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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
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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
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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
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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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SUMMARY:Lecture Series -Buddhism 2025/2026     Buddhism in Modern China: Concepts\, Practices\, and History
DESCRIPTION:Lecture Series -Buddhism 2025/2026\nBuddhism in Modern China: Concepts\, Practices\, and History\nOver the past two centuries\, Buddhism in China has engaged dynamically with shifting socio-political landscapes\, global circulations of knowledge\, and the multifaceted pressures associated with modernity\, resulting in enduring transformations of doctrine\, ritual life\, institutional structures\, and China’s cultural imagination and identity. This lecture series traces how Buddhist ideas and practices have been interpreted\, adapted\, and reconfigured from the late Qing through the Republican era to the present\, drawing on perspectives from history\, religious studies\, anthropology\, and philosophy. By following these trajectories of change\, the series highlights the intricate ways in which Buddhism has shaped—and been reshaped by—the changing intellectual\, social\, and political life in modern China\, providing a forum for interdisciplinary dialogue across fields\, methods\, and historical contexts. \n  \nDates and times \n2025/2026 \nLocation \nUniversity of Göttingen & Online (hybrid) \nOrganizers \nPeng Qinqin (University of Göttingen)\nZhu Ziyi (University of Göttingen) \nContact persons \nPeng Qinqin: qinqin.peng@uni-goettingen.de\nZhu Ziyi: ziyi.zhu@uni-goettingen.de \nLanguage \nChinese and English \n 
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-series-buddhism-2025-2026-buddhism-in-modern-china-concepts-practices-and-history/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260116T143000
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Revisiting the Understanding of “the Other” through Thermae Romae II: Implications for Chinese Language Teaching
DESCRIPTION:從《羅馬浴場 II》回看我們如何理解「他者」文化—— 對華語教學的啟示\nRevisiting the Understanding of “the Other” through Thermae Romae II:\nImplications for Chinese Language Teaching\n2026年1月16日（週五）14:30–16:00\nKWZ 1.701， 哥廷根大學\n報告人：曾金金 教授， 國立台灣師範大學 \n主持人：張陶 教授， 哥廷根大學 \n摘要 \n本報告以日本影視作品《羅馬浴場 II》為例，討論流行影視文本中「他者」文化的呈現方式，以及其中所體現的跨文化想像。作品透過幽默與錯位的敘事手法，將不同文化與時空並置，呈現文化差異被感知、想像與再詮釋的過程。報告嘗試從跨文化與語言學習的相關視角出發，思考此類影視作品在華語教學語境中可能引發的更廣泛反思，並為文化理解與比較提供一個開放的觀察方向。 \nAbstract \nTaking the Japanese audiovisual work Thermae Romae II as an example\, this talk examines how “the Other” is represented in popular screen media and how cross-cultural imagination is articulated through audiovisual narratives. By juxtaposing different cultures and temporalities through humor and narrative displacement\, the film foregrounds processes through which cultural differences are perceived\, imagined\, and reinterpreted. Drawing on perspectives from intercultural communication and language learning\, the talk further considers how such works can stimulate broader discussions of cultural understanding and comparison within the context of Chinese language teaching. \n時間與地點 \n時間：2026年1月16日（週五）14:30–16:00\n地點： KWZ 1.701， 哥廷根大學 \nSpeaker’s Bio: \n \nDr. Chin-Chin Tseng is a full professor in the Department of Chinese as a Second Language at National Taiwan Normal University. She is currently serving as the Taiwan Chair and visiting researcher at the University of Groningen\, the Netherlands. Dr. Tseng earned her B.A. in Foreign Languages and Literatures from National Taiwan University in 1988\, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. \nA linguist\, phonetician\, and teacher educator\, her early research focused on phonetics\, interlanguage\, and second language acquisition. More recently\, her work has expanded to include Chinese dialect teacher education\, AI-assisted teaching strategies\, and the development of an interlanguage prosodic database for Chinese language research in Europe. \nRecent publication: \nZhang\, F.\, & Tseng\, C.-C. (2025). Inclusive teaching strategies and proprioceptive learning methods for migrants in acquiring basic Chinese. In Y. Liang & Z. Li (Eds.)\, Diversity and inclusiveness in Chinese as a second language education (pp. 145–174). Routledge. \nOngoing project: \nInternational Integrated Collaboration Project for the University Alliance in the Czech Republic (ICU) and the University Academic Alliance in Taiwan (UAAT)\, under the national-level initiative for international collaboration in key academic fields (Humanities\, Arts\, and Social Sciences). \nProject Title: The Dynamics of East-West Civilizational Interactions: Conflict or Fusion? \nSub-project: A Study on Interpersonal Communication between Czechs and Taiwanese in the Context of Second Language Teaching \n 
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SUMMARY:Realizing Buddhahood in the Human Realm: The Theory and Practice of Humanistic Buddhism
DESCRIPTION:Realizing Buddhahood in the Human Realm:\nThe Theory and Practice of Humanistic Buddhism\n  \nLecture Series: Buddhism in Modern China 2025/2026 \nProf. Dr. 宣方 Xuan Fang (Renmin University of China) \nTime: February 4\, 2026\, 14:00 PM – 16:00 PM CET \nVenue: Raum 4.105\, Waldweg \nLanguage: Chinese/ 中文 \n  \nAbstract\n即人成佛：人间佛教的理论与实践\n摘要\n人生佛教作为汉传佛教回应现代性议题最重要的理论论述和实践模式，对二十世纪后半叶以来佛教在海峡两岸的蓬勃发展居功至伟，引起学界广泛的关注，相关研究持续升温，本世纪以来渐成显学，成果卓有可观。不过，此中仍有未发之覆，特别是一些基础的教理问题，对佛教共同体内部而言十分重要。例如，太虚关于人间佛教诸多论述引发后人大相径庭的理解，人间佛教推展过程中的种种歧出也使其备受争议。回归到基础教理层面来分析，争议的焦点集中在两个方面：第一、人生佛教思想的核心理论、宗旨及其性质是什么？是共世间的人天乘法门，还是大乘的菩萨道？第二、人生佛教如何修行？是由人、天、声闻、菩萨层层转进，还是由人乘直达佛乘？人菩萨行是否可能、如何可能？前一方面要回答人生佛教是什么，后一方面要回答人生佛教怎么修，这两个基础教理问题相互关联，是人生佛教的核心理论和立论根本；尤其是第二个问题，仍属学术界既往研究的未发之覆。人生佛教能否在教理上自洽地解答上述问题、回应各种质疑？本讲演将依据太虚、印顺的相关论述，对此作一考察。\nHumanistic Buddhism (rensheng fojiao) represents one of the most significant theoretical articulations and practical models through which Chinese Buddhism has responded to the challenges of modernity. Since the second half of the twentieth century\, it has played a crucial role in the remarkable revival and expansion of Buddhism in both Mainland China and Taiwan. As a result\, it has attracted sustained scholarly attention since the beginning of the twenty-first century.\nNevertheless\, important issues remain insufficiently examined\, particularly certain foundational doctrinal questions that are of great significance within the Buddhist community itself. For example\, Taixu’s various interpretations of Humanistic Buddhism (renjian fojiao) gave rise to markedly divergent understandings among later generations\, while differing paths of practical implementation have rendered the movement highly contested. When these debates are reconsidered at the level of fundamental doctrine\, they converge on two central issues: First\, what are the core theoretical foundation\, ultimate aim\, and doctrinal nature of Humanistic Buddhism? Should it be understood as a form of this-worldly Buddhist practice oriented toward the human and celestial vehicles\, or as an expression of the Mahāyāna bodhisattva path? Second\, how is Humanistic Buddhism to be practiced? Does cultivation proceed step by step—from the realms of human and celestial beings\, through the śrāvaka path\, and onward to the bodhisattva path—or does it advocate a direct transition from the human vehicle to Buddhahood? Is the practice of the “human bodhisattva” theoretically possible\, and if so\, in what sense? The first question concerns what Humanistic Buddhism is\, while the second addresses how it is to be practiced. These two fundamental doctrinal issues are closely interconnected and together constitute the core theoretical framework and justificatory basis of Humanistic Buddhism. In particular\, the second issue remains largely unexplored in existing scholarship.\nCan Humanistic Buddhism provide a doctrinally coherent response to these questions and adequately address the various criticisms directed toward it? Drawing on the writings of Taixu and Yinshun\, this lecture examines these issues from the perspective of Buddhist doctrinal theory. \n【Short Bio】\n宣方，中国人民大学宗教学系副教授，佛教与宗教学理论研究所研究员，兼任北京大学、香港中文大学、厦门大学、云南大学、中国佛教文化研究所等十余所国内佛学机构客座教授，《宗教》、《宗教研究》、《汉语佛学评论》等专业期刊编委。主要研究佛教思想史和当代佛教。\nXuan Fang is associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Renmin University of China and Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Buddhism and Religious Theory. He also serves as a visiting professor at more than ten Buddhist studies institutions in China\, including Peking University\, The Chinese University of Hong Kong\, Xiamen University\, Yunnan University\, and the China Institute of Buddhist Culture. He is a member of the editorial boards of several leading academic journals\, including Religion\, Religious Studies\, and Chinese Buddhist Studies Review. His main research interests focus on the intellectual history of Buddhism and contemporary Chinese Buddhism. \n \n 
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/attaining-buddhahood-in-this-very-life-the-theory-and-practice-of-humanistic-buddhism/
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