Jackson School Professor Deborah Porter’s new book “The Evolution of Chinese Filiality: Insights from the Neurosciences” (Routledge 2022) brings a fresh interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of ancient Chinese history, creating a historical model for the emergence of cultural mainstays by applying recent dramatic findings in the fields of neuroscience and cultural evolution.
With a blended multidisciplinary approach combining social neuroscience, cultural evolution, cognitive archaeology, and historical analysis, this book is ideal for students and researchers in neuropsychology, religion, and Chinese culture and history.
Learn more in this interview with Porter titled, “Examining the origin and evolution of Chinese filial piety” (UW News, Aug. 12, 2022)
Porter was trained as a Sinologist and has published on Chinese fiction, myth and cultural history spanning two millennia. The book was published on March 11, 2022.