Tsinghua University has fired Xu Zhangrun, a law professor and outspoken critic of Xi Jinping’s leadership, who was released on Sunday after six days in detention. Xu was suspended from teaching duties in August 2018 after...
The Economist examines the Party’s ongoing adoption of Confucianism alongside its own...
The Wall Street Journal’s Wei Gu reports that some of China’s wealthy increasingly...
For the New York Times, Chris Buckley reports on President Xi Jinping’s tendency to publicly...
The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos examines Confucianism’s post-Cultural Revolution...
China Real Time’s Josh Chin talks to Sam Crane, author of the Useless Tree blog and Life,...
Sam Crane is a Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department of Political Science at...
A report in the Chronicle of Higher Education looks at the growth of Chinese philosophy as a...
At the South China Morning Post, Chow Chung-yan reviews The Fate of Zhuangzi in Modern China by Liu Jianmei, on the Taoist sage’s varying fortunes during the 20th Century. An English edition of the book, according to...
Yan Xuetong, professor of political science and dean of the Institute of Modern International Relations at Tsinghua University, writes in the New York Times that ancient Chinese philosophy may hold the answer to who wins the...
SOAS Radio has posted a pair of lectures in memory of the late British Sinologist, Angus Graham, by Professor Liu Xiaogan of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The first talk discusses “A Taoistic Sense of Social...
Following the installation of his statue in Tiananmen Square last month, Global Voices charts the gradual rehabilitation of Confucius in China, and examines the domestic and foreign policy implications that may lie behind the...
In the New York Times Magazine, Yale University History professor Annping Chin writes about contemporary interpretations of the classics in China: Scores of men and women in China’s business world today are studying their country’s classical texts, not just “The Art of War,” but also early works from the Confucian and the Daoist canon. On […]
From The Independent (link): OH, NOT The Art of War again. When President Hu of China meets President Bush today he will hand him a copy of the classic work on military strategy by Sun Tzu, the Chinese 6th-century philosopher, according to the South China Morning Post. The book, a favourite gift in diplomatic encounters, […]
From New Scientist: Chinese and American people see the world differently – literally. While Americans focus on the central objects of photographs, Chinese individuals pay more attention to the image as a whole, according to psychologists at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, US. “There is plenty of anecdotal evidence suggesting that Western and […]
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