Faculty Profiles - ZÜRN Tobias Benedikt | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Tobias Benedikt ZÜRN
陶全恩

PhD in Chinese Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2016

Assistant Professor
Division of Humanities

(852) 2358 7806
hmtzuern@ust.hk
Room 3343
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ORCID

0000-0002-8508-763X

ResearcherID

GFD-6867-2022

Scopus ID

57208124994

Research Interest Publications Teaching Assignment

Research Interest

Chinese literature
Zhuangzi
Literary theory and cultural criticism
Taoism
Religious studies
Media, visual and verbal culture

Publications

All Years 10 2025 1 2024 0 2023 1 2022 2 2021 0 2020 1 2019 5

2025 1

“Reading Texts as Bodies: Object Agency in the Age of Human Empowerment”

Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, v. 37, (2), March 2025, p. 162-179
Zuern, Tobias Benedikt
Article

2023 1

The Practice of Erasing Traces in the Huainanzi

The Craft of Oblivion: Aspects of Forgetting and Memory in Ancient China / edited by Albert Galvany. New York, NY : SUNY Press, 2023, p. 181-214
Zürn, Tobias
Book chapter

2022 2

Reception History and Early Chinese Classics

Religions, v. 13, (12), December 2022, article number 1224
Zürn, Tobias Benedikt
Article

The Paradox of Being: Truth, Identity, and Images in Daoism [Book review]

History of Religions, v. 62, (2), November 2022, p. 362
Zürn, Tobias Benedikt
Book review

2020 1

The Han Imaginaire of Writing as Weaving: Intertextuality and the Huainanzi’s Self-Fashioning as an Embodiment of the Way

Journal of Asian Studies, v. 79, (2), May 2020, p. 367-402
Zürn, Tobias Benedikt
Article

2018 1

Overgrown Courtyards and Tilled Fields: Image-Based Debates on Governance and Body Politics in the Mengzi, Zhuangzi, and Huainanzi

Early China, v. 41, September 2018, p. 297-332
Zürn, Tobias Benedikt
Article

2017 1

Yin-Yang

World Book Encyclopedia 2017 / edited by Paul Kobasa. Chicago : World Book Inc., 2017
Zürn, Tobias Benedikt
Book chapter

2016 2

Seng Qixu 僧契虛

Tang Dynasty Tales: A Guided Reader Volume 2 / edited by William H. Nienhauser Jr.. Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Co., 2016, p. 365-424
Zhang, Du; Zürn, Tobias Benedikt
Book chapter

The Resurrected Skeleton: From Zhuangzi to Lu Xun [Book review]

Journal of Chinese Religions, v. 44, (1), May 2016, p. 84-86
Zürn, Tobias Benedikt
Book review

2015 1

The Huainanzi and Textual Production in Early China [Book review]

Daoism: Religion, History, and Society=道教研究學報 : 宗教, 歷史與社會, v. 7, 2015
Zürn, Tobias Benedikt
Book review

Article 1

“Reading Texts as Bodies: Object Agency in the Age of Human Empowerment”

Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, v. 37, (2), March 2025, p. 162-179
Zuern, Tobias Benedikt

Book chapter 1

The Practice of Erasing Traces in the Huainanzi

The Craft of Oblivion: Aspects of Forgetting and Memory in Ancient China / edited by Albert Galvany. New York, NY : SUNY Press, 2023, p. 181-214
Zürn, Tobias

Article 1

Reception History and Early Chinese Classics

Religions, v. 13, (12), December 2022, article number 1224
Zürn, Tobias Benedikt

Book review 1

The Paradox of Being: Truth, Identity, and Images in Daoism [Book review]

History of Religions, v. 62, (2), November 2022, p. 362
Zürn, Tobias Benedikt

Article 1

The Han Imaginaire of Writing as Weaving: Intertextuality and the Huainanzi’s Self-Fashioning as an Embodiment of the Way

Journal of Asian Studies, v. 79, (2), May 2020, p. 367-402
Zürn, Tobias Benedikt

Article 1

Overgrown Courtyards and Tilled Fields: Image-Based Debates on Governance and Body Politics in the Mengzi, Zhuangzi, and Huainanzi

Early China, v. 41, September 2018, p. 297-332
Zürn, Tobias Benedikt

Book chapter 1

Yin-Yang

World Book Encyclopedia 2017 / edited by Paul Kobasa. Chicago : World Book Inc., 2017
Zürn, Tobias Benedikt

Book chapter 1

Seng Qixu 僧契虛

Tang Dynasty Tales: A Guided Reader Volume 2 / edited by William H. Nienhauser Jr.. Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Co., 2016, p. 365-424
Zhang, Du; Zürn, Tobias Benedikt

Book review 1

The Resurrected Skeleton: From Zhuangzi to Lu Xun [Book review]

Journal of Chinese Religions, v. 44, (1), May 2016, p. 84-86
Zürn, Tobias Benedikt

Book review 1

The Huainanzi and Textual Production in Early China [Book review]

Daoism: Religion, History, and Society=道教研究學報 : 宗教, 歷史與社會, v. 7, 2015
Zürn, Tobias Benedikt

2018 1

Overgrown Courtyards and Tilled Fields: Image-Based Debates on Governance and Body Politics in the Mengzi, Zhuangzi, and Huainanzi

Early China, v. 41, September 2018, p. 297-332
Zürn, Tobias Benedikt
Article

2017 1

Yin-Yang

World Book Encyclopedia 2017 / edited by Paul Kobasa. Chicago : World Book Inc., 2017
Zürn, Tobias Benedikt
Book chapter

2016 2

Seng Qixu 僧契虛

Tang Dynasty Tales: A Guided Reader Volume 2 / edited by William H. Nienhauser Jr.. Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Co., 2016, p. 365-424
Zhang, Du; Zürn, Tobias Benedikt
Book chapter

The Resurrected Skeleton: From Zhuangzi to Lu Xun [Book review]

Journal of Chinese Religions, v. 44, (1), May 2016, p. 84-86
Zürn, Tobias Benedikt
Book review

2015 1

The Huainanzi and Textual Production in Early China [Book review]

Daoism: Religion, History, and Society=道教研究學報 : 宗教, 歷史與社會, v. 7, 2015
Zürn, Tobias Benedikt
Book review

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Teaching Assignment

2025-26 Fall 1 2024-25 Summer 0 2024-25 Spring 2 2024-25 Winter 0 2024-25 Fall 1 2023-24 Summer 0

HUMA5301

The Zhuangzi and its Multimedia Reception in China and Beyond

HUMA5341	The Body in Buddhist and Daoist Literature
SHSS4991	Capstone Project

HUMA4221

Chinese Classics and Their Reworking in Various Media Around the Globe

No Teaching Assignments

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From January 2023 to December 2025

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