题   目：Authentic, Accurate, Real: Validity and the Cult of Qing (Emotion) in Late Ming Poetic Criticism

时   间：6月26日（周三）19:00（北京时间）

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Zoom会议号：85077192687

主讲人

Leigh Jenco, London School of Economics and Political Science

李蕾，伦敦政治经济学院政治理论系教授

主持人

Luyao Li, Nanyang Technological University

Rachel McVeigh, Harvard University

Joo-hyeon Oh, University of Minnesota

Inquiries

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“Collaborative Learning 四海为学” is organized by the Center for Intercultural Learning, Department of Philosophy, East China Normal University.

The special fascination with qing exhibited in late Ming literature, or the so-called cult of qing, has been attracting increasing attention from students of Chinese literature. However, to describe the precise implications of this late Ming concept of “qing,” a word that does not have an exact English equivalent but has been translated on various occasions as “feelings,” “love,” “romantic sentiments,” and “passions,” has proven to be very difficult. Its popularity in the world of letters during the late Ming (1368-1644) only adds to its ambiguities. This talk will discuss one aspect of the cult of qing (emotion) in late-Ming poetic criticism: its connection with validity. How did literati use the concept of qing in their criticism to discuss how poetry might be authentic, accurate, and real?

Leigh Jenco (BA, Bard College; MA and PhD, University of Chicago) joined LSE in 2012, after teaching at the National University of Singapore. She has held visiting positions at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; the Department of History, Taiwan University; and the University of Heidelberg. She was associate editor of the flagship journal American Political Science Review (2016-2020) and principal investigator for the Humanities in the European Research Area grant project "East Asian Uses of the European Past," funded by the European Commission. She is currently Project Lead for the three-year, £1.5 million global convening project Chinese Global Orders funded by the British Academy.

Her first two monographs—Making the Political: Founding and Action in the Political Theory of Zhang Shizhao (Cambridge UP, 2010) and Changing Referents: Learning Across Space and Time in China and the West (Oxford UP, 2015)—pioneered the engagement of normative political theory with the intellectual history of modern China. Her current research explores late Ming neo-Confucian ideas about equality, including how they are manifest in poetic and literary theory. She is beginning a new project on the 20th century rediscovery of early modern Chinese folksong compendia, as a means of exploring alternative genealogies of social science.