Since March 2025 Tong Zhang is a guest researcher at the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies. He holds a position as Assistant Professor at BI Norwegian Business School. His research spans the sociology of religion, sociology of science, philosophy of science, and international politics. With a focus on Max Weber’s interpretivist approach, he…
Day: April 9, 2025
CeMEAS Conversation: Felix Erdt
In this interview, we explore Felix Erdt’s research on how Confucian scholars from Sichuan engaged with Western concepts of history and progress during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Erdt delves into how these thinkers reconciled traditional Chinese philosophical frameworks, such as Yin and Yang, with the modern idea of an open, unpredictable future.…