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

New works by Daniel Bell

Daniel Bell (Law, University of Hong Kong) has three recent publications that may be of interest to blog readers:

The Dean of Shandong: Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese University (Princeton University Press, March 2023) (https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691247120/the-dean-of-shandong)

Special issue of The China Review on Chinese identity. Here is the table of contents and introduction free online: https://cup.cuhk.edu.hk/image/catalog/journal/jpreview/CR23.2__1-11.pdf

Co-edited with Amitav Acharya, Rajeev Bhargava, Yan Xuetong. Bridging Two Worlds: Comparing Classical Political Thought and Statecraft in India and China (University of California Press, Jan. 2023). Free online version available here:
https://luminosoa.org/site/books/e/10.1525/luminos.135/

Summer Program: SDCF 2023

The Sinoloigcial Development Charitable Foundation is excited to announce that they will be running the 8th Greater China Region Summer Program in Chinese Studies for 2023. They will be conducting the program both in person and with an online viewing option, with participation from both scholars and key opinion leaders. They hope to accommodate up to 20 scholars and KOLs for this summer and admission. Admission with be done on a rolling first come first serve. These activities done by SDCF aim to further worldwide awareness and knowledge of Chinese culture and civilization. Please click here for more information on dates and application deadlines.

Scholar membership deadline: Monday 8th May 2023
Viewer membership deadline: Friday 30th June 2023

Deborah Sommer lecture Thursday May 4th

Tomorrow, May 4th, at 9 p.m. Beijing time the 四海为学 “Collaborative Learning” Project will host Deborah Sommer. Prof. Sommer will discuss different images of Confucius, including statues and paintings, in China and the West. For more details about Prof. Sommer’s talk, including the Zoom link, please go to: https://www.sihaiweixue.org/deborah-sommer-lecture

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ToC: Journal of Chinese Studies

The Institue of Chinese Studies has recently published volume 76 of the Journal of Chinese Studies. Included in this issue are three academic articles and fifteen book reviews (at least a few on philosophical topics). Digital copies of articles and book reviews can be downloaded here. Please read below for a table of contents.

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Chinese Culture Studies Program for Global Young Scholar 2023

Attached here find information concerning the 4th “Chinese Culture Studies Program for Global Young Scholar 2023” (The 8th BNU Philosophy Summer School) as well as its application form. To participate one must have a BA and be interested in Chinese philosophy or culture more generally. 40 young scholars will be admitted, and the brochure also discusses scholarships to cover travel and other expenses. Note that the deadline for applying is very soon (April 26)! 

Announcement of 2022 Dao Annual Best Essay Award

Announcement of 2022 Dao Annual Best Essay Award

Dao established “The Annual Best Essay Award” in 2007. In addition to a certificate of achievement, the award comes along with a prize of US$1,000. The award winners will be noted in the website of the journal as well as the website of Springer, the publisher of the journal. The award ceremony is held each year at the American Philosophical Association Annual Meeting (Eastern Division) in early January, where a special panel on the theme of the award-winning essay is held. The critical comments and the author’s responses to them presented at the panel, after review and revision, will be published in the last issue of Dao each year.

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Hutton Reviews Jiang, Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China

Tao Jiang, Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China: Contestation of Humaneness, Justice, and Personal Freedom, Oxford University Press, 2021, 536pp., $35.00 (pbk), ISBN 9780197611364.

Reviewed by Eric L. Hutton, University of Utah

Tao Jiang’s book presents an ambitious and sweeping survey of early Chinese thought that is in some ways a successor—but also a rival—to a handful of other classic English-language studies likewise offering ambitious and sweeping treatments of the subject, such as Benjamin Schwartz’s The World of Thought in Ancient China (Belknap Press, 1985) and Angus Graham’s Disputers of the Tao (Open Court, 1989). An especially noteworthy feature of Jiang’s book is that it takes account of much recent research on the Chinese materials, including discussion of methodological controversies and texts recovered in archaeological finds. The volume can thus serve not…

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