China Ascendant? The Dilemmas of a Modernizing China, 1976-2020
China Ascendant? The Dilemmas of a Modernizing China, 1976-2020
Thu, Feb 2, 2023 10:30 AM EST (-05:00)
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'The Confucian Analects' - Fresh Look at a China Classic (attend via ZOOM)
The Analects of Confucius look like a rather haphazard collection of sayings that are only very loosely connected to each other.Lets examine
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'The Confucian Analects' - A Fresh Look at A Classic from Ancient China
With Dr. Hans van Ess, Chair in Sinology (LMU Munich)
Thursday, October 27 at 11:00am ET (attend online via ZOOM for FREE!)
About The Lecture:
Confucius was the founder of Chinese education, learning, and culture. He is often said to have put great emphasis on rituals, ceremonies, and politeness. However, a look into records of cultured persons whom Confucius judged reveal something different: An attitude of learning and politeness was in the times of Confucius often used to disguise atrocious and terrifying acts. The stories that were told about many of his most educated contemporaries in ancient Chinese sources are full of illicit sex, blood, and murder. By retelling some of these stories, this talk will take a fresh look at the “Confucian Analects,” the most important book that young men and women in traditional China (and surrounding Asian countries) were brought up with. Although more than a dozen translations have been made into English within the last thirty years, it still remains full of unsolved riddles and passages, the meaning of which can be grasped only by a very attentive reader.
About The Guest Speaker:
Dr. Hans van Ess: studied Sinology, Turkic Studies, and philosophy in Hamburg and Shanghai, and received his Ph.D. in 1992. He held an assistant position at the University of Heidelberg from 1995 to 1998. In 1998 he took over a chair at the Institute for Sinology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich. Since 2013 he has been Vice-President for International Affairs at LMU, and since 2019 he has served as Vice-President for Research. His most important recent publications include Die 101 wichtigsten Fragen. China ("The 101 Most Important Questions: China", München: C.H. Beck 2008), Hu Hong. Worte Kennen. Zhiyan ("Hu Hong, Knowing Words – Zhiyan", Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig: Verlag der Weltreligionen 2009) and Der Daoismus. Von Laozi bis heute ("Taoism: From Laozi to Today", München: C.H. Beck 2011).
