Yu Zhiping, an academic leader at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, serves as a professor of the Philosophy Department at the School of Humanities and as a doctoral student tutor.  He received his doctorate in philosophy at Fudan University (in 2001) and his post-doctorate in philosophy at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (in 2005).  He is the president of the Dong Zhongshu Research Institute of Chinese Confucian Academy, an adviser of the Hebei Dong Zhongshu Research Institute, and a chief expert of Hebei Dongzi College, Dongzi Research Institute and Dongzi Forum.  He also acts as a research fellow of the Confucius Research Institute of Renmin University of China, a research fellow of Shandong Research Institute of Asia-Pacific Rite Culture, a deputy director of the Shanghai Yan Huang Culture Research Association Board of Confucian Culture, and a member of the Academic Committee of Fudan University Shanghai Academy of Confucianism.  He presides over the following projects: the "Spectrum of Kant’s Philosophical Concepts", a philosophy and social science planning subject of Shanghai; the “Study on the Confucian Identity, Posts and Brief Obituaries before Confucius"; the “Study on the Spectrum of Kant’s Philosophical Concepts”, a National Philosophy and Social Science Fund project, and the National Philosophy and social science Fund project of “Achieving Humanity through Loyalty and Considerateness".  He is a visiting scholar at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities of Germany, Free University of Berlin, and Kitakyushu University of Japan.  He is also “an author of important reprinted sources of photocopied materials of newspapers and periodicals” in the field of China's humanities and social sciences (released by Renmin University of China in 2017).  

He has published monographs such as The Heaven Is the Biggest - A Study of Dong Zhongshu Philosophy Based on the Faith Noumenon; The Key to Philosophy - Metaphysical Thoughts Deriving from Ontology; Chinese Temperament - Discovery of Living Philosophical Traditions; Achieving Humanity through Loyalty and Considerateness; Discovery of the Truth with Philosophical Wisdom; Textual Criticism of Dong Zhongshu’s Studies on The Spring and Autumn Annals; The Commentary of Gongyang on Chinese and Barbarians - the Confucian Design of the World Order Based on Civilized Education; The Countryside of Wanji Town These Years - Micro-narrative and Case Studies of China's Underlying Social Governance; The Beginning of Conducting Oneself (Rules for Disciples) - Observing Proprieties and Rules to Find a Good Way of Life, and Localized Narrative of Philosophy in China. He has also compiled the book Philosophical Concept System in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason（Das Philosophische Begriffeslexikon zur Kritik der reinen Vernunft）.  

Research papers (63):  

Dong Zhongshu’s Role in Inheriting and Developing Confucianism, Guangming Daily, May 4, 2015, the 16th edition.  
A Study on the Issue of the War in the Book of Changes – Discussion on the Military Thought of Confucianism, Issue 3 of Studies of the Book of Changes in 2015.  
An Interview with Professor Yu Zhiping on Dong Zhongshu’s Theory - Issue 5 of Philosophical Analysis in 2015.  
Textual Research on Confucian Military Stories and War Ideas - Issue 11 of Social Science in 2015.  
Ten examples of Dong Zhongshu’s Interpretation of the Diction in The Spring and Autumn Annals, Issue 3 of Journal of Hengshui University in 2016.  Photocopied material of Chinese philosophy in Renmin University of China, Issue 9 in 2016, with the full text reprinted.