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Michael Hunter serves as Associate Professor of East Asian Languages & Literatures at Yale University, where he specializes in pre-imperial and early imperial Chinese intellectual history within the Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures.
His research critically re-examines foundational texts of Chinese philosophy, particularly focusing on Confucius quotation practices and the compilation history of the Analects (Lunyu). Hunter challenges traditional scholarship by arguing the Analects was compiled during the Western Han dynasty (150s-130s BCE) rather than the Warring States period, analyzing how pre-Analects authors dynamically re-performed Confucius's teachings as creative reinterpretations of inherited wisdom. His methodology integrates textual analysis with historical context to illuminate early Chinese philosophical discourse and political-intellectual milieus.
Dr. Hunter completed his doctoral work under the supervision of Willard Peterson and Martin Kern, producing the dissertation Sayings of Confucius, Deselected which deconstructs the Analects' authority through reverse chronological analysis of Confucius quotations across the early Chinese corpus.
