30 October 2026 (Fri)
CHRP Research Seminar Series | How Three Missionary-Scholars/ Translators Dealt with the Problems associated with Zhu Xi’s (1130-1200) New Version of the Daxue《大學》/Great Learning
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| Date: | 30 October (Fri) |
| Time: | 2:00 – 3:20pm |
| Location: | WLB206, 2/F, The Wing Lung Bank Building for Business Studies, Shaw Campus |
| Speaker: | Prof. Lauren Pfister |
| Language: | English |
In this talk, Prof. Pfister will address how three missionary-scholars who translated the text of the Great Learning (大学) handled the textual and interpretive problems. Those three missionary-scholars are James Legge (1815-1897), Séraphin Couvreur (1835-1919), and Richard Wilhelm (1873-1930).
Prof. Lauren Pfister
Professor Emeritus of Hong Kong Baptist University and now Rector of the Hephzibah Mountain Aster Academy, Lauren F. Pfister / 費樂仁 is a philosopher, sinologist, and theologian. A former Head of Department of Religion and Philosophy and Director of the Sino-Christian Studies Center at HKBU, he is a founding member of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities and a former Associate Editor of the Journal of Chinese Philosophy. For over three decades, he has studied "missionary-scholars" as translators of Ruist ("Confucian") and Daoist classical texts, exploring their interpretive influences within both contemporary Euro-American and Chinese cultural settings.
