The first conference on Confucianism that I have attended in which men were in the minority: last weekend’s “Women as Exemplary Persons in The Ru (Confucian) Tradition”; program here.
March 12, 2019
by Steve Angle
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Category Archives: Feminism
March 4, 2019
by Yihan Lin
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Article of Interest: “Instructions to Women” by Olivia Milburn
Milburn, Olivia. “Instructions to Women: Admonitions Texts for a Female Readership in Early China”, NAN NÜ 20, 2: 169-197, doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/15685268-00202P01
December 28, 2018
by Hans-Georg Moeller
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The Issue is Not the Issue: A Podcast with Hans-Georg Moeller and Dan Sarafinas
Hans-Georg Moeller and Dan Sarafinas discuss contemporary debates on “political correctness” and related moral and social issues. They point to concepts such as virtue speech (“virtue signalling”), civil religion, and the role of critique to better understand their nature. Episode 1–Virtue Speech: … Continue reading
December 26, 2018
by Steve Angle
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CFP: Women as Exemplary Persons 女君子 in the Ru (Confucian) Tradition
Call For Papers: “Women as Exemplary Persons 女君子 in the Ru (Confucian) Tradition” Washington, D.C. March 8-10th, 2019 (Link to Conference Poster) Keynotes: Ann A. Pang-White (University of Scranton) Anna Sun (Kenyon College) Robert C. Neville (Boston University) Confucianism is often … Continue reading
June 1, 2017
by Steve Angle
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New Book: Bodies in China: Philosophy, Aesthetics, Gender, and Politics
SUNY has published Eva Kit Wah Man, Bodies in China: Philosophy, Aesthetics, Gender, and Politics. More information is here or below.
March 29, 2017
by Justin Tiwald
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Review of Pang-White’s handbook of Chinese philosophy & gender
Here is Sarah Mattice’s review of Ann Pang-White’s Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy and Gender, published in Hypatia Reviews Online.
November 3, 2016
by Steve Angle
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New Book: Feminist Encounters with Confucius
Mathew A. Foust and Sor-hoon Tan, eds., Feminist Encounters with Confucius (Brill, 2016) has been published. Congratulations! The table of contents follows, and see also here.
August 21, 2016
by Steve Angle
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New Handbook on Chinese Philosophy Methodologies
The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy Methodologies, edited by Sor-hoon Tan, is due to be published later this week. Details are here, and I’ll paste the very rich Table of Contents below. This is another in the Bloomsbury Research Handbooks in … Continue reading
July 25, 2016
by Steve Angle
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New article on Confucian Role Ethics
I’d like to recommend Ian Sullivan’s recently published article, “Simone de Beauvoir and Confucian Role Ethics: Role-Relational Ambiguity and Confucian Mystification,” which has just been published in Hypatia 31:3. Abstract follows….
May 2, 2016
by Steve Angle
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Conservative Confucians debate Chinese Feminists
Journalist Qian Jianghua writes: “A leading Confucian academic’s defense of polygamy and arranged marriage continues to stoke tensions, months after he made the comments last year in an article titled ‘Only Confucianism can settle modern women.’” More here.
