Daily Archives: February 29, 2012

One-year position in Early China at Arizona

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VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, EARLY CHINA.  The Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona invites qualified applicants to apply for a one-year position as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the field of early China for the academic year 2012-2013. The appointment is to begin in Fall 2012. Please see complete job announcement and apply at: http://www.uacareertrack.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=203975

(Steve adds: The more detailed announcement specifies that “courses will be in the field of early China that include Chinese culture, society, thought, Confucianism and Taoism.”)

Some Thoughts on the Difficulty of Being a Confucian Today

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In memoriam Chen Cheng-po…

Yesterday we had a day off in Taiwan and I spent a rainy afternoon visiting the 2-28 Memorial Museum in downtown Taipei. I have been there before, but this time it was quite different, especially since I had the chance to look at some new documents. In particular the biography of one person was deeply moving: the Taiwanese painter Chen Cheng-po 陳澄波 (also known as Chin To-Ha). He was born in 1895 in Chia-Yi, studied arts in Tokyo and went on to become a famous painter in Taiwan and the broader Chinese-speaking world (especially oil paintings). After the liberation of Taiwan from the Japanese occupation, he got involved into politics and was elected into the local parliament at Chia-Yi. After the 2-28 Incident, he tried to negotiate between the Guomindang and the local population. However, he was executed without any particular reason in broad daylight on March 25th of 1947.

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Summer Residential Institute in Japanese/Chinese Comparative Philosophy

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The University of Hawaii and the University of Tokyo are organizing this three-week institute (July 31 – August 17, 2012). Roger Ames is organizing and directing the program which also involves several of the University of Tokyo’s most popular teachers. The Institute is a combination of thematic lectures and close readings of core texts in Chinese and Japanese philosophy. The application deadline is tomorrow, March 1, 2012; if you are interested but cannot make that deadline, contact Roger Ames at RTAmes@hawaii.edu.

For more information see:  http://www.eastwestcenter.org/node/21684 and scroll down to “University of Tokyo-University of Hawaii Summer Residential Institute in Comparative Philosophy.”