Prof. Milinda Bannerjee (LMU): „Sovereignty, Natural Law and the Ironies of Decolonization: India and the Tokyo Trial“
ZESS,Raum AP26 Goßlerstr. 10, GöttingenAbstract: Is the demand for codified international criminal justice antithetical to the demand for agonistic decolonization of global political, military, and economic power? Or can the establishment of global norms of justice be made compatible with, and even grounded upon, anti-colonial and democratic interventions? By analysing Indian involvement in the Tokyo Trial (1946-48), this paper […]
Prof. Liu Tao (Universität Duisburg-Essen): „The Welfare Regime Within and Beyond Borders: The Openness and Closedness of Chinese Social Policy“
Theologicum, T0.136 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 2, GöttingenAbstract: The functional operation of conventional Chinese welfare regime was closely linked to institutionally created forms of discrepancies and borders entrenching the status differences between different social classes as well as among welfare clients from different social spaces (e.g. rural or urban areas). Since the Millennium an unprecedented and fast expanding social policy in the […]
Francois Gipouloux (CNRS): „Maritime trade expansion in late Ming China“
Theologicum, T0.135 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 2, GöttingenAbstract: Maritime trade during the late Ming was characterised by the intermingling of tributary trade, private trade and piracy. The establishment of the ban on maritime trade (海禁 haijin) gave way to a scarcity of goods entering China and to a great profitability of smuggling activities. While the ban on maritime trade never succeded in […]
CeMEAS The 12th East Asia Research Salon: Theorizing the Current Global Order in the Era of Globalization, Regional Integration and the Resurgence of Nationalism: Global China, Regional EU, and National US?
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.701 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, GöttingenXiao (Alvin) Yang, University of Kassel Abstract: Why has China become the defender of globalization whereas the US, who is supposed to be the defender of globalization, has turned towards more nationalist and inward-looking direction? Moreover, why is European Union, the model for regional integration, not only facing economic, financial and migration crises, but also […]
Prof. Jeffrey Wasserstrom (UC Irvine): “China and the World in 1900: Stories of the Boxers and the First Global War”
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.609 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, GöttingenAbstract: This illustrated lecture, entitled “China and the World in 1900: Stories of the Boxers and the First Global War,” revisits the anti-Christian uprising and international invasion that convulsed the Qing Empire during the final year of the nineteenth century, paying particular attention to the varied ways these events were understood in different places at […]
Prof. Jane Duckett (University of Glasgow): „Who cares about inequality in China? Public attitudes toward inequalities in access to health care“
Theologicum, T0.136 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 2, GöttingenAbout the letuerer: Jane Duckett is Edward Caird Chair of Politics, International Dean (East Asia), and Director of the Scottish Centre for China Research at the University of Glasgow. She is also Guest Professor at Nankai University (Tianjin, China). In 2012 she received the Lord Provost of Glasgow Education Award. In 2014 she was elected […]
Prof. Dr. Xiong Yuegen (Peking Univ.): „Poverty Alleviation as an Instrument of Technical Governance in Rural China”
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.602 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, GöttingenAbstract: In the past decades, China has achieved a great success in poverty reduction by helping more than 800 million of poor farmers out of poverty trap. However, Chinese government has made a series of serious efforts on social policy implementation in rural areas, poverty as a problematic persistent issue is still perplexing owing to […]
Prof. Mark Frazier (India-China Institute, New School): „Urbanisation and Social Policy: Prospects for Social Citizenship in China“
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.606 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, GöttingenAbstract: As numerous commentators have pointed out, China is the first country in the world to experience an ageing population without first having reached developed country status. China is indeed ‘growing old before it grows rich,’ but the meanings and significance of this demographic event are not clear. A substantial body of scholarship, generally public […]
Prof. Hsiung Ping-chen (Chinese University of Hong Kong): „Discovering Childhood and Paediatrics in Chinese History: Further Considerations „
Theologicum, T0.136 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 2, GöttingenAbstract: As a reflection on thirty plus years of research on childhood and paediatrics in Chinese history, this lecture intends to present further concerns after a systematic review, in three parts: First, a retrospective on the why's and how's of studying children and childhood in history, the conceptual definition that the Chinese case had to […]
Prof. Mayfair Yang (UC Santa Barbara): “Gendered Religiosity: Patriarchal Structures and Women’s Agency in China”
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.602 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, GöttingenAbstract: This lecture will examine how social structures of power, such as patriarchal power, depend on the vicissitudes of human agency to implement their principles, opening them up to subtle shifts and reconfigurations in social practice (Anthony Giddens, Pierre Bourdieu). Traditional religiosities, whether Christian, Islamic, Buddhist, or others, are often seen to produce conservative agents […]
Prof. Reza Hasmath (Alberta): „Is Policy Innovation Possible Under the Xi Jinping Regime?“
Theologicum, T0.136 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 2, GöttingenAbstract: Despite playing a key contributory role in China’s recent economic reforms and the Party’s regime durability, there has been a noted reduction in central-level policy experimentation under Xi Jinping’s administration. Recent studies have further noted an empirical reduction in policy innovation at the subnational level, and question whether local officials will continue to experiment […]
Dr. Armin Müller (Göttingen): „Social Policy in China: Retrospect and Prospect“
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.609 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, GöttingenAbstract: Since 1979, social protection in China has undergone fundamental institutional transformations. This presentation provides an overview of the state of the literature on social policy in the PRC, the institutional change which has characterized social protection in the reform period, and an outlook on future developments. Social protection under the planned economy was characterized […]
Conference: Conceptions of the World in Twentieth-Century Chinese Historiography
KWZ & Sternwarte GöttingenOver the course of the twentieth century, the constant writing and rewriting of history reflect aspects of the changing conceptions of the “world” in China. Through various lenses – including but not limited to nation-states, empires, races, civilizations, cultures, and classes – Chinese historians both creatively imagined global time and space and actively negotiated China’s […]
Prof Ge, Zhaoguang (Fudan University): “Global Elements in Traditional Chinese Historiography” (in Chinese, with English translation)
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.603 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen本年度第三次“汉语作为外语”专题工作坊 (3. Workshop „Fachdidaktik Chinesisch): 教学组织与管理 (Organisation und Management von Lehr- und Lernprozessen)
地点: Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerzimmer (LULZ) Waldweg 26, GöttingenProf. Dr. XIN Ping (辛平教授) Peking-Universität 北京大学 教学组织与管理 (Organisation und Management von Lehr-und Lernprozessen) Der Workshop findet in chinesischer Sprache statt. 本次工作坊工作语言为中文。 Ein kostenloses Mittagessen wird angeboten. Aufgrund der begrenzten Teilnehmerzähl bitten wir um rechtzeitige Anmeldung bis spätestens 6. Oktober. 我们为每位正式报名参与工作坊的同行提供免费午餐。因座位有限, 请有意参 加培训的老师/同学尽快报名(报名截止日期:2017 年10 月6 日) 。 Anmeldung über / 报名方式: info@aki-goettingen.de! Erfahren Sie mehr […]
CFP: Manchu in Global History: A Research Language for Qing Historians
Kulturwisssenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 1.601 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, GöttingenOrganisatoren: Julia C. Schneider (Department for East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen) Katja Pessl (Centre for Modern East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen) The deadline for submissions is April 4, 2017, full papers need to be provided by August 18, 2017. To submit an abstract, please email the organising committee at: cemeas@cemeas.uni-goettingen.de. Erfahren Sie mehr
CeMEAS Podium: What is the Future of Made in China? Opportunities and Challenges for Europe
Emmy-Noether-Saal Tagungs- und Veranstaltungshaus Alte Mensa Wilhelmsplatz 3, GöttingenIntroduction: This half-day event will explore these issues in discussion with leading international scholars and government experts. A first roundtable will analyze the economic challenges and policy aims behind “Made in China 2025” and evaluate the prospects of this state-led approach to industrial upgrading. A second roundtable will focus on the opportunities and challenges for […]
Prof. WANG Hui (Tsinghua University): The Beginning of the Century: A Reconsideration on the 20th Century in Chinese/Global History
Adam-von-Trott-Saal, Alte Mensa am Wilhelmsplatz Wilhelmsplatz 3, GöttingenAbstract: At the beginning of the 20th century, the alien idea of century began to replace other traditional concepts of chronology in China and reshaped Chinese idea of time. Following the application of 20th century in Chinese context, other related concepts such as 19th century, 18th century and their sequence emerged as derivatives of 20th […]
CeMEAS Lecture: Liberating the “oppressed nations”: Chinese communist networks and the Comintern in Southeast Asia, the Americas, and Europe, c. 1920s-1930s
Verfügungsgebäude VG 1.105 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, GöttingenAnna Belogurova, CeMIS, Universität Göttingen Abstract: In the context of unprecedented circulation of people and ideas in the interwar global moment, Chinese communists built their overseas networks in the old empires and invented new nations. As they were making revolution both in and outside China, they aspired to liberate the world from imperialism and to […]
CeMEAS Lecture Series: Air Pollution and the Public in China: Perspectives from Urban and Rural Areas
Verfügungsgebäude VG 2.104 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, GöttingenBryan Tilt, Oregon State University Erfahren Sie mehr
Vortrag Prof. Kerry Brown (King’s College, London): „The Powers of Xi Jinping“
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.606 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, GöttingenAbstract: This year will see the 19th Party Congress. marking a moment of re-evaluation for the Communist Party policy and elite leadership. Under Xi since 2012 there has been what is claimed to have been a concentration of power within his hands. But how can we best understand this power, and what sense does it […]
CeMEAS Lecture Series: Paper Tigers, Hidden Dragons: Firms and the Political Economy of China’s Technological Development
Verfügungsgebäude, VG 3.103 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, GöttingenDoug Fuller, Zhejiang University Erfahren Sie mehr
Vergleichende Erforschung des chinesischen Buddhismus, Universität Göttingen plant Zentrum für Buddhismuskunde – Festveranstaltung am 26. Juni 2017
Aula am Wilhelmsplatz Wilhelmsplatz 1, GöttingenDie Universität Göttingen feiert am Montag, 26. Juni 2017, in der Aula am Wilhelmsplatz die Unterzeichnung einer Absichtserklärung zur Förderung eines neuen Zentrums für Buddhismuskunde. Schwerpunkt des angestrebten Zentrums wird die vergleichende Erforschung des chinesischen Buddhismus sein, insbesondere des in China am weitesten verbreiteten Chan-Buddhismus (japanisch Zen-Buddhismus). Das Zentrum wird gefördert vom Tempel des Sechsten […]
CeMEAS Lecture Series: Headlines are not the Main Story: Tracking Xi Jinping’s Economic Reforms
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.602 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, GöttingenChristine Wong, University of Melbourne Erfahren Sie mehr
Pun Ngai (University of Hongkong): Working in China
SOFI Göttingen Friedländer Weg 31, GöttingenWenn Sie Interesse an der Veranstaltung haben und teilnehmen möchten, kontaktieren Sie bitte Jennifer Villarama per email (jennifer.villarama@sofi.uni-goettingen.de).
“Bhiksunī Chao-Hwei’s Buddhist Social Activism: From Solidarity with the Disadvantaged to Marriage Equality”
Verfügungsgebäude VG 1.104 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, GöttingenHsiao-Lan Hu, Ph.D. (Associate Professor of Religious Studies, and Women’s and Gender Studies University of Detroit Mercy) Abstract: On 24 May 2017, the Supreme Court in Taiwan ruled in favor of marriage equality, nearly five years after the much celebrated first Buddhist lesbian wedding officiated by Bhiksunī Chao-Hwei. She has officiated a few other same-sex […]
Vortrag Prof. Michael Schoenhals (Lund Univ., Sweden): „Are they reading our mail? – Postüberwachung in the early People’s Republic of China“
Verfügungsgebäude VG 2.101 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, GöttingenOn the basis of Chinese archival records, this presentation describes and critically assesses – including from a global, comparative perspective – covert postal inspection as conducted by state security organs in Mao Zedong’s China (1949–1976). According to an early classified directive, postal inspection and monitoring was to “pay attention to the imperialist countries as well […]
CeMEAS Lecture: The 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party
Verfügungsgebäude VG 2.104 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, GöttingenThe 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party: a Quantitative Assessment Victor Shih, University of California San Diego Abstract: Two important questions that can be asked about the 19th Party Congress, scheduled to take place in the fall of 2017, include who will take over key positions at the top of the party hierarchy and […]
International Conference: “Teaching and Assessing Chinese in Europe: Proficiency Expectations and Assessment Instruments”
Organisatoren: Prof. Dr. Andreas Guder, Ostasiatisches Seminar der Universität Göttingen und Deutscher Direktor des Akademischen Konfuzius-Instituts, Göttingen Prof. Dr. Erwin Tschirner, Institute for Test Research and Test Development, Leipzig Priv.-Doz. Dr. Olaf Bärenfänger, Institute for Test Research and Test Development, Leipzig Bei Fragen können Sie gerne Herrn Prof. Dr. Guder per E-Mail kontaktieren. What levels […]
CeMEAS Lecture Series: Farmers, Market and Agricultural Policy in China
Verfügungsgebäude VG 3.103 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, GöttingenYu Xiaohua, University of Göttingen Erfahren Sie mehr
Prof. XIAO Huafeng: “Cultural Imperialism and Americanization in China”
Verfügungsgebäude, VG 1.102 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, GöttingenAlong with the practice of the Reform and Open Policy in China in the 1980s, more and more Chinese have been much influenced by American way of life. Undeniably, as Michel Gueldry writes, China has imported capitalism but not democracy(2009). But I think that for the ordinary Chinese people to live an American way of […]
Prof. Dr. Jinhua Chen: Market and Merit: Reconsidering the Monastic Financial and Banking system under the Rule of Emperor Liang Wudi (r. 502-549)
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.609 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, GöttingenScholars have made great strides to study the important role that Buddhism played in promoting economic, financial, and commercial activities in medieval China. There is, however, one limitation is in need of addressing: almost singular focus on the economic activities carried out within or in connection with the saṃgha, with little attention to the economic […]
Prof. XU Guoqi (Hong Kong University): „Chinese and Americans: A Shared History“
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.602 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, GöttingenIn this talk, Professor Xu Guoqi will discuss the shared visions, experiences, journeys, and frustrations Chinese and Americans have had with each other from the mid-19th century to the present. Professor Xu will Erfahren Sie mehr
2. Workshop „Fachdidaktik Chinesisch“: „Grundlagen und Didaktik der chinesischen Schrift “ 汉字基础及汉字教学, Dr. Haiying Zhang (张海英) Beijing Foreign Studies University / Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 北京外国语大学 / 哥廷根大学
Tagungszentrum an der Sternwarte Geismar Landstraße 11, GöttingenDas Akademische Konfuzius-Institut Göttingen lädt am 13. Mai 2017 zu seinem 2. Workshop „Fachdidaktik Chinesisch“ ein: 哥廷根大学学术孔子学院诚挚邀请您参加 本年度第二次“汉语作为外语”专题工作坊 Dr. Haiying Zhang (张海英) Beijing Foreign Studies University / Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 北京外国语大学 / 哥廷根大学 „Grundlagen und Didaktik der chinesischen Schrift “ 汉字基础及汉字教学 Erfahren Sie mehr
Thomas H.C. Lee (Prof. emeritus, National Tsing-hua University, Taiwan): Archery Ranges in the Educational Tradition of Confucian Academies in China
Verfügungungsgebäude, VG 4.104 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, GöttingenIt is almost impossible to imagine that archery range was an integral part of Chinese academy compound, and supposedly a part of its Confucian education. It is true that in Confucius’ classical teaching, archery was a part of the so-called “six arts” that constituted the education of a gentleman, but that its becoming a part […]
CeMEAS Lecture Series: China’s Road Towards Sustainability: Democracy or authoritarianism
Theologicum, T0.136 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 2, GöttingenArthur Mol, Wageningen University Erfahren Sie mehr
Book Launch Dr. Julia C. Schneider (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen): Nation and Ethnicity: Chinese Discourses on History, Historiography, and Nationalism (1900s-1920s)
Verfügungsgebäude, VG 3.103 Verfügungsgebäude, VG 3.103, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, GöttingenIn Nation and Ethnicity: Chinese Discourses on History, Historiography, and Nationalism (1900s-1920s) Julia C. Schneider gives an analysis of nationalist and historiographical discourses among late imperial and early republican Chinese thinkers. In particular, she researches their approaches towards non-Chinese people within the Qing Empire and the question on how to integrate them into a Chinese […]
Vortrag Prof. Liang Yong (Universität Trier): „Sinologische Aspekte einer interkulturellen Linguistik“
Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude, ZHG 001 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5, GöttingenZum Vortrag: Chinesisch gehört seit den 1990er Jahren zu den wenigen Sprachen, die als Fremdsprachen ständig an Bedeutung gewonnen haben. Dem wachsenden Bedarf an linguistisch fundierten Konzeptionen für den modernen Chinesischunterricht steht allerdings eine Sinologie gegenüber, die der sprachwissenschaftlichen Forschung bisher nur eine marginale Bedeutung einräumt. Erfahren Sie mehr
Vortrag Prof. Martin Powers (Univ. of Michigan): „The Shared Struggle for Freer Speech in Early Modern China and England“
Verfügungsgebäude VG 1.104 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, GöttingenIn Song times Chinese scholars began collecting exemplary writings on social and political policy as study aids for examination candidates. These compilations included edicts on contrarian political speech by Emperor Han Wendi, and policy documents on equality by statesmen such as Jia Yi, Ouyang Xiu, and Su Shi. Emperor Kangxi had these collections compiled together […]
Vortrag Prof. Dr. PAN Rui (Fudan University): „US-China Relations under Donald Trump“
Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude, ZHG 008 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5, GöttingenThe 11th East Asia Research Salon: Bullets coated with sugar: Anticorruption and moralising in the Chinese Communist Party
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.701 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, GöttingenCarolin Kautz, MA, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Ostasiatischem Seminar der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Mittwoch, 01. Februar 2017, 16:00 – 17:30, KWZ 0.701 Commentators: Dr. Armin Müller, Department of East Asian Studies Prof. Dr. Tobias Lenz, Department of Political Science Erfahren Sie mehr
Lecture: The Autobiographies of Shanghai Jewish Refugees from Central Europe
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.607Xiaoqian Gao (高晓倩) von der Comparative Literature and World Literature, Fudan University The Autobiographies of Shanghai Jewish Refugees from Central Europe 31. Januar 2017, 16-18 Uhr KWZ.0.607, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen Kurzbeschreibung: This report will do a job of mining the autobiographies for the details of Jewish experience in Shanghai. All the autobiographies constitute an […]
Globalization and Environmental Sustainability in China
Kulturwisssenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 1.601 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, GöttingenCeMEAS Lecture: Maoliang Bu, PhD Associate Professor, School of Business, Nanjing University Kurzbeschreibung: Globalization can be bad or good for the environment of China. On one side, China may suffer from international pollution transfer. While on the other side, globalization may make China better access advanced environmental technology and management. Erfahren Sie mehr
CeMEAS Lecture: Was Buddha a Muslim? Ottoman Turkish Reflexions on Japan
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 2.601 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, GöttingenDr. Katja Triplett CeMEAS, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Kurzbeschreibung: In studies on relations between Japan and Turkey, the topic of ‘religion’ has been mainly addressed in light of Islamic missionary activities and the role of Ottoman Turkish proselytizers in Japan. Recent studies have also highlighted the ways in which Japan served as a model for Ottomans in […]
Vortrag: „Ritual and Conversion in the Early Modern World: A case Study of Mary, Mazu, and Mariners“
Kulturwissenschaftsliches Zentrum, Raum 0.602 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, DeutschlandProf. Ronnie Hsia von der Pennsylvania State University Ritual and Conversion in the Early Modern World: A case Study of Mary, Mazu, and Mariners 12. Dezember 2016, 18-20 Uhr KWZ 0.602, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen Kurzbeschreibung: Mazu and the Virgin Mary were respectively protectors for Chinese and Portuguese seamen in the early modern world. This […]
CeMEAS: The 10th East Asia Research Salon
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Besprechunsgraum KWZ 0.701 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, GöttingenElena C. Lichtenthaler Hungry China – How to explain China’s changing international food policy 6. Dezember 2016, 17-19 Uhr KWZ, Besprechungsraum 0.701, Heinrich- Düker- Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen Kurzbeschreibung: Ever tried to buy milk powder at a German drug store? There is a good possibility that you found empty shelves and signs with announcements like […]
CeMEAS Lecture: Religion in Modern China
Kulturwisssenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 1.601 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, GöttingenProfessor Li Tiangang 李天纲 Department of Religious Studies, Fudan University Does China have its own religion? Is Confucianism a religion? How is the religious situation in contemporary China? These questions should be answered not only through the discussions within China studies, but also from the perspective of religious studies. Prof. Li Tiangang is going to […]
Lecture: Akademisches Konfuzius-Institut Göttingen presents: Confucian Role Ethics: A Challenge to the Ideology of Individualism
Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude, ZHG 001 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 4, GöttingenIn the introduction of Chinese philosophy and culture into the Western academy, we have tended to theorize and conceptualize this antique tradition by appeal to familiar categories. Confucian role ethics is an attempt to articulate a sui generis moral philosophy that allows this tradition to have its own voice. Erfahren Sie mehr
CeMEAS Film Series: Food is People’s Heaven 民以食为天
Kulturwisssenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 1.601 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, GöttingenThe Film Series at the Department of East Asian Studies provides an engaging and flexible study experience, intended to introduce students to a wide scope of East Asian films. Each semester features a specific topic with 6-7 screenings and provides ample opportunity for participants to discover, analyze and argue about film. Our screenings are followed […]
CeMEAS Lecture Series: How China Escaped the Poverty Trap !!! Please pay attention: this Lecture is cancelled !!!
Verfügungsgebäude, VG 3.101 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, Göttingen, DeutschlandYuen Yuen Ang, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan Before markets opened in 1978, China was an impoverished planned economy governed by a Maoist bureaucracy. In just three decades it evolved into the world’s second-largest economy and is today guided by highly entrepreneurial bureaucrats. What explains this amazing metamorphosis? !!! Please pay attention: […]
The Rule of Law in the People’s Republic of China: Statements, Realities and Insights
Library of the Institute of International and European Law Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5, 37073 GöttingenMuch has been said and written about the rule of law in the People’s Republic of China. As the issue has recently been put on the reformist agenda again, a review is warranted, including a reality check. Also, there is a need to explore, whether new analytical approaches may offer a better understanding about these […]
Sommerschule Göttingen Spirit 2016: Beyond the City Limits: Rethinking New Religiosities in Asia
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, Niedersachsen, DeutschlandDies ist ein Test
Sommerschule Göttingen Spirit 2016: Beyond the City Limits: Rethinking New Religiosities in Asia
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, Niedersachsen, DeutschlandGöttingen Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology (GISCA), Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS) & Centre for Modern East Asian Studies (CeMEAS) Theme With the rapid urbanization across Asia, with new cityscapes, glittering skyscrapers, shopping malls, globalized forms of consumption it is easy to assume that cities are the primary sites for the production of […]
Einführungsveranstaltung: Vorbereitung des Chinaaufenthaltes
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Raum 0.607 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, Niedersachsen, DeutschlandLiebe Studierende des Jahrgangs 1 der BA-Studiengänge, nach dem kommenden akademischen Jahr 2016/17 gehen die Studierenden der Studiengänge Moderne Sinologie und Chinesisch als Fremdsprache nach Festlandchina bzw. nach Taiwan für ihr Pflichtsemester im chinesischsprachigen Ausland. Um hierzu zu informieren und die gesamte bürokratische Prozedur der Studienplatzvergabe und der Bewerbung vorzubereiten, veranstaltet das Ostasiatische Seminar am […]
CeMEAS Guest Lecture: Floating Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors in North China Plain: Boat-dwelling Fisherpeople’s Mobile Pantheon and Ancestral Hall
Kulturwissenschafltiches Zentrum, Raum 0.610 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, Niedersachsen, DeutschlandThis talk focuses on how environmental change transformed the religious culture by examining the floating community of boat-dwelling fisherpeople in freshwater in North China. These mobile, isolated boat people adapted to a boat-dwelling lifestyle, organized aquatic social groups, and created innovative religious practices and beliefs in order to maintain their relationships with spirits and ancestors, […]
CeMEAS Gastvortrag: Ein Postkolonialer Denker avant la lettre? Takeuchi Yoshimi, sein Asianismus und die Kritik an der Moderne
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Raum 3.701 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, Niedersachsen, DeutschlandProf. Viren Murthy Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison In den 1980er Jahren begann eine zentrale Auseinandersetzung zwischen Marxisten und postkolonialen Theoretikern. Letztere kritisierten den Marxismus als eurozentrisch. Ihrer Meinung nach sahen Marxisten die europäische Geschichte als universell gültig und nutzten daher das europäische Entwicklungsmodell um Asien zu erklären. So verwendeten die Marxisten Kategorien wie […]
CeMEAS Guest Lecture: Chinese Humanities in the Global Era
Kulturwissenschaftsliches Zentrum, Raum 0.602 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, DeutschlandProf. Hsiung Ping-Chen The Chinese University of Hong Kong The Term “Humanities” is often used in reference to disciplinary academic humanities: a modern, institutional subject. That its development is usually a product (or byproduct) of cultural politics in nation-building can be taken for granted. In the case of China, however, the long and complicated civilization […]
CeMEAS Guest Lecture: Common Elements of an Axial Age? Comparative Perspectives on Ancient China and Ancient Egypt
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentraum, Raum 0.608 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, DeutschlandProf. Mu-Chou Poo Department of History, The Chinese University of Hong Kong In this lecture Prof. Poo re-examines the theory of the Axial Age by first investigating the case of China, situating the findings in the context of the on-going scholarly discussions on the idea of the Axial Age as proposed by Jaspers and expounded […]
CeMEAS Lecture: The Realization of One Belt One Road?
Oec., Raum 1.163 Oec 1.163, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 3, Göttingen, DeutschlandDr. Chun-Yi Lee Faculty of Social Sciences, The University of Nottingham The One Belt One Road (OBOR) project initiated by the President Xi Jing Ping, took shape in March 2015. It is envisaged to connect vibrant East Asia and developed Europe via Silk Road Economic Belt, linking China with European countries via the 21st Century […]
Transregional Studies at Göttingen: Regionalizing the Global, Globalizing the Regional: An interdisciplinary conversation
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentraum, Raum 0.602 & 0.603 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, DeutschlandRoundtable discussion Transregional Studies at Göttingen Presented by the Forum for Transregional and Global Studies, CETREN, CeMIS, CeMEAS, Academic Confucius-Institute & the Center for Theory of Culture and Society (ZTMK) Für weitere Informationen klicken Sie bitte hier
Transregional Studies at Göttingen: Guest Lecture: Sustainability and the Crisis of Transcendence: The Long View from Asia
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentraum, Raum 0.602 & 0.603 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, DeutschlandPublic Lecture by Prof. Dr. Prasenjit Duara Duke University The rise of Asia and China in particular has been accompanied by the need to project a new, more just vision of the world that is not simply a new hegemony. Many Chinese intellectuals have sought to find inspiration in their historical and transcendent universalisms such […]
CeMEAS Guest Lecture: Buddhismus im Heutigen China
VG, Raum 3.108 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, Göttingen, DeutschlandProf. Dr. Li Xuetao Beijing Foreign Studies University Vom 22. bis 23. April 2016 fand die nationale Religionskonferenz in Beijing statt, an der Vertreter verschiedener Religionen teilnahmen. Auf dieser Konferenz hielt der chinesische Staatspräsident Xi Jinping eine wichtige Rede. Meister Xuecheng, Präsident der Vereinigung der Buddhisten Chinas, war bei der Konferenz Für weitere Informationen klicken […]
CeMEAS Lecture: Kafka in China – Rezeptionsgeschichte eines Klassikers der Moderne
KHW, Raum 0.111 Käte-Hamburger-Weg 6, Göttingen, DeutschlandProf. Dr. Ren Weidong Beijing Foreign Studies University Die Rezeption Kafkas als eines Autors der modernen deutschsprachigen Literatur und der literarischen Moderne überhaupt erfolgt in China vor dem Hintergrund der Auseinandersetzung mit der “westlichen” und der eigenen literarischen Moderne. Mein Vortrag zeichnet die Rezeptionsgeschichte Kafkas in China seit... Für weitere Informationen klicken Sie bitte hier
CeMEAS Guest Lecture: Revolution Comes to East: colonial modernity, national subjectivity and subaltern everydayness
Kulturwissenschaftsliches Zentrum, Raum 0.602 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, DeutschlandProf. Jie-Hyun Lim Sogang University Prof. Jie-Hyun Lim Sogang University Asianization, Africanization or Latin Americanization of Marxism involves more than a mere transposition of Marxian ideas to non-European countries. When revolution came to East, events contradicted the ideology. The Bolshevik revolution seemed to deny Marx’s famous dictum of ‘the country that is more... Für weitere […]
CeMEAS Guest Lecture: The Making of Merchants – War, Local Government, and Commercial Organization in Chongqing from 1750 to 1950
Oec., Raum 1.162 Platz der Göttingener Sieben 3, Göttingen, DeutschlandProf. Maura Dykstra Caltech Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences This lecture explores the formation, development, and expansion of merchant groups in the inland commercial center of Chongqing from the Qianlong period to the end of the Republican era. It demonstrates... Für weitere Informationen klicken Sie bitte hier
CeMEAS Guest Lecture
VG, Raum 4.104 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, Göttingen, Deutschland近代以來中國佛教的基本狀況與未來展望 普 慧, 國家教育部人文社會科學重點研究基地四川大學中國俗文化研究中心 Basic Situation and Future Prospects of Chinese Buddhism since the Modern Times Pu Hui, Centre for Chinese Folk Cultural Studies of Sichuan University, Key Research Base of Humanities & Social Science of National Ministry of Education... 佛教從公元1世紀傳入中國,歷經2000年,已經完全成爲中國傳統文化的重要組成部分,在中國漢文化以及一些主要的少數民族文化中,發揮了重要的作用。人們的社會生活、精神生活都充斥著佛教內容。無論是上層的知識精英,還是下層的黎民百姓,都離不開佛教信仰的指導。 Für weitere Informationen klicken Sie bitte hier
CeMEAS Lecture: Beyond Modernity- Understanding Change in Qing China (1644 – 1911)
VG, 2.101 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, Göttingen, DeutschlandProf. Margherita Zanasi (Director of Asian Studies, Department of History at Louisiana State University) This lecture explores the limits of adopting a modernization approach to the study of economic change in Qing China. Recent works have successfully “decentered” developmental determinism by questioning both the uniqueness of the European experience and the imposition on non-Western countries […]
CeMEAS Global Food Research Colloquium: Fertilizer Use in China: Why Is It So High, and What Can Be Done to Reduce It?
ZHG, Raum 102 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5, Göttingen, DeutschlandProfessor David Abler, Ph.D. (Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics and Demography, Penn State University) Fertilizer Use in China: Why Is It So High, and What Can Be Done to Reduce It? Professor David Abler, Ph.D., Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics and Demography, Penn State University Tuesday, 17.05.2016, 16:15 to 17:45 ZHG 102 On Tuesday, May […]
CeMEAS Lecture: Aircraft, Spacecraft, Statecraft: Specialist cultures and China-U.S. trade in sensitive technologies
Kulturwissenschafltiches Zentrum, Raum 0.610 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, Niedersachsen, DeutschlandAlanna Krolikowski, PhD (Vertretung der Professur für Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft des modernen China, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) Why are some sensitive, strategic high-technology industries organized into transnational production networks while others are fragmented into national industrial bases? This project explores this general question through a comparison of China-U.S. trade in two strategic, dual-use sectors: civil commercial aircraft […]
CeMEAS Lecture: The Uighur Separatist Movement – Its Past, Present and Future
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Raum 3.701 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, Niedersachsen, DeutschlandJeremy Gong, PhD candidate Montag, 25. April 2016, 17 Uhr (c.t.) Over the past years China has claimed itself to be a victim of terrorist activities perpetrated by members of the Uighur Separatist Movement (USM), who were blamed for atrocities in Chinese cities of Urumqi, Kunming and so on. In response Chinese authorities have militarised […]
CeMEAS Guest Lecture: China in 1968: From the Red Guard Movement to the Sent Down Youth Movement
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Raum 0.701 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, DeutschlandProf. Jin Guangyao 2016 is the 50th anniversary of the Cultural Revolution. In order to launch the Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong mobilized the Red Guard (young students) to rebel against the class enemy, therefore the Red Guard played a vanguard role in the Cultural Revolution. In 1968, however, Mao ended the Red Guard movement and […]
CeMEAS: The 9th East Asia Research Salon
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Raum 0.701 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, DeutschlandPeng Tsintsin Between Faith and Truth: The Historical Writing of Buddhism in Modern China Abstract: The historical writing of Buddhism in modern China, as one part of the revival of Buddhism and reform of historiography, developed under the dual impact of Chinese scholarly traditions and Western intellectual trends. Most outstanding historians and Buddhist scholars. Für […]
Workshop CFP: Rural-Urban Dynamics and Emergent Forms of Labor in India and China
Göttingen, 22./23. February 2016 Workshop CFP: Rural-Urban Dynamics and Emergent Forms of Labor in India and China (Göttingen, 22./23. February 2016) University of Göttingen, Germany CeMIS – Centre for Modern Indian Studies CeMEAS – Centre for Modern East Asian Studies Extended deadline: January 4, 2016 Rural-Urban Dynamics and Emergent Forms of Labor in India and […]
Vorstellungsvorträge: Besetzung der W2-Professur für Fachdidaktik Chinesisch als Fremdsprache
Liebe Studierende, liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, kommende Woche finden am Montag und Dienstag die Vorstellungsvorträge im Zusammenhang mit der Besetzung der W2-Professur für Fachdidaktik Chinesisch als Fremdsprache statt. Diesen folgt dann jeweils noch eine Lehrprobe. Vortrag wie Lehrprobe sind universitätsöffentlich. Sie sind alle herzlich eingeladen, zu den Vorträgen und Lehrproben zu kommen und sich selbst […]
CeMEAS: Special Guest Lecture
VG, Raum 3.102 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, Göttingen, DeutschlandProf. Simon C. Partner Duke University, Department of History Transformative Spaces of 19th Century East Asia: A Japanese Merchant’s Experience of Treaty Port Yokohama Following the experiences of one merchant, a farmer from Kōshū province (present-day Yamanashi prefecture) who left his village to open a trading venture in Yokohama in 1859, the presentation will examine […]
CeMEAS: Special Guest Lecture
VG, Raum 3.102 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, Göttingen, DeutschlandTransformative Spaces of 19th Century East Asia: A Japanese Merchant’s Experience of Treaty Port Yokohama Prof. Simon C. Partner Duke University, Department of History Following the experiences of one merchant, a farmer from Kōshū province (present-day Yamanashi prefecture) who left his village to open a trading venture in Yokohama in 1859, the presentation will examine […]
Filmzyklus 2015/2016: Somewhere Between 中间地带
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Raum 0.607 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, Niedersachsen, DeutschlandSomewhere Between 中间地带 Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Heinrich- Düker- Weg 14, Göttingen, + Google Map Picture: John Carkeet, Zoominations, https://flic.kr/p/vwVbS4,CC BY 2.0 Für weitere Informationen klicken Sie bitte hier
Filmzyklus 2015/2016: Lilting 轻轻摇晃
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Raum 0.607 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, Niedersachsen, DeutschlandLilting 轻轻摇晃 Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Heinrich- Düker- Weg 14, Göttingen, + Google Map Picture: John Carkeet, Zoominations, https://flic.kr/p/vwVbS4,CC BY 2.0 Für weitere Informationen klicken Sie bitte hier
Vortrag: „Informationalization and Transparency: The Changing Relations between Local Governments and Healthcare Providers in Rural China“
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Raum 0.606 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, DeutschlandDr. Armin Müller (Universität Göttingen) Since 2000, the previously neglected rural health sector of the People’s Republic of China has increasingly become a focus of attention. The introduction of a rural health insurance program since 2003 and the New Health Reform since 2009 aim at its stabilization, and the transformation of a commercialized public service […]
Filmzyklus 2015/2016: Seeking Asian Female 娶个亚洲新娘
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Raum 0.607 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, Niedersachsen, DeutschlandSeeking Asian Female 娶个亚洲新娘 Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Heinrich- Düker- Weg 14, Göttingen, + Google Map Picture: John Carkeet, Zoominations, https://flic.kr/p/vwVbS4,CC BY 2.0 Für weitere Informationen klicken Sie bitte hier
Vortrag: „Individual Power and the Politics of Welfare in China: Bringing Persons Back in Institutional Analysis“
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Raum 0.606 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, DeutschlandProf. Xiong Yuegen (Jacobs Universiy Bremen; Peking Universität) During the past decade, there has been a growing interest in social policy – making and welfare studies in post – socialist China. Compared to many advanced democracies, the role of Chinese leaders in the social policy – making and welfare politics is extraordinarily influential. This issue […]
Posterausstellung „Vorbilder – Zerrbilder: Berichte europäischer Reisender nach China, Tibet und Japan“
Foyer des Kulturwissenschaftlichen Zentrums der Universität Göttingen Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, DeutschlandEröffnung: 26. Oktober 2015, 18:30 Uhr
Information meeting for new master students in Modern Sinology
ZHG, Raum 006 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5, Göttingen, DeutschlandAll new students in the master programme Modern Sinology are cordially invited to join the information meeting on October 23, 2015, at 13.00 in room 006 of the ZHG (Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude).
Info-Veranstaltung für alle Erstsemester des OAS
ZHG, Raum 006 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5, Göttingen, DeutschlandAm 23.10.2015 von 11:00-13:00 Uhr lädt das Ostasiatische Seminar alle Erstsemester zu einer Info-Veranstaltung über unsere Bachelorstudiengänge im ZHG 006 ein.
19. Tagung des Fachverbandes Chinesisch
Die 19. Tagung des Fachverbandes Chinesisch findet vom 24. bis zum 29.09. in Göttingen statt. Hier gibt es für alle Interessierten weitere Informationen zum Programm sowie zur Anmeldung.
“Situating China within Global Intellectual History”
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentraum, Raum 0.609 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, DeutschlandIm Rahmen der CeMEAS lecture series wird Prof. Dr. Dominic Sachsenmaier am 16. Juli im KWZ 0.609 um 18 Uhr einen Vortrag mit dem Titel “Situating China within Global Intellectual History” halten. Alle Interessierten sind dazu herzlich eingeladen.
Vortragsankündigung „Die Rolle des Humanistischen Buddhismus in der Renaissance des Buddhismus in der Volksrepublik China“
VG, Raum 2.101 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, Göttingen, DeutschlandAm 9. Juli wird Master Miaoyi um 14 Uhr im VG 2.101 den Vortrag „Die Rolle des Humanistischen Buddhismus in der Renaissance des Buddhismus in der Volksrepublik China“ halten. Nähere Informationen zum Vortrag finden Sie hier. Alle Interessierten sind dazu herzlich eingeladen.
Vortragsankündigung „The Bilateral Investment Treaty between China and Taiwan and Its Historical Background“
Kulturwissenschaftsliches Zentrum, Raum 0.602 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, DeutschlandAm 8. Juli wird Prof. Dr. Chi Chung um 18 Uhr im KWZ 0.602 den Vortrag „The Bilateral Investment Treaty between China and Taiwan and Its Historical Background“ halten. Nähere Informationen zum Vortrag finden Sie hier. Alle Interessierten sind dazu herzlich eingeladen.
Vortragsankündigung „Green Luck? Red Luck? Intercultural Differences in Language from the Lens of Colour Related Expressions“
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Raum 0.603 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, DeutschlandAm 7. Juli wird Patrick Lai um 18 Uhr im KWZ 0.603 den Vortrag „Green Luck? Red Luck? Intercultural Differences in Language from the Lens of Colour Related Expressions“ halten. Nähere Informationen dazu finden Sie hier. Alle Interessierten sind dazu herzlich eingeladen.
Vortragsankündigung „The Space Between: Corporatizing Lineage Belonging and the Making of Fast Fashion in Southern China“
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentraum, Raum 0.609 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, DeutschlandIm Rahmen der CeMEAS lecture series wird am 2. Juli um 18:00 Uhr im KWZ Raum 0.609 der Vortrag von Dr. Nellie Chu mit dem Titel „The Space Between: Corporatizing Lineage Belonging and the Making of Fast Fashion in Southern China“ stattfinden. Alle Interessierten sind dazu herzlich eingeladen. Nähere Informationen zum Vortrag und zur lecture […]
Vortragsankündigung „Chinesische Finanzmarktreform“
VG, Raum 3.104 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, Göttingen, DeutschlandAm 23. Juni um 14 Uhr wird in VG 3.104 ein Gastvortrag von Dr. LU Hua von der Fudan Universität zur Finanzmarktreform in China stattfinden. Alle Interessierten sind dazu herzlich eingeladen.
Veranstaltungsankündigung: Language Diversity in the Sinophone World: Policies, effects, and tradition
Historische Sternwarte Geismar Landstr. 11, Göttingen, DeutschlandVom 11-13 Juni findet im Historischen Observatorium Göttingen das internationale Symposium „Language Diversity in the Sinophone World: Policies, effects, and tradition“ statt. Weitere Informationen gibt es hier oder bei den lokalen Organisatoren Prof. Dr. Henning Kltöter und Julia Schulz.