CHARD, Robert

Vice-Principal of St Anne's College, Associate Professor of Classical Chinese, University of Oxford.

Vice-Principal of St Anne's College, Associate Professor of Classical Chinese, University of Oxford. Managing Editor of the International Journal of Asian Studies, Cambridge University Press. Main research fields include: cultural history of Confucianism and Confucian ritual; the field of knowledge related to ritual in ancient China, and the introduction of Confucianism to Edo-period Japan through visible ritual forms.  Major publications include: “Visual Power and Moral Influence: The Taku Confucius Temple and its Chinese Counterparts,” “School and Confucius Temple in Late Eighteenth-Century Japan,” and book manuscript in preparation Creating Confucian Authority: The Field of Ritual Knowledge in Early China to 200 CE, etc.