Modern Academic Sinology in Ukraine: Philosophical Research Area in the 1990s – 2020s

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by Heorhii Vdovychenko1
1 Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Kyiv, Ukraine)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29202/fhi/18/9
Received: 15 September 2022 / Accepted: 18 October 2022 / Published: 15 December 2022

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Abstract

The article offers an overall score of the main philosophical achievements of Ukrainian academic Sinology from the very dawn of the independent Ukraine’s era up to this day. The contribution of its leading figures to the study of the history of Chinese philosophical education, science and culture since the very beginning to the present day is the main object of the research. Over thirty years of philosophical Sinology’s development at the A. Yu. Krymskyi Institute of Oriental Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NAS of Ukraine) and the H. S. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy of the NAS of Ukraine, first of all scholarly works of V. Kiktenko and S. Kapranov, are in the spotlight here. The article also deals with the Sinological studies of their colleagues both from these two institutes, namely V. Pyrohiv, V. Hamianin and A. Usyk, and from other domestic academies, as the ones of O. Shparyk from the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine, the Institute for Pedagogical and Adult Education. The scholarly heritage of V. Sednev as doctoral student of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the NAS of Ukraine and the one of O. Boichenko from the Center for Humanitarian Education of the NAS of Ukraine are also reviewed here. It is noteworthy that the life paths of not only these two, but also many other Ukrainian Sinologists were closely connected exactly with the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and Chinese studies in it. We have already explored the progress of philosophical Sinology both at this and a number of other universities in the capital of Ukraine, for example the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”, and at some regional Ukrainian institutes and universities. This study revealingly testifies to their fruitful cooperation both with Sinologists of the NAS of Ukraine and with the Ukrainian Association of Sinologists, arose on the basis of this cooperation.

Keywords: Ukrainian Academic Philosophical Sinology, the Ukrainian Association of Sinologists, the A. Krymskyi Institute of Oriental Studies of the NAS of Ukraine, the H. S. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy of the NAS of Ukraine, V. Kiktenko, S. Kapranov, V. Pyrohiv, V. Hamianin, A. Usyk, V. Sednev, O. Boichenko, O. Shparyk.

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Vdovychenko, Heorhii (2022) Modern Academic Sinology in Ukraine: Philosophical Research Area in the 1990s – 2020s. Future Human Image, Volume 18, 90-102. https://doi.org/10.29202/fhi/18/9
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