Prof. Dr. Bart Dessein

bart.dessein@ugent.be

Vakgroep

Vakgroep Talen en Culturen

Onderzoeksgroep(en)

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

Andere instituten

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

Egmont Royal Institute for International Relations (senior associate)

Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences (President 2025)

Shanghai University (Joint Laboratory for World War I Studies)

School for Comparative Philosophy, Antwerp (Vice-President)

Belgisch Instituut voor Hogere Chinese Studiën/Institut belge des hautes études chinoises

Onderzoeksgebied

Tijdsperiode

Land/Regio

Taal

Onderzoeksmethode

Language and text analysis

Trefwoorden

geopolitics

International relations

Political philosophy

Tabgroup

Projecten

Projecten als promotor

Comprehending Everything as Oneself: The No-Self Doctrine of Zibo Zhenke in Ming Dynasty Buddhism (2025 - 2028)
Syncretic religion and philosophy in 18th century Vietnam. The three teachings (san jiao) in Le Quy Don’s philosophy (2023 - 2027)
The development of the concept Datong in Chinese history (2022 - 2026)
Study on tiantong sect in the Ming and Qing dynasties (2022 - 2024)
ReConnect China. Generating independent knowledge for a resilient future with China for Europe and its citizens (2022 - 2026)
Reflections on the Pre-Qin eclectics from the perspective of axiology (2022 -
Political authority and social justice. A philosophical study of Arthaśāstra (2022 - 2025)
ReConnect China project (2022 - 2026)
Between Asianism and Nationalism The Story of Liang Qichao's Translation of Strange Encounters with Beautiful Women (2021 - 2025)
Narrating Sun Yat-sen: Explaining the People’s Republic of China and Republic of China’s (Taiwan) developments concerning leninism, christianity, and democracy (2021 - 2025)
The notion of things and the transformation of seventeenth-century Chinese philosophy (2020 - 2024)
Chinese philosophy and its religious minorities. Ethnicity, religion, and national identity in modern Chinese thought and the discipline of ethnic minority philosophies (2020 - 2023)
When Chinese Buddhism Met Psychology: Pioneers of an Alternative Intellectual History (1880-1930) (2020 - 2024)
Zhuangzi's Thought on Live and Death (2020 -
Self-actualization and self-transcendence in China. The paradoxical role of fate as an agent for spiritual and psychological wellbeing (2020 - 2024)
Metaphor and Meaning: A Study of Zhuangzi’s Philosophy (2020 - 2024)
A study on the Thought of "Qing" (情) in the Zhuangzi (2019 -
Research on the transformation of Xiong Shili's philosophical system to Zhouyi Learning (2018 -
The system of Mohist logic and its methodology (新原辩) (2018 -
Reuniting Confucianism with history. The political philosophy of Liao Ping 廖平, 1852-1932 (2018 - 2022)
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)
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)
Tathagatagarbha project (2016 -
Literary and intellectual history of European romanticism in China (1894-1937) (2016 - 2018)
China’s maritime commerce and naval activities in Northeast Asia during the Yuan-Ming rupture (2016 - 2016)
State, bureaucracy, and the formation of regional monastic communities in Tang Buddhism (2015 - 2021)
The Zutang ji 祖堂集. Aspects of textual history, genealogy, and intertextuality (2015 - 2023)
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)
Pluralistically imagined Chineseness

Projecten als co-promotor

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

Publicaties

Meest recente publicaties

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