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celebrated in December 2005, the editors, the Institute Monumenta Serica and more than one hundred colleagues, scholars and former students were alluding to “the Joys of Sinology”, as expressed by Wolfgang Kubin himself at some earlier symposium. They were also teasing him for his lifelong research on “melancholy” in Chinese literature, lifeworld and culture.
After a non-exhaustive bibliography (nearly thirty pages long) of Professor Kubin’s writings, book reviews, translations from Chinese and his own literary works, the editors gathered in the volume forty studies contributed by scholars from Germany and Europe, Hong Kong, China, Australia, Canada and the USA. Most of the articles are written in German, and the editors made great efforts to organize their variety along broader yet perhaps too loose and disconnected themes.
Despite the high quality of the erudition expressed in the studies of this volume (it has more than 900 pages), the collection itself is lacking in any real structure. As such and also due to the fact that no topic or name index has been provided that can help later research, these miscellanies risk being deprived of some further developments.
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Yves Camus has supervised (1985-1998) the up-dated compilation of a Chinese-French dictionary, the Grand Dictionnaire Ricci de la Langue Chinoise in 7 volumes (300,000 entries, Paris, 2002). One of the Founding Members of the Institute, he has taken part in the conception and development of its Research and Cultural activities, especially as Associate Director and now Editor of this Chinese-English quarterly journal, launched in January 2004. He has recently been appointed Research Fellow of the Institute. His main fields of studies and interests are Chinese philosophical and spiritual traditions in modernity. |
