Roger Ames is a professor in the Department of Philosophy, College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa; he is also the co-director of the Asian Studies Development Program – a joint initiative of the East-West Center and the University of Hawaii. He has been the Editor of Philosophy East and West since 1987, and the Editor of China Review International since 1992. His research interests focus on comparative philosophy between China and the west. Major publications: Thinking Through Confucius; Thinking from the Han: Self, Truth, and Transcendence in Chinese and Western Culture; Anticipating China: Thinking through the Narratives of Chinese and Western Culture; The Art of Rulership: A Study in Ancient Chinese Political Thought; The Democracy of the Dead: Confucius, Dewey, and the Hope for Democracy in China; etc.