“Global Reception of the Classic Zhuangzi: Song to Ming”
Reed College, March 23-25, 2023
Workshop Schedule
Thursday, March 23 in Gray Lounge
8:30 AM – 9:00 AM: Welcome
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM: “Li Shibiao’s 李士表 Ten Essays on Zhuangzi and Liezi 莊列十論” • Richard J. SAGE (Hong Kong Baptist University)
10:45 AM – 12:15 PM: “Chu Boxiu: Curator of Southern Florescence” • Mark CSIKSZENTMIHALYI (University of California, Berkeley)
12:15 PM – 1:30 PM: Lunch Break
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM: Virtual Presentation “Synthesis and Heterogeneity: Lin Xiyi’s Interpretation of Qi wulun (Unifying All Arguments)” • QIU Peipei (Vassar College)
Move to ETC 208:
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM: Virtual Presentation “The Impact of the Zhuang zi on Early Song Neo Confucian Thought: A Study of Zhang Zai and Shao Yong’s Ideas of Movement, Things and Matter” • Dennis SCHILLING (Renmin University, Beijing)
Friday, March 24 in Gray Lounge
8:30 AM – 09:00 AM: Coffee
09:00 AM – 10:30 AM: “Zhuang Zi’s Ritual Discourse: Its Recurrence in Late Imperial Daoist Manuals” • Mark MEULENBELD (University of Hong Kong)
10:45 AM – 11:15 AM: “Zhuangzi at Play: Li Zhi’s 李贄 Dissecting the Zhuangzi (Zhuangzi jie)” • Pauline LEE (Saint Louis University)
11:15 PM – 01:00 PM: Lunch
01:00 PM – 02:30 PM: “Cheng Yining’s Commentary and Sub-commentary to the True Classic of Southern Splendor” • Jean ANGLES (École Pratique des Hautes Études)
02:45 PM – 04:15 PM: Virtual Presentation “Things That Remained to Be Said: Su Shi (1037-1101 on the Zhuangzi” • LO Yuet Keung (National University of Singapore)
Saturday, March 25 in ETC 208
08:30 AM – 09:00 AM: Coffee
09:00 AM – 10:30 AM: “Unfaithful Variation: Zhuangzi Tests His Wife Narratives in Three Xiqu Genres” • Josh STENBERG (University of Sydney)
10:45 AM – 12:15 PM: “Hanshan Deqing’s Reading of the Zhuangzi’s Evening Out Things (Qiwulun) as a Dhāraṇī” • Tobias Benedikt Zürn (Reed College)
12:15 PM – 02:00 PM: Lunch
02:00 PM – 03:15 PM: “Chan, the Changes, and the Chuci: Textual Communities and Syncretic Reading in Fang Yizhi’s Yaodi Boils Down the Zhuang[zi] (Yaodi pao Zhuang)” • Jesse Chapman (University of California, Los Angeles)
03:30 PM – 05:00 PM: Discussion of Presentations and Concluding Remarks • Alia Goehr (University of Chicago)
This workshop was made possible by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Association of Asian Studies’ East and Inner Asia Council, and Reed College’s Department of Religion.