Ca'Foscari Spring 2013 Readings

June Teufel Dreyer, "The Chinese Tradition"

Joseph Needham, "Human Laws and the Laws of Nature", Part 1

Joseph Needham, "Human Laws and the Laws of Nature", Part 2

Donald L. Hall & Roger T. Ames, "Squaring the Circle"

Zhu Majie, "Western Civilization: Its Essence, Features and Impact"

Sean Golden, "The East India Company and the Society of Jesus. A Case Study in the Social History of Translation"

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"

S.N. Eisenstadt, "Multiple Modernities"

Volker H. Schmidt, "Multiple Modernities or Varieties of Modernity?"

Aaron Friedberg, "Will Europe's Past be Asia's Future?"

Henry Y.H.Zhao, "Post-Isms and Chinese New Conservatism"

Qin Yaqing, "Culture and global thought: Chinese international theory in the making"

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"