A Series of Footnotes to Confucius, Laozi–or to Me!
Picking up on something very interesting that Justin Tiwald said in the Tu string: “I don’t think the defenders of Yili learning explicitly embraced the slogan ‘the classics comment on me’ (經注我)....
View ArticleAccuracy in Historical Interpretation
Just to introduce as a post, continuation of the great discussion in the Footnotes to Confucius… string of comments: It sounds like there’s a consensus so far on something like this: Accuracy, as an...
View ArticleChina's First Philosophers?
I’m interested in the question of whether the Mohists were China’s first philosophers—both in what the question means, and in the answers that it might invite. There’s a good case to be made that in at...
View ArticleNaturalism & Metaphysics in Early China, part I
I’d like to sneak up on an interpretive issue about early Chinese philosophy from a couple of directions–call them “tentative pincers.” This post will be part I of a two-parter; it will deal with one...
View ArticleBook Review – brief but not shamelessly so
Here is some of the draft of my review of Van Norden’s Virtue Ethics and Consequentialism in Early Chinese Philosophy for Journal of Asian Studies. The word-limit for the review was very low (800...
View ArticleOpen Access to Dissertation on Guodian Texts
…by Dirk Meyer, University of Leiden. (I’m passing this information on from Rodo Pfister, who posted it on the Warring States Project message board.) For those who are interested, here is the link to...
View ArticleOn de 德 and se 色
I’m going to piggyback on some discussion to which I was party at Peony’s and Sam’s because I wanted to see what might come up further from this blog’s clientale (patrons? target audience?). My...
View ArticlePostdoc Opportunity in Japan Area Studies
The program in Asian Studies at Fairfield University has a one-year post-doctoral teaching position focusing on specializations centered on Japan. Philosophy or Intellectual History, though not...
View ArticleChinese History Positions at ANU
For historians who patiently abide our company, I relay this announcement from John Makeham: The Australian National University (ANU) is currently advertising two new positions in Chinese History:...
View ArticleConfucianism as a Cult of "Mamas' Boys"
Guest post by Brian Griffith. Brian Griffith is an independent historian, whose previous books are The Gardens of Their Dreams: Desertification and Culture in World History, and Correcting Jesus: 2000...
View ArticleReview of Denecke
Here are a few excerpts from a short book review (about 2000 words) I just wrote for China Review International, of Wiebke Denecke‘s The Dynamics of Masters Literature: Early Chinese Thought from...
View ArticleCHE Article: “The Toxic History of Philosophy’s Racism”
I thought this article in the Chronicle of Higher Education may be of interest to readers of the blog (even while I am in no position to evaluate the historical claims made). Some highlights: A...
View Article3rd Annual SECC Conference
The Third Annual Society for the Study of Early China Conference Time: Thursday, 26 March 2015, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Location: Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers For more information, see here.
View ArticleRewriting the story of philosophy
Via Feminist Philosophers, I learned of this paper by Don Howard, entitled “The History That We Are: Philosophy as Discipline and the Multiculturalism Debate.” A couple of excerpts: The hypothesis that...
View ArticleNew Book: Between History and Philosophy
Paul van Els and Sarah A. Queen, eds., Between History and Philosophy: Anecdotes in Early China (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2017). ISBN: 978-1-4384-6611-8. The hardcover version...
View ArticleBody and Cosmos in China: An Interdisciplinary Symposium in Honor of Nathan...
The Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania is delighted to announce an interdisciplinary symposium in honor of Nathan Sivin at Perry World House, 3803...
View ArticleBook of Interest: Shrines to Living Men in the Ming Political Cosmos by Sarah...
Schneewind, S. (2018). Shrines to living men in the Ming political cosmos. Cambridge, MA: Published by the Harvard University Asia Center. ISBN 9780674987142. Please see the publisher website for more...
View ArticleConfucianism and Household Servants?
This post expands a question I asked once in the old Discussions section. It is sometimes said that the (or a) Ruist picture of moral psychology stresses family because Ruists stress the development of...
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