Category Archives: Chinese philosophy – 中國哲學 – 中国哲学

Angle at BU, Oct 27

I will be speaking at Boston University on Friday, October 27, at 3pm, sponsored by the Boston University Confucian Association. My title is “Neo-Confucianism as Philosophy,” and there will be three respondents to the lecture — Robert Neville, Yair Lior, and Lawrence Whitney — as well as an opportunity for general discussion. I am very much looking forward to this! Details are here.

AAR Panels on Chinese Religion

Philip Clart has taken the time to list all panels at the upcoming American Academy of Religion conference in Boston (November 18-21) with significant Chinese Religions content (at least 50%). The entries are extracted from the online program book, where you can find abstracts for individual papers (https://papers.aarweb.org/program_book).

I thought that many readers of Warp, Weft, and Way might also be interested in this information, so pass it on here.

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Daniel A. Bell on CCTV, on the very first day of the 19th Party Congress

Daniel A. Bell speaks on the priority of harmony over freedom in a recent interview. Today, his interview appears just beneath CCTV’s extensive media coverage for Xi Jinping’s speech on the 19th Party Congress (see lower half of this page; in case you can’t find it there anymore, just use this link). Fama crescit eundo.

Lecture on Loyalty at Harvard, October 19

Thursday, October 19, 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Embodied Virtue: How was Loyalty Edited and Performed in Late Imperial China?

Chiung-yun Evelyn Liu, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar

Chair/discussant: Wai-yee Li, Professor of Chinese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

Sponsored by the Harvard Yenching Institute

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