WEN Yuanchang 文源长

Education:

• 10 / 2022 – present: doctoal candidate at Abteilung für Sinology, Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany
• 9 / 2017 – 10 / 2020: M.A. in Comparative Literature and Cross-cultural Study in School of History, Beijing Foreign Studies University, P. R. China
• 9 / 2013 – 6 / 2017: B.A. in Translation Studies (English-Chinese) in School of English and International Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University, P. R. China

Conference speech:

• “An Analysis of Hu Shih’s use of the Concept ‘Universals’ in An Outline History of Chinese Philosophy 近代中西知识迁移史视域下的“共相”概念研究——以胡适《中国哲学史大纲》为例”, read at “2018 International Conference on Humanities Research on the East Asian Region by the Next Generation of Scholars”.

Honors and awards:

• 2017: First-Class Scholarship, Beijing Foreign Studies University
• 2018: Second-Class Scholarship, Beijing Foreign Studies University
• 2019: Top-class Scholarship, Beijing Foreign Studies University

Title: Translation and Reception of Hegel in Early Modern China

Introduction and translation of western philosophy into Chinese constituted a major part of the knowledge transfer in early modern China. Against a background marked by turbulence in intellectual world and the transformation of the Chinese language in preparing itself to articulate the foreign thoughts, the translation of Hegel at the early stage stood out with distinctive features in its understanding of Hegel as well as the the coinage of terms in Chinese. My dissertation will primarily focus on the three early translations of Hegel in China, and by applying the hermeneutic approach, it aims to reveal the underlying personal, as well as historical influence and how Hegel’s philosophy was understood at the time.