May 6, 2022, 4 PM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna On Zoom: For registration, please use this zoom link. Religion occupies a vexed position in many visions of modernity. It stands as the embodiment of “tradition,” of the nonmodern, of the irrational. It is thus presumed to be condemned to a shrinking sphere of social […]

Ms. ZHU Yi, a New York-based bilingual playwright, is to give a talk on "Writing New Plays in China and the US" on April 20th. Zoom Link: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/98307551103 Professor Xiaomei CHEN from the University of California, Davis, will present a talk about "Performing the Socialist State" on May 4th. Zoom Link: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/95966904122 For more information […]

Topic: Performing the Socialist State Speaker: Prof. Xiaomei Chen Time: May 4, Wednesday, Europe 4:00 PM, California 7:00 AM, Beijing10:00 PM Zoom Meeting: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/95966904122 Meeting ID: 959 6690 4122 Language: English Organizer: The Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Göttingen The Department of Theater, Film and TV Arts at Nanjing University Partner: […]

April 29, 2022, 4 PM, Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna On Zoom: For registration, please use this Zoom link. This lecture takes up the most fundamental construction of secularization – the separation of the religious realm from that of politics, philosophy, science, economics, and so on – and asks not simply how it has influenced […]

Sprecherinnen Prof. Dr. Doris Fischer, Universität Würzburg Veronique Dunai, IHK Frankfurt am Main Dystopie eines autoritären Überwachungsstaats oder moderne Vision datenbasierter Regierungsführung? Das chinesische Sozialkreditsystem hat seit seiner offiziellen Ankündigung im Jahr 2014 für zahlreiche kontroverse Debatten gesorgt. Was genau jedoch ist das neue Bonitätssystem und wie wirkt es sich auf die chinesische Wirtschaft und […]

April 22, 2022, 12:00 PM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna On Campus: KWZ 0.610 (Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen) On Zoom: For registration, please use this zoom link. When modern concepts and institutions entered China in the early 20th century, they met a society which was quite unlike its European and American counterparts. While functional differentiation, […]

Ms. ZHU Yi, a New York-based bilingual playwright, is to give a talk on "Writing New Plays in China and the US" on April 20th. Zoom Link: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/98307551103 Professor Xiaomei CHEN from the University of California, Davis, will present a talk about "Performing the Socialist State" on May 4th. Zoom Link: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/95966904122 For more information […]

Speaker: Sabine Heymann, Dr. Anna Stecher Zoom Meeting: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/97996297643 Meeting ID: 979 9629 7643 Language: English Organizer: The Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Göttingen The Department of Theater, Film and TV Arts at Nanjing University Partner: The Center for Modern East Asian Studies at the University of Göttingen The Academic Confucius […]

讲座要点 语言的教与学离不开文化的教与学，这已成为共识。但是在没有一部“文化大纲”的情况下教师如何开展文化教学，却始终是众说纷纭。其实，这一问题的解决需要更多依靠一线教师的探索和实践，相互交流尤为重要。本次讲座主要围绕两个问题与各位同行进行讨论： 如何确定中文教学中的“文化点”？ 语言教学中的文化因素 代表性的文化符号 如何进行“文化点”的教学？ “文化三角形”的拓展运用 Key points of the lecture There is general consensus that the teaching and learning of language cannot be separated from the teaching and learning of culture. However, there is much dispute on how teachers should carry out cultural teaching, if there is no “cultural curriculum”. The answer to […]

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For registration, please use this zoom link. Abstract: Maruyama Masao is the most influential post-war Japanese intellectual historian. He transcends the dichotomy between Eastern and Western thought, uncovering the “insistent bass” in the “ancient layers” of Japanese thought and examining how it has recreated the universality of modern Japanese thought. He views the study of […]

Please register in advance: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUlceCpqjsoGdSFHcpVgh0MWJ_0HIcDGHa8 Abstract This talk will look at how the concept of zizhi 自治 (self-government) was (re) articulated in late imperial and early republican China (1898-1928), either to strengthen and “modernize” the Manchu Empire or to build federal/republican counternarratives to the traditional system. From the late Qing official Huang Zunxian 黄遵宪 (who […]

This lecture is part of the lecture series “TALK TO OUR AUTHORS“, organised by the Journal der European Association of Chinese Studies Authors: Olga Lomová, Charles University, Prague, Czechia Andreas Fulda, University of Nottingham, UK Introduced and moderated by: Sascha Klotzbücher, University of Göttingen, Germany/University of Vienna, Austria Join the discussion on Zoom: Meeting ID: […]

Topic: Play and Performance of Hometown: A Talk on College Theater Production Speaker: Assoc. Prof. Dr. GAO Ziwen Time: Jan. 12, Wednesday, 1:00 PM-2:30 PM CET Zoom Meeting: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/96138078236 Meeting ID: 96138078236 Language: Chinese with English interpretation Lecture Content 1. To introduce the production background of Hometown 2. To describe the production process and market […]

Dr. Benjamin Creutzfeldt is a Lecturer at the Department of East Asian Studies. -He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at SAIS Foreign Policy Institute, Johns Hopkins University, and a Resident Fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC. He obtained his Ph.D. in Political Studies from Externado University in Colombia, and is also a historian of […]

Please register in advance: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAtceqorT0tH9SiRAQ_2nag0kPuXKM57ZiC This paper discusses the role played by utopian “moves” that were made by political thinkers in the late Qing and Republican periods to build a new more or less democratic and socialist nation. An analysis of four case studies—Kang Youwei, Cai Yuanpei, Chen Duxiu, and Hu Shi—reveals distinct but overlapping […]

Wednesday, December 15th, 2021 08:30-10:00 GMT: The Belt and Road Initiative in Africa: Problems and Opportunities Zoom Meeting: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/83875022790 Meeting ID: 838 7502 2790 Chair: Dr. Janice Jeong (Göttingen University, Germany) 1. Prof. Dr. Christoph Trebesch (Kiel Institut für Weltwirtschaft, Kiel, Germany) China’s Overseas Lending 2. Professor Liu Haifang (Peking University, China) One Belt One […]

Tuesday, December 14th, 2021 08:15-08:30 GMT: Welcome Dr. Mengshu Zhan (Göttingen University, Germany) Prof. Dr. Dominic Sachsenmaier (Göttingen University, Germany) 08:30-10:00 GMT: Chinese and European Soft Power in Africa: Confrontational Pathways? Join Zoom Meeting: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/85234128312 Meeting ID: 852 3412 8312 Chair: Prof. Dominic Sachsenmaier (Göttingen University, Germany) 1. Prof. David Mills (Oxford University), Dr Natasha […]

Abstract: The history of India-China connections has long been explored from elite perspectives (religious, intellectual, and political), while few have ever paid attention to how ordinary Indians and Chinese interacted and how their lives were connected. This talk will focus on cases in the first half of the twentieth century, including the experiences of Sikh […]

“Contemporary Theater Arts” Seminar Series No. 7 Illustrating the Stage of Hong Kong for Audiences of the Present and the Future - My Creative Journey as a Curator of the Exhibition "A Snap beyond Borders" Speaker: Chan Kwok Wai Bernice Language: English Zoom Meeting: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/96420658426?pwd=U0VyTHlHUWRISFMxRm1XLzZnQ250UT09 Meeting ID: 964 2065 8426 Passcode: 339948 Bio: Chan Kwok […]

ABSTRACT: Across the Chinese borderlands, investments in large-scale transnational infrastructure such as roads and special economic zones have increased exponentially over the past two decades. Based on long-term ethnographic research, Borderland Infrastructures addresses a major contradiction at the heart of this fast-paced development: small-scale traders have lost their historic strategic advantages under the growth of […]

Please register in advance: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUqdeysqDMvE9zMw_ZJ55l2L9xVPUb67XwZ Abstract: The transition from the Ming dynasty to the Qing dynasty was not experienced as a sharp break for those who lived through it, but it has come to stand in the minds of later Chinese literati as nothing less than an existential crisis for Chinese identity—both driving and driven […]

Bio: Mohammed Al-Sudairi is a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Hong Kong Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences and is a Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Asian Studies Unit at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies. He obtained his PhD in Comparative Politics from the University of Hong Kong, his master's […]

Wednesday 27 October Liao Hsien-hao (National Taiwan University) “Taiwan at the crossroads: Between Central Kingdom and Seafaring Pirates” Wednesday 3 November Yeh Kuo-chün (National Taiwan University) “Did China’s soft power seduction lure Taiwan’s youth? Preliminary evidence for employment and entrepreneurship” Wednesday 10 November Lee Yu-Ting (National Taiwan University) “Problems of East Asian Historical Narrative: Compared […]

Abstract: The talk deals with the effects of World War Two on East Asia and Korea, and in this context it deals with issues like the re-construction of Western modernism and the inauguration of the nation-states system in the region. The talk also discusses the amorphousness of post-colonial South Korea where, in many respects, modern […]

Please register in advance: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYlcOirrTwvHd2Cw9yScwFKBSvj9vemw7sK Abstract: The so-called “sanjiao 三教 tradition (three teachings/religions)” that includes Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism has conventionally been considered as the “Chinese religion” in Chinese history. In addition to the “sanjiao,” however, Christianity and Islam were introduced to China pretty early and also became integral parts of the Chinese religious tradition. […]

Abstract: One aspect that strikes observers of nineteenth-century China is the apparent lack of panic in the face of foreign aggression among Qing officials. Max Weber, an avid reader of Peking Gazette translations and the English-language press of coastal China, identified the precarity of status and income—rather than Confucian conservatism—as the main impediment to reform. […]

Abstract: Both oceanic history and plant history are recent developments in historiography. This talk will discuss how the two schools enhance the study of global history and reshape our views about the making of the modern world. As a continual effort to critique the nation-state focus in 19th century historiography, which began with the French […]

Abstract: Im Jahr 1943 fanden zwei Konferenzen statt, die über die Nachkriegssituation von Taiwan und Österreich entscheiden sollten: Vom 19. Oktober bis 1. November 1943 fand die Konferenz von Moskau statt, auf der durch die Außenminister der USA, der SU und Großbritanniens die Wiederherstellung des Staates Österreich beschlossen wurde. Es wurde festgestellt, dass Österreich „das […]

Since the turn of the millennium, China has provided record amounts of development aid and other types of development finance to countries around the globe. However, its grant-giving and lending activities remain intransparent. This is not least due to the institutional complexity of China’s system of foreign aid and the absence of comprehensive reporting systems […]

The talks by Dr. Mohammed Al-Sudairi and Dr. Janice Hyeju Jeong will discuss sojourners who traversed between China and the Arab world at pivotal moments in the twentieth century, who interpreted the destinations of their travels as the center of their spiritual or revolutionary worlds. They will each position Maoist China and Mecca under pre-1970s […]

Dr. Sarah Kirchberger Leiterin der Abteilung Strategische Entwicklung in Asien-Pazifik am Institut für Sicherheitspolitik an der Universität Kiel Zoom-Link: https://s.gwdg.de/JFiAoJ

This lecture is presented within the framework of the Joint Center for Advanced Studies project "Worldmaking from a Global Perspective: A Dialogue with China" as part of the project “Conceptions of World Order and Their Social Carrier Groups”. Abstract: Whereas a few decades ago, the pre-twentieth century "Chinese World Order" was typically treated as unchanging […]

汉语作为外语 阅读技能的培养 — 从汉语综合课阅读教学入手 Erwerb der Lesekompetenz für Chinesisch als Fremdsprache — Einführung in die Vermittlung der Lesekompetenz im Allgemeinen Chinesischunterricht 讲座要点 Informationen: 讲座内容: 剖析汉语语言特点，帮助学习者提升汉语阅读理解能力； 分析汉语书面语特点，结合教学法进行阅读课教学设计； 以初级、准中级水平阅读教材为案例，互动交流、准备教案。 讲座形式：两次课程，教师讲解、互动讨论、微格教学。 讲座特色：从教学案例入手，互动交流讨论； 微课教学，模拟授课； 听众互评，教师点评。 Inhalt: • Verbesserung des Leseverständnisses von Chinesischlernenden durch die Untersuchung sprachlicher Besonderheiten; • Planung von Unterricht zum Leseverständnis mittels Analysen schriftsprachlicher Merkmale und didaktischen […]

Vortrag: Jonny Erling (Frankurt am Main) Moderator: Sascha Klotzbücher (Universität Göttingen) Diskutant*innen: Felix Wemheuer (Universität Köln) & Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik (Universität Wien) Zoom-Link: https://s.gwdg.de/Bxi2rO 100 Jahre Geschichte der KPCh, das ist ein Anlaß, um die Geschichte der KPCh neu zu überdenken und millionenfach in der VR China als Buch zu vertreiben. Xi Jinping hat die offizielle […]

汉语作为外语 阅读技能的培养 — 从汉语综合课阅读教学入手 Erwerb der Lesekompetenz für Chinesisch als Fremdsprache — Einführung in die Vermittlung der Lesekompetenz im Allgemeinen Chinesischunterricht 讲座要点 Informationen 讲座内容: 剖析汉语语言特点，帮助学习者提升汉语阅读理解能力； 分析汉语书面语特点，结合教学法进行阅读课教学设计； 以初级、准中级水平阅读教材为案例，互动交流、准备教案。 讲座形式：两次课程，教师讲解、互动讨论、微格教学。 讲座特色：从教学案例入手，互动交流讨论； 微课教学，模拟授课； 听众互评，教师点评。 Inhalt: • Verbesserung des Leseverständnisses von Chinesischlernenden durch die Untersuchung sprachlicher Besonderheiten; • Planung von Unterricht zum Leseverständnis mittels Analysen schriftsprachlicher Merkmale und didaktischen […]

Looking at 100 years of CCP history, the Cultural Revolution emerges as a key event in post-49 history. The idea is that understanding the Cultural Revolution is crucial to understanding both the Maoist period and the post-Maoist period of CCP history. In no socialist country has the leader of the Communist Party dared to mobilize […]

Helena Legarda Senior analyst, Mercator Institute for Chinese Studies, Berlin Zoom-Link: https://s.gwdg.de/MQZZWW

Erlebnisbericht von Helmut Opletal Zoom-Link: https://s.gwdg.de/5tnkdO Anfang Mai 1989 fuhr Helmut Opletal im Auftrag des ORF nach Peking, um über den historischen China-Besuch des sowjetischen Staats- und Parteichefs Michail Gorbatschow zu berichten. Schließlich verbrachte er vier Wochen in China, und nicht Gorbatschow, sondern die Studentenproteste wurden zum Schwerpunkt seiner Berichterstattung. In dieser Zeit (2.-31. Mai […]

Join Zoom Meeting: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/97494889145?pwd=SlN6bGhJWUF4dUVObUJFaW4vM282QT09 Meeting ID: 974 9488 9145 Passcode: 269109 This lecture is presented within the framework of the Joint Center for Advanced Studies project "Worldmaking from a Global Perspective: A Dialogue with China" as part of the project “Conceptions of World Order and Their Social Carrier Groups”. Abstract: "Whether or not there is […]

Dr. Pascal Abb Senior researcher, Leibniz-Institut, Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung Zoom-Link: https://s.gwdg.de/We1Gsj

Venue: Zoom Password: 094608 Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused huge impact on human life. The adversity for human does not actually come from this emerging pathogen-SARS-CoV-2-but is probably due to untactful policies and inequitable philosophy that have been already existed before COVID-19. The catastrophe of COVID-19 pandemic is “revelation” for humanities like “A Great […]

Venue: Zoom Password: 094608 Abstract: In this lecture, we will discuss another representative China-born medical expert, Dr. Yang Wen-ta’s experience for viewing the establishment and mechanism of the Americanized emergency care system of Taiwan during the KMT Authoritarian era. Dr. Yang Wen-ta, a notable Taiwanese medical expert, had served in Taiwanese military medical system for […]

Das Deutsch-Chinesische Institut für Rechtswissenschaft der Universität Göttingen stellt im Rahmen seiner digitalen Veranstaltung "Junges Forum zum chinesischen Recht" am 29.04.2021 den Doppelmasterstudiengang "Chinesisches Recht und Rechtsvergleichung" der Universitäten Göttingen und Nanjing vor. Der Studiengang hat einen Umfang von vier Semestern und ermöglicht den Erwerb von gleich zwei Masterabschlüssen, sodass am Ende die Titel LL.M./LL.M. […]

Andrea Lappen Master ofEducation an der Uni Göttingen Tätig als Lehrerin am Hainberg-Gymnasium Göttingen Abstract: 第一部分为讲座，主要内容包含-哥廷根大学汉语作为外语师范专业、教学专业搭配选择以及汉语专业在下萨克森州文理高中的概况-汉语师范专业在大学学习和工作中对德语母语者以及中文母语者的机遇和挑战-主讲人自身的学习，实习以及就业的实践经验的分享。第二部分为答疑时间.参与者可以向主讲人自由提问。 Im ersten Teil des Vortrags werden folgende Punkte thematisiert: ein Überblick über das Lehramtsstudium „Chinesisch als Fremdsprache“ an der Universität Göttingen die Wahl des Kombinationsfachs sowie das Fach an Gymnasien in Niedersachsen Chancen und mögliche Herausforderungen für deutsche und […]

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Collaboration and Crossing Borders in Art Chong Wang and Shasha Li Zoom Link: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/97627331221 Live Streaming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbEdTH6Otvk Chong Wang, China’s most influential post-80s theater director. His works have been performed in 17 countries. The Warfare of Landmine 2.0 won the 2013 Festival/Tokyo Award.Lu Xun was noted by the Beijing News as The Best Chinese Production […]

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Dr David O’Brien, Faculty of East Asian Studies at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany “Infectious Extremism: How the Chinese government normalises its campaign of internment in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region” According to official Chinese government figures 1.3 million people per year, mostly from the Uyghur ethnic group, have been sent for compulsory ‘vocational and educational’ […]

讲座要点 Key points of the lecture 第一部分为讲座，讨论的主要问题是如何发现和利用对外汉语语言教材中的文化教学资源，认为具有跨文化属性的对外汉语教学必须语言、文化并重。在对外汉语语言教材中，注重从文化产物、文化习俗入手，帮助理解文化观念；应着重选择体现文化规范的、产生积极交际效果的文化教学资源加以利用，并根据学习者的特点，对文化教学资源进行分众化、差异化处理，由浅入深地帮助学习者理解，培养其跨文化同理心，提高其汉语理解和应用能力。 第二部分为学员分组进行案例讨论，展示讨论结果，并由主讲人点评。 第三部分为答疑时间。 The first part of the teacher training is designed as a lecture with focus on the discussion of how to discover and use cultural teaching resources in teaching material for Chinese as a foreign language, based on the belief that an intercultural teaching approach of Chinese […]

讲座要点 汉字“笔”是“竹管下有毛”，单词pen则来自feather这样的鹅毛管儿；汉字“著”提示中国人曾经把字写在“草”上，单词paper则直接来自于莎草papyrus，汉字“书契”记录的是“刻”，单词write词源义也是“刻”……看来人类的书写符号系统有着很多一致性的东西。如果把这些一致性的内容揭示好，解释好，应该能够让汉语第二语言学习者进一步增强汉字自我学习和习得的能力。 本次讲座以对比语义学的视角，阐释在印欧语环境下进行汉字教学的一些基本思路，通过具体例证，沟通人类文字符号之间的共通性理据，展示如何有效提升学生兴趣，增强学习动机，进而增强学习效果。 Key points of the lecture The Chinese character 笔 bǐ means „there are hairs under the bamboo tube”, whilst the English word “pen“ derives from the Latin word for “feather“; the character “著“ zhù suggests that the Chinese used to write down characters on “grass“, whilst the English word “paper“ derives directly […]

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Timothy Cheek (University of British Columbia) Time: Thursday, October 1st, 2020, 5.15 p.m. Central European Summer Time (Berlin) Zoom: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/92488442758 Co-oganized by the Department of East Asian Studies/Sinology (University of Vienna) & the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies (University of Göttingen). Prof. Timothy Cheek’s lecture is the public keynote of „Whither […]

Presenter: Felix Erdt (University of Göttingen, Department of East Asian Studies) Commentators: Prof. Viren Murthy (Associate Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison) Dr. Phil. Dr. rer. Med. Dominique Hertzer (Guest Researcher at the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen) Time: Wednesday, September 30, 4 pm – 5.30 pm Join us via Zoom, […]

Sascha Klotzbücher (University of Göttingen) Time: July 15, 2020 5pm Venue: Zoom-Meeting https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/93597507671?pwd=S3htRlBNd0RNQVF6Ukw3dlpBSXJEUT09 Meeting-ID: 935 9750 7671 Passwort: 404190 Abstract: Since 2016, the Chinese Communist Party proclaimed the strategy of “military-civil fusion” of research (Kania 2019) (军民融合). However, this cooperation between military academies and civil universities or research institutes is not new. This lecture aims […]

Lecturer: Gil Hizi (PhD University of Sydney) Abstract: Through the influence of psychotherapeutic expertise and popular entertainment, pedagogic programs for “self-improvement” in China today define positive affect as a key aspect of learning. In this talk, based on participant observations in the city of Jinan, I describe how workshops for interpersonal skills produce interactive spaces […]

Please RSVP for the event via Ms Kara Blumenthal at assist@cemeas.uni-goettingen.de. Presenter: Lili Jiang (University of Göttingen, Department of East Asian Studies) Commentators: Dr. Jesús Pineda (Scientific coordinator and researcher, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Dr. Sascha Klotzbücher (Acting Chair, Society and Economy of China, University of Göttingen) Time: Tuesday, 07.07.2020, 6 pm (c.t.) – […]

讲座要点：通过真实案例，分享教学心得，汉语教学中应将实用交际原则贯彻始终。 如何让汉语课堂变得高效有吸引力？ 重视有意义的输入 实用且具针对性 实用且具典型性 实用且具可控性 如何调动学生的学习自主性和积极性？ 实用且具直观启发性 实用且具交际性 Key points of the lecture: The principle of practical communication should be implemented in the teaching of Chinese as a second language based on analyzing real cases and sharing teaching experience. How to improve the efficiency of the Chinese language classroom and raise its appeal: Attach […]

Abstract: It is hard to imagine a meeting between Chinese and Indian leaders without any cultural program or context: while Xi Jinping took the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, to the famous Terracotta Warriors site in Xi'an, Modi invited him back to a Hindu temple built in the 8th century in Mamallapuram. During these visits […]

Abstract: I will introduce how I came to work on a framework for the analysis of power looking on the role of emotions and psychodynamics. In a first step, my book published in German asks about the conditions of marginalization of emotions and the “emotional returns” (Biess/Gross) in my learning and research environment. Using interpretative […]