David Chai

Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Chinese University of Hong Kong

David Chai is associate professor of philosophy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Zhuangzi and the Becoming of Nothingness (2019), and the editor of Dao Companion to Xuanxue [Neo-Daoism] (2020) and Daoist Encounters with Phenomenology (2020). Professor Chai’s research focuses on ancient and medieval Chinese philosophy, and comparative philosophy.

Written by David Chai

Ink painting of misty mountains with pine trees and an orange sun in the sky; grey and subtle colours dominate the scene.

There has never been a time when this article didn’t exist

The root of time itself is in fertile nothingness: how ancient Chinese Daoism shatters our illusions about time and being

by David Chai