#  Fighting Feelings with Feelings: The Quanzhen Daoist Ordering of Emotional Life 

 



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 **November 18, 2024** 

 04:00PM - 04:00PM EST 

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 **2 Divinity Ave., Yenching Common Room**  



 

 



 

##  [CHINA HUMANITIES](/china-humanities)

##  SPEAKER: Ya Zuo, University of California, Santa Barbara

 Quanzhen Daoism wielded a profound influence across eastern Eurasia, shaping the intellectual landscape of the Jurchen Jin dynasty (1115–1234) and leaving a lasting impact on the Mongol Yuan empire (1279–1368). In this talk, I delve into the focus on emotions in Quanzhen philosophy. The religion emphasized the qing (emotions/feelings) as a central concept and assigned its clergy with an active role in emotional stewardship. Highly critical of conventional feelings and desires, Quanzhen Daoists sought to convert followers to a new affective regime known as the “feelings of the dao.”

###  About the Speaker

 Ya Zuo is an associate professor of History at University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a cultural historian of middle and late imperial China, and the author of *Shen Gua’s Empiricism* (Harvard Asia Center, 2018), with the Chinese translation published by Zhonghua Book Company in 2024. Driven by interdisciplinary interests, she has written a range of articles on topics such as theory of knowledge, sensory history, medical history, book history, and the history of emotions. She is currently working on a book on crying and tears in middle-period China.



 

 



 

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