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)

Onderzoeksgebied

Tijdsperiode

Land/Regio

Taal

Onderzoeksmethode

Language and text analysis

Trefwoorden

geopolitics

International relations

Political philosophy

Tabgroup

Projecten

Projecten als promotor

Self-actualization and self-transcendence in China. The paradoxical role of fate as an agent for spiritual and psychological wellbeing (2020 - 2023)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Studies in the textual history and editorial practices of the Zǔtáng jí 祖堂集 and the Jǐngdé chuándēng lù 景德傳燈錄. (2015 - 2022)
State, bureaucracy, and the formation of regional monastic communities in Tang Buddhism (2015 - 2021)
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)

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

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. “Stairs of Stone and Clouds : Dragons, Immortals, and Monks on Mount Lu.” Buddhism and Daoism on the Holy Mountains of China, edited by Thomas Jülch, vol. 34, Peeters, 2022, pp. 21–68.
Dessein, Bart. “Heelheid En Veelheid.” Filosofie Als Roeping, edited by Marlies De Munck et al., Pelckmans, 2022, pp. 221–28.

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