Associated with the Religion and Philosophy Department at Hong Kong Baptist University for thirty years (1987-2017), and serving in various leadership positions there during the last ten years, Prof. Pfister is now Professor Emeritus of HKBU, a Founding Member of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities, and currently the Rector of a small humanities-based research mentoring center in the U.S.A. called Hephzibah Mountain Aster Academy. For nearly thirty years he was also involved as part of the editorial team associated with The Journal of Chinese Philosophy (USA), serving as one of its associate editors for more than ten years. Holding post graduate degrees obtained in the USA in Christian studies (MDiv) and Philosophy (MA, PhD). The latter was completed in 1987 in comparative philosophy, after a dissertation was written dealing with a 20th century three-way Chinese-European-American exploration in political philosophical issues. Now, more than thirty years later, Prof. Pfister is particularly known in some contemporary Chinese academic contexts as a multi-lingual philosopher, theologian, and sinologist. In terms of his contributions to Chinese philosophy, Prof. Pfister began with studies in Ruist (“Confucian”) and Daoist philosophical traditions, producing a dissertation involving Kang Youwei’s康有為 (1858-1927) utopian and scientistic conception of a planetary-wide politically maintained human unity (datong 大同), written under the supervision of the Ruist philosopher at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Prof. Chung-ying Cheng 成中英 (1935- ). Over the years his academic interests expanded to include Chinese religious studies (primarily in Ruist, Daoist, Christian traditions, but also dealing with Buddhist and Muslim traditions in China), the history of Chinese philosophical and religious traditions, and the foreign translations of Chinese classical works by Christian missionary-scholars (ca. 1850-1990). As a consequence, he developed specializations in the history of modern and contemporary Chinese Christianity, Ruist-Christian philosophical and religious interactions, comparative philosophical hermeneutics, and translation hermeneutics. Besides studies published about the works of the two Chinese figures already mentioned, he has produced some seminal studies of the life and works of the modern professional Chinese philosopher, Feng Youlan 馮友蘭 (1895-1990), including essays on reconceiving a post-Marxist understanding of the history of Chinese philosophical traditions. In addition, he has explored questions related to the translation corpora of Chinese classical works produced in English by the Scottish Congregationalist James Legge (理雅各 1815-1897), in Russian by the Russian Orthodox Iakinf, whose secular name was Nikita Y. Bichurin (比丘林1777-1852), in English by the Swiss Anglican pastor-scholar, Solomon Caesar Malan (馬智庫1812-1894), in German by the German Lutheran Ernst Faber (花之安1839-1899), in French by the French Jesuits Séraphin Couvreur (顧賽芬1835-1919) and Léon Wieger (戴遂良1856-1933), in German by the German Lutheran Richard Wilhelm (衛禮賢1873-1930) and, most recently, in Portuguese by the Portuguese Jesuit Joaquim Angélico de Jesus Guerra (戈振東 1908-1993). Besides his long-term affiliation with HKBU, he has held special teaching and research positions in the Humanities Division of the University of New South Wales (in Sydney, 2000, in coordination with Singaporean-Australian philosopher, Prof. Karyn Lai, and others in the Philosophy and Chinese studies areas), the Sinology Institute of Bonn University, Germany (2000-2001, in coordination with sinologist, creative writer, and translator, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kubin 顧彬 and his colleagues), the Religious Studies Department of Berne University, Switzerland (2007-2008, in coordination with Prof. Karénina Kollmar-Poulanz), and the Philosophy Department of East China Normal University 華東師範大學 (2008, in coordination with Prof. Pan Derong 潘德榮). Three sets of recent guest lecture series have been presented in the Humanities Division of Zhejiang University 浙江大學 in Hangzhou (2018 and 2019) and in the Foreign Language School in Guizhou University 貴州大學 in Guiyang (2019). Remaining academically active after his retirement from HKBU in 2017, he has recently published two large volumes related to philosophical issues, while serving as an editor for a thirteen-volume set called James Legge’s (1815-1897) Collected Works (Beijing: Commercial Press, forthcoming), to which he has added critical introductory essays for many volumes and two more general essays. The two previously mentioned volumes are Vital Post-Secular Perspectives on Chinese Philosophical Issues (Lexington Press, 2020), and a volume he edited and contributed to with a team of a dozen remarkable international scholars, Polyglot from the Far Side of the Moon: The Life and Works of Solomon Caesar Malan (1812-1894) (Monumenta Serica, 2022).