第十一讲：

介于思想学术文集与哲学史之间：谢无量（1884—1964）的第一部中国哲学史——《中国哲学史》（1916）

Lecture ELeven：

Between Scholarly Anthologies of Thought and History of Philosophy: Xie Wuliang's (1884-1964) First Chinese History of Chinese Philosophy (Zhongguo Zhexue Shi, 1916)

Speaker主讲人: Joachim Gentz (耿幽静) 

Date日期: 11.17, 2026

Time时间：18:00-19:30 

Place地点：Humanities Building, Conference Room 500

人文楼500会议室

About the speaker:

Joachim Gentz (耿幽静) is Chair of Chinese philosophy and religion at the University of Edinburgh. He studied Sinology, Religious Studies and Philosophy in Berlin, Nanjing and Heidelberg. He was Assistant Professor for Classical Chinese at Heidelberg (1999–2002), Juniorprofessor in Religious Studies at Göttingen (2002–2006), Visiting Professor in Tokyo (2000) and Bayreuth (2008), and has worked at the Asian Studies Department in Edinburgh since 2006. His main research focus is on Chinese history of thought. His work crosses the disciplinary boundaries of Sinology, Religious Studies, Philosophy, and Cultural Studies.

Abstract:

The paper analyzes Xie Wuliang's History of Chinese Philosophy (Zhongguo zhexue shi, 1916) against, on the one side, the background of traditional histories of thought in the form of Biographies of Scholars such as Huang Zongxi's Mingru xue'an. On the other side it will be discussed in light of Western models of Histories of Philosophy such as Friedrich Paulsen's Einleitung in die Philosophie (1892) which were well known in China by that time. The paper will show how Xie Wuliang's work is based on traditional Confucian categories and interprets them using a Western philosophical classificatory terminology. Xie follows a classical Confucian narrative and uses Western philosophical terms such as "cosmology" and "ethics" to expound on it. The paper will show the differences between Xie's methodology and other attempts of Xie' s contemporaries such as Zhang Taiyan, Liang Qichao, Liu Shipei and Hu Shi to write Histories of Chinese Thought/Philosophy. The different approaches will be interpreted as different attempts to negotiate the relationship between Chinese and Western Philosophies. Like in the West, Chinese writing of histories of philosophy has to be understood and explained primarily as a philosophical concern. It will be further shown how this specific construction of a Chinese-Western mode of writing history of philosophy is derived from Japanese models and is later taken over by Western scholars such as Alfred Forke in their writing of their Histories of Chinese Philosophy. It thus in turn informed a Western understanding of Chinese philosophy built on a Japanese understanding of Western (mainly German) and Chinese philosophical categories.

主办单位：中国人民大学哲学院；当代中国哲学发展研究中心

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