I realized I stumbled accross this scholar a little while ago and was wondering if it would be of any interest to anyone, especially regarding Confucians with national audience.
Gan has a Ph.D in philosophy and is a professor at 北京大学儒学研究院. As such he is also acquainted with Li Zhonghua (李中华). Also, Gan is an editorial board member on the infamous 原道 magazine, directed by Chen Ming (陈明）. He is usually considered to be part of the same generation that includes Kang Xiaoguang.
Here is the book I read a few years back : https://www.dropbox.com/s/toxeltzzn5avg8o/%E5%88%B6%E5%BA%A6%E5%8C%96%E5%84%92%E5%AE%B6%E5%8F%8A%E5%85%B6%E8%A7%A3%E4%BD%93%2B%E5%B9%B2%E6%98%A5%E6%9D%BE%E7%9D%80.pdf
Otherwise, go to my folder and find : 制度化儒家及其解体.
Saturday, May 31, 2014
Friday, May 9, 2014
Ge Zhaoguang
new ge zhaoguang book
Josh's comment:
Ge Zhaoguang may just be the most brilliant Chinese of his generation,
and this work is nicely situated in what he's been doing for years at
his Institute for Advanced Studies at Fudan: placing China in Asia.
Because he's got money, he's brought scholars who work with Kanji texts
from Korea, Japan, Vietnam, etc.--and other scholars from around the
world. He's also a really nice guy. On both front (smart, nice), way
better to work worth than, say, Wang Hui. Ben Elman is close to him. I'd
love to involve him somehow in our work.
Josh
Josh's comment:
Ge Zhaoguang may just be the most brilliant Chinese of his generation,
and this work is nicely situated in what he's been doing for years at
his Institute for Advanced Studies at Fudan: placing China in Asia.
Because he's got money, he's brought scholars who work with Kanji texts
from Korea, Japan, Vietnam, etc.--and other scholars from around the
world. He's also a really nice guy. On both front (smart, nice), way
better to work worth than, say, Wang Hui. Ben Elman is close to him. I'd
love to involve him somehow in our work.
Josh
Thursday, May 8, 2014
Axel Schneider's blog on changing status of history in China today
Axel's blog is called "History, Ethics, and Faith in China" http://history-in-china.net/about-2/about/
The description begins:
"This is a blog about the changing status of history in China today.
"After a century of the dominance of “scientific” history as a modern academic discipline, the decline of both, historical materialism and the modernization paradigm, as well as the rise of market-oriented forms of historical representation (historical short stories, TV soaps, popular historiography) have left many disoriented, which is why Chinese historians and intellectuals start to question notions of objective knowledge about progressive history. The transition from pre-modern to these now increasingly discredited modern notions of time and history has thus become a focus of interest."
I like his defense of "faith" in his title of the blog.
Clearly in its early stages of constructions. Most of the sections of the blog are "under construction", but WEBLINKS have some useful links and the only activity I found was on the right column of the"homepage"--"Recent Posts". All in Chinese and all pretty academic. Still, worth keeping an eye on for our project.
The description begins:
"This is a blog about the changing status of history in China today.
"After a century of the dominance of “scientific” history as a modern academic discipline, the decline of both, historical materialism and the modernization paradigm, as well as the rise of market-oriented forms of historical representation (historical short stories, TV soaps, popular historiography) have left many disoriented, which is why Chinese historians and intellectuals start to question notions of objective knowledge about progressive history. The transition from pre-modern to these now increasingly discredited modern notions of time and history has thus become a focus of interest."
I like his defense of "faith" in his title of the blog.
Clearly in its early stages of constructions. Most of the sections of the blog are "under construction", but WEBLINKS have some useful links and the only activity I found was on the right column of the"homepage"--"Recent Posts". All in Chinese and all pretty academic. Still, worth keeping an eye on for our project.
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
history labs technology
Hey guys:
once we get the history labs up and running, we will need a better platform than Skype--especially, one that will allow us to integrate audio with text and text management. essentially, we will want to be able to hear one another (visuals of our ugly mugs is perhaps less important), but see at least a Chinese text, and perhaps even a translation we are working on.
we could probably improvise something, but given that we have money, it might make more sense to actually buy/rent a service.
gotomeeting is one such service I had heard of. here's the review of it, which is positive but not glowing. similar products with better reviews are listed in the upper right hand corner of the review.
http://web-conferencing-services.toptenreviews.com/gotomeeting-review.html
click on its demonstration, which will give you an (overly rosy) view of what these things do.
among other things, these services allow us to record the session, which would be very useful for group members who could not attend, or for our own propaganda (we could youtube the sessions).
we'll have to test out various things.
once we get the history labs up and running, we will need a better platform than Skype--especially, one that will allow us to integrate audio with text and text management. essentially, we will want to be able to hear one another (visuals of our ugly mugs is perhaps less important), but see at least a Chinese text, and perhaps even a translation we are working on.
we could probably improvise something, but given that we have money, it might make more sense to actually buy/rent a service.
gotomeeting is one such service I had heard of. here's the review of it, which is positive but not glowing. similar products with better reviews are listed in the upper right hand corner of the review.
http://web-conferencing-services.toptenreviews.com/gotomeeting-review.html
click on its demonstration, which will give you an (overly rosy) view of what these things do.
among other things, these services allow us to record the session, which would be very useful for group members who could not attend, or for our own propaganda (we could youtube the sessions).
we'll have to test out various things.
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Here's more on Frenkiel: http://www.science-politique.univ-paris8.fr/emilie-frenkiel/.
She's young--just defended her thesis in 2012. Looks to be energetic--a lot of what she does is current affairs oriented. If we want to make this "global" (Japan, Taiwan, etc.), I could probably rope her in. I note that her first degree is in English. Also that she went through the École normale supérieure. this is where really smart people go.
She's young--just defended her thesis in 2012. Looks to be energetic--a lot of what she does is current affairs oriented. If we want to make this "global" (Japan, Taiwan, etc.), I could probably rope her in. I note that her first degree is in English. Also that she went through the École normale supérieure. this is where really smart people go.
mapping
Good to chat!
Here are some mapping possibilities.
A French book that just came out: émilie frenkiel. She interviewed a bunch of Chinese profs/public intellectuals in ways that seem to overlap with our project. Here's list of her interview subjects: usual suspects. I'm meant to write a review of this book in the next little while. Will let you know what I think. She doesn't include a bibliography, damn her hide.
Another source is a volume of translations, again into French, by a buddy of mine, Sébastien Billioud: extrême orient. Again, you will see an overlap with our research field.
And of course, there's William A. Callahan's China Dreams, which we read last year and found a bit dumbed-down (maybe), but the intellectuals he profiled will surely be of use to us as well.
Here are some mapping possibilities.
A French book that just came out: émilie frenkiel. She interviewed a bunch of Chinese profs/public intellectuals in ways that seem to overlap with our project. Here's list of her interview subjects: usual suspects. I'm meant to write a review of this book in the next little while. Will let you know what I think. She doesn't include a bibliography, damn her hide.
Another source is a volume of translations, again into French, by a buddy of mine, Sébastien Billioud: extrême orient. Again, you will see an overlap with our research field.
And of course, there's William A. Callahan's China Dreams, which we read last year and found a bit dumbed-down (maybe), but the intellectuals he profiled will surely be of use to us as well.
Monday, April 28, 2014
alex payette etc.
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I'm reading Alex Payette's PhD thesis. payette confucianism. Alex is the guy who might well serve as our postdoc. He did his PhD on local confucianism w André Laliberté at Ottawa. I've only read the intro so far. He's in poli sci, and did field work on local confucian institutes and activities, in hopes of talking about "cultural governance." In any event, on pps 75ff he talks about "three types of confucianism" in a way that looks superficially similar to our division of 3 types of intellectuals, and cites Ai, Jiawen. 2008. « The refunctioning of Confucianism: The mainland Chinese intellectual response to Confucianism since the 1980s» Issues and Studies 44 (2):
I'm reading Alex Payette's PhD thesis. payette confucianism. Alex is the guy who might well serve as our postdoc. He did his PhD on local confucianism w André Laliberté at Ottawa. I've only read the intro so far. He's in poli sci, and did field work on local confucian institutes and activities, in hopes of talking about "cultural governance." In any event, on pps 75ff he talks about "three types of confucianism" in a way that looks superficially similar to our division of 3 types of intellectuals, and cites Ai, Jiawen. 2008. « The refunctioning of Confucianism: The mainland Chinese intellectual response to Confucianism since the 1980s» Issues and Studies 44 (2):
29-78; and Ai, Jiawen. 2009. « Two Sides of One
Coin: the party's attitude toward Confucianism in
contemporary China » Journal
of Contemporary China 18 (61): 689-701.
Do you guys know Ai Jiawen? I'll track down the articles and post them here. I will be in Taiwan in a couple of weeks (groan, just got home) and could presumably track him down if it might be useful.
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