The New York Times recently published an interview with C. C. Tsai, who has written and illustrated wonderful cartoon versions of the Art of War and the Analects (among others). Brian Bruya’s translated versions of both of these texts are now available from Princeton University Press.
Category Archives: China
New Book: The Nivison Annals
David S. Nivison, The Nivison Annals: Selected Works of David S. Nivison on Early Chinese Chronology, Astronomy, and Historiography was just published by DeGruyter. It includes 23 of David Nivison’s last unpublished essays (669 pages in total), and is available for free.
Paperback of Between History and Philosophy now available
The book Between History and Philosophy: Anecdotes in Early China is now available in affordable paperback ($31.95 at Amazon). The hardcover is also greatly reduced in price ($51.67 new at Amazon). More info:
Using “Reacting to the Past” to teach Neo-Confucian politics
I have made another post over at Neo-Confucianism.com, this time describing how I used the role-playing pedagogy “Reacting to the Past” in my recent course on Neo-Confucianism. It was great fun, and I encourage you to check it out!
Joint Berggruen/PKU Research Center Announced
The Berggruen Institute and Peking University have announced a new hub for research and dialogue on global transformations affecting humanity; see here.
CUHK Visiting Programs Open for Application
The Visiting Programs organized by the Research Centre for Chinese Philosophy and Culture, Department of Philosophy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong are open for application.
Overview:
In order to promote exchanges with scholars from around the world, the Research Centre for Chinese Philosophy and Culture has established several exchange programs to provide financial assistance for visiting scholars to conduct research and participate in academic activities organized by the Centre.
2 PhD Positions on New Confucianism
2 PhD Positions on New Confucianism
The Institute for European Global Studies at the University of Basel invites applications for two PhD positions starting on February 1, 2019. They are part of the research project “The Exterior of Philosophy: On the Practice of New Confucianism” funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF). The candidates will complement the research team of Prof. Dr. Ralph Weber and Philippe Major, Ph.D. The research project studies New Confucian philosophy by deploying a sociological perspective for philosophical aims. Existing scholarship has often chosen an approach that is either historical, as in the genre of intellectual history, or philosophical, tuned towards showing the contemporary philosophical relevance of New Confucianism. The current project builds on recent studies that add to these established approaches by offering sociological perspectives on New Confucianism. The project hence breaks new ground in terms of its disciplinary approach beyond the specific context of New Confucianism. Drawing on work done in sociology, the research project explores the possibilities of a sociology of philosophy approached as a philosophical sub-discipline. For more information, see here.
Three articles on contemporary Chinese political thinking
Three significant articles, all open access, on contemporary Chinese political thinking.
“Research dialogues on the intellectual public sphere in China (Part I),” Guest edited by Timothy Cheek, David Ownby, and Joshua Fogel. China Information Volume 32, Issue 1, March 2018
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Mapping the intellectual public sphere in China today Timothy Cheek, David Ownby, Joshua Fogel First Published March 14, 2018; pp. 107–120 |
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Liberalism in contemporary China: Questions, strategies, directions First Published January 2, 2018; pp. 121–138 |
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The recasting of Chinese socialism: The Chinese New Left since 2000 Shi Anshu, François Lachapelle, Matthew Galway First Published March 14, 2018; pp. 139–159 |
New Book: Huang, Intimate Memory
SUNY has published Martin W. Huang, Intimate Memory: Gender and Mourning in Late Imperial China.
Editorial summary:
In the first study of its kind about the role played by intimate memory in the mourning literature of late imperial China, Martin W. Huang focuses on the question of how men mourned and wrote about women to whom they were closely related. Drawing upon memoirs, epitaphs, biographies, litanies, and elegiac poems, Huang explores issues such as how intimacy shaped the ways in which bereaved male authors conceived of womanhood and how such conceptualizations were inevitably also acts of self-reflection about themselves as men. Their memorial writings reveal complicated self-images as husbands, brothers, sons, and educated Confucian males, while their representations of women are much more complex and diverse than the representations we find in more public genres such as Confucian female exemplar biographies.
Nominate for ICAS Book Prize
A call has been issued for books to be submitted for consideration for an ICAS (International Convention of Asia Scholars) book prize.
Books in Chinese, English, French, German, and Korean will be considered. For details see https://icas.asia/en/icas-book-prize-rules-and-regulations.
