China Studies Research Centre Seminar Series
China Studies Research Centre, La Trobe University
2:30 – 4:00 pm AEDT, Thursday 26 March 2020
Room 318, Education 2 (ED2), La Trobe University
Xiong Shili 熊十力 (1885-1968) was one of the most important Chinese philosophers of the twentieth century, and a founding figure of the modern New Confucian school of philosophy. He lived and worked at a time when cultural nationalism arose in response to the many social, economic, political, and cultural problems that China faced in the first half of the twentieth century. In this seminar, I will discuss how cultural nationalism was reflected in Xiong’s thought while he was developing his metaphysics. I will also consider how an understanding of this context enables us to understand Xiong’s metaphysics more precisely.
About the Speaker
SANG Yu is a postdoctoral researcher in the Institute of Philosophy at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, and a visiting scholar in the Australian Centre on China in the World at the Australian National University. She holds a PhD awarded by the ANU (2019) and an MA awarded by the University of Sydney (2012). Her research focuses on Chinese philosophy, in particular Buddhism and New Confucianism, and the intellectual history of modern China.
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