Jana S. Rosker (Chinese: 罗亚娜) (born 21 May 1960) is a Slovenian sinologist.
Jana Rosker was born in 1960 in Murska Sobota. She was a student of sinology, journalism and pedagogy at the University of Vienna. She also studied at Beijing Foreign Studies University, Nankai University and Beijing University. She received her PhD in 1988 for the 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.
In her research she mostly examines subjects related to Chinese philosophy, Chinese logic, Chinese epistemology, the methodology of intercultural research and the theory of knowledge. Since 1995, she has been a professor at the Chair of Sinology, Department of Asian and African Studies at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana. She was one of the cofounders 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 (2005, 2010, 2011).
MAIN PUBLICATIONS IN CHINESE AND ENGLISH
ROSKER, Jana S. 中国现代思想中的知识论：朝向一种新的整体. 南开学报, 2008, [Letn.] 53, [st.] 3, str. 127-134. [COBISS.SI-ID 38169442]
ROSKER, Jana S. 老子與海得格的對話: 試探一些有關中西傳統比較的問題, in: Hsinchu shifan xueyuan xuebao, 1995, No 2, p. 189-213.
ROSKER, Jana S. 中西傳統文化中的”自律” 與”律”. In:. Hanxue yanjiu, 1997, let. 15, No 1, p. 93-101.
ROSKER, Jana S. Searching for the Way : Theory of Knowledge in Pre-modern and Modern China. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, cop. 2008. XVI, 356 str. ISBN 978-962-996-327-9. ISBN 962-996-327-2. [COBISS.SI-ID 38132834]
ROSKER, Jana S. The Abolishment of Substance and Ontology: A New Interpretation of Zhang Dongsun's Pluralistic Epistemology. Synth. philos.. International ed., 2009, vol. 24, fasc. 1, str. 153-165. [COBISS.SI-ID 40482914]
ROSKER, Jana S. The Concept of Structure as a Basic Epistemological Paradigm of Traditional Chinese Thought. Asian philos., 2010, vol. 20, no. 1, str. 79-96. [COBISS.SI-ID 41919586]
ROSKER, Jana S. Traditional Chinese Thought: Philosophy or Religion?. Asian philos., 2009, vol. 19, no. 3, str. 225-237. [COBISS.SI-ID 40485218]
ROSKER, Jana S. Modern Confucian Synthesis of Qualitative and Quantitative Knowledge : Xiong Shili. J. Chin. philos., 2009, vol. 36, no. 3, str. 376-390. [COBISS.SI-ID 39953250]
ROSKER, Jana S. Contemporary Chinese Philosophy and the Recognition of the Global World. Zheng da Zhong wen xue bao, 2005, letn. 4, No 12[Dec], p. 184-202. [COBISS.SI-ID 33452130]
ROSKER, Jana S. The Theory of Science and Intercultudal Methodology in Traditional and Modern China. Azij. afr. Noud., 2001, letn. 5, No 1/2, p. 104-113. [COBISS.SI-ID 17559138]
ROSKER, Jana S. A Key Question of Chinese Modernization : the Percipience of Law and Autonomy. Azij. afr. Noud., 2003, vol. 7, spec. issue, p. 31-49. [COBISS.SI-ID 22383970]
ROSKER, Jana S. New Bridges of Intercultural Understanding : Universality and Culturally bounded Elements in Logic. Azij. afr. Noud., 2005, vol. 5, issue 2, p. 5-13. [COBISS.SI-ID 30920034]
ROSKER, Jana S. (Ed.). Chinese Logic and Chinese Culture : Research in Traditional Chinese Logic, (Asian and African studies, vol. 9, issue 2). Ljubljana: Department of Asian and African Studies, Faculty of Arts, 2005. 186 str. ISBN 961-237-132-6. [COBISS.SI-ID 222910720]
ROSKER, Jana S. Relation as the Core of Reality : the Cultural Conditionality of Comprehension and Chinese epistemology. Anthropol. noteb., 2008, year 14, no. 3, str. 39-52. [COBISS.SI-ID 38570850]
