Zemian Zheng is an associate professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He specializes in Neo-Confucianism from Song to Qing. He is the author of the monograph 誠意關 The Sincerity Pass: Reconstructing the Narrative of Neo-Confucian Philosophy from Zhu Xi to Wang Yangming (2022). He received his PhD from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2011, and taught at Wuhan University from 2011 to 2019. He was a post-doc at the Free University of Berlin, and a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley. He joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2019.