On September 5, there will be a “Roundtable on Radical Democracy in Chinese Thought” at the University of Toronto — details here, including free registration.
Author Archives: Steve Angle
Caro on Modern Confucianism in the PRC
Carlo Caro has published a five-part exploration of Confucianism and the foundations of political legitimacy in The Diplomat.
Bureaucratized Confucianism: How Tradition Became a Tool of Control
Erasing Confucian Cosmology: How Harmony Lost Its Soul
Legal Minimalism – How Sentience Disappeared from Chinese Law
The Elimination of Remonstrance: From Confucian Conscience to Organizational Discipline
Systemic Suppression: The Silent Elimination of Alternative Confucianism
Series link: https://thediplomat.com/tag/simulated-sagehood/
Book Symposium on Xiang, Chinese Cosmopolitanism
A book symposium was recently published in the Journal of Social and Political Philosophy about Shuchen Xiang’s book Chinese Cosmopolitanism. It comprised comments by David C. Kang, Byung-ho Lee and Huaiyu Wang and a response from the author. The issue is here; direct links to the comments and response, as well as summaries of a couple of the comments, follow below.
Job Opening at Univ. of Toronto
The University of Toronto is seeking to fill a position at the Associate or full Professor level: the Richard Charles and Esther Yewpick Lee Chair in Chinese Thought and Culture. Please see here for more information.
ISEAP 2025: On-Line Registration Now Open
For those who wish to participate virtually in the 2025 International Society for East Asian Philosophy conference, please complete the following Google Form by Monday, August 25. The links will be sent to you by email on Wednesday, August 27.
Google Form for “Registration for Online Attendees”
https://forms.gle/yp88EirfTovoGNxc7
The conference program and abstracts can be downloaded from the conference website. https://iseap.jp/iseap-2025-conference/
Angle Reviews Ziliotti, Meritocratic Democracy
The Review of Politics recently published a review I wrote of Elena Ziliotti’s excellent book Meritocratic Democracy: A Cross-Cultural Political Theory (Oxford, 2024). Please see here for the review.
Workshop on the “Foundations of Justice” in Venice this week
An International Workshop on the “Foundations of Justice: Chinese and Western Perspectives on Law, Ethics and Governance” will be held on 24-25 July at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice; please see this poster and this program for more information.
Workshop zu Kai Marchals Im Spiegel der All-Einheit
There will be a workshop (in German) on Kai Marchal’s new book on Zhu Xi, Im Spiegel der All-Einheit (details on book here). The Workshop is co-organized by Philippe Brunozzi (TU Dortmund) and Dominik Perler (Humboldt University Berlin). In-person or on-line attendance is encouraged; contact Philippe Brunozzi, philippe.brunozzi@tu-dortmund.de for details. The flyer with more information is here.
Song Reviews Xin, Lure of the Supreme Joy
In the latest issue of the Journal of Chinese Studies, Bin Song has published a review of Xin Conan-Wu’s intriguing 2024 book, Lure of the Supreme Joy: Pedagogy and Environment in the Neo-Confucian Academies of Zhu Xi. For more on the book itself, see the publisher’s site here; for Song’s review, see here.
New Book: Yong LI, Confucian Comparative Political Philosophy
Routledge has just published Yong LI’s new book, Confucian Comparative Political Philosophy; see here for the publisher’s webpage. Here’s its description and Table of Contents:
