Chinese Philosophy, Chinese Political Thought, New Confucianism, Modern Chinese Political Thought, Contemporary New Confucianism, Confucian Philosophy, Comparative Philosophy, Philosophy of Logic, History of Informal Logic, Epistemology, Historical Epistemology
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[1] and the chief editor of the academic journal Asian Studies.[2] From 2024 to 2025, she is serving as the president of the International Society for Chinese Philosophy. [3]
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) [4]
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
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: 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
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
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
