AKI organized a dialogue with students on “China in the Global Humanities”, a lecture by Prof. Mu-chou Poo on “Common Elements of an Axial Age? Comparative Perspectives on Ancient China and Ancient Egypt” and a lecture by Prof Hsiung Ping-Chen (both Chinese University of Hong Kong) on “Chinese Humanities in the Global Era”.

In this lecture Prof. Poo re-examines the theory of the Axial Age by first investigating the case of China, situating the findings in the context of the on-going scholarly discussions on the idea of the Axial Age as proposed by Jaspers and expounded by subsequent generations of scholars. A comparison with the case of ancient […]

The Term “Humanities” is often used in reference to disciplinary academic humanities: a modern, institutional subject. That its development is usually a product (or byproduct) of cultural politics in nation-building can be taken for granted. In the case of China, however, the long and complicated civilization evidenced before the modern era—since Neolithic times, with literary […]