We are very pleased to announce that the 3^rd Lecture of the FAH Macao Humanities Forum (2023/2024) will be held on 24 Jan 2024. The forum aims to provide a platform for world-renowned scholars from diverse humanities fields to share their research with the FAH community and other UM scholars. All members of the UM community are cordially invited to this splendid event.

In this upcoming forum, we are honored to have Prof Hilary Chappell as our guest speaker to deliver a lecture on the topic “Semantic Shifts and Areal Typology in Asia.” Prof Hilary Chappell, a specialist in Sinitic linguistics, has served as Chair Professor in East Asian Linguistic Typology since 2005 at the EHESS, a prestigious research institute in Paris considered to be one of France’s “grands établissements.” Prior to this, she taught for 18 years in the Department of Linguistics at La Trobe University in Melbourne. Most recently, she has been appointed as Vice Chancellor’s Visiting Professor to the Chinese University of Hong Kong for the 2023-2024 academic year. Prof. Chappell has published four monographs, as well as 80 journal articles and book chapters. Over the past 30 years, she has presented more than 180 conference papers on linguistic typology and various Chinese language varieties, of which 70 were plenary or invited talks.

Details of the forum are as follows:

Speaker: Prof Hilary Chappell

Topic: Semantic Shifts and Areal Typology in Asia亞洲語言的語義變化與區域類型學研究

Date: 24 Jan 2024 (Wed)

Time: 16:00 – 17:30*

Venue: On-Site (E21A-G035) / ZOOM

Language: English (with simultaneous interpretation into Mandarin on Zoom)

*Light refreshments will be provided on a first-come-first-served basis

Please register for the forum by 22 Jan 2024 (Mon) via https://umac.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6LtAOLSozAEtsgK

We are very pleased to announce that the 2^nd Lecture of the FAH Macao Humanities Forum (2023/2024) will be held on 29 Nov 2023. The forum aims to provide a platform for world-renowned scholars from diverse humanities fields to share their research with the FAH community and other UM scholars. All members of the UM community are cordially invited to this splendid event.

In this upcoming forum, we are honored to have Professor Tian Qibo as our guest speaker to deliver a lecture on the topic “The Inheritance and Development of Traditional Chinese Culture 中華傳統文化傳承與發展的幾個問題”. Professor Tian Qibo, a graduate from the Department of Philosophy of Peking University, is the Executive Dean of the Jao Tsung-I Institute of Culture Studies at Shenzhen University. He is a nationally recognized leading talent in Shenzhen, and serves as the Chief Expert for a major project funded by the National Social Science Foundation of China. Additionally, he holds the position of Vice President of the China Society of Hominology. Prof. Tian, whose research focuses on ecological philosophy and political philosophy, has published more than 10 academic works, including Ecological Justice Research and Reflections and Surpassing on Developmentalism: The Evolution and Innovation of Development Philosophy in Contemporary China, and more than 80 research papers in academic journals ranging from the Journal of Peking University to Modern Philosophy. He has received a number of academic awards, such as the Distinguished Social Science Research Award of the Guangdong Province (First Prize) and the Distinguished Social Science Research Award of Shenzhen City (First Prize).

Details of the forum are as follows:

Speaker: Professor Tian Qibo田啟波教授

Topic: The Inheritance and Development of Traditional Chinese Culture 中華傳統文化傳承與發展的幾個問題

Date: 29 Nov 2023 (Wed)

Time: 16:00 – 17:30*

Venue: (Full) On-Site / ZOOM (link: https://umac.zoom.us/j/91736797065)

Language: Mandarin (with simultaneous interpretation into English on Zoom)

*Light refreshments will be provided on a first-come-first-served basis

Please register for the forum by 27 Nov 2023 (Mon) via https://umac.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_egjCbg5jTQrsxCe

We are very pleased to announce that the 2^nd Lecture of the FAH Macao Humanities Forum (2023/2024) will be held on 29 Nov 2023. The forum aims to provide a platform for world-renowned scholars from diverse humanities fields to share their research with the FAH community and other UM scholars. All members of the UM community are cordially invited to this splendid event.

In this upcoming forum, we are honored to have Professor Tian Qibo as our guest speaker to deliver a lecture on the topic “The Inheritance and Development of Traditional Chinese Culture 中華傳統文化傳承與發展的幾個問題”. Professor Tian Qibo, a graduate from the Department of Philosophy of Peking University, is the Executive Dean of the Jao Tsung-I Institute of Culture Studies at Shenzhen University. He is a nationally recognized leading talent in Shenzhen, and serves as the Chief Expert for a major project funded by the National Social Science Foundation of China. Additionally, he holds the position of Vice President of the China Society of Hominology. Prof. Tian, whose research focuses on ecological philosophy and political philosophy, has published more than 10 academic works, including Ecological Justice Research and Reflections and Surpassing on Developmentalism: The Evolution and Innovation of Development Philosophy in Contemporary China, and more than 80 research papers in academic journals ranging from the Journal of Peking University to Modern Philosophy. He has received a number of academic awards, such as the Distinguished Social Science Research Award of the Guangdong Province (First Prize) and the Distinguished Social Science Research Award of Shenzhen City (First Prize).

Details of the forum are as follows:

Speaker: Professor Tian Qibo田啟波教授

Topic: The Inheritance and Development of Traditional Chinese Culture 中華傳統文化傳承與發展的幾個問題

Date: 29 Nov 2023 (Wed)

Time: 16:00 – 17:30*

Venue: On-Site (E21A-G035) / ZOOM (link: https://umac.zoom.us/j/91736797065)

Language: Mandarin (with simultaneous interpretation into English on Zoom)

*Light refreshments will be provided on a first-come-first-served basis

Please register for the forum by 27 Nov 2023 (Mon) via https://umac.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_egjCbg5jTQrsxCe

We are very pleased to announce that the 1st Lecture of the FAH Macao Humanities Forum (2023/2024) will be held on 30 Oct 2023. The forum aims to provide a platform for world-renowned scholars from diverse humanities fields to share their research with the FAH community and other UM scholars. All members of the UM community are cordially invited to this splendid event.

In this upcoming forum, we are honored to have Professor Xiaoshan Yang as our guest speaker to deliver an online lecture on the topic “The Lure and Peril of Contrarianism: Wang Anshi’s Poems on Wang Zhaojun”. Prof Yang is the Department Chair and Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Notre Dame. He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University.  His representative publications include To Perceive and to Represent: A Comparative Study of Chinese and English Poetics of Nature Imagery, Metamorphosis of the Private Sphere: Gardens and Objects in Tang-Song Poetry (Harvard 2003), and Wang Anshi and Song Poetic Culture (Harvard 2021).  His research has been recognized with grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies. His research interests include classical Chinese poetry, language and poetics.

Details of the forum are as follows:

Speaker: Professor Xiaoshan Yang  楊曉山教授

Topic: The Lure and Peril of Contrarianism: Wang Anshi’s Poems on Wang Zhaojun 唱反調的誘惑與危險：論王安石的昭君詩

Date: 30 Oct 2023 (Mon)

Time: 09:00 – 10:30 AM

Venue: On-Site (E21A-3118 and 3121) / ZOOM 

Language: Mandarin (with simultaneous interpretation into English on Zoom)

*Light refreshments will be provided on a first-come-first-served basis

Please register for the forum by 26 Oct 2023 (Thur) via https://umac.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9mh7aTNTGbTMYo6

Abstract:

The fame of Wang Anshi’s two poems on Wang Zhaojun rests primarily on three morally controversial lines. For many, these lines blurred the fundamental distinction between the Chinese and the barbarians and even provided a devious justification for shifting loyalty on the grounds of personal favors. Criticisms of the poems were soon enmeshed in a strand of political discourse of which a major theme is Wang’s culpability in the fall of the Northern Song at the hands of the Jurchens. The poems would also be castigated as prime examples of Wang’s pernicious or idiosyncratic views on morality in general. I approach Wang’s iconoclasm as an exercise in polemical fan’an and demonstrate that the attacks on him were driven less by the problematics in his poems than by the attack­ers’ biases. At the same time, it should be acknowledged that Wang’s sensational lines are a cause of legitimate concerns about the balance be­tween poetic novelty and moral propriety in the use of fan’an.

We are very pleased to announce that the 1st Lecture of the FAH Macao Humanities Forum (2023/2024) will be held on 30 Oct 2023. The forum aims to provide a platform for world-renowned scholars from diverse humanities fields to share their research with the FAH community and other UM scholars. All members of the UM community are cordially invited to this splendid event.

In this upcoming forum, we are honored to have Professor Xiaoshan Yang as our guest speaker to deliver an online lecture on the topic “The Lure and Peril of Contrarianism: Wang Anshi’s Poems on Wang Zhaojun”. Prof Yang is the Department Chair and Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Notre Dame. He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University.  His representative publications include To Perceive and to Represent: A Comparative Study of Chinese and English Poetics of Nature Imagery, Metamorphosis of the Private Sphere: Gardens and Objects in Tang-Song Poetry (Harvard 2003), and Wang Anshi and Song Poetic Culture (Harvard 2021).  His research has been recognized with grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies. His research interests include classical Chinese poetry, language and poetics.

Details of the forum are as follows:

Speaker: Professor Xiaoshan Yang  楊曉山教授

Topic: The Lure and Peril of Contrarianism: Wang Anshi’s Poems on Wang Zhaojun 唱反調的誘惑與危險：論王安石的昭君詩

Date: 30 Oct 2023 (Mon)

Time: 09:00 – 10:30 AM

Venue: On-Site (E21A-3118 and 3121) / ZOOM 

Language: Mandarin (with simultaneous interpretation into English on Zoom)

*Light refreshments will be provided on a first-come-first-served basis

Please register for the forum by 26 Oct 2023 (Thur) via https://umac.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9mh7aTNTGbTMYo6

Abstract:

The fame of Wang Anshi’s two poems on Wang Zhaojun rests primarily on three morally controversial lines. For many, these lines blurred the fundamental distinction between the Chinese and the barbarians and even provided a devious justification for shifting loyalty on the grounds of personal favors. Criticisms of the poems were soon enmeshed in a strand of political discourse of which a major theme is Wang’s culpability in the fall of the Northern Song at the hands of the Jurchens. The poems would also be castigated as prime examples of Wang’s pernicious or idiosyncratic views on morality in general. I approach Wang’s iconoclasm as an exercise in polemical fan’an and demonstrate that the attacks on him were driven less by the problematics in his poems than by the attack­ers’ biases. At the same time, it should be acknowledged that Wang’s sensational lines are a cause of legitimate concerns about the balance be­tween poetic novelty and moral propriety in the use of fan’an.