Category Archives: Da Xue (Great Learning)

Neo-Confucianism Seminar this Friday

The next session of the Columbia University Seminar on Neo-Confucian Studies will convene Friday, December 6, 2013 from 3:30 to 5:30pm in the Komoda Room of the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University.

Our presenter is Ellen Neskar of Sarah Lawrence College.  Her paper is titled “Dreams, Court Cases, and Confucians.”  Please contact the organizers for a copy.

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New Book: Daxue and Zhongyong: Bilingual Edition

I’ve just received a copy of the new Johnston and Wang translation of Daxue and Zhongyong from the Chinese University of Hong Kong Press (distributed in the US by Columbia University Press). Since there are quite a few translations of these texts around, and it doesn’t seem that one can get a Table of Contents or much information from the CUP or Amazon websites, I thought I’d share a bit about the volume here.

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