Source: Office of International Cooperation & Exchange
Written by: Office of International Cooperation & Exchange
Edited by: Wang Dongmei

On the morning of August 21, a four-member group led by Prof. Michael J. Puett from Department of East Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University visited SYSU. Prof. Chen Chunsheng, Executive Deputy Secretary and Vice President of SYSU, met with the guests, accompanied by Prof. Gan Yang, Dean of Liberal Arts College; Prof. Feng Dawen and Prof. Chen Shaoming from Department of Philosophy; Prof. Chen Sipeng from Department of Chinese; Dr. Yu Wei from Department of History; and Ms. Xu Yao, Deputy Director of Office of International Cooperation & Exchange of SYSU. The visiting guests also included Sun Guoping, Deputy Director of Guangdong Institute of Microbiology.


Prof. Puett said that the humanities disciplines at SYSU are among the best in Chinese universities, and he hoped to have more cooperation and exchange with SYSU teachers and students. He was also impressed by the missions and characteristics of the College as well as the qualities of its students.

After the meeting, the guests visited the Former Residence of Mr. Chen Yinque and South Campus of SYSU.

Michael Puett is the Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Chair of the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University, and Acting Director of the Asia Center. His interests are focused on the inter-relations between anthropology, history, religion, and philosophy. He is the author of The Ambivalence of Creation: Debates Concerning Innovation and Artifice in Early China and To Become a God: Cosmology, Sacrifice, and Self-Divinization in Early China. His course Classical Chinese Ethical and Political Theory has become one of the most popular courses at Harvard University.