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Prof. Dr. Bart Dessein
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
Area studies
History
Interculturalism
Philosophy
Religion
Research Period
19th Century
20th Century
Antiquity
Contemporary
Research Region
Asia
Far East
Research Language
Chinese
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.
Full bibliography
Teaching
Modern Chinese III
Modern Chinese IV
Modern Chinese V
Xiandai Hanyu (Modern Chinese)
Gudai Hanyu (Classical Chinese)
Jingmao Hanyu (Economical Chinese)
Society and Current Affairs: China
Zhongguo wenxue (Chinese Literature)
Modern Chinese: Contemporary Chinese Literature
Modern Chinese: China in the Media
Modern Chinese I
Modern Chinese II
Oriental Literature: China
Modern Chinese VI
Method and research: South and East Asia 1
Bachelor's Essay
Dissertation Seminar
Master's Dissertation
Master's Dissertation
EU-East Asia Relations