From H-Net Reviews, Michael Nylan reviews Michael Hunter, The Poetics of Early Chinese Thought: How the Shijing Shaped the Chinese Philosophical Tradition. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021.
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ACLS Launches Redesign of Luce/ACLS Program in China Studies
See here for more information on the changes and opportunities to the Luce/ACLS Program in China Studies.
Latest from 四海為學 “Collaborative Learning” Project
The 四海為學 “Collaborative Learning” Project will host two events this month.
August 23nd (tomorrow) at 8:00pm Beijing time we will host a book discussion of Alexus McLeod’s The Philosophical Thought of Wang Chong. For details and the Zoom link click here.
On August 30th at 8:00pm Beijing time a round table on Social and Political Hierarchies. Further information and the Zoom link can be found here..
For a full calendar of our events through May 2024 click here. All of our events are free and open to everyone. There is no pre-registration required.
Reviews of Kwak and Tao in JSPP
Issue 2.2 of the Journal of Social and Political Philosophy has been published and includes at least two pieces of interest to blog readers:
- Haig Patapan’s review of Jun-Hyeok Kwak, ed. Machiavelli in East Asia, Routledge, 2022.
- Ellie Hua’s review of Tao Jiang, Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China, Oxford University Press, 2021.
Click here for 30-days free access to the journal.
CFP: 1st Carolina Conference on Chinese Thought
Call for Proposals: 1st Carolina Conference on Chinese Thought
Saturday, April 6, 2024, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
The Carolina Conference on Chinese Thought (CCCT) is envisioned as a regionally-based site for exchange and connection among those interested in Chinese thought, broadly construed. We invite scholars and graduate students based in the Carolinas to share and discuss their work on Chinese thought, drawing from any disciplinary perspective. Presentations focusing on research, pedagogy, and other engagements with Chinese thought are welcome. Works-in-progress are especially encouraged, with the CCCT being a collegial atmosphere for collaboration with others in the region.
CFP: Articles for The World of the Orient (Shìdnij svìt)
The journal The World of the Orient (Shìdnij svìt) invites submissions for the next issue.
Deadline for articles: September 15, 2023.
Language of publications: Ukrainian and English.
The World of the Orient is Ukraine’s leading academic journal in the field of Asian Studies. It is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal indexed in Scopus, included in the List of Scientific and Professional Publications of Ukraine (category A), published by the A. Yu. Krymskyi Institute of Oriental Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
The journal accepts original research articles on topical issues of the past and present of Asia, its languages and literature, history, philosophy, culture, religion, Ukrainian contacts with Asian countries, bibliographic surveys, and reviews, as well as the history and culture of peoples of eastern origin within Ukraine. The journal also accepts translations of historical, religious, and literary monuments of the Orient.
Guidance for authors on submissions can be found at: https://oriental-world.org.ua
ISCWP Announcement
From Alexus McLeod:
Dear ISCWP Members,
Our vote has concluded, with the result that Shirong Luo has been elected ISCWP Vice President, and Yuanfang Dai elected as Secretary-Treasurer, for the 2023-2026 term. Thank you to all of the members for your continued support of the ISCWP, and for helping with the election and smooth transition of the new Board of Directors. And congratulations to Dr. Luo and Dr. Dai on their elections.
I now hand over leadership of the ISCWP to its new President, Dr. Sun Wei. I wish him all success in continuing to advance the important comparative project of the ISCWP, and using it to move our field forward. Godspeed!
All the best,
Alexus
Alexus McLeod
Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University
Past President of ISCWP (2020-2023)
Xiang, Decolonising Sinology
Shuchen Xiang has just published a paper “Decolonising Sinology: on Sinology’s Weaponisation of the Discourse of Race” in Social Dynamics: A journal of African Studies. Please read on for the abstract and how to access the article:
TOC: JAOS 143.2 (2023)
The new issue of JAOS, 143.2 (2023), is now available in print and online at https://lockwoodonlinejournal
New Book: Galvany, ed., The Craft of Oblivion
SUNY Press has just released a new volume entitled “The Craft of Oblivion: Forgetting and Memory in Ancient China” edited by Albert Galvany. It is an innovative volume that aims to study, for the first time, the intersections between forgetting and remembering in classical Chinese civilization. Drawing on perspectives from history, philosophy, literature, and religion, and examining both transmitted texts and excavated materials, the contributors to this volume analyze various ways of understanding oblivion and its fertile relations with memory in ancient China. Please click here (https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-Craft-of-Oblivion) to read more about the book or to purchase it.
