New Essays on Bai Tongdong’s Blog

Fudan University professor and sometime contributor to this blog, Bai Tongdong, has his own blog here, and has recently posted some essays there (in Chinese) that some readers may be interested in. The most recent is “传统正名系列3 作为普适价值的儒学” or “Rectification of Names #3: Confucianism as Universal Value.” It is a provocative and (in my view) constructive interjection into the debates that have been raging over “universal” (which often is code for “Western”) values. Enjoy

NECCT 2014 Call for Abstracts

We hereby request submissions of abstracts for the third Northeast Conference on Chinese Thought (NECCT), to be held at Central Connecticut State University on Saturday and Sunday, November 8-9, 2014.

Interested scholars should send an abstract of no more than one single-spaced page, plus a current CV, to Mathew Foust (foust@ccsu.edu) no later than June 1, 2014. All files should either be in Word or .pdf format.

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