Jie Tan is a Scholar-in-Residence at Regent College. He is also a visiting scholar of Regent's Chinese Studies Program. As an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Central South University, his research interests focuses primarily on the intellectual exchange between China and the West in the early modern period. He has authored and edited several books, and directed several research projects funded at both national and provincial levels. Dr. Tan has held visiting scholar positions at several universities in North America and Europe. In 2019, he visited Regent as a TEP scholar with CSP.