As a comparatist, her research interests comprise both Western and Chinese traditions. Currently, her research project involves constructing a Chinese epistemological and aesthetic tradition called Yixiang thinking 易象思維, building from materials including the Zhouyi , pre-Qin philosophical discourses, and Zhu Xi’s investigation of things. The project analyzes the epistemology of the hexagram or xiang in the Yijing, in which all natural and manmade things are believed to evoke moral meanings, and further examines how this paradigm of thought evolves from Pre-Qin to Neo-Confucian philosophy.
Her first book studies how French and British moderni…
As a comparatist, her research interests comprise both Western and Chinese traditions. Currently, her research project involves constructing a Chinese epistemological and aesthetic tradition called Yixiang thinking 易象思維, building from materials including the Zhouyi , pre-Qin philosophical discourses, and Zhu Xi’s investigation of things. The project analyzes the epistemology of the hexagram or xiang in the Yijing, in which all natural and manmade things are believed to evoke moral meanings, and further examines how this paradigm of thought evolves from Pre-Qin to Neo-Confucian philosophy.
Her first book studies how French and British modernist artists, as the first generation who began to rethink intensively the legacy of German Idealism, sought to recreate the self so as to recreate their relationships with the material world. Theoretically, the book converses with the topical de-anthropocentric interests in the 21st century and proposes that the artist may escape human-centeredness through the transformation of the self.
