“Global Reception of the Classic Zhuangzi: Han to Tang”
University of California at Berkeley, March 8-9, 2019
Workshop Schedule
(IEAS Conference Room, 1995 University Avenue)
Thursday, March 7
8:15 PM Welcome Dinner for presenters @ Lalime’s (1329 Gilman St)
Friday, March 8
8:30 – 8:50 AM Coffee
8:50 – 9:00 AM Welcome • Mark Csikszentmihalyi, University of California, Berkeley
9:00 – 10:15 AM “The Zhuangzi 莊子 in Han Historiography” • Esther Klein, University of Sydney
10:15 – 11:30 AM “Ruan Ji’s 阮籍 Da Zhuang lun 達莊論” • Scott Cook, Yale/NUS
11:30 AM – 1 PM Lunch Break
1:00 PM – 2:15 PM “Wang Bi’s 王弼 “For-Getting for Getting”: The Reading of the Zhuangzi’s 莊子Fishnet Allegory that Revolutionized Zhouyi 周易 Exegesis” • Mercedes Valmisa, Gettysburg College
2:15 – 3:30 PM “The Influence of the Zhuangzi 莊子 on the Thought of Ji Kang 嵇康” • David Chai, Chinese University of Hong Kong
3:30 – 4:45 PM “Guo Xiang 郭象 on Mind-Fasting: Parsing Away a Definition of Qi in the Inner Chapters” • Brook Ziporyn, University of Chicago
4:45 – 5:00 PM Coffee Break
5:00 – 6:30 PM “Keynote Title” • Liu Xiaogan, Beijing Normal University
7:30 PM Dinner for presenters and others @ Great China (2190 Bancroft Way)
Saturday, March 9
8:30 – 9:00 AM Coffee
9:00 – 10:15 AM “Poetic Uses of the Zhuangzi 莊子 in Early Medieval China” • Wendy Swartz, Rutgers University
10:15 – 11:30 AM “Digital Methods for Understanding Exegetical Concerns: Comparing Guo Xiang 郭象 and Cheng Xuanying 成玄英” • Jesse Chapman, University of California, Berkeley
11:30 AM – 1 PM Lunch Break
1:00 – 2:15 PM “Whose Zhuangzi 莊子? Master Zhuang’s, Guo Xiang’s 郭象, or Cheng Xuanying’s 成玄英? Who Says What in the Commentary Tradition” • Richard John Lynn, University of Toronto
2:15 – 3:30 PM “The Great and Venerable Teacher: Zhuangzi’s 莊子 Zhenren 真人, Laozi’s 老子 Sage and their “Traces.” Cheng Xuanying’s 成玄英 Reading of Zhuangzi, Chapter Six” • Friederike Assandri, University of Leipzig
3:30 – 3:45 PM Coffee Break
3:45 – 5:00 PM “The Relationship between Body and Heart in Sima Chengzhen’s 司馬承禎 Zuowang lun 坐忘論” • Jiang Limei, Beijing Normal University
5:00 – 5:30 PM Concluding Remarks • Tobias Zürn, Washington University in St. Louis
7:00 PM Dinner for presenters @ 3435 25th St., San Francisco
This workshop was made possible by the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion, the Center for Chinese Studies, and the Eliaser Chair in International Studies.