Evaluations of Knowledge in Confucian Academies (C09)

• Subject Area: Asian Studies
• Term: since 2016
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 191249397

The project analyses East Asian examination cultures, focusing on Confucian Academies in China and Korea. Examinations and other forms of knowledge evaluation provide an important testimony that helps identify different modes of knowledge transfer in premodern East Asian societies. The project will concentrate on transformations and reconfigurations of knowledge during examination processes, focusing on ritual aspects, institutional settings and the existing textual canon.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 980: Episteme in Motion - Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period
• Applicant Institution: Freie Universität Berlin
• Project Head: Professorin Dr. Eun-Jeung Lee