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Carsten Herrmann-pillath - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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2000a): Strange Notes on Modern Statistics and Traditional Popular Religion in China: Further Reflections on the Importance of Sinology for Social Science as Applied to
2015Co-Authors: Carsten Herrmann-pillathAbstract:This short note argues that there are some astonishing similarities between the organization and management of national statistics in contemporary China and the ways how the state dealt with popular religion in Imperial China. The note builds upon a more general and longer paper devoted to reflections about the importance of social and economic history for the application of modern social science in the context of modern Chinese studies (Herrmann-Pillath, 1995a). In recent times there is a strong trend towards the substitution of Sinology as a philological discipline in the broad sense (or, a hermeneutical in the narrow sense) by "Modern Chinese Studies " based on the application of social sciences on China. In Germany, the movement affects, for instance, the distribution of funds and the structural changes of departments for Chinese studies. The intellectual legitimacy of these changes is provided by the assumption that there is a stock of knowledge about societies in general which can be applied on certain data that can be defined and compiled independently from those general research tools (for a related discussion in Asian studies, see e.g. Buck, 1991). However, the question can be raised whether such kind of a clear distinction between data and analytica
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Strange notes on modern statistics and traditional popular religion in China: Further reflections on the importance of Sinology for social science as applied on China
1996Co-Authors: Carsten Herrmann-pillathAbstract:This short note argues that there are some astonishing similarities between the organization and management of national statistics in contemporary China and the ways how the state dealt with popular religion in Imperial China. The note builds upon a more general and longer paper devoted to reflections about the importance of social and economic history for the application of modern social science in the context of modern Chinese studies (Herrmann-Pillath, 1995a). In recent times there is a strong trend towards the substitution of Sinology as a philological discipline in the broad sense (or, a hermeneutical in the narrow sense) by "Modern Chinese Studies" based on the application of social sciences on China. In Germany, the movement affects, for instance, the distribution of funds and the structural changes of departments for Chinese studies.
Kuiper P.n. - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Early Dutch Sinologists : a study of their training in Holland and China, and their functions in the Netherlands Indies (1854-1900)
2016Co-Authors: Kuiper P.n.Abstract:Dutch Sinology began as a training course for Chinese interpreters for the colonial government of the Netherlands Indies (now Indonesia), where a large and important Chinese minority was living. This resulted in the unusual decision to study Southern Chinese dialects instead of Mandarin. In the period 1854 until 1900, in total 24 sinologists were trained, mostly beginning in Leiden. For this purpose, in 1855 J.J. Hoffmann was appointed as titular professor of Chinese and Japanese in Leiden, and G. Schlegel was made the first full professor in 1877. After studying in Leiden, they continued their practical training in Southern China, mostly in Amoy (Xiamen). Finally they were appointed on Java or other places in the Netherlands Indies as “European interpreter of Chinese.” Their functions were interpreting and translation, and advising the administrative and judicial authorities. Actually, in most places there was not enough work for them. Two interpreters temporarily fulfilled important functions in Sino-Dutch diplomacy. About one third fulfilled other administrative functions or devoted their time to scholarship, which later led to a second career in the Indies administration or at Leiden University. Next to several dictionaries, some produced important scholarly works, and many published articles in Dutch journals and newspapers about Chinese matters.
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The Early Dutch Sinologists : a study of their training in Holland and China, and their functions in the Netherlands Indies (1854-1900)
2016Co-Authors: Kuiper P.n.Abstract:Dutch Sinology began as a training course for Chinese interpreters for the colonial government of the Netherlands Indies (now Indonesia), where a large and important Chinese minority was living. This resulted in the unusual decision to study Southern Chinese dialects instead of Mandarin. In the period 1854 until 1900, in total 24 sinologists were trained, mostly beginning in Leiden. For this purpose, in 1855 J.J. Hoffmann was appointed as titular professor of Chinese and Japanese in Leiden, and G. Schlegel was made the first full professor in 1877. After studying in Leiden, they continued their practical training in Southern China, mostly in Amoy (Xiamen). Finally they were appointed on Java or other places in the Netherlands Indies as “European interpreter of Chinese.” Their functions were interpreting and translation, and advising the administrative and judicial authorities. Actually, in most places there was not enough work for them. Two interpreters temporarily fulfilled important functions in Sino-Dutch diplomacy. About one third fulfilled other administrative functions or devoted their time to scholarship, which later led to a second career in the Indies administration or at Leiden University. Next to several dictionaries, some produced important scholarly works, and many published articles in Dutch journals and newspapers about Chinese matters.Asian Studie
Anna Rudakowska - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Social Construction of the Realm of the Discipline: Polish Sinology
China Social Sciences Press 中国社会科学出版社, 2017Co-Authors: Anna RudakowskaAbstract:[[abstract]]This work enters into the long-standing debate on the meaning of "Sinology". It takes as a springboard theoretical assumptions regarding the term's floating meaning, which, due to the shifting nature of disciplinary boundaries in which all knowledge is relative, can never be fixed. It looks at the University of Warsaw's (UW) Sinology Department and asks what Polish academia counts as discipline-specific knowledge. In order to answer this question, it analyses the rhetorical work involved in defining and defending the discipline in selected works by and interviews with Polish scholars who study China. It comments on the phenomenon of creating disciplinary labels, the role of external pressures on knowledge production, and the ways in which the UW Sinology Department's faculty mediates and assimilates those pressure.[[notice]]補正完
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Sinology in Poland: Epistemological Debates and Academic Practice
The Chinese University Press, 2016Co-Authors: Anna RudakowskaAbstract:[[abstract]]This study looks at how an understanding of Sinology as a discipline evolved among Polish specialists on China against the background of the epistemological debates on the study of China in the Western world. Based on interviews and focusing on two periods in the history of postwar Polish Sinology – the 1950s-1960s and then the 1990s and thereafter – it provides insights into the discourses among academics. The findings from an analysis of the interviews demonstrate that the epistemological divide on the study of China in Western intellectual spheres has been particularly marked in academic circles in Poland. This is evident in the debates among Polish scholars who struggle both to establish the meaning of Sinology and, at the same time, to determine the future of their profession. Whereas this divide has greatly influenced the program of sinological training at the University of Warsaw, it has not had an influence in Poznań and Łódź, the two other centers of Sinology in Poland.[[notice]]補正完
Rudakowska Anna - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Who Understands China in Poland? The Epistemological Debates on China and Study of China at the Sinology Department, Warsaw University
2016Co-Authors: Rudakowska AnnaAbstract:[[abstract]]The meaning and significance of China is closely related to the concept of Sinology, which takes China as its object of study. This project looks at the understanding of Sinology in Poland against the background of the epistemological debates in the Western academia. It focuses on two periods; first it analyses 1950s and 1960s and second, the period after 1990. It examines the problem through the lenses of the Sinology (later abbreviated to Sinology or Warsaw Sinology) at the Warsaw University (later UW). The department was established in the academic year 1933/34, which makes it the oldest institution teaching Sinology in Poland existing today. Moreover, it was the only sinological center in Poland for five decades. Therefore, the staff of the department was at a vantage point to contribute to the understanding of China and Sinology among Poles. The following outline of the project starts from the explanation of the main arguments of the both sides in the epistemological debate on Sinology. This is followed by the overview of the understanding of Sinology at the Warsaw Sinology. This section partially covers findings presented in the forthcoming article (A. Rudakowska: forthcoming) as well as the elements of the new research and concludes with the comments on the gaps in the research on the topic.[[notice]]補正完
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The social construction of the realm of the discipline: Polish Sinology
2016Co-Authors: Rudakowska AnnaAbstract:[[abstract]]This work picks up the long standing debate on the meaning of Sinology, and particularly one of the latest contributions by "The Epistemology of China Studies: Oral History Project" hosted by the Research and Educational Center for Mainland China and Cross-Strait Relation at the National Taiwan University (NTU). It takes as a springboard the theoretical assumption about the floating meaning of Sinology, which can never be fixed due to the shifting nature of disciplinary boundaries in the manner in which all knowledge is relative. It looks at the example the Sinology department at the University of Warsaw (UW) and asks what counts as a discipline-specific knowledge according to the Polish academia. In order to answer this question it analyses the rhetorical work involved in the defining sinologists and defending the discipline in the selected works and interviews with the Polish scholars working on China. It comments on the phenomenon of creating disciplinary labels, the role of the external pressure on the knowledge production and the ways in which this pressure is mediated and assimilated by the staff of the Sinology department at the UW.[[notice]]補正完
Gabriel Terol Rojo - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a brief study of german Sinology origins and the dissemination of daoism
Sinología hispánica. China Studies Review, 2018Co-Authors: Gabriel Terol RojoAbstract:The dissemination of Daoism in the West is a process that, although it begins late and slow, will lead to the great interest that this way of thinking has finally awakened, not only in the academic field, but also in some popular media. In order to clarify the history of the Western study of Chinese doctrine, the present article reviews the contribution of what we call the German Sinology until the mid-twentieth century to focus the contribution of the Germanic works. With the recognition that the first works in German language on the Daoism are due to the Austrian sinologist and Japanese scholar August Pfitzmaier, we review the history of Sinology in Germany highlighting authors and summarizing their biographies, works and Daoist contributions: Andreas Muller, for his Clavis Sinica ; Christian Mentzel, engaged in linguistic works; Gottlieb Bayer, for his Museum Sinicum in quo Sinicae linguae et litteraturae ratio explicatur ; Julius Klaproth, the first German to excel in modern Sinology and Georg von der Gabelentz, for his pioneering Beitrage zur chinesischen Grammatik, die Sprache des Chuang-Tsi . From the eighteenth century and with the beginnings of Sino-German relations: Ernst Faber, the undisputed Richard Wilhelm and Otto Franke. In the second half of the twentieth century, there was a resurgence of sinological studies throughout Germany, where the war had stopped these activities and had forced numerous renowned specialists such as Ernest Julius Walter Simon and Erich Haenisch to escape. July 2017 October 2017 Received: Accepted: The dissemination of Daoism in the West is a process that, although it begins late and slow, will lead to the great interest that this way of thinking has finally awakened, not only in the academic field, but also in some popular media. In order to clarify the history of the Western study of Chinese doctrine, the present article reviews the contribution of what we call the 1 Esta investigacion formo parte del trabajo doctoral realizado por el autor dentro del programa ofi cial de doctorado de la Facultad de Filosofia de la Universidad de Valencia (Espana), "Razon, Lenguaje e Historia" (627 165F).
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a brief study of german Sinology origins and the dissemination of daoism
Sinología hispánica. China Studies Review, 2018Co-Authors: Gabriel Terol RojoAbstract:The dissemination of Daoism in the West is a process that, although it begins late and slow, will lead to the great interest that this way of thinking has finally awakened, not only in the academic field, but also in some popular media. In order to clarify the history of the Western study of Chinese doctrine, the present article reviews the contribution of what we call the German Sinology until the mid-twentieth century to focus the contribution of the Germanic works. With the recognition that the first works in German language on the Daoism are due to the Austrian sinologist and Japanese scholar August Pfitzmaier, we review the history of Sinology in Germany highlighting authors and summarizing their biographies, works and Daoist contributions: Andreas Muller, for his Clavis Sinica ; Christian Mentzel, engaged in linguistic works; Gottlieb Bayer, for his Museum Sinicum in quo Sinicae linguae et litteraturae ratio explicatur ; Julius Klaproth, the first German to excel in modern Sinology and Georg von der Gabelentz, for his pioneering Beitrage zur chinesischen Grammatik, die Sprache des Chuang-Tsi . From the eighteenth century and with the beginnings of Sino-German relations: Ernst Faber, the undisputed Richard Wilhelm and Otto Franke. In the second half of the twentieth century, there was a resurgence of sinological studies throughout Germany, where the war had stopped these activities and had forced numerous renowned specialists such as Ernest Julius Walter Simon and Erich Haenisch to escape. July 2017 October 2017 Received: Accepted: The dissemination of Daoism in the West is a process that, although it begins late and slow, will lead to the great interest that this way of thinking has finally awakened, not only in the academic field, but also in some popular media. In order to clarify the history of the Western study of Chinese doctrine, the present article reviews the contribution of what we call the 1 Esta investigacion formo parte del trabajo doctoral realizado por el autor dentro del programa ofi cial de doctorado de la Facultad de Filosofia de la Universidad de Valencia (Espana), "Razon, Lenguaje e Historia" (627 165F).