A major new book is about to be released: the 704-page Luxuriant Gems of the Spring and Autumn (春秋繁露), attributed to Dong Zhongshu; edited and translated by Sarah A. Queen and John S. Major (Columbia University Press). This is a tremendous accomplishment, and should help to further open up post-classical philosophy to broader attention and analysis.
New Book: Returning to Zhu Xi
I just received my copy (as a contributor; not sure it is yet available for order) of David Jones and Jinhe Li, eds., Returning to Zhu Xi: Emerging Patterns within the Supreme Polarity (SUNY, 2015). It looks splendid! Congratulations, David and Jinhe.
Confucian Tradition panels at AAR
The annual American Academy of Religion meeting is coming up, with a number of promising-sounding panels. Here are those cosponsored or co-sponsored by the Confucian Traditions group:
Help with locating article
Does anyone know where or how I can get hold of a copy of the following article:
Paola Carrozza. 2002. “A Critical Review of the Principal Studies on the Four Manuscripts Preceding the B Version of the Mawangdui Laozi.” B.C Asian Review, No.13
I’m unable to locate the author and the article.
There is apparently an open access link from the Monumenta Serica website, but it doesn’t work (http://www.monumenta-serica.de/monumenta-serica/library/periodicals/western/b/B-C-Asian-Review.php).
Thanks in advance for help,
Karyn Lai
Academic Cross-Training Fellowship
The John Templeton Foundation is inaugurating a new fellowship program: Academic Cross-Training (ACT). The ACT Fellowship program is intended to equip recently tenured philosophers and theologians with the skills and knowledge needed to study Big Questions that require substantive and high-level engagement with empirical science. In addition to the website linked above, see also this flyer.
A series of CRVP conferences in 2016
The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy will jointly host a number of conferences in 2016.
New On-Line Collaborative Text/Translation Project
The Ten Thousand Rooms Project at Yale may well be of interest to readers. Funded by the Mellon Foundation and Yale, the project makes available sophisticated tools for on-line, collaborative projects to annotate and/or translate pre-modern Chinese texts. More information is at the project’s website.
Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture
The Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture has been published by the by the Institute of Confucian Philosophy and Culture (ICPC) at Sungkyunkwan Univesity (SKKU) in Korea since 2001. The Journal publishes articles in English and in Chinese; PDFs of all issues are available on-line here. There is a lot of high-quality content here, with a particular focus on Chinese and Korean Neo-Confucianism.
In addition, the journal welcomes English-language submissions (which will be double-blind reviewed). For more details, see here.
Buber on the Daodejing: Next week at Harvard
Monday, November 16, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
China Humanities Seminar: Laozi the Existentialist: Martin Buber’s Transformation of the Daodejing
Speaker: Jonathan Herman, Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Georgia State University
Sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
K262, Bowie-Vernon Room, CGIS Knafel, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA
Harvard Conference: “Democracy & China: Philosophical-Political Reflections”
Democracy & China: Philosophical-Political Reflections
One-Day Workshop on Themes from the Work of Jiwei Ci
November 13, 2015, 9:30AM – 5:15 PM
Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Seminar Room
124 Mt. Auburn Street, 5th floor (use entrance on Mt. Auburn Street)
