Joachim Kurtz

Assistant Professor

Office:	301 REALC
Phone:	404 727 3057
Fax:	404 712 8511
E-mail:	jpkurtz@emory.edu

Areas of interest

Intellectual History of Late Imperial China
Chinese Political Thought, Philosophy and Logic
History of Science in China
Translation Studies and Historical Semantics

Courses taught

Science in China, 1600-1900, Fall 2006, Emory
Tradition in Modern China, Fall 2003, 2004, and 2005, Emory
Literature in Early and Imperial China, Fall 2004, 2005, and 2006, Emory
Foreigners in Imperial China, Spring 2004, Spring 2006, Emory
Confucian Classics, Fall 2003, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Emory
Intermediate Chinese (CHN 202), Spring 2004 and Spring 2005, Emory
"Old Stories Retold": Interpretations of Tradition in Modern China, Spring 2002, Erlangen
Methodological Issues in Transcultural Histories of Science and Thought (Parts I and II), Fall 2001 and Spring 2002, Erlangen (co-taught with members of the Interdisciplinary Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science)
Leichte schriftsprachliche Lektüre (Readings in Classical Chinese), Fall 2001, Erlangen
Hilfsmittel der Sinologie (Research Tools in Chinese Studies), Fall 2000 and Fall 2001, Erlangen
Texte zu Menschenrechten und Demokratie in China (Readings on Human Rights and Democracy in China), Spring 2001, Erlangen
Grundbegriffe der altchinesischen Philosophie (Basic Concepts of Ancient Chinese Philosophy), Spring 2001, Erlangen
Chinesische Geistesgeschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts (Chinese Intellectual History, 1800-1900), Fall 2000, Erlangen
Advanced Readings in Chinese Science and Thought, Fall 1999 and Spring 2000, TU Berlin (co-taught with Fabrizio Pregadio and Martina Siebert)
Westliches Wissen in China vom 17. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart (Western Knowledge in China, 1600-present), Spring 1999, FU Berlin (including a tutorial devoted to problems of translation)
Deutsche Philosophie in China (German Philosophy in China), Spring 1998, Göttingen
Nationalismus in China (Nationalism in China), Spring 1997, Göttingen

Current Projects

Digital Library of Western Knowledge in Late Imperial China. Continuously expanded in cooperation with Shen Guowei, Iwo Amelung and Uchida Keiichi. Online at: <http://www.wsc.uni-erlangen.de/etexts>
Bibliography of Western Knowledge in Late Imperial China, 1800-1911. 2 vols. Co-editor with Michael Lackner and Iwo Amelung. To be published by Brill Academic Publishers (Handbook of Oriental Studies) (in progress)
The Discovery of Chinese Logic. Genealogy of a Twentieth-century Discourse. Revised version of Ph.D.-thesis (in progress)

Selected Publications

Books

Selbstbehauptungsdiskurse in Asien: China - Japan - Korea (Asian Discourses of Self-Assertion: China - Japan - Korea). Co-edited with I. Amelung, M. Koch, et al. Munich: Iudicium Verlag 2003.
New Terms for New Ideas. Western Knowledge and Lexical Change in Late Imperial China. Co-edited with M. Lackner and I. Amelung. Leiden: Brill 2001.
De l'un au multiple. Traductions du chinois vers les langues européennes. Translations from Chinese into European Languages. Edited by Viviane Alleton and Michael Lackner in collaboration with Joachim Kurtz and Kirsten Pöhlker. Paris: Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme 1998.
J. G. Fichte in China. Materialien zu den Anfängen der chinesischen Rezeption eines deutschen Philosophen (Fichte in China. Materials on the Early Chinese Reception of a German Philosopher). M.A.-thesis, Free University of Berlin 1997.

Arcticles and Chapters in Books

Messenger of the Sacred Heart: Li Wenyu (1840-1911) and Jesuit Publishing in Late Qing Shanghai. Accepted for publication in Cynthia J. Brockaw and Christopher A. Reed (eds). From Woodblocks to the Internet: Chinese Print and Publishing Culture in Transition (in preparation).
Translating the Vocation of Man: Liang Qichao (1873-1929), J.G. Fichte, and the Body Politic in Early Republican China. In Why Concepts Matter: Translating Social and Political Concepts. Edited by Martin J. Burke and Melvin Richter. Leiden: Brill (in press).
Philosophie hinter den Spiegeln. Chinas Suche nach einer philosophischen Identität (Philosophy Behind the Looking Glass: China's Search for a Philosophical Identity). In Zwischen Selbstbestimmung und Selbstbehauptung: Ostasiatische Diskurse des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts (Between Selfdetermination and Self-Assertion: East Asian Discourses of the 20th and 21st Centuries). Edited by Michael Lackner. Baden Baden: Nomos (in press).
Was tun mit Chinas Nationaler Essenz? Disziplingeschichte versus Nationale Studien, 1898-1991 (How to Preserve China's National Essence: Disciplinary Histories versus National Studies, 1898-1911). In Über Himmel und Erde: Festschrift für Erling von Mende (On Heaven and Earth. Festschrift for E. v. Mende). Edited by Raimund Th. Kolb and Martina Siebert. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2006, pp. 261-280.
The Works of Li Wenyu (1840-1911): Bibliography of a Chinese-Jesuit Publicist. Wakumon 11 (2006), pp. 147-156.
Matching Names and Actualities. Translation and the Discovery of Chinese Logic. In Mapping Meanings. The Field of New Knowledge in Late Qing China. Edited by Michael Lackner and Natascha Vittinghoff. Leiden: Brill 2004, pp. 471-506.
The First Chinese Adaptation of Mill's Logic: John Fryer and his Lixue xuzhi (1898). Wakumon 8 (2004), pp. 35-52.
Yuyan jiechu yu Zhongguo jindai sixiang shi (Language Contact and Modern Chinese Intellectual History). In Yuyan jiechu lunji (Essays on Language Contact). Edited by You Rujie and Zou Jiayan. Shanghai: Shanghai jiaoyu chubanshe 2004, pp. 170-194.
New Terms for Telling the Truth: Notes on the Formation of Modern Chinese Logical Terminology. East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine 20 (2003), pp. 71-93, i-viii.
Selbstbehauptung mit geliehener Stimme: J. G. Fichte als Redner an die chinesische Nation (Self-Assertion with a Borrowed Voice: Fichte's Addresses to the Chinese Nation). In Selbstbehauptungsdiskurse in Asien. Munich: Iudicium Verlag, pp. 219-242. (Chinese translation in preparation.)
Logik (Logic). In Das Große China-Lexikon (China Manual). Edited by Brunhild Staiger, Stefan Friedrich and Hans-Wilm Schütte. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2003, pp. 453-454.
Translating the Science of Sciences. European and Japanese Models in the Formation of Modern Chinese Logical Terminology, 1886-1911. In Historiography and Japanese Consciousness of Values and Norms, Part 1: People, Words, and Things: Cultural Exchange Among China, Japan, and the West. Edited by James A. Baxter and Joshua A. Fogel. Kyoto: International Research Institute for Japanese Studies 2002, pp. 53-76.
Coming to Terms with 'Logic'. The Naturalization of an Occidental Notion in China. In New Terms for New Ideas. Leiden: Brill 2001, pp. 147-176.
Introduction (with I. Amelung and M. Lackner). In New Terms for New Ideas. Leiden: Brill 2001, pp. 1-12.