QIAN's academic research interests are: sinology (Chinese studies); theory of knowledge and epistemology in China and the West; nature science in traditional Chinese culture; Western classics; Sino-Western public administrative philosophy; comparison of Sino-Western theories of international relations and studies; intercultural translation, communication and exchange between Chinese culture and Western culture; ZHANG Dong-sun 张东荪 and modern and contemporary Chinese philosophy studies; Bìyán Lù (The Blue Cliff Record 碧岩录) and Chan Buddhism studies; Buddhist logic studies; comparative study between Chinese philosophy and Western philosophy and their cultures; history of Chinese philosoohy; history of Western philosophy; intellectual history, etc.. Now he is focusing on the comparison of Chinese logic and Western logic, especially a comparison between logic in Mohist dialectics & the School of Names in the pre-Qin period and Aristotelian logic in Ancient Greek.