Jiyan Ilbrink
University Lecturer
- Name
- Dr. J. Ilbrink
- Telephone
- 0715272977
- j.ilbrink@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-2769-9977
Jiyan Ilbrink is an assistant professor at the Institute for Area Studies.
More information about Jiyan Ilbrink
PhD candidates
Fields of interest
- Intellectual history;
- middle period China;
- Song Dynasty;
- political thought;
- comparative political theory
Research
Jiyan Ilbrink (Ph.D. Leiden, A.M. Harvard) is an intellectual historian of middle period China, focusing on political thought in the Song Dynasty. She is writing a set of two books on Su Shi, discussing his classical commentaries and echoing-Tao Qian poems respectively, as well as how they relate to each other in Su’s oeuvre.
Grants and awards
2024: KU Leuven, “Zhengming” workshop attendance grant
2020-21: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Postdoctoral Fellowship
2019: London School of Economics, Political Theory conference attendance grant
2016: Queen Mary University of London, Intellectual History training grant
2012-14: Harvard University, Harvard-Yenching Institute Fellowship
Courses taught
BA1 Institute for Area Studies: Core Course Area Studies
BA1 Leiden University College: Social Theory in Everyday Life
BA2 International Studies: Economy – East Asia; Research Methods - Visual Analysis
BA2 Leiden University College: Qualitative Research Methods
BA3 China Studies: The Reform of Wang Anshi
BA3 International Studies: Thesis Seminar East Asian B - Past and Present
MAAS and ResMA: Advanced Readings in Classical Chinese
MAIR: Core Course Culture and Politics
MA theses supervised
ResMA: Zijian Fan, “An Alternative Neo-Confucianism – Zhang Shi Learning and the Intellectual Transitions between Northern and Southern Song China,” cum laude
MAAS: Naomi Bergshoeff, “Beyond Morality: The Joyful Way of Confucius,” cum laude
Open to supervise
Chinese thought and literature from early to middle period; ideas and social, economic and cultural practices in contemporary China
University Lecturer
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Institute for Area Studies
- Qiao J. (2025), Eleventh Century China and Twenty-first Century Europe: An Unexpected Encounter in Global Governance. Stepping Stones Research Seminar, BA International Studies Program. Leiden University, The Hague. [lecture].
- Ilbrink J. 2025. European Association for Chinese Philosophy - Board Member. [professional membership].
- Ilbrink J. (2025), Aligning Individual Right and the Common Good – The Political Philosophy of Su Shi. University of Iceland. [lecture].
- Qiao J. (2024), Wang Anshi and zhengming "rectifying names". “The Other” Zhengming. KU Leuven, Belgium. [lecture].
- Qiao J. (2023), Confucius versus Mencius – Su Shi’s Interpretation of the Analects and Reinvention of the Confucian Tradition. Fourth Biennial Conference of European Association for Chinese Philosophy. University of Macerata. [lecture].
- Qiao J. (2022), Cultivated Spontaneity and the Common Good – The Political Philosophy of Su Shi 蘇軾 (1037-1101). Sixth Biannual Conference European Society for the History of Political Thought: In Search of the Common Good. University of Helsinki. [lecture].
- Qiao J. (2022), Human Nature and Governance: A Framework for Global Comparative Political Philosophy. International Workshop “Chinese Political Thought: A Global Dialogue beyond "Orientalism". [lecture].
- Qiao J. 2 September 2021 - 4 September 2021. Beyond Eurocentrism in Intellectual History. University College London. [conference attendance].
- Qiao J. (2021), From Literati Self-Governance to Statism – The Political Theory of Wang Anshi. The 23rd biennial conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies. Leipzig University. [lecture].
- Qiao J. (2020), Human Nature and Governance – Political Theory in Eleventh Century China, a Glocal Intellectual History. annual conference of Britain & Ireland Association for Political Thought. [lecture].
- Qiao J. (2019), Political Anthropology in Eleventh Century China – Wang Anshi’s (1021-1086) Philosophy of Human Nature and the New Policies Governance. PPA+ (Philosophy, Politics, Anthropology and Allied Disciplines) Conference . University of Amsterdam. [lecture].
- Qiao J. (2018), Unifying Values by Transforming Human Nature: Wang Anshi's (1021-1086) Philosophy and the New Policies Governance. Leiden University. [lecture].
- Qiao J. 14 September 2017 - 16 September 2017. Second Conference on Middle Period Chinese Humanities. [contribution to an event].
- Qiao J. (2017), Hè-Tao Poems 和陶詩 and the Three Classical Commentaries: How Do They Relate in Su Shi’s Oeuvre?. International Conference on “Confucian Canon Studies, Literary Genre and Literary Style” 《經學，文體與體裁》國際研討會. Trier University. [lecture].
- Qiao J. (2016), Theory of Heavenly Ranks 天爵 and the Ascendency of Mencius in Tang-Song Transition. Inaugural Conference of European Association for Chinese Philosophy. Vilnius University, Lithuania. [lecture].
- Qiao J. (2015), Restoring Cosmic Order through Ritual and Music – Zhu Yunming 祝允明 (1461-1527) and Mid-Ming Neo-Confucianism. Columbia University, New York. [lecture].
- Ilbrink J.. Reviewer for Journal of World Philosophies.