August 2-12, Language: English, a great line-up of scholars. See this link for details:
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/rt71u6CJ0KpN0YFPf2MNdA
Fudan Summer School of Chinese Philosophy: History and Emotions in Chinese Philosophy
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Two Upcoming Collaborative Learning Events
Dear Colleagues,
Next week the 四海为学 Collaborative Learning Project will host two roundtables:
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May 11th at 9:00am Beijing time: “Nothingness (無) in the Zhuangzi.”
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May 11th at 19:00 Beijing time: “Transformation and/in the Zhuangzi.”
Please feel free to advertise these events or share them with anyone. All our events are free and open to everyone. Note that no pre-registration or passcode is required for any 四海为学 events.
For a list of upcoming events see our calendar here.
Sincerely,
Paul J. D’Ambrosio
New Book: Richard King, “The lord a lord, the minister a minister, the father a father, the son a son.” Roles and virtues in Plato, Aristotle, the Mencius and the Xunzi
Richard King’s new book on roles and virtues in Plato, Aristotle, the Mencius and the Xunzi is published and available open access.
The website for the book is here, and the book is downloadable from there. The book is written in English (even though the website is in German).
Lecturer in Daoism: Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Monash University has advertised a permanent lectureship in Daoist philosophy. Details are available here.
Deadline for applications is 17th May 2026.
Upcoming Collaborative Learning Event
Dear Colleagues,
On May 6, at 9 a.m. (Beijing time), the 四海为学 Collaborative Learning Project will host a roundtable on: “(Me)Ontology and Metaphysics in the Zhuangzi.” Details, including the Zoom link, can be found here.
Please feel free to advertise this or share it with anyone. All our events are free and open to everyone. Note that no pre-registration or passcode is required for any 四海为学 events.
For a list of upcoming events see our calendar here.
Sincerely,
Paul J. D’Ambrosio
New Book: Kim, A Confucian Theory of Power
Sungmoon Kim’s A Confucian Theory of Power has been published by Manchester University Press (https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182661/). The book contains a lead essay by Kim, responses from several theorists, and Kim’s replies.
ToC: Asian Philosophy 36:2
The newest issue of Asian Philosophy has come out through Taylor and Francis Online. We invite you to check out the articles through this link. Please also find the table of contents below. Continue reading
New Book: Fan, Between Shanshui and Landscape
Jiani Fan (范佳妮) has published a new book: 山水风景之间——中西诗画中的风景再现与美学 / Between Shanshui and Landscape: Toward a Comparative Aesthetics of Chinese and Western Poetry and Visual Arts (Beijing: SDX Joint Publishing Company (生活·读书·新知三联书店), April 2026).
The book focuses on Ancient Greek, Roman, Chinese, and modern French poetry and visual arts, and engages with aesthetic concepts such as Stimmung (mood/attunement), the Sublime, Ruins, and Emptiness (Vide), as well as their Chinese counterparts. A comparative journey across traditions and media.
CFP: 2026 NECCT at Bentley University
We are pleased to announce that the 2026 meeting of theNortheast Conference on Chinese Thought (NECCT)will be held October 30–31, 2026, at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts. This annual conference brings together scholars and graduate students working on Chinese thought across disciplines and methodologies, and welcomes both historically focused and comparative work engaging Chinese perspectives.
Philip J. Ivanhoe at Columbia on May 1, 5-7pm
Joint session by the Neo-Confucian Studies Seminar and the Comparative Philosophy Seminar at Columbia
Philip J. Ivanhoe (Georgetown): Chinese and Korean Neo-Confucian Views on Not Transferring One’s Anger
ABSTRACT: Early Chinese Confucians believed that in certain circumstances anger is a proper emotion to have, express, and act upon but that it is a potential source of moral error and difficult to control; therefore, it requires special attention and management. Neo-Confucian thinkers in China and Korea accepted and defended these beliefs but offered quite distinctive analyses of what anger is and how it should be attended to, exercised, and managed. They often developed their ideas by reflecting and commenting on the early Confucian teaching of Not Transferring One’s Anger, first seen in the Analects, to explain their views on anger and in particular how to control and direct it. I will describe and explain some representative Confucian views on anger in China and Korea and argue that while the standard neo-Confucian account of anger is not plausible in certain respects, it offers an excellent model or template for thinking about anger and a method for achieving the kind of anger management that we require in order to live well in the contemporary world. I will further argue that the need to understand and manage anger is a particularly pressing problem for people today because, given the nature of our times, for a variety of reasons, it is a much greater liability for wellbeing and humanity than it was in the past.
DATE: Friday, May 1st
TIME: 5:00-7:00pm EDT
LOCATION: Faculty House (64 Morningside Dr, New York, NY 10027)
