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{"title":"Li Zehou’s Concrete Humanism: His Legacy in Confucian Tradition","authors":"Robert A. Carleo","doi":"10.1080/27683524.2023.2206317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/27683524.2023.2206317","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractLi Zehou devoted his final decades—and with special zeal his final years—to expounding a view of reason, ethics, and morality rooted in classical Confucianism. The framework he puts forth posits concrete, lived and felt human relations to be the source and grounds of meaning and value. For Li, “what is most fundamental” is “the fact of ‘humans living.’” As he formulates it, the situated, deliberative nature of human life—the feelings, beliefs, and practices of people living in a particular place and time—points us to affirm certain conceptions of what is good and right. This outlook places him amongst the renowned, historically distinguished set of Confucian concrete humanists. This article sketches Li’s place within the tradition of Confucian concrete humanism as well as the main features of his particular version of it. It also highlights that Li’s Confucianism is progressive, endorsing the priority of individual rights and freedoms. In insisting we pragmatically assess which values and principles best serve human wellbeing, he recognizes the basic value of each member of humanity as inherently constitutive of the supreme good of humanity overall. Li’s uniquely effective concrete humanist framework herein offers an invaluable resource for ethical, moral, and political thinking for the world today and tomorrow. Notes1 Angle, Human Rights and Chinese Thought, 97; Dai, Evidential Commentary.2 Liang, The Essence of Chinese Culture, 136–39.3 Xu, The Chinese Liberal Spirit, 126.4 Li, Humanist Ethics, 43–44.5 Li, Origins of Chinese Thought, 43.6 Li, Humanist Ethics, 135.7 Ames, “Introduction,” 56.8 Li, Humanist Ethics, 104.9 Analects 12.1; Ames and Rosemont, Analects of Confucius, 152; Li, Humanist Ethics, 170, 191; Carleo, Is Free Will Confucian.10 Li, The Origins of Chinese Thought, 41.11 Yang, “Outline of Concrete Metaphysics”; “Yang, ‘Affairs’ and the Actual World”; Liu, “Yang Guorong and His Concrete Metaphysics”; Carleo and Liu “The Philosophy of Affairs.”12 For Li’s expansive understanding of what should count as “Confucian,” see Li, The Origins of Chinese Thought, 211–14.13 Li, Humanist Ethics, 116.14 Ibid., 109.15 Arendt, “The Crisis in Education.”16 Li, Humanist Ethics, 37.17 Li, Anthropo-Historical Ontology, 194.18 Li, Humanist Ethics, 203.19 Ibid., 208.20 Ibid., 148.21 Angle, Contemporary Confucian Political Philosophy, 2.22 Li, Humanist Ethics, 77–78; Pinker, Enlightenment Now.23 D’Ambrosio, “Li Zehou’s ‘Harmony is Higher than Justice,’” 144.24 Li, Humanist Ethics, 209.25 Li, Anthropo-Historical Ontology, 201.26 Tan, “A Confucian Response to Rorty’s Postmodern Bourgeois Liberal Idea of Community.”27 Greene, How Rights Went Wrong, 25028 Carleo, “Confucian Post-Liberalism,” 163–64.29 Moeller and D’Ambrosio, You and Your Profile.Additional informationNotes on contributorsRobert A. CarleoRobert A. Carleo III (M.Phil. Fudan University; PhD the Chinese University of Hong Kong) is program coordinator and instructor in the international g","PeriodicalId":29655,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Literature and Thought Today","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135717577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Newman Journal","authors":"Xi Xi, Tammy Lai-Ming Ho","doi":"10.1080/27683524.2023.2205806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/27683524.2023.2205806","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractXi Xi (1937–2022) was one of the most successful and best-known Hong Kong writers, her works read and appreciated by a wide readership, both in Hong Kong and internationally. Xi Xi created a body of work that spoke to life in the city in the days before and after the Handover in 1997. Although originally from the mainland, Xi Xi considered herself a Hong Konger, an identity reflected in much of her work. Her decades-long career yielded numerous wide-ranging works that testified to her preferred themes, her style of writing, her personal and sentimental attachments, and her persistence in being always creative. She was a versatile writer who constantly sought new ways to build worlds and tell stories. She once said: “To write a novel is to write new content or to write using a new method. If neither is there, I’d rather not write.” In 2019, Xi Xi was awarded the 6th Newman Prize for Chinese Literature by the Institute for US-China Issues at the University of Oklahoma. Xi Xi passed away on December 18, 2022, of heart failure. A statement from Plain Leaves Workshop, which she co-founded, read: “Xi Xi’s life was wonderful, happy, beneficial, meaningful.” Xi Xi’s trip to Oklahoma in 2019 to receive the Newman Prize is fondly recounted, in great detail, in her essay “Newman Journal,” included here in celebration of her memory. AcknowledgmentXi Xi’s full acceptance speech is included in the feature on her as laureate of the 2019 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature in Chinese Literature Today vol. 8, no. 1.Notes1 Imperial Astronomerer (Qin Tianjian 欽天監) is Xi Xi’s novel published in 2021. It took her five years to complete. The novel tells the story of Zhou Ruohong, a son of an aristocratic family who studied astronomy during the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty.Additional informationNotes on contributorsXi XiXi Xi was born in Shanghai in 1937 and came to Hong Kong with her family in 1950 at the age of thirteen. She worked as a schoolteacher for twenty years in colonial Hong Kong. In 2016, a collection of poems by Xi Xi was translated into English by Jennifer Feeley under the title Not Written Words, which received the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize in 2017. In 2019, Xi Xi was awarded the 6th Newman Prize for Chinese Literature and the Cikada Prize, as well as the Hong Kong Arts Development Council Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022. Xi Xi passed away on December 18, 2022, of heart failure.Tammy Lai-Ming HoTranslator Tammy Lai-Ming Ho is the founding co-editor of Asian Cha and an editor of the academic journal Hong Kong Studies. She is an associate professor at Hong Kong Baptist University and a recipient of the Young Artist Award in Literary Arts presented by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.","PeriodicalId":29655,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Literature and Thought Today","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135717695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Message","authors":"Xiaoni Wang, Eleanor Goodman","doi":"10.1080/27683524.2023.2205821","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/27683524.2023.2205821","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract“A Message” (“Yige kouxin”) is one of eleven short stories in the collection 1966 by mainland poet, essayist, and professor emerita Wang Xiaoni. The book was published to great interest in 2014, but was quickly pulled from warehouses for its controversial subject matter, namely the first year of the Cultural Revolution. All of the stories are set in the snowy, Russian-influenced, far northeastern province of Jilin, where Wang Xiaoni herself was born and raised. In 1966, Wang was eleven years old, just on the cusp between childhood and a semi-adult understanding of the world. The stories in the collection are told from the perspective of younger characters, ranging from a little boy barely old enough to left on his own, to young adults trying to make their way in a newly violent and chaotic society. None of the characters are given names, but instead identified by a role or profession or some other relative term like “sister” or “coworker,” emphasizing not only the universality of the lives depicted, but also the interconnected nature of the communities she explores in minute detail.In “A Message,” a male worker wants to deliver a warning to a teenaged girl who works at the same factory. Her parents have been accused of working as spies for the Americans—a crime for which the punishment could be death—and he wants to alert her of the terrible danger that she and her young brother are in. In an atmosphere in which paranoia is both ubiquitous and reasonable, the worker is worried that he will also be implicated in the parents’ crime if he is seen to be aiding the family. Wang Xiaoni brings in many elements specific to that political era, including the frequent political radio broadcasts that the population were required to listen to, whether or not they happened suddenly in the middle of the night. Her characters are subject to the whims of work units, which controlled everything from where one lived to whom one married, and of the dreaded neighborhood committees, which kept watch over the lives of regular citizens and harshly punished any perceived infractions against the revolutionary cause. Wang brilliantly captures the omnipresent and stifling fear, as well as how ordinary good intentions could go terribly awry, or simply be crushed under the deadly onslaught of the communal, interpersonal, and social upheavals wrought by the Cultural Revolution. Additional informationNotes on contributorsXiaoni WangWang Xiaoni 王小妮 was born in Changchun, Jilin, in 1955, and spent seven years as a laborer in the countryside during the Cultural Revolution. In 1977, she was accepted into the Chinese Department at Jilin University, and in 1985 she moved to Shenzhen. Now retired, she works as a film script editor and college professor. Her publications include more than twenty-five books of poetry, essays, and novels.Eleanor GoodmanEleanor Goodman is the author of the poetry collection Nine Dragon Island, and the translator of five books from Chinese. She is ","PeriodicalId":29655,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Literature and Thought Today","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135717572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editor's Note","authors":"Jonathan Stalling","doi":"10.1080/27683524.2023.2239691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/27683524.2023.2239691","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29655,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Literature and Thought Today","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135717693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Remembering Professor Li Zehou","authors":"Tingyang Zhao, Jeffrey Keller","doi":"10.1080/27683524.2023.2206306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/27683524.2023.2206306","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThis essay by Zhao Tingyang, a former graduate student of Li Zehou at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, offers a recollection on the intellectual dialogues between Li and himself over the past decades. Zhao provides insights into Li Zehou’s spectrum of thought, diverse topics of interest, as well as his three assumptions of constructivism. Through a personal lens, Zhao delves into the philosophical exchanges with his mentor, shedding light on the richness and depth of Li’s thoughts. Additional informationNotes on contributorsTingyang ZhaoZhao Tingyang is a Distinguished Professor of philosophy at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and a Senior fellow at Berggruen Institute. He works on ontology, political philosophy, and philosophy of history. He is author of many books in Chinese, and some were translated into foreign languages, including Alles Unter dem Himmel (Germany); Tianxia tout sous un Meme Ciel (France); Redefining a Philosophy for World Governance (UK); All-under-heaven: The Tianxia System for a Possible World Order (USA); Tianxia: una filosofia para la gobernanza global (Spain); Un Dieu ou tous les Dieux (France, co-author with Alain Le Pichon); and Du Ciel ala Terre (France, co-author with Regis Debray).","PeriodicalId":29655,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Literature and Thought Today","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135717702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exile’s Home as a Domain of Power in Gao Xingjian’s Soul Mountain","authors":"Farida Chishti","doi":"10.1080/27683524.2022.2134662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/27683524.2022.2134662","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29655,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Literature and Thought Today","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45819250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Dual Selves of Chinese New Era Writers","authors":"Deng Xiaomang, J. Karlsson","doi":"10.1080/27683524.2022.2134707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/27683524.2022.2134707","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29655,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Literature and Thought Today","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42022208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Love in the Time of Coronavirus","authors":"Hoojian Yan, T. Shen","doi":"10.1080/27683524.2022.2131181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/27683524.2022.2131181","url":null,"abstract":"These five poems have been selected from Ho Fuk Yan's 2021 poetry anthology Love in the Time of Coronavirus. They were written in 2020, along with the development of the pandemic that started to affect everyone in the world. It is noteworthy that the poet does not simply want to record the current events, but rather aims to achieve a balance between what happens in reality and what happens in our consciousness. In other words, to record the pandemic and beyond. © 2023 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.","PeriodicalId":29655,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Literature and Thought Today","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44941415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"What Is Hegemonism?","authors":"Deng Xiaomang, Jie Pan","doi":"10.1080/27683524.2022.2134708","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/27683524.2022.2134708","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29655,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Literature and Thought Today","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47296775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Art, Labor, and Ecology in Han Song’s “Regenerated Bricks”","authors":"Ban-Jun Wang","doi":"10.1080/27683524.2022.2131169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/27683524.2022.2131169","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29655,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Literature and Thought Today","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45970789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}