PROJECTS
The Language of Emotion and Cognition in Early and Medieval Chinese Written Sources and Visual Arts
Theories and approaches to emotion in general (basic emotion theories, constructivist emotion theories, appraisal theories, etc.; history of mentalities, intellectual and conceptual history, history of emotion); problems of theories, models, taxonomies, and concepts of emotion
Chinese conceptualizations of emotion, components of the emotion process (stimulus event, physiology, cognition, expression, emotion labelling), emotion concepts, categorization and classification of emotions, semantics of emotion terms, lexicon of emotion terms and figurative language
Emotion and non-verbal behaviour as part of the emotion process (vocal expression; facial expression and eye behaviour, body movement, posture, gesture and space; haptic communication, odor, etc.)
Emotion in Chinese poetry and literature, music and visual arts, accounts of statecraft and law, ritual and ceremonial, religion, divination, military science, including warfare, medicine
Emotion terms and technical terminology (statecraft and institutions, divination, law, medicine)
Specific Emotions: primary (basic, fundamental, discrete) emotions, secondary (self-conscious, moral) emotions
Social-cultural and personality perspectives of emotion: meta-emotion and emotion regulation; aesthetic emotions
Form and Content
Pre-modern Chinese text production and genre theory
Literary theory and criticism
Talks on poetry (shi hua 詩話)