Ping Wang

Ping Wang was born and educated in China with a Master's degree from Beijing Foreign Studies University, and then a PhD from the University of Sydney. She is an Associate Professor in  classical Chinese literature and philosophy in the School of Humanities and Languages at UNSW Sydney, Australia. Ping Wang’s research interest covers the area of  classical Chinese literature, philosophy and aesthetics

The project

Title: Writing in the Borderlands: frontier encounter between ancient Chinese and Indian cultures

“In the long history of the Yunnan area in Southwest China, numerous frontier wars and major conflicts stand out.  Apart from these, the area was also the scene of significant frontier encounters, which have not received much attention either in historical sources or in modern accounts. A major encounter which unfolded over several centuries and took various forms is that between Indian and Chinese cultural and intellectual traditions. This encounter concerned the domains of religion, world view, language and script, and we would expect to see spheres of influence meet or overlap such as shown in the multilingual or multigraphic records found in Yunnan. The proposed project will focus on the study of the bilingual (classical Chinese and Sanskrit) inscriptions and related materials from a multidisciplinary perspective, hoping to shed some new light on intercultural Buddhism.”

Institution: École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE)

Selective Bibliography

• Wang Ping (with Ian Johnston).  Mingjia and the Related Texts: Essentials in the Understanding of the Development of Pre-Qin Philosophy. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press,  2020  (distributed internationally by Columbia University Press), 1119pp.
• Wang Ping (with Ian Johnston).  Daxue & Zhongyong, Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2012  (distributed internationally by Columbia University Press). 567pp.
• Wang Ping. “The Gongsun Longzi – An Historical Overview” in The Gongsun Longzi and Other Neglected Texts: Aligning Philosophical and Philological Perspectives (eds. Rafael Suter, Lisa Indraccolo & Walfgang Behr).  Berlin: De Gruyter. 2020, pp. 25-44 (Chapter 1).
• Wang Ping. “The Chinese Concept of Friendship: Confucian Ethics and the Literati Narratives of Pre-Modern China” in Conceptualising Friendship in Time and Place  (eds. Carla Risseeuw, Marlein van Raalte). Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017, pp. 25-58 (Chapter 1).
• Wang Ping. “Lasting Sorrow: Chinese Literati ‘s Emotions” Literature & Aesthetics, 22 (1), 2012, pp. 234-256.