This lecture will examine in detail Nietzsche's Buddhist origins, his Buddhist view and his view of truth presented in the texts of the Antichrist, with reference to the path of "Geyi（Isogesis格义）" in the development of Wei-Jin Buddhism.

The word "zang (脏)" in Mandarin means dirty, but its pronunciation is exactly the same as the word that means "true (真)" in Wenzhou dialect. 

The garden is either a place of divine grace where angels descend, or a labyrinth of lust and pleasure where the mind is seduced, either an Epicurean school where virtue is cultivated, or a land of decadence depicted by Bosch. In medieval dream-poetry, the protagonist often falls into dreamland and wanders into otherworldly places in a hortus conclusus, and such enclosed gardens can be subsumed under a broader concept of landscape: the locus amoenus, pleasant place which appears frequently in the writings of classical authors such as Horace and Virgil. 

In this seminar, we would like to reflect on these questions as well as to solidify our positions.

Perhaps no image is richer and more attuned to the symptoms of modernity than that of angels.

There are many similarities between the thinker Giorgio Agamben and the media theorist Vilém Flusser. Not only do they both critically reflect on the problem of evil in the present age, but they also respond to it with the highly revealing concepts of anarchē and groundlessness, respectively. But this further reveals the fundamental differences between the two.

I want to discuss issues related to the topic of "locality" in a divergent way by sharing these three stories, which are not strictly interconnected. For instance, can we extract a new way of perceiving time and space from "locality"? Can "locality" only be included as a specificity in a more general context? …

To understand Shanghai in the late Qing period, it is necessary to enter the worlds of ideas and knowledge as well as the worlds of sentiments and imagination. In that lies the significance of fiction.