# Jana S. Rošker

Jana S. Rošker (Chinese: 罗亚娜; born 21 May 1960) is a Slovenian sinologist.

## Biography

Jana Rošker was born in 1960 in Murska Sobota. She was a student of sinology, journalism and pedagogy at the University of Vienna. She has also studied at Beijing Foreign Studies University, Nankai University and Beijing University. Rošker received her PhD from the University of Vienna in 1988 for her thesis Theories of the State and Anarchist Criticism of the State in China at the Turn of the Century (original in German: 'Staatstheorien und anarchistische Staatskritik in China um die Jahrhundertwende'). During her studies and later in life, she spent over ten years in People's Republic of China and Taiwan.

## Academic career

In her research she mostly examines subjects related to Modern Chinese philosophy, Chinese logic, Chinese epistemology, the methodology of intercultural research and the theory of knowledge. In these research fields, she has published over 30 books, a dozen edited volumes, as well as over 300 articles and chapters in monographs. From 1996 to 2022, she was a professor at the Department of Asian Studies at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana. She is one of the founders of this department and chaired it for several years. She was one of the hosts of the XVI. Biennial Conference of the European Association of Chinese Studies, which was held in Ljubljana in 2006, and the chief organizer of many other international conferences in Chinese studies.
Rošker is the founder, the first president, and honorary member of the European Association for Chinese Philosophy and the chief editor of the academic journal Asian Studies. From 2024 to 2025, she is serving as the president of the International Society for Chinese Philosophy.

## Prizes and awards

* 2010: Great Prize of the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
* 2013: Slovene National Research Agency (ARRS) Award for an extraordinary research achievement in humanities – for the book Chinese Philosophy and the Paradigm of Structure
* 2015: Zois Award – Slovene national award for research achievements – for the book Searching for the Way - Theories of Knowledge in pre-Modern and Modern China
* 2015: Golden Plaque of the University of Ljubljana for contributions in research and high education
* 2020: French-Taiwanese Cultural Foundation Award (Prix de la Fondation culturelle franco-taïwanaise)
* 2022: Bertrand Russell Book Award – for the book Bertrand Russell's Visit to China – Selected Texts on the Centenary of Intercultural Dialogues in Logic and Epistemology (together with Jan Vrhovski)
* 2023: University of Ljubljana Award for the most outstanding research achievement – for the book Interpreting Chinese Philosophy - A New Methodology

## Selected bibliography

* 1992: Zmajeva hiša: oris kitajske kulture in civilizacije [in Slovene] (The House of Dragon – An Outline of Chinese Culture and Civilization); Ljubljana; Cankarjeva založba [sl]
* 1995: Za zidovi varnosti in hrepenenja: koncept države v kitajski tradiciji [in Slovene] (Behind the Walls of Safety and Yearning – The Concept of State in Chinese Tradition); Radovljica; Didakta
* 1996: Metodologija medkulturnih raziskav [in Slovene] (Methodology of Intercultural Research); Ljubljana; University of Ljubljana; Faculty of Arts, Department of African and Asian Studies
* 1999: Učbenik slovnice k predmetu Sodobna kitajščina [in Slovene] (Contemporary Chinese Grammar – Textbook); Ljubljana; University of Ljubljana; Faculty of Arts, Department of African and Asian Studies
* 2005: Na ozki brvi razumevanja: medkulturna metodologija v sinoloških študijah [in Slovene] (On the Narrow Footbridge of Understanding – Intercultural Methodology in Sinological Studies); Ljubljana; University of Ljubljana; Faculty of Arts, Department of African and Asian Studies
* 2008: Sodobna teoretska kitajščina na področju humanistike in družboslovja: semantične strukture in znanstvena ter strokovna terminologija sodobne kitajščine [in Slovene] (Contemporary Theoretic Chinese in Humanism and Social Studies – Semantic Structures, and Scientific and Professional Terminology in Contemporary Chinese); Ljubljana; University of Ljubljana; Faculty of Arts, Department of African and Asian Studies
* 2010: Odnos kot jedro spoznanja: kitajska filozofija od antičnih klasikov do modernega konfucijanstva [in Slovene] (Relationship as the Heart of Cognition – Chinese Philosophy from Chinese Classics to Modern Confucianism); Ljubljana; Cankarjeva založba
* 2012: Traditional Chinese Philosophy and the Paradigm of Structure (Li); Newcastle upon Tyne; Cambridge Scholars Publishing
* 2013: Subjektova nova oblačila – idejne osnove modernizacije v delih druge generacije modernega konfucijanstvo [in Slovene] (The Subject's New Clothes – the Ideological Basis of Modernization in the Works of the Second Generation of Modern Confucianism; Ljubljana: Ljubljana University Press
* 2014: Kjer vlada sočlovečnost, je ljudstvo srečno: tradicionalne kitajske teorije države [in Slovene] (Humane Government, Happy People – Traditional Chinese State Theories); Ljubljana; Educational Research Institute
* 2015: Wang Hui in vprašanje modernosti ter demokracije na Kitajskem [in Slovene] (Wang Hui and the Issue of Modernity and Democracy in China); Ljubljana; Ljubljana University Press
* 2016: The Rebirth of the Moral Self: the Second Generation of Modern Confucians and their Modernization Discourses; Hong Kong; Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
* 2016: Anarchismus in China an der Schwelle des 20. Jahrhunderts – Eine vergleichende Studie zu Staatstheorie und anarchistischem Gedankengut in China und Europa [in German] (Anarchism in China at the Threshold of the 20th Century – A Comparative Study of State Theory and Anarchist Thought in China and Europe); Saarbrücken; Südwestdeutscher Verlag für Hochschulschriften
* 2019: Following His Own Path – Li Zehou and Contemporary Chinese Philosophy; Albany; SUNY Press
* 2020: V senci velikih mojstrov: vprašanje žensk v kitajski filozofiji na primeru dveh sodobnih tajvanskih filozofinj [in Slovene] (In the Shadow of the Grand Masters: The Question of Women in Chinese Philosophy in the Case of Two Contemporary Taiwanese Philosophers); Ljubljana; Ljubljana University Press
* 2020: Becoming Human – Li Zehou's Ethics; Leiden, Boston; Brill Publishers
* 2021: Kriza kot nevarnost in upanje: etika pandemij, razcvet avtokracij in sanje o avtonomiji v transkulturni perspektivi [in Slovene] (Crisis as Danger and Hope: The Ethics of Pandemics, the Rise of Autocracies and the Dream of Autonomy in a Transcultural Perspective); Ljubljana; Ljubljana University Press
* 2021: Female Philosophers in Contemporary Taiwan and the Problem of Women in Chinese Thought; Newcastle upon Tyne; Cambridge Scholars Publishing
* 2021: Interpreting Chinese Philosophy: A New Methodology; London, New York; Bloomsbury Academic
* 2022: Humanizem v medkulturni perspektivi: primer Kitajske [in Slovene] (Humanism in Intercultural Perspective: the Case of China); Ljubljana; Ljubljana University Press
* 2023: Humanism in Trans-Civilizational Perspectives – Relational Subjectivity and Social Ethics in Classical Chinese Philosophy; Cham; Springer Publishing
* 2023: Confucian Relationism and Global Ethics – Alternative Models of Ethics and Axiology in Times of Global Crises; Leiden, Boston; Brill Publishers