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Professor YUASA Kunihiro: Chinese Excavated Documents Research — The Legitimacy of Royal Authority and the Issue of Succession to the Throne (2025/11/13)

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With the generous support from the Eurasia Foundation (from Asia), the Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology will organize a new lecture series “Encounters in the Old World, East and West: From a Transdisciplinary Perspective” from October 2025 to April 2026. The series will feature 15 lectures, focusing on early interaction, connectivity, and relationships across time and space between European and Asian civilizations. The sixth session will be delivered by Professor YUASA Kunihiro, all are welcome. The event details are as follows:

 

Chinese Excavated Documents Research — The Legitimacy of Royal Authority and the Issue of Succession to the Throne

Speaker: Professor YUASA Kunihiro
Professor Emeritus, The University of Osaka
Associate Director, The Shirakawa Shizuka Institute of East Asian Characters and Culture, Ritsumeikan University

Date: 13 November 2025, Thursday
Time: 10:30–12:00
Venue: SWT702, Level 7, Shaw Tower, Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Language: Japanese (with translation in Putonghua)
Registration form: https://forms.office.com/r/CZTansLUVH

Abstract: The origin and legitimacy of royal authority have long been one of the most important themes in the history of Chinese thought. This presentation will use the newly unearthed documents, namely the Wuju and Sanbuwei texts from the Tsinghua University Warring States Bamboo Manuscripts, as well as the Zhouxun texts from the Peking University Western Han Bamboo Manuscripts, in order to clarify what kinds of intellectual systems were formed in ancient China.

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