International Workshop

Chinese Political Thought: A Global Dialogue beyond “Orientalism”

Chinese Political Thought: A Global Dialogue beyond “Orientalism”

20.01.2022 - 21.01.2022

Venue:
Online

Organizers:

Dr. Federico Brusadelli (University of Naples “L’Orientale” and Fellow of EURICS (2020))

Prof. Lisa Indraccolo (Tallinn University)

FINAL PROGRAM 

(Central European Time) 

 

JANUARY 20, 2022

9.45am – Institutional Greetings
10am – Opening Remarks (Federico Brusadelli & Lisa Indraccolo) 

10.15am – Keynote Lecture: Hilde de Weerdt (Leiden University and former Fellow of EURICS) "Modeling Tang Emperor Taizong and Chinese Governance in Eighteenth-Century German Political Theory and State Fiction" 

11.30am – Section One: METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS & GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES 

Jiyan Qiao (Leiden University)
“Human Nature and Governance: A Framework for Global Comparative Political Philosophy” 

Baldwin Wong (Hang Seng University of Hong Kong) and Elton Chan (Lingnan University)
“Recusing Political Realism by Confucianism. On a Confucian Account of the Realist Distinction between Ethics and Politics” 

Dawid Rogacz (Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań) “Sincerity (cheng) as a Civic Virtue” 

Yang Fu (National Taiwan University)
“Bring the Dao to the World: Yü Ying-shih and the Study of Chinese Political Thought” 

DiscussantYoungmin Kim (Seoul National University) 

3.30pm – Section Two: PRE-IMPERIAL AND EARLY IMPERIAL LEGACIES 

Yuri Pines (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
“Class Traitors? The Assault on the Intellectuals’ Power in the Book of Lord Shang and Han Feizi” 

Stephen Walker (University of Chicago) “Nature, Power, and Critique in the Huainanzi” 

Gu Yixin (Princeton University)
“Disengagement from Power and Power of Disengagement: Rhetorics and Politics in Six Hypothetical Discourses (shelun) in the Han” 

DiscussantLisa Indraccolo (Tallinn University) 

5:00pm – Section Three:
MING POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AND PRACTICE 

Sebestyén Hompot (University of Vienna/Austrian Academy of Sciences)
“The Interpretations and Evaluations of Ming-Qing China’s Tributary System of Foreign Relations in Recent Historiography” 

John Lombardini (College of William & Mary) “Ethics and Politics in Li Zhi’s Fenshu” 

DiscussantPhillip Grimberg (Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg) 

6:30pm – Keynote LectureSarah Allan (UC Berkeley/Dartmouth College, Emerita)
“The Origins of Chinese Political Thought” 

 

JANUARY 21, 2022

9am – Section Four:
GLOBAL ENCOUNTERS IN THE 20TH CENTURY 

Adrian Krawczyk (Leipzig University) “The Concept of Ideology in Chinese Marxism” 

Yan Bo (Nanyang Technological University)
“A Maoist Moment in the Late 1960s America: Establishing Ethnic Studies Programs in American Universities” 

Alice Trinkle (Freie Universität Berlin)
“Liberal Economic Thinking in China in Exchange with (Post) Socialist Eastern Europe 1978 – 2001” 

DiscussantMarc A. Matten (Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg) 

11am – Section Five:
HONG KONG AS A POLITICAL LABORATORY 

Kenneth Kai-chung Yung (University of Hong Kong) “Reshaping Cold War Currents in a Chinese Context: A Study of the Chinese Émigré Intellectuals in Hong Kong in the 1950s” 

Patricia Eunice C. Miraflores (University of Groningen/University of Uppsala)
“One Country, Two Perspectives: Analyzing the Sino-British Turnover of Hong Kong from 1982 to 1997 as an East-West Human Rights Dialogue” 

DiscussantSebastian Veg (EHESS Paris) 

2pm – Section Six:
CHINESE POLITICAL THOUGHT AS A GLOBAL ALTERNATIVE 

Martyna Świątczak-Borowy (University of Warsaw) “Confucianism and the Crisis of Democracy” 

Henrike Rudolph (University of Göttingen)
“The United Front in Chinese Political Thought and its Global Dimension” 

Shubham Karmakar (University of Trento) “Integrating Chinese Political Philosophy and Social Media Diplomacy: Xi’s era” 

Astrid H. M. Nordin (King’s College London) “Multiplicity, Holism, and Yin-Yang Dialectics in Contemporary International Relations Theory” 

DiscussantFederico Brusadelli (University of Naples “L’Orientale” and former Fellow of EURICS) 

4.30pm – Keynote LectureTeemu Ruskola (Emory University) “China in Political Space and Time” 

6pm – Section Seven: CONVERGENCES 

Michael Nylan (UC Berkeley)
“Xunzi and Aristotle: Beyond Orientalism” 

Shoufu Yin (University of British Columbia)
“Liu Bei, Plato, et al. on the State: A Microhistory of Seventeenth- century Globalization and Political Thought” 

Trenton Wilson (Yale University)
"Reading Qin Hui Reading Zhang Taiyan Reading Chinese Institutional History: The Question of Du 

DiscussantShao-yun Yang (Denison University) 

7.30 pm – Conclusions & Final Discussion 

 

Program Flyer: https://cutt.ly/7YMJBxf

Image credits: Tiaan Jordaan, Forbidden City Rain, Painting, Oil on Canvas.

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