Dr. Phil. Dr. rer. med. Hertzer joined us again in May 2023. As a CeMEAS guest researcher she will conduct her new research project The Practical Application of the Yijing (Book of Changes) in Chinese Medicine:China and the West – A Comparative Study. She held a position as CeMEAS guest reseacher from 05.2017 to 04.2019,…
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The 15th CEA (Europe) and 34th CEA (UK) 2023 Annual Conference: Sustainable Development in a Changing Era: China and the World
Co-organizers: CEA Europe/UK, University of Göttingen Date: 14-16 July 2023 14 July: preconference workshop “Sustainable Food System” Venue: University of Göttingen, Germany Local Organizers: Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, University of Göttingen Centre for Modern East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen Economic development in China and the world faces many challenges, including COVID-19, conflicts, climate change, currency…
Meet Our Researchers: Dr. Lennart Kaplan
Dr. Lennart Kaplan joined CeMEAS in May 2023. Since 2020, Lennart Kaplan works a postdoctoral researcher at Göttingen University’s Chair of Development Economics of Prof. Dr. Andreas Fuchs. Moreover, he is associated with the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and the German Institute of Development and Sustainability. Dr. Kaplan obtained his Ph.D. in development…
Meet Our Researchers: Dr. Kaiyi Li
Dr. Kaiyi Li joined CeMEAS in April 2023. Since 2021, she has been a research fellow at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute in Braunschweig, Germany. She currently leads a BMBF funded project titled “The Digital Transformation of School Education in China: Policies, Governance Structures and Local Stakeholders”. She obtained her…
Meet Our Researchers: Dr. Jie Kang
Dr. Jie Kang is a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. Her research focuses on contemporary Chinese Christian community, religious network, the interactive relationship between the secular state and religious groups, the inter-religious encounter between Christianity and Islam and the role of the Christian “Back to…
Meet Our Researchers: Dr. Lingling Ni
Dr. Lingling Ni joined CeMEAS in March 2023. After completing her major in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language at East China Normal University in Shanghai, she became a teacher of Chinese and Literature at the High School Affiliated to Tongji University. Afterwards, she came to Germany to study Germanistic, Ancient Chinese Philology and Pedagogics…
Meet Our Researchers: Dr. Qinqin Peng
Dr. Qinqin Peng joined CeMEAS in July 2022. Since January 2022, she has been a post-doctoral research fellow at the East Asian Department of Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. After studying Chinese literature and philosophy in Nanjing, she obtained her Ph.D. in 2021 for a dissertation titled “Between Faith and Truth: The Historiography of Buddhism in Modern China…
Book Publication: Banking on Beijing - The Aims and Impacts of China's Overseas Development Program
Banking on Beijing: The Aims and Impacts of China’s Overseas Development Program April 2022 DOI: 10.1017/9781108564496 ISBN: 9781108474108 This book explains China’s transformation from ‘benefactor’ to ‘banker’ in its relationship with developing countries and traces the impacts of this change. China is now the lender of first resort for much of the developing world, but…
Recent Publications: Yingming Theater Journal Vol.16
Yingming Theater Journal – Volume 16 Editor: Dr. Yumin Ao Yingming Theater was founded by Dr. Yumin Ao, Oct. 2019. It is a non-profit online journal that focuses on intercultural theater, cultural diversity in theater, and cross-cultural dialogue through theater. The contributors and columnists of the journal’s content are based in various countries and theatrical practices…
Recent Publications: Yingming Theater Journal Vol.15
Yingming Theater Journal – Volume 15 Editor: Dr. Yumin Ao Yingming Theater was founded by Dr. Yumin Ao, Oct. 2019. It is a non-profit online journal that focuses on intercultural theater, cultural diversity in theater, and cross-cultural dialogue through theater. The contributors and columnists of the journal’s content are based in various countries and theatrical practices…
Discussion Forum: Global China Conversations
The Global China Conversations provide a 60-minute online discussion forum that fosters the exchange of ideas between research and practice. The Conversations are hosted by the Kiel Institute China Initiative in cooperation with the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies (CeMEAS) at the University of Göttingen, KOF Swiss Economic Institute at ETH Zürich, and Wildau Technical…
CeMEAS Conversations: Benjamin Creutzfeldt
China’s Relations with Latin America: Past, Present and a Challenging Future In this video, Benjamin Creutzfeldt discusses his research on China’s relationship with Latin America. Drawing on the history of Sino-Latin American Relations, he critically examines China’s recent engagement and its consequences for Latin America. He discusses China’s Belt and Road Initiative and developmental aid…