中大論道(62)— Mapping the Dao: Global Genealogies from China to Europe (17th–19th Century)

中大論道:道教研究系列論壇(62)
The 62nd Workshop on Daoist Forum

Title 講座題目: Mapping the Dao: Global Genealogies from China to Europe (17th–19th Century)

Speaker: Prof. Wei Ling-chia Sophie (Associate Professor, Department of Translation, CUHK)
講者:魏伶珈教授 (香港中文大學翻譯系副教授)

Moderator: Prof. Lai Chi Tim (Director, Centre for Studies of Daoist Culture, CUHK)
主持人:黎志添教授(香港中文大學道教文化研究中心主任)

Date: 18 November 2025 (Tuesday)
日期:2025 年 11 月 18 日(二)

Time: 4:30pm
時間:下午 4 時 30 分

Venue: Conference Room, 2/F, Art Museum East Wing, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
地點:香港中文大學文物館東翼二樓會議室

Language: English
語言:英語

*The lecture will be simultaneously streamed via Zoom. Registered participants will receive the access link before the event begins.
講座同時會在Zoom舉行,鏈接會在講座開始前發送至登記郵箱。

Abstract 講座簡介:

This talk explores the transnational journey of the Dao from early modern China to Enlightenment and Victorian Europe, revealing how encounters between Chinese commentators, Jesuit missionaries, and emerging Sinologists produced a global genealogy of the Dao. Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, the Daodejing became a site of intercultural translation where theology, philosophy, and philology intertwined. Drawing on Sophie Ling-chia Wei’s micro-historical framework, this presentation traces three intersecting arcs: the Jesuit Figurists’ reinterpretation of the Dao as divine language, its adaptation by nineteenth-century French and British Sinologists, and its philosophical transformation in German Romantic thought.


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座席有限,先到先得。

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