Hwa Yeong Wang

Her research focuses on East Asian and comparative philosophy, with particular emphasis on Confucian philosophy, feminist philosophy, and the intellectual history of women, gender, and ritual in Korea and China. She is especially interested in how normative structures shape women’s agency in Confucian traditions. Her teaching interests at Duke Kunshan include Confucianism and feminism, Chinese history and philosophy, and cross-cultural philosophy.

She is a co-editor and co-translator of Korean Women Philosophers and the Ideal of a Female Sage: The Essential Writings of Im Yunjidang and Gang Jeongildang (Oxford University Press, 2023) and Readings in Korean Confucian Philosophy (Hackett Publishing, forthcoming 2026). Her newest article, “Gwon Geun’s Defence of Zhu Xi’s Supplementary Chapter: Methodology of Early Joseon Korean Neo-Confucianism,” appeared online in Asian Philosophy in 2025. Her book chapters on Im Yunjidang and Gang Jeongildang appear in Women Philosophers from Non-Western Traditions: The First Four Thousand Years (Springer, 2024).

Wang has a B.A. in Confucian Philosophy and an M.A. in Confucian Studies from Sungkyunkwan University, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Binghamton University (State University of New York). Before joining Duke Kunshan University, she held postdoctoral fellowships at Georgetown University (2020–2022) and Emory University (2022–2023).

王花英博士的研究主要聚焦于东亚哲学与比较哲学，特别关注儒家哲学、女性主义哲学，以及朝鲜和中国的妇女、性别与礼仪的思想史。她尤其感兴趣于探讨规范性结构在儒家传统中如何塑造女性的主体性。她在昆山杜克大学的教学方向包括儒学与女性主义、中国历史与哲学以及跨文化哲学。

她是《韩国女性哲学家与女性圣贤理想：任允摯堂和姜静一堂的思想选集》（牛津大学出版社，2023年）与《韩国儒家哲学选读》（Hackett出版社，即将于2026年出版）的合编者与合译者。她的最新文章《权近对朱熹〈附录章〉的辩护：早期朝鲜朝儒学的方法论》于2025年在线发表于《亚洲哲学》。此外，她关于任允摯堂和姜静一堂的章节将收录于《非西方传统中的女性哲学家：前四千年》（Springer，2024年）。

王花英博士获得了成均馆大学的儒家哲学学士学位及儒学研究硕士学位，并在纽约州立大学宾汉顿分校获哲学博士学位。在加入昆山杜克大学之前，她曾在乔治城大学（2020–2022年）及埃默里大学（2022–2023年）担任博士后研究员。