Classical Chinese: Text, Philosophy, Language Workshop with Professor Christoph Harbsmeier

You are cordially invited to the Classical Chinese: Text, Philosophy, Language Workshop with Professor Christoph Harbsmeier organized by Associate Professor Loy Hui-Chieh on 21st and 22th January 2019 at the Wan Boo Sow Research Centre for Chinese Culture, NUS FASS AS8-05-49.

There will be three sessions in the workshop:

Session 1: On Current Dating of the Analects in the US (Mon 21 Jan, 10-12)

Session 2: A New Reading of Zhuangzi and his Commentators  (Mon 21 Jan 1-3)

Session 3: The Introduction to 馬氏文通 and the History of Chinese Grammar” On the Zuozhuan (Tue 2-4) (title updated)

As lunch and refreshments will be provided, please RSVP by 18 Jan 2019 at https://goo.gl/forms/LggDXy0tIXgXBHC12.

About the speaker: Christoph Harbsmeier is Professor Emeritus at the University of Oslo. He also holds honorary professorships at Peking University, Fudan University (Shanghai), Wuhan University, Zhejiang University, Shanghai Normal University, and East China Normal University. His main work is in the history of science (logic), conceptual history, historical linguistics, and modern Chinese Cartoons.

Sponsored by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore. Special thanks to the Wan Boo Sow Research Centre for Chinese Culture for granting the use of their facilities.

See photos from the last workshop with Prof Harbsmeier here.

Classical Chinese and Philosophical Linguistics Workshop with Professor Christoph Harbsmeier

You are cordially invited to the Classical Chinese and Philosophical Linguistics Workshop with Professor Christoph Harbsmeier organized by Associate Professor Loy Hui-Chieh on 12th and 13th February 2018 at the Wan Boo Sow Research Centre for Chinese Culture, NUS FASS AS8-05-49.

There will be four sessions in the workshop:

Session 1: Guo Xiang on the Philosophy of Zhuangzi (Day 1, 10am to 12pm)

Session 2: Self-Construal in Traditional China: A Comparative Perspective (Day 1, 2pm to 4pm)

Session 3: Anaphora and Coreference in Classical Chinese (Day 2, 10am to 12pm)

Session 4: Are Some Languages Better than Others? (Day 2, 2pm to 4pm)

As lunch and refreshments will be provided, please RSVP by 5 February 2018 at https://tinyurl.com/classical-chinese-workshop.

About the speaker: Christoph Harbsmeier is Professor Emeritus at the University of Oslo. He also holds honorary professorships at Peking University, Fudan University (Shanghai), Wuhan University, Zhejiang University, Shanghai Normal University, and East China Normal University. His main work is in the history of science (logic), conceptual history, historical linguistics, and modern Chinese Cartoons.

Sponsored by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, and co-sponsored by the Division of Humanities, Yale-NUS College. Special thanks to the Wan Boo Sow Research Centre for Chinese Culture for granting the use of their facilities.

Some photos of the event below:

 

 

 

The Historical Ethnography of Chinese Popular Wisdom: A Public Lecture by Christoph Harbsmeier

A Public Lecture jointly presented by the Office of the Deputy President (Research and Technology), the Department of Chinese Studies & the Department of Philosophy

AS7 Seminar Room B, 25 Nov 2011, 5-6:30pm

Harbsmeier Poster 2011 (LowerRes)About the talk: The richness of the Chinese heritage of proverbial wisdom has struck many observers. Bertrand Russell has gone so far as to say that there is nothing more civilised than a civlised Chinese. In this lecture Christoph Harbsmeier will show in some detail how a subtle knowledge of classical Chinese is essential for any understanding not only of the subtleties of that proverbial wisdom that so many Chinese people continue to live by, but also of the intricate internal structure of modern Chinese words which are in fact mostly construed by the principles of classical Chinese syntax.

About the speaker: Christoph Harbsmeier is Professor of Chinese in the University of Oslo. He is also holds honorary professorships at Peking University, Fudan University (Shanghai), Wuhan University, Zhejiang University, Shanghai Normal University, and East China Normal University. His main work is in the history of science (logic), conceptual history, historical linguistics, and modern Chinese cartoons. He is the editor of the international project Thesaurus Linguae Sericae.