Dr. Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee, professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawai‘i–West O‘ahu, was invited to deliver public lectures last November by the Philosophy Department at Wuhan University in China.
“It was a great honor to have this opportunity to engage students and faculty alike at a prestigious university as Wuhan University on feminist philosophy and Confucianism, and to contribute to the ongoing movement of world philosophies,” Rosenlee said.
She noted that Wuhan University is among the top-ranked in Asia for philosophy, according to the QS World University Rankings by Subject, an annual publication that ranks the world’s top universities and consists of more than 50 subjects across five broad faculty areas.
Rosenlee delivered her first lecture on Nov. 13. Titled, “Records of Compatibility between Talent and Virtue in Early Chinese History,” it was based on her research on “Women’s Records in Early Chinese History” (2023).
Her second lecture, on Nov. 15, was “Confucianism and Modernity: Its Practical Implications.” It was based on her latest monograph, “Confucian Feminism: A Practical Ethic for Life” (Bloomsbury Publishing 2024), with two book commentators from Xidian University, China — Professor of Philosophy Shuchen Xiang and Professor of Philosophy Jacob Bender — for a more in-depth discussion on her monograph.
“My book proposes a hybrid feminist theory using characteristic Confucian terms, concepts, and methods to envision a liberating, feminist future for all transculturally and transnationally,” Rosenlee said in a previous article following the book’s publication.