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Dirk Meyer is a Professor of Chinese Philosophy at the University of Oxford and Fellow of The Queen's College. He directs the Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures (CMTC) and the Centre for Study of Excavated Manuscripts at Nanjing University. His research focuses on early Chinese thought, manuscript cultures, and the interplay between material conditions and intellectual production. He leads projects such as Silent Argumentation: Philosophy as Performance in Early China and collaborates on the Songs of the States multi-volume study of Warring States manuscripts.
- Director of the Journal of Manuscript and Text Cultures (MTC), a diamond Open-Access journal
- Senior co-editor of Library of Sinology (De Gruyter) and editor of Text Cultures (Fenghuang Press)
- Recipient of the Mei-an Chair Professorship (Nanjing University) and Bernhard Karlgren Fellowship (SCAS)
Key research interests include the relationship between writing technologies and philosophical discourse, reinterpreting Chinese thought on its own terms, and analyzing excavated texts like the Guodian and Tsinghua manuscripts. Recent publications include Songs of the Royal Zhōu and the Royal Shào (Brill, 2022) and Philosophy on Bamboo (Brill, 2012).
He supervises numerous doctoral students in Chinese philosophy and has organized conferences on topics such as manuscript ethics, gender in text cultures, and the legacy of Guodian manuscripts. His work bridges Sinology with global comparative approaches to manuscript studies, emphasizing interdisciplinary collaboration.
