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East Asia Newsletter Göttingen, November 2024
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Welcome to the East Asia Newsletter Göttingen, your main source for updates on events, research projects, and publications in the field of East Asian Studies at Göttingen Campus and beyond.
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EVENTS
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Lecture:
Dr. Austin Strange: The Political Logics of Chinese Global Infrastructure
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Date: November 11, 2024, 18:00-19:30
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Abstract: Infrastructure is a major component of China’s presence in global development and is also central to larger debates about China’s evolving roles in the world economy and international politics. This talk will present a comprehensive account of major, Chinese government-financed infrastructure projects across the Global South since 1949 to the present day. New historical and contemporary datasets show Chinese global infrastructure’s distinctiveness in terms of its historical tenacity and massive contemporary scope...
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Lecture: The Challenges of Doing Intellectual History Research
Academician Prof. Dr. Wang Fan-sen
(Institute for History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei)
王汎森院士 (中央研究院歷史語言研究所, 臺北, 臺灣)
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Date: November 18, 15.00-16.30
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NEWS
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Meet Our Researchers: Prof. Dr. ZHANG Tao
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Meet Our Researchers: Prof. Dr. LI Lei
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LI Lei holds the Professorship in “Economics and Politics of China” at the Faculties of Business and Economics and the Faculty of Humanities at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Before joining the University of Göttingen in 2024, she served as an Assistant Professor (W1) at the University of Mannheim. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Tsinghua University. She is affiliated with CESifo and IZA.
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Her research focuses on the Chinese economy, particularly in the areas of international trade. Her work covers three key topics: trade disputes, including the US-China trade war and the EU-China trade dispute...
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Call for Papers - submission before November 29th, 2024
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Blurred Boundaries: Martial Arts and Combat Sports Between Cultural Embodiment, Pedagogical Application and Political Appropriation
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Specific socio-cultural semantics and aesthetics influence systematised and codified movement practices, which are, in turn, embodied and produced through these practices. This assertion is widely accepted among researchers and, to a significant extent, among practitioners, particularly in the context of martial arts and combat sports.
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In this regard, East Asian martial arts are especially viewed by the social mainstream as expressions and components of ‘authentic’ or ‘traditional’ culture. However, from an academic perspective, it is clear that martial arts and combat sports, their popular practice, artistic or media representation...
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