Publications by EACS members

Ariane Knüsel, Ralph Weber. Hier & Jetzt (Zurich), 2024, 352 p.

The books is based on extensive archival research, interviews with diplomats, business representatives, and sinologists, as well as a large number of (historical) newspapers and memoirs. We have also included numerous illustrations that have never been published before.

Table of Contents:

1. Uhren und Bibeln, Opium und Kanonen 1644-1913
2. Krieg, Krieg und nochmals Krieg 1913-1950
   Bildteil I
3. Chinesische Kommunisten und das kapitalistische Paradies 1950-1960
4. “Bewaffnet mit den Gedanken Mao Zedongs” 1960-1976
5. Schweizer Goldgräberstimmung und Chinas Öffnung 1976-1989
   Bildteil II
6. Massaker, Eklat und diplomatische Gratwanderungen 1989-1999
7. Die Schweiz auf eigenen Wegen 1999-2024
   Anhang

For more information, please visit:
https://www.hierundjetzt.ch/de/catalogue/knusel-ariane-und-weber-ralph-die-schweiz-und-china_24000010/

Ariane Knüsel (Privatdozentin, University of Fribourg)
Ralph Weber (Associate Professor for European Global Studies, University of Basel)… Read more ⤻

Jana S. Rošker, 2023. Humanism in Trans-Civilizational Perspectives: Relational Subjectivity and Social Ethics in Classical Chinese Philosophy. Cham: Springer.

Preview at https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-37518-7

Jana Rošker is pleased to announce the publication of some of her recent books. Two of these works, both published by Brill, are already freely available in Open Access format:

• Jana S. Rošker (2020): Becoming Human: Li Zehou’s Ethics. Available at: https://brill.com/display/title/56590
• Jana S. Rošker (2023): Confucian Relationism and Global Ethics: Alternative Models of Ethics and Axiology in Times of Global Crises. Available at: https://brill.com/display/title/61192?rskey=4YS1cc&result=1

Furthermore, We are looking forward to the upcoming Open Access release of two additional titles, currently not yet available online:

• Jana S. Rošker (2023): Humanism in Trans-Civilizational Perspectives: Relational Subjectivity and Social Ethics in Classical Chinese Philosophy. Cham: Springer. Preview at https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-37518-7
• Jana S. Rošker (2021): Interpreting Chinese Philosophy: A New Methodology. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic. Preview at https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/interpreting-chinese-philosophy-9781350199903/

Thank you for your attention and support.… Read more ⤻

We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (MCLC) has gone to press. It is available online here: https://www.euppublishing.com/toc/mclc/35/2. Natascha Gentz and Christopher Rosenmeier

Table of Contents for Volume 35, Number 2 (Winter 2023):
“Note from the Editors,” by Natascha Gentz and Christopher Rosenmeier
“Passion and Passio: The Chahua nü and Late Qing Courtesan Narratives,” by Tony D. QIAN
“Modernizing Classical Poetics and Cultural Traditions: Wu Mi’s Enterprise of Rewriting George Gordon Byron,” by Hanjin YAN
“’A Wider and Stranger Space’: World Literature and World-building in Xue Yiwei’s Fiction,” by Pamela HUNT
“Knowing the World and Educating the Self: Reportage in Chinese Left-Wing Culture in 1936,” by Ying XIONG
“Toward a Regime of Emotional Authenticity: Eileen Chang’s Literary Transmediation of Theater and Cinema in Two 1940s Love Stories,” by Renren YANG
“Patior Ergo Sum: Date Surveillance and Necropolitics in Han Song’s Hospital Trilogy,” by LYU Guangzhao… Read more ⤻