The Call for papers for the next annual meeting of the AAR has just been published. The meeting will be held in Atlanta. The Confucian Traditions Group leadership would love to see you there. Here is the Call for papers for the group:
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Category Archives: Chinese philosophy – 中國哲學 – 中国哲学
CFP ASACP Conference 2015
Australasian Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
ASACP Conference 2015: ASIAN PERSPECTIVES on MIND, ACTION and CULTIVATION
Monash University, Caulfield Campus, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 10-12 July 2015
ISCWP Line-up at APA Pacific
At the APA (American Philosophical Association) Pacific Division Meeting (Vancouver, April 1-4, 2014). the ISCWP will sponsor two panels:
Confucian Political Philosophy a Hot Topic in 2014
According to the Guangming Daily, “the interpretation of Confucian political philosophy” was one of the ten “hot” areas within Chinese academia in 2014. According to the newspaper’s staff, one of the key questions that scholars sought to answer was “What conceptual resources does the Confucian tradition have that can assist with the design of institutions in today’s China 儒家传统对今日中国之制度设计有哪些可资借鉴的思想资源?” For those with Chinese, some more details, and the other nine hot areas, are below. (It is item 3 on the list.)
Hansen’s MOOC on edX
Chad Hansen has created a MOOC on edX called “Humanity and Nature in Chinese Thought,” available here. Here is some copy from the course description:
Think along with Classical Chinese masters as they explore and debate how and where we can find ethical guidance in nature.
We make ethical or behaviour guiding right / wrong judgments all the time but have you ever wondered where Ethics comes from, what it is about and why it is important? This course provides an introduction to traditional Chinese ethical thought and focuses on the pervasive contrast in the way Chinese and Westerners think about ethical guidance or guidance concerning what is right and what is wrong, good or bad. Traditional Western orthodoxy uses the metaphor of a law – in its most familiar popular form, the command of a supernatural being backed by a threat of eternal punishment or reward – to explain ethical guidance. The Classical Chinese philosophers by contrast were all naturalists. They talked about ethical guidance using a path metaphor – a natural dào…
Publication of volume: Masters of Disguise? – Conceptions and Misconceptions of ‘Rhetoric’ in Chinese Antiquity
The volume Masters of Disguise? – Conceptions and Misconceptions of ‘Rhetoric’ in Chinese Antiquity, edited by Wolfgang Behr and Lisa Indraccolo, has recently been published in a special issue of Asiatische Studien/ Études Asiatiques.
It can be accessed through http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/asia.2014.68.issue-4/issue-files/asia.2014.68.issue-4.xml for those who have access to DeGruyter online, and the contents page & introduction of the volume can be found under https://uzh.academia.edu/WolfgangBehr/Books.
A plaintext version of the contents follows below.
TOC: South China Quarterly 2015, no. 1
Read on for the table of contents of the new issue of South China Quarterly 《南國學術》:
WSP Publications
The Warring States Project has changed its distributor to the University Press of New England, and at least two WSP publications are forthcoming this spring, including The Emergence of China; for more information and ordering information, see here.
Pang Pu Passes Away
The eminent scholar of early Chinese thought Pang Pu 庞朴 has passed away; for a nice appreciation of his life and work, see here.
New Classical Chinese Dictionary
I imagine that many blog readers — even those who love Pleco on their smartphones — will be keen to get ahold of this new dictionary of classical Chinese!
