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Scott Cook is Tan Chin Tuan Professor of Chinese Studies, with concurrent positions in Chinese Studies and History at NUS. He holds a PhD in Chinese from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1995). Prior to his current appointment, he previously taught at Grinnell College (1996-2014) and Yale-NUS (2014-2025), where he served as Head of Studies for the History major. His research interests include early Chinese excavated manuscripts and early Chinese intellectual history, with a special interest in the history of early Chinese music.

He is author of The Bamboo Texts of Guodian: A Study and Complete Translation, vols. 1-2 (Cornell East Asia Series, 2012), The Pre-Imperial Confucian Texts of Guodian: Broad and Focused Perspectives (Taiwan Xuesheng shuju, 2006), A Multi-Perspective Survey of Lost Warring States Texts among the Shanghai-Museum and Other Chu Manuscripts (Shanghai: Zhongxi shuju, 2018), and A Study of Recorded Conversations of Confucius Texts among the Shanghai Museum Manuscripts (Shanghai: Zhongxi shuju, 2021). He is also editor of Hiding the World in the World: Uneven Discourses on the Zhuangzi (SUNY Press, 2003), and author of nearly a hundred articles in both English and Chinese.

TEACHING AREAS:
  • Early Chinese Intellectual History
  • Early Chinese Historiography
  • Early Chinese Manuscripts (Chinese Studies)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Books (sole-authored)

《上博竹書孔子語錄文獻研究》(A Study of Recorded Conversations of Confucius Texts among the Shanghai Museum Manuscripts). Shanghai: Zhongxi shuju, December 2021. 476 pages.

《上博等楚簡戰國逸書縱橫覽》(A Multi-Perspective Survey of Lost Warring States Texts among the Shanghai-Museum and Other Chu Manuscripts). Shanghai: Zhongxi shuju, November 2018. 458 pages.

The Bamboo Texts of Guodian: A Study and Complete Translation, Volumes I and II.  Ithaca: Cornell University East Asia Series, December 2012. 1200 pages.

《郭店楚簡先秦儒書宏微觀》(The Pre-Imperial Confucian Texts of Guodian: Broad and Focused Perspectives). Taipei: Xuesheng shuju, 2006.

Books (editor)

Hiding the World in the World: Uneven Discourses on the Zhuangzi, editor. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003.

Selected Journal Articles (since 2020)

“The Song Remains the Same: An Examination of the ‘Treatise on Music’ from the History of the Jin.” Monumenta Serica: Journal of Oriental Studies, 73.1 (June 2025),  pp. 127-48.

“Consulting the Elder: Intertextuality in the ‘Lord Ai Asked’ Confucian Dialogues.” Early China, First View (June 20, 2025), pp. 1-50, doi:10.1017/eac.2024.5 (print version [Early China 47 (2024)] pending).

〈《孟子》「引《論語》」新考〉(“A New Examination of the Mencius’s ‘Citation of the Analects”). Zhongguo wenhua yanjiu 中國文化研究 (Chinese Culture Research) Spring 2025 issue, pp. 20-37.

〈安大戰國簡《仲尼曰》續探〉(“A Continued Exploration of the Anhui University Warring States Bamboo Manuscript ‘Zhongni said’”). Chutu wenxian 出土文獻 (Excavated Documents) 2024.4, pp. 70-87.

〈王家嘴楚簡《孔子曰》初探〉(“A First Exploration of the Wangjiazui Chu Bamboo Manuscript ‘Kong Zi’ Said”). Zhongguo wenhua yanjiu 中國文化研究 (Chinese Culture Research) Fall 2023 issue, pp. 126-142.

〈安大簡〈君子偕壽〉與《毛詩》本對讀〉(“Reading the Anhui University Bamboo Manuscript Poem ‘Junzi xie shou’ Against its Received Mao Shi Counterpart”). Guwenzi yanjiu 《古文字研究》n. 34 (September 2022), pp. 320-28.

〈上博楚簡〈孔子詩論〉新編〉(“A New Reconstruction of the Shanghai Museum Manuscript ‘A Discourse of Confucius on the Odes’”). Zhongguo wenzi 中國文字 (Chinese Characters) 2020.4 (December 2020) (二○二○年冬季號，總第四期) (Chinese Characters 100th Commemorative Special Issue 中國文字出刊百期紀念特刊), pp. 23-61.

〈上博楚簡《弟子問》再探〉(“A Further Examination of the Shanghai Museum Chu-state Bamboo Manuscript ‘The Disciples Asked’”). Chutu wenxian yu guwenzi yanjiu v. 9 出土文獻與古文字研究》第九輯 (Ed. Fudan University Research Center on Excavated Texts and Paleography 復旦大學出土文獻與古文字研究中心編; Shanghai: Shanghai guji chubanshe, 2020.11), pp. 167-194.

“Technology in a New Key: Toward a Reexamination of Musical Theory and Practice in the Zeng Hou Yi 曾侯乙 Bells.” T’oung Pao 106.3-4 (September 2020), pp. 219-65.

〈上博簡《相邦之道》拾遺〉(“Further Research on the Shanghai Museum Manuscript ‘The Way to Administer a State’”). Chutu wenxian yuyan yanjiu 3 出土文獻語言研究第三輯 (Zhang Yujin 張玉金, ed.-in-chief; Guangzhou: Jinan daxue chubanshe, 2020.8), pp. 146-152.