Two immense influences on my work originate from the seminal philosophers Hans-Georg Gadamer and Chung-ying Cheng. My academic career begins with personal interactions with the hermeneutics philosopher Gadamer at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada whose guiding hand shapes my vision around the idea of merging horizons; Cheng enhances this rich and most provocative beginning with a unique East-West phenomenology of onto-generative hermeneutics. Both scholars provide fresh eyes for Martin Heidegger’s engagement with Daoism in what I call Daoist Phenomenology, and the forgotten “o”: the move from the saying of the Da of Da-sein to the waying of Da(o).

对我的作品产生巨大影响的两个巨大的影响来自于开创性的哲学家 Hans-Georg Gadamer 和 Chung-ying Cheng。我的学术生涯始于与加拿大汉密尔顿麦克马斯特大学的诠释学哲学家伽达默尔的个人互动，他的指导手塑造了我围绕合并视野的愿景；程以独特的东西方本体生成诠释学现象学加强了这一丰富且最具挑衅性的开端。两位学者都为马丁·海德格尔在我所说的道家现象学中与道家的接触以及被遗忘的“o”提供了新的视角：从Da-sein的Da的说法到 Da(o) 的方式的转变。