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Eno, Robert
Associate Professor and Chair, EALC
Adjunct Associate Professor, Philosophy
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
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Goodbody Hall 247
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405
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Phone: (812) 855-0856 E-mail: eno@indiana.edu
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Robert Eno entered the field of Chinese studies almost accidentally mid-way through college. It was only after a few years of study that he discovered, to his surprise, that he had unintentionally fallen in love with the language and with Chinese culture, and he decided to postpone his original plan to leave academics. His early focus was on Chinese communist ideology and literature, but he kept moving backwards to learn more about where modern China came from, and wound up doing his doctoral work on ancient Chinese thought. Thinking he had never been talented in foreign languages, the shock of finding that he was able to read and to enjoy reading texts and inscriptions from thousands of years ago seems to have made him an early China addict, and though he tried to keep up with the shape of medieval and modern China studies -- he enjoys teaching undergraduate surveys on China and on East Asia as a whole -- he's never returned to a research focus on those eras. Most of his published articles have been in the areas of early philosophy and religion -- he teaches a course on early thought in the Philosophy department. Over the past ten years, his interest in approaching early China through the varied perspectives of social, political, and intellectual history has grown, and he now teaches about early China in the History department as well. Recent research he's been doing on the origins of Confucianism as a social movement and on Qin period learning has also been directed as much towards questions of intellectual history as philosophy, exploring different ways to coax texts into revealing the distant world from which they arose.
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