Sunday, July 12, 2020

585. Dr. Dave Wang's Article Discussed at European Forum on US and China Relations

In January 2020 in Amsterdam, Holland, the International Forum, China's Rise in a Liberal World Order in Transition was held. Dr. Nana de Graaff, an Associate Professor of Political Science in the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam wrote an introduction to the Forum. In his review article, Dr. Dave Wang's paper, "Confucius in American Founding: The Founders' Efforts to Use Confucian Moral Philosophy to Create New Virtue for the New Nation, Virginia Review of Asian Studies,  vol. 16, 2015, 11-26. 

In addition to be Associate Professor in Political Science and International Relations at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Dr. Nana de Graaff also serves as Director of Studies for the BSc and MSc Political Science at this department and Programme director of the Graduate School of Social Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Dr. Nana de Graaff is is Chair of the EU COST Action 18215 China in Europe Research Network. She was a Honorary Fellow (2016-2017), at the Department of International Politics, City University of London and is board member of the Dutch Political Science Association (NKWP, Nederlandse Kring voor de Wetenschap der Politiek) since 2015.  

Below I will quote her article, "The point is that within the narratives of American and Chinese relations, it is possible to tell a story of mutually shared interests and values, extending into the deep past, to provide ideational scaffoldings to economic and financial interdependence (see Chang 2011 on shared underlying philosophical ideas and values of universalism, and equal human worth, between the United States and China; and Dave Wang, 2014 on the Influence of Confucian values and thought on the revolutionary years of the American Republic. (see the snapshots below for more information on the International forum and Dr. Nana de Graaff 's review of the forum. Thank Dr. Nana de Graaff' s great review.