Zhu Yueli朱越利

Period

Contemporary

Dates

1944 — ?

Role

Daoist ScholarsProfessor at Sichuan University

Birthplace

Unknown

Life

Zhu Yueli was a research fellow at the Institute of World Religions, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and later a professor and doctoral supervisor at the Institute of Daoist and Religious Culture, Sichuan University; he also served as vice-president of the Chinese Association for Religious Studies. His main work is in Daoist textual studies and the history of Daoism. His representative work, Classified Bibliographic Notes on the Daoist Canon (1996), provides descriptive notes for the entire Daoist Canon arranged by a modern classification system, and stands as an important reference work alongside Descriptive Notes on the Daoist Canon. He also wrote General Treatise on Daoist Scriptures, Collected Critical Studies on Daoism, and Questions and Answers on Daoism, edited Theory, Perspective, Method: Overseas Studies of Daoism, and translated works on Daoist studies by Japanese scholars, making significant contributions to the classification and dating of Daoist scriptures and to introducing overseas Daoist studies to Chinese readers. The above is drawn from publicly available academic information.

Contributions & Influence

• Wrote Classified Bibliographic Notes on the Daoist Canon, providing descriptive notes for the Canon under a modern classification
• Introduced overseas scholarship on Daoism to Chinese readers
• Wrote General Treatise on Daoist Scriptures, examining the classification and dating of Daoist texts

Works

• Classified Descriptive Catalogue of the Daoist Canon
• General Survey of Daoist Scriptures
• Essays on Evidential Studies of Daoism
• Questions and Answers on Daoism