The Fate of Emperor Diku. Chinese Scholars and European Missionaries Writing on Early Chinese History in the 17th and 18th Centuries

Nicolas Standaert will talk on missionary writings on early China at Princeton University.

Dr. Nicolas Standaert was born on 15 October 1959 at Antwerpen, Belgium. In 1982 he got his Bachelor and Master’s degree in Chinese Studies at University of Leiden (the Netherlands). Later he spent a year in studying Chinese history and philosophy at Fudan University, Shanghai. In 1984 he got his Ph.D Chinese Studies at University of Leiden. What’s more, he got the Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and Theology at Centre Sèvres, Paris in 1990. And in 1994 he got his Licentiate in Theology, Fujen University, Taibei.
Since 1993, Dr. Nicolas Standaert has been a professor of Chinese Studies, K.U. Leuven (Belgium). He worked as a research assistant in Sinological Institute Leiden in 1984 and collaborator of China News Analysis, Hong Kong from 1990 to 1992. Since 2003 he has been a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Belgium.
Dr. Nicolas Standaert’s academic interest is in the contact between China and Europe in the seventeenth century, especially the ways in which Chinese scholars received and reacted upon European culture. He is a renowned scholar for his contributions towards the study on Sinology education, society, culture and history in late Ming and early Qing Dynasties and the Republic of China era. He loves Chinese language and culture and has been invited to China for many times for various exchange programs with the universities or academies. He has made great contributions to the East-West cultural exchanges.
Dr. Nicolas Standaert is the Zhang Kaiyuan Academic Forum scholar in 2004. He will give a series of lectures on "Ritual in the Exchange between China and Europe in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries". The first lecture will be about the methodology in view of contact between cultures which links to ritual, and some aspects of European sinology. The second lecture will be an observation of ritual in seventeenth century China through eyes of one particular topic: Chinese ritual dances. The third lecture is about Chinese Christian funerals in seventeenth century China.