CeMEAS

Weiyena - Ein Heimatfilm
2021-07-07 18:00 - 21:00 (Europe/Berlin)
Weiyena – Ein Heimatfilm
Filmvorführung & Gespräch mit den Regisseurinnen
7. Juli, 2021 18:00 – 21:00
Zoom Link: https://s.gwdg.de/AQMM6q
Zwei Familiengeschichten, ein Jahrhundert und zwei Metropolen verschmelzen in einer Person: Weina Zhao. Ihre Eltern nannten die kleine Tochter ‘Wien’ – Wéiyěnà – , als sie von Peking nach Österreich auswanderten. Weinas Reise zurück in die Geschichte – von der Kulturrevolution bis ins moderne China – berührt die großen Themen des 21. Jahrhunderts: Migration, Identität und Vergangenheitsbewältigung.

WEIYENA – EIN HEIMATFILM – TRAILER from Langbein & Partner Media on Vimeo.
Programm:
18:00 s.t. Einführung
18:15 – 20:00 Weiyena – Ein Heimatfilm
20:00 Gespräch mit den Regiseurinnen Weina Zhao & Judith Benedikt

Virtual Theater Project
2021-07-13 16:00 - 22:00
China Topography 2021 is a virtual theater project conceptualized by Prof. Dr. Li Yinan, which includes The Peach Blossom Land, The River, Relics, The Escape, and News Broadcast. Prof. Sebastian Kaiser and students at the Central Academy of Theater will join her to present the performances on July 13. You may find more details from the program.

Anyone who is interested is warmly welcome! To register for participation, just send a message to chinatopo2021@outlook.com

Lecture: The Inter-State Order of Post-Tang East Asia
2021-07-15 15:00 - 17:00
Presenter: Nicolas Tackett
Time: July 15, 3-5pm CEST
Zoom link: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/93717896257
Meeting ID: 937 1789 6257

Abstract: Whereas a few decades ago, the pre-twentieth century “Chinese World Order” was typically treated as unchanging across the vast span of the imperial period, this talk is premised on the idea that inter-state systems evolve substantially over time. With this spirit in mind, I will propose the fall of the Tang as a pivotal moment that ushered in a very different East Asian World Order. I will consider both the ideological foundation of this state system and the pragmatic rules and protocols governing inter-state interactions.
Bio: Nicolas Tackett is Professor of History at U.C. Berkeley. He is the author of two books. The Destruction of the Medieval Chinese Aristocracy (2014) examines how a network of powerful families survived at the pinnacle of political power for centuries only to disappear into oblivion suddenly and completely at the turn of the 10th c. The Origins of the Chinese Nation (2017) argues that a national consciousness emerged in China in the eleventh century (i.e., much earlier than typically assumed), and explores how this new consciousness was a product of the diplomatic environment of 11th-c. Northeast Asia.

Lecture: Maritime Security and Strategic Implications in the South China Sea
2021-07-20 16:00 - 18:00
Tuesday, July 20, 4pm-6pm (CET)
Dr. Sarah Kirchberger
Leiterin der Abteilung Strategische Entwicklung in Asien-Pazifik am Institut für Sicherheitspolitik an der Universität Kiel
Zoom link: https://s.gwdg.de/JFiAoJ

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Virtual Exhibition: "Who's Talking? On Performing Objects and Their Voices
2021-07-31 10:00 - 2021-08-02 19:00
Ms. Shasha Li, guest speaker of the Ostasiatisches Seminar at the University of Göttingen, puppeteer, and stage director will join other five artists from African, Asian, and European countries for the exhibition and symposium “Who’s Talking? On Performing Objects and Their Voices ” from July 30th- August 1st, 2021. For all the details of the virtual events, please visit the webpage of KOLK 17 Figurentheater & Museum in Lübeck.
Visit the virtual exhibition ” “Who’s Talking? Sechs künstlerische Blicke auf die Sammlung KOLK 17” here.

Global China Conversations: China und Europa - Riskante wirtschaftliche Abhängigkeiten?
2021-08-24 11:00 - 12:00
Global China Conversations: China und Europa – Riskante wirtschaftliche Abhängigkeiten?

Sprecher: Prof. Gabriel Felbermayr (Präsident des IfW)
Jörg Wuttke (Präsident der EU-Handelskammer China)
Moderatorin: Dr. Vera Eichenauer, Ökonomin an der Konjunkturforschungsstelle KOF der ETH Zürich
Zeit: 11:00 -12:00 Uhr, 26.08.2021
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Thema
Die chinesische und die europäische Wirtschaft sind eng verflochten. Dies zeigt sich besonders während der Covid-19-Krise, als Lieferengpässe ebenso wie Chinas rasche wirtschaftliche Erholung Schlagzeilen machten. Die enge Verflechtung mit dem schwer einzuschätzenden Wirtschaftspartner China birgt Risiken. Die Spannungen nehmen zu, was sich auch an dem auf Eis gelegten Investitionsabkommen zwischen der EU und China zeigt. In der ersten Global China Conversation analysieren wir die sino-europäischen Wirtschaftsbeziehungen mit einem Fokus auf gegenseitigen Abhängigkeiten. Wir diskutieren politische Vorschläge für Maßnahmen und fragen, was das Konzept der ‘doppelten Zirkulation’ im chinesischen Fünfjahresplan und die europäische Außenpolitik der ‘strategischen Unabhängigkeit’ für die weitere Entwicklung der Wirtschaftsbeziehungen bedeutet.

Programm
Die Veranstaltung besteht aus Impulsvorträgen der Sprecher gefolgt von einer Diskussion und der Möglichkeit von direktem Austausch mit den Sprechern in digitalen Break-out Rooms.
Die Global China Conversation #1 wird auf Deutsch abgehalten.

Sprecher

© Kiel Institute / Michael Stefan

Prof. Gabriel Felbermayr, Ph.D.
Prof. Dr. Gabriel Felbermayer ist seit März 2019 Präsident des Instituts für Weltwirtschaft. Gleichzeitig ist er Inhaber der Professur für Volkswirtschaftslehre, insbesondere Wirtschaftspolitik, an der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. Gabriel Felbermayr hat verschiedene Rollen und Positionen inne. Die wichtigsten sind: Mitglied des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Energie; Mitherausgeber, European Economic Review; Assoziierter Herausgeber, Zeitschrift der European Economic Association.

Jörg Wuttke
Jörg Wuttke ist Chefrepräsentant eines großen deutschen Dax-Konzerns in China. Er ist zudem Präsident der EU-Handelskammer in China – ein Amt, das er bereits von 2007 bis 2010 sowie von 2014 bis 2017 besetzt hatte. Wuttke ist Mitglied des Beratergremiums des Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) in Berlin und lebt seit mehr als drei Jahrzehnten in Peking.

Moderation

Dr. Vera Eichenauer
Dr. Vera Eichenauer ist Ökonomin an der Konjunkturforschungsstelle KOF der ETH Zürich. Sie interessiert sich für Wirtschaftspolitik und Fragen der internationalen ökonomischen Governance. Sie forscht aktuell unter anderem zu Europas Umgang mit Chinas wirtschaftlicher Präsenz und Einfluss durch wirtschaftspolitische Massnahmen. Sie promovierte 2016 an der Universität Heidelberg in Volkswirtschaft und erhielt ihren Masterabschluss in Internationalen Beziehungen von der Sciences Po Paris.

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Lecture: Global Visions of Place and Belonging: Sojourners from China and the Arab World
2021-09-08 13:15 - 14:45
Presenter: Dr. Janice Jeong (Göttingen) & Dr. Mohammed Al-Sudairi (Hong Kong University)
Time: September 08, 13:15 – 14:45 CEST
Zoom link: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/97160954443?pwd=[REDACTED]

Abstract: The talks by Dr. Mohammed Al-Sudairi and Dr. Janice Hyeju Jeong will discuss sojourners who traversed between China and the Arab world at pivotal moments in the twentieth century, who interpreted the destinations of their travels as the center of their spiritual or revolutionary worlds. They will each position Maoist China and Mecca under pre-1970s Saudi rule as global sites that drew in visitors and writers from different parts of the non-western world, and inspired idealized visions on the connections between China and the Arab world in past and future. Besides outlining the little-known actors and sources, the speakers will try to highlight the tensions between the romanticized imaginaries and realities, and the projection of the writers‘ societal circumstances onto their conceptualizations.
The speakers:
Mohammed Turki Al-Sudairi is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hong Kong Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong. He is affiliated with the Asian Religious Connections research cluster and involved in the „The Infrastructures of Faith: Religious Mobilities on the Belt and the Road“ research project. He is also a Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Asian Studies Unit at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies. His research interests encompass Sino-Middle Eastern relations, Islamic and leftist connections between East Asia and the Arab World, and Chinese politics.
Janice Hyeju Jeong is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Göttingen, working as a part of the project ‘Conceptions of World Order and their Social Carrier Groups’ funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Her broad research interests include formations of Islamic diaspora networks between China and the Arabian Peninsula, inter-Asian connections, and history and anthropology.

Göttinger Sommerschule zum chinesischen Recht vom 20.-24.09.2021
2021-09-20 08:00 - 2021-09-24 17:00
Göttinger Sommerschule zum chinesischen Recht
Auch in diesem Jahr findet die Vortragsreihe „Göttinger Sommerschule zum chinesischen Recht“ des Deutsch-Chinesischen Instituts für Rechtswissenschaft der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen in der Woche vom 20.-24.09.2021 im digitalen Format statt. Die in Kooperation mit dem Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht Hamburg organisierte Veranstaltung richtet sich an Studierende, Doktoranden und Praktiker, die einen ersten Einblick in das chinesische Recht gewinnen oder bereits vorhandene Kenntnisse vertiefen möchten. Im Vordergrund steht dabei der fachliche Austausch über aktuelle Entwicklungen des chinesischen Rechts und die Rechtspraxis in China. Das Deutsch-Chinesische Institut freut sich über ein wachsendes internationales Publikum, sodass die Vortragsreihe auf Englisch stattfinden wird.

KURSINHALTE:
Hauptbestandteil der Sommerschule ist eine tägliche Basisvorlesung „Chinese Business Law“ von Herrn Professor Dr. Knut Benjamin Pißler, China-Referent am Max-Planck-Institut. Daneben referieren Wissenschaftler und Experten zu verschiedenen ausgewählten Themenbereichen des chinesischen Rechts. Das Institut freut sich in diesem Jahr unter anderem insbesondere über die Zusage von Professor Donald Clarke (The George Washington University Law School), Prof. Dr. Yuanshi Bu (Universität Freiburg) und Prof. Dr. Eva Pils (Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London).

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Global China Conversations #2 Chinas Konkurrenz für Europas Unternehmen: Fairer Wettbewerb oder unerlaubte Subventionierung?
2021-09-30 11:00 - 12:00
Chinas Konkurrenz für Europas Unternehmen: Fairer Wettbewerb oder unerlaubte Subventionierung?

Sprecher:
Jürgen Matthes, Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft (IW)
Prof. Dr. Dietmar Baetge, Technische Hochschule Wildau
Zeit: 30.09.2021, 11:00 – 12:00 CET
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Thema
Europas Unternehmen sehen sich einem zunehmenden Konkurrenzdruck aus China ausgesetzt. Galt das Land noch vor wenigen Jahren primär als schnell wachsender Absatzmarkt und günstiger Produktionsstandort, so sind chinesische Unternehmen heute bedeutende Wettbewerber im Ringen um weltweite Marktanteile. Doch was steckt hinter diesem Erfolg? Beruht er auf einem „fairen“ Wettbewerb oder in erster Linie auf wettbewerbsverzerrenden industriepolitischen Maßnahmen? In der zweiten Global China Conversation diskutieren wir neue datengestützte Forschungsergebnisse. Wir gehen außerdem der Frage nach, welche Rolle das chinesische Wettbewerbsrecht und die Staatsunternehmen bei der Errichtung von Handelsschranken spielen und welche rechtlichen Instrumente dagegen zur Verfügung stehen.
Programm
Die Veranstaltung besteht aus Impulsvorträgen der Sprecher, gefolgt von einer Diskussion.
Die Global China Conversation #2 wird auf Deutsch abgehalten.

Literatur
Die Impulsvorträge nehmen Bezug auf folgende Veröffentlichungen:

Matthes, Jürgen, Wettbewerbsverzerrungen durch China – Akademische Evidenz und Ergebnisse einer Befragung deutscher Unternehmen, IW-Report, Nr. 10/21, Köln
Matthes, Jürgen, Konkurrenzdruck durch China auf dem EU-Markt – Ein tiefer Blick in Außenhandelsstatistik und Industriebranchen, IW-Report, Nr. 30/21, Köln

Sprecher

© Uta Wagner

Jürgen Matthes
Jürgen 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.

Prof. Dr. Dietmar Baetge, Technische Hochschule Wildau
Dr. Dietmar Baetge ist Professor für Internationales Handelsrecht und Wirtschaftsprivatrecht an der Technischen Hochschule Wildau. Er war u.a. Referent am Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht in Hamburg und Partner einer deutsch-griechischen Anwaltskanzlei. Zu seinen Forschungsschwerpunkten gehören die Wechselwirkungen zwischen Wettbewerbs- und internationaler Handelspolitik.

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Yingming Theater #4: Shakespeare in Contemporary Performance: Beyond the Western Canon
2021-10-13 14:00 - 15:30
Shakespeare in Contemporary Performance: Beyond the Western Canon
Time: Wed. Oct. 13, 2021. 14:00-15:30 CET

Venue: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.u/j/93759369247?pwd=[REDACTED]
Zoom Meeting ID: 937 5936 9247
Language: English
Live Streaming: Invited Speakers: Prof. Dr. Octavian Saiu
Poster: Yumin Ao

Abstract
From the early sixties to the present, one thesis seems to have reigned over Shakespeare’s international reception. At least insofar as his theatre is concerned. More poignantly than any other critical or scholarly notion, Jan Kott’s sense of “Shakespeare, our contemporary” has captured the spirit of what it means to read Hamlet, King Lear or Macbeth in modern and postmodern times. However, after the publication of his seminal book, Kott would revisit his assertions and state that some of Shakespeare’s plays, characters, lines are more contemporary than the rest. What accounts for their special resonance? What makes them truly contemporary? Moreover, how is that “contemporariness” defined in geographic terms?
Focusing on a few key Shakespearean texts, and discussing some major Asian performances based on them, this presentation will explore the above questions from a non-Western perspective. It will demonstrate that the works of the late Yukio Ninagawa, as well as those of Wu Hsing-Kuo or Tang Shu Wing offer invaluable insights into Shakespeare’s contemporary relevance. Beyond the Western canon, above any form of “glocalization”, their performances affirm universal values within a powerful Eastern paradigm.
Bio
Professor Octavian Saiu is a scholar and professional theatre critic. He holds a PhD in Theatre Studies from National University of Theatre and Film (NUTF) in Romania, with a thesis about theatrical space, and another PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Otago in New Zealand, with a thesis about Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco. He completed his Post-Doc in Modern Literature at the University of Otago, and has been awarded his Habilitation in Theatre and Performing Arts. He teaches in the Postgraduate Programme of NUTF, the Doctoral School of Sibiu University and the Centre of Excellence in Visual Studies of the University of Bucharest. He was Visiting Fellow at the University of London, School of Advanced Study, and is Visiting Professor at universities in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Beijing and Lisbon. He has offered master classes at other universities in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, as well as the Grotowski Institute.
He has been actively involved, as Conference Chair and Invited Speaker, in several major theatre and academic events around the world, including the Theatre Olympics, Wuzhen Theatre Festival, as well as Edinburgh International Festival, where he was Chair of the Samuel Beckett Conference in 2013. Since 2004 he has been Chair of the Conferences of Sibiu International Theatre Festival.
He has published academic articles in several international journals, as well as twelve books on theatre. He received the Critics’ Award in 2010 and the Award of the Union of Theatre Artists (UNITER) in 2013. In 2020, on the National Day of Culture, the President of Romania awarded him the Order of Cultural Merit.

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Acknowledgement/鸣谢:
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China Platform: Taiwan Lecture Café Series 2021
2021-10-27 11:30 - 2021-12-01 13:00 | Online
This Taiwan Lecture Series 2021 is organized in the framework of the Taiwan Studies Programme in cooperation with the University of Groningen, Georg-August-Universität-Göttingen and the Ministry of Education, Taiwan.
Wednesday 27 October, 11:30 – 13:00
Liao Hsien-hao (National Taiwan University)
“Taiwan at the crossroads: Between Central Kingdom and Seafaring Pirates”
Wednesday 3 November, 11:30 – 13:00
Yeh Kuo-chün (National Taiwan University)
“Did China’s soft power seduction lure Taiwan’s youth? Preliminary evidence for employment and entrepreneurship”
Wednesday 10 November, 11:30 – 13:00
Lee Yu-Ting (National Taiwan University)
“Problems of East Asian Historical Narrative: Compared with Europe”
Wednesday 17 November, 11:30 – 13:00
Hwang Yih-Jye (The Hague University College)
“The Origin and Development of International Studies in Taiwan”
Wednesday 24 November, 11:30 – 13:00
Chen Yi-Ling (University of Wyoming)
“Governed by the Market: The Rise of Social Housing Movement and its Obstacles in Taiwan”
Wednesday 1 December, 11:30 – 13:00
Hsiung Ping-Chen (University of California, Irvine)
“Further Reflections on the Migrating Taste: Development of Taiwanese Food Culture in the Postwar Era”

Online registration: https://eventmanager.ugent.be/TaiwanLC

Global China Conversations #3 Making Chinese Foreign Aid Transparent – What is Hidden in Data and Policy Documents?
2021-10-28 13:00 - 14:00
Making Chinese Foreign Aid Transparent – What is Hidden in Data and Policy Documents?

Sprecher
Dr. Bradley Parks, AidData
Marina Rudyak, Heidelberg University
Moderator
Prof. Dr. Andreas Fuchs, University of Göttingen, IfW Kiel

Zeit: 28.10.2021, 13:00 -14:00 CET
Anmeldung: Anmeldeformular

Thema
Since 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.

Programm
Die Veranstaltung besteht aus Impulsvorträgen der Sprecher, gefolgt von einer Diskussion.
Die Global China Conversation #3 wird auf Englisch abgehalten.
Literatur
Malik, 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.
https://www.aiddata.org/publications/banking-on-the-belt-and-road

Sprecher

Dr. Bradley Parks, AidData
Dr. 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.

Marina Rudyak, Heidelberg University
Marina 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.

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Online-Lecture: Das Jahr 1943: Die Alliierten entscheiden über die Zukunft von Österreich und Taiwan
2021-11-02 17:00 - 19:00
02. Nov., 17:00 – 19:00
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Abstract:
Im Jahr 1943 fanden zwei Konferenzen statt, die über die Nachkriegssituation von Taiwan und Österreich entscheiden sollten: Vom 19. Oktober bis 1. November 1943 fand die Konferenz von Moskau statt, auf der durch die Außenminister der USA, der SU und Großbritanniens die Wiederherstellung des Staates Österreich beschlossen wurde. Es wurde festgestellt, dass Österreich „das erste freie Land [war], das der typischen Angriffspolitik Hitlers zum Opfer fallen sollte“, weshalb keine Kapitulation wie im Falle Deutschlands gefordert, eine „endgültige Abrechnung“ über den Anteil Österreichs an den Verbrechen des Nazi-Regimes jedoch angekündigt wurde.
Im Falle Taiwans wurde ein entsprechender, wenn auch inhaltlich vollkommen anderer Beschluss auf der Konferenz von Kairo gefällt, die vom 22. bis 26. November 1943 stattfand und an der Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill und Tschiang Kaishek teilnahmen. Die Deklaration von Kairo postuliert, dass nach der angestrebten Niederlage Japans Taiwan Teil der Republik China werden sollte.
Der Vortrag analysiert die beiden Beschlüsse und arbeitet die Gründe heraus, welche die Alliierten dazu bewogen haben, in einem Fall für die staatliche Selbständigkeit und in dem anderen für die Anbindung an Festland China zu optieren. Besonderes Augenmerk wird auf die Rolle der SU gelegt, auf deren Territorium die eine Konferenz stattfand und die auf der anderen Konferenz nicht anwesend war. Während der Beschluss in Moskau heute fast in Vergessenheit geraten ist, sorgt der Beschluss der Konferenz von Kairo in Ostasien für lebhafte Diskussionen.
Bio:
Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik ist Professorin a.D. der Sinologie. Ihre Forschung konzentriert sich auf das Schreiben der modernen und zeitgenössischen chinesischen Geschichte, die Geschichte Ostasiens und die Erinnerungspolitik in der VR China. Überdies publiziert sie zur chinesischen Politik

Online-Lecture: Potato vs. Sweet Potato in Making the Modern World: A Discussion of Oceanic and Plant History in Historiography
2021-11-02 18:00 - 20:00
Zoom
Meeting-ID: 938 7855 9419
Kenncode: [REDACTED]

Abstract:
Both oceanic history and plant history are recent developments in historiography. This talk will discuss how the two schools enhance the study of global history and reshape our views about the making of the modern world. As a continual effort to critique the nation-state focus in 19th century historiography, which began with the French Annales School in the early 20th century, historians in more recent decades have shifted attention from land to ocean and from people to plants, analyzing how the two played their parts in shaping worldwide historical development. Discussing these new attempts will help us see the inter-continental connections and transcend Eurocentrism in historical writing.
Bio:
Q. Edward Wang, Professor of History and Coordinator of Asian Studies Program at Rowan University and Changjiang Professor of History at Peking University, serves on the board of International Commission for the History and Theory of Historiography. His main publications include A Global History of Modern Historiography (2008, 2017); Turning Points in Historiography: A Cross-Cultural Perspective (2005); Marxist Historiographies: A Global Perspective (2017) and, most recently, Historiography: Critical Readings (2021).

Vortrag: Chinesische Entwicklungshilfe und ihre Konsequenzen
2021-11-03 17:00 - 18:00 | Oec 0.169, Platz d. Göttinger Sieben 3, Göttingen, Lower Saxony, 37073, Germany
Chinesische Entwicklungshilfe und ihre Konsequenzen
Prof. Dr. Andreas Fuchs
Ort: Oec 0.169
Zeit: 03.11.2021, 17:00 s.t.

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Online-Lecture: Late Qing Perceptions of Risk and Fortune: Plotting Careers in an Age of Anxiety
2021-11-09 18:15 - 20:15
Late Qing Perceptions of Risk and Fortune:
Plotting Careers in an Age of Anxiety
Elisabeth Kaske
Time: Nov 9, 06:15pm
Place: Zoom
Meeting-ID: 947 1083 3540
Kenncode: [REDACTED]

Abstract:
One aspect that strikes observers of nineteenth-century China is the apparent lack of panic in the face of foreign aggression among Qing officials. Max Weber, an avid reader of Peking Gazette translations and the English-language press of coastal China, identified the precarity of status and income—rather than Confucian conservatism—as the main impediment to reform. Weber’s analysis has been criticized as “Eurocentric,” but it matched the self-perception of many in China towards the end of the dynasty. Perhaps the most famous account of the official “precariat” is Li Boyuan’s Officialdom Unmasked (1903-1905) which was both a wildly popular novel and a bold political statement. This paper combines fictional careers and real-life biographies to show how status anxieties determined political choices, and elite politics was increasingly seen as the source of China’s decline. The desacralization of the scholar-official as the ruling social order paved the way for abolishing the civil service examinations and, finally, the revolution of 1911.
Bio:
Elisabeth Kaske has joined Leipzig University as professor of modern Chinese society and culture in April 2017, after studying and teaching in Berlin, Beijing, Heidelberg, Frankfurt, Boston, Vienna, Pittsburgh, Taipei, and Princeton. As a historian of late Qing and early Republican China she is interested in China’s rugged path towards modernization. Her studies include the history of German-Chinese military exchange and technology transfer, the emergence of new concepts of language and education, the sale of rank and public office by the late imperial state, and the fiscal regime of the Qing dynasty. After having long focused on bureaucratic elites, she has recently become fascinated with how new professional elites, particularly engineers, imagined the nation and their own role in it.
Zoom
Meeting-ID: 947 1083 3540
Kenncode: [REDACTED]

Lecture: Peng Guoxiang: The Understanding and Practice of "Five Religions" in Early 20th Century China. The Works and Views of Feng Bingnan (1888-1956)
2021-11-12 12:00 - 14:00
The Understanding and Practice of “Five Religions” in Early 20th Century China. The Works and Views of Feng Bingnan (1888-1956)
Peng Guoxiang
Zhejiang University

Time: Nov 12, 2021 12:00 PM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
For registration, please use this zoom link.
Abstract:
The 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.

PENG 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.
His 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.

This lecture is part of the lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China.

Organizers:

Prof. Dr. Axel Schneider, University of Göttingen
Prof. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich, University of Hamburg

CeMEAS – Centre for Modern East Asian Studies & Department of East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen

Asia-Africa- Institute, Department for Chinese Language and Culture, University of Hamburg

Department of East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen

Sponsor:

Academic Confucius Institute, University of Göttingen
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Lecture: The Amorphousness of Post-War and Post-Colonial South Korea and its Regional Contexts
2021-11-16 18:00 - 19:30
The Amorphousness of Post-War and Post-Colonial South Korea and its Regional Contexts
Prof. Im Chong Myong (Chonnam National University)
Tuesday, November 16, 18.15 (online)
Abstract: The talk deals with the effects of World War Two on East Asia and Korea, and in this context it deals with issues like the re-construction of Western modernism and the inauguration of the nation-states system in the region. The talk also discusses the amorphousness of post-colonial South Korea where, in many respects, modern ideas such as democracy and nationalism could not establish their own discursive hegemony.
Presenter: Prof. Im Chong Myong received his doctoral degree from the University of Chicago in 2004. He subsequently took the position of professor at History Department of Chonnam National University, South Korea. From 2012 to 2013, he spent a year as a Fulbright scholar at the University of California at Los Angeles. As an expert of modern Korean history, his fields of research include the subjectification of South Koreans in post-colonial/World War II contexts and the contemporary configurations of the global Cold-War dynamics.

Link: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/99020196657?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting-ID: 990 2019 6657
Kenncode: [REDACTED]

Yingming Theater #5: The Poetic Quest and its Expression in Dramatic Writing
2021-11-17 14:00 - 16:30
The Poetic Quest and its Expression in Dramatic Writing 戏剧创作中的诗性追求及其表达
Time: Wed. Nov. 17, 2021. 2:00 PM CET 2021年11月17日周三，欧洲中部时间下午2点

Venue: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/97981532103?pwd=[REDACTED]
Zoom Meeting ID: 979 8153 2103
Language: Chinese 中文
Live Streaming:
Invited Speakers: Dr. ZHONG Haiqing 钟海清博士
Poster: Zhang Tong 张桐

Lecture Content 讲座内容

Review of theoretical perspectives on “poetic drama” in China and abroad 回顾中外“诗剧”的理论观点
Exploring poetic expression in contemporary theatre 探讨现当代戏剧中的诗性表达
From fragments to synthesis – Poetic expression in the stages of my dramatic writing 从片断到整体——诗性表达在本人戏剧创作的几个阶段
Questions and Discussion 讨论与交流

Short Bio 钟海清博士简介
A playwright of the National Theatre of China, ZHONG Haiqing graduated from the Shanghai Theatre Academy and the Central Academy of Drama with a PhD in Fine Arts, and is an active creator in the current stage art scene. His representative works include The Bells of Jingyang, The White-Skeleton Demon Subdues the Monkey King Three Times, Time of Sorrow, Dou Zhi Er, The White Snake and Kill the Autumn Dream. He has published nearly twenty professional papers in journals such as Theatre Art, Playwright, New Play, and Shanghai Drama. He has been invited to participate in domestic and international academic seminars.
钟海清，中国国家话剧院编剧，先后毕业于上海戏剧学院与中央戏剧学院，艺术学博士，活跃于当下舞台艺术界的创作者。代表作品包括《景阳钟声》、《白骨精三打孙悟空》、《悲情时光》、《豆汁儿》、《白蛇》、《杀死秋天的梦》等。在《戏剧艺术》、《剧作家》、《新剧本》、《上海戏剧》等期刊上发表专业论文近二十篇。累计受邀参加国内及国际学术研讨会十余次。

Organizer/主办:

Acknowledgement/鸣谢:
哥廷根大学现代东亚研究中心

哥廷根大学学术孔子学院

Chinese Theater: Eco-environmental Performance in and outside Contemporary Chinese Theater
2021-11-24 13:00 - 14:30
Speaker: DING Liu
Time: Wed. Nov. 24, 2021. 1:00-2:30 PM CET
Venue: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/94944402503
Meeting ID: 949 4440 2503
Organizer: Yingming Theater

Global China Conversations #4 „Innovation Made in China“ – How effective is Beijing's innovation policy?
2021-11-25 11:00 - 12:00
„Innovation Made in China“ – How effective is Beijing’s innovation policy?

Speaker
Dr. Philipp Böing, ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research
Wolfgang Krieger, Federation of German Industries (BDI e.V.)
Time: 25.11.2021, 11.00 – 12:00
Please register here.
Topic
With 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?
In 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.
Program
The 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.
Global China Conversation #4 will take place in German.

Literature
The impulse lectures refer to the following publications:
ZEW Discussion Paper: Misappropriation of R&D Subsidies: Estimating Treatment Effects With One-Sided Non-compliance
ZEW Expert Brief: A New China Shock? The Untold Story of China’s R&D Subsidies

Speakers

© Philipp Böing

Dr. Philipp Böing
Dr. 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.

© Wolfgang Krieger

Wolfgang Krieger
Wolfgang 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.

Moderation

© Felix Lee

Felix Lee
Felix 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.

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Lecture: Yellow Peril with a Dash of Green?: Global Fantasies on an Islamized China at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
2021-11-30 18:15 - 19:00
Yellow Peril with a Dash of Green?: Global Fantasies on an Islamized China at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Dr. Mohammed Al-Sudairi (Hong Kong University)
Tuesday, November 30, 18.15 (online)

Presenter: Mohammed Al-Sudairi is a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Hong Kong Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences and is a Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Asian Studies Unit at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies. He obtained his PhD in Comparative Politics from the University of Hong Kong, his master’s degree in International Relations from the Peking University and in International History from the London School of Economics (joint program), and his undergraduate degree in International Politics from the Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He is proficient in Arabic, English, and Chinese. His research interests encompass Sino-Middle Eastern relations, Islamic and leftist connections between East Asia and the Arab World, and Chinese politics.

Link: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/skype/93990758044

Meeting-ID: 939 9075 8044

Code: 957008

Organizers:

Department of East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen

CeMEAS – Centre for Modern East Asian Studies & Department of East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen

Lecture: Leigh Jenco: The Ming-Qing Transition as a Philosophical Problem
2021-12-03 16:00 - 18:00
The Ming-Qing Transition as a Philosophical Problem
Leigh Jenco
Professor of Political Theory, London School of Economics, Department of Government

Dec 3, 2021 04:00 PM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
For registration, please use this zoom link.
Abstract:
The 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.

This lecture is part of the lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China.

Organizers:

Prof. Dr. Axel Schneider, University of Göttingen
Prof. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich, University of Hamburg

CeMEAS – Centre for Modern East Asian Studies & Department of East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen

Asia-Africa- Institute, Department for Chinese Language and Culture, University of Hamburg

Department of East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen

Sponsor:

Academic Confucius Institute, University of Göttingen
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Book presentation: “Borderland Infrastructures: Trade, Development, and Control in Western China”
2021-12-07 18:15 - 19:00
Borderland Infrastructures: Trade, Development, and Control in Western China
Alessandro Rippa (Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

Tuesday, December 7, 18:15
https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/96044733388?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID 960 4473 3388
Passcode [REDACTED]

ABSTRACT: Across the Chinese borderlands, investments in large-scale transnational infrastructure such as roads and special economic zones have increased exponentially over the past two decades. Based on long-term ethnographic research, Borderland Infrastructures addresses a major contradiction at the heart of this fast-paced development: small-scale traders have lost their historic strategic advantages under the growth of massive Chinese state investment and are now struggling to keep their businesses afloat. Concurrently, local ethnic minorities have become the target of radical resettlement projects, securitization, and tourism initiatives, and have in many cases grown increasingly dependent on state subsidies. At the juncture of anthropological explorations of the state, border studies, and research on transnational trade and infrastructure development, Borderland Infrastructures provides new analytical tools to understand how state power is experienced, mediated, and enacted in Xinjiang and Yunnan.

More information and a link to the PDF of the book which is fully Open Access:
https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463725606/borderland-infrastructures

SHORT BIO: Alessandro is a social anthropologist interested in issues surrounding infrastructure, borders, globalisation, conservation and the environment, particularly in the contexts of the China-Myanmar borderlands and the Italian Alps. He is the author of Borderland Infrastructures: Trade, Development, and Control in Western China (Amsterdam University Press, 2020) and of numerous articles in journals such as Social Anthropology, The China Journal, Political Geography, and Ethnos. Alessandro obtained his PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen in 2015, and held postdoctoral positions at LMU Munich and at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is currently based at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich, where he leads the 5-year project Environing Infrastructure (www.environing.asia) funded by a “freigeist” fellowship from the Volkswagen Foundation. Alessandro is currently on leave from his position as Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at Tallinn University.

“Contemporary Theater Arts” Seminar Series No. 7: Illustrating the Stage of Hong Kong for Audiences of the Present and the Future
2021-12-08 13:00 - 14:30
My Creative Journey as a Curator of the Exhibition “A Snap beyond Borders”
Speaker: Chan Kwok Wai Bernice
Time: Dec. 8th, Wednesday, 1:00 PM-2:30 PM CET
Language: English
Organizer: Yingming Theater

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Zoom Meeting

Meeting ID: 964 2065 8426
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Chan Kwok Wai Bernice is currently the General Manager of the International Association of Theatre Critics (Hong Kong), and an Examiner for the Hong Kong Arts Development Council (Drama Committee). She is also a Panel Member of the Hong Kong Drama Awards, the Hong Kong Theatre Libre, and the IATC(HK) Critics Awards, as well as an Executive Committee Member of the International Association of Libraries, Museums, Archives and Documentation Centres of the Performing Arts (SIBMAS).
She received the Hong Kong Arts Development Council-University of Leeds-Chevening Scholarships in 2005 and obtained her Master of Arts in Theatre Studies from the University of Leeds (UK). She was also an Art Form Panel Member (Festivals) of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (2011–2016), an Advisory Committee Member of School of Drama, the Hong Kong of Academy for Performing Arts (2017–2018), as well as a guest host of Artscritique (2007–2018)and a Radio and Television Hong Kong radio programme. Chan has curated and edited over 50 publishing projects about performing arts. Her recent editorial projects have included Ten Years of A City: Selected Hong Kong Plays (2003–2012), which was awarded the 11th Hong Kong Book Prize in 2018, and “A Snap beyond Borders: An Online Archive and Education Project of Hong Kong Theatre and Performance Photography”.

Online Drama Reading: 活着 - To Live
2021-12-11 13:00 - 14:00
Time: Dec. 11, Sat. 1: 00 PM CET

Zoom: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/97211990533
Meeting ID: 972 1199 0533
Language: Chinese
Zoom QR:

Play Script: To Live or Huozhe in Chinese, a play by Zhang Xian adapted from Yu Hua’s novel of the same name. It describes the struggles endured by the son of a wealthy land-owner, Fugui, in China from the 1940s to the 1970s

Workshop: Africa in Shifting Global Contexts: The Roles of China and the EU
2021-12-14 08:15 - 2021-12-15 13:30
Workshop Program

Tuesday, December 14, 2021
08:15-08:30 GMT: Welcome
Join Zoom Meeting: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/85234128312
Meeting ID: 852 3412 8312
Dr. Mengshu Zhan (Göttingen University, Germany)
Prof. Dr. Dominic Sachsenmaier (Göttingen University, Germany)

08:30-10:00 GMT: Chinese and European Soft Power in Africa: Confrontational Pathways?
Chair: Prof. Dominic Sachsenmaier (Göttingen University, Germany)
Prof. David Mills (Oxford University), Dr Natasha Robinson (Oxford University) & Dr Hodan Abdi (Zheijang Normal University and City University of Mogadishu)
“Feeling for the Stones:” Learning to Navigate Knowledge Diplomacy through the China-Africa Think Tanks Forum
Prof. He Wenping (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China)
China’s Soft Power in Africa: Strengths and Weaknesses
Dr. Bhaso Ndzendze (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)
China and the EU in Africa: A Decade of Soft Power Shifts in Review

13:00-14:30 GMT: Africa in Shifting Global Contexts: Perspectives from Africa
Zoom Meeting: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/83632982167
Meeting ID: 836 3298 2167
Chair: Dr. Mengshu Zhan (Göttingen University, Germany)
Dr. Martyn Davies (South African Deloitte, South Africa)
The New Political Economy of Africa Emerging From the Pandemic
Prof. Malte Brosig (Wits University, South Africa)
What Role for Africa in a Changing Global Order? Actorness, Influence and Marginalization.
Dr. Philani Mthembu (Institute for Global Dialogue, Pretoria, South Africa)
Africa and the World: Navigating Shifting Geopolitics

Wednesday, December 15th, 2021

08:30-10:00 GMT: The Belt and Road Initiative in Africa: Problems and Opportunities
Zoom Meeting: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/83875022790
Meeting ID: 838 7502 2790
Chair: Dr. Janice Jeong (Göttingen University, Germany)
Prof. Christoph Trebesch (Kiel Institut für Weltwirtschaft, Kiel, Germany)
China’s Overseas Lending
Prof. Liu Haifang (Peking University, China)
One Belt One Road + One Continent: What’s New for China-African Cooperation?
Dr. David Monyae (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)
The African Dimension of the Belt and Road Initiative in the Advancement of the African Agenda 2063

12:00-13:30 GTM, African Relations with China and the EU and Their Shifting Global Contexts
Zoom Meeting: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/89999386888
Meeting ID: 899 9938 6888
Chair: Dr. John Njenga Karugia (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)
Prof. Andreas Fuchs (Göttingen University, Germany)
Chinese Development Aid: Distribution, Consequences, and Comparison with the EU
Prof. Zeng Jinghan (Lancaster University, the UK)
Domestic Dynamics of China’s Rise and Foreign Policy?
Abdoulaye Ibrahim (UNESCO, Paris, France)
Prospective of Africa: Future of Africa and Tripartite Cooperation

Responsible for workshop conceptualization and organization: Dr. Mengshu Zhan (Fellow, Göttingen University). Contact: mengshu.zhan[at]uni-goettingen.de

Short Biographies of Participants
Dr. Hodan Abdi
Dr Hodan Abdi is an associate research fellow at the Institute of African Studies at Zhejiang Normal University. She is also currently an adjunct professor at City University of Mogadishu. Dr Abdi’s research focuses on China-Africa media relations and the Belt and Road Initiative.
Prof. Malte Brosig
Malte Brosig is Professor of International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He joined the Department of International Relations in 2009 after he received his PhD from the Centre of European and International Relations Studies at the University of Portsmouth.
Dr. Martyn Davies
Dr Martyn Davies is the Managing Director of Emerging Markets & Africa at Deloitte as well as the Dean of Alchemy by Deloitte, the firm’s School of Leadership. He leads Deloitte Africa’s CEO Programme and is a member of the Deloitte global economists team.
Prof. Andreas Fuchs
Prof. Andreas Fuchs is Professor of Development Economics and 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.
Prof. He Wenping
Prof. He Wenping is Professor at the Institute of West-Asian and African Studies (IWAAS), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). He is specializing on Africa’s relations with China and major western powers, African democratic transition, South-South cooperation and the Middle East international relations.
Prof. Liu Haifang
Prof. Liu Haifang is an Associate Professor in School of International Studies, Peking University. She serves as Deputy Director & Secretary General, the Centre for African Studies, Peking University and the Vice-Secretary General of the Chinese Society of African Historical Studies as well.
Abdoulaye Ibrahim
Mr. IBRAHIM Abdoulaye is the Head of Contextual Analysis and Foresight Unit at UNESCO, he’s an Engineer Graduate in Science. IBRAHIM Abdoulaye, as part of the implementation of UNESCO’s Global Priority Africa, he is the focal point for Natural Sciences and Development and coordinates the organization of sub-regional forums in Africa on artificial intelligence since 2018.
Dr. Janice Jeong
Dr. Janice Hyeju Jeong joined the Joint Center of Advanced Studies “Worldmaking” and the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Göttingen in 2021. She has with broad research interests in formations of Islamic networks between China and the Arabian Peninsula, inter-Asian connections, and history and anthropology. She pursued her doctorate degree in History at Duke University, where she completed a thesis entitled “Between Shanghai and Mecca: Diaspora and Diplomacy of Chinese Muslims in the Twentieth Century.”
Dr. John Njenga Karugia
Dr. John Njenga Karugia is a reseacher and lecturer based at the Institute for Asian and African Studies at Humboldt University Berlin within the research project – Local perspectives on transregional (dis-)entanglements. His current research focuses on memory politics and ethics and transregional politics of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). He further researches on Afrasian interactions, Indian Ocean, European Union’s Global Gateway and China-Africa relations.

Prof. David Mills
Prof. David Mills is an Associate Professor at the Department of Education at the University of Oxford, and Deputy Director of the Oxford Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE). Trained in anthropology, his research interests include African research and publishing cultures.
Dr. David Monyae
Dr David Monyae is Centre Director – Centre for China Africa Studies University of Johannesburg and Co-Director of the UJCI. An international relations and foreign policy expert, he holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Witwatersrand. He previously served as Section Manager: International Relations Policy Analysis at the South African Parliament, providing strategic management, parliamentary foreign policy formulation, and monitoring and analysis services.
Dr. Philani Mthembu
Philani Mthembu is the Executive Director at Institute for Global Dialogue. Prior to joining the Institute for Global Dialogue associated with Unisa, Philani Mthembu pursued a joint doctoral programme (Dr. rer. pol.) with the Graduate School of Global Politics, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), and the School of International Studies at Renmin University, Beijing (China); he conducted his field research at the latter.
Dr. Bhaso Ndzendze
Dr Ndzendze is a Senior Lecturer and Head of Department in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Johannesburg. His research is centered on Africa’s international relations, with a particular focus on the political economy of its trade.
Dr. Natasha Robinson
Dr Natasha Robinson is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Education at the University of Oxford. Natasha is interested in higher education in Africa, and its potential to ‘decolonize’ global knowledge production.
Prof. Dominic Sachsenmaier
Dominic Sachsenmaier is professor of “Modern China with a Special Emphasis on Global Historical Perspectives” and chair of the Department of East Asian Studies at Göttingen University/Germany. Before, he held faculty positions at Jacobs University, Duke University as well as the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dominic Sachsenmaier is an elected member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and he is also one of the three editors of the book series „Columbia Studies in International and Global History.”
Prof. Christoph Trebesch
Prof. Dr. Christoph Trebesch is Professor of Macroeconomics (tenured) in Kiel University and Head of Research Area “International Finance and Global Governance” in Kiel Institute Since April 2017. His main research interests focus on Sovereign Debt and Default, International Capital Flows, Financial Stability and Financial Crises, Political Economy and International Financial Institutions.
Prof. Jinghan Zeng
Jinghan Zeng is Professor of China and International Studies at Lancaster University. He is also the Director of Lancaster University Confucius Institute. Previously he was a Senior Lecturer of International Relations and Director of Centre for Politics in Africa, Asia and the Middle East (AAME) at Royal Holloway, University of London. Professor Zeng’s research lies in the field of China’s domestic and international politics.
Dr. Mengshu Zhan
In 2021, Mengshu Zhan is currently a research fellow at the Joint Center for Advanced Studies “Worldmaking.” She received her doctoral degree from the Center for Global Study at Bonn University, and her dissertation focused on perceptions of China in the eyes of South African elites. In 2019, she worked at the Centre of Africa-China Studies in Johannesburg University, South Africa. Mengshu Zhan received a Master of Arts in International Business and Diplomacy from University of East Anglia in the UK in 2014.

Organizer:

Joint Center for Advanced Studies “Worldmaking from a Global Perspective: A Dialogue with China”

Global China Conversations #5 Reshaping Global Industrial Chains: Options for China
2021-12-16 11:00 - 12:00
Reshaping Global Industrial Chains: Options for China

Speaker
Dr Qiyuan Xu, Institute of World Economics and Politics (IWEP) at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)
Prof. Dr. Rolf J. Langhammer, Former Vice-President, Kiel Institute for the World Economy
Time: 16.12.2021, 11.00 – 12:00
Please register here.
Topic
The 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?
Program
The event consists of different impulse lectures followed by a discussion.
The Global China Conversation #5 will be held in English.

Literature
The impulse lectures refer to the following publications:
CASS-IWEP & CF40 Forum Report (2021), Reshaping Global Industrial Chinas: Options for China: Executive Summary (in Chinese)
Seric, A., Görg, H., Liu, W.-H., and Windisch, M. (2021), Risk, Resilience, and Recalibration in Global Value Chains, VOXEU
Felbermayr, G., Gans, S., Mahlkow, H., and Sandkamp, A. (2021), Decoupling Europe, Kiel Policy Brief No. 153
Görg, 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

Speaker

© Qiyuan Xu

Dr Qiyuan Xu
Dr 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.

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Prof. Dr. Rolf J. Langhammer
Prof. 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.

Moderator

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Dr Wan-Hsin Liu
Dr 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.

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Lecture: Peter Zarrow: The Utopian Impulse and Chinese Political Modernity
2021-12-17 16:00 - 18:00
The Utopian Impulse and Chinese Political Modernity
Peter Zarrow
Department of History, University of Connecticut, Hartford, USA

Time: Dec 17, 2021 04:00 PM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
For registration, please use this zoom link.

This 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.

This lecture is part of the lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China.

Organizers:

Prof. Dr. Axel Schneider, University of Göttingen
Prof. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich, University of Hamburg

CeMEAS – Centre for Modern East Asian Studies & Department of East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen

Asia-Africa- Institute, Department for Chinese Language and Culture, University of Hamburg

Department of East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen

Sponsor:

Academic Confucius Institute, University of Göttingen
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Lecture: Play and Performance of Hometown: A Talk on College Theater Production
2022-01-12 13:00 - 14:30
Play and Performance of Hometown: A Talk on College Theater Production
Speaker: Assoc. Prof. Dr. GAO Ziwen

Time: Jan. 12, Wednesday, 1:00 PM-2:30 PM CET, Beijing Time 8:00 PM-9:30 PM
Zoom Meeting: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/96138078236Meeting ID: 96138078236
Language: Chinese with English interpretation
Poster: Zhang Tong / Yumin Ao
More information under: https://yingmingtheater.com/seminar-series-no-8/

讲题:《故乡》的编剧与制作——兼谈校园戏剧创作
嘉宾: 高子文（博士）副教授
时间: 1月12日（周三）欧洲中部时间 下午13:00时 北京时间 晚间20:00时
地点：https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/96138078236
会议号：96138078236
语言：中文配英文翻译
海报：张桐 / 敖玉敏

Lecture Content 讲座内容

To introduce the production background of Hometown 介绍舞台剧《故乡》的剧本创作背景
To describe the production process and market promotion 描绘《故乡》的制作流程和市场推广
To discuss the advantage and challenges for college theater productions 讨论校园戏剧创作的优势和面临的困境

Short Bio 个人简介
Gao Ziwen: associate professor at Nanjing University, head of the Department of Theater, Film, and TV Arts, and deputy dean of the School of Liberal Arts. He received a bachelor’s degree in Chinese Language and Literature and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Theater and Traditional Chinese Drama Studies from Nanjing University. In 2011, he was a visiting scholar at Columbia University. In 2013, he participated in the artist-in-residence program in Austria. He currently acts as the executive editor of Stage and Screen Review. In 2019, he was awarded the Fund for Outstanding Young Scholars in Social Sciences in Jiangsu province. He was selected by the Jiangsu Province “Qinglan Initiative” as one of the young and mid-aged academic leaders in 2021. His research interests include theatrical theories and theater criticism. He has completed, as Principle Investigator, several research projects in social sciences at national and provincial levels. He was granted the Young Teacher Award of the Fok Yingdong Education Foundation. He wrote a monograph Wenming de nizi: Meiguo xiandai xiju de zhongguo xushu and translated American Avant–Garde Theatre: A History into Chinese. He has published over 30 papers which can be seen in Literature and Art Studies, The Journal of National Taiwan Normal University, and Theater Arts, etc. He also authored stage plays, including Day and Night Here, Pollution and Purification, and Hometown.
高子文：南京大学文学院副教授，文学院戏剧影视艺术系主任，文学院副院长。南京大学汉语言文学本科，戏剧戏曲学硕士、博士。2011年哥伦比亚大学访问学者。2013年参加奥地利驻地艺术家项目。现任《戏剧与影视评论》执行主编。2019年入选江苏省社科优青。2021年入选江苏省“青蓝工程”中青年学术带头人。主要研究领域为戏剧理论、戏剧批评。主持完成国家社科项目、江苏省社科项目多项，获霍英东青年教师基金。出版有个人专著《文明的逆子们：美国现代戏剧的中国叙事》，译著《美国先锋戏剧：一种历史》。在《文艺研究》《台大中文学报》《戏剧艺术》等刊物发表论文30余篇。创作有舞台剧剧本《这里的白天和夜晚》《污染和净化》《故乡》。
Event Information 活动介绍
We are honored to invite Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gao Ziwen of the Department of Theater, Film, and TV Arts of Nanjing University as our first guest speaker for the “Contemporary Theater Art” Seminar Series in the Year 2022. He will deliver a talk on “Play and Performance of Hometown: College Theater Production.”
Hometown is a three-act comedy written by Dr. Gao. The author demonstrates his respect for Lu Xun to mark the 100th anniversary of Lu’s publication of the novelette of the same name. The play tells the social life in rural China while experiencing dramatic changes. It demonstrates snobbish or friendly relationships in the countryside as well. It depicts the mental distress of peasants in the hometown and educated young people who have made their exodus to cities. It presents the tension between people’s “being adaptable” and “being rigid.” The whole thrust of the drama is full of humor and irony. Meanwhile, it makes the audiences reflect on China’s rural economic and social development.
Their department is housed in the Faculty of Literature. It offers one of the most influential and leading undergraduate and graduate programs in drama or theater studies at the C9 League universities in China. They produced the historical comedy President’s Invitation in 2012. The director was Prof. Lü Xiaoping, and the play was authored by Lü’s student Wen Fangyi whom The Journal of Ying Ming Theater (Vol. 7) interviewed. The cast consisted of the students and teachers from Communication University of China (Nanjing) and the MFA students from Nanjing University. This drama has grossed ¥10 million at the box office. It went on tour in North America in 2013. The New York Times (Chinese Edition) published an analytical article on the reasons for the success of this production and the phenomenon of returning to dramatic texts in the current Chinese theater landscape.
This event is co-organized by the Center for Modern East Asian Studies of the University of Göttingen and the Department of Theater, Film, and TV Arts of Nanjing University. Further detailed information concerning the time and the venue can be found on the poster.
“当代剧场艺术”讲座系列很荣幸地邀请到了南京大学戏剧影视文学系的高子文教授。他将为大家带来该系列2022新年第一讲，题目是“《故乡》的编剧与制作：兼谈校园戏剧创作”。
《故乡》是高子文副教授担任编剧创作的三幕喜剧，本剧为纪念鲁迅先生的短篇小说《故乡》发表100周年而做。该剧讲述了山乡巨变时代下中国农村的生活面貌与人情世故，描写了故乡农民和从故乡出走的青年知识分子的精神苦闷。戏剧冲突在人的“改变”与“固守”之间展开，语言幽默诙谐，同时又不失对中国乡土社会重建以及现代农村经济发展的深刻反省。
南京大学文学院下设的戏剧影视文学系提供戏剧专业教育，是“中国九校联盟”中最具影响力和最前沿的本科及研究生项目之一。2012年，南大推出了以校史为题材的喜剧《蒋公的面子》，首演反响强烈，随即开启全国巡演，目前票房已超千万。该剧由时任戏剧影视文学系系主任的吕效平教授担任导演，编剧温方伊是南京大学戏文专业本科三年级学生（哥廷根大学《嘤鸣戏剧》曾对作者进行了采访，见第7期），演员由中国传媒大学南广学院表演专业的师生和南京大学戏剧专业硕士担任。2013年，该剧进入北美，在旧金山、洛杉矶、达拉斯、休斯顿、波士顿、华盛顿、纽约七个城市为华人观众演出10场。《纽约时报》（中文版）曾刊载专题文章，分析了该剧在海内外取得成功的原因，并讨论了当下戏剧创作回归文本的现象。
本次活动由哥廷根大学东亚系与南京大学戏剧影视文学系联合主办，活动详情请见海报。

Organizer / 主办:
哥廷根大学现代东亚研究中心

南京大学戏剧影视文学系

Partner / 协办:
哥廷根大学嘤鸣戏剧社

哥廷根大学学术孔子学院

哥廷根中国学生学者联合会
