The Minorities of Chinese Philosophy

Ideology and Identity in the Academic Discipline of “Ethnic Minority Philosophy

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6008697
AutoresAdy Van Den Stock (0000-0002-5553-7310, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, autor correspondente)
Ano2022
Volume48
Fascículo3
Páginas535-567
Data de publicação2022-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoModern China (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0097-7004 • E-ISSN: 1552-6836
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00977004211003030
OpenAlexW3158834113
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas44

The academic discipline of “ethnic minority philosophy,” which emerged at the beginning of the 1980s in the People’s Republic of China, has thus far remained virtually unstudied in Western-language scholarship. The aim of this article is to place the genesis and development of this little-known discipline against the wider background of modern Chinese scholarly and political discourses on the interrelated issues of national, ethnic, cultural, philosophical, and religious identity. In doing so, this article analyzes what I call the “hierarchical inclusion” of minority traditions into the history of Chinese philosophy, the perceived proximity between ethnic minority philosophies and “primitive religion,” and the role of the problematic concept of “culture” in the reinvention of minoritarian traditions of thought as philosophy

Aesthetics · China · Chinese philosophy · Ethnic group · Identity (music · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · Chinese history and philosophy · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies