David K. Schneider
Associate Professor of Asian Studies
Office Hours
- Monday, 3:45 - 4:45
Profile
Professor Schneider is a former Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Foreign Commercial Service, the branch of the American Foreign Service responsible for international trade and investment, with tours of duty in the American Embassy in Beijing, China, and the American Consulate in St. Petersburg, Russia. His experience in private sector business with China and Japan was with Chindex International, Inc. and Mitsubishi International Corporation. Schneider’s research interests include war and diplomacy in East Asia; religion in international affairs; Chinese religion and philosophy; comparative political philosophy; and Chinese and East Asian civilizations in contemporary international affairs. He is author of Confucian Prophet: Political Thought in Du Fu’s Poetry (752-757), Cambria Press, 2012, and has published on China and East Asia in The Diplomatic Courier, the G20 and G8 summit magazines, American Diplomacy, China Business Review, Wikistrat, The National Interest, War on the Rocks, and Law and Liberty.
Education
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, East Asian Languages and Cultures
M.I.A., Columbia University, International Affairs
B.A., University of Colorado, Religious Studies
Research Areas
- Classical Chinese literature*
- Political philosophy*
- War and diplomacy*
- Utopianism*
- Religion*
- Chinese and East Asian civilizations in contemporary international affairs
* All in comparative perspective with other traditions.
Publications
Books
- Authored Book
Confucian Prophet: Political Thought in Du Fu’s Poetry (752-757), Cambria Press, 2012.
Also available from Amazon in Kindle form here, and in Book form here.
Read here my response to the 2017 CLEAR review of Confucian Prophet: Response to Daniel Hsieh’s Review of Confucian Prophet: Political Thought in Du Fu’s Poetry (752-757), by David K. Schneider, Amherst, New York: Cambria Press, 2012. (CLEAR, vol. 39, December 2017)
- Edited Volume
Book Chapters, Essays and Reviews
Essays on International Affairs
China's Unique Universalism, Law and Liberty, December 6, 2023
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/chinas-unique-universalism/
Confucianism's Piety Problem, Law and Liberty, June 2, 2022
https://lawliberty.org/confucianisms-piety-problem/
“China’s New Legalism,” The National Interest, Number 143, May-June 2016, p. 19-25
The Chinese Navy: A Look Ahead, a Wikistrat report, January 2016.
“The Shanghai Cooperation Organization: A League of Autocracies?,” American Diplomacy, August 2008.
"Power Plays" (with Jessica Madoc Jones and Guo Liming), The China Business Review, Volume 20, Number 6, November-December, 1993, p. 20-26.
"On Your Mark…" (with Jessica Madoc Jones and Guo Liming), The China Business Review, Volume 20, Number 6, November-December, 1993, p. 34-41.
Courses Recently Taught
- Asian Studies 375 - Chinese Science Fiction in Translation
- Asian Studies 380 - Self and Ethics in the Great Books of Asia
- Asian Studies 391R - United States-China Relations
- Chinese 450 - Elementary Classical Chinese