Changing Chinese World Orientation: The Introduction of International Law in Late Qing China

The University of Texas at Austin hosts a talk with Dr. Rune Swarverud

A talk by Dr. Rune Svarverud

Dr. Rune Svarverud is a Professor and Deputy Head of Research in the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages at the University of Oslo. 

Dr. Svarverud's main academic interests are the language, history and intellectual history of China. He has mainly been working on two separate periods in Chinese history. The first of these two is the early period of Chinese philosophy and thought during the pre-Qin period and the Han dynasty. The second of these periods is the time following the Opium War in 1840 and the subsequent encounters between Chinese and western culture, language and thought. Within these two periods, he has worked with the history of concepts, textual history, the history of Chinese philosophy and ideas, cultural encounters, modernity and individualism.