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The Chinese Theater in Goettingen
2020-03-27 - 2020-08-02
The Chinese Theater in Goettingen
The Chinese Theater in Goettingen is a Chinese-language amateur theater group founded in summer 2019. Most members are Chinese students, but the group also includes research fellows, German students learning Chinese language at the University of Goettingen, and professionals working in the city of Goettingen. Dr. Yumin Ao acts as the coordinator. She is a researcher at the Gobal and Transregional Studies Platform, and her research interests focus on Chinese drama and cross-cultural theater. A team of volunteers take charge of operation, dramaturgy, technique and media of the theater group. Members meet every three weeks to read plays or to make staged readings of plays written by Chinese playwrights, for instance The Greatest Event in Life, The Rhinoceros in Love, and the Comical History of the Life of Dr. Faustus, etc.

The Chinese Theater in Goettingen wants to build friendly and inclusive spaces. Its purpose is to contribute to cross-cultural communication. Through staged readings and performances, we encourage thinking about “selection bias in life” and “personal development” and to widen our horizons. We also want to rethink cultural identities in the global context. We believe that by expressing our ideas and positions in universal issues we can contribute to clarifying problems of finding one’s identity and can suggest possible solutions. Building up a communicative platform will make different cultures more accessible and asessable.
Theater Online
Chinese Theater online activities – 在线朗读剧本: We usually meet online Fridays afternoon from 2PM to 4PM. We read dramas and do some role-play exercises together via WeChat/QQ or VooV audio calls.

WeChat ID: 哥廷根戏剧读演社
QQ #: 335030419
E-mail: yumin.ao@phil.uni-goettingen.de
Website: Yingmingtheater

All students are warmly welcome to participate in the activities. Anyone who is interested may join us via the above contacts. It’s a great opportunity to practice Chinese language with native speakers.

Online Drama Reading: 奥古斯特·斯特林堡《朱莉小姐》August Strindberg, Miss Julie
2020-05-02 14:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Berlin) | QQ
奥古斯特·斯特林堡《朱莉小姐》August Strindberg, Miss Julie
Time: 14: 00 – 17: 00 02. May 2020
Place: Online (QQ Group: 335030419)
E-mail: yumin.ao@phil.uni-goettingen.de
Manner: Participants will read dramas and do some role-play exercises together via QQ audio calls. Being an auditor is also welcome.
Strindberg wrote Miss Julie with the intention of abiding by the theories of “naturalism,” which depicts a fierce battle between Miss Julie and Jean, a struggle for power and dominance enacted through a rough and compulsive play of seduction and repulsion.
If you want to know more about the drama Miss Julie, please do not hesitate to join us.
For more information about the Chinese Theater Goettingen, please click here.

Online Lecture Series: "Resilienzen – Über den Umgang des Menschen mit Pandemien und anderen Katastrophen in der Geschichte"
2020-05-06 08:00 - 17:00
Digitale Vorlesungsreihe: “Resilienzen – Über den Umgang des Menschen mit Pandemien und anderen Katastrophen in der Geschichte”
Die Vorlesungen werden als Slidecast am jeweiligen Termin spätestens um 18 Uhr bei stud.ip online gestellt. Bitte melden Sie sich für die Vorlesungsreihe in Stud.IP an, um Zugriff auf die Dateien zu erhalten. Wie in jeder Vorlesungsreihe werden keine Prüfungen abgenommen.
Weitere Informationen finden Sie hier.
Ablaufplan
Einführung

22.4.2020: Arnd Reitemeier Einführung: Vulnerabilität und Resilienz: Gesellschaften und ihre Reaktionen auf Pandemien und Katastrophen

Abschnitt I: Katastrophen und Pandemien – Das Ereignis und die Folgen

29.4.2020: Frank Rexroth Die Große Pest 1348
6.5.2020: Niels Petersen Die große Mandränke 1362
13.5.2020: Otto Gecser Plague, Religion and the Fear of Infection in 15th-c. Perugia
15.5.2020: Dominic Sachsenmaier Die Katastrophen um die Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts – China und die Welt
20.5.2020: Dirk Schumann Die spanische Grippe 1918/1919
27.5.2020: Hartmut Berghoff Hingenommen und Vergessen. Die “Asiatische” Grippepandemie 1957/58

Abschnitt II: Gesellschaftliche Reaktionen, Strategien und Diskurse im Umgang mit Pandemien und Katastrophen

29.5.2020: Heinz-Günther Nesselrath Die Pest im klassischen Athen und ihre historischen und literarischen Folgen
3.6.2020: Philip Knäble Handelssperre, Quarantäne, Reinlichkeit – Der Lock-Down in frühneuzeitlichen Pestordnungen
5.6.2020: Johannes Bergemann Die Pest in Athen – Die Pandemie im 5. Jh. v. Chr. und ihre Folgen für die antike Demokratie. Eine archäologische Perspektive
10.6.2020: Ansgar Schanbacher Epidemien in der frühneuzeitlichen Stadt
12.6.2020: Malte de Vries, Alltag und städtisches Leben in Zeiten der Pest: Das Beispiel Braunschweig (1529–1681)
17.6.2020: Ravi Ahuja Epidemie und soziale Frage: Die Pest in Bombay, 1896–97
24.6.2020: Richard Hölzl Malaria und die Zusammenhänge zwischen Materialität und Kultur in der Geschichtswissenschaft
1.7.2020: Martin Lindner “Waldvolk kämpfe mit dem Boden um dein Sein!” – Germanisch-deutsche “Resilienz” im nationalsozialistischen Propagandafilm Ewiger Wald (1936)
8.7.2020: Katja Wezel Umgang mit dem Trauma des stalinistischen Terrors: Die Massendeportationen der Esten, Letten und Litauer 1941 und 1949
15.7.2020: Eva Klay Katastrophenschutz und Triage im 20. Jahrhundert

Online Drama Reading: 安东·巴甫洛维奇·契诃夫《万尼亚舅舅》Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Uncle Vanya
2020-05-15 14:00 - 17:00 | QQ
安东·巴甫洛维奇·契诃夫《万尼亚舅舅》Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Uncle Vanya

Time: 14: 00 – 17: 00 15. May 2020
Place: Online (QQ Group: 335030419)
E-mail: yumin.ao@phil.uni-goettingen.de
Manner: Participants will read dramas and do some role-play exercises together via QQ audio calls. Being an auditor is also welcome.
Uncle Vanya portrays the visit of an elderly professor and his second young wife, Yelena, to the rural estate that upholds their urban lifestyle. How will Vanya – the brother of the professor’s late first wife – and Astrov – the local doctor – handle the upcoming unknown troubles? Let us read Chekhov’s renowned play, Uncle Vanya, online together on 15. May 2020.
Anyone interested in the drama Uncle Vanya is warmly welcome to participate in the activities.
For more information about the Chinese Theater Goettingen, please click here.

Online Lecture: Die Katastrophen um die Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts – China und die Welt (Prof. Dominic Sachsenmaier)
2020-05-15 18:00
This lecture is part of the Online Lecture Series “Resilienzen – Über den Umgang des Menschen mit Pandemien und anderen Katastrophen in der Geschichte”.
Please click here for more information on this lecture series.

Lecture: Die Neue Seidenstaße - Chinas Handelsnetze von morgen
2020-05-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Tagungszentrum Schloss Herrenhausen, Herrenhäuser Straße 5, Hannover, 30419
Welche Bedeutung hat der von China geplante internationale Handelskorridor? Eine Einordnung aus historischer, politikwissenschaftlicher sowie wirtschafts- und sozialwissenschaftlicher Perspektive am 12. Mai 2020 beim Herrenhäuser Forum in Hannover.

Mit einer modernen Seidenstraße will China seine Vormachtstellung im Handel festigen.

Kamelkarawanen, die Seide, Wolle, Gold und Silber transportieren – das sind die ersten Assoziationen, die viele mit der “Seidenstraße” verbinden, die auch heute noch ein Hauch von Magie umweht. Als Ferdinand von Richthofen den Begriff 1877 prägte, referierte er damit aber nicht nur auf das seit der Antike bestehende Netzwerk aus Handelsverbindungen für den Transport kostbarer Güter. Er bezog “Seidenstraße” auch auf den damit einhergehenden kontinuierlichen Austausch von Ideen und Technik sowie die Interaktion von Religionen und Kulturkreisen entlang des über 6.000 Kilometer umfassenden Wegenetzes.
Seit 2013 befeuert die Volksrepublik China unter Staatspräsident Xi Jinping die Vorstellung einer Seidenstraßenrenaissance. “One Belt – One Road” heißt das Mammutprojekt, mit dem China seine Vormachtstellung im Handel mit derzeit 64 Staaten festigen will. Wie definiert China seine handelspolitischen Ziele über die Neue Seidenstraße? Welche Chancen und Risiken birgt das Vorhaben für Europa? Hat die neue Seidenstraße auch eine ideelle und kulturelle Dimension? Und wenn ja, wie sieht sie aus?
Diese Veranstaltung richtet sich an ein neugieriges Publikum, das sich für aktuelle Themen aus Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft interessiert.
Herrenhäuser Forum Politik-Wirtschaft-Gesellschaft
Die Neue Seidenstaße – Chinas Handelsnetze von morgen
12. Mai 2020
Xplanatorium Schloss Herrenhausen, HannoverProgramm
Impulse
Prof. Dr. Ralph Kauz, Institut für Orient- und Asienwissenschaften, Universität Bonn
apl. Prof. Dr. Dirk Schmidt, Fachbereich III, Politikwissenschaft, Universität Trier
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Maennig, Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, Universität Hamburg
Moderation: Ulrike Heckmann, NDR Info

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Digital Lecture: Hingenommen und Vergessen. Die "Asiatische" Grippepandemie 1957/58 (Prof. Hartmut Berghoff)
2020-05-27 18:00
This lecture is part of the Digital Lecture Series “Resilienzen – Über den Umgang des Menschen mit Pandemien und anderen Katastrophen in der Geschichte”.
Please click here for more information on this lecture series.

Online Drama Reading: 亨里克·约翰·易卜生《群鬼》Henrik Johan Ibsen, Ghosts
2020-05-30 14:00 - 17:00 | QQ
亨里克·约翰·易卜生《群鬼》Henrik Johan Ibsen, Ghosts

Time: 14: 00 – 17: 00 30. May 2020
Place: Online (QQ Group: 335030419)
E-mail: yumin.ao@phil.uni-goettingen.de
Manner: Participants will read dramas and do some role-play exercises together via QQ audio calls. Being an auditor is also welcome.
As the subject of Ghosts includes religion, venereal disease, incest, and euthanasia, it immediately had generated substantial controversy and negative criticism since it first staged in 1882. What kind of story does this great play try to convey? Why does this drama historically hold a position of immense importance? On finishing reading Ibsen’s Ghosts we will be keen to continue a discussion.
Everyone is warmly welcome to participate in online activities.
For more information about the Chinese Theater Goettingen, please click here.

Virtuelle Ringvorlesung: Resilienzen – Über den Umgang des Menschen mit Pandemien und anderen Katastrophen in der Geschichte
2020-06-05 18:00 - 2020-07-16 19:00 | StudIP & Youtube
Zu der Vorlesungsreihe tragen viele Kolleginnen und Kollegen aus dem Seminar für Mittlere und Neuere Geschichte, dem Institut für Historische Landesforschung, dem Althistorischen Seminar, dem Seminar für Klassische Philologie, dem Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, dem Ostasiatischen Seminar und dem Center für Modern Indian Studies bei und berichten vielfach aus ihren aktuell laufenden Forschungen
Die Vorlesungen werden als Slidecast am jeweiligen Termin spätestens um 18 Uhr bei stud.ip online gestellt. Bitte melden Sie sich für die Vorlesungsreihe in Stud.IP an, um Zugriff auf die Dateien zu erhalten. Wie in jeder Vorlesungsreihe werden keine Prüfungen abgenommen.
Ablaufplan
Einführung

22.4.2020: Arnd Reitemeier Einführung: Vulnerabilität und Resilienz: Gesellschaften und ihre Reaktionen auf Pandemien und Katastrophen

Abschnitt I: Katastrophen und Pandemien – Das Ereignis und die Folgen

29.4.2020: Frank Rexroth Die Große Pest 1348
6.5.2020: Niels Petersen Die große Mandränke 1362
13.5.2020: Otto Gecser Plague, Religion and the Fear of Infection in 15th-c. Perugia
15.5.2020: Dominic Sachsenmaier Die Katastrophen um die Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts – China und die Welt
20.5.2020: Dirk Schumann Die “Spanische Grippe“ 1918/19 – eine verdeckte Katastrophe
27.5.2020: Hartmut Berghoff Hingenommen und Vergessen. Die “Asiatische” Grippepandemie 1957/58

Abschnitt II: Gesellschaftliche Reaktionen, Strategien und Diskurse im Umgang mit Pandemien und Katastrophen

29.5.2020: Heinz-Günther Nesselrath Die Pest im klassischen Athen und ihre historischen und literarischen Folgen
3.6.2020: Philip Knäble Handelssperre, Quarantäne, Reinlichkeit – Der Lock-Down in frühneuzeitlichen Pestordnungen
5.6.2020: Johannes Bergemann Die Pest in Athen – Die Pandemie im 5. Jh. v. Chr. und ihre Folgen für die antike Demokratie. Eine archäologische Perspektive
10.6.2020: Ansgar Schanbacher Epidemien in der frühneuzeitlichen Stadt
12.6.2020: Malte de Vries, Alltag und städtisches Leben in Zeiten der Pest: Das Beispiel Braunschweig (1529–1681)
17.6.2020: Ravi Ahuja Epidemie und soziale Frage: Die Pest in Bombay, 1896–97
24.6.2020: Richard Hölzl Malaria und die Zusammenhänge zwischen Materialität und Kultur in der Geschichtswissenschaft
1.7.2020: Martin Lindner “Waldvolk kämpfe mit dem Boden um dein Sein!” – Germanisch-deutsche “Resilienz” im nationalsozialistischen Propagandafilm Ewiger Wald (1936)
8.7.2020: Katja Wezel Umgang mit dem Trauma des stalinistischen Terrors: Die Massendeportationen der Esten, Letten und Litauer 1941 und 1949
15.7.2020: Eva Klay Katastrophenschutz und Triage im 20. Jahrhundert

Die Vorträge können Sie sich auch hier auf Youtube ansehen.

Virtuelle Ringvorlesung - Ein Virus verändert die Welt
2020-06-09 18:15 - 2020-07-26 19:00 | Zoom & Youtube
Jeden Dienstag um 18.15 Uhr und damit zu unserer regulären Ringvorlesungs-Zeit laden wir Sie zu unserem Ringvorlesungs-Live-Stream ein. In den kommenden Wochen wird es dabei um verschiedene Themen gehen.
Mit einem informativen und anschaulichen Vortrag präsentieren unsere Referent*innen in einem rund 20-minütigen Vortrag ihre Themen. Anschließend haben Sie für weitere 10 Minuten die Gelegenheit, miteinander ins Gespräch zu kommen und eventuelle Rückfragen zu klären.
Mehr Informationen hier.

Online Drama Reading: 白峰溪《风雨故人来》Fengxi BAI, Friends through Thick and Thin
2020-06-13 14:00 - 17:00 | QQ
白峰溪《风雨故人来》Fengxi BAI, Friends through Thick and Thin
Time: 14: 00 – 17: 00 13. June 2020
Place: Online (QQ Group: 335030419)
Email: yingming.theater@gmail.com
Manner: Participants will read dramas and do some role-play exercises together via QQ audio calls. Being an auditor is also welcome.
When people face the intractable situation that they need to make the life priority of career or love, what kinds of decisions will they make after a furious self-struggle? Let us read Bai’s script Friends through Thick and Thin to explore Peng’s answer.
If you want to know more about the drama Friends through Thick and Thin, please do not hesitate to join us.
For more information about the Chinese Theater Goettingen, please click here.

Online Drama Reading: 孟京辉《两只狗的生活意见》Jinghui MENG, The Life Comments of Two Dogs
2020-06-27 14:00 - 17:00
孟京辉《两只狗的生活意见》Jinghui MENG, The Life Comments of Two Dogs
Time: 14: 00 – 17: 00 27. June 2020
Place: Online (QQ Group: 335030419)
Email: yingming.theater@gmail.com
Manner: Participants will read dramas and do some role-play exercises together via QQ audio calls. Being an auditor is also welcome.
Two dogs enter the city from the countryside in search of ideals and happiness. When both of them encounter various life problems along the way, they have unique perspectives on the situation. If you also have some opinions about your own life, perhaps the drama The Life Comments of Two Dogs can provide abundant illuminating thoughts for you.
Anyone interested in the drama The Life Comments of Two Dogs is warmly welcome to participate in the activities.
For more information about the Chinese Theater Goettingen, please click here.

First Drama Workshop of the Yingming Theater
2020-07-01 08:00 - 2020-08-31 17:00
The Yingming theater is going to have its first Drama Workshop in August.

Focus: Cross-cultural Communication
Format: Playback Theater
Language: English/Chinese/German
Platform: Zoom Meeting Room (TBA)
Date: TBA

Who can participate in this workshop?
If you are curious about the theatrical forms of playback, such as “Fluid sculptures”, “Pairs”, “Chorus”, “Free form”, “Snap shot” and “Collage”, if you want to communicate with friends of diverse cultural, linguistic, ethnic or religious backgrounds and share your life stories, and if you want to personally participate in the performances on the spot, then don’t hesitate to join us! This event can definitely provide you with a new perspective and a unique experience.
We always believe that everyone’s story has its own value and is worthy of being heard and respected. Therefore, we aim to understand the cultural diversity, to find ways to communicate effectively and to build a mutual understanding as well as the consensus.
Organizers:
Dr. Yumin Ao（Researcher at the Center for the Modern East Asian Studies）
Zhao Zhao（MA candidate at the Department of German Philology）
Registration:
yingming.theater@gmail.com

For more information on the workshop click here.

The 15th Göttingen East Asia Research Salon
2020-07-07 18:00 - 19:30 | Zoom
The 15th Göttingen East Asia Research Salon:
Closer to the self while far from home: A longitudinal study about the experiences of students from People’s Republic of China in Germany

Please RSVP for the event via Ms Kara Blumenthal at assist@cemeas.uni-goettingen.de.
Presenter:
Lili Jiang (University of Göttingen, Department of East Asian Studies)

Commentators:
Dr. Jesús Pineda (Scientific coordinator and researcher, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Dr. Sascha Klotzbücher (Acting Chair, Society and Economy of China, University of Göttingen)
Moderator:
Katja Pessl (Centre for Modern East Asian Studies)

Time: Tuesday, 07.07.2020, 6 pm (c.t.) – 7:30 pm
Venue: Online via Zoom

Abstract:
This dissertation explores the changes in Chinese master students’ identity and their sense of belonging during the years of their stay in Germany. The main purpose is to understand how they perceive their attachment to China politically, culturally and ethnically and how the perception gradually changed after their experiences in Germany, where they have learnt and developed different strategies to negotiate their identity and belonging. The study applies a combination of longitudinal method and the method of the biographical narrative interview which tracks 25 Chinese students’ lived experiences and processes of their change from their first semester until after they graduate from Germany, in order to capture critical moments of their transitions. The dissertation provides longitudinal evidence to reveal the complex and multilayered nature of the changing progress of these students’ identity and also supports that students’ transcultural experiences in Germany which helped them “unlearn” a normalized concept of “Chineseness” assisted them to go beyond their state-bound national loyalty and postulate a potential transcultural position in today’s world.

Short Bio:
I was born in Deyang, Sichuan and obtained both my bachelor’s and master’s degree at Sichuan University. I studied applied linguistics and bilingual education in Chengdu, New York, Uppsala and Goettingen. Before coming to Goettingen for my PhD program, I taught Chinese to international students at Sichuan University and Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in Chengdu.

Online Drama Reading: The Umbrella in Salzburg
2020-07-11 14:00 - 17:00
苏叔阳《萨尔茨堡的雨伞》Shuyang SU, The Umbrella in Salzburg
Time: 14: 00 – 17: 00 11. July 2020
Place: Online (VooV Meeting ID：696 443 903 )
Email: yingming.theater@gmail.com
Manner: Participants will read dramas and do some role-play exercises together via video or voice calls. Being an auditor is also welcome.
The derailment seems to be the uppermost factor of an abortive relationship. What kind of stories will happen in a seemingly relaxed relationship in Salzburg? Are there any so-called schemes, PUA (Pick-up Artist), or even the derailment? Let us read the diverting script The Umbrella in Salzberg by Shuyang Su.
If you want to know more about the drama The Umbrella in Salzburg, please do not hesitate to join us.
For more information about the Chinese Theater in Goettingen, please click here.

Online Lecture: Affective pedagogic spaces in contemporary China
2020-07-14 18:00 - 19:30
Lecturer: Gil Hizi (PhD University of Sydney)
Time: 14. July. 2020, 6:00 p.m.
Venue: Zoom

Through the influence of psychotherapeutic expertise and popular entertainment, pedagogic programs for “self-improvement” in China today define positive affect as a key aspect of learning. In this talk, based on participant observations in the city of Jinan, I describe how workshops for interpersonal skills produce interactive spaces that spark enthusiasm and optimism in participants. These pedagogies draw on the current primacy of “positive energy” (zheng nengliang) in Chinese education, media, and politics. I will discuss how these interactive spaces resemble group interactions from the communist period, while today positive affect is positioned more as an endpoint in separation from ordinary life and collective enterprises.
Gil Hizi (PhD University of Sydney) is a Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow of Anthropology at the University of Cologne. He studies social change in China by focusing on perceptions of personhood and emotions. His main sites of enquiry have been pedagogic practices of self-improvement and psychotherapy. His work has been published in Anthropology and Asian Studies journals.

Zoom Access:
Topic: Affective Pedagogic Spaces in Contemporary China, Gil Hizi (PhD University of Sydney)
Time: 14.Jul.2020 06:00 PM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rom, Stockholm, Wien
https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/92606540714?pwd=[REDACTED]

Meeting-ID: 926 0654 0714
Passwort: [REDACTED]

Picture: MartaZ* , Positivity , https://flic.kr/p/egg74u
Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)

Lecture: Weaponizing medicine: China’s disease prevention and the “military-civil fusion” in medical research
2020-07-15 17:00 - 18:30
Weaponizing medicine: China’s disease prevention and the “military-civil fusion” in medical research
Sascha Klotzbücher (University of Göttingen)
Time: July 15, 2020 5pm
Venue: Zoom-Meeting
https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/93597507671?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting-ID: 935 9750 7671
Passwort: [REDACTED]
Abstract
Since 2016, the Chinese Communist Party proclaimed the strategy of “military-civil fusion” of research (Kania 2019) (军民融合). However, this cooperation between military academies and civil universities or research institutes is not new. This lecture aims to discuss the overseen or hidden link and connection to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and its warfare for the institutionalization of disease control in China with case studies from the Korean War to the recent outbreak of Covid-19 epidemics.
I will discuss two different qualities of this militarization of disease control and medicine: First, disease control is organized in a procedural logic and along with the script of warfare and it mainly implemented by agents of warfare. The fight against an “American virus” during the Korean War, the strive to eliminate transmitting animals during several health campaigns, the SARS in 2003 and Covid-19 epidemics are examples how disease control is organized in the logic of battle when military logistics and organization patterns temporarily take the lead and establish new forms of control and distribution.
The second dimension of the militarization of the medical field is how “Military Academies” initiate and supervise joint medical projects with “civil” research institutes and universities. The best-documented example of this military-civic fusion is the noble price laureate Tu Youyou and her involvement in the “Project 523” against malaria in the 1970s.
Today, the Communist Party has restructured its science institutions and scientists to explore new forms of warfare with “life-controlling power” (制生权) or brain/ -controlling power” (制脑权). For this aim, the PLA seeks to integrate certain strategically important scientific disciplines (nanotech, neuroscience, genetics, AI) and their research into its military strategies. However, in contrast to Tu Youyou’s studies conducted in an exclusive Chinese context, today’s weaponization of science intends to create research platforms with international scholars for innovation and knowledge transfer of their usable data, techniques, and output. I will analyze these mechanisms based on the French-Chinese cooperation in one of the labs of the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the current search for vaccines against Covid-19 in commercial start-ups with a military background.
Sascha Klotzbücher is the Acting Chair for “Society and Economy of China” at the University of Göttingen. His research interests are health governance and memory of the Cultural Revolution. Related publication to the topic of the talk is the article “’Embedded Research’ in Collaborative Fieldwork” in the Journal of Chinese Current Affairs and his Ph.D. thesis on rural health care in the People’s Republic. His recent publication is a monograph on the transgenerational transmission of the Cultural Revolution in families (Lange Schatten der Kulturrevolution: Eine transgenerationale Perspektive auf Politik und Emotion in der Volksrepublik China“. Psychosozial-Verlag, 2019).

Picture: Report of the International Scientific Commission for the Investigation of the Facts Concerning Bacterial Warfare in Korea and China (ISC), 1952

CeMEAS Summer Break 2020
2020-07-24 08:00 - 2020-09-13 17:00
CeMEAS wishes you a wonderful and relaxing summer break!
We will be back next semester with more exciting events and news to share with you right here!

Photo: Tambako, Cute red panda on the branch, CC BY-ND 2.0, https://www.flickr.com/photos/tambako/49690787126/

Online Drama Reading: 童道明《塞纳河少女的面模》Daoming TONG, The Facial Mask of Seine Maiden
2020-07-25 14:00 - 17:00 | VooV
童道明《塞纳河少女的面模》Daoming TONG, The Facial Mask of Seine Maiden
Time: 14: 00 – 17: 00 25. July 2020
Place: Online (VooV Meeting ID：349 101 546)
Email: yingming.theater@gmail.com
Manner: Participants will read dramas and do some role-play exercises together via video or voice calls. Being an auditor is also welcome.
The Facial Mask of Seine Maiden was bought by Zhi FENG (冯至) accidentally in a bookstore when he studied aboard in Berlin. Since then, he had kept this facial mask even when he was at the National Southwest Associated University. If you are interested in Zhi FENG’s poems and his friendship with another famous Chinese scholar Xianlin JI (季羡林), please join us to read The Facial Masks of Seine Maiden together.
Anyone interested in the drama The Facial Mask of Seine Maiden is warmly welcome to participate in the activities.
For more information about the Chinese Theater in Goettingen, please click here.

Online Drama Reading: 潘惠森《在天台上冥想的蜘蛛》Weisum Poon, Spider in Meditation
2020-08-07 14:00 - 17:00 | VooV
潘惠森《在天台上冥想的蜘蛛》Weisum Poon, Spider in Meditation
Time: 14: 00 – 17: 00 07. August 2020
Place: Online (VooV Meeting ID：338 885 111)
Email: yingming.theater@gmail.com
Manner: Participants will read dramas and do some role-play exercises together via video or voice calls. Being an auditor is also welcome.
In this crowded city, Hong Kong, buildings are nestled against each other, well illuminated day and night. The rooftops of abundant high buildings and skyscrapers are connected into a wasteland when seen from above the city. There are four paupers without fixed residences on this wasteland. They gaze at the sky and overlook the world above the city landscapes while pursuing the highest-positioned goal in life with the lowest standard of material conditions.
They fly from one rooftop to another and do their best to return the world’s desires, which leaves them only spiders meditating on the rooftop. If you want to have the experience of spiders contemplating on the rooftop, please do not hesitate to join us.
For more information about the Chinese Theater in Goettingen, please click here.

Online Drama Reading: 陈尹莹《花近高楼》Joanna CHAN, The Whirligig of Time
2020-08-21 14:00 - 17:00 | VooV
陈尹莹《花近高楼》Joanna CHAN, The Whirligig of Time
Time: 14: 00 – 17: 00 21. August 2020
Place: Online (VooV Meeting ID：338 885 111)
Email: yingming.theater@gmail.com
Manner: Participants will read dramas and do some role-play exercises together via video or voice calls. Being an auditor is also welcome.
When you see the Chinese title of the drama, would you recall the verses by Du Fu杜甫, a poet from the Tang Dynasty? How does this kind of texts apply to Hong Kong stories in the second half of the 20th century? In a turbulent environment, what kind of persistence will people have, and what kind of choices will people make? By reading The Whirligig of Time, perhaps you could find your answer.
Anyone interested in the drama The Whirligig of Time is warmly welcome to participate in the activities.
For more information about the Chinese Theater in Goettingen, please click here.

Online Drama Reading: 顾雷《进化》Lei GU, Evolution
2020-09-12 14:00 - 17:00 | VooV
顾雷《进化》Lei GU, Evolution
Time: 14: 00 – 17: 00 12. September 2020
Place: Online (VooV Meeting ID：518 226 916)
Email: yingming.theater@gmail.com
Manner: Participants will read dramas and do some role-play exercises together via video or voice calls. Being an auditor is also welcome.
According to Stanford Encyclopedia, evolution means the changes in the proportions of biological types in a population over time, which is also a common understanding for most people. However, what does the term evolution mean when it comes to one particular family in current society, such as a journalist or a taxi driver living in Beijing? What is the so-called best choice to make for “evolution?”
It is a great honor and pleasure to invite the playwright, Mr. Lei Gu, to participate in our online script reading and discussion on Sep. 12th.
If you would like to know more about the evolutional story that happened in the wee hours of Beijing, please join us to read the Evolution together.
For more information about the Chinese Theater in Goettingen, please click here.

Workshop: The Sound Topography of Göttingen (SOTO-Gö) 哥廷根声音地貌
2020-09-19 | Göttingen University Campus
Workshop: The Sound Topography of Göttingen (SOTO-Gö) 哥廷根声音地貌
September 19, 2020

Dr. Yumin Ao
Global and Transregional Studies Platform, University of Göttingen
Centre for Modern East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen
For more information regarding the workshop and registration, please see the webpage of Yingming Theater: https://yingmingtheater.com/events/workshop/
The Sound Topography of Göttingen (SOTO-Gö) “哥廷根声音地貌”工作坊将带领参与者从探索城市声音开始,从有意识地倾听到声音工厂,然后到理解剧场音效的设计和挖掘剧本潜台词,最后再返回到对于自我与社群关系的思考。工作坊以过程为导向,让参与者通过合作完成一项项任务的方式,去重新 定义戏剧艺术场域里的“维度” “现场” 与“虚实”,并在个体连接社群的有效互动中,去突破对戏剧与现实美学关系的常规考量。
Abstract: The “sound” in the project of the Sound Topography of Göttingen (SOTO-Gö) refers to sounds collected in the city of Göttingen. “Topography” originally means in ancient Greece the description of a place, but in the SOTO-Gö project, we loan the term and use it in a broad sense which is related to a map. The project is concerned with local information about sound sources in general, including natural and artificial sound features. It involves the recording of sounds, the identification of specific sound-forms, and the mapping of the recorded sounds. The project-based approach requests participants to create a sound-map online together, which can demonstrate the phonic identity of Göttingen’s urban community. Moreover, through describing personal sensory details for sounds, participants may reveal the transformative dimension of their individual attitudes towards listening. When listening consciously and actively, one becomes a good practitioner in community involvement and will be able to further one’s understanding that community connections are significant and integral features of the self. Analysis of the roles performed by the sound effects in theater and subtexts of drama contributes to the completion of this project.
Key words: sound, subtext, topography, listening, community, the self
摘要:哥廷根声音地貌(SOTO-Gö)项目中“声音”是指在哥廷根市采集到的声音。 “地貌”一词最初在古希腊语中指的是对位置的描述,但是在本项目中,我们借用了该术语,并在广义上使用它来指代地图。该项目关注有关声音资源的本地信息,包括自然和人工的声音。活动涉及声音的记录、特定声音形式的识别以及将采集到的声音标示在地图上。项目要求参与者共同在线创建声音地图,以显示哥廷根城市社区的语音特性。此外,通过描述自身对声音的感受,参与者可以改变他们对于聆听的个人态度。我们认为,当有意识地积极地倾听时,人们就会成为社区的良好实践者,并能够进一步理解与社区建立联系也是构建自我的重要组成部分。对剧场音效和剧本潜台词的分析也是本次工作坊的重要组织部分。
关键词:声音、潜台词、地貌、倾听、社群、自我

Online Drama Reading: 朱宜《杂音》Yi ZHU, A Deal
2020-09-26 14:00 - 17:00 | VooV
朱宜《杂音》Yi ZHU, A Deal
Time: 14: 00 – 17: 00 26. September 2020
Place: Online (VooV Meeting ID：979 386 357)
Email: yingming.theater@gmail.com
Manner: Participants will read dramas and do some role-play exercises together via video or voice calls. Being an auditor is also welcome.
What will happen if Chinese parents would like to buy an American house for their kid who receives his/her education in the United States? What kind of “chemical reaction” will be produced by the generation gap plus cultural shocks between China and the USA? Let us read the Yi ZHU’s A Deal to explore their conflicts and struggles.
Anyone interested in the drama A Deal is warmly welcome to participate in the activities.
For more information about the Chinese Theater in Goettingen, please click here.

The 16th Göttingen East Asia Research Salon
2020-09-30 16:00 - 17:30
The Shifting Relationship between Classics and History: Constructing Historical Continuity in Republican China

Presenter:
Felix Erdt (University of Göttingen, Department of East Asian Studies)
Commentators:
Prof. Viren Murthy (Associate Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Dr. Phil. Dr. rer. Med. Dominique Hertzer (Guest Researcher at the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen)
Time: Wednesday, September 30, 4 pm – 5.30 pm
Join us via Zoom, no prior registration required:
https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/94054360676?pwd=[REDACTED]
Convener & host: Katja Pessl
Abstract:
In this dissertation project, I investigate how scholars in Republican China tried to construct continuity between the modern epoch and the Confucian past in the context of the intrusion of Western notions of historical progress.
I focus on three scholars from the Sichuan province, Liu Xianxin (1896-1932), Meng Wentong (1894-1968) and Li Yuancheng (1909-1958) who reinterpreted the relationship of classics and history in their historiographical writings in different ways.
Strongly influenced by Daoist thinking, Liu held a cyclical view of history and therefore believed in a future turn that will overcome modernity according to logic of the changing “propensity of times“ . Meng supposed a development of Confucianism through history which culminated in the utopian ideas of an ideal society of the western Han scholars and can served as a blueprint for revolutionary transformation of Chinese society. Li emphasized Confucianism as the core of the cultural identity of Chinese people. Confucianism was constantly changing throughout history and was adjusted to different historical circumstances.
Felix Erdt:
Since March 2017 I am a doctoral candidate and research assistant at the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Göttingen. My research interests include conservatism, the idea of progress in history and modern Chinese historiography with a focus on late Qing and Republican China. In my PhD I conduct research about Chinese conservatism.I hold a Bachelor degree in East-Asian Studies/China and History, and a Master degree in Modern Sinology from Georg-August-University Göttingen/Germany. As a part of my studies I spent one year each at the Beijing Foreign Studies University and at the National Chengchi University in Taiwan. In my Master-Thesis I researched Liu Xianxin’s criticism of the idea of progress in history.
Viren Murthy
My work probes the historical conditions for the possibility of philosophy and politics in the modern world and in East Asia in particular. I am generally interested in the attempts of East Asian intellectuals to resist modernity through reviving premodern philosophies and religions, such as Buddhism. My first book, The Political Philosophy of Zhang Taiyan: The Resistance of Consciousness, shows how in early 20th century China, Zhang Taiyan, drew on Consciousness-Only (Yogācāra) Buddhism to formulate a theory of revolution. In particular, the book explains how this seemingly ancient body of knowledge is reformulated as China was incorporated into the global capitalist system of nation-states. My more recent project, tentatively entitled, “Imagining Asia: Takeuchi Yoshimi and the Conundrums of Asian Modernity,” examines how philosophies of resistance intersect with visions of transnational identity and hopes for an alternative future. The historical context for this second work continues to be the fundamental transformations in conceptions of space and time associated with spread of global capitalism and how such changes affect the way intellectuals in East Asia conceive of political alliances, strategies and futures. In this context, the project not only concerns the manner in which Takeuchi re-imagines the politics of Asian identity, but also how such imaginaries relate to attempts to imagine a different world by Marxists in Japan and elsewhere in East Asia. The project about Asianism also has an important contemporary dimension and in this context I interrogate the work of various proponents of Asianism, such as Baik Yong-soe, Kuan-hsing Chen, Sun Ge and Wang Hui.
Dominique Hertzer
Dominique Hertzer hat im Fach Sinologie über den Text des Buches der Wandlungen (Yijing) aus dem Grabfund von Mawangdui promoviert und im Fach Geschichte der Medizin mit einer Untersuchung zum unterschiedlichen Verhältnis von Leib und Seele im Abendland sowie Geist und Körper in China. Sie hat eine Praxis für chinesische Medizin und Philosophie in Utting am Ammersee. Sie unterrichtet als Lehrbeauftragte an den Universitäten München, Göttingen und Oldenburg sowie in ihrem in ihrem eigenen Institut. Seit 2017 ist sie als Gastwissenschaftlerin am Cemeas der Universität Göttingen beschäftigt. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind das Verhältnis von Medizin und Philosophie, das Leib- Seele Verhältnis im Abendland und in China sowie die Philosophische Praxis. Dominique Hertzer veröffentlichte zuletzt: Durchgänge Tong 通 Eine Chinesische Philosophie des Kommunizierens.

Video: Fractured Mirror: New Revolutionary History (新革命史) and the Search for China’s Future
2020-10-01 08:00 - 2020-10-31 17:00
The online presentation “Fractured Mirror: New Revolutionary History (新革命史) and the Search for China’s Future” of Prof. Dr. Timothy Cheek from University of British Columbia is now here available on youtube.

Conference Keynote of “Whither China?”, October 1st, 2020

“Whither China?” requires, of course, a clear sense of “whence China?” Chinese historiography over the past century or more has continued to contribute to this retrospective assessment and prospective speculation. Any assessment of Chinese historiography perforce reprises many of the central themes in the work of Dr. Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik: the internationalization of the study of Chinese history (both inside China and outside), the centrality of politics and morality in Chinese historiography, and the search today for a new master narrative. I follow these themes in the case of recent Chinese historiography that has been reconsidering China’s Twentieth Century revolutions, what is often referred to as “New Revolutionary History” (新革命史). I see three important worlds of conversation about China’s recent past: the official 官方, the academic 学术, and the social 民间. Xi Jinping has led an official Party effort to re-assert an orthodox reading of “the first thirty years and the second thirty years” of the PRC. Scholars in PRC universities have produced a wide range of empirical and theoretical studies, many of which seek a scientific understanding of China’s revolutionary past. Increasingly, independent scholars, artists, and activists have availed themselves of the new media (from convenient video recording to the internet) to offer unofficial readings of this history from which to draw their own meaning. Each seeks to shape the collective memory of “China,” yet different official policies, different academic schools, and different communities across China’s continental-sized society offer distinct, often different and sometimes conflicting narratives. As both Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik and Arif Dirlik have noted for historical universality, any comprehensive Chinese history must be a sum of these particularities. Timothy Cheek is Director of the Institute of Asian Research and Louis Cha Chair Professor of Chinese Research at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and Department of History at the University of British Columbia. His research, teaching and translating focus on the recent history of China, especially the Chinese Communist Party and intellectual debate in China. https://sppga.ubc.ca/profile/timothy-… Co-oganized by the Department of East Asian Studies/Sinology (University of Vienna) https://sinologie.univie.ac.at/ & the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies (University of Göttingen) http://www.cemeas.de. Prof. Timothy Cheek’s lecture is the public keynote of „Whither China?“ 中國的未來與未來在中國, a conference taking place October 2-3, 2020 at the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna. Conference program: https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:1111122

Zoom Lecture: Fractured Mirror: New Revolutionary History (新革命史) and the Search for China’s Future
2020-10-01 17:15 - 19:15
Fractured Mirror: New Revolutionary History (新革命史) and the Search for China’s Future

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Timothy Cheek (University of British Columbia)
Time: Thursday, October 1st, 2020, 5.15 p.m. Central European Summer Time (Berlin)
Zoom: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/92488442758

Co-oganized by the Department of East Asian Studies/Sinology (University of Vienna) & the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies (University of Göttingen).
Prof. Timothy Cheek’s lecture is the public keynote of „Whither China“ 中國的未來與未來在中國, a conference taking place October 2-3, 2020 at the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna.
“Whither China?” requires, of course, a clear sense of “whence China?” Chinese historiography over the past century or more has continued to contribute to this retrospective assessment and prospective speculation. Any assessment of Chinese historiography perforce reprises many of the central themes in the work of Dr. Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik: the internationalization of the study of Chinese history (both inside China and outside), the centrality of politics and morality in Chinese historiography, and the search today for a new master narrative. I follow these themes in the case of recent Chinese historiography that has been reconsidering China’s Twentieth Century revolutions, what is often referred to as “New Revolutionary History” (新革命史). I see three important worlds of conversation about China’s recent past: the official 官方, the academic 学术, and the social 民间. Xi Jinping has led an official Party effort to re-assert an orthodox reading of “the first thirty years and the second thirty years” of the PRC. Scholars in PRC universities have produced a wide range of empirical and theoretical studies, many of which seek a scientific understanding of China’s revolutionary past. Increasingly, independent scholars, artists, and activists have availed themselves of the new media (from convenient video recording to the internet) to offer unofficial readings of this history from which to draw their own meaning. Each seeks to shape the collective memory of “China,” yet different official policies, different academic schools, and different communities across China’s continental-sized society offer distinct, often different and sometimes conflicting narratives. As both Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik and Arif Dirlik have noted for historical universality, any comprehensive Chinese history must be a sum of these particularities.
Timothy Cheek is Director of the Institute of Asian Research and Louis Cha Chair Professor of Chinese Research at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and Department of History at the University of British Columbia. His research, teaching and translating focus on the recent history of China, especially the Chinese Communist Party and intellectual debate in China. His books include The Intellectual in Modern Chinese History (2015), Living with Reform: China Since 1989 (2006), Mao Zedong and China’s Revolutions (2002) and Propaganda and Culture in Mao’s China (1997), as well as edited volumes, Mao’s Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings, 1912-1949, Vol. VIII (2015) with Stuart R. Schram, The Cambridge Critical Introduction to Mao (2010), and New Perspectives on State Socialism in China (1997), with Tony Saich. In recent years Cheek has been working with some Chinese intellectuals to explore avenues of collaborative research and translation. https://sppga.ubc.ca/profile/timothy-cheek/

Online Drama Reading: 约翰·洛根《红色》John Logan, Red
2020-10-24 14:00 - 17:00 | VooV
约翰·洛根《红色》John Logan, Red
Time: 14: 00 – 17: 00 24. October 2020
Place: Online (VooV Meeting ID：877 506 987)
Email: yingming.theater@gmail.com
Manner: Participants will read dramas and do some role-play exercises together via video or voice calls. Being an auditor is also welcome.
“There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend… One day the black will swallow the red,” mentioned by Rothko. In his eyes, what does “black” mean in this play? For his young assistant, Ken, what about his ideas towards “red?” Besides, which is your option between black and red based on culture and aesthetics?
If you would like to know more about Rothko and Ken’s discussions, let’s read John Logan’s Red together.
For more information about the Chinese Theater in Goettingen, please click here.

China und Deutschland in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit: Vergangenheit und Zukunft
2020-11-14 10:00 - 16:45
China und Deutschland in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit: Vergangenheit und Zukunft
In der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit hat sich Chinas Rolle global gewandelt – vom Empfängerland westlicher Unterstützung zu einem wichtigen Geberstaat in Afrika, Asien und Lateinamerika. 2014 begannen Deutschland und China eine strategische Partnerschaft zu pflegen. Damit änderte sich die Beziehung der Länder grundsätzlich. Wie schlägt sich dieser Wandel in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit nieder? Welche Entwicklungen lassen sich seit der Etablierung der chinesischen Entwicklungsbehörde CIDCA beobachten? Wie wird mit China, einem selbsterklärten „Entwicklungsland“, als Geber in der globalen Entwicklungspolitik umgegangen? Welche Perspektiven gibt es für deutsch-chinesische Kooperationen?
N.N., Andreas Fuchs (Universität Göttingen), Anja Weckwert (giz). Moderation: Christian Straube (Stiftung Asienhaus)
Der Workshop ist Teil der Veranstaltungsreihe 8. Asientag: Solidarität mit Asien in der Pandemie

Am 13. und 14. November 2020 findet der 8. Asientag statt, dieses Jahr zum ersten Mal als Online-Veranstaltung. Viele Workshops werden einen Bezug zur Corona-Pandemie haben, aber auch andere interessante Themen werden aufgegriffen. Hinzu haben wir spannende Diskussionsrunden geplant. Die Stiftung Asienhaus, das philippinenbüro und der Korea Verband laden herzlich zum digitalen Austausch im November ein.

Hier kann man sich zum Workshop anmelden.

Online Drama Reading: 席勒《阴谋与爱情》Friedrich Schiller, Intrigue and Love
2020-11-14 14:00 - 16:00 | VooV
席勒《阴谋与爱情》Friedrich Schiller, Intrigue and Love
Time: 14: 00 – 16: 00 14. November 2020
Place: Online (VooV Meeting ID：567 436 316)
Email: yingming.theater@gmail.com
Manner: Participants will read dramas and do some role-play exercises together via video or voice calls. Being an auditor is also welcome.
This play shows Ferdinand von Walter, son of an aristocrat, falls in love with Luise Miller, daughter of a middle-class musician, and how cabals and their intrigue destroy the couple’s relationship.
Anyone interested in the love story is warmly welcome to participate in the activities.
For more information about the Chinese Theater in Goettingen, please click here.
