Blast from the past: the conference picture from the 1982 International Conference on Zhu Xi, at the East-West Center. Many of the papers from this conference are collected in the landmark volume edited by Wing-tsit Chan and published in 1986, Zhu Xi and Neo-Confucianism. Thanks to Harold Sjursen, via Deborah Sommer, for the picture.
Category Archives: Chinese philosophy – 中國哲學 – 中国哲学
Livia Kohn at Bridgeport Tomorrow
Livia Kohn to speak tomorrow at the University of Bridgeport; see here:
Call for expressions of interest: Philosophy Compass Journal
Philosophy Compass is a journal publishing original, peer-reviewed survey articles of the most important research from across the entire discipline. Philosophy Compass fills a gap left by existing guides within the subject by focusing on what is happening right now in philosophy. (Please visit our website for more details)
We are looking for expressions of interest from authors for the Chinese Comparative Philosophy stream to propose articles in their areas of research interest. Submissions will be peer-reviewed.
Please contact A/Prof Karyn Lai (University of New South Wales, Australia) for more information on topics, paper lengths, deadlines and other details.
The Princeton Early Text Cultures Workshop
The Princeton Early Text Cultures Workshop will bring together 11 graduate students from the USA and the UK, specialists in Early China, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Ancient Rome and Greece, to discuss similarities and differences in the patterns of textual formation and textual practices in early civilizations. These patterns define the social role of texts, the composition of their audience, the repertoire of text types, and the paths towards the development of creative literature.
What: Graduate Workshop
When: April 16 and 17, 2016
Where: 202 Jones Hall, Princeton University
TOC Frontiers of Philosophy in China (with fulltext download)
The latest issue of Frontiers of Philosophy in China (10:4) has now been published, and articles and reviews can be downloaded for free here. Enjoy!
Awards or Prizes for Chinese or Comparative Philosophy?
A blog reader, prompted by a question from an editor, asks the following question: what awards or prizes might a book in Chinese or Comparative philosophy be nominated for? Any suggestions?
New Book: Bellah and East Asia
Confucianism, a Habit of the Heart: Bellah, Civil Religion, and East Asia, edited by P.J. Ivanhoe and Sungmoon Kim, has been published by SUNY Press. See here for the Amazon listing, which includes the Table of Contents. Congratulations!
Buddhism Bibliography
Charles Muller writes…
Dear Colleagues,
Richard Smith’s kind offering of his bibliography made me think that it
might be worthwhile mentioning the H-Buddhism Zotero Bibliography (which
has a fair number of entries on Confucianism, not to mention China).
https://www.zotero.org/groups/h-buddhism_bibliography_project
Zotero provides useful tools on the web site, but of course, it is an
even much more powerful tool if you figure out how to run Zotero locally
in Firefox. If anyone was ever motivated to start a similar project for
Confucianism, he or she could go a long way in seeding it by simply
exporting the Confucianism entries from our project. Smith’s
bibliography could also be converted and imported fairly easily.
We presently have it set up so that anyone can view it, but only members
can edit, because we want to keep the content scholarly. If you’d like
me to send you an invite to join, just write me.
Regards,
Charles
TOC: Asian Philosophy 26:1
The latest issue of Asian Philosophy has been published, with several articles on Daoism, among other things. See here.
Am I Missing Your Favorite Book?
This semester I am teaching a seminar on Comparative Philosophy. As part of the class, each of the 15 students will choose a monograph the engages in comparative philosophy (related at least in part to Chinese philosophy), and write an extended review essay on their book. They will then present their findings, revise the essays, and I will then edit the final versions into an on-line book, tentatively titled “Comparative Philosophy: Reviewing the State of the Art.” I have never done this before, but the students and I are excited.
I have compiled a list from which the students will choose their books, but I am afraid I may have left of some excellent choices. It is important that the books be explicitly engaged in comparative philosophy, rather than works of scholarship solidly focused on a single thinker or tradition. Exactly what “explicitly engaged in comparative philosophy” means is, admittedly, not always so clear, and there are a few books on my list that may be marginal cases. That’s not the end of the world. More importantly, what are the good choices that I have left off? Apologies in advance to authors whom I have inadvertently neglected! Please let me know, either in the Comments below, or via email. Thanks! The list follows.
