Zixuan Pan

Thesis title: A Study of ‘Ziran’ in Wei-Jin Neo-Daoist(Xuanxue) Thought

  • Asian Studies
  • School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures

Contact details

Address

Street

Teviot Pl

City
Edinburgh
Post code
EH8 9AG
Street

No.19, Xinjiekouwai Street

City
Haidian District, Beijing, P.R.China
Post code
100875

Biography

Background

Pan Zixuan is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the School of Philosophy, Beijing Normal University, and a visiting researcher in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Edinburgh. She is affiliated with the Center for Studies of Values and Culture and the Collaborative Innovation Center for Core Socialist Values at BNU. Her work focuses on Chinese philosophy—especially Neo-Daoism—with a particular interest in the actual and contingent dimensions of human existence. Her current research explores how Early Medieval Chinese thinkers understood human existence amid complex political and social change, and how traditional Chinese insights can inform contemporary discourse. She is currently conducting a project on the philosophy of life, supported by the China Scholarship Council.

Research summary

Chinese Philosophy, Neo-Daoism, Comparative Philosophy

Current research interests

Wei-Jin metaphysics, the thought of Ziran, Philosophy of life and death

Affiliated research centres

  • the Department of Asian Studies, School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, the University of Edinburgh.
  • School of Philosophy, Beijing Normal University
  • Center for Studies of Values and Culture, Collaborative Innovation Center for Core Socialist Values BNU

Current project grants

Chinese Scholarship Council Scholarship
The National Scholarship

Conference details

British Association for Chinese Studies 2025 Annual Conference

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