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fromWarpweftandway
1 day ago

New Book: Ivanhoe and Wang, Readings in Korean Confucian Philosophy

Readings in Korean Confucian Philosophy offers translations of eight influential Korean Confucian thinkers, enhancing accessibility and understanding of their works.
fromBuzzFeed
1 week ago

I Kept My Family's Secret For Over 60 Years. Now, I'm Finally Telling The Truth.

In 1959, the woman who brought me into this world bundled me in a basket and placed me in a Hong Kong stairwell near Sai Yeung Choi Street, a bustling region of the British colony. I was 4 days old. A passerby called the police, who transported me to St. Christopher's Home, the largest non-government-run orphanage on the island.
Chicago
Arts
fromHyperallergic
2 weeks ago

Leah Ki Yi Zheng's Personal I Ching

Leah Ke Yi Zheng synthesizes Western oil painting and Eastern ink painting, redefining cultural histories in her art.
World politics
fromThe Cipher Brief
2 weeks ago

Telling China's Story Well: The PRC's Strategic Narrative as an Instrument of National Power

China's strategic narrative emphasizes discourse power as a core component of national strength, enhancing its global influence and soft power.
fromWarpweftandway
2 weeks ago

Korean Philosophy Course Resources

Our main goals include sharing educational video materials developed over the past five years with overseas institutions and scholars engaged in Asian philosophy, East Asian thought, and comparative philosophy.
Philosophy
Women
fromThe Nation
3 weeks ago

What Its Like to Serve the Chinese Elite

Zhang Yueran's fiction explores complex relationships among women, intertwining themes of intimacy, malice, and class conflict.
#east-asian-philosophy
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

How China Learned to Love the Classics

It wasn't until Whitmarsh had been herded into the main hall that he grasped what he'd signed up for: 'a geopolitical event, not an intellectual one,' as he put it, with hosts including Greece and China's ministries of culture.
World politics
History
fromMedievalists.net
2 months ago

New Medieval Books: Ming-Dynasty China and the World Along the Silk Road - Medievalists.net

Ming China fostered expansive Silk Road networks, balancing land and maritime routes while pursuing a non-invasive foreign policy aimed at 'shared peace' with foreign powers.
fromWIRED
2 months ago

23 Ways You're Already Living in the Chinese Century

A decade ago, China's political leaders laid out an ambitious industrial plan: By 2025, they pledged, their country would be a world capital, with the goal of moving from "Chinese speed to Chinese quality, the transformation of Chinese products to Chinese brands." This is the difference, they wrote, between "Made in China" and "Created in China." At WIRED, we never take what the government (ours or anybody else's) says at face value.
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Higher education
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago

I'm an American who studied abroad at Zhejiang University in China. It was unlike anything I experienced back in the US.

Zhejiang University combines rigorous academics with comfortable dorms, affordable high-quality campus meals, and a sprawling multi-campus environment where students prioritize serious study.
Philosophy
fromWarpweftandway
2 months ago

ToC: Asian Philosophy 36:1

Buddhist, Confucian, Daoist, and Islamic mystical traditions examine creation, uncertainty, relational personhood, epistemic virtues, commitment, and critiques of Confucian self-cultivation.
fromWarpweftandway
2 months ago

Confucian Web Top 10 Books of 2025

当代儒学发展开始突破传统哲学和思想史范式解读,更注重从宗教属性、文明维度挖掘儒学价值,且强调儒学与公共生活、历史实践的结合,影响日益全面且深入,彰显了儒学强大而持久的生命力。
Philosophy
Philosophy
fromWarpweftandway
1 month ago

Conference: Ethics in Chinese Philosophy

HKUST's Division of Humanities hosts an international conference on Ethics in Chinese Philosophy, examining Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism to address modern challenges through traditional ethical frameworks.
fromWarpweftandway
2 months ago

New Book: Blake, Standards and Reference in Early Chinese Philosophy of Language

Philosophy of Language in Early China characterizes early Chinese philosophy of language through a focus on standards (' fa') and the activity of giving examples (' ju '). It argues that standards are understood by early Chinese philosophers to provide the groundwork for judgment and language, not only in the Mohist school, but also in other thinkers from the Warring States and early Han, particularly the Zhuangzi and Xunzi.
Philosophy
Philosophy
fromWarpweftandway
2 months ago

CFP: AAR Confucian Traditions Unit Submissions are Open

AAR Confucian Traditions Unit invites panel and individual paper submissions for the 2026 meeting; deadline March 6; presenters must register if accepted.
Philosophy
fromWarpweftandway
2 months ago

Collaborative Learning Roundtables on the Zhuangzi

Call for 100–250-word abstracts for Zhuangzi roundtables on humor, irony, and absurdity, scheduled April–May; indicate English or Mandarin; events free and open.
fromAeon
2 months ago

The Japanese ethics of 'ningen' dethrones the Western self | Aeon Essays

In Rinrigaku, Watsuji argues that ethics is the study of what it means for us to be human. How we think about the nature of human existence, he says, dictates the ways in which we understand our ethical values. Hence, he criticises Western philosophical conceptions of the modern subject, arguing that the Western rendering of subjectivity is both problematic and foreign
Philosophy
Philosophy
fromThe Conversation
2 months ago

How women are reinterpreting the menstrual taboos in Chinese Buddhism

Many religions treat menstruation and childbirth as ritual pollution, restricting women's access to sacred sites and religious roles; some taboos persist.
Philosophy
fromWarpweftandway
2 months ago

Summer School in Classical Chinese and Classical Japanese

Ca' Foscari and Princeton offer a summer program teaching Classical Chinese and Classical Japanese/Kanbun with grammar-focused tracks for students preparing for premodern China/Japan graduate study.
Philosophy
fromWarpweftandway
2 months ago

Summer Seminar in Asian Philosophy and Scholasticism, 2026

Comparative seminar examining Neo-Confucian and Scholastic perspectives on mind, metaphysics, cognition, and their relevance to contemporary science will convene in Rome, June 18–27, 2026.
fromwarpweftandway.com
2 months ago

Episode 31 of This Is the Way: The Great Music Debate Mohists vs. Classical Confucians

Musicians and songs mentioned in Part I: U2, REM, Green Day, Everclear, Live, Taylor Swift, Hootie and the Blowfish, Notorious B.I.G., Blues Traveller Tim Kasher (of Cursive, and The Good Life) Bright Eyes Saddle Creek Records (music label) Cat Power, Metal Heart Gillian Welch, Wrecking Ball Screaming Females, Shake It Off (cover of a song by Taylor Swift) H.O.T. Drunken Tiger
fromWarpweftandway
2 months ago

CFP: AAR Indian and Chinese Religion in Dialogue Unit

The Indian and Chinese Religions in Dialogue Unit of the AAR invites panel and paper proposals for the 2026 American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting in Denver. The deadline is Friday, March 6th. Panel and paper proposals covering all Indian and Chinese traditions from diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives are welcomed. Please see below the panel themes already proposed and reach out to the relevant contact person if interested. Proposals of others are welcomed as well. Proposals should be submitted through PAPERS.
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