My research is focused on seventeenth-century Chinese philosophy and modern Chinese philosophy, especially the unfolding of some crucial notions in pre-modern and modern Chinese philosophy. Between 2016 and 2019 I was an MA student of Chinese Philosophy at Fudan University. At present, I am, under Prof. Bart Dessein’s supervision, conducting a doctoral research project titled “The notion of things and the transformation of seventeenth-century Chinese philosophy.” This project which I started in 2020, more precisely, deals with the development of the interpretation of the notion of “things” (wu 物) in Chinese philosophy. Focus is on how seventeenth-century thinkers conceived the relation between human practice and “the world of things.” It is shown how in so-called “Solid Learning” (shixue 實學) different understandings of “things” were put forward, revealing the intertwined problems of modernity and cultural continuity, and the search for “scientific knowledge” and a “modern political order.”
