Author Archives: Steve Angle

New Books: Rogacz and Ambrogio, eds., Chinese Philosophy and its Thinkers

The massive, three-volume Chinese Philosophy and its Thinkers: From Ancient Times to the Present Day
(General Editors: Dawid Rogacz & Selusi Ambrogio) has been published by Bloomsbury. The three volumes are:

  • Volume I: Chinese Ancient and Early Imperial Philosophy
  • Volume II: Chinese Imperial Philosophy After Buddhism
  • Volume III: Chinese Philosophy from the Eighteenth Century to the Present

See here for more information, including tables of contents. Congratulations to Profs. Rogacz and Ambrogio for shepherding this project to completion!

Two articles in Hypatia

Two articles related to Chinese philosophy have appeared over the last year in the journal Hypatia:

  • Sor-hoon Tan, “Confucian Family Ideal and Same-Sex Marriage: A Feminist Confucian Perspective” (Hypatia , Volume 39 , Issue 3 , Summer 2024 , pp. 597 – 615; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/hyp.2023.100)
  • Subin Lee, “Confucian Familialism and the Crisis of Care” (Hypatia , Volume 39 , Issue 3 , Summer 2024 , pp. 597 – 615; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/hyp.2024.50)

Click on the DOI links for abstracts and more information.

On-line Book talk: The Other Yijing

The ISCSD (International Society for the Critical Study of Divination) Book Talk series is pleased to announce its upcoming event scheduled on November 20, 2024, at 15:00 CEST. Prof. Tze-ki Hon 韓子奇 (Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College) and two contributors to the volume, Prof. Chang Chia-Feng 張嘉鳳 (National Taiwan University) and Prof. Zhao Lu 趙璐 (NYU Shanghai) will present the book The Other Yijing: The Book of Changes in Chinese History, Politics, and Everyday Life, published by Brill in 2021 with our book series “Prognostication in History.” Prof. John T.P. Lai 黎子鵬 from the Chinese University of Hong Kong is joining the event as a discussant.

More information, including zoom link, here.

Post-Doc in Chinese Buddhist Philosophy

The Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia (IKGA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), Austria’s leading non-university research and science institution, is offering a POSTDOC POSITION (F/M/X) (part-time, 36 hours per week) in the European Research Council project “The Ethics of Empty Beliefs: Chinese Buddhist Philosophy in the ‘Period of Disunity’” (CHINBUDDHPHIL) (ERC-2022-StG-101077136).

The successful candidate will contribute to the project, principally by conducting research on the philosophy of the Sanlun 三論 school of Chinese Buddhism in relation to Western philosophy.

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Loy Reviews Kim, Confucian Constitutionalism

Sungmoon Kim, Confucian Constitutionalism: Dignity, Rights, and Democracy, Oxford University Press, 2023, 296pp., $83.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780197630617.

Reviewed by Hui-chieh Loy, National University of Singapore

Sungmoon Kim’s book continues his long-standing project of bringing together insights from Confucianism and a political theorizing meant to be fit for the modern world. Like his earlier works, the new book combines interesting discussions of pre-modern texts and thoughtful applications of ancient ideas to modern concerns. The ambition of the book, as stated early on, is to articulate a “democratic theory of Confucian constitutionalism” (1). This ambition situates Kim’s book within the ongoing debate between the two main competing strands of modern Confucian political theorizing: Confucian political meritocracy and Confucian democracy. Kim advocates for the latter, putting his proposals…

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Updates to Graduate Program listing

Here at the blog we do our best to keep the page dedicated to Graduate Programs in Chinese Philosophy up-to-date, including listing recent changes near the top of that page. Significant recent updates include noting Chris Fraser’s move to the University of Hong Kong, adding the University of Warwick (and Curie Virág), and noting Chenyang Li’s retirement from Nanyang Technological University. Please leave a comment or email me directly with any suggestions or updates!

New Book: Li, The Self in the West and East Asia

Jin Li’s new book, The Self in the West and East Asia: Being or Becoming, is now available from Polity (see here). In this book, Li synthesizes philosophy with psychological research to examine how the self is conceptualized and functions in two distinct cultural systems. Please read on for more information.

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