Challenge or Opportunity, The China Quarterly 232, 2017

· Book Review on Jeffrey L. Richey’s Confucius in East Asia, Japanese Journal of Political Science 17(1), 2016

· “作为无支配的第二种消极自由概念” (Non-domination as a Second Concept of Negative Liberty), 《伦理学研究》2014(4)