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Thanks to Professor Qi Yongxiang and Li Changran's invitation. I delivered a lecture based upon my new reflection on my 2015 book  China's Transition to Modernity . The written version of the talk will be published in 2020.

My friend Xiaowei Zheng's review  of Cosmopolitanism in China, 1600–1950 is published on  Frontiers of Literary Studies in China  Volume 13, issue 1 (January 2019): 157–164. We appreciate her insightful critique that our theoretical use of cosmopolitanism remains incoherent and somewhat shallow. To clarify our editorial principle, I would like to borrow some lines from R. Bin Wong's review of our book: "The volume shows the meanings of cosmopolitanism for different kinds of people in Qing China, including Manchus, Muslims, Koreans (in relation to the Qing, if not in the Qing). It further explicates the multiple framings within which different modalities of cosmopolitanism were achieved, including Buddhist and Confucian. It also shows cosmopolitanism not merely as a feature of thought, but suggests implications of such approaches in matters of governance." Please see Cambria Press' link to our book. It has been three years since the volume was published in 20

I left Guangzhou for Jinan, Shandong and delivered a talk to an exciting audience on the nexus of Confucianism and science. My host took me to the Archaeological Museum of Shandong University. It was very impressive!!

Thanks to my friend An Dongqiang 安东强, I delivered two talks at the Department of History in Sun Yat-sen University. It was great to meet so many interesting friends and to see Guangzhou for the first time!