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