Title: Inexcusable Hubris: My History of Chinese Classical Scholarship
Lecturer: David B. Honey (Professor of Chinese in the College of Humanities, Brigham Young University)
Chairperson: GU Hongyi (Professor and Director of Institute for Ancient Chinese Book Studies, East China Normal University)
Date: 2 pm, June 15, 2016 (Wednesday)
Venue: Room 5303, Building of School of Humanities, Minhang Campus, ECNU
Sponsor: Si-mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, ECNU
Abstract of the Lecture:
Professor David B. Honey has begun work on a set of volumes (six now planned) under title of History of Chinese Classical Scholarship. Two volumes have already been completed. The present lecture will serve to introduce the main thrust of these two volumes, and analyze the principles and research methodologies that were borrowed from the field classical scholarship in the West to produce these volumes. Vol. 1 was especially indebted to new theories on ritual that were recently developed in the West; vol. 2 utilized focal points and methodologies borrowed from western classical scholarship.
Brief Introduction of the Lecturer:
Dr. David B. Honey earned his PhD degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988. He is presently Professor of Chinese in the College of Humanities, Brigham Young University. Recent books include Xifang jingxueshi gailun《西方经学史概论》 (Shanghai: China East Normal University Press, 2012), and The Southern Garden Poetry Society: Literary Culture and Social Memory in Guangdong (Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2013).