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Academic Report:《Inner chapters of Chuang-Tzu about analysis of the view of body and mind》

13 Apr , 2018

Time:3:50-5:50pm,April19th(Thursday),2018

Venue:Room416,Humanities Building,East Campus

About the Lecturer:Zhang Hongbo,graduatingfrom Peking University with a BA Degree in Chinese Literature and MA Degree and PhD Degree in Comparative Literature.She is now an associate professor and master’s supervisor of the School of Chinese Language and Literature at Beijing Foreign Studies University.Hermain research fields include Comparative Literature,modern explanation oftheancient Chinese literary classics,and theresearch ofthe Story of Stone.She hadbeenteaching atWoosong University of Korea for two years and researching at Cornell University of Americaas a visiting scholar. She has published over 20 academic papers. The academic monographs include The Modern Interpretation of The Story of Stone with “reasonable” concept as the core.(Zhonghua Book Company 2008),books compiled by him include Construction of Common Poetics,Zhou Yuliang collected essays on Comparative Literature(Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press 2007).Zhang Hongbo is presiding over“The Modern Interpretation ofthe Story of Stone in dialogue context of Chinese and Western Literature”,a project of Beijingcity.

About the Lecture:The trend of “Body Turn” of modern western philosophy brings new horizons and new ideas to the research of “Body” view in the history of Chinese thought,of which the research of body view in Chuang-Tzu stands out.In this article,in terms of the overall ideological context of the Inner chapters of Chuang-Tzu, only its “Body” view or “Figure” view is placed in a overall care of its “Body and Mind” viewcan we get real clear knowledge,further, “the World” view in Chuang-Tzu is the reality-root-causes of its “Body and Mind” view, “Heaven and Man” view is the ideology-premise of its “Body and Mind” view,and if you want to understand “Body and Mind” view in Chuang-Tzu fully,you must clarify the “Echo the Network” relationship between the three firstly.This article intends to discuss the overall outlook of its thoughts of body and mind and analyzes its effectiveness and limitation,complexity and contradiction by mutual reference reading to the text of Inner chapters of Chuang-Tzu.

All the teachers and students are welcome.

[Translated by Yu Miao]