Interpretation and Change

Department of Asian Languages and Cultures

Interpretation and Intellectual Change in China:
An International Conference on the History of Chinese Hermeneutics
October 4 - 6, 2001
Rutgers University

University Inn and Conference Center at Rutgers
178 Ryders Lane
Douglass Campus
New Brunswick, New Jersey

A conference organized by the
Department of Asian Languages and Cultures of
Rutgers University
Co-sponsored by
National Taiwan University
Princeton University
Rowan University

Thursday October 4

8:30-9:00	Registration

	Introduction Welcoming Remarks Holly M. Smith, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Dean of the Graduate School, Rutgers University


9:20-10:50	Session 1 Hermeneutics of Confucian Classics Part 1 Lunyu and Mengzi Chair: Ching-I Tu, Rutgers University

John Berthrong	Boston University "Weighing the Way: Metaphoric Balance in Analects 9:30"

Chao-ying Chen	National Taiwan University "Text and Context: Mencius' View of the Understanding of Poems of the Ancients"

Kai Wing Chow	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "History or Sage? A Hermeneutical Analysis of Cui Shu's Study of the Analects"

10:50-11:00	Break

11:00-12:10	Session 2 Hermeneutics of Confucian Classics Part 2 Shijing

	Chair: Q. Edward Wang, Rowan University

Paul R. Goldin	University of Pennsylvania "Interpretation of the Canon of Odes in Zhou Times."

Kuang Yu Chen	Rutgers University "The Book of Odes: A Case Study of the 2600 Years Chinese Hermeneutic Tradition"

12:10-1:30	Lunch

1:30-3:00	Session 3 Heaven, Earth, and Man Chair: Shu-hsien Liu, Academia Sinica

Michael Puett	Harvard University "Reading Heaven and Earth: The Rise of Cosmology as a Hermeneutical Strategy in the Late Warring States Period"

Robin Yates	McGill University "Traditional Modes of Interpretation of the Military Canons"

John B. Henderson	Louisiana State University "Wei-Jin Astronomers' Hermeneutics of the Calendrical Classics and the Astronomical Heavens"

3:00-3:10	Break

Alan Berkowitz	Swarthmore College "Categorization and Hagiography in Early Medieval China"

Huai-chen Kan	National Taiwan University "Purify the World: A Discourse on Confucian Texts in Ch'ing-liu Movement"

Yuet Keung Lo	National University of Singapore "Persuasion and Entertainment at Once: Kum<araj<iva's Buddhist Storytelling"

Friday October 5, 2001

9:00-10:30	Session 5 Buddhist and Daoist Hermeneutics Chair: Chun-fang Yu, Rutgers University

Rudolf Wagner	University of Heidelberg "Xuanxue Hermeneutics"

Yang Lu	Princeton University "A Buddhist Interpretation of Culture and Learning in Ninth Century China: The Case of Shenqing's Beishan lu"

Alexander Mayer	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "The Question of a Hermeneutics in Chinese Buddhist Sutra Commentaries"

10:30-10:40	Break

10:40-12:10	Session 6 Zhu Xi's Construction of Neo-Confucian Hermeneutics Chair: Peter Li, Rutgers University

Ming-hui Lee	Academia Sinica "The Debate on 'Jen' between Chu Hsi and His Contemporaries"

Jianhua Chen	Oberlin College "Zhu Xi's Poetic Hermeneutics, Polemics of the 'Licentious Poems', and Problems in His Neo-Confucianism"

Michael Schim	University of Heidelberg melpfennig "Two Ages, one Agenda? Zhu Xi's Rules of Interpretation Versus Wang Yi's Exegesis of the Songs of Chu (Chuci) "

12:10-1:30	Lunch
Shu-hsien Liu	Academia Sinica "Paradigm Shift through Different Interpretations of the Classics in the Transitional Period of Late Ming and Early Qing"

Peter Bol	Harvard University "Hu Yinglin and the Transition to Textualism"

Young-tsu Wong	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University "In Defense of History: Zhang Binglin's Interpretation of the Zuo Commentary"
3:00-3:10	Break

3:10-5:10	Session 8 Hermeneutics East and West Chair: Matt Matsuda, Rutgers University

Hui Wang	University of Washington "Inside and Outside: The Idea of China in New Text Confucianism in the Qing"

Xudong Zhang	New York University "The Transcendental Turn in Chinese Hermeneutic Thinking: On Yan Fu's Translation of Classical Text of European Liberalism"

On-cho Ng	Pennsylvania State University "A Confucian Appreciation and Critique of Gadamerian Hermeneutics"

Wolfgang Kubin	University of Bonn "Is a Chinese Hermeneutics Possible?"

Saturday October 6, 2001

9:00-10:30	Session 9 Methods and Interpretative Strategies in Chinese Hermeneutics Part 1 Interpreter and Interpretation Chair: Susan Naquin, Princeton University

Chun-chieh Huang	National Taiwan University "Historical Narrative and Universal Principles in Confucian Hermeneutics"

Grace S. Fong	McGill University "Gender and Interpretation: Form and Rhetoric in Ming-Qing Women's Poetic Criticism"

Demin Tao	Kansai University "Chinese Canonical Scriptures in a Critical Perspective: Tominaga Nakamoto (1715-46) and Modern Kyoto Sinology"

10:30-10:40	Break

10:40-12:10	Session 10 Methods and Interpretative Strategies in Chinese Hermeneutics Part 2 Form and Use of Commentaries Chair: Wolfgang Kubin, University of Bonn

Chung-ying Cheng	University of Hawaii at Manoa "Inquiry into the Primary Model: Hermeneutical Formation of Yizhuan"

Pao-san Chang	National Taiwan University "Commentaries and Subcommentaries: The Relationship between Zhu and Shu in the Confucian Hermeneutic Tradition"

Chi-Hsiung Cheng	National Taiwan University "Inter-explanations of Classics: Method of Interpretation of the Five Classics by Qing Scholars"

12:10-1:30	Lunch

1:30-3:00	Session 11 Chinese Hermeneutics in Modern Times Chair: David Wang, Columbia University

Ban Wang	Rutgers University "The Modern Idea of History in Chinese Interpretation of the Past. The Cases of Zhang Taiyan and Lu Xun"

Dietrich Tschanz	Rutgers University "Literary History and Nation Building in Late Qing and Early Republican China"

Q. Edward Wang	Rowan University "Toward a Humanist Interpretation of Tradition: The Hermeneutics of the Critical Review Group (Xueheng pai)"

3:00-3:10	Break

3:10-4:10	Panel Discussion: "Present Accomplishments and Future Possibilities in the Study of Chinese Hermeneutics" Moderator: Ching-I Tu, Rutgers University Panelists: Peter Bol, Harvard University Chun-chieh Huang, National Taiwan University Rudolf Wagner, University of Heidelberg

Acknowledgment

The conference was made possible by a major grant from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange.

Additional financial support came from the Office of the University Vice President for Academic Affairs, the Dean's Office of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Global Programs, the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and the Asian Studies Program of Rutgers University; the East Asian Studies Program of Princeton University; and the Dean's Office of the College of Arts and Sciences of Rowan University.

Asian Languages and Cultures
Scott Hall Room 330 Tel: 732/932-7605
© 2000, 2007 Asian Languages and Cultures, Rutgers University
For comments and questions concerning this page, please email the webmaster at: easian@rci.rutgers.edu.