Jung-Yeup Kim

Dr. Kim is Associate Professor in The School of Multidisciplinary Social Sciences and Humanities at Kent State University. His research focuses on investigating the notion of vital energy (gi/qi) in Korean and Chinese Confucianism. He is the author of Zhang Zai’s Philosophy of Qi: A Practical Understanding (Lexington Books, 2015) and is the co-editor of The Idea of Qi/Gi: East Asian and Comparative Philosophical Perspectives (Lexington Books, 2019). Also, he has published articles concerning the Confucian philosophies of gi/qi in journals such as Philosophy East and West, Asian Philosophy, Frontiers in Chinese Philosophy, Acta Koreana, Korea Journal. In addition, he has published book chapters concerning the Confucian philosophies of gi/qi in anthologies such as Dao Companion to Korean Confucian Philosophy (Springer Press. 2019) and Chinese Philosophy and Its Thinkers: From Ancient Times to the Present Day (Bloomsbury Press, 2024). He will contribute a book chapter on the Korean philosophies of gi for the Oxford Handbook of Korean Philosophy (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).