CCS News and Activities(Vol.37 No.4)

CCS Seminars The Center for Chinese Studies (CCS) held two seminars this summer, one on July 26 and the other on August 29,2006. At the first seminar, CCS visiting scholar Uffe Bergeton presented a paper on “The Concepts of ‘Pure’ and ‘Impure’ in Confucianist Reclusive Thought.” The seminar was hosted by Assistant Professor Wim de Reu of the Department of Philosophy, National Taiwan University. Mr. Bergeton, a doctoral candidate at the Department of East Asian Languages and Culture, University of Southern California, believes that while Daoist reclusives have a prominent place in Chinese history, reclusive thought among Confucianists also played an important role.