1. Academic Experience:

I am Yumin Dai from Zhuozhou, Hebei Province, born in December 1989, studied in the Department of Philosophy of Hebei University from September 2008 to June 2012. From September 2012 to December 2018, I obtained my master's degree and doctorate degree in Chinese philosophy from the Department of Philosophy of Nanjing University. My master's thesis is "Research on the Confucian View of Monks in the Song Dynasty" and the doctoral thesis is "On Jiao Hong and Ming-Qing Confucianism". During my doctoral studies, from August 2017 to August 2018, I was sponsored by the National Scholarship Council to conduct a one-year joint training in the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Arizona. I learned about the frontiers of American sinology research and its methods by virtue of my instructor, professor Albert Welter. Since January 2019, I have served as an assistant researcher in Chinese philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of Nanjing University, and was selected for the Yuxiu Young Scholars Program in October 2020.

Also, those courses that I have taught including: the core course of "History of Chinese Philosophy (Part 2)" for undergraduate students in the Department of Philosophy, the elective course "Selected Readings of Original Chinese Philosophy" for undergraduate students in the Department of Philosophy, and the special course of the new liberal arts in the Department of Philosophy "Modern and Contemporary Interpretation of Traditional Chinese Philosophy", Undergraduate Humanities Quality Course "College Students' Career Planning and Traditional Chinese Culture", Undergraduate Classic Reading Course "Reading the Sishu Zhangju Jizhu", Undergraduate DIY Study Course "Chinese Philosophy and Science & Technology", "Philosophy Dynamics and Commentary" and "Special Topics in Chinese Philosophy" for Master Students in the Department of Philosophy.

2. Scientific Research Projects:

(1) 2021 National Social Science Foundation Youth Project "Feng Youlan's Modern Interpretation of Lu-Wang Teaching" (21CZX035), 200,000 yuan, chaired.

(2) Nanjing University Taizhou School Research Center special funding project "Taizhou School Inheritance Venation Research", 100,000 yuan, chaired.

(3) The 65th Batch Funded Project of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation "On the Logical Methods and the Modern Construction of Traditional Chinese Philosophy" (2019M650109), 80,000 yuan, chaired.

(4) 2020 General Project of Scientific Research of Philosophy Societies of Colleges and Universities "Feng Youlan and the Study of Chinese and Western Philosophical Associations" (2020SJA0006), chaired.

3. Academic Monographs:

(1) "On Jiao Hong and Ming-Qing Confucianism", China Social Sciences Press, March 2023;

4. Academic Papers:

(1) Relevant achievements in the study of traditional Chinese philosophy:

1) "Jiao Hong and the Confucian Turn between the Ming and Qing Dynasties", Universitas : Monthly Review of Philosophy and Culture, No. 4, 2022.

2) "The Three Dimensions of the Difference Between Wang Qi and Wang Geng's Psychology", Universitas : Monthly Review of Philosophy and Culture, No. 7, 2020.

3) "On Jiao Hong's Body and Philosophy: On 'Cognition' and 'Experience' in Late Ming Philosophy", Journal of Jiangsu University (Social Sciences Edition), No. 2, 2019.

4) "The Origin, Craftsmanship and Ethics of Confucianism in the Vision of Dahui Zonggao", Fujian Forum, No. 4, 2016.

5) "The New Form of the Zhongyong View under the Background of Paradigm Shift: An Analysis of the New Paradigm of Zhongyong by Qi Song of the Ming Dynasty of the Northern Song Dynasty", Journal of Jiangsu Institute of Administration, No. 2, 2016.

(2) Relevant achievements in the study of modern Chinese philosophy:

1) "On Feng Youlan's 'Dialectical Cosmic Algebra'", Zhou Yi Research, No. 6, 2021.

2) "Xin Lixue and Pragmatism", The History of Chinese Philosophy, No. 6, 2020. (This paper was reprinted in full by Renmin University of China copies newspapers and periodicals of Chinese Philosophy, No. 4, 2021)

3) "Can Logical Analysis Cancel Metaphysics: On Feng Youlan's Critique of Logical Syntactic Theory", Studies in Dialectics of Nature, No. 10, 2020.

4) "On Hu Shi's Logical Construction of Confucius’ Yi ideas: From the Perspective of the Zhengming Method", Zhou Yi Research, No. 5, 2019. (This article was reprinted in full by Renmin University of China copies newspapers and periodicals of Chinese Philosophy, No. 4, 2020).

5) "Mystical View on Science: the Scientific Spirit in Han Dynasty from the Perspective of Feng Youlan", Studies in the Dialectics of Nature, No. 2, 2019.

6) "Positive and Negative Methods and the Reconstruction of Mind Teaching: On Yangming Teaching in Feng Youlan's New Theory", Confucius Studies, No. 4, 2016.

5. Awards and Honors:

(1) Academic Research Award:

1) The doctoral dissertation "On Jiao Hong and Ming-Qing Confucianism" was awarded the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation of Nanjing University, August 2020.

2) Won the original nomination award of the 7th Nanjing University Young Teachers for Humanities and Scientific Research, February 2021.

(2) Teaching and Education Award:

1) the 2020 Nanjing University Quality Online Teaching Award, September 2020.

2) the 2020 "Truthful Teaching Excellence Award" of the Department of Philosophy of Nanjing University, January 2021.

3) the 2021 Nanjing University Charm Mentor Award, September 2021.

4) the second prize of the final of the 2nd Nanjing University Teacher Teaching Competition in 2022, September 2022.

5) the Outstanding Teaching Award for General Education of Nanjing University in 2022, September 2022.