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Christoph Harbsmeier

Professor emeritus
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Email christoph.harbsmeier@ikos.uio.no
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Postal address Peblinge Dossering 32 1.th 2200 København N

Academic Interests

Christoph Harbsmeier is Professor of Chinese in the University of Oslo. He is also holds honorary professorships at Peking University, Fudan University (Shanghai), Wuhan University, Zhejiang University, Shanghai Normal University, and East China Normal University.

His main work is in the history of science (logic), conceptual history, historical linguistics, and modern Chinese cartoons.
He is the editor of the international project Thesaurus Linguae Sericae.

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Tags: Chinese, East Asia, China

Publications

  • Harbsmeier, Christoph (2015). On the nature of early confucian classical chinese discourse on ethical norms. Journal of Value Inquiry. ISSN 0022-5363. 49(4), p. 517–541. doi: 10.1007/s10790-015-9530-9. Full text in Research Archive
  • Harbsmeier, Christoph (2015). The Philosophy of the Analytic Appercu. In Gentz, Joachim & Meyer, Dirk (Ed.), Literary Forms of Argument in Early China. De Gruyter Brill. ISSN 9789004291607. p. 158–174. Full text in Research Archive
  • Harbsmeier, Christoph (2013). Concepts That Make Multiple Modernities: The Conceptual Modernisation of China in a Historical and Critical Perspective. In Kwong-loi, Shun (Eds.), Institute of Chinese Studies Visiting Professor Lecture Series (III). Institute of Chinese Studies. ISSN 9789626335048. p. 23–46. Full text in Research Archive
  • Harbsmeier, Christoph (2013). Zhao Qi he Hanyu Konyu de lishi (Zhao Qi and the History of Colloqual Chinese). In Shongli, Feng (Eds.), Hanyu shumianyu de Lishi yu xian zhuang (Written Chinese. The Present and the Past). Peking University Press. ISSN 9787301226865. p. 117–125. Full text in Research Archive
  • Harbsmeier, Christoph (2013). The Birth of Confucianism from Competition with Organized Mohism. Journal of Chinese Studies. ISSN 1016-4464. Full text in Research Archive
  • Harbsmeier, Christoph (2013). Plurality and Subclassification of Nouns in Classical Chinese. In Xu, Dan-Dan (Eds.), Plurality and Classifiers in Languages Across China. De Gruyter Mouton. ISSN 9783110293821. p. 121–142. doi: 10.1515/9783110293982.121. Full text in Research Archive
  • Harbsmeier, Christoph (2012). Wenhua jiechu yuyanxue Beijing Xia de Dongganyu yanjiu - "Dongganyu diaocha yanjiu" xu. In Lin, Tao (Eds.), Dongganyu diaocha yanjiu. Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Publishers. ISSN 9787516114186. p. 11–17. Full text in Research Archive
  • Harbsmeier, Christoph (2012). Further Reflections on the Unity and Diversity of the Human Mind. East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine (EAST). ISSN 1562-918X. p. 177–195. doi: 10.1163/26669323-03601007. Full text in Research Archive
  • Harbsmeier, Christoph (2011). Glück in China. In Thomä, Dieter; Henning, Christoph & Mitscherlich, Olivia (Ed.), Glück. Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch. Verlag J. B. Metzler. ISSN 9783476022851. doi: 10.1007/978-3-476-00372-0_62. Full text in Research Archive
  • Harbsmeier, Christoph (2011). Reading the One Hundred Parables Sūtra: The Dialogue Preface and the Gāthā Postface, Zen Rhetoric and Doctrine in China, Korea, and Japan. De Gruyter Brill. ISSN 9789004185562. doi: 10.1163/9789004206281_005. Full text in Research Archive
  • Harbsmeier, Christoph (2011). Vasilii Mikhailovich Alekseev and Russian Sinology. T'oung pao (Print). ISSN 0082-5433. 97(4-5), p. 344–370. doi: 10.1163/156853211X592543. Full text in Research Archive
  • Harbsmeier, Christoph (2010). Towards a conceptual history of some concepts of Nature in Classical Chinese. In Vogel, Ulrich; Dux, Gunter & Elvin, Mark (Ed.), Concepts of Nature: A Chinese-European Cross-Cultural Perspective. De Gruyter Brill. ISSN 9789004185265. p. 220–254. Full text in Research Archive
  • Harbsmeier, Christoph (2010). On the Very Notions of Language and the Chinese Language. Histoire Epistémologie Langage. ISSN 0750-8069. 31(2), p. 143–161. Full text in Research Archive
  • Harbsmeier, Christoph (2010). Autochthonous Cinese Conceptual History in a Jocular Narrative Key: The Emotional Engagement Qing. In Joas, Hans & Klein, Barbro (Ed.), The Benefit of Broad Horizons.Intellectual and institutional preconditions for a global social science. De Gruyter Brill. ISSN 9789004192843. p. 293–313. Full text in Research Archive
  • Harbsmeier, Christoph (2010). Some Philosophical Notes On the Gu6dian Manuscript Yucong1. In 何, 志華 (Eds.), 先秦兩漢古籍國際學術研討會論文集. 社會科學文獻出版社. ISSN 9787509717592. Full text in Research Archive
  • Harbsmeier, Christoph (2010). Clavis Syntactica. A Key to Some Basic Syntactic Categories in Classical Chinese (I). In Fang, Yixin (Eds.), Han yu shi xue bao 漢語史學報. Zhejiang Jiaoyu Chubanshe 浙江教育出版社. ISSN 9787544431460. p. 35–56. Full text in Research Archive
  • Harbsmeier, Christoph & Bottéro, F. (2008). Xu Shen and the History of the Human Sciences. Asia Major. ISSN 0004-4482. 21, p. 249–271. Full text in Research Archive
  • Harbsmeier, Christoph (2004). The axial millennium in China: a brief survey. In Arnason, Johann (Eds.), Axial civilizations and world history. De Gruyter Brill. Full text in Research Archive
  • Harbsmeier, Christoph (2003). The semantics of qing, Emotions in Chinese Culture. De Gruyter Brill. p. 32–108. Full text in Research Archive
  • Harbsmeier, Christoph (2001). The Rhetoric of Premodern Prose Style. In Mair, Victor (Eds.), Columbia History of Chinese Philosophy. Columbia University Press. p. 881–908. Full text in Research Archive
  • Harbsmeier, Christoph (2001). May Fourth Linguistic Orthodoxy and Rhetoric: Some Informal Comparative Notes. In Lackner, Michael; Amelung, Iwo & Kurtz, Joachim (Ed.), New Terms for New Ideas: Western Knowledge & Lexical change in Late Imperial China. De Gruyter Brill. ISSN 9789004120464. Full text in Research Archive
  • Harbsmeier, Christoph (2001). Rationalite dans l'histoire intellectuelle de la Chine. In Bronkhorst, Johannes (Eds.), Rationality in Asia. De Gruyter Brill. p. 127–151. Full text in Research Archive
  • Harbsmeier, Christoph (1999). Chinese Rhetoric. T'oung pao. Monographies. ISSN 0169-832X. 85, p. 114–127. Full text in Research Archive
  • Harbsmeier, Christoph (1998). Xunzi and the First Person Pronoun. Early China. ISSN 0362-5028. 22, p. 181–220. Full text in Research Archive
  • Harbsmeier, Christoph (1995). Eroticism in Early Chinese Poetry. Sundry Comparative Notes, Das andere China. Harassowitz. p. 323–380. Full text in Research Archive
  • Harbsmeier, Christoph (1993). La connaissance du chinois" in Sylvain Auroux, ed., Histoire des id¿es linguistiques, tome 2, Histoire des idees linguistiques, vol. 2. p. 299–312. Full text in Research Archive
  • Harbsmeier, Christoph (1993). Conceptions of knowledge in ancient China. Epistemological issues in classical Chinese philosophy. p. 11–33. Full text in Research Archive
  • Harbsmeier, Christoph (1991). The mass noun hypothesis and the part-whole analysis of the White Horse Dialogue. Chinese texts and philosophical contexts. p. 49–66. Full text in Research Archive
  • Harbsmeier, Christoph (1990). Confucius Ridens: Humor in the Analaects. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. ISSN 0073-0548. 50(1), p. 131–161. Full text in Research Archive
  • Harbsmeier, Christoph (1990). Some desultory speculations on non-restrictive modification of nouns and parentheses in Latin and pre-Han Chinese. To Soren Egerod on his Sixty-Seventh Birthday. p. 107–117. Full text in Research Archive
  • Harbsmeier, Christoph (1989). Humour in ancient Chinese philosophy. Philosophy East & West. ISSN 0031-8221. 39(3), p. 131–161. Full text in Research Archive
  • Harbsmeier, Christoph (1989). The classical Chinese modal particle yi. Proceedings Second International Conference on Sinology, Academia Sinica. p. 471–503. Full text in Research Archive
  • Harbsmeier, Christoph (1989). Marginalia sino-logica. Understanding the Chinese Mind: The Philosophical roots. p. 59–83. Full text in Research Archive
  • Harbsmeier, Christoph (1988). Marginalia sino-theologica. Exegetisk Aarskrift. p. 26–42. Full text in Research Archive
  • Harbsmeier, Christoph (1987). Where do Classical Chinese nouns come from? Early China. ISSN 0362-5028. p. 77–163. Full text in Research Archive
  • Harbsmeier, Christoph (1986). Some preliminary remarks on Chinese jokes and cartoons. China in the 90ies and Beyond. p. 30–77. Full text in Research Archive
  • Harbsmeier, Christoph (1980). Current issues in Classical Chinese grammar. ACTA ORIENTALIA (København). ISSN 0001-6438. p. 126–148. Full text in Research Archive
  • Harbsmeier, Christoph (1978). H.C. Andersen in China. Anderseniana. ISSN 0084-6465. 2, p. 289–310. Full text in Research Archive

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