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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190709T120000
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Managing Municipal Solid Waste in China: A Community-based Decentralized Approach
DESCRIPTION:Lecture: \nManaging Municipal Solid Waste in China: A Community-based Decentralized Approach \n\nZhang Xuehua (Nanjing University)  Time: Tuesday\, July 9\, 12 am (c.t.) – 2 pm  Venue: VG 1.104\, 37073 Göttingen \nHosted by the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies (CeMEAS) in cooperation with the Academic Confucius Institute (ACI) and the Old Botanical Garden at the University of Göttingen \nImage: Peter Parkes\, Other waste / Recyclable\, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)\, https://flic.kr/p/9CeNr7
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-managing-municipal-solid-waste-in-china-a-community-based-decentralized-approach/
LOCATION:VG\, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7\, 37073 Göttingen\, Germany
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190710T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190710T180000
DTSTAMP:20260410T233951
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SUMMARY:Sonderführung: China – Pflanzen aus dem Reich der Mitte
DESCRIPTION:China – Pflanzen aus dem Reich der Mitte\nSonderführungen durch den Alten Botanischen Garten der Universität Göttingen\n  \n\nDr. Michael Schwerdtfeger (Universität Göttingen)\n\n\n\nMittwoch\, 10.07.2019\, 17:00 – ca. 18:00\, Alter Botanischer Garten\, Untere Karspüle 2\, 37073 Göttingen\n\nAls im Jahr 1737 der Botanische Garten der Universität Göttingen angelegt wurde\, war China noch „unerreichbar“ weit weg\, und die meisten Europäer hatten von Natur und Kultur Chinas nur vage und abenteuerliche Vorstellungen. In der Folge fanden durch Naturforscher\, Abenteurer\, Gärtner\, Missionare und Handelsreisende mehr und mehr Pflanzenarten aus dem Reich der Mitte in unsere Gärten. Unser Gartenrundgang stellt bekannte und außergewöhnliche pflanzliche Gäste und Botschafter aus diesem großen und vielfältigen Land vor. \n  \nDie Führungen werden von Dr. Michael Schwerdtfeger im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe China’s Green Transformation im Sommersemester 2019 angeboten.  Veranstalter der Vortragsreihe sind das Centre for Modern East Asian Studies (CeMEAS) und das Akademische Konfuzius Institut (AKI) an der Universität Göttingen. Das detaillierte Programm der Vortragsreihe finden Sie auf unserer Webpage: www.cemeas.de \n  \nDie Führungen sind kostenfrei und eine Anmeldung ist nicht nötig. \n  \nFoto: michael_china China_2014_Beijing_YuanMingYuan_Lotus_140712_7455 + (Copy) https://flic.kr/p/o32zQo\, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/sonderfuhrung-china-pflanzen-aus-dem-reich-der-mitte-2/
LOCATION: Alter Botanischer Garten\, Untere Karspüle 2\, 37073 Göttingen\, 37073\, Germany
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210114T130000
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SUMMARY:Online Lecture: The Chinese Communist Party’s International Networks
DESCRIPTION:The Chinese Communist Party’s International Networks\nJulia Bader (University of Amsterdam)\nThis lecture is part of our new lecture series China’s Economic Rise – Political Transformations in Asia and Beyond \nThursday\, January 14\, 2021\, 1:00-2:00pm CET \nZOOM Link: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/98494002315 \n  \nAbstract: Under President Xi Jinping China has become a more assertive force of transformation. It is more openly promoting its vision of global order and more aggressively trying to popularize the Chinese political model. Instruments outside of traditional state-to-state diplomacy play a key role in this endeavor. The lecture focuses on the role of the International Department of the Communist Party of China (CCP-ID). Building on an intense travel diplomacy\, the CCP-ID maintains a widely stretched network to political elites across the globe. The CCP-ID’s engagement is not new; but since Xi Jinping took office\, it has bolstered its efforts to reach out to other parties. Yet\, little is known about the CCP-ID’s role in China’s foreign relations: Who are the CCP-ID’s partners? And what are the CCP-ID’s networking efforts about? \nThe lecture tries to find answers to these questions. It provides insights into the patterns of the CCP-ID’s external relations since the early 2000s and discusses the underlying motives. Party relations not only serve as an additional channel to advance China’s foreign policy interests. Since President Xi has come to power\, party relations also emerged as a key instrument to promote China’s vision for reforming the global order. Moreover\, China increasingly uses the party channel as a vehicle of authoritarian learning by sharing experiences of its economic modernization and authoritarian one-party regime. The CCP-ID may well be an instrument of global political transformation. \nJulia Bader\nJulia Bader is Assistant Professor for International Relations in the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. She joined the Department of Political Science and the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research in July 2012. Before joining UvA\, Julia Bader worked as a research fellow at the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) in Bonn (Germany) for five years. Julia Bader holds a MA in Politics and Management from Konstanz University and a PhD in Political Science from Heidelberg University. \n\n\nJulia’s work focuses on China´s foreign relations; regime transition and autocratic stability\, international relations and foreign policy\, development assistance and human rights. She is a member of the International Diffusion and Cooperation of Authoritarian Regimes – IDCAR-Network and an external partner of the project Undermining Hegemony. The US\, China\, Russia\, and International Public Goods.\nSource: https://www.uva.nl/profiel/b/a/j.bader2/j.bader2.html \n\n\n  \nThis lecture series is co-organized and co-sponsored by Göttingen’s Centre for Modern East Asian Studies as well the Kiel Institute China Initiative. \n  \nPicture: iStock.com/Maxiphoto
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/online-lecture-the-chinese-communist-partys-international-networks/
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210128T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210128T140000
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SUMMARY:Online Lecture: China’s Overseas Lending
DESCRIPTION:China’s Overseas Lending\nSebastian Horn (IfW Kiel)\nThis lecture is part of our new lecture series China’s Economic Rise – Political Transformations in Asia and Beyond \nThursday\, January 28\, 2021\, 1:00-2:00pm CET \nZOOM Link: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/92000859579 \n  \nAbstract: Compared with China’s pre-eminent status in world trade\, its role in global finance is poorly understood. This paper studies the size\, characteristics\, and determinants of China’s capital exports building a new database of 5000 loans and grants to 152 countries\, 1949-2017. We find that 50% of China’s lending to developing countries is not reported to the IMF or World Bank. These “hidden debts” distort policy surveillance\, risk pricing\, and debt sustainability analyses. Since China’s overseas lending is almost entirely official (state-controlled)\, the standard “push” and “pull” drivers of private cross-border flows do not apply in the same way. \n  \nThe lecture series is co-organized and co-sponsored by Göttingen’s Centre for Modern East Asian Studies as well the Kiel Institute China Initiative. \nPicture: iStock.com/Maxiphoto
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/online-lecture-chinas-overseas-lending/
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210211T130000
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SUMMARY:Online Lecture: Gaining Ground\, Gaining Influence? Vote Shares and Power in the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)
DESCRIPTION:Gaining Ground\, Gaining Influence? Vote Shares and Power in the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)\nSoo Yeon Kim (National University of Singapore) \nThis lecture is part of our new lecture series China’s Economic Rise – Political Transformations in Asia and Beyond \nThursday\, February 11\, 2021\, 1:00-2:00pm CET \nZOOM Link: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/92410917518 \n  \nAbstract: Why do countries join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and what do countries that have joined gain from membership? This paper examines the distribution of vote shares in the AIIB relative to that of existing international financial institutions (IFIs). Our analysis of the distribution of vote shares across the AIIB\, the World Bank\, the International Monetary Fund (IMF)\, and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) supports the hypotheses: countries with lower vote shares in the existing IFIs are more likely to join the AIIB and member states have higher vote shares in the AIIB than in each of the other IFIs. The results of the OLS regressions suggest that the size of vote shares in existing IFIs is a strong deter-minant of countries’ decision to accede to the AIIB and that the distribution in vote shares in the AIIB are strongly correlated with the distribution of vote shares in these other IFIs. Countries systematically gain more vote shares in the AIIB than in the other IFIs and this gain in vote shares in the AIIB is most pronounced vis-a-vis the IMF\, followed by the World Bank and the ADB. Developing countries also experience higher gains in vote shares than developed countries. The results also present no evidence that the distribution of vote shares in the AIIB privilege countries with greater political or economic proximity to China\, which challenges the dominant explanation that the AIIB serves as an instrument that reflects or furthers Chinese interests. This paper contributes to the scholarship on the implications of international institutions created by rising powers on global governance\, as well as whether Chinese-led international institutions conform to or deviate from existing rules and norms of international institutions. \nSoo Yeon Kim joined the Department of Political Science in July 2011. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University and a B.A. in Political Science and International Studies from Yonsei University. Professor Kim’s research and teaching areas are International Political Economy\, International Political Economy of Asia\, and Research Methods\, with a specialization in trade politics. She is the author of Power and the Governance of Global Trade (2011\, Series in Political Economy\, Cornell University Press). Her current research focuses on free trade agreements in Asia and on rising powers in the global economy.\nSource: https://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/polsk/ \nThe lecture series is co-organized and co-sponsored by Göttingen’s Centre for Modern East Asian Studies as well the Kiel Institute China Initiative. \nPicture: iStock.com/Maxiphoto
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/online-lecture-gaining-ground-gaining-influence-vote-shares-and-power-in-the-asian-infrastructure-investment-bank-aiib/
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210318T130000
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DTSTAMP:20260410T233951
CREATED:20210104T084526Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210112T144653Z
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SUMMARY:Online Lecture: China’s R-AI-se: The Digital New Silk Road and China’s Global AI Dreams
DESCRIPTION:China’s R-AI-se: The Digital New Silk Road and China’s Global AI Dreams\nNele Noesselt (Universität Duisburg-Essen)\nThis lecture is part of our new lecture series China’s Economic Rise – Political Transformations in Asia and Beyond \nThursday\, March 18\, 2021\, 1:00-2:00pm CET \nZOOM Link: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/99233431817 \nAbstract: This paper assesses the global implications of the PRC’s AI strategy. Examining recent regional and global transformations from the perspective of role theory\, it looks at the re-steering of the Chinese (gig)economy under the fifth generation and outlines strategic role adjustments and position changes. \n  \nThe lecture series is co-organized and co-sponsored by Göttingen’s Centre for Modern East Asian Studies as well the Kiel Institute China Initiative. \nPicture: iStock.com/Maxiphoto
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/online-lecture-chinas-r-ai-se-the-digital-new-silk-road-and-chinas-global-ai-dreams/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210401T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210401T140000
DTSTAMP:20260410T233951
CREATED:20210104T084833Z
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SUMMARY:Online Lecture: Institutional and Policy Pathways to Carbon Neutrality in China by 2060
DESCRIPTION:Institutional and Policy Pathways to Carbon Neutrality in China by 2060\nValerie J. Karplus (Carnegie Mellon University)\nThis lecture is part of our new lecture series China’s Economic Rise – Political Transformations in Asia and Beyond \nThursday\, April 1\, 2021\, 1:00-2:00pm CET \nZOOM Link: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/98853778484 \n  \nAbstract: President Xi Jinping has announced that China will pursue a goal of net zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2060. This talk will examine the evolution of China’s institutions and policies as they relate to carbon management and ask how they will need to further change in order to support the country’s 2060 ambitions. The talk will conclude by discussing the potential for China’s emissions trading system for carbon dioxide\, which is currently under development\, to contribute to the 2060 goal. \nValerie J. Karplus is a Visiting Associate Professor in Global Economics and Management (GEM) at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Karplus studies resource and environmental management in firms operating in diverse national and industry contexts\, with a focus on the role of institutions and management practices in explaining performance. Karplus is an expert on China’s energy system\, including technology and business model innovation\, energy system governance\, and the management of air pollution and climate change. She works with a collaborative team of researchers to study the micro and macro determinants of clean energy transitions in emerging markets\, with a focus on China and India. She teaches Entrepreneurship without Borders\, New Models for Global Business\, and is currently developing a new course\, together with Professor Chris Warshaw in Political Science\, on Global Energy Markets and Policy.\nSource: https://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/directory/valerie-j-karplus \nThe lecture series is co-organized and co-sponsored by Göttingen’s Centre for Modern East Asian Studies as well the Kiel Institute China Initiative. \nPicture: iStock.com/Maxiphoto
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/online-lecture-institutional-and-policy-pathways-to-carbon-neutrality-in-china-by-2060/
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211028T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211028T140000
DTSTAMP:20260410T233951
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SUMMARY:Global China Conversations #3 Making Chinese Foreign Aid Transparent – What is Hidden in Data and Policy Documents?
DESCRIPTION:Making Chinese Foreign Aid Transparent – What is Hidden in Data and Policy Documents?\n  \n  \n  \nSprecher\nDr. Bradley Parks\, AidData\nMarina Rudyak\, Heidelberg University \nModerator\nProf. Dr. Andreas Fuchs\, University of Göttingen\, IfW Kiel\n\n  \nZeit: 28.10.2021\, 13:00 -14:00 CET\nAnmeldung: Anmeldeformular \n  \n \n  \nThema\nSince 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 for development projects. How can we therefore try to piece through the veil of secrecy and complexity? In this third Global China Conversation\, Brad Parks and Marina Rudyak will help us unravel some of the underlying processes. Marina Rudyak will guide us through the complexity of the institutional setup and outline what we can learn from official government documents. Brad Parks will offer us a bird’s-eye view of China’s geo-economic strategy before and after the introduction of the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013\, by looking at a uniquely comprehensive and granular dataset of international development finance from China that captures 13\,427 projects worth $843 billion across 165 countries in every major world region over an 18-year period. \n  \nProgramm\nDie Veranstaltung besteht aus Impulsvorträgen der Sprecher\, gefolgt von einer Diskussion. \nDie Global China Conversation #3 wird auf Englisch abgehalten. \nLiteratur \nMalik\, A.\, Parks\, B.\, Russell\, B.\, Lin\, J.\, Walsh\, K.\, Solomon\, K.\, Zhang\, S.\, Elston\, T.\, and S. Goodman. (2021). Banking on the Belt and Road: Insights from a new global dataset of 13\,427 Chinese development projects. Williamsburg\, VA: AidData at William & Mary.\nhttps://www.aiddata.org/publications/banking-on-the-belt-and-road   \n  \nSprecher\n \nDr. Bradley Parks\, AidData\nDr. Bradley Parks is the Executive Director of AidData\, a research lab at William and Mary. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research has been published in academic and policy journals\, including Science\, Governance\, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy\, the Journal of Development Economics\, World Development\, the National Interest\, and China Economic Quarterly. He is the author of three books\, including Banking on Beijing: The Aims and Impacts of China’s Overseas Development Program (Cambridge University Press). Dr. Parks is also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development\, where he works on issues related to the Belt and Road Initiative. \n  \n \nMarina Rudyak\, Heidelberg University \nMarina Rudyak is a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Sinology of Heidelberg University. She is the founder of china-aid-blog.com and a member of the Global Diplomacy Lab\, the Sino-German Future Bridge\, and the BMW Foundation Responsible Leaders Network. She has previously worked with the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) in Beijing as Program Manager of the multi-country project “Regional Economic Cooperation and Integration Asia-China.” Her research interests are Chinese foreign aid and development lending policy with a focus on Africa and Central Asia\, as well as the political ideology of the Chinese Communist Party and coded communication in Chinese politics. \n  \nWissenschaftliche Partner \n  \n \n \n \n \n  \n  \n\nMedienpartner \n \n\n\n\nChina.Table Professional Briefing ist das Leitmedium für Entscheider in Politik\, Wirtschaft\, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft. Werktäglich News und Analysen über politische und technologische Entwicklungen in China und die Beziehungen zu Europa. \nJetzt unverbindlich für 30 Tage testen: deutsche Version kostenlos testen – englische Version kostenlos testen \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/global-china-conversations-3-making-chinese-foreign-aid-transparent-what-is-hidden-in-data-and-policy-documents/
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series,Global China Conversations
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211112T140000
DTSTAMP:20260410T233951
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Peng Guoxiang: The Understanding and Practice of "Five Religions" in Early 20th Century China. The Works and Views of Feng Bingnan (1888-1956)
DESCRIPTION:The Understanding and Practice of “Five Religions” in Early 20th Century China. The Works and Views of Feng Bingnan (1888-1956)\nPeng Guoxiang\nZhejiang University \n  \n  \nTime: Nov 12\, 2021 12:00 PM Amsterdam\, Berlin\, Rome\, Stockholm\, Vienna\nFor registration\, please use this zoom link.  \nAbstract:\nThe so-called “sanjiao 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. In the early 20th century\, the concept and practice of “wujiao 五教” rather than “sanjiao” had already been widely accepted by Chinese people\, much beyond intellectual circles. This talk introduces the understanding and practice of “wujiao” exemplified by Feng Bingnan\, a successful lawyer and businessman renowned and influential in the 1940s but totally forgotten later on and demonstrates that “wujiao” offers a better perspective than “sanjiao” to understand the Chinese religious tradition. \n  \n\nPENG Guoxiang is Qiu Shi Distinguished Professor of Chinese philosophy\, intellectual history and religions at Zhejiang University\, China. Before moving to Zhejiang University\, he was Professor at Peking University and Tsinghua University. He was the 2016 Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the North (Library of Congress\, USA) and was awarded the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award in 2009 (Humboldt Foundation\, Germany). He has been a visiting Professor or research fellow in numerous institutions such as Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin\, University of Frankfurt am Main\, Ruhr-Universität Bochum\, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity\, University of Hawaii\, Harvard-Yenching Institute\, National Taiwan University\, Chinese University of Hong Kong\, National University of Singapore. \nHis publications include The Unfolding of the Innate Good Knowing: Wang Ji and the Yangming Learning in Mid-Late Ming (2003\, 2005\, 2015)\, Confucian Tradition: Between Religion and Humanism (2007\, 2019)\, Confucian Tradition and Chinese Philosophy: Retrospect and Prospect in a New Century (2009)\, Confucian Tradition from Classical Period to Its Contemporary Transformation: Speculation and Interpretation (2012)\, Revision and New Discovery: Historical Study of Pre-Modern Confucianism from Northern Song till Early Qing Dynasty (2013\, 2015)\, Reconstruction of This Culture of Ours: Confucianism and Contemporary World (2013\, 2018\, 2019)\, This-worldly Concern of the Wise: The Political and Social Thought of Mou Zongsan (1909-1995) (2016)\, The Methodology of Doing Chinese Philosophy (2020) as well as numerous articles. \n\n\nThis lecture is part of the lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China.\n\n  \nOrganizers: \n\nProf. Dr. Axel Schneider\, University of Göttingen\nProf. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich\, University of Hamburg \n\n \n\nCeMEAS – Centre for Modern East Asian Studies & Department of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen\n\n \nAsia-Africa- Institute\, Department for Chinese Language and Culture\, University of Hamburg \n\n\nDepartment of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen \n  \nSponsor: \n \nAcademic Confucius Institute\, University of Göttingen \n. \n.\nImage: sung ming whang: Early saturday morning in color\, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)\, https://flic.kr/p/6E5PXd\n 
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CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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SUMMARY:Global China Conversations #4 „Innovation Made in China“ – How effective is Beijing's innovation policy?
DESCRIPTION:„Innovation Made in China“ – How effective is Beijing’s innovation policy?\n\n  \nSpeaker\nDr. Philipp Böing\, ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research\nWolfgang Krieger\, Federation of German Industries (BDI e.V.)\nTime: 25.11.2021\, 11.00 – 12:00\nPlease register here. \nTopic\nWith its 14th Five-Year Plan\, the Chinese government is focusing on a more innovation-based economy\, aiming at becoming the world leader in science and technology by 2050. The Chinese state plays a central role in this endeavor. It drafts development plans for key industries\, predefines technology paths\, provides targeted subsidies\, and coordinates scientific and economic players. Nevertheless\, the outcome of government innovation policy sometimes remains open: Subsidy abuse has been widespread in the past and stands in the way of efficient use of government subsidies. Subsidies were often misused to cross-subsidize non-R&D-related investments\, which can lower production costs and distort competition in international markets. Does the 14th Five-Year Plan succeed in further improving the conception and implementation of China’s innovation policy? Can productivity increase and economic growth be expected because of “Innovation Made in China”? And what impact will this have on German companies? \nIn the fourth Global China Conversation\, Wolfgang Krieger from the Federation of German Industries will give us an insight into the underlying conditions of Chinese Innovation and industry subsidies\, before Philipp Böing from the ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research will take a closer look at Chinese R&D subsidies. \nProgram\nThe event consists of different impulse lectures followed by a discussion. Participants have the opportunity of direct exchange with the speakers in digital break-out rooms. \nGlobal China Conversation #4 will take place in German. \n\n\n\nLiterature\nThe impulse lectures refer to the following publications: \nZEW Discussion Paper: Misappropriation of R&D Subsidies: Estimating Treatment Effects With One-Sided Non-compliance \nZEW Expert Brief: A New China Shock? The Untold Story of China’s R&D Subsidies \n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\n© Philipp Böing\n\n\nDr. Philipp Böing   \nDr. Philipp Böing is a Senior Researcher at ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research in Mannheim. His research interests include policy evaluation\, patent indicators\, productivity and import competition. With an empirical focus on China and its rise in the global economy\, he has in-depth expertise on Chinese data and institutions. Dr. Böing has regularly provided policy advice\, including to the World Bank\, the OECD\, and the German Expert Commission on Research and Innovation (EFI). He worked for two years as a Visiting Professor at Peking University and is also a Research Affiliate at IZA – Institute of Labor Economics in Bonn and Fellow of Tsinghua University in Beijing. \n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n© Wolfgang Krieger \n\n\n\nWolfgang Krieger \nWolfgang Krieger is Deputy Chief Representative of the Federation of German Industries (BDI e.V.) in China. He majored in East Asian Studies and Economics at the University of Cologne. His work focuses on the regulatory environment in China\, as well as the economic relations between the EU and China. \n\n\n\nModeration\n\n\n\n\n© Felix Lee \n\n\n  \nFelix Lee \nFelix Lee is economics editor of taz\, responsible for trade and global economy. Between 2012 and 2019\, he was China correspondent for taz\, Zeit Online\, Die Presse\, Luxemburger Wort and the Funke Group. \n\n  \n\nWissenschaftliche Partner \n \n \n \n \n  \n  \n\nMedienpartner \n \n\n\n\nChina.Table Professional Briefing ist das Leitmedium für Entscheider in Politik\, Wirtschaft\, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft. Werktäglich News und Analysen über politische und technologische Entwicklungen in China und die Beziehungen zu Europa. \nJetzt unverbindlich für 30 Tage testen: deutsche Version kostenlos testen – englische Version kostenlos testen
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Leigh Jenco: The Ming-Qing Transition as a Philosophical Problem
DESCRIPTION:The Ming-Qing Transition as a Philosophical Problem\nLeigh Jenco\nProfessor of Political Theory\, London School of Economics\, Department of Government\n \n  \n\nDec 3\, 2021 04:00 PM Amsterdam\, Berlin\, Rome\, Stockholm\, Vienna\nFor registration\, please use this zoom link.    \nAbstract:\nThe 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 by a shift in intellectual perspective that emerged in the early years of Qing consolidation. Many educated literati retrospectively blamed the fall of the Ming on the abstruse philosophizing that preoccupied followers of Wang Yangming\, a sixteenth-century statesman\, frontier general and philosopher whose rejection of state-sponsored Confucian orthodoxy rode a wave of interest in metaphysical speculation about the sources of moral knowledge. In its place—just as the government policy adapted from an inward-looking\, Han-dominated state to a cosmopolitan\, expansionist inner Asian empire—seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literati turned their attention to the historical and philological verification of classic texts\, inaugurating the “evidential learning” (kaozheng) that twentieth-century Chinese reformers would see as proof of an indigenous\, modern “scientific spirit.” In this paper I argue that such divisions obscure from view the extent to which the Manchu victory and the territorial consolidation that followed continued the strong parallels that marked both Chinese and European societies in early modernity. There are thus important philosophical consequences for periodizing the Chinese early modern period as an abrupt transition from “Ming to Qing” or “philosophy to philology”. I use my current research to offer examples of these consequences. Specifically\, I argue that characterizing this time period in terms of a rupture between dynasties\, rather than as a more general epoch of early modernity\, leaves us unable to assess philosophically the ways in which ideas and practices thematized by scholars of Yangming learning enabled particular kinds of discourse about human difference to take shape\, and in turn how empirical information about human kinds generated by Ming-era territorial expansion\, travel and commerce was fed back into philosophical thinking about moral possibility and the textual tradition that articulated it. \n  \nThis lecture is part of the lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China.\n\n  \nOrganizers: \n\nProf. Dr. Axel Schneider\, University of Göttingen\nProf. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich\, University of Hamburg \n\n \n\nCeMEAS – Centre for Modern East Asian Studies & Department of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen\n\n \nAsia-Africa- Institute\, Department for Chinese Language and Culture\, University of Hamburg \n\n\nDepartment of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen \n  \nSponsor: \n \nAcademic Confucius Institute\, University of Göttingen \n. \n.\nImage: sung ming whang: Early saturday morning in color\, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)\, https://flic.kr/p/6E5PXd\n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Global China Conversations #5 Reshaping Global Industrial Chains: Options for China
DESCRIPTION:Reshaping Global Industrial Chains: Options for China\n\n\n  \n  \n  \n\n\nSpeaker\nDr Qiyuan Xu\, Institute of World Economics and Politics (IWEP) at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)\nProf. Dr. Rolf J. Langhammer\, Former Vice-President\, Kiel Institute for the World Economy \nTime: 16.12.2021\, 11.00 – 12:00 \nPlease register here. \nTopic\nThe current highly specialized and interconnected global industrial chains are highly vulnerable to global risks such as the intensifying trade protectionism and the covid-19 pandemic. This has induced policymakers in many countries in the world to explore the possibilities to restructure their countries’ industrial chains\, emphasizing the need for more local and regional inputs to better ensure national economic self-sufficiency. China as the world export champion was responsible for almost 15% of global exports of goods in 2020\, almost the same as the corresponding shares of the USA (8.1%) and Germany (7.8%) combined. Meanwhile\, China’s position in the global value chain is facing many challenges and uncertainties. What options does China have to restructure and strengthen its industrial chains? How may China’s decisions affect the future development of the global industrial chains? How can other global players such as the European Union deal with the challenges caused and grasp the opportunities that have arisen in the evolving global industrial chains? \nProgram \nThe event consists of different impulse lectures followed by a discussion. \nThe Global China Conversation #5 will be held in English. \n\n\n\nLiterature\nThe impulse lectures refer to the following publications: \nCASS-IWEP & CF40 Forum Report (2021)\, Reshaping Global Industrial Chinas: Options for China: Executive Summary (in Chinese) \nSeric\, A.\, Görg\, H.\, Liu\, W.-H.\, and Windisch\, M. (2021)\, Risk\, Resilience\, and Recalibration in Global Value Chains\, VOXEU \nFelbermayr\, G.\, Gans\, S.\, Mahlkow\, H.\, and Sandkamp\, A. (2021)\, Decoupling Europe\, Kiel Policy Brief No. 153 \nGörg\, H.\, Lay\, J.\, Pahl\, S.\, Seric\, A.\, Steglich\, F.\, and Yaroshenko\, L. (2021) Multilateral Coordination and Exchange for Sustainable Global Value Chains\, T20 Policy Brief \n\n\n\n\nSpeaker\n\n\n\n\n\n\n© Qiyuan Xu \n\n\n\nDr Qiyuan Xu  \nDr Qiyuan Xu is Deputy Director at the Institute of World Economics and Politics (IWEP) at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). He is also General Secretary at the Research Center for International Finance at CASS. In the past\, he also took up the role of advisor to the international collaboration department in China’s Ministry of Finance. Xu also sits in the work team of Global Macroeconomy in IWEP. This work team issues a quarterly report on the world economy\, and he has been responsible for the research on China’s economy and macro policies since 2012. Since 2019\, he has headed the research group of China Finance 40 Forum that is China’s currently most influential think tank platform in finance. Xu has published 60 academic papers\, hundreds of columns mostly published in leading media in Chinese but also in Financial Times\, Financial World in English. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n© Kiel Institute / Studio 23 \n\n\n\nProf. Dr. Rolf J. Langhammer \nProf. Dr. Rolf J. Langhammer was Vice-President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy from October 1997 until August 2012 and Professor at the Kiel Institute. He retired from the Vice-Presidency on August 31\, 2012 but continues to work at the Institute. From April 2003 to September 2004\, he served as Acting President. From July 1995 to November 2005\, he headed the Research Department “Development Economics and Global Integration” at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. Prof. Langhammer has served as consultant to a number of international institutions (EU\, World Bank\, OECD\, UNIDO\, ADB)\, as well as to the German ministries of economic affairs and economic co-operation. \n\n\n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\n\n\n© Christina Kloodt / Kiel Institute \n\n\n\nDr Wan-Hsin Liu \nDr Wan-Hsin Liu is a Senior Researcher in the Research Centers “International Trade and Investment” and “Innovation and International Competition” at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. Since 2016\, she has also been a Coordinator at the Kiel Centre for Globalization. She is a member of the Kiel Globalization and Transformation Science\, an interdisciplinary research cluster at the Kiel University. Her research focuses on the development and consequences of direct investment and global supply chains\, as well as the determinants of innovation activities with a focus on China. \n\n\n  \nAcademic Partner \n \n \n \n \n  \n  \n\nMedia Partner\n \n \n\n\n\nChina.Table Professional Briefing is the new independent daily reporting from Berlin\, Brussels and Beijing. The acclaimed editorial team offers an European point of view on political and technological developments in China – for leaders in government\, business\, academia\, and civil society. \nSubscribe now for a 30 day free trial!
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Peter Zarrow: The Utopian Impulse and Chinese Political Modernity
DESCRIPTION:The Utopian Impulse and Chinese Political Modernity\nPeter Zarrow\nDepartment of History\, University of Connecticut\, Hartford\, USA\n \n  \n  \n  \nTime:  Dec 17\, 2021 04:00 PM Amsterdam\, Berlin\, Rome\, Stockholm\, Vienna\nFor registration\, please use this zoom link.  \n  \nThis 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 visions of political modernity. On one level\, these were blurry visions of political modernity directly and indirectly derived from Western discourses\, particularly those of the Enlightenment. But on another level\, Chinese thinkers can be read as making dialogic contributions to evolving notions of political modernity in cosmopolitan spaces across the twentieth century and beyond. \n  \n  \nThis lecture is part of the lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China.\n\n  \nOrganizers: \n\nProf. Dr. Axel Schneider\, University of Göttingen\nProf. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich\, University of Hamburg \n\n \n\nCeMEAS – Centre for Modern East Asian Studies & Department of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen\n\n \nAsia-Africa- Institute\, Department for Chinese Language and Culture\, University of Hamburg \n\n\nDepartment of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen \n  \nSponsor: \n \nAcademic Confucius Institute\, University of Göttingen \n. \n.\nImage: sung ming whang: Early saturday morning in color\, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)\, https://flic.kr/p/6E5PXd\n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Federico Brusadelli: Self-government (zizhi) in China from the late Qing to the Republic: a contested concept in the search for political modernity
DESCRIPTION:Self-government (zizhi) in China from the late Qing to the Republic: a contested concept in the search for political modernity\nFederico Brusadelli \nUniversity of Naples “L’Orientale” \n  \n  \nJan 28\, 2022 12:00 PM Amsterdam\, Berlin\, Rome\, Stockholm\, Vienna \nFor registration\, please use this zoom link.  \nAbstract\nThis 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 praised the Japanese system of provincial governance as pivotal in the Meiji State-building process) to the Republican governor of Guangdong Cheng Jionming 陈炯明 and his Jeffersonian inspiration of a bottom-up reconstruction of China in the 1920s – including the “provincial patriots” of the 1910s -\, prominent individuals and organized networks or movements will be observed in their attempts at redefining the relationship between the “State” and the “local”.\nA survey of how the same concept of “local self-government” was variously translated\, adapted\, and circulated through the use of multiple historical or “foreign” references (in the methodological framework of Begriffsgeschichte)\, will reveal contrasting\, and often competing\, political blueprints for the construction of a (differently conceived) “modern” China. \n  \nFederico Brusadelli is Lecturer in Chinese History and International History of East Asia at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”\, where he completed his PhD in 2016 with a dissertation on the Chinese philosopher Kang Youwei.\nFrom 2017 to 2020 he was Researcher in Sinology at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany). In 2020/2021 he was Visiting Fellow at the European Institute for Chinese Studies in Paris. His current research project adopts a “conceptual history” approach to the study of Chinese federalist movements in the late-imperial and republican periods. \n  \nThis lecture is part of the lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China.\n\n  \nOrganizers: \n\nProf. Dr. Axel Schneider\, University of Göttingen\nProf. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich\, University of Hamburg \n\n \n\nCeMEAS – Centre for Modern East Asian Studies & Department of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen\n\n \nAsia-Africa- Institute\, Department for Chinese Language and Culture\, University of Hamburg \n\n\nDepartment of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen \n  \nSponsor: \n \nAcademic Confucius Institute\, University of Göttingen \n. \n.\nImage: sung ming whang: Early saturday morning in color\, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)\, https://flic.kr/p/6E5PXd\n 
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SUMMARY:Global China Conversations #6 40 Years of Poverty Reduction in China: What are the Challenges?
DESCRIPTION:40 Years of Poverty Reduction in China: What are the Challenges?\n  \n  \nSpeaker\nBranko Milanovic\, Senior Scholar\, Stone Center on Socio-economic Inequality at the City University of New York\nMartin Raiser\, Country Director for China and Mongolia and Director for Korea\, World Bank \nTime: 03.02.2021\, 15.00 – 16:00 \nPlease register here. \n  \n\n\nTopic \nChina has achieved remarkable success in reducing absolute poverty over the last four decades. The size and speed of the decrease are without precedent. Nevertheless\, while real incomes were rising\, real inequality was rising too. How can China counter rising inequality? Is “common prosperity” as propagated by President Xi achievable? What (global) economic risks arise from China’s political system\, which\, it is argued\, makes the country more vulnerable to corruption and could also make it more susceptible to social unrest during recessions? In our sixth Global China Conversation\, we will look back at the drivers behind 40 successful years of poverty alleviation in China\, discuss the challenges of rising inequality\, and provide an outlook on potential global economic risks. \n  \nProgram \nThe event consists of different impulse lectures followed by a discussion. \nGlobal China Conversation #6 will be held in English. \n\n\n\n  \n\nLiterature\nThe impulse lectures refer to the following publications: \n\nLugo\, M.\, Niu\, C. and Yemtsov\, R. (2021) Rural Poverty Reduction and Economic Transformation in China – A Decomposition Approach\, Policy Research Working Paper No. 9849\, World Bank Group \nMerotto\, D. and Jiang\, H. (2021) What was the Impact of Creating Better Jobs for More People in China’s Economic Transformation? What we Know and Questions for Further Investigation\, Jobs Working Paper No.62\, World Bank Group \nBranko M. (2021) China’s Inequality Will Lead It to a Stark Choice\, Foreign Affairs \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBranko Milanović \nBranko Milanovic is Senior Scholar at the Stone Center on Socio-economic Inequality at the City University of New York. Milanovic’s main area of work is income inequality\, in individual countries and globally\, including in pre-industrial societies. He has published articles on these topics in The Economic Journal\, Review of Economics and Statistics\, and Journal of Economic Literature among others. He is author of Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization (2016) which received the 2017 Bruno Kreisky Prize and 2018 Hans Matthöfer Prize. Branko was awarded (jointly with Mariana Mazzucato) the 2018 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Knowledge. His most recent book Capitalism\, Alone was published in 2019 and was translated in fifteen languages. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMartin Raiser \nMartin Raiser is the World Bank’s Country Director for China and Mongolia\, and Director for Korea. Mr. Raiser is leading a team that is managing an evolving partnership with China\, a growing program of support to Mongolia\, and a deepening knowledge partnership with Korea focused on innovation and technology. Mr. Raiser previously led the Bank’s programs in Brazil\, Turkey\, Ukraine\, and Uzbekistan. \nMr. Raiser holds a doctorate degree in Economics from the University of Kiel\, Germany\, and degrees in Economics and Economic History from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. Prior to joining the World Bank\, Mr. Raiser worked for the Kiel Institute of World Economics and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He is a regular contributor to policy discussions on China and development issues and has published numerous articles and several books. \n\n\n\n\n\nModerator\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAndreas Fuchs  \nAndreas Fuchs is Professor of Development Economics\, Director of the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies at the University of Göttingen\, and Director of the Kiel Institute China Initiative. His research analyzes trade\, investment and development policies with quantitative methods and a special focus on China and other emerging economies. He also investigates the political economy of natural disasters\, humanitarian crises\, and non-militarized conflicts. \n\n\n  \nAcademic Partner \n \n \n \n \n  \n  \n\nMedia Partner\n \n \n\n\n\nChina.Table Professional Briefing is the new independent daily reporting from Berlin\, Brussels and Beijing. The acclaimed editorial team offers an European point of view on political and technological developments in China – for leaders in government\, business\, academia\, and civil society. \nSubscribe now for a 30 day free trial!
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Maruyama Masao's Research on Intellectual History as seen by Chinese scholars
DESCRIPTION:Maruyama Masao’s Research on Intellectual History as seen by Chinese scholars\nXu Jilin\nEast China Normal University\n \n  \nFeb 11\, 2022 12:00 PM Amsterdam\, Berlin\, Rome\, Stockholm\, Vienna \nFor registration\, please use this zoom link. \nLecture and discussion will be in Chinese  \n  \nAbstract\nMaruyama 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 the history of thought as an “art of representation” similar to the performance of music\, in which re-creation is achieved within the confines of a text. He relativizes universal thought in a specific historical context\, presenting the richness and diversity of thought itself. \n  \nXu Jilin is a modern Chinese intellectual historian and chair professor of history at East China Normal University in Shanghai\, as well as Executive Deputy Director of the China Institute of Modern Thought and Culture\, and Specially Appointed Zijiang Scholar. He is also a member of the Shanghai Philosophy and Social Sciences Federation and the Chinese History Society. \nHe has worked as visiting scholar or guest professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong\, the National University of Australia\, the National University of Singapore and Harvard University\, as well as Aichi University\, Tokyo University\, Academia Sinica\, University of British Columbia\, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales\, and Freie Universität Berlin. His research focuses on Chinese intellectuals and Shanghai urban culture. \nHis publications include (but are not limited to) Public Communication of Modern Chinese Intellectuals (co-author\, 2008) and How the Enlightenment was Reborn (2011)\, Rethinking China’s Rise: A Liberal Critique (2018); The Enlightenment and Anti-Enlightenment in Contemporary China (2011)\, and Ten Essays on Chinese Intellectuals (2003)\, which won the first Wenjin Award from the National Library in 2005. Some of his writings have been translated into English. \n  \n  \nThis lecture is part of the lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China.\n\n  \nOrganizers: \n\nProf. Dr. Axel Schneider\, University of Göttingen\nProf. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich\, University of Hamburg \n\n \n\nCeMEAS – Centre for Modern East Asian Studies & Department of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen\n\n \nAsia-Africa- Institute\, Department for Chinese Language and Culture\, University of Hamburg \n\n\nDepartment of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen \n  \nSponsor: \n \nAcademic Confucius Institute\, University of Göttingen \n. \n.\nImage: sung ming whang: Early saturday morning in color\, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)\, https://flic.kr/p/6E5PXd
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SUMMARY:Global China Conversations #7 How do investment screenings affect (Chinese) direct investment?
DESCRIPTION:How do investment screenings affect (Chinese) direct investment?\n  \nSpeaker \nDr. Alexander Honrath\, Head of the European China Desk of Eversheds Sutherlands\nDr. Joachim Pohl\, OECD Investment Division \nTime: 17.02.2022\, 11.00 – 12:00 \nPlease register here. \n  \n\n\n\nTopic \nFor some years now\, foreign direct investment in private companies has been subject to state control in many European countries. The screening of mergers and acquisitions above a certain size\, in specific sectors\, and often depending on the investor’s proximity to a foreign state\, is officially justified on the grounds of protecting public order. In the public debate\, the rapid increase of Chinese investments in Europe until 2016 is viewed as one of the main reasons for the introduction of investment screenings\, the expansion of the number of controlled economic sectors\, and the introduction of the new intra-European coordination. In the seventh Global China Conversation\, our speakers analyze these developments detailed above and explain the importance of investment screenings in practice. We also discuss the consequences of investment audits on (Chinese) direct investments in European companies and undesirable side effects on the economy. \n  \n\n\nProgram \nThe event consists of different impulse lectures followed by a discussion. \nGlobal China Conversation #7 will be held in German. \n\n\n  \n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nDr. Alexander Honrath  \nAlexander Honrath is Partner at Eversheds Sutherland in Munich\, Head of the European China Desk of Eversheds Sutherlands\, one of the largest law firms in the world. He is regularly advising Chinese clients on their take-overs of German companies and their expansion strategies in Europe. Among his Asian clients are large Chinese corporates\, state-owned enterprises and governmental institutions. He is frequently invited on international conferences to speak about Sino-German transactions and IPOs and is in exchange with Chinese institutions. He is further involved in Asian-European capital markets transactions\, e.g. he advised on the first IPO of a German company at the regulated market in Hong Kong. Prior to his engagement at Eversheds Sutherland\, he worked as investment banker in two large banks in the capital market business. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nDr. Joachim Pohl \nJoachim Pohl is policy analyst in the OECD Investment Division. He joined the OECD in 2003. In his earlier roles in the Organisation’s Anti-Corruption Division\, he analysed governance and anti-corruption policies in developing countries in Asia\, monitored compliance under the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention\, and coordinated the Asian Development Bank/OECD Anti-Corruption Initiative for Asia and the Pacific. \nBefore joining the OECD\, Mr. Pohl taught constitutional and administrative law at Humboldt University Berlin and MGLU Moscow. He holds a PhD in law from Humboldt-University and a master’s degree in political science from the University of Bordeaux. \n\n\n\n\n\nModeration\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nDr. Vera Eichenauer \nDr. Vera Eichenauer is an economist at the KOF Swiss Economic Institute at the ETH Zurich. She is interested in economic policy and questions of international economic governance. Her current research includes Europe’s handling of China’s economic presence and influence through economic policy measures. She received her PhD in Economics from the University of Heidelberg in 2016 and her master’s degree in International Relations from Sciences Po Paris. \n\n  \nAcademic Partner \n \n \n \n \n  \n  \n\nMedia Partner\n \n \n\n\n\nChina.Table Professional Briefing is the new independent daily reporting from Berlin\, Brussels and Beijing. The acclaimed editorial team offers an European point of view on political and technological developments in China – for leaders in government\, business\, academia\, and civil society. \nSubscribe now for a 30 day free trial!
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/global-china-conversations-7-how-do-investment-screenings-affect-chinese-direct-investment/
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series,Global China Conversations
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SUMMARY:Global China Conversations #8 EU-China-Handelskonflikte und der Fall Litauen: Welche Rolle spielt die WTO?
DESCRIPTION:EU-China-Handelskonflikte und der Fall Litauen: Welche Rolle spielt die WTO?\n  \n\nSprecher:\nChristian Hederer\, Technischen Hochschule Wildau\nJürgen Matthes\, Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft (IW)\nZeit: 24.03.2021\, 11:00 – 12:00 CET\nAnmeldung: Anmeldeformular \n\nThema\nChinas Handelssanktionen gegen Litauen haben für viel Aufsehen gesorgt. Die EU hat auf die aus ihrer Sicht „diskriminierenden Handelspraktiken“ mit der Einleitung eines Verfahrens gegen die Volksrepublik vor der Welthandelsorganisation (WTO) reagiert. Das zeigt\, wie ernst die Europäer den Konflikt nehmen. Die Auseinandersetzung wirft grundsätzliche Fragen auf: Erleben wir gerade den Anfang vom Ende der globalen Handelsordnung? Zerfällt die Welt (wieder) in konkurrierende Wirtschaftsblöcke? Oder kann das auf Regeln basierte System des Welthandels sogar gestärkt aus der Kontroverse hervorgehen? Diese und weitere Fragen wollen wir in unserer achten Global China Conversation mit unseren Sprechern erörtern. \nProgramm\nDie Veranstaltung besteht aus Impulsvorträgen der Sprecher gefolgt von einer Diskussion. \nDie Global China Conversation #8 wird auf Deutsch abgehalten. \n  \n\n\nLiteratur\n\n\nDie Impulsvorträge nehmen Bezug auf folgende Veröffentlichung: \nMatthes\, Jürgen und Fritsch\, Manuel\, Auswirkungen der Sanktionen Chinas gegen Litauen auf die EU \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker\n\n\n\n\n\n\n© Uwe Voelkner / FOX \n\n\n\nProf. Dr. Christian Hederer\, LL.M.  \nChristian Hederer ist Professor für Volkswirtschaftslehre\, insbesondere Internationale Wirtschaftspolitik an der Technischen Hochschule Wildau. Vor dem Antritt seiner Professur war er für insgesamt 12 Jahre am österreichischen Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und der Ständigen Vertretung Österreichs bei der OECD in Paris tätig\, zuletzt mit einem Schwerpunkt auf internationalem Handel und Investitionen. Er promovierte in Volkswirtschaftslehre an der Universität Witten/Herdecke und erwarb einen LL.M.-Abschluss in internationalem Handel- und Investitionsrecht an der University of Ottawa. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n© Uta Wagner \n\n\n\nJürgen Matthes \nJürgen Matthes ist Leiter des Kompetenzfelds Internationale Wirtschaftsordnung und Konjunktur am Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln. Er hat Volkswirtschaftslehre an der Universität Dortmund und der Dublin City University studiert. Sein Forschungsschwerpunkt liegt auf den ökonomischen Aspekten der Globalisierung. \n\n\n  \nWissenschaftliche Partner \n \n \n \n \n  \n  \n\nMedienpartner \n \n\n\n\nChina.Table Professional Briefing ist das Leitmedium für Entscheider in Politik\, Wirtschaft\, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft. Werktäglich News und Analysen über politische und technologische Entwicklungen in China und die Beziehungen zu Europa. \nJetzt unverbindlich für 30 Tage testen: deutsche Version kostenlos testen – englische Version kostenlos testen
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/global-china-conversations-8-eu-china-handelskonflikte-und-der-fall-litauen-welche-rolle-spielt-die-wto/
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series,Global China Conversations
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SUMMARY:Lecture: China's Fragmented Modernity
DESCRIPTION:China’s Fragmented Modernity\nKai Vogelsang\, Universität Hamburg\n\n  \n  \n\nApril 22\, 2022\, 12:00 PM Amsterdam\, Berlin\, Rome\, Stockholm\, Vienna\nOn Campus: KWZ 0.610 (Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, 37073 Göttingen)\nOn Zoom: For registration\, please use this zoom link. \n  \nWhen 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\, especially in the cities\, did make its appearance\, Chinese society was still characterized by a fragmentary substructure made up of so many families\, lineages\, and personal networks. This paper will introduce the concept of segmentary society and present some preliminary thoughts on how this social structure affected the formation of Chinese modernity: the concepts of a public vs. private sphere\, the individual\, social classes\, and others. \n.\nThis lecture is part of the lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China.\n.\n\n\nOrganizers:\nProf. Dr. Axel Schneider\, University of Göttingen\nProf. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich\, University of Hamburg \n\n \n\nCeMEAS – Centre for Modern East Asian Studies & Department of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen\n\n \nAsia-Africa- Institute\, Department for Chinese Language and Culture\, University of Hamburg \n\n\nDepartment of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen \n  \nSponsor: \n \nAcademic Confucius Institute\, University of Göttingen \n. \nImage: sung ming whang: Early saturday morning in color\, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)\, https://flic.kr/p/6E5PXd
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-chinas-fragmented-modernity/
LOCATION:KWZ & ONLINE\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, 37073 Göttingen\, Germany
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Push and Pull: Toward a Taylorian Theory of Alternative Modernities
DESCRIPTION:Push and Pull: Toward a Taylorian Theory of Alternative Modernities\nJustin Ritzinger\, Associate Professor of Religious Studies\,\nUniversity of Miami\n  \nMay 6\, 2022\, 4 PM Amsterdam\, Berlin\, Rome\, Stockholm\, Vienna\nOn Zoom: For registration\, please use this zoom link. \n 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 and cultural life. This has typically been construed as a “challenge” to which religion must “adapt” lest it face extinction. This adaptation typically includes demythologization\, rationalization\, and social engagement. Such understandings of modernization\, which I term “push models\,” are useful but insufficient. They fail to account not only for religion’s continuing hold on the hearts of many but also the inspiration modernity gave to many modernizing figures. This talk will offer a counterbalancing “pull model\,” drawing upon the account of moral frameworks in Sources of the Self to develop a Taylorian theory of the formulation of alternative modernities. Illustrated with reference to developments in religion in Republican China\, this theory may offer new angles for understanding this process in other areas of cultures as well. \nJustin Ritzinger is associate professor of Religious Studies at the University of Miami. He received his PhD in the Study of Religion from Harvard in 2010. His work focuses on modern and contemporary Chinese Buddhism. He is the author of a monograph on the reinvention of the cult of Maitreya\, entitled Anarchy in the Pure Land\, and articles dealing with eschatology\, engagements with evolutionary theory\, and international monastic exchange\, as well as tourist development in the contemporary People’s Republic. He is currently working on an ethnographic study of a blue-collar lay Buddhist group in Taiwan. At the University of Miami\, Ritzinger teaches courses in Asian religions. \n. \n.\nThis lecture is part of the lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China.\n.\n\nOrganizers:\nProf. Dr. Axel Schneider\, University of Göttingen\nProf. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich\, University of Hamburg \n\n \n\nCeMEAS – Centre for Modern East Asian Studies & Department of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen\n\n \nAsia-Africa- Institute\, Department for Chinese Language and Culture\, University of Hamburg \n\n\nDepartment of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen \n  \nSponsor: \n \nAcademic Confucius Institute\, University of Göttingen \n. \nImage: sung ming whang: Early saturday morning in color\, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)\, https://flic.kr/p/6E5PXd
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Conservative Radicalism: Watsuji Tetsuro’s Critique of Civil Society and Its Implications for Chinese Intellectual History
DESCRIPTION:Conservative Radicalism: Watsuji Tetsuro’s Critique of Civil Society and Its Implications for Chinese Intellectual History\nViren Murthy\, Associate Professor of History\,\nUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison\n\n  \nMay 20\, 2022\, 12:00 PM Amsterdam\, Berlin\, Rome\, Stockholm\, Vienna\nOn Campus: KWZ 0.610 (University of Göttingen\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, 37073 Göttingen)\nOn Zoom: For registration\, please use this zoom link. \nSince the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries\, as the Meiji state quickly modernized\, Japanese intellectuals confronted the atomization and alienation associated with new forms of labor in civil society. Unlike in the family\, where affective bonds govern human action\, in civil society\, people ventured into the world as purposive individuals entering into wage-contracts\, which forced them into a means-end relationship. While scholars have dealt with attempts to overcome modernity twentieth century Japan\, few have focused on the how the ideal of the family served as a trope to reconcile the antagonism between the individual and the community. The Japanese philosopher\, Watsuji Tetsuro (1889-1960) critically drew on Hegel’s conception of the family to attack civil society. While his critique is clearly conservative\, I argue that his position overlaps with leftist treatments of modern alienation and reveals the contradictions between spheres of the family and civil society. Watsuji develops his position in an essay written in the 1930s on the city\, where he translates the civil society (bürgerliche Gesellschaft) as “interest society (rieki shakai)”\, a sphere where people pursue personal gain. In response to this\, he advocates rekindling to older forms of society\, where work and family are not so clearly severed. Towards the end of my presentation\, I examine the implications of Watsuji’s critique of urban life for the study of Chinese intellectual history. Specifically\, in both contexts\, my study suggests that we at times blur the lines between radical and conservative because they often have a similar object of critique\, namely capitalism\, which they each grasp with varying degrees of success. \nViren Murthy teaches transnational Asian History and researches Chinese and Japanese intellectual history in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. \n  \n.\nThis lecture is part of the lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China.\n.\n\n\nOrganizers:\nProf. Dr. Axel Schneider\, University of Göttingen\nProf. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich\, University of Hamburg \n\n \n\nCeMEAS – Centre for Modern East Asian Studies & Department of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen\n\n \nAsia-Africa- Institute\, Department for Chinese Language and Culture\, University of Hamburg \n\n\nDepartment of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen \n  \nSponsor: \n \nAcademic Confucius Institute\, University of Göttingen \n. \nImage: sung ming whang: Early saturday morning in color\, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)\, https://flic.kr/p/6E5PXd
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-conservative-radicalism-watsuji-tetsuros-critique-of-civil-society-and-its-implications-for-chinese-intellectual-history/
LOCATION:KWZ & ONLINE\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, 37073 Göttingen\, Germany
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Understanding the Alienated Self: The Interest in and Problematization of the Village in the Post May-Fourth Period 认识被化外的自我：后五四时期对乡村的关注和农村的问题化
DESCRIPTION:Understanding the Alienated Self: The Interest in and Problematization of the Village in the Post May-Fourth Period 认识被化外的自我：后五四时期对乡村的关注和农村的问题化\nLuo Zhitian 罗志田 (Distinguished Professor)\, History Department\, Sichuan University\nMay 27\, 2022\, 10:00 AM Amsterdam\, Berlin\, Rome\, Stockholm\, Vienna\nOn Zoom: For registration\, please use this zoom link.\nThe lecture will be held in Chinese.  \n乡村曾被视为中国社会与文化的基础，在近代改称“农村”后，逐渐被认为出了问题。农村怎样成为“问题”及其所成的“问题”本身，既伴随着中国现代性展开的进程，也因其间的“现代”眼光所生成。这背后的一个要因，是城市的兴起和城乡的对立。由于城市被视为国家的主体，原来作为广土众民代表的乡村逐渐沦为化外，不复能表述自己。在五四后出现一种读书人想要了解自己国家的倾向，先是开始关注已近于未知的农村，观感褒贬参半；接着是被关注者逐渐问题化，见解贬多于褒；最后是问题化的农村升级为“破产”或“崩溃”，表述以贬为主。其间一个重要特点，是一些人因缺乏了解而把常态看成变态，甚至把国家整体的危难移植到农村身上。 \n  \nThis lecture is part of the lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China.\n.\nOrganizers:\nProf. Dr. Axel Schneider\, University of Göttingen\nProf. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich\, University of Hamburg \n\n \n\nCeMEAS – Centre for Modern East Asian Studies & Department of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen\n\n \nAsia-Africa- Institute\, Department for Chinese Language and Culture\, University of Hamburg \n\n\nDepartment of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen \n  \nSponsor: \n \nAcademic Confucius Institute\, University of Göttingen \n. \nImage: sung ming whang: Early saturday morning in color\, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)\, https://flic.kr/p/6E5PXd
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-understanding-the-alienated-self-the-interest-in-and-problematization-of-the-village-in-the-post-may-fourth-period-%e8%ae%a4%e8%af%86%e8%a2%ab%e5%8c%96%e5%a4%96%e7%9a%84%e8%87%aa%e6%88%91/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Building a New Chinese State from the Northwest: The Proposal of Liu Guangfen (1843-1903)
DESCRIPTION:Building a New Chinese State from the Northwest: The Proposal of Liu Guangfen (1843-1903)\nOng Chang Woei 王昌偉 (Professor of Chinese Studies)\, Department of Chinese Studies\, National University of Singapore\n  \nJune 3\, 2022\, 10:00 AM Amsterdam\, Berlin\, Rome\, Stockholm\, Vienna\nOn Zoom: For registration\, please use this zoom link. \n  \nIn the beginning of his book Origins of the Modern Chinese State\, Kuhn asks\, “What is Chinese about China’s modern state?” The answer\, Kuhn explains\, is not to be found by supposing that there some distinctive cultural qualities that will ensure that “China will always be China.” Rather\, it is to be found by probing how the Chinese in the recent past dealt with what he calls “constitutional issues” that had already presented themselves before the West made its impact felt. Using Liu Guangfen 劉光蕡 (1843-1903) as a case study\, I would like to ask a follow-up question: “What is northwestern about China’s modern state?” My assumption is that whatever “Chinese” problems that existed could be better understood if we take the regional perceptions of such problems into consideration. In this talk\, I will demonstrate that Liu Guangfen’s vision of building a modern Chinese state allows us to examine how the concern over nation-state building was shaped by regional experiences. I will also try to show that by studying a particular regional version of “Chinese” nation-state\, we can learn something important about the dynamics that shape the quest for a strong nation-state in modern China in general. \nChang Woei ONG is Professor of Chinese Studies at the National University of Singapore. He specializes in the intellectual history of middle period China and is the author of Men of Letters within the Passes: Guanzhong Literati in Chinese History\, 907-1911 (2008) and Li Mengyang\, the North-South Divide and Literati Learning in Ming China (2016)\, both published by Harvard University Asia Center. \n\n\nThis lecture is part of the lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China.\n.\nOrganizers:\nProf. Dr. Axel Schneider\, University of Göttingen\nProf. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich\, University of Hamburg \n\n \n\nCeMEAS – Centre for Modern East Asian Studies & Department of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen\n\n \nAsia-Africa- Institute\, Department for Chinese Language and Culture\, University of Hamburg \n\n\nDepartment of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen \n  \nSponsor: \n \nAcademic Confucius Institute\, University of Göttingen \n. \nImage: sung ming whang: Early saturday morning in color\, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)\, https://flic.kr/p/6E5PXd\n 
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-building-a-new-chinese-state-from-the-northwest-the-proposal-of-liu-guangfen-1843-1903/
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SUMMARY:Lecture: The Creativeness of Modern Chinese Conservative Thinkers 王汎森: 近代保守思想家的創造性
DESCRIPTION:The Creativeness of Modern Chinese Conservative Thinkers 王汎森: 近代保守思想家的創造性\nWang Fan-sen 王汎森 (Academician\, Distinguished Research Fellow)\, Institute for History and Philology\, Academia Sinica\n  \nJune 10\, 2022\, 10:00 AM Amsterdam\, Berlin\, Rome\, Stockholm\, Vienna\nOn Zoom: For registration\, please use this zoom link.\nThe lecture will be held in Chinese.\n \n近代中國保守思想家中至少可以區分成兩類，第一類是本能地反對任何改變現狀的思想，第二類是回到一個重要的思想基盤（如宋明理學、大乘佛學）上戰鬥。在這次演講中，我想討論第二類思想家，以宋育仁（1859-1931）、熊十力（1885-1968）、唐文治（1865-1954）、劉咸炘（1896-1932）、錢穆（1895-1990）等人為例，討論一個思想史上的問題：當晚清以來的新派一直在變的時候，反對或批評他們的人，其實也一直在變換他們的言論，同時也變換他們對傳統的解釋，以便對應挑戰。\n此外，我在比較仔細地審視他們的思路之後，認為他們不只是「回到本來」的樣子，而是有一個微妙的新創過程。譬如他們有時候會用「提高一格法」，把儒家思想，尤其是宋明理學，作一種新的調整、詮釋。借用卡夫卡的話：「當你凝視深淵時，深淵也在凝視你」。 \n  \nThis lecture is part of the lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China.\n.\nOrganizers:\nProf. Dr. Axel Schneider\, University of Göttingen\nProf. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich\, University of Hamburg \n\n \n\nCeMEAS – Centre for Modern East Asian Studies & Department of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen\n\n \nAsia-Africa- Institute\, Department for Chinese Language and Culture\, University of Hamburg \n\n\nDepartment of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen \n  \nSponsor: \n \nAcademic Confucius Institute\, University of Göttingen \n. \nImage: sung ming whang: Early saturday morning in color\, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)\, https://flic.kr/p/6E5PXd
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Chinese Intellectuals’ Rethinking of Science\, Religion and Superstition in the 20th Century: From Yan Fu\, Liang Qichao to New Confucians
DESCRIPTION:Chinese Intellectuals’ Rethinking of Science\, Religion and Superstition in the 20th Century: From Yan Fu\, Liang Qichao to New Confucians\nHuang Ko-wu 黃克武\n(Academician\, Distinguished Research Fellow)\nInstitute of Modern History\, Academia Sinica\n\n  \nJune 17\, 2022\, 10:00 AM Amsterdam\, Berlin\, Rome\, Stockholm\, Vienna\nOn Zoom: For registration\, please use this zoom link.\nThis lecture will be held in Chinese. \n  \nLate Qing and early Republican China has been regarded as a “secularized” age that ended “the era of classical learning” and opened the door to an empirical\, scientific search for knowledge. With the progress of secularization\, science gradually established its authoritative status. Thinkers of the May Fourth period\, such as Hu Shi and Chen Duxiu\, held science in high esteem and emphasized a clear-cut definition of science and superstition. To them\, religions were superstitions that needed to be eliminated. This led to many debates. There were two famous debates in the early Republican period. One was the spiritualism debate and the other was the science and metaphysics debate. The latter was influenced by the former in terms of vocabulary and issues. This lecture will describe these two debates and use Yan Fu and Liang Qichao as two examples to illustrate their views on science\, religion and superstition. Their views had a very complex origin. They attempted to rely on traditional spiritual resources to bridge East and West in order to build the moral and intellectual foundation needed for a modern state. New Confucians such as Tang Junyi and Mou Zongsan inherited the legacy of Yan and Liang. They resisted May Fourth scientism and anti-traditionalism\, and thought more deeply about the serious issue of how Chinese tradition and Western modernity should converge. \n清末民初的中國常常被認為是一個「世俗化」的過程，它結束了「經學時代」，開啟了經驗主義的科學時代。本講座以嚴復與梁啟超對科學、宗教與迷信等觀念的思索，來反省近代中國世俗化的問題。嚴復與梁啟超是近代中國引介民主與科學的先驅。嚴復所翻譯的《天演論》帶來了一個新的宇宙觀，而梁啟超受到嚴復影響，也對新學的引介發揮重要的作用。五四時期新舊人物均受到嚴、梁的影響，然而嚴、梁卻走出一條與五四新文化運動的支持者，如胡適與陳獨秀等人不同的思路。他們不主張科學與宗教（即迷信）的矛盾，反而強調，科學有其限度、宗教有其價值，而科學與宗教的發展將導致迷信的衰微。這一套想法一方面源自於赫胥黎的「不可知論」，另一方面則由於他們以易經與佛教來詮釋新的宇宙觀，並肯定「孝」的宗教意義。這一種以傳統思想資源來貫通中西的想法為港台新儒家，如熊十力、唐君毅和牟宗三等所繼承。他們極力抵制五四科學主義和反傳統主義，更深入地思考中國傳統和西方現代應該如何融合的嚴肅問題。 \nDr. Max K. W. Huang was born in Taipei\, Taiwan in 1957. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in History from Nation Taiwan Normal University. He subsequently pursued his studies in the United Kingdom and the United States\, receiving a second master’s degree from Oxford University and his Ph. D degree from Stanford University. He is a distinguished research fellow at the Institute of Modern History\, Academia Sinica. His major fields are Ming-Qing studies and Modern Chinese intellectual history. He has published ten books and more than 100 articles. Dr. Huang’s most recent book is Yan Fu: The Man Who Enlightened China with His Pen (筆醒山河：中國近代啟蒙人嚴復\, 廣西師範大學出版社，2022年). \n  \nThis lecture is part of the lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China.\n.\nOrganizers:\nProf. Dr. Axel Schneider\, University of Göttingen\nProf. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich\, University of Hamburg \n\n \n\nCeMEAS – Centre for Modern East Asian Studies & Department of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen\n\n \nAsia-Africa- Institute\, Department for Chinese Language and Culture\, University of Hamburg \n\n\nDepartment of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen \n  \nSponsor: \n \nAcademic Confucius Institute\, University of Göttingen \n. \nImage: sung ming whang: Early saturday morning in color\, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)\, https://flic.kr/p/6E5PXd
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LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Lecture: What is to be Done? Literature and History in China's Revolutionary Twentieth-Century
DESCRIPTION:What is to be Done? Literature and History in China’s Revolutionary Twentieth-Century\nRebecca Karl\nProfessor of History\, New York University\n  \nJune 24\, 2022\, 10:00 AM (GMT +2) in Amsterdam\, Berlin\, Rome\, Stockholm\, Vienna\nOn Campus: KWZ 0.607 (University of Göttingen\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, 37073 Göttingen)\nOn Zoom: For registration\, please use this zoom link. \n  \nThis talk will address the problem of literary and historical narrative in China’s twentieth century. Revolutionary time is a particular kind of time\, requiring different kinds of narrative. In an analytical pass through a century of narrativizations/re-narrativizations\, the talk will examine how successive revolutionaries and writers attempted to answer the constantly posed and re-posed radical question of “what is to be done” (shto delats? 怎么办?). \n  \nThis lecture is part of the lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China.\n.\nOrganizers:\nProf. Dr. Axel Schneider\, University of Göttingen\nProf. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich\, University of Hamburg \n\n \n\nCeMEAS – Centre for Modern East Asian Studies & Department of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen\n\n \nAsia-Africa- Institute\, Department for Chinese Language and Culture\, University of Hamburg \n\n\nDepartment of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen \n  \nSponsor: \n \nAcademic Confucius Institute\, University of Göttingen \n. \nImage: sung ming whang: Early saturday morning in color\, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)\, https://flic.kr/p/6E5PXd
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Modern Alienation and its Antidotes: Strategies from Early 20th Chinese Buddhist Intellectuals
DESCRIPTION:Modern Alienation and its Antidotes: Strategies from Early 20th Chinese Buddhist Intellectuals\nEyal Aviv\nAssistant Professor of Religion\, Department of Religion\, George Washington University\n  \nJuly 01\, 2022\, 10:00 AM (GMT +2) in Amsterdam\, Berlin\, Rome\, Stockholm\, Vienna\nOn Campus: KWZ 2.739 (University of Göttingen\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, 37073 Göttingen)\nOn Zoom: For registration\, please use this zoom link. \n  \nIntellectuals\, such as Nietzsche\, Weber\, and Adorno\, described modernity as a period of alienation resulting from the collapse of pre-modern social and political structures and the disintegration of shared values. Alienation leaves the individual disconnected from organic relational networks from which humans derive a sense of meaning. But is alienation an inevitable side effect of modernity? In this talk\, I will explore the examples of some leading Chinese Buddhist intellectuals in the modern period and argue that far from being alienated\, Chinese Buddhists seized the significant changes of the period as an opportunity to transform Buddhism and adapt it to the new era. While they were aware of China’s predicament after the collapse of the imperial world order and the spread of colonialism\, still\, they approached it in an engaged and constructive spirit. In the talk\, I will reflect on what prevents alienation from occurring and why not all modernisms were born alike. \n  \nThis lecture is part of the lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China.\n.\nOrganizers:\nProf. Dr. Axel Schneider\, University of Göttingen\nProf. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich\, University of Hamburg \n\n \n\nCeMEAS – Centre for Modern East Asian Studies & Department of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen\n\n \nAsia-Africa- Institute\, Department for Chinese Language and Culture\, University of Hamburg \n\n\nDepartment of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen \n  \nSponsor: \n \nAcademic Confucius Institute\, University of Göttingen \n. \nImage: sung ming whang: Early saturday morning in color\, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)\, https://flic.kr/p/6E5PXd
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-modernity-without-alienation-new-possibilities-for-20th-century-chinese-buddhism/
LOCATION:KWZ 2.739\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, Göttingen\, 37073\, Germany
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Heavenly Principle and the Trends of the Times: Some Thoughts on Confucianism
DESCRIPTION:Heavenly Principle and the Trends of the Times: Some Thoughts on Confucianism\nWang Hui\nProfessor of History\, Tsinghua University\n  \nJuly 08\, 2022\, 10:00 AM (GMT +2) in Amsterdam\, Berlin\, Rome\, Stockholm\, Vienna \nOn Zoom: For registration\, please use this zoom link. \n  \nBetween the 1920s and the 1940s\, first Naitō Torajirō and then Miyazaki Ichisada introduced several important propositions regarding the Tang to Song transition\, capitalism during the Song Dynasty\, and East Asian early modernity. Since then\, despite constant controversy\, revision\, and improvement\, one Kyoto School proposition has garnered universal acclaim: there is a basic difference between the Tang and Song\, and the Song Dynasty deserves special status in history. In the fields of Chinese intellectual history or philosophy\, some of the characteristics of the Confucianism of the Northern and Southern Song dynasties (and especially the School of Principle of the Cheng brothers and Zhu Xi) have been of use to modern Confucian scholars as a reference for understanding the early modern in Chinese or East Asian history. Follow this trend\, the basic principles of Confucianism are not only organized into the European philosophical categories of ontology and epistemology\, but also into such historical categories as: an inward turn\, rationalization\, and secularization. So\, was there an early modern in Chinese history\, or how to interpret China and its “modernity”? This talk will take the establishment of the concept of heavenly principle as a clue to address the above issues. \n  \nThis lecture is part of the lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China.\n.\nOrganizers:\nProf. Dr. Axel Schneider\, University of Göttingen\nProf. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich\, University of Hamburg \n\n \n\nCeMEAS – Centre for Modern East Asian Studies & Department of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen\n\n \nAsia-Africa- Institute\, Department for Chinese Language and Culture\, University of Hamburg \n\n\nDepartment of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen \n  \nSponsor: \n \nAcademic Confucius Institute\, University of Göttingen \n. \nImage: sung ming whang: Early saturday morning in color\, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)\, https://flic.kr/p/6E5PXd
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-heavenly-principle-and-the-trends-of-the-times-some-thoughts-on-confucianism/
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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SUMMARY:Lecture: From Mentorship to Comradeship: Irving Babbitt\, The Critical Review\, and Conservative Globalism in Republican China
DESCRIPTION:From Mentorship to Comradeship: Irving Babbitt\, The Critical Review\, and Conservative Globalism in Republican China\nKuo Ya-pei\nAssistant Professor\, Center for International Relations Research\, University of Groningen\n  \nJuly 15\, 2022\, 10:00 AM (GMT +2) in Amsterdam\, Berlin\, Rome\, Stockholm\, Vienna\nOn Campus: KWZ 0.609 (University of Göttingen\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, 37073 Göttingen)\nOn Zoom: For registration\, please use this zoom link. \n  \nSince the late 19th century\, the “East vs West” dichotomy has been the predominant framework for understanding Chinese civilization and its place in the world. This talk focuses on The Critical Review (Xueheng 學衡)\, a “conservative” platform launched in 1922\, and its effort to overcome this dichotomy. As many modern scholars have pointed out\, those who were associated with the journal\, such as Wu Mi and Mei Guangdi\, held a globalist agenda with a conviction in cultural commonality across the East-West divide. This talk elucidates the particularist dimension of their globalist position. In spite of the apparent disparity between the East and the West\, these intellectuals believed that regional civilizations contain certain shared\, universal elements. The undeniable particularity of each cultural system thereby presents no barrier to the advancement of history. Rather\, they argued that manifesting local specifics was a vehicle contributing to the modern quest for the universal. Through the notion of a diffused locus of the universal\, The Critical Review relativized the West’s place in the modern world. The second half of the talk reconsiders Mei Guangdi and Wu Mi’s indebtedness to their American “mentor” Irving Babbitt. While Babbitt’s hermeneutic method and historical outlook left an imprint on the intellectual lives of his Chinese students\, Wu and Mei were cognizant of their own as well as Babbitt’s particularity. Their globalism rendered both Prograssive-Era America and post-revolutionary China as parallels that could learn from each other but held neither to be the absolute paragon of human progress. Revering Babbitt\, Mei and Wu wittingly deviated from his teachings in formulating their interpretations of Chinese culture. They epitomized an especially sober kind of student of the West\, a kind that utilized the knowledge of the West to nurture their own cultural acumen\, without idolizing the West as an object of emulation. \n  \nThis lecture is part of the lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China.\n.\nOrganizers:\nProf. Dr. Axel Schneider\, University of Göttingen\nProf. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich\, University of Hamburg \n\n \n\nCeMEAS – Centre for Modern East Asian Studies & Department of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen\n\n \nAsia-Africa- Institute\, Department for Chinese Language and Culture\, University of Hamburg \n\n\nDepartment of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen \n  \nSponsor: \n \nAcademic Confucius Institute\, University of Göttingen \n. \nImage: sung ming whang: Early saturday morning in color\, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)\, https://flic.kr/p/6E5PXd
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-from-mentorship-to-comradeship-irving-babbitt-the-critical-review-and-conservative-globalism-in-republic-china/
LOCATION:KWZ 0.609\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, Göttingen\, 37073\, Germany
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Sitting in a Well\, Looking at the Sky
DESCRIPTION:Sitting in a Well\, Looking at the Sky\nDaniel Mroz\, PhD \n  \n13.6.2024\nSeminar Room 4\, Institute for Sports Science \n Zuò jǐng guān tiān坐井觀天is an idiomatic saying derived from a story in the Zhuāngzǐ 莊子\, a lighthearted Chinese philosophical work that presents funny and irreverent fables\, allegories\, and parables\, which teasingly subvert any possibility of certain perception and judgement. \nIn one of these tales\, a frog who lived in a dilapidated well celebrated his dominion over his tiny home\, inviting a tortoise from the eastern ocean in for a visit. The sea tortoise was too large to fit itself into the well\, and from outside told the frog about its own vasty ocean home\, which was so hard for the little frog to imagine\, that his mind scattered in all directions in astonishment\, beside himself in his puniness (trans. Ziporyn\, 2022: 140). \nThe saying zuò jǐng guān tiān has been my guide in the writing of my forthcoming book\, Resonant Space: Religion\, Theatre\, and the Chinese Martial Arts. Each chapter is conceived of as a different well\, revealing a different patch of sky to the frog who sits below. \nIn this presentation I shall examine the views from two different wells: the link between choreographed martial movement training and religious rituals\, and the relationship between martial movement training and the development of spatial perception in the performing arts. \nZiporyn\, B. trans. (2020). Zhuangzi: The Complete Works. Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett. \nDaniel Mroz\, PhD \nDaniel Mroz teaches acting and directing for the stage in the Department of Theatre at the University of Ottawa. He has directed original theatre for festivals in Canada and the United States and has taught actors\, directors\, dancers and choreographers in North America\, Great Britain\, France\, the Netherlands\, Turkey\, and China. He also works as a dramaturg and facilitator for contemporary dancers\, most recently with Canadian choreographer and dancer Katherine Ng. Daniel’s research focusses on the use of Chinese martial arts in contemporary theatre and dance. He contributes regularly to Martial Arts Studies\, a new research area that he has helped to establish in collaboration with colleagues from around the world \n  \n\n\nThis lecture is part of our lecture series 2024/2025: \nCurrent Debates in Martial Arts Studies: Inter- and Transdisciplinary Approaches to Combative Movement Cultures (SoSe 2024\, WiSe 2024/25) \n\nInstitut für Sportwissenschaften/Hochschulsport/Centre for Modern East Asian Studies
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