I will be giving an on-line talk next week on my new book, Growing Moral: A Confucian Guide to Life, hosted by the Center for East Asian and Comparative Philosophy at the City University of Hong Kong. The talk will take place via Zoom at 10 am on Friday, April 8 in HKT, which will be at 10pm on Thursday, April 7 EDT. So if you’re in East Asia, or are a night owl in the US, feel free to join! Details are on the attached poster.
Category Archives: China
Upcoming Neo-Confucianism Seminar on Kang Youwei
The next session of the Columbia University Seminar on Neo-Confucian Studies will convene on Friday April 1st from 10-11:30 am EDT, over Zoom.
The speaker will be Federico Brusadelli of the Università di Napoli L’Orientale, now also a Visiting Fellow at the Polish Institute of Advanced Study. Professor Brusadelli will present his draft “Race, Reproduction, Resources: Kang Youwei’s Datongshu as a 20th-century Global Prophecy.”
If you’d like to receive the paper and join the meeting, please contact Nolan Bensen, Rapporteur for the Seminar on Neo-Confucian Studies.
Tiwald to HKU
My friend and collaborator Justin Tiwald has recently announced that he has accepted a tenured full professorship in the Philosophy Department of the University of Hong Kong, and will begin teaching there full-time in August of this year. Congratulations, Justin!
Lecture: Xu Jilin on Maruyama Masao
Announcing the next lecture of the University of Göttingen’s Centre for Modern East Asian Studies’s 2021/2022 lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China.
Xu Jilin (Professor at East China Normal University) will speak about Maruyama Masao’s Research on Intellectual History as seen by Chinese scholars (lecture and discussion in Chinese)
Time: Feb 11, 2022 12:00 PM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
Registration (required) is at: Zoom link.
Time: Feb 11, 2022 12:00 PM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
Registration (required) is at: Zoom link.
Abstract
Maruyama Masao is the most influential post-war Japanese intellectual historian. He transcends the dichotomy between Eastern and Western thought, uncovering the “insistent bass” in the “ancient layers” of Japanese thought and examining how it has recreated the universality of modern Japanese thought. He views the study of the history of thought as an “art of representation” similar to the performance of music, in which re-creation is achieved within the confines of a text. He relativizes universal thought in a specific historical context, presenting the richness and diversity of thought itself.
Maruyama Masao is the most influential post-war Japanese intellectual historian. He transcends the dichotomy between Eastern and Western thought, uncovering the “insistent bass” in the “ancient layers” of Japanese thought and examining how it has recreated the universality of modern Japanese thought. He views the study of the history of thought as an “art of representation” similar to the performance of music, in which re-creation is achieved within the confines of a text. He relativizes universal thought in a specific historical context, presenting the richness and diversity of thought itself.
Berggruen China Center Annual Report
The Berggruen China Center has issued its 2021 Annual report, detailing an impressive range of inter-disciplinary activities — very much including philosophy. Please see here for an overview and to access the full report.
English-language MA in Chinese Philosophy, Religion, and Culture at Renmin University
The School of Philosophy at Renmin University of China has for several years offered a two-year M.A. program in Chinese Philosophy, Religion, and Culture (CPRC). All courses for this program (except Chinese language) are taught in English. It offers overseas students who are not proficient in Mandarin a valuable opportunity to study Chinese philosophy, religion, and culture whilst living in China. It also provides opportunities to study Chinese and experience intercultural communication with professors and classmates of diverse cultural backgrounds and experiences.
For more information, see the programs summary poster here, further information here, and the official website here.
For a list of specialists affiliated with the program, read on.
New Book: Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics
Ping Zhu and Hui Faye Xiao, eds. Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics.
Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2021. (Series: Gender and Globalization)
SAVE 50% now through December 31st with discount code 05Snow21.
New issue of Early China
Early China volume 44 has been published, with several articles of potential interest. See here for more details.
Dijkstra, Printing and Publishing Chinese Religion and Philosophy in the Dutch Republic, 1595-1700
Trude Dijkstra has published Printing and Publishing Chinese Religion and Philosophy in the Dutch Republic, 1595-1700: The Chinese Imprint (Brill, 2022). See here and below.
New Book: Santangelo, Individual Autonomy and Responsibility in Late Imperial China
Paolo Santangelo has published Individual Autonomy and Responsibility in Late Imperial China (Cambria Press 2021). This book is in the Cambria Sinophone World Series headed by Victor H. Mair (University of Pennsylvania).
