- On April 24th at 8:00am Beijing time, we will host a book discussion of Professor Karen Thornber’s Gender Justice and Contemporary Asian Literatures,
Details and the Zoom link can be found on our event page: https://www.sihaiweixue.org/karen-thornber-book-discussion - On April 24th at 8:00pm Beijing time, we will host a lecture by Professor Erin Cline, titled “Reframing Women in the Analects”
Details and the Zoom link can be found on our event page: https://www.sihaiweixue.org/erin-cline-lecture - On April 26th at 9:00am Beijing time, we will host a lecture by Professor Tzeki Hon, titled “The Philosophy of Change in the Yijing”
Details and the Zoom link can be found on our event page: https://www.sihaiweixue.org/tzeki-hon-lecture
Category Archives: Confucianism
Sungmoon Kim’s hybrid presentation on “Confucian Power as Responsibility” at Rutgers on Tuesday, April 29
Sungmoon Kim (City University of Hong Kong) will give a hybrid presentation, “Confucian Power as Responsibility,” at Rutgers University New Brunswick on Tuesday, April 29, 4-5:30pm EDT. Everybody is welcome, but registration is required for Zoom streaming. If you plan on coming in person, please drop me a quick note. Click here for the abstract and the link to register for Zoom streaming.
This Is the Way: Live Show in San Francisco (Pacific Division meeting of the APA)
Update (17 April): Despite what the APA app might have told you, the live session will be in the Sussex Room, which is on the 2nd floor of the hotel. Looking forward to a lively discussion today at 4:00pm PST.
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This Is the Way will record an episode in person, with a live audience, at the next meeting of the American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division)!
Time:
4:00-6:00pm
Thursday, April 17, 2025
Location:
Sussex Room
The Westin St. Francis Hotel (next to Union Square)
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On-cho Ng on “Dai Zhen’s Hermeneutics” in Neo-Confucian Studies Seminar at Columbia on May 2
On Friday, May 2, 3:30-5:30pm, On-cho Ng will present a paper, “Dai Zhen’s Hermeneutics” in the Neo-Confucian Studies Seminar at Columbia University. We will meet at our regular location, The Heyman Center for the Humanities (74 Morningside Dr, New York, NY 10027). On-cho Ng is Professor of Asian Studies and Philosophy, and Founding Head of the Asian Studies Department (2012-2021), at the Pennsylvania State University. Primarily a specialist in late imperial Chinese intellectual history, he has published on a wide range of topics, such as Confucian hermeneutics, religiosity, ethics, and historiography. His books include Cheng-Zhu Confucianism in the Early Qing, Mirroring the Past, The Imperative of Understanding, and Theory and Practice of Zen. His dozens of articles have appeared in venues such as the Journal of Chinese Religions, Dao, Philosophy East and West, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Journal of World History, and the Journal of the History of Ideas. He is editor of the Book Series on Chinese intellectual history (National Taiwan University) and associate editor of the Journal of Chinese Philosophy. He has been chair/co-chair of the Neo-Confucian Studies Seminar for two decades.
Important: for non-Columbia guests, please RSVP by emailing Sapphire Qiaochu Tang at qt2154@columbia.edu no later than Wednesday, April 23, to be granted access to the campus. Once the registration email is sent, please expect an email with a QR code to access campus. The email will come from: CU Guest Access <caladminnoreply@columbia.edu. Please make sure to bring a valid ID, and please arrive early. You can also request the pre-circulated paper from Sapphire.
Online Lecture on Korean Confucian Practice
The event will take place on April 24, 5:00 – 6:30pm (LA Time) / 8:00 – 09:30pm (New York Time) / April 25, 09:00 – 10:30am (Seoul Time).
New Book: Radice, Ritual Performance in Early Chinese Thought
ToC: Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture 43
Volume 43 (February 2025) of The Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture is published. This issue features the special topic, “Comparative Perspectives on the Future of Cosmopolitanism (II),” guest edited by Philip J. Ivanhoe. Continuing from Vol. 42, this collection, supported by the Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues at Georgetown University, expands the discourse with six additional articles. A general response by Owen Flanagan offers reflections on the discussions presented across both volumes.
New Article: Brys, “Action-based Benevolence”
The European Journal of Philosophy has just published Waldemar Brys’s essay “Action-Based Benevolence”; see here. This provocative paper is the first essay specifically on Chinese philosophy in the EJP, which now joins the list of “mainstream” journals that have published works of Chinese or comparative philosophy.
If you publish in a journal outside of the specialist journals that we try to routinely track here at Warp, Weft, and Way, by all means let us know and we’ll share the news.
Read on for the Abstract.
四海为学 “Collaborative Learning“ Roundtable on Progressive Confucianism
New book: Jiaohua: Chinese Ideas and Practices of Moral Transformation
Jiaohua: Chinese Ideas and Practices of Moral Transformation, edited by Yingjie Guo, has been published recently by Springer. Please see here for access of the book. Read more for publisher’s summary.