Chinese Academia (Issue 13)

Author: Liu Dong, Editor-in-Chief
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Features: This series of academic essays is sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute in the United States, co-edited by scholars from China and abroad, and published by The Commercial Press. It features four columns: "Papers," "Reviews," "Book Reviews," and "Correspondence," with one issue published each quarter. Its purpose is to elevate the standards of humanities and social sciences research in China, promote academic achievements in the Chinese-speaking world, strengthen the cultural cohesion of China, and foster in-depth academic exchanges between China and the world. It strives to make Chinese a working language in international academic research and participate in the global reconstruction of the modern form of Chinese culture. It aims to revolve around the axis of "Humanities and Society," pursuing interdisciplinary integration and cross-disciplinary collaboration. This book is the thirteenth issue of this academic journal.
In the "Papers" column, Meng Yue focuses on architectural culture in communication and mobilization, while Guo Weijie focuses on missionary architecture during the Republican era. Another group of essays explores civilizational issues from theoretical or intellectual perspectives. Given that the global relationships captured by discourses such as colonialism and the nation-state are rapidly disappearing, Derek sensitively interrogates the post-colonial question that follows. Hu Cheng's article reviews the historical narrative framework of the "semi-colonial" era, which emerged as early as the 1920s, arguing that its untapped vitality was constrained by the linear historical audience behind the "semi-feudal" framework. Another group of essays examines the transmission relationships in the Neo-Confucianism of the Song and Ming dynasties. Wu Zhen takes the argument of "no good, no evil" as a starting point to trace the intellectual development of Yangming thought from Yangming to later Yangming scholars; Guo Xiaodong analyzes Zhu Xi's inheritance and critique of Lü Dalin in his interpretation of the Zhongyong to appreciate the multifaceted principles of textual interpretation employed by this Song Dynasty thinker. And so on.