One of my past side-projects. This is an "essential explanation" of the Heart sutra, written by t... more One of my past side-projects. This is an "essential explanation" of the Heart sutra, written by the Chinese Tiantai monk, Binzong in the mid-20th century. Binzong's commentary was a typical example of modern Chinese Buddhist treatise, combining elements from "humanistic Buddhism" (Taixu), Tiantai creed, and modern Chinese interpretations of Yogacara philosophy (Xiong Shili, Liang Shuming etc.).
The present book surveys the development of the notion of subjectality in the period of Chinese m... more The present book surveys the development of the notion of subjectality in the period of Chinese modernisation, between the reform period of the late-Qing Dynasty and the early years of the People's Republic. This volume, created in co- authorship by Jan Vrhovski and Jana S. Rošker, follows as a sequel to the foundational study on traditional Chinese humanism, Humanism in Transcultural Perspective: The Case of China, authored by the latter. The main topic of this book rests on the question as to how the aforementioned intellectual grounds changed, and to what extent they underwent further develop- ment in the period of Chinese modernisation, which was generally based on the critical re-evaluation of China's own intellectual tradition, on the one hand, and on a new series of in-depth encounters with the Western – particularly European – thought, on the other hand. In their joint survey, the authors engage in a close investigation of, above all, the idea of humanism and the Chinese conceptualisations of the notion of the subject, which were re-established again in China at the threshold of the age of modernity. While Vrhovski approaches to the main research question mostly from the per- spective of the encounters between science and traditional Chinese notions of subjectality in modern China, Rošker approaches the same question from a more ho- listic, theoretical standpoint, set on the crossroads between Western and Chinese humanism. In this way, the main part of the discussion consists of an interlacement of intellectual-historical and theoretical perspectives. Combined into one single perspective, these offer a more complete picture of the process of modernisation, which encompassed the above-mentioned discourses. Consequently, the heart of the book represents the joint research of both authors, which devotes itself to the transformation of the traditional idea of humanism and its modifications, which were facilitated by the encounters of Chinese intellectuals with Western philoso- phy and science. The present book is thus founded on the authors’ conviction that our familiarity with intellectual transformation – which was established or developed in the context of the notion of humanity and humaneness in the focal period – plays an extremely important role in improving our understanding of modern Chinese society and culture in general.
Written and compiled in commemoration of the centenary of Russell’s visit to China (1920-1921), t... more Written and compiled in commemoration of the centenary of Russell’s visit to China (1920-1921), the anthology Bertrand Russell’s Visit to China: Selected Text on the Centenary of Intercultural Dialogues in Logic and Epistemology offers a focused account of reception of Bertrand Russell and his thought in China. Set in the time of Russell’s stay in China, the selection of texts revolves around the initial reception of Russell as a person, philosopher, and scientist in Chinese intellectual world. As a retrospective anthology concerned with the reception of Russell’s thought in China, the work is comprised both of translations of articles and essays written by Chinese intellectuals and other public figures at the time of his visit there, as well as a few contemporary studies analysing the reception and propagation of Russell’s ideas in China in the abovementioned period. Following a general introduction to Russell’s visit in China, the subsequent sections of the anthology cover a wide spectrum of original documents and secondary studies, including the welcome addresses, reports from the Russell Study Society established in late 1920 in Beijing, introductions to Russell’s philosophical thought and, in the main part, interpretations of Russell’s humanistic thought, mathematical logic and epistemology by two Chinese contemporary philosophers, Zhang Shenfu and Zhang Dongsun. The section on Zhang Shenfu explores his earliest relationship with Russell’s philosophy and his notion of mathematical logic, whilst the section on Zhang Dongsun aims at casting some light on his critical reading of Russell’s logicism on the one hand and the disparities between their models of structural perception on the other. As such the anthology provides a unique insight into the intertwined influences of Russell’s humanistic, philosophical, and logical thought on the Chinese intellectual landscape in the aftermath of the May Fourth events. This volume of the Studia Humanitatis Asiatica series was edited by Jan Vrhovski and Jana S. Rošker. The foreword was contributed by Vera Schwarcz, a professor emerita at Wesleyan University and Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The article surveys the early work of Zhang Dongsun on topics like the logicism of Bertrand Russe... more The article surveys the early work of Zhang Dongsun on topics like the logicism of Bertrand Russell and scientific philosophy, which aimed to criticize its foundations and replace them with a Neo-Kantian alternative. It tries to show how a series of Zhang's articles from the early 1920s, in which he sought to create a new "neutral" variety of logicism, can be used to better understand the intellectual foundations of the neovitalist "philosophy of life" of Zhang Junmai. By delving deeper into the underlying ideas and possible motivations behind Zhang's philosophical endeavours from the early 1920s, the article argues for a different kind of understanding of the historical basis of humanism in modern Chinese philosophy. Moreover, it strives to show how the "Science and the View on Life" controversy, as initiated by Zhang Junmai in 1923, might be rooted in or at least directly related to a syncretistic ideal, to conjoin science and the view of life in a new kind of harmonistic outlook. Most importantly, the article will try to show how Zhang Dongsun's critical engagement with Russell's philosophy, modern logic and physical science could be understood as the theoretical nucleus of the so-called "view on life" philosophy, not only in the context of the 1923 controversy, but possibly the entire Republican Period. Due to limited space, the article does not offer a concise introduction to Zhang's life and philosophy, but instead provides a focused discussion of particular fragments of his work from the early 1920s.
This article analyses the work of the Dharma Master Taixu, one of the leading figures of Chinese ... more This article analyses the work of the Dharma Master Taixu, one of the leading figures of Chinese Buddhism in the Republican Period. Its analysis focuses on the meaning of concepts such as "human life," "freedom," and "karma" in Taixu's seminal writings on the role of Buddhism in modern society, politics, and science from the 1920s and early 1930s. The succession of reading notes and reflections on these quintessential concepts in Taixu's works aims at shedding some light on the relationship between subject and object, and the key question of the autonomy of the subject in modern Chinese Buddhism. Finally, by trying to illuminate the content of the ideas of subject and freedom in the work of this key figure, whose work is a foundational building block in the modernization of Buddhism in East Asia, the present discussion aims at casting some new light on the origins and theoretical foundations of contemporary Buddhism in Taiwan as well as in the broader Chinese cultural sphere.
In the early 1930s, when the project of scientific modernization was in full swing in Chinese Bud... more In the early 1930s, when the project of scientific modernization was in full swing in Chinese Buddhist circles, Dharma Master Taixu wrote a series of essays on “Realism” (Xianshi zhuyi 現實主義, 1928–1931). These represent one of the profoundest series of writings documenting his understanding of the link between science and Buddhist epistemology/ontology, and consequently also on the role of his notion of scientific Buddhism for modern times. Aside from his meditations on the relationship between science and Buddhism, in this important series of essays Taixu also provided his more or less critical accounts on modern philosophical currents in contemporary China, including Russell’s “New Realism” and materialism.
This paper aims to provide a concise reading of the above-mentioned writings by Taixu, in order to cast some new light on the understanding of Western modern phi- losophy in Chinese Buddhist modernism of the Republican Era, on the one hand, and to highlight the main theoretical features of Taixu’s notion of scientific Buddhism, on the other. Aside from that, I also aim to present some new insights into the otherwise overlooked aspects of the broader intellectual sphere of Chinese Buddhism of the Republican Era. As regards the broader historical and intellectual context of Taixu’s writings, the analysis provided in this article will be regarded within the framework constructed in my forthcoming article on Taixu’s philosophy in the journal Buddhist Studies Review.
This study lays out an overview of the main developments related to the teaching and expounding o... more This study lays out an overview of the main developments related to the teaching and expounding of logic at the Philosophy Department of Peking University, between the early years of the Republic and the year 1927, when the university was temporarily dissolved and reorganized into the Provisional Unified University of Peking. The objective here is to interconnect various (some not directly related) developments in the curricula that covered the CONTACT Jan VRHOVSKI
For any scholar interested in the history of either analytic philosophy, mathematical logic or ev... more For any scholar interested in the history of either analytic philosophy, mathematical logic or even dialectical materialism in China, the "World Currents of Thought" (Shijie sichao 世界思 潮) supplement to the Dagong bao 大公报 (L'Impartial) newspaper may prove to be a treasuretrove of invaluable material. This rich and, when it comes to the development of analytic philosophy and philosophy of science, extremely informative weekly supplement to the Daogong bao was edited by the Tsinghua professor Zhang Shenfu 张申府, while its regular contributors included also other notable members of the Department of Philosophy at Tsinghua, such as, Feng Youlan 冯友兰, Zhang Yinlin 张荫麟, Zhang Shenfu's brother Zhan Dainian 张 岱年, and so on. The opening issue of the supplement appeared on September 9, 1932. From its inauguration in late 1932 up to its final issue on December 27, 1934, altogether 88 issues of the supplement were published, first on a weekly and finally also on a biweekly basis. Due to the active participation of important Chinese intellectuals, not only from Tsinghua but also from other Chinese universities, the "World Currents of Thought" supplement grew to become an important, if not even the central, platform for dissemination, development and popularization of ideas from Western analytic philosophy in 1930s China.
In the years following Bertrand Russell's visit in China, fragments from his work on mathematical... more In the years following Bertrand Russell's visit in China, fragments from his work on mathematical logic and the foundations of mathematics started to enter the Chinese intellectual world. While up until 1925 Chinese intellectuals like Zhang Shenfu, Zhang Dongsun and others mainly contributed to the dissemination of general notions from Russell's logicism, epistemology and mathematical philosophy, two aspiring Chinese mathematicians, Fu Zhongsun and Zhang Bangming, introduced to Chinese readers the first Chinese translation of Russell's Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy. One year after the second edition of the book was published in 1924, Chinese intellectuals started to respond to Russell's 'mathematical logic' and philosophy of mathematics, as contained in the work. Consequently, in 1925 the first public debate on this topic broke out in Chinese periodicals. This article aims at providing a summary of these 1925 discussions, from criticisms of Russell's work to a general debate on 'infinitesimals'. Through close examination of the arguments and discursive strategies used in the debate, the article tries to highlight the state of Chinese discourse on mathematical logic during the time in question, while also shedding some light on the mechanisms and strategies in the undergoing process of the adoption of Western scientific ideas.
Mathematical logic was first introduced to China in early 1920s. Although, the process of introdu... more Mathematical logic was first introduced to China in early 1920s. Although, the process of introduction was facilitated by the lectures of Bertrand Russel at Peking University in 1921 and continued by China's most passionate adherents of Russell's philosophy, the establishment of mathematical logic as an academic discipline occurred only in late 1920s, in the framework of a recently reorganised Qinghua University in Peking. The main aim of this paper is to shed some light on the process of establishment of mathematical logic at the department of philosophy at Qinghua University, between the years 1926 and 1945. In its main line of discussion, the article highlights the curricular developments at the department, connecting them with concrete theoretical endeavours by the leading members of the department. Furthermore, in its later parts, the article summarises the main advances made in the context of studies of modern logic at Qinghua University, from the expositions on the quintessential work Principia Mathematica, to the subsequent integration of criticisms coming from circles of logicians at Harvard University and groundbreaking contributions of Kurt Gödel in the mid-1930s.
This paper discusses the thought of Zhang Shenfu, one of the central figures behind the propagati... more This paper discusses the thought of Zhang Shenfu, one of the central figures behind the propagation of modern science and dialectical materialism in Republican China (1911-1949). In particular, it focuses on the notions of liberty, mathematical logic and humaneness (ren 仁) in his writings in the period between the year of the May Fourth events (1919) and the late 1930s. The main aim of the analysis is to cast some light on the common conceptual and methodological features which underlay these interpretations, in order to reveal the essentially Chinese cultural "perception" or traditional worldview that served Zhang as the prism through which he viewed and understood the nature of and the relationships between all these "novel" concepts from the West. Consequently, an important aim of this paper will be to highlight a specific fragment of the intellectual mechanism that conditioned the so-called Chinese intellectual modernisation of the Republican period.
Editorial to the special issue of Asian Studies journal, devoted to the history of logic in conte... more Editorial to the special issue of Asian Studies journal, devoted to the history of logic in contemporary China.
This article studies some central developments in the propagation and teaching of mathematical lo... more This article studies some central developments in the propagation and teaching of mathematical logic in 1930s China. Focusing on the emergence of a twofold disciplinary approach to mathematical logic, namely as a discipline studied and disseminated by Chinese philosophers on the one hand and mathematicians on the other, this paper explores one of the key turning points in the development of the academic notion of mathematical logic in China. Apart from casting some light on the teaching of mathematical logic in the framework of both philosophical as well as mathematical spheres of inquiry, this article also provides some preliminary insights into the circumstances surrounding the first systematic introduction of mathematical logic into the modern standardized system of education, which gradually took shape over the late-1920s and early 1930s in China.
International Communication of Chinese Culture, 2020
The article studies the image of Guan Zhong, a historical figurehead from the Spring and Autumn p... more The article studies the image of Guan Zhong, a historical figurehead from the Spring and Autumn period China, in East Asian Confucian discourse on humaneness (ren 仁, "benevolence") and related political questions. It traces the development of Confucian discourse on Guan Zhong from its beginnings in the Analects of Confucius and in the thought of his later disciple Mencius, to later discourses on humaneness in Chinese, Joseon Korean and Tokugawa Japanese Confucian thought. In so doing, it establishes a comparative perspective of how Guan Zhong's humaneness (or inhumanity) was interpreted in socio-political environments of individual East Asian countries, establishing a correlation between their interpretational tendencies and overall intellectual tendencies of local Confucianisms-as, for instance the philosophy of Practical Learning in Joseon Korea and Tokugawa Japan. Concurrently, the article also illuminates the special characteristics of the notion of humaneness which also gained its expression throughout East Asian Confucian ethical evaluations of Guan Zhong's political achievements. The article is an abridged translation of the Chapter 9 of Chun-chieh Huang's book Dongya Rujia Renxue Shilun 東亞儒家仁學史論 (Taipei: National Taiwan University Press, 2017, pp. 377-414). Chun-chieh Huang 黃俊傑-Huang Chun-chieh [Huang Junjie 黃俊傑] is the Distinguished Chair Professor of National Taiwan University and a member of Academia Europaea. Translated and abridged by Jan Vrhovski-Jan Vrhovski is a research fellow at University of Ljubljana, working on history of formal logic, philosophy and intellectual history of modern China.
The article explores Jiang Menglin's philosophy of life and his notion of rensheng guan ("view on... more The article explores Jiang Menglin's philosophy of life and his notion of rensheng guan ("view on life") in the period between his studies in the USA and the year of the May Fourth events in 1919. In the first part, the paper traces the origins of Jiang's idea back to the then-prevalent version of pragmatism propagated by John Dewey and other pragmatist thinkers gathered at Columbia University, while in the subsequent parts it aims to illuminate the later developments of Jiang's own version of pragmatism in the context of the May Fourth intellectual discourse. While the article aims at presenting a positive outline of Jiang's philosophy, it also endeavours to expose its less explicit aspects through its apophatic (exposition by negation or denial) expositions in Jiang's writings from the period. Finally, it focuses on Jiang's contributions to the debate on suicide that developed after Lin Deyang's suicide in November 1919.
One of my past side-projects. This is an "essential explanation" of the Heart sutra, written by t... more One of my past side-projects. This is an "essential explanation" of the Heart sutra, written by the Chinese Tiantai monk, Binzong in the mid-20th century. Binzong's commentary was a typical example of modern Chinese Buddhist treatise, combining elements from "humanistic Buddhism" (Taixu), Tiantai creed, and modern Chinese interpretations of Yogacara philosophy (Xiong Shili, Liang Shuming etc.).
The present book surveys the development of the notion of subjectality in the period of Chinese m... more The present book surveys the development of the notion of subjectality in the period of Chinese modernisation, between the reform period of the late-Qing Dynasty and the early years of the People's Republic. This volume, created in co- authorship by Jan Vrhovski and Jana S. Rošker, follows as a sequel to the foundational study on traditional Chinese humanism, Humanism in Transcultural Perspective: The Case of China, authored by the latter. The main topic of this book rests on the question as to how the aforementioned intellectual grounds changed, and to what extent they underwent further develop- ment in the period of Chinese modernisation, which was generally based on the critical re-evaluation of China's own intellectual tradition, on the one hand, and on a new series of in-depth encounters with the Western – particularly European – thought, on the other hand. In their joint survey, the authors engage in a close investigation of, above all, the idea of humanism and the Chinese conceptualisations of the notion of the subject, which were re-established again in China at the threshold of the age of modernity. While Vrhovski approaches to the main research question mostly from the per- spective of the encounters between science and traditional Chinese notions of subjectality in modern China, Rošker approaches the same question from a more ho- listic, theoretical standpoint, set on the crossroads between Western and Chinese humanism. In this way, the main part of the discussion consists of an interlacement of intellectual-historical and theoretical perspectives. Combined into one single perspective, these offer a more complete picture of the process of modernisation, which encompassed the above-mentioned discourses. Consequently, the heart of the book represents the joint research of both authors, which devotes itself to the transformation of the traditional idea of humanism and its modifications, which were facilitated by the encounters of Chinese intellectuals with Western philoso- phy and science. The present book is thus founded on the authors’ conviction that our familiarity with intellectual transformation – which was established or developed in the context of the notion of humanity and humaneness in the focal period – plays an extremely important role in improving our understanding of modern Chinese society and culture in general.
Written and compiled in commemoration of the centenary of Russell’s visit to China (1920-1921), t... more Written and compiled in commemoration of the centenary of Russell’s visit to China (1920-1921), the anthology Bertrand Russell’s Visit to China: Selected Text on the Centenary of Intercultural Dialogues in Logic and Epistemology offers a focused account of reception of Bertrand Russell and his thought in China. Set in the time of Russell’s stay in China, the selection of texts revolves around the initial reception of Russell as a person, philosopher, and scientist in Chinese intellectual world. As a retrospective anthology concerned with the reception of Russell’s thought in China, the work is comprised both of translations of articles and essays written by Chinese intellectuals and other public figures at the time of his visit there, as well as a few contemporary studies analysing the reception and propagation of Russell’s ideas in China in the abovementioned period. Following a general introduction to Russell’s visit in China, the subsequent sections of the anthology cover a wide spectrum of original documents and secondary studies, including the welcome addresses, reports from the Russell Study Society established in late 1920 in Beijing, introductions to Russell’s philosophical thought and, in the main part, interpretations of Russell’s humanistic thought, mathematical logic and epistemology by two Chinese contemporary philosophers, Zhang Shenfu and Zhang Dongsun. The section on Zhang Shenfu explores his earliest relationship with Russell’s philosophy and his notion of mathematical logic, whilst the section on Zhang Dongsun aims at casting some light on his critical reading of Russell’s logicism on the one hand and the disparities between their models of structural perception on the other. As such the anthology provides a unique insight into the intertwined influences of Russell’s humanistic, philosophical, and logical thought on the Chinese intellectual landscape in the aftermath of the May Fourth events. This volume of the Studia Humanitatis Asiatica series was edited by Jan Vrhovski and Jana S. Rošker. The foreword was contributed by Vera Schwarcz, a professor emerita at Wesleyan University and Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The article surveys the early work of Zhang Dongsun on topics like the logicism of Bertrand Russe... more The article surveys the early work of Zhang Dongsun on topics like the logicism of Bertrand Russell and scientific philosophy, which aimed to criticize its foundations and replace them with a Neo-Kantian alternative. It tries to show how a series of Zhang's articles from the early 1920s, in which he sought to create a new "neutral" variety of logicism, can be used to better understand the intellectual foundations of the neovitalist "philosophy of life" of Zhang Junmai. By delving deeper into the underlying ideas and possible motivations behind Zhang's philosophical endeavours from the early 1920s, the article argues for a different kind of understanding of the historical basis of humanism in modern Chinese philosophy. Moreover, it strives to show how the "Science and the View on Life" controversy, as initiated by Zhang Junmai in 1923, might be rooted in or at least directly related to a syncretistic ideal, to conjoin science and the view of life in a new kind of harmonistic outlook. Most importantly, the article will try to show how Zhang Dongsun's critical engagement with Russell's philosophy, modern logic and physical science could be understood as the theoretical nucleus of the so-called "view on life" philosophy, not only in the context of the 1923 controversy, but possibly the entire Republican Period. Due to limited space, the article does not offer a concise introduction to Zhang's life and philosophy, but instead provides a focused discussion of particular fragments of his work from the early 1920s.
This article analyses the work of the Dharma Master Taixu, one of the leading figures of Chinese ... more This article analyses the work of the Dharma Master Taixu, one of the leading figures of Chinese Buddhism in the Republican Period. Its analysis focuses on the meaning of concepts such as "human life," "freedom," and "karma" in Taixu's seminal writings on the role of Buddhism in modern society, politics, and science from the 1920s and early 1930s. The succession of reading notes and reflections on these quintessential concepts in Taixu's works aims at shedding some light on the relationship between subject and object, and the key question of the autonomy of the subject in modern Chinese Buddhism. Finally, by trying to illuminate the content of the ideas of subject and freedom in the work of this key figure, whose work is a foundational building block in the modernization of Buddhism in East Asia, the present discussion aims at casting some new light on the origins and theoretical foundations of contemporary Buddhism in Taiwan as well as in the broader Chinese cultural sphere.
In the early 1930s, when the project of scientific modernization was in full swing in Chinese Bud... more In the early 1930s, when the project of scientific modernization was in full swing in Chinese Buddhist circles, Dharma Master Taixu wrote a series of essays on “Realism” (Xianshi zhuyi 現實主義, 1928–1931). These represent one of the profoundest series of writings documenting his understanding of the link between science and Buddhist epistemology/ontology, and consequently also on the role of his notion of scientific Buddhism for modern times. Aside from his meditations on the relationship between science and Buddhism, in this important series of essays Taixu also provided his more or less critical accounts on modern philosophical currents in contemporary China, including Russell’s “New Realism” and materialism.
This paper aims to provide a concise reading of the above-mentioned writings by Taixu, in order to cast some new light on the understanding of Western modern phi- losophy in Chinese Buddhist modernism of the Republican Era, on the one hand, and to highlight the main theoretical features of Taixu’s notion of scientific Buddhism, on the other. Aside from that, I also aim to present some new insights into the otherwise overlooked aspects of the broader intellectual sphere of Chinese Buddhism of the Republican Era. As regards the broader historical and intellectual context of Taixu’s writings, the analysis provided in this article will be regarded within the framework constructed in my forthcoming article on Taixu’s philosophy in the journal Buddhist Studies Review.
This study lays out an overview of the main developments related to the teaching and expounding o... more This study lays out an overview of the main developments related to the teaching and expounding of logic at the Philosophy Department of Peking University, between the early years of the Republic and the year 1927, when the university was temporarily dissolved and reorganized into the Provisional Unified University of Peking. The objective here is to interconnect various (some not directly related) developments in the curricula that covered the CONTACT Jan VRHOVSKI
For any scholar interested in the history of either analytic philosophy, mathematical logic or ev... more For any scholar interested in the history of either analytic philosophy, mathematical logic or even dialectical materialism in China, the "World Currents of Thought" (Shijie sichao 世界思 潮) supplement to the Dagong bao 大公报 (L'Impartial) newspaper may prove to be a treasuretrove of invaluable material. This rich and, when it comes to the development of analytic philosophy and philosophy of science, extremely informative weekly supplement to the Daogong bao was edited by the Tsinghua professor Zhang Shenfu 张申府, while its regular contributors included also other notable members of the Department of Philosophy at Tsinghua, such as, Feng Youlan 冯友兰, Zhang Yinlin 张荫麟, Zhang Shenfu's brother Zhan Dainian 张 岱年, and so on. The opening issue of the supplement appeared on September 9, 1932. From its inauguration in late 1932 up to its final issue on December 27, 1934, altogether 88 issues of the supplement were published, first on a weekly and finally also on a biweekly basis. Due to the active participation of important Chinese intellectuals, not only from Tsinghua but also from other Chinese universities, the "World Currents of Thought" supplement grew to become an important, if not even the central, platform for dissemination, development and popularization of ideas from Western analytic philosophy in 1930s China.
In the years following Bertrand Russell's visit in China, fragments from his work on mathematical... more In the years following Bertrand Russell's visit in China, fragments from his work on mathematical logic and the foundations of mathematics started to enter the Chinese intellectual world. While up until 1925 Chinese intellectuals like Zhang Shenfu, Zhang Dongsun and others mainly contributed to the dissemination of general notions from Russell's logicism, epistemology and mathematical philosophy, two aspiring Chinese mathematicians, Fu Zhongsun and Zhang Bangming, introduced to Chinese readers the first Chinese translation of Russell's Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy. One year after the second edition of the book was published in 1924, Chinese intellectuals started to respond to Russell's 'mathematical logic' and philosophy of mathematics, as contained in the work. Consequently, in 1925 the first public debate on this topic broke out in Chinese periodicals. This article aims at providing a summary of these 1925 discussions, from criticisms of Russell's work to a general debate on 'infinitesimals'. Through close examination of the arguments and discursive strategies used in the debate, the article tries to highlight the state of Chinese discourse on mathematical logic during the time in question, while also shedding some light on the mechanisms and strategies in the undergoing process of the adoption of Western scientific ideas.
Mathematical logic was first introduced to China in early 1920s. Although, the process of introdu... more Mathematical logic was first introduced to China in early 1920s. Although, the process of introduction was facilitated by the lectures of Bertrand Russel at Peking University in 1921 and continued by China's most passionate adherents of Russell's philosophy, the establishment of mathematical logic as an academic discipline occurred only in late 1920s, in the framework of a recently reorganised Qinghua University in Peking. The main aim of this paper is to shed some light on the process of establishment of mathematical logic at the department of philosophy at Qinghua University, between the years 1926 and 1945. In its main line of discussion, the article highlights the curricular developments at the department, connecting them with concrete theoretical endeavours by the leading members of the department. Furthermore, in its later parts, the article summarises the main advances made in the context of studies of modern logic at Qinghua University, from the expositions on the quintessential work Principia Mathematica, to the subsequent integration of criticisms coming from circles of logicians at Harvard University and groundbreaking contributions of Kurt Gödel in the mid-1930s.
This paper discusses the thought of Zhang Shenfu, one of the central figures behind the propagati... more This paper discusses the thought of Zhang Shenfu, one of the central figures behind the propagation of modern science and dialectical materialism in Republican China (1911-1949). In particular, it focuses on the notions of liberty, mathematical logic and humaneness (ren 仁) in his writings in the period between the year of the May Fourth events (1919) and the late 1930s. The main aim of the analysis is to cast some light on the common conceptual and methodological features which underlay these interpretations, in order to reveal the essentially Chinese cultural "perception" or traditional worldview that served Zhang as the prism through which he viewed and understood the nature of and the relationships between all these "novel" concepts from the West. Consequently, an important aim of this paper will be to highlight a specific fragment of the intellectual mechanism that conditioned the so-called Chinese intellectual modernisation of the Republican period.
Editorial to the special issue of Asian Studies journal, devoted to the history of logic in conte... more Editorial to the special issue of Asian Studies journal, devoted to the history of logic in contemporary China.
This article studies some central developments in the propagation and teaching of mathematical lo... more This article studies some central developments in the propagation and teaching of mathematical logic in 1930s China. Focusing on the emergence of a twofold disciplinary approach to mathematical logic, namely as a discipline studied and disseminated by Chinese philosophers on the one hand and mathematicians on the other, this paper explores one of the key turning points in the development of the academic notion of mathematical logic in China. Apart from casting some light on the teaching of mathematical logic in the framework of both philosophical as well as mathematical spheres of inquiry, this article also provides some preliminary insights into the circumstances surrounding the first systematic introduction of mathematical logic into the modern standardized system of education, which gradually took shape over the late-1920s and early 1930s in China.
International Communication of Chinese Culture, 2020
The article studies the image of Guan Zhong, a historical figurehead from the Spring and Autumn p... more The article studies the image of Guan Zhong, a historical figurehead from the Spring and Autumn period China, in East Asian Confucian discourse on humaneness (ren 仁, "benevolence") and related political questions. It traces the development of Confucian discourse on Guan Zhong from its beginnings in the Analects of Confucius and in the thought of his later disciple Mencius, to later discourses on humaneness in Chinese, Joseon Korean and Tokugawa Japanese Confucian thought. In so doing, it establishes a comparative perspective of how Guan Zhong's humaneness (or inhumanity) was interpreted in socio-political environments of individual East Asian countries, establishing a correlation between their interpretational tendencies and overall intellectual tendencies of local Confucianisms-as, for instance the philosophy of Practical Learning in Joseon Korea and Tokugawa Japan. Concurrently, the article also illuminates the special characteristics of the notion of humaneness which also gained its expression throughout East Asian Confucian ethical evaluations of Guan Zhong's political achievements. The article is an abridged translation of the Chapter 9 of Chun-chieh Huang's book Dongya Rujia Renxue Shilun 東亞儒家仁學史論 (Taipei: National Taiwan University Press, 2017, pp. 377-414). Chun-chieh Huang 黃俊傑-Huang Chun-chieh [Huang Junjie 黃俊傑] is the Distinguished Chair Professor of National Taiwan University and a member of Academia Europaea. Translated and abridged by Jan Vrhovski-Jan Vrhovski is a research fellow at University of Ljubljana, working on history of formal logic, philosophy and intellectual history of modern China.
The article explores Jiang Menglin's philosophy of life and his notion of rensheng guan ("view on... more The article explores Jiang Menglin's philosophy of life and his notion of rensheng guan ("view on life") in the period between his studies in the USA and the year of the May Fourth events in 1919. In the first part, the paper traces the origins of Jiang's idea back to the then-prevalent version of pragmatism propagated by John Dewey and other pragmatist thinkers gathered at Columbia University, while in the subsequent parts it aims to illuminate the later developments of Jiang's own version of pragmatism in the context of the May Fourth intellectual discourse. While the article aims at presenting a positive outline of Jiang's philosophy, it also endeavours to expose its less explicit aspects through its apophatic (exposition by negation or denial) expositions in Jiang's writings from the period. Finally, it focuses on Jiang's contributions to the debate on suicide that developed after Lin Deyang's suicide in November 1919.
With the rise of the discourse on dialectical materialism in the late 1920s, ideas related to the... more With the rise of the discourse on dialectical materialism in the late 1920s, ideas related to the Marxist notion of dialectical logic started to circulate in the Chinese intellectual world. Not long after the first public discussions on dialectical materialism started to emerge in the early 1930s, the discussants on both sides started to address the question of the Marxist notion of logic and its relationship with Western formal logic. Consequently, over the 1930s, a series of separate public debates ensued, in which dialectical logic contended against the “conventional” forms of logic, such as traditional Aristotelian and modern formal logic. This paper outlines the major landmarks within the public as well as internal Marxist debates on logic in the 1930s. The discussion starts with a general overview of the intellectual background of the debates, and proceeds by analysing the principal developments in them, starting with Ye Qing’s and Zhang Dongsun’s polemic about “dynamic logic” from 1933, and concluding with the internal Marxist discussions on the sublation of formal logic in the last years of the decade.
The article aims at presenting an overview of the main concepts in the philosophical thought of Z... more The article aims at presenting an overview of the main concepts in the philosophical thought of Zhang Shenfu, one of the leading intellectuals from Republican China (1912-1949). The study sets out from a brief summary of Zhang's intellectual achievements, and proceeds by offering a more concise picture of the main influences, developmental stages and finally also central ideas of Zhang's thought. By offering a general view on the concrete confluences and dissonances between the keystones of Zhang's philosophy on one side, and its alleged sources in Western and Chinese philosophy on the other, this study further aims at presenting a new insight into the unique characteristics of Zhang's philosophy. At the same time, by setting the discussion on Zhang's philosophy in a broader context of contemporary intellectual discourse, the article also endeavours to establish a tentative basis for the future critical analyses and potential revaluations of Zhang Shenfu's role in intellectual history of modern China.
The article surveys the early work of Zhang Dongsun on topics like the logicism of Bertrand Russe... more The article surveys the early work of Zhang Dongsun on topics like the logicism of Bertrand Russell and scientific philosophy, which aimed to criticize its foundations and replace them with a Neo-Kantian alternative. It tries to show how a series of Zhang's articles from the early 1920s, in which he sought to create a new "neutral" variety of logicism, can be used to better understand the intellectual foundations of the neovitalist "philosophy of life" of Zhang Junmai. By delving deeper into the underlying ideas and possible motivations behind Zhang's philosophical endeavours from the early 1920s, the article argues for a different kind of understanding of the historical basis of humanism in modern Chinese philosophy. Moreover, it strives to show how the "Science and the View on Life" controversy, as initiated by Zhang Junmai in 1923, might be rooted in or at least directly related to a syncretistic ideal, to conjoin science and the view of life in a new kind of harmonistic outlook. Most importantly, the article will try to show how Zhang Dongsun's critical engagement with Russell's philosophy, modern logic and physical science could be understood as the theoretical nucleus of the so-called "view on life" philosophy, not only in the context of the 1923 controversy, but possibly the entire Republican Period. Due to limited space, the article does not offer a concise introduction to Zhang's life and philosophy, but instead provides a focused discussion of particular fragments of his work from the early 1920s.
In the early 1930s, when the project of scientific modernization was in full swing in Chinese Bud... more In the early 1930s, when the project of scientific modernization was in full swing in Chinese Buddhist circles, Dharma Master Taixu wrote a series of essays on “Realism” (Xianshi zhuyi 現實主義, 1928–1931). These represent one of the profoundest series of writings documenting his understanding of the link between science and Buddhist epistemology/ontology, and consequently also on the role of his notion of scientific Buddhism for modern times. Aside from his meditations on the relationship between science and Buddhism, in this important series of essays Taixu also provided his more or less critical accounts on modern philosophical currents in contemporary China, including Russell’s “New Realism” and materialism. This paper aims to provide a concise reading of the above-mentioned writings by Taixu, in order to cast some new light on the understanding of Western modern philosophy in Chinese Buddhist modernism of the Republican Era, on the one hand, and to highlight the main theoretical features of Taixu’s notion of scientific Buddhism, on the other. Aside from that, I also aim to present some new insights into the otherwise overlooked aspects of the broader intellectual sphere of Chinese Buddhism of the Republican Era. As regards the broader historical and intellectual context of Taixu’s writings, the analysis provided in this article will be regarded within the framework constructed in my forthcoming article on Taixu’s philosophy in the journal Buddhist Studies Review.
This paper analyses the work of the Dharma Master Taixu, one of the leading figures of Chinese Bu... more This paper analyses the work of the Dharma Master Taixu, one of the leading figures of Chinese Buddhism in the Republican Period. Its analysis focuses on the meaning of concepts such as "human life", "liberty", and "karma" in Taixu's seminal writings on the role of Buddhism in modern society, politics, and science from the 1920s and early-1930s. Connected by a common red thread, the succession of individual reading notes and reflections on these quintessential concepts in Taixu's works aims at providing a comprehensive meditation on the relationship between subject and object, and the key question of autonomy of subject in modern Chinese Buddhism. Finally, by trying to illuminate the conceptual contours of the ideas of subject and liberty in this foundational building block of Buddhist modernization, the present discussion aims at casting some new light on the origins and theoretical foundations of contemporary Buddhism in Taiwan as well as in the broader Chinese cultural sphere.
This paper discusses the thought of Zhang Shenfu, one of the central figures behind propagation o... more This paper discusses the thought of Zhang Shenfu, one of the central figures behind propagation of modern science and dialectical materialism in Republican China (1911-1949). In particular, it focuses on his notions of liberty, mathematical logic, and humaneness (ren 仁) in his writings in the period between the year of the May Fourth events (1919) and late-1930s. The main aim of its analysis is to cast some light on the common conceptual and methodological features which underlay these interpretations, all in order to reveal the essentially Chinese cultural "perception" or traditional worldview that served Zhang as the prism through which he viewed and understood the nature and relationships between of all these "novel" concepts from the West. Consequently, an important contribution of this paper will be to highlight a specific fragment of the intellectual mechanism that conditioned the so-called Chinese intellectual modernisation of the Republican period.
The article explores Jiang Menglin's philosophy of life and his notion of rensheng guan ("view on... more The article explores Jiang Menglin's philosophy of life and his notion of rensheng guan ("view on life") in the period between his studies in the USA and the year of the May Fourth events in 1919. In the first part, the paper traces the origins of Jiang's idea back to the then-prevalent version of pragmatism propagated by John Dewey and other pragmatist thinkers gathered at Columbia University, while in the subsequent parts it aims to illuminate the later developments of Jiang's own version of pragmatism in the context of the May Fourth intellectual discourse. While the article aims at presenting a positive outline of Jiang's philosophy, it also endeavours to expose its less explicit aspects through its apophatic (exposition by negation or denial) expositions in Jiang's writings from the period. Finally, it focuses on Jiang's contributions to the debate on suicide that developed after Lin Deyang's suicide in November 1919.
With the rise of the discourse on dialectical materialism in the late 1920s, ideas related to the... more With the rise of the discourse on dialectical materialism in the late 1920s, ideas related to the Marxist notion of dialectical logic started to circulate in the Chinese intellectual world. Not long after the first public discussions on dialectical materialism started to emerge in the early 1930s, the discussants on both sides started to address the question of the Marxist notion of logic and its relationship with Western formal logic. Consequently, over the 1930s, a series of separate public debates ensued, in which dialectical logic contended against the "conventional" forms of logic, such as traditional Aristotelian and modern formal logic. This paper outlines the major landmarks within the public as well as internal Marxist debates on logic in the 1930s. The discussion starts with a general overview of the intellectual background of the debates, and proceeds by analysing the principal developments in them, starting with Ye Qing's and Zhang Dongsun's polemic about "dynamic logic" from 1933, and concluding with the internal Marxist discussions on the sublation of formal logic in the last years of the decade.
Mathematical logic was first introduced to China in early 1920s. Although, the process of introdu... more Mathematical logic was first introduced to China in early 1920s. Although, the process of introduction was facilitated by the lectures of Bertrand Russel at Peking University in 1921 and continued by China’s most passionate adherents of Russell’s philosophy, the establishment of mathematical logic as an academic discipline occurred only in late 1920s, in the framework of a recently reorganised Qinghua University in Peking. The main aim of this paper is to shed some light on the process of establishment of mathematical logic at the department of philosophy at Qinghua University, between the years 1926 and 1945. In its main line of discussion, the article highlights the curricular developments at the department, connecting them with concrete theoretical endeavours by the leading members of the department. Furthermore, in its later parts, the article summarises the main advances made in the context of studies of modern logic at Qinghua University, from the expositions on the quintessential work Principia Mathematica, to the subsequent integration of criticisms coming from circles of logicians at Harvard University and ground-breaking contributions of Kurt Gödel in the mid-1930s.
In the years following Bertrand Russell's visit in China, fragments from Russell's work on mathem... more In the years following Bertrand Russell's visit in China, fragments from Russell's work on mathematical logic and the foundations of mathematics started to enter the Chinese intellectual world. While up until 1925 Chinese intellectuals like Zhang Shenfu, Zhang Dongsun and others mainly contributed to the dissemination of general notions from Russell's logicism, epistemology as well as mathematical philosophy, two aspiring Chinese mathematicians, Fu Zhongsun and Zhang Bangming, introduced to Chinese readers the first Chinese translation of Russell's Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy. One year after the second edition of the book was published in 1924, Chinese intellectuals started to respond to Russell's "mathematical logic" and philosophy of mathematics, as contained in the work. Consequently, in 1925 the first public debate on this topic broke out in Chinese periodicals. This article aims at providing a summary of these 1925 discussions. It follows the main line of the debate from criticisms of Russell's work to a general debate on "infinitesimals" and "indefinitely cut wooden sticks." Through close examination of the arguments and discursive strategies used by the participants in the debate, the article tries to highlight the state of Chinese discourse on mathematical logic during the time in question as well as the foundations of mathematics, while also shedding some light on the mechanisms and strategies in the undergoing process of the adoption of Western scientific ideas.
This study aims at presenting an overview of main developments related to teaching and expounding... more This study aims at presenting an overview of main developments related to teaching and expounding of notion of logic at the philosophical department of Peking University, between the early years of the Republic and the year 1927, when the university was temporarily dissolved and reorganised into the provisional unified university of Peking. The main objective of this writing will be to bind and interconnect individual, and seemingly unrelated, logic-related developments in the curriculum into one single narrative, describing not only the ebbs and flows of general intellectual trends at Peking University, but also their place in the overall context of the main discourse on logic, science and philosophy at the time. By providing a tentatively webbed network of notions, worldviews and personal influences, this study will try to show how the curricular change and idea of logic was concomitant with the change in intellectual climate. In particular, the focus will be on interrelatedness of these changes with main events in the contemporary intellectual history, such as the visits of John Dewey and Bertrand Russell at the university (1919-1922), as well as the Science and Metaphysics debate, which broke out a year later (1923).
In the May Fourth period (1917-1921), the Chinese intellectual world saw the emergence of various... more In the May Fourth period (1917-1921), the Chinese intellectual world saw the emergence of various forms of secularism, which culminated around the year 1922, when a nationwide non-religious movement was formed. The Western-educated philosopher Fu Tong influenced and contributed to the discourse on science and religion in the early 1920s, and his philosophy of religion served as a conduit for the introduction of Bertrand Russell's ideas about religion into Chinese public and intellectual discourses. This article establishes a connection between Fu and the lectures on religious belief that Russell delivered in Peking in January 1921 and documents the transfer of ideas from Russell to Fu's philosophical writings on religion between 1921 and 1922. In its central analysis, the article focuses on Fu's philosophy of religion and his theory of scientific secularism, which he developed as a critique of the Marxist-led non-religious movement from 1922 onward. The discussion also sheds light on the network of intellectual connections underlying the emergence of the notion of scientific secularism in 1920s China.
The article aims at presenting an overview of the main concepts in the philosophical thought of Z... more The article aims at presenting an overview of the main concepts in the philosophical thought of Zhang Shenfu, one of the leading intellectuals from Republican China (1912-1949). The study sets out from a brief summary of Zhang's intellectual achievements, and proceeds by offering a more concise picture of the main influences, developmental stages and finally also central ideas of Zhang's thought. By offering a general view on the concrete confluences and dissonances between the keystones of Zhang's philosophy on one side, and its alleged sources in Western and Chinese philosophy on the other, this study further aims at presenting a new insight into the unique characteristics of Zhang's philosophy. At the same time, by setting the discussion on Zhang's philosophy in a broader context of contemporary intellectual discourse, the article also endeavours to establish a tentative basis for the future critical analyses and potential revaluations of Zhang Shenfu's role in intellectual history of modern China.
In 1926, recently graduated from Columbia University, Jin Yuelin came back to China and founded t... more In 1926, recently graduated from Columbia University, Jin Yuelin came back to China and founded the Department of Philosophy at Tsinghua University. With new appointments of Shen Youding and Wang Xianjun in subsequent years, the logic group grew very fast and attracted many young talents. One prominent student of Jin Yuelin was Wang Hao, who later took his PhD degree at Harvard and became a well-known logician worldwide. This pioneering history was recorded in a recent article by Jan Vrhovski: “The Qinghua Logic School: Mathematical Logic at Qinghua University in Peking, 1926–1945”. In 1952, due to the policy of “reorganization of colleges and departments”, Tsinghua’s philosophy department was moved to Peking University. Wang Xianjun stayed there ever since, while Jin Yuelin and Shen Youding soon moved once more, to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. In this way the logic tradition spread. In 2000 Tsinghua officially restored its philosophy department with a focus in logic. In the last two decades, Tsinghua has been making lots of progress in logic, with several major appointments. (for more information see the website: www.tsinghualogic.net/JRC).
On the occasion of Tsinghua University’s anniversary in April this year, we are organizing a small workshop to discuss the Tsinghua logic tradition, the ideas of the early founding logicians, and plans for our future development.
Séance 3 : La réception de la philosophie occidentale en Chine (19 e-20 e siècles) Samedi 11 juin... more Séance 3 : La réception de la philosophie occidentale en Chine (19 e-20 e siècles) Samedi 11 juin 2022 L'événement aura lieu exceptionnellement en salle 5.08 Inalco, 65 rue des Grands Moulins
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The main topic of this book rests on the question as to how the aforementioned intellectual grounds changed, and to what extent they underwent further develop- ment in the period of Chinese modernisation, which was generally based on the critical re-evaluation of China's own intellectual tradition, on the one hand, and on a new series of in-depth encounters with the Western – particularly European – thought, on the other hand. In their joint survey, the authors engage in a close investigation of, above all, the idea of humanism and the Chinese conceptualisations of the notion of the subject, which were re-established again in China at the threshold of the age of modernity.
While Vrhovski approaches to the main research question mostly from the per- spective of the encounters between science and traditional Chinese notions of subjectality in modern China, Rošker approaches the same question from a more ho- listic, theoretical standpoint, set on the crossroads between Western and Chinese humanism. In this way, the main part of the discussion consists of an interlacement of intellectual-historical and theoretical perspectives. Combined into one single perspective, these offer a more complete picture of the process of modernisation, which encompassed the above-mentioned discourses. Consequently, the heart of the book represents the joint research of both authors, which devotes itself to the transformation of the traditional idea of humanism and its modifications, which were facilitated by the encounters of Chinese intellectuals with Western philoso- phy and science. The present book is thus founded on the authors’ conviction that our familiarity with intellectual transformation – which was established or developed in the context of the notion of humanity and humaneness in the focal period – plays an extremely important role in improving our understanding of modern Chinese society and culture in general.
This paper aims to provide a concise reading of the above-mentioned writings by Taixu, in order to cast some new light on the understanding of Western modern phi- losophy in Chinese Buddhist modernism of the Republican Era, on the one hand, and to highlight the main theoretical features of Taixu’s notion of scientific Buddhism, on the other. Aside from that, I also aim to present some new insights into the otherwise overlooked aspects of the broader intellectual sphere of Chinese Buddhism of the Republican Era. As regards the broader historical and intellectual context of Taixu’s writings, the analysis provided in this article will be regarded within the framework constructed in my forthcoming article on Taixu’s philosophy in the journal Buddhist Studies Review.
The main topic of this book rests on the question as to how the aforementioned intellectual grounds changed, and to what extent they underwent further develop- ment in the period of Chinese modernisation, which was generally based on the critical re-evaluation of China's own intellectual tradition, on the one hand, and on a new series of in-depth encounters with the Western – particularly European – thought, on the other hand. In their joint survey, the authors engage in a close investigation of, above all, the idea of humanism and the Chinese conceptualisations of the notion of the subject, which were re-established again in China at the threshold of the age of modernity.
While Vrhovski approaches to the main research question mostly from the per- spective of the encounters between science and traditional Chinese notions of subjectality in modern China, Rošker approaches the same question from a more ho- listic, theoretical standpoint, set on the crossroads between Western and Chinese humanism. In this way, the main part of the discussion consists of an interlacement of intellectual-historical and theoretical perspectives. Combined into one single perspective, these offer a more complete picture of the process of modernisation, which encompassed the above-mentioned discourses. Consequently, the heart of the book represents the joint research of both authors, which devotes itself to the transformation of the traditional idea of humanism and its modifications, which were facilitated by the encounters of Chinese intellectuals with Western philoso- phy and science. The present book is thus founded on the authors’ conviction that our familiarity with intellectual transformation – which was established or developed in the context of the notion of humanity and humaneness in the focal period – plays an extremely important role in improving our understanding of modern Chinese society and culture in general.
This paper aims to provide a concise reading of the above-mentioned writings by Taixu, in order to cast some new light on the understanding of Western modern phi- losophy in Chinese Buddhist modernism of the Republican Era, on the one hand, and to highlight the main theoretical features of Taixu’s notion of scientific Buddhism, on the other. Aside from that, I also aim to present some new insights into the otherwise overlooked aspects of the broader intellectual sphere of Chinese Buddhism of the Republican Era. As regards the broader historical and intellectual context of Taixu’s writings, the analysis provided in this article will be regarded within the framework constructed in my forthcoming article on Taixu’s philosophy in the journal Buddhist Studies Review.
over the 1930s, a series of separate public debates ensued, in which dialectical logic contended against the “conventional” forms of logic, such as traditional Aristotelian and modern formal logic. This paper outlines the major landmarks within the public as well as internal Marxist debates on logic in the 1930s. The discussion starts with a general overview of the intellectual background of the debates, and proceeds by analysing the
principal developments in them, starting with Ye Qing’s and Zhang Dongsun’s polemic about “dynamic logic” from 1933, and concluding with the internal Marxist discussions on the sublation of formal logic in the last years of the decade.
This paper aims to provide a concise reading of the above-mentioned writings by Taixu, in order to cast some new light on the understanding of Western modern philosophy in Chinese Buddhist modernism of the Republican Era, on the one hand, and to highlight the main theoretical features of Taixu’s notion of scientific Buddhism, on the other. Aside from that, I also aim to present some new insights into the otherwise overlooked aspects of the broader intellectual sphere of Chinese Buddhism of the Republican Era. As regards the broader historical and intellectual context of Taixu’s writings, the analysis provided in this article will be regarded within the framework constructed in my forthcoming article on Taixu’s philosophy in the journal Buddhist Studies Review.
On the occasion of Tsinghua University’s anniversary in April this year, we are organizing a small workshop to discuss the Tsinghua logic tradition, the ideas of the early founding logicians, and plans for our future development.
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