Academic Publications
Books
Co-editor, At Home in Many Worlds: Reading, Writing, and Translating from Chinese and Jewish Cultures. Essays in Honour of Irene Eber. Raoul David Findeisen, Gad C. Isay, Amira Katz-Goehr, Yuri Pines and Lihi Yariv-Laor, eds. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010.
An annotated Hebrew translation with introduction and commentary of Qian Mu, Hushang xiansilu (Quiet Thoughts at the Lake). (מחשבות רגועות משפת האגם) Taipei: Liantai Chubanshe, 2001. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Magnes Press, 2008.
Articles
"A Religious Cultural Nationalist: Qian Mu and his Exile Scholarship." In Thomas Fröhlich and Brigit Knüsel, eds., Transcending Boundaries: Exile in Chinese Thought after 1949 (forthcoming).
"The Bible Stories by Karl Guetzlaff: What Do They Teach Their Chinese Readers?" In At Home in Many Worlds: Reading, Writing, and Translating from Chinese and Jewish Cultures. Essays in Honour of Irene Eber. Raoul David Findeisen, Gad C. Isay, Amira Katz-Goehr, Yuri Pines and Lihi Yariv-Laor, eds. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010, 203-211.
"Sketch of a Scholarly Biography." In At Home in Many Worlds: Reading, Writing, and Translating from Chinese and Jewish Cultures. Essays in Honour of Irene Eber. Raoul David Findeisen, Gad C. Isay, Amira Katz-Goehr, Yuri Pines and Lihi Yariv-Laor, eds. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010, 3-7.
"Qian Mu’s Criticism of Monotheism and Alienation in Modern Life." Journal of Chinese Philosophy and Culture 6 (February 2010), 303-326. http://phil.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/rccpc/?mid=29-31
"A Humanist Synthesis of Memory, Language, and Emotions; A Philosophical Reading of Qian Mu's Quiet Thoughts at the Lake." Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 8.4 (December 2009), 425-437.
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Review of Aron Shai, Zhang Xueliang; The General Who Never Fought. Or Yehuda: Zmora-Bitan, Dvir, 2008. Zemanim 105 (Winter 2008), (in Hebrew), 116-118.
"Prof. Fu Youde Visits Haifa." Points East 23.2 (July 2008), 8.
"How to Avoid Fear from Ghosts and to Avoid Starving as Well," Ha'aretz, Sefarim, September, 4, 2007, 6 (Hebrew).
"To live the Moral Life that was Society's Virtue from the Beginning," Ha'aretz, Sefarim, April 17, 2007, 6 (review of a new Hebrew translation of Confucius' Analects).
“Religious Obligation Transformed into Intercultural Agency. Ernst Faber’s Mission in China,” Monumenta Serica, Vol. 54, 2006, 273-287.
Review of Donal J. Munro, A Chinese Ethics for the New Century. The Ch'ien Mu Lectures in History and Culture, and Other Essays on Science and Confucian Ethics. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2005. In Journal of Chinese Philosophy 33.4 (December 2006), 581-586.
“Qian Mu and the Modern Transformation of Filial Piety,” Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 32.3 (September 2005), 441-454.
Translation of Chang Hao, “Buyao wangdiao ershishiji!” (Do not forget the twentieth century). Ershiyishiji 31 (1995), 28-30. Zemanim 85 (Winter 2003-2004), 32-37, (Hebrew translation);
Review of Irene Eber, Chinese and Jews; Encounters Between Cultures. Jerusalem: Bialic Institute, 2002. Zemanim 85 (Winter 2003-2004), (Hebrew)
“Read Every Word.” Review of 108 Songs from the Chinese classics. Trans. by Dan Da’or. Yedioth Aharonot, March 8, 2002, (Hebrew)
“A Missionary Philosopher in Late Qing: Ernst Faber (1839-99) and his Intercultural Synthesis of Human Nature,” Sino-Western Cultural Relations Journal, 23 (August 2001), 22-49.
Books in progress:
Qian Mu and the Intellectual Transformation of Modern China.
The View of Life in Modern Chinese Thought. Harrassowitz, forthcoming.
Co-editor of Filial Piety in China and in Judaism (in progress).
Co-editor of The Concept of Memory in Asian Cultures and in Judaism (in progress).
Lectures (in Hebrew, a selection)
"Alternative Views among Confucian Revivalists in Today's China." The Ninth Annual Conference of East Asian Studies in Israel, University of Haifa, April 2010.
"Contemporary Confucian Views about Spirituality: The Linkage between Centeredness and Spirituality." The 2nd Israeli Conference for the Study of Contemporary Spiritualities, University of Haifa, March, 2010.
"First to Worry and last for Joy: Chinese Intellectuals under Pressure." Tiananmen: Twenty Years to the Incident that Shook the World." University of Haifa, June 8, 2009.
"May Fourth Views about the Status of Man." Conference to Comemorate 90 Years to the May Fourth Movement. University of Haifa, May 5, 2009.
"Modern Chinese Critics of Monotheism." Monotheism in a Politeist World: Inter-religious Issues in Asia. Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv, March 2009.
"Who Is a Believer? The Conception of Divinity in Asian Religions." Opening ceremony, round table discussion, in Monotheism in a Politeist World: Inter-religious Issues in Asia. Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv, March 2009.
Discussant in "Round Table Discussion of Translations from Asian Languages." Language, Culture and Society in Asia, University of Haifa, January 2009.
"The Reforms and China's Soul." Thirty Years to the Reforms in China 1978—2008. University of Haifa, December 2008.
Two (2) occasions in celebration of the publication of the translation of Qian Mu, Quiet Thoughts at the Lake, in The University of Haifa and in The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, March 26th and 27th, 2008.
"On the intercultural dialogue between Israel and China." Mao Zedong and another 1300000000 Chinese: Chinese history in the 20th century. The Open University, Ra'anana, February 18, 2008.
"Collective memory and Confucian terms." Colloquial seminar in the Department of Asian Studies, in the University of Haifa. January 2008.
"The Concept of Memory in Ancient Chinese Philosophical Texts." University Of Haifa, The Concept of Memory in Asian Cultures and in Judaism, December, 2007.
"Chinese Intellectuals During the War of Resistance against Japan." University of Haifa, 70 Years to the Sino-Japanese War – The Conflict that Changed East Asia, November, 2007.
"Religiosity and Sacredness in Modern Chinese Thought." University of Tel Aviv, The Fifth Annual Conference of East Asian Studies in Israel, June 2006.
"Modern Interpretations of the Value of Filial Piety." Open University, Ra'anana, Conference on Filial Piety in China and in Judaism, April 6, 2006.
"Desires and Temporality in Modern Chinese Thought." Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Fourth Annual Conference of East Asian Studies in Israel, May 2005.
“Motion and Meaning in Chinese Thought.” University of Haifa, conferrence on Meaning and Its Meaning, December 2004.
"Sources of an Addiction: The Opium War in China.” University of Haifa, Drugs and Backpackers in East Asia, May 2004.
"Qian Mu's Humanist Synthesis.” University of Haifa, March 2004, Department of East Asian Studies.
"Some Observations on Criticism of Monotheism in Modern Chinese Thought.” University of Haifa, The Third Annual Conference of East Asian Studies in Israel, February 2004.
Conferences (and presentations in English)
"Dialogue and Balance in Qian Mu." Tel Aviv University, Confucianism and Inter-Religious Dialogue, December 16-17, 2009.
"The Wisdom of the Similar and the Convergent." The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Seventh Annual Conference of East Asian Studies in Israel, May 2008.
"The Bible Stories by Karl Gutzlaff: What Do They Teach Their Chinese Readers?" The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Encounters between Chinese Literary Works and the Old Testament, October 24, 2007.
"The Context of Memory, Language, and Emotions, and the Confucian View of Life." The Seventh International Conference on Contemporary New Confucian Studies, Wuhan, China, September 2005.
"Attending to the Troubles of the World – Qian Mu in Exile." Chinese Diasporic and Exile Experience, Zurich, August 10th-14th, 2005.
"Qian Mu and His Criticism of Modernity." Chi Nan University, Taiwan, October, 2003.
"An Intercultural Agent in China and to the Occident: Ernst Faber’s Mission in China." Fascination and Understanding: The spirit of the Occident and the spirit of China in reciprocity. Smolenice Castle, Slovakia, February 2003.
"Defining the Moral Person in Modern Chinese Thought: Some Neglected Arguments." Ethics - East and West symposium, Alet, France, June 2001.
Initiation and organization of conferences
Conference on The Concept of Memory in Asian Cultures and in Judaism, University of Haifa in collaboration with the Open University, December 3, 2007.
Conference on Filial Piety in China and in Judaism, The Open University, Ra'anana, in collaboration with the University of Haifa, April 6, 2006. |
