| Topic | Readings | |||||
| Chinese Philosophy | ||||||
| 1 | 1 | 11/03/2013 | 15:45-17:15 | Basic concepts | ||
| 1 | 2 | 13/03/2013 | 15:45-17:15 | Confucianism | June Teufel Dreyer, "The Chinese Tradition" | |
| 1 | 3 | 15/03/2013 | 12:15-13:45 | Mohism | ||
| 1 | 4 | 18/03/2013 | 15:45-17:15 | Legalism & Huang-Lao Daoism | Joseph Needham, "Human Laws and the Laws of Nature" | |
| 1 | 5 | 20/03/2013 | 15:45-17:15 | Daoism & Cosmology | ||
| Comparative Cultural Studies | ||||||
| 1 | 6 | 08/04/2013 | 15:45-17:15 | The roots of modernity in Europe & America: philosophy & religion | Donald L. Hall & Roger T. Ames, "Squaring the Circle" | |
| 1 | 7 | 10/04/2013 | 15:45-17:15 | The roots of modernity in Europe & America: economics & politics | Zhu Majie, "Western Civilization: Its Essence, Features and Impact" | |
| 1 | 8 | 12/04/2013 | 12:15-13:45 | The roots of modernity in China | Sean Golden, "The East India Company and the Society of Jesus. A Case Study in the Social History of Translation" | |
| 1 | 9 | 15/04/2013 | 15:45-17:15 | A Theoretical Model for comparative cultural studies | Sean Golden, "'God's real Name Is God'. Matteo Ricci versus Niccolo Longobardi on the Cross-Cultural Analysis of Theological Terminology in 17th Century China as a Case Study in Intersemiotic Sophistication" | |
| Modernism & Postmodernism | ||||||
| 1 | 10 | 17/04/2013 | 15:45-17:15 | Coeval, Multiple & Alternative Modernities | S.N. Eisenstadt, "Multiple Modernities" | |
| 1 | 11 | 19/04/2013 | 12:15-13:45 | Coeval, Multiple & Alternative Modernities | Volker H. Schmidt, "Multiple Modernities or Varieties of Modernity?" | |
| 1 | 12 | 22/04/2013 | 15:45-17:15 | Orientalism & Postcolonialism | Aaron Firedberg, "Will Europe's Past be Asia's Future?" | |
| 1 | 13 | 24/04/2013 | 15:45-17:15 | Post-Isms | Henry Y.H.Zhao, "Post-Isms and Chinese New Conservatism" | |
| 1 | 14 | 29/04/2013 | 15:45-17:15 | Chinese Schools | Qin Yaqing, "Culture and global thought: Chinese international theory in the making" | |
| 1 | 15 | 06/05/2013 | 15:45-17:15 | Future prospects | Xu Jilin, "What Future for Public Intellectuals? The specialisation of knowledge, the commercialisation of culture and the emergence of post-modernism characterise China in the 1990s" | |
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