Prof. Dr. Bart Dessein

bart.dessein@ugent.be

Department

Department of Languages and Cultures

Research group(s)

EACP - East Asian Culture in Perspective: Identity, Historical Consciousness, Modernity

GCBS - Ghent Centre for Buddhist Studies

HICO - Centrum voor Geschiedenis van de Filosofie en Continentale Filosofie

Other institution(s)

Liaoning University, People's Republic of China (honorary professor)

Research Focus

Research Period

Research Region

Research Language

Research Methodology

Language and text analysis

Additional tags

geopolitics

International relations

Political philosophy

Tabgroup

Projects

Projects as supervisor

Syncretic religion and philosophy in 18th century Vietnam. The three teachings (san jiao) in Le Quy Don’s philosophy (2023 - 2027)
Chinese philosophy and its religious minorities. Ethnicity, religion, and national identity in modern Chinese thought and the discipline of ethnic minority philosophies (2020 - 2023)
Narrating Sun Yat-sen. Explaining the People’s Republic of China and Republic of China’s (Taiwan) developments concerning leninism, christianity, and democracy (2020 - 2024)
Self-actualization and self-transcendence in China. The paradoxical role of fate as an agent for spiritual and psychological wellbeing (2020 - 2023)
Reuniting Confucianism with history. The political philosophy of Liao Ping 廖平, 1852-1932 (2018 - 2022)
The system of Mohist logic and its methodology (新原辩) (2018 -
An intellectual genealogy of islam in modern China. Categorization, modernization, secularization (2017 - 2021)
A comparative study of English translations of the Chinese versions of the Lotus Sutra (Miaofa lian hua jing) (2017 - 2020)
China’s maritime commerce and naval activities in Northeast Asia during the Yuan-Ming rupture (2016 - 2016)
The good doctor in the Huangdi Neijing (2016 - 2020)
The origin and evolution of the Wei-xin Jing-tu theories (2016 - 2018)
Modern Chinese Buddhism (2016 - 2016)
Literary and intellectual history of European romanticism in China (1894-1937) (2016 - 2018)
State, bureaucracy, and the formation of regional monastic communities in Tang Buddhism (2015 - 2021)
The Zǔtáng jí 祖堂集. Textual history, intertextuality, and editorial practices (2015 - 2022)
Elements of the syncretist tradition in the CQFL’s chapters on the theory of rulership (2011 - 2013)
The horizon of modernity. Observations on new Confucian philosophy in history and thought (2010 - 2014)
Nande hutu 难得糊涂 and the 'Art of being muddled' (2008 - 2012)
Animal symbolism in eighteenth-century Chinese fantastic literature. Yuan Mei and the writing of Zi Bu Yu (2006 - 2010)
Haptoglobine polymorphism and human migration. The question of provision in Chinese expeditions (2002 - 2006)

Projects as co-supervisor

The three religions during the late Ming. Research in the philosophical works by Fang Yizhi 方以智 (2019 - 2020)

Publications

Most recent publications

Dessein, Bart. “Katyayaniputra and the Large Commentary (Mahavibhasa). The Development of Abhidharma Literature and of a Sarvastivada Self-Identity.” The Routledge Handbook of Indian Buddhist Philosophy, Routledge, 2023, pp. 172–87.
Biscop, Sven, et al. “Poetin Creëert de Multipolaire Wereld Die Hij (Dacht Dat Hij) Wilde.” Knack, no. 15/03/2022, 2022.
Biscop, Sven, et al. “Putin Is Creating the Multipolar World He (Thought He) Wanted.” SECURITY POLICY BRIEFS, no. 156, Egmont, 2022.
Dessein, Bart. “Coping with Covid and the Myth of a Collective China.” ASIAN STUDIES-AZIJSKE STUDIJE, vol. 10, no. 1, 2022, pp. 97–119, doi:10.4312/as.2022.10.1.97-119.
Dessein, Bart, et al. “Xi Jinping Seeks Stability : The 20th National Congress of the CCP.” Egmont Policy Briefs, no. 291, Egmont - Royal Institute for International Relations, 2022.

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Teaching