Time: Wednesday April 24, 3:00-4:30PM BJT
Location: LIB 1117
Guest Speaker: Dr. Kang Liu, Professor of Asian and African Languages and Literature
Elected Foreign Member of the Academia Europaea
Director, Duke Program of Research on China
Professor of Chinese Studies
Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Duke University
Moderator: Dr. Qian Zhu, Assistant Professor of History, Duke Kunshan University
Abstract
Modern China’s institutions and modes of knowledge have gone through a great deal of tension, ruptures, metamorphoses and transformations. This article traces the genealogy of modern European modes of knowledge under the rubrics of ‘liberal arts’ as the origin and basis for modern China’s institutions and modes of knowledge, and then examines China’s ‘liberal arts’ as institution and modes of knowledge from the early years of the twentieth century to the present. The paper’s objective is to raise the China question of western theory, in order to open up new space for rethinking modern Chinese intellectual history.