The online book club | commemorate the 130th anniversary of Mr. Hu Shi's birth and the 60th anniversary of his death

Flowers on the Sea: A Study on the Daily Lives of Women in Shanghai Workers' New Village

Time: May 6 (Friday) 12:00-13:30

Venue: Tencent Conference (ID: 257595097, Password: 93764)

Guests: Ye Ziting (Assistant Professor, School of Media and Communication, Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Zhang Yu (Lecturer, School of Marxism, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology), Liu Xi (Assistant Professor, Department of Chinese Studies, XJTLU)

This issue of the "New Problems, New Methods" series of academic sharing sessions will explore the new book "Flowers on the Sea: The Daily Life of Women in Shanghai Workers' New Villages". The book attaches equal importance to documentary and research, and adopts the qualitative research methods of "interaction and mutual assistance" and "research with affection", using oral history, photo diaries, art exhibitions, etc., to present the life trajectory and mental process of the research object, as well as the researcher's reflexive field experience in addition to research and analysis.

From the Perspective of Wartime from the Post-War Period: Reflections on the Research System of the History of the War of Resistance Against Japan

Time: May 6 (Friday) 14:30-16:30

Venue: Tencent Conference (ID: 324846524)

Speaker: Wu Jingping (Professor, Department of History, Fudan University)

As a coherent and integral study system of the history of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, it undoubtedly includes the entire course from the September 18 Incident in 1931 to the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 1945, but issues such as post-war surrender, recovery of lost land, receiving and handling enemy and pseudo-financial undertakings, repatriation of prisoners of war and overseas Chinese, trial of war criminals, and claims against Japan should also occupy a specific position in the system of research on the history of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. Studying the issue of dealing with Japan after the war will play an irreplaceable role in comprehensively examining and better understanding the aggression, damage, and humiliation suffered by the Chinese people during the war, the sufferings and struggles they have experienced, the sacrifices they have made and the contributions they have made, and even the changes in China's international status, for liquidating the crimes and responsibilities of Japanese militarism in launching wars of aggression and undermining peace, for expanding the field of research on the history of the War of Resistance, and in deepening the research level.

The Trial of a Strange God: The God-Man Relationship in Lutheran Protestant Philosophy

Time: May 6 (Friday) 19:00-21:00

Venue: Tencent Conference (ID: 414912033), Bilibili Renaissance and Modern Philosophy

Speaker: Sun Shuai (Associate Professor, School of Philosophy, Chinese Min University)

Regarding how to define the relationship between god and man in Lutheran philosophy, there have been several very different ways of interpretation in academic circles, such as the ontological approach of relation represented by German scholars, the approach of "becoming a god" or "unity" represented by the Finnish school, and the approach of mysticism that is emerging. But no matter which way we approach, we cannot avoid Luther's two core doctrines on this issue: the total stranger God and the self of faith alone. This lecture intends to examine the most radical version of Luther's reconstruction of the god-man relationship from the perspective of the "strange God" test of the "faith self", revealing how Luther deconstructed the Catholic scholastic tradition based on the dual nothingness of God and the self, and how he caused the sinful system of sin through the double concealment of God into the abyss of inner turmoil. Luther's radical reconstruction of the relationship between god and man and his entire "Protestant nihilism" was not only a crucial moment in the rise of modernity, but also provided the strongest primal impetus for the development of modern Western philosophy.

Poetry and faraway places on the Silk Roads

Time: May 6 (Friday) 19:00-21:00

Location: Little Goose Pass

Speaker: ZHU Yuqi (Professor, Department of History and Research Center for Ancient Chinese History, Peking University)

On the evening of May 6th, the seventh session of the "Encyclopedia of Humanities" lecture series was specially invited to Professor Zhu Yuqi of the Department of History of Peking University and the Research Center of Ancient Chinese History, starting from the origin of the "Silk Road" and its related concepts, through the archaeology of the shipwreck of the "Black Stone" on the Maritime Silk Road, to trace the Tang poems on the Changsha kiln, and to trace the origin of the ancient poetry fragments in the Turpan tomb archaeology of the Oasis Silk Road and the fragments of ancient poems in Turpan documents, taking us to find the poetry on the Silk Road from the perspective of "Tang Poetry". Demonstrate the function and possibility of archaeology in reproducing the scene of Tang poetry creation, and outline the cultural interaction on the Silk Road.

Salt and Society: The salt industry, salt merchants and salt taxes since the Qing Dynasty

Time: May 6 (Friday) 19:00-21:00

Venue: Tencent Conference (ID: 784416336)

Speaker: Chen Feng (Distinguished Professor of Luojia Distinguished Scholar, Wuhan University)

In this academic report, we invited Chen Feng, Distinguished Professor of Luojia Distinguished Scholar of Wuhan University, to give a lecture on the salt industry, salt merchants and salt taxes since the Qing Dynasty. Professor Chen Feng is the director of the Institute of Chinese Economic and Social History of Wuhan University, the vice president of the Chinese Social History Society, and the author of "Financial History of the Qing Dynasty".

Politics, Law and Family in Late Empire and Modern China: The Study of China's State and Family

When: Saturday, May 7 at 9:00

Venue: ZOOM Conference (ID: 87804054879)

Guests: Du Le (Assistant Professor, Department of History, Cornell University), Hu Xiangyu (Associate Professor, Institute of Qing History, Chinese Min University), Lai Junnan (Associate Professor, School of Law, Fudan University), Yanjie Zhao (Associate Professor, Institute of Modern History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), Li Xinran (Assistant Professor, Department of History, Tsinghua University)

The study discussed at the seminar, "China's State and Family: Filial Piety and Its Modern Reforms", discussed how the Qing Dynasty state used the legal system at the central and local levels to comprehensively maintain the paternity hierarchy, and used the parent-child relationship to strengthen its rule, and traced back to the adjustment of the parent-child relationship by the use of law in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. Several guests will present their reading experiences on this book and exchange ideas.

Symposium to commemorate the 130th anniversary of Mr. Hu Shi's birth and 60th death

Time: May 7-8, 9:30-12:30

Venue: ZOOM Conference

Guests: Huang Kewu (Research Fellow, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica), Ji Jianqing (Associate Professor, Department of Chinese, Peking University), Xi Yunshu (Associate Professor, School of Humanities, Beijing Language and Culture University), Qiu Huifen (Professor, Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia), etc

Mr. Hu Shi is one of the most influential public intellectuals in modern Chinese history. He became famous in the May Fourth New Culture Movement, and not only played an important role in the construction of Chinese and Chinese, culture and education, but also made unique contributions to the history of the development of politics, society and diplomacy in modern China. In the past half century, the study of Hu Shi, like Hu Shi's own life experience, is broad and rich, but also full of tension and drama. For us in the 21st century, what does it mean to read Hu Shi? What does Hu Shi's research mean? And what kind of development should there be? City University of Hong Kong invites colleagues from the academic community at home and abroad to participate in the "Passing on the Torch: Commemorating the 130th Anniversary of Mr. Hu Shi's Birth and 60th Anniversary of His Death" to face and rethink this important educator, writer and public intellectual in China's modern history.

Zhou Xiang and Early Art Education in Shanghai

When: Saturday, May 7 at 14:00

Venue: Bilibili Haisu Lecture Hall, Leyou Shanghai WeChat video number

Speaker: Ma Lin (Deputy Director of Shanghai University Museum)

Zhou Xiang was a pioneer in early art education in Shanghai and an active promoter of Westernization education. The series of art schools he founded are closely related to some important figures in the history of modern and contemporary Chinese art, such as Xu Beihong, Liu Haisu, Wu Shiguang, etc. In this lecture, Ms. Ma Lin will share her academic research results in recent years from the aspects of studying the significance and value of Zhou Xiang, the life of Zhou Xiang, and zhou Xiang's art education practice and school running model.

Ming and Qing Creation Theory (Part II) - a theory of creation based on emotions and based on enlightenment

Time: May 7 (Saturday) 18:30-20:30

Venue: ZOOM Conference (ID: 8844524677, Password: 03370044)

Speaker: Choi Chung-chi (Chair Professor, Department of Chinese, Lingnan University, Hong Kong)

Professor Cai Zongqi continued to talk about Ming and Qing writing at Peking University. Professor Choi Chung-chi is currently a Chair Professor of the Department of Chinese at Lingnan University in Hong Kong, a Professor of Chinese Literature and Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois at The University of Illinois at Champaign, USA, and a well-known overseas sinologist whose research interests include Classical Chinese Poetry, Ancient Literature, Comparative Poetics, Comparative Literature, Comparative Philosophy and Buddhism.

Emptiness and Falsehood: How to Interpret Nagarjuna's Ode to the Middle Passage, Pin 24, 18th Ode?

Time: May 7 (Saturday) 18:30-20:30

Venue: Tencent Conference (ID: 628484634, Password: 200433)

Speaker: Yao Zhihua (Professor, Department of Philosophy, Chinese University, Hong Kong)

In the important hymn of the 24th article of the 18th Ode of the Middle Treatise, Nagarjuna reveals the close relationship between several key concepts: dependent arising, emptiness, dependent facilitation, and middle path. Of these concepts, the Madhyamaka itself seems to like two of them, namely emptiness and the Middle Way. Therefore, they are called "empty sects" or "Madhyamaka schools". Dependent arising is a basic concept accepted by all Schools of Buddhism. In contrast, "facility" or "facilitation" is rarely considered an important concept. But as Nagarjuna claims, "facilitation" is as fundamental as the other three concepts. What is particularly special is that Nagarjuna said, "Emptiness is based on facilities." What does this mean? What is Backing Facility? We try to answer these questions by studying the rich theories of the many schools of Buddhism on "facilitation."

Hometown in literature

Time: May 7 (Saturday) 19:00-20:30

Location: WeChat video number of Yilin Publishing House

Guests: Liu Liangcheng (Writer), Feng Qiuzi (Writer, Editor, Artist)

The last online event in the "Liu Liangcheng Works" series. Huangshaliang is the hometown of the writer Liu Liangcheng in literature. Geographically, it is remote and a village in Xinjiang; but literarily, it settles the soul and is the spiritual home of thousands of readers. The stories in those books may only happen in the mind of a writer, which is long gone from the land, which is called literature. There are countless yellow sand beams in literature, and they are other places and the hometowns where we have been separated for a long time.

Reread Nietzsche's "What Zarathustra Says"

Time: May 7 (Saturday) 19:00-21:00

Venue: Tencent Conference (ID: 951178609), Bilibili (Room Number: 22326395)

Guests: Wu Zengding (Professor, Department of Philosophy, Peking University), Qianfan Zhao (Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Tongji University)

"They're all talking about me, but nobody — think of me," Zarathustra said. The Prophet had heard the cloak of silence that hung over his writings, woven by the clamor of talking about his name. Now may be the right time to re-enter this silence. Never before have we been so in tune with Nietzsche's exclamation as he looked down on the earth with the eyes of Zarathustra: "What do these houses mean?" "These rooms and rooms: are people able to walk in and out?" But once again, under social and technological conditions that he had never imagined, he observed how life itself became a disease in the fight against disease, and how humanity developed contempt for the body because of its love for the body. The state of confinement is the intersection of midnight and noon, desert and market, cave dweller and square, when everyone can play the role of sleepwalker of their own life: in a transitional state that is said to be coming to an end, practicing contempt, disgust, yearning, and no longer superstitious healing.

Poison as Medicine: A Preliminary Study of the History of Poison in Medieval China

When: Saturday, May 7, 20:00

Venue: ZOOM Meeting (ID: 87542033498, Password: 212121)

Speaker: Liu Yan (Assistant Professor, Department of History, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)

In the context of modern medicine, poison and medicine are diametrically opposed concepts. But in the Middle Ages, the relationship between poison and medicine was quite close. In his new work Healthing with Poisons, Liu Yan depicts how doctors, Taoists, government officials, and commoners used poisonous medicines to cure diseases and cultivate immortality during the six hundred years from the Six Dynasties to the middle of the Tang Dynasty. In this lecture, Liu Yan will explore the meaning of "poison" in the context of ancient Chinese culture and its medical texts on the basis of his monograph. Its core idea of "violent" rather than "harmful" led physicians at the time to believe that poisons could be converted into drugs with the right technology. This lecture further compares "poison" with a similar concept in the history of European medicine, "pharmakon", showing the similarities and important differences in the understanding and use of poisons in the two medical cultures. This lecture is a historical and comparative study of the difference between drugs and poisons, hoping to prompt us to reflect on the cognition and application of drugs in the current medical system.

Lattice and Ritual Law - On the Liturgical Turn of Yang MingXue

When: 14:00, Sunday, May 8

Venue: Tencent Conference (ID: 756179622, 873307334)

Speaker: Chen Chang (Professor, Department of Philosophy, Tongji University)

From the late Ming Dynasty to the early Qing Dynasty after Yang Ming's death, two closely related new development directions emerged within the Yang Ming School: qi science and the study of scripture history (the study of ritual law). These two new development directions raise two isomorphic problems: the relationship between mind (conscience) and qi, conscience and knowledge; in general, the relationship between mind and matter. The ideas of Liu Zongzhou and Huang Zongxi are the culmination of the above two development directions, representing the important theoretical achievements of the self-renewal of ideas around its core issues within the Yangming School, which can be called the turn of etiquette of Yangming School. Therefore, examining the newly developed science of qi and ritual (the study of scripture and history) as a science of conscience, and asking about the philosophical premises for its possible possibilities, is an important perspective for discussing the philosophical contributions of Yangming studies in the early Qing Dynasty.

On May Fourth Youth Day, Xu Qiuyun entered Douban to answer youth questions

When: Monday, May 9 at 20:00

Location: Douban

Speaker: Xu Zhuoyun (Historian)

On the evening of May 9, the famous historian Xu Zhuoyun settled in Douban, and on the evening of May 9, he participated in the "Answering Youth Questions" with his new book "Xu Zhuoyun Ten Days' Talk", answering everyone's questions about the epidemic, the international situation and the future of human society involved in the "Xu Zhuoyun Ten Days' Talk", as well as the questions and dilemmas of young people at present.

Science fiction, mythology and the humanities of digital intelligence

Time: May 12 (Thursday) 19:00-21:00

Venue: Tencent Conference

Speaker: Xu Xinjian (Professor, School of Literature and Journalism, Sichuan University)

The second lecture in the forty-two historical science fiction humanities lecture series. In the evolutionary path of the history of the discipline, anthropology has increasingly evolved into two parallel dimensions: scientific and literary (poetic). Both are objects of people and their culture. The former starts from rationality and positivism, and the latter enters with poetry and inspiration, thus forming a mutual division of labor and cooperation. In the process of exploring human spiritual phenomena, just as scientific anthropology has long focused on "primitive thinking" and "transcendental beliefs", literary anthropology continues to investigate various types of literary fantasies, from archetypal mythical legends, modern magical novels to current science fiction movies. However, with the growing strength of the products of digital intelligence, new situations and new problems will force literature to change. The new conundrum that humanity has to face is whether the literary imagination that was once taken for granted will shift to artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), or "post-human" narratives? Or will you allow the number of intelligences to replace human intelligence, so that all imagination is annihilated by data and algorithms? Will humanity, or Earth, the planet on which the human species currently inhabit, bid farewell to the age of the intellect and thus witness (or promote) the end of existing literary fantasies? Starting from the above problems, this lecture will make a preliminary exploration of the problems of our times under the intertwining of science fiction, mythology, anthropology discipline context and digital intelligence humanistic background.

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Beijing | between efficiency and fairness – from the standpoint of the "least beneficial"

Time: May 6 (Friday) 18:00-20:00

Location: No. 59 Zhongguancun Street, Haidian District Chinese 401, Lide Building, Renmin University

Speaker: Li Shi (Professor, School of International Relations, Chinese Min University)

Common prosperity is the essential feature of socialism and the development goal of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era. So, what is common prosperity? People may have different views on this issue. Some people think that common prosperity is to keep people's income gap within a certain range, some people think that common prosperity requires a sound social security system, and some people think that the government should ensure that the basic needs of all people are met. Opinions vary, and so on. But in any case, today's Chinese will no longer think that the "egalitarian cauldron" is common prosperity. Because egalitarianism is inefficient, completely equal social distribution can only keep all people in poverty. In the question of social distribution, equality and efficiency are two important values, which point in different directions and are equally important but mutually restrictive. How do you choose between efficiency and fairness? This lecture will focus on this issue.

Nanjing | four awards and a "magic spell" - "O'Neill Drama Four" new book sharing meeting

When: Saturday, May 7 at 19:00

Venue: Pioneer Bookstore, No. 173 Guangzhou Road, Gulou District

Speaker: Xu Shiyan (Professor, School of Foreign Chinese, Nanjing Normal University)

The four plays included in O'Neill's Four Plays are pulitzer-winning plays. The four awards bear witness to O'Neill's fledgling, up-and-coming, re-glorious journey, and the interaction between O'Neill's life and creation in different ways. On the evening of May 7th, Xu Shiyan, a professor at the School of Foreign Chinese of Nanjing Normal University, will come to the Wutaishan General Store of pioneer bookstore to outline O'Neill's extraordinary dramatic life from the perspective of a researcher, leading readers into eugene O'Neill's exciting creative world.