EAST ASIAN THOUGHT
(CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, MONGOLIA, SOUTH KOREA, TAIWAN)

SUB-PAGES

Topics:

• East Asian Literature

Feminist:

• East Asian Feminist Thought

ASSOCIATIONS

• Association of Chinese Philosophers in America (ACPA)

• International Society for Chinese Philosophy (ISCP)

• International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy (ISCWP)
  

CONFERENCES

2006:

• International Symposium on Sinology, Institute of English Literature, Zhejiang University, October 13-15

• Third Annual Midwest Conference on East Asian Thought, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, March 31-April 2

2005:

• Chinese Philosophy and Human Development in the 21st Century, 15th International Conference, International Society for Chinese Philosophy (ISCP), University of New South Wales, July 15-21
  

2003:

• Philosophical Engagement: Davidson's Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy, Institute of Foreign Philosophy, Peking University, July 25-27

2002:

2001:

2000:

COURSES

• University of Hawaii: 

  • East Asian Religious Philosophy (Gardiner)

  • Chinese and Japanese Philosophy (Tominaga)

  • Classical Chinese Philosophy (Chandler)

  • Comparative Metaphysics (Shrader)

  • Japanese Philosophy and Religion (Jones)

  • Japanese Thought (Krebs)

• University of New South Wales: Introduction to Chinese Philosophy (Lai)

JOURNALS

• Contemporary Chinese Thought

• Dao: a Journal of Comparative Philosophy

• Journal of Chinese Philosophy (or here)

PHILOSOPHERS / THEORISTS

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Book Series:

• SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Chan, Wing-Tsit.  A Sourcebook in Chinese Philosophy.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1969.

  • De Barry, William.  Sources of Chinese Tradition.  New York: Columbia UP, 1960.

  • Ivanhoe, Philip, and Brian Van Norden, eds. Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy.  Seven Bridges, 2000.

  • Mengzi, with Selections from Traditional Commentaries.  Trans. Bryan W. Van Norden.  Indianapolis: Hackett, 2008.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Chen, Xiaomei.  Occidentalism: A Theory of Counter-Discourse in Post-Mao China.  Oxford: OUP, 1995.

  • Chen, Xiaomei.  "Occidentalism as Counter-Discourse: 'He-Shang' in Post-Mao China."  Critical Inquiry 18 (1992): .  Rpt. in Identities.  Ed. Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1995.  63-89.

  • Chow, Rey.  Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1993.

  • Eng, David.  Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America.  2001.

  • Kojin, Karatani.  Transcritique: on Kant and Marx.  2003.

  • Kojin, Karatani.  Architecture as Metaphor: Language, Number, Money.  1995.

  • Kojin, Karatani.  Origins of Modern Japanese Literature.  1993.

  • Low, Gail Ching-Liang.  White Skins / Black Masks: Representation and Colonialism.  London: Routledge, 1996.

On-Line:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Carrier, James G., ed.  Occidentalism: Images of the West.  Oxford: OUP, 1995.

  • Pfister, Lauren, ed.  Hermeneutical Thinking in Chinese Philosophy.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2007.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Buruma, Ian, and Avishai Margalit.  Occidentalism: the West in the Eyes of Its Enemies.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2004.

  • Ch'en, Kenneth.  The Chinese Transformation of Buddhism.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1973.

  • Cheng, Chung-ying, and Nicholas Bunnin, eds.  Contemporary Chinese Philosophy.  

  • Creel, H. G. Chinese Thought: from Confucius to Mao Tse-Tung.  U of Chicago P, 1953

  • Cua, Antonio S.  Encyclopedia of Chinese Philosophy.

  • Droit, Roger-Pol The Cult of Nothingness: the Philosophers and the Buddha.  

  • Fung Yu-Lan.  History of Chinese Philosophy.  2 Vols.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1983.

  • Fung Yu-Lan.  A Short History of Chinese Philosophy.  New York: Free Press, 1985.

  • Graham, A. C.  Disputers of the Tao: Philosophical Argument in Ancient China.  Chicago: Open Court, 1989.

  • Graham, A. C.  Studies in Chinese Philosophy and Philosophical Literature.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1990.

  • Lai, Karyn L.  An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy.  Cambridge: CUP, 2008.

  • Liu, JeeLoo.  An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy: from Ancient Philosophy to Chinese Buddhism.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.

  • Sasaki, Ken-Ichi.  "Should / Can Philosophy be Ethnic?  Varieties of Internationalism in Philosophy."  Metaphilosophy 18.4 (1997): 351-358.

  • Schwartz, Benjamin.  The World of Thought in Ancient China.  Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap, 1985.

  • Shun, Kwong-loi, and David B. Wong, eds.  Confucian Ethics: a Comparative Study of Self, Autonomy, and Community.  Cambridge: CUP, 2004.

  • Siderits, Mark.  Personal Identity and Buddhist Philosophy.  Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003

  • Van Norden, Bryan.  Virtue Ethics and Consequentialism in Early Chinese Philosophy.  Cambridge: CUP, 2007.

  • Zhang, Wei.  Heidegger, Rorty, and the Eastern Thinkers: a Hermeneutics of Cross-Cultural Understanding.  Albany: SUNY Press, 2006.

  • Zurcher, Eric.  The Buddhist Conquest of China.  Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1959.

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UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES / RESEARCH CENTRES / RESEARCH PROJECTS

China (People's Republic):

• Hong Kong:

  • Chinese University of Hong Kong Department of Philosophy

  • Hong Kong Baptist University: Department of Religion and Philosophy

  • University of Hong Kong: Department of Philosophy

• Peking University: Department of Philosophy

Japan:

• Keio University: Department of Philosophy

• Kyoto University: 

  • Department of the History of Chinese Philosophy

  • Department of the History of Indian Philosophy

  • Department of the History and Philosophy of Science

  • Department of the History of Western Philosophy (in Japanese)

• Kyushu University:

  • Department of Chinese Philosophy

  • Department of Western Philosophy (in Japanese)

• Tohoku University: 

  • Department of Chinese Philosophy (no link provided)

  • Department of Philosophy and Ethics

Mongolia:

• National University of Mongolia: Department of Philosophy

South Korea:

• Chonnam National University: Department of Philosophy

• Hanyang University: Department of History and Philosophy: Major in Philosophy

• Korea University: Department of Philosophy

• Kyung Hee University: Department of Philosophy

• Kyungpook National University: Department of Philosophy

• Pusan National University: Department of Philosophy

• Seoul National University: Department of Philosophy

• SungKyunKwan University: 

  • Department of Philosophy

  • School of Confucian and Oriental Philosophy

• Yonsei University: Department of Philosophy

Taiwan:

• Fu Jen Catholic University: 

  • Department of Philosophy

  • Graduate Institute of Philosophy

• National Central University: Graduate Institute of Philosophy

• National Chung Cheng University:

  • Department of Philosophy (description)

  • Department of Philosophy

• National Taiwan University: Department and Graduate Institute of Philosophy

• National Tsing Hua University: Department of Philosophy

Elsewhere:

• UK:

  • University of Oxford: Chinese Philosophy Project

WWW GATEWAYS

• Chad Hansen's Chinese Philosophy Pages (University of Hong Kong)

• Chinese Philosophy (Hooker, Washington State)

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