Online-Lecture: Late Qing Perceptions of Risk and Fortune: Plotting Careers in an Age of Anxiety
2021-11-09 18:15 - 20:15 (Europe/Berlin)
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

© Christina Kloodt / Kiel Institute

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

Meet Our Authors Lecture Series: Chinese Studies under the Eyes of the Communist Party?
2022-01-19 18:00
Chinese Studies under the Eyes of the Communist Party?
Self-censorship, Embedded Research and Ways to Discuss our Positionalities

This lecture is part of the lecture series “TALK TO OUR AUTHORS“, organised by the Journal of the European Association of Chinese Studies

Authors:
Olga Lomová, Charles University, Prague, Czechia
Andreas Fulda, University of Nottingham, UK

Introduced and moderated by:
Sascha Klotzbücher, University of Göttingen, Germany/University of Vienna, Austria

Join the discussion on Zoom:
Meeting ID: 962 4124 8069
Passcode: [REDACTED]
https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/96241248069?pwd=[REDACTED]

Check out the recent publications:
Fulda, A. (2021). The Chinese Communist Party’s Hybrid Interference and Germany’s Increasingly Contentious China Debate (2018-21) 中共對學術“長臂管轄”，德國起論爭日益升溫. The Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies, 2, 205–234. https://doi.org/10.25365/jeacs.2021.2.205-234

Lomová, O. (2021). Jaroslav Průšek (1906–1980): A Man of His Time and Place. 生逢其時, 身歷其境：記漢學家雅羅斯拉夫·普實克 (1906-1980).The Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies, 2, 169–196. https://doi.org/10.25365/jeacs.2021.2.169-196

Klotzbücher, S., Kraushaar, F., Lycas, A., & Vampelj Suhadolnik, N. (2020). Censorship and Self-censorship in Chinese Contexts. The Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies, 1, 9–18. https://doi.org/10.25365/jeacs.2020.1.9-18

Link to the recent issue:
https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/jeacs/issue/view/546

Organizers:
Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies
Centre for Modern East Asian Studies

Lecture: Federico Brusadelli: Self-government (zizhi) in China from the late Qing to the Republic: a contested concept in the search for political modernity
2022-01-28 12:00 - 14:00
Self-government (zizhi) in China from the late Qing to the Republic: a contested concept in the search for political modernity
Federico Brusadelli
University of Naples “L’Orientale”

Jan 28, 2022 12:00 PM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
For registration, please use this zoom link.
Abstract
This talk will look at how the concept of zizhi 自治 (self-government) was (re) articulated in late imperial and early republican China (1898-1928), either to strengthen and “modernize” the Manchu Empire or to build federal/republican counternarratives to the traditional system. From the late Qing official Huang Zunxian 黄遵宪 (who praised the Japanese system of provincial governance as pivotal in the Meiji State-building process) to the Republican governor of Guangdong Cheng Jionming 陈炯明 and his Jeffersonian inspiration of a bottom-up reconstruction of China in the 1920s – including the “provincial patriots” of the 1910s -, prominent individuals and organized networks or movements will be observed in their attempts at redefining the relationship between the “State” and the “local”.
A survey of how the same concept of “local self-government” was variously translated, adapted, and circulated through the use of multiple historical or “foreign” references (in the methodological framework of Begriffsgeschichte), will reveal contrasting, and often competing, political blueprints for the construction of a (differently conceived) “modern” China.

Federico Brusadelli is Lecturer in Chinese History and International History of East Asia at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”, where he completed his PhD in 2016 with a dissertation on the Chinese philosopher Kang Youwei.
From 2017 to 2020 he was Researcher in Sinology at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany). In 2020/2021 he was Visiting Fellow at the European Institute for Chinese Studies in Paris. His current research project adopts a “conceptual history” approach to the study of Chinese federalist movements in the late-imperial and republican periods.

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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Global China Conversations #6 40 Years of Poverty Reduction in China: What are the Challenges?
2022-02-03 15:00 - 16:00
40 Years of Poverty Reduction in China: What are the Challenges?

Speaker
Branko Milanovic, Senior Scholar, Stone Center on Socio-economic Inequality at the City University of New York
Martin Raiser, Country Director for China and Mongolia and Director for Korea, World Bank
Time: 03.02.2021, 15.00 – 16:00
Please register here.

Topic
China has achieved remarkable success in reducing absolute poverty over the last four decades. The size and speed of the decrease are without precedent. Nevertheless, while real incomes were rising, real inequality was rising too. How can China counter rising inequality? Is “common prosperity” as propagated by President Xi achievable? What (global) economic risks arise from China’s political system, which, it is argued, makes the country more vulnerable to corruption and could also make it more susceptible to social unrest during recessions? In our sixth Global China Conversation, we will look back at the drivers behind 40 successful years of poverty alleviation in China, discuss the challenges of rising inequality, and provide an outlook on potential global economic risks.

Program
The event consists of different impulse lectures followed by a discussion.
Global China Conversation #6 will be held in English.

Literature
The impulse lectures refer to the following publications:

Lugo, M., Niu, C. and Yemtsov, R. (2021) Rural Poverty Reduction and Economic Transformation in China – A Decomposition Approach, Policy Research Working Paper No. 9849, World Bank Group
Merotto, D. and Jiang, H. (2021) What was the Impact of Creating Better Jobs for More People in China’s Economic Transformation? What we Know and Questions for Further Investigation, Jobs Working Paper No.62, World Bank Group
Branko M. (2021) China’s Inequality Will Lead It to a Stark Choice, Foreign Affairs

Speakers

Branko Milanović
Branko Milanovic is Senior Scholar at the Stone Center on Socio-economic Inequality at the City University of New York. Milanovic’s main area of work is income inequality, in individual countries and globally, including in pre-industrial societies. He has published articles on these topics in The Economic Journal, Review of Economics and Statistics, and Journal of Economic Literature among others. He is author of Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization (2016) which received the 2017 Bruno Kreisky Prize and 2018 Hans Matthöfer Prize. Branko was awarded (jointly with Mariana Mazzucato) the 2018 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Knowledge. His most recent book Capitalism, Alone was published in 2019 and was translated in fifteen languages.

Martin Raiser
Martin Raiser is the World Bank’s Country Director for China and Mongolia, and Director for Korea. Mr. Raiser is leading a team that is managing an evolving partnership with China, a growing program of support to Mongolia, and a deepening knowledge partnership with Korea focused on innovation and technology. Mr. Raiser previously led the Bank’s programs in Brazil, Turkey, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
Mr. Raiser holds a doctorate degree in Economics from the University of Kiel, Germany, and degrees in Economics and Economic History from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. Prior to joining the World Bank, Mr. Raiser worked for the Kiel Institute of World Economics and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He is a regular contributor to policy discussions on China and development issues and has published numerous articles and several books.

Moderator

Andreas Fuchs
Andreas Fuchs is Professor of Development Economics, Director of the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies at the University of Göttingen, and Director of the Kiel Institute China Initiative. His research analyzes trade, investment and development policies with quantitative methods and a special focus on China and other emerging economies. He also investigates the political economy of natural disasters, humanitarian crises, and non-militarized conflicts.

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Lecture: Maruyama Masao's Research on Intellectual History as seen by Chinese scholars
2022-02-11 12:00 - 13:00
Maruyama Masao’s Research on Intellectual History as seen by Chinese scholars
Xu Jilin
East China Normal University

Feb 11, 2022 12:00 PM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
For registration, please use this zoom link.
Lecture and discussion will be in Chinese

Abstract
Maruyama Masao is the most influential post-war Japanese intellectual historian. He transcends the dichotomy between Eastern and Western thought, uncovering the “insistent bass” in the “ancient layers” of Japanese thought and examining how it has recreated the universality of modern Japanese thought. He views the study of the history of thought as an “art of representation” similar to the performance of music, in which re-creation is achieved within the confines of a text. He relativizes universal thought in a specific historical context, presenting the richness and diversity of thought itself.

Xu Jilin is a modern Chinese intellectual historian and chair professor of history at East China Normal University in Shanghai, as well as Executive Deputy Director of the China Institute of Modern Thought and Culture, and Specially Appointed Zijiang Scholar. He is also a member of the Shanghai Philosophy and Social Sciences Federation and the Chinese History Society.
He has worked as visiting scholar or guest professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the National University of Australia, the National University of Singapore and Harvard University, as well as Aichi University, Tokyo University, Academia Sinica, University of British Columbia, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and Freie Universität Berlin. His research focuses on Chinese intellectuals and Shanghai urban culture.
His publications include (but are not limited to) Public Communication of Modern Chinese Intellectuals (co-author, 2008) and How the Enlightenment was Reborn (2011), Rethinking China’s Rise: A Liberal Critique (2018); The Enlightenment and Anti-Enlightenment in Contemporary China (2011), and Ten Essays on Chinese Intellectuals (2003), which won the first Wenjin Award from the National Library in 2005. Some of his writings have been translated into English.

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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Global China Conversations #7 How do investment screenings affect (Chinese) direct investment?
2022-02-17 11:00 - 12:00
How do investment screenings affect (Chinese) direct investment?

Speaker
Dr. Alexander Honrath, Head of the European China Desk of Eversheds Sutherlands
Dr. Joachim Pohl, OECD Investment Division
Time: 17.02.2022, 11.00 – 12:00
Please register here.

Topic
For some years now, foreign direct investment in private companies has been subject to state control in many European countries. The screening of mergers and acquisitions above a certain size, in specific sectors, and often depending on the investor’s proximity to a foreign state, is officially justified on the grounds of protecting public order. In the public debate, the rapid increase of Chinese investments in Europe until 2016 is viewed as one of the main reasons for the introduction of investment screenings, the expansion of the number of controlled economic sectors, and the introduction of the new intra-European coordination. In the seventh Global China Conversation, our speakers analyze these developments detailed above and explain the importance of investment screenings in practice. We also discuss the consequences of investment audits on (Chinese) direct investments in European companies and undesirable side effects on the economy.

Program
The event consists of different impulse lectures followed by a discussion.
Global China Conversation #7 will be held in German.

Speakers

Dr. Alexander Honrath
Alexander Honrath is Partner at Eversheds Sutherland in Munich, Head of the European China Desk of Eversheds Sutherlands, one of the largest law firms in the world. He is regularly advising Chinese clients on their take-overs of German companies and their expansion strategies in Europe. Among his Asian clients are large Chinese corporates, state-owned enterprises and governmental institutions. He is frequently invited on international conferences to speak about Sino-German transactions and IPOs and is in exchange with Chinese institutions. He is further involved in Asian-European capital markets transactions, e.g. he advised on the first IPO of a German company at the regulated market in Hong Kong. Prior to his engagement at Eversheds Sutherland, he worked as investment banker in two large banks in the capital market business.

Dr. Joachim Pohl
Joachim Pohl is policy analyst in the OECD Investment Division. He joined the OECD in 2003. In his earlier roles in the Organisation’s Anti-Corruption Division, he analysed governance and anti-corruption policies in developing countries in Asia, monitored compliance under the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, and coordinated the Asian Development Bank/OECD Anti-Corruption Initiative for Asia and the Pacific.
Before joining the OECD, Mr. Pohl taught constitutional and administrative law at Humboldt University Berlin and MGLU Moscow. He holds a PhD in law from Humboldt-University and a master’s degree in political science from the University of Bordeaux.

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Dr. Vera Eichenauer
Dr. Vera Eichenauer is an economist at the KOF Swiss Economic Institute at the ETH Zurich. She is interested in economic policy and questions of international economic governance. Her current research includes Europe’s handling of China’s economic presence and influence through economic policy measures. She received her PhD in Economics from the University of Heidelberg in 2016 and her master’s degree in International Relations from Sciences Po Paris.

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“Contemporary Theater Art” Seminar Series No. 9: Comedies in contemporary Chinese theatre – a sudden boom
2022-03-16 13:00 - 14:30
Comedies in contemporary Chinese theatre – a sudden boom
Speaker: Sabine Heymann, Dr. Anna Stecher
Time: Mar. 16, Wednesday, 1:00 PM-2:30 PM CET
Zoom Meeting: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/97996297643
Meeting ID: 979 9629 7643
Language: English

Content
Sabine Heymann in conversation with Anna Stecher about her new book „Die Konjunktur der Komödie im China der Gegenwart“ (The boom of comedies in contemporary China) – which presents six current successful comedies from China in German translation.
Chinese theatre is not famous for comedies. As far as we know, up to now, no Western book has been explicitly dedicated to this topic. However, comedies are among the most-watched and discussed plays in contemporary Chinese theatre of recent years – and someone might even argue, that in present time comedy has become the most serious theatrical expression on the Chinese stage. Entangled with the commercialization of theatre, new cultural structures, and the changing of urban audiences, the question is: How is this phenomenon to be understood? As a sudden boom influenced by narrative conventions of Western cinema? As a special expression of a millennial tradition of entertainment – and critique? It has to be said: comedies as an own genre didn’t really exist within the Chinese theatre tradition. On the other hand: elements of comedy have always been an important piece of the big xiqu tragedies.
While Chinese audiences are familiar with actors and plays, academic research does not appear to be interested in contemporary comedies, not to mention possible readers and audiences outside China, which have hardly heard of them. This was the reason for Anna Stecher and her colleague Xu Jian in Beijing to plan a book project focusing on contemporary Chinese comedies. It presents some of the most popular recent plays, written by Nick Yu, Wen Fangyi, Huang Weiruo, Lin Weiran, Guo Shixing, and Li Jing. It also aims to propose different approaches towards Chinese theatre – every play in translation is introduced by an expert from the fields of Chinese studies or Theatre studies. In addition, it intends to contextualize the recent phenomenon of comedies within different fields, such as the social reality in contemporary China and the history of comedy in China and to discuss questions like: Which topics are contemporary Chinese comedians interested in? How can this phenomenon be understood in the context of the 20th and 21st centuries in China? How can these comedies be understood in Europe? Last but not least, it aims at exploring comedy as a text for intercultural communication. When watching theatrical comedy performances on stage or on tape you think: what the heck is so funny about them? Questions like these are discussion topics of the book – and some more will be addressed in the “Contemporary Theater Art” Seminar Series.

More information about the speakers and the event can be found here.

Poster: Zhang Tong

Global China Conversations #8 EU-China-Handelskonflikte und der Fall Litauen: Welche Rolle spielt die WTO?
2022-03-24 11:00 - 12:00
EU-China-Handelskonflikte und der Fall Litauen: Welche Rolle spielt die WTO?

Sprecher:
Christian Hederer, Technischen Hochschule Wildau
Jürgen Matthes, Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft (IW)
Zeit: 24.03.2021, 11:00 – 12:00 CET
Anmeldung: Anmeldeformular

Thema
Chinas Handelssanktionen gegen Litauen haben für viel Aufsehen gesorgt. Die EU hat auf die aus ihrer Sicht „diskriminierenden Handelspraktiken“ mit der Einleitung eines Verfahrens gegen die Volksrepublik vor der Welthandelsorganisation (WTO) reagiert. Das zeigt, wie ernst die Europäer den Konflikt nehmen. Die Auseinandersetzung wirft grundsätzliche Fragen auf: Erleben wir gerade den Anfang vom Ende der globalen Handelsordnung? Zerfällt die Welt (wieder) in konkurrierende Wirtschaftsblöcke? Oder kann das auf Regeln basierte System des Welthandels sogar gestärkt aus der Kontroverse hervorgehen? Diese und weitere Fragen wollen wir in unserer achten Global China Conversation mit unseren Sprechern erörtern.
Programm
Die Veranstaltung besteht aus Impulsvorträgen der Sprecher gefolgt von einer Diskussion.
Die Global China Conversation #8 wird auf Deutsch abgehalten.

Literatur

Die Impulsvorträge nehmen Bezug auf folgende Veröffentlichung:
Matthes, Jürgen und Fritsch, Manuel, Auswirkungen der Sanktionen Chinas gegen Litauen auf die EU

Speaker

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Prof. Dr. Christian Hederer, LL.M.
Christian Hederer ist Professor für Volkswirtschaftslehre, insbesondere Internationale Wirtschaftspolitik an der Technischen Hochschule Wildau. Vor dem Antritt seiner Professur war er für insgesamt 12 Jahre am österreichischen Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und der Ständigen Vertretung Österreichs bei der OECD in Paris tätig, zuletzt mit einem Schwerpunkt auf internationalem Handel und Investitionen. Er promovierte in Volkswirtschaftslehre an der Universität Witten/Herdecke und erwarb einen LL.M.-Abschluss in internationalem Handel- und Investitionsrecht an der University of Ottawa.

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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.

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Contemporary Theater Art Workshop: Waiting for Testing - Rewriting Theater History
2022-04-13 13:00 - 2022-04-14 16:00 | VG 3.104
Waiting for Testing – Rewriting Theater History
Event canceled!

We are very honored to invite Director TIAN Gebing and Choreographer WANG Yanan. They will host the workshop at the University of Göttingen on April 13 and 14. Amid the commonly experienced disorientation in this game-changing crisis, the workshop “Waiting for Testing – Rewriting Theatre History” proposes to hold a discussion on the history of the past two decades to look again at how, in contemporary performance, fugitive resistance and personal insurgence have formed biographies of surprise, as well at how collective heterogeneous energy was generated through fragmentary and inorganic connections, against the backdrop of the development of socio-historical space and power landscape in China. Director Tian will also briefly introduce his new performance at the Humboldt Forum in Berlin. He will lead the workshop from the modern history of East-West exchanges since the 18th century to enter topics such as “revolution” and “colonization”, trying to initiate discussions from a historical and macro perspective.
Time: April 13, 1: 00 PM-3: 00 PM (TIAN), April 14, 1: 00 PM – 4: 00 PM (WANG)
Venue: VG3.104, the University of Göttingen
The first in-person event on April 13 is limited to 40 attendees, and the second on April 14 is to 20.
Scan the QR codes on the posters to register.
Short bio:
TIAN Gebing is a director, curator, and writer. He graduated from the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing in 1991. In 1997 he initiated the founding of Paper Tiger Studio. Over the past 20 years, he has created a large number of artistic works and events mixing visual arts and performance. His works are seen in international cities and festivals around the world. Early works are exemplified by “Killer is Not Cold and High Art” (1998), “Cool” (2006), “Reading” (2010). From 2010 on he has shifted his focus to transcultural research and collaboration. Works in this period include “Dekalog” (2016), “500 Meters: Kafka, Great Wall or Images from the Unreal World and Daily Heroism” (2017), “Infection, State of Emergency, Beethoven” (2020). Further in 2014 “Totally Happy” premiered at Münchner Kammerspiele. In 2021, he collaborated with the ensemble of Muenchner Kammerspiele for “Hart Chamber Fragments”.
WANG Yanan is a dancer and choreographer. She graduated from Beijing Dance Academy. Since 1999 Wang worked for ten years with Living Dance Studio and was part of productions such as Birth Report and Body Report. She toured international cities and festivals and won the ZKB Award at Zürcher Theater Spektakel. In 2004, she founded Le Se Dance Studio and has created works such as Le Se 1, Le Se 2, House, etc. She collaborated with artists with various backgrounds and toured in European countries. She has been part of Paper Tiger works since 2001, as a performer, concept, and choreography. In 2014, she was commissioned by Hong Kong Arts Festival for Iron Horse. In 2014 she collaborated with Münchner Kammerspiele and Goethe Institute (China) for Totally Happy. In 2016 she was commissioned by Stary Teatr Kraków for “Dekalog”. In 2017 she worked with Thalia Theater Hamburg to create 500 Meters: Kafka, Great Wall or Images from the Unreal World, and Daily Heroism. In 2021 she collaborated again with Münchner Kammerspiele for “Heart Chamber Fragments”.

“当代剧场艺术” 工作坊
待测——重写剧场史
4月13日-14日，东亚系将邀请剧场导演田戈兵和舞蹈家王亚男来哥廷根大学，现场主持工作坊 —— “待测：重写剧场史”。将表演、艺术史的讨论嵌合于正在发生的现实语境下，通过身体和调研工作坊，探讨上世纪90年代以来的20多年，在社会历史和政治权力空间演进下，“表演” 如何在 “出走离开” 的反抗和自反性行动中塑造了出人意料的个人史，并进而碎片式无机生成集体的异质性能量。除了 “重写剧场史”，田戈兵导还将介绍最新的 “洪堡论坛” 项目，带领工作坊由18世纪以来东西方交流的近代史，进入“革命”，“殖民”等话题，尝试进行宏观历史视角的讨论。
时间：4月13日，下午1：00-3：00（田）；4月14日，下午1：00-4:00（王）
地点：哥廷根大学 VG3.104
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个人简介：
田戈兵，剧场导演、独立制作人、策展人。王亚男，舞蹈家、编舞。田戈兵1997年创立纸老虎戏剧工作室，主持了该工作室的所有演出计划。早期代表作品包括：《北京蓝》(1997)、《杀手不太冷及高雅艺术》(1998)、《酷》(2006)、《朗诵》(2010)等。在2010年，纸老虎开始跨文化研究性剧场的创作，进行广泛的国际合作。连续两年在比利时安特卫普创作了《误读三部曲》。2012年在中国和德国同时开始大型剧场研究项目《群众：非常高兴》，2014年10月在德国慕尼黑室内剧院全球首演。2016年为波兰克拉科夫国立老剧院制作委约作品《十诫》。2017年剧场研究项目《500米：卡夫卡、长城、来自不真实世界的图像和日常生活中的英雄主义》参加 “世界戏剧节”，首演于汉堡塔利亚剧院。2021年9月获得柏林表演艺术基金会支持，制作了特定场域装置性表演项目《解除》。2021年10月《某种类似于我的地洞：心室片段》在慕尼黑室内剧院进行了世界首演。2021-22年，田戈兵与王亚男将在柏林洪堡论坛推出研究性表演项目。

Contemporary Theater Art Seminar Series 10: Writing new plays in China and the US
2022-04-20 14:00 - 16:00 | Zoom
Topic: Writing new plays in China and the US (and getting them produced) 在中国与美国的原创剧本写作和开发
Speaker: ZHU Yi
Time: April 20, Wednesday, New York 8:00 AM, Göttingen 2:00 PM, Beijing 8:00 PM
Zoom Meeting: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/98307551103
Meeting ID: 983 0755 1103
Language: English

Content
Writing new plays in China and US 中美的青年编剧的写作环境
How does an aspiring young playwright “enter the industry”?
Do you write and submit? Or do you get commissioned and write?
When you write in your second language in a foreign country;
How much do you get paid as the playwright for the production of your play?
Can you make a living off writing?
How do the theater critics work?
How important are reviews to a playwright?
Getting your plays out in China and the US 中美的原创剧本的开发环境
How do you get your new plays produced?
How do the directors work with the playwright?
How do you get your plays published?
How does the industry discover new plays/talents?
From page to stage, how long does it usually take?
Do China and the US have different tastes in new plays?
What kind of plays are popular in both countries? (And how to write those?)
Short Bio
ZHU Yi is an NYC-based playwright and screenwriter, born and raised in Shanghai. MFA in playwriting, Columbia University. BA in Theater and Film Literature, Nanjing University. She is a member of Ma-Yi Writers Lab, and the Royal Court Theatre’s International Playwrights Programme; an alumnus of New York Theatre Workshop’s Emerging Artist Fellowship, Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Obie Award-winning playwrights group Youngblood, and Clubbed Thumb’s Emerging Writers Group. She is a guest lecturer at Nanjing University. Her stage plays include You Never Touched the Dirt (Clubbed Thumb, NYC; Edinburgh International Festival), I Am a Moon (Drum Tower West Theater, Beijing; National Performing Arts Center of China), How Time Flies (National Theatre of China), A Deal (Urban Stages, NYC; Chippen Theater, Sydney), Holy Crab! (Wellspring Theater, Taipei; Círculo de Tiza, Monterrey), Apene i Himalaya (Hålogaland Teater, Tromsø), I Know You (National Theater of Ireland), among others. Apolitical Romance, a feature film she co-wrote, received a nomination for Best Narrative Feature at the 2013 Taipei Film Festival.
朱宜，上海出生长大，常住纽约。哥伦比亚大学戏剧编剧硕士，南京大学戏文本科。获2015全球泛华青年剧本创作竞赛一等奖。获上海戏剧谷壹戏剧大赏“2015年度菁英编剧”奖。获纽约戏剧工作坊新锐艺术家基金。获美国斯隆基金会的科学戏剧委托创作基金。纽约Ma-Yi剧院编剧团体成员。英国皇家宫廷剧院国际编剧项目成员。美国戏剧家协会会员。曾任纽约Ensemble Studio Theatre驻场编剧。南京大学文学院客座教师。
作品有话剧《长生》、《我是月亮》、《Holy Crab!异乡记》、《特洛马克》、《杂音》、《世外》、电影《对面的女孩杀过来》等，曾在爱丁堡国际艺术节、国家大剧院、中国国家话剧院-中国原创话剧邀请展、上海大剧院、上海话剧艺术中心、国话先锋剧场、外百老汇、圣路易斯莎士比亚戏剧节、北京青戏节、台湾戏曲中心、台湾水源剧场、挪威北极剧院、纽约亚洲电影节、台北电影节、台北金马影展、布宜诺斯艾利斯影展、福冈电影节、夏威夷电影节、意大利乌迪内远东电影节、西班牙大西洋影展、北京独立影展、台北国际纪录片影展等公演公映。剧本集《我是月亮》（译林出版社）。

Lecture: China's Fragmented Modernity
2022-04-22 12:00 - 14:00 | KWZ & ONLINE, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
China’s Fragmented Modernity
Kai Vogelsang, Universität Hamburg

April 22, 2022, 12:00 PM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
On Campus: KWZ 0.610 (Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen)
On Zoom: For registration, please use this zoom link.

When modern concepts and institutions entered China in the early 20th century, they met a society which was quite unlike its European and American counterparts. While functional differentiation, especially in the cities, did make its appearance, Chinese society was still characterized by a fragmentary substructure made up of so many families, lineages, and personal networks. This paper will introduce the concept of segmentary society and present some preliminary thoughts on how this social structure affected the formation of Chinese modernity: the concepts of a public vs. private sphere, the individual, social classes, and others.
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This lecture is part of the lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China.
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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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Global China Conversations #9: Chinas Sozialkreditsystem: Welche Auswirkungen hat es auf deutsche Unternehmen?
2022-04-28 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Chinas Sozialkreditsystem: Welche Auswirkungen hat es auf deutsche Unternehmen?

28. April, 2022, 11:00 – 12:00 CET
Online auf Zoom: Bitte registrieren Sie sich hier.

Sprecherinnen
Prof. Dr. Doris Fischer, Universität Würzburg
Veronique Dunai, IHK Frankfurt am Main

Dystopie eines autoritären Überwachungsstaats oder moderne Vision datenbasierter Regierungsführung? Das chinesische Sozialkreditsystem hat seit seiner offiziellen Ankündigung im Jahr 2014 für zahlreiche kontroverse Debatten gesorgt. Was genau jedoch ist das neue Bonitätssystem und wie wirkt es sich auf die chinesische Wirtschaft und europäische Unternehmen in China aus? Mit dem neuen Fünfjahresplan (2021–2025) soll auch das Sozialkreditsystem weiterentwickelt und vor allem zentralisiert werden. In zwei nationalen Datenbanken werden Informationen über Unternehmen geführt und Schwarz- sowie Rotlisten veröffentlicht. Positive Entwicklungen sowie Verstöße einzelner Unternehmen gegen Bestimmungen und Gesetze werden in den Datenbanken aufgeführt. Das System soll so zu mehr Compliance führen, Vertrauens- und Kreditwürdigkeit von Unternehmen einsehbar machen, aber auch Sanktionen bei gröberen Vergehen ermöglichen. Welche administrativen und bürokratischen Herausforderungen kommen auf europäische Unternehmen zu? Welche Risiken bestehen für Unternehmen auf “schwarze Listen” zu kommen? Wie wirkt sich die starke Fragmentierung des Systems auf Unternehmen aus? Kann das Sozialkreditsystem dazu beitragen, Geschäftsbeziehungen zu verbessern? Wie entwickelt sich das Sozialkreditsystem weiter und welche Auswirkungen hat es auf das internationale Handelssystem? Diese und weitere Fragen diskutieren wir mit Ihnen und unseren Expertinnen in der neunten Global China Conversation.
Sprecherinnen

Prof. Dr. Doris Fischer
Doris Fischer ist Inhaberin des Lehrstuhls China Business and Economics an der Universität Würzburg. Sie hat Betriebswirtschaftslehre und Sinologie in Hamburg und Wuhan studiert, bevor sie an der Universität Gießen in Volkswirtschaftslehre promovierte. In ihrer Forschung befasst sie sich mit diversen Aspekten der chinesischen Wirtschaftspolitik und den resultierenden Anreizstrukturen für ökonomische Akteure. Im Rahmen dessen ist sie in zahlreichen Forschungsprojekten aktiv, darunter zwei DFG-Projekte zu Industriepolitik und lokaler Selbstregelung sowie ein Projekt des Bayrischen Instituts für Digitale Transformation zum Sozialpunktesystems und dessen globale Auswirkungen. Seit 2021 ist Frau Fischer auch Vizepräsidentin der Universität für die Bereiche Internationalisierung und Alumni.

Veronique Dunai
Veronique Dunai hat in Heidelberg und Beijing Sinologie, Politikwissenschaft und Transkulturelle Studien studiert. Nach verschiedenen Stationen in der Unternehmens- und Strategieberatung rund um das Chinageschäft ging sie 2019 zur Deutschen Auslandshandelskammer nach Beijing und war dort vor allem für die wirtschaftspolitische Interessenvertretung zuständig. In dieser Funktion hat sie auch deutsche Unternehmen vor Ort dabei unterstützt, sich auf neue Regularien im Rahmen des chinesischen Sozialkreditsystems vorzubereiten. Heute leitet sie das Chinakompetenzzentrum der IHK Frankfurt & Darmstadt.

Moderator

© Finn Mayer-Kuckuk (Autoren: Kopf&Kragen, mark von wardenburg)

Finn Mayer-Kuckuk
Finn Mayer-Kuckuk ist Wirtschaftsjournalist mit Schwerpunkt Ostasien. Er leitet die Redaktion des China.Table, des täglichen Professional-Briefings für Experten in Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Politik und Organisationen. Mayer-Kuckuk hat unter anderem als Peking-Korrespondent für das Handelsblatt und die DuMont-Gruppe gearbeitet und hat später eine Reihe von Medien als Wirtschaftskorrespondent in der Bundespressekonferenz in Berlin vertreten.

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Lecture: Is Modern Chinese History Secular?
2022-04-29 16:00 - 18:00 | Zoom
Is Modern Chinese History Secular?
Rebecca Nedostup, Associate Professor of History & East Asian Studies,
Brown University

April 29, 2022, 4 PM, Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
On Zoom: For registration, please use this Zoom link.

This lecture takes up the most fundamental construction of secularization – the separation of the religious realm from that of politics, philosophy, science, economics, and so on – and asks not simply how it has influenced modern Chinese history, but also historians’ imaginations of modern China. What are some routes by which the modern secularist narrative has been naturalized in considerations of the twentieth century, and where is it challenged or reinforced? Is a flourishing field of modern religious history sufficient to break down such barriers? How might other fields and disciplines redirect inquiry in positive critical directions? In its second part, the lecture will consider two cases of mid-twentieth-century transformations in conceptions of self, sovereignty, and community – one centered on sacrifice, the other on aid and recovery. These cases offer one possible set of methods among many, in which attention to scale and juxtaposition of sources portray the continued existence and reworkings of senses of space and time apart from the secular-nationalist narrative.
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This lecture is part of the lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China.
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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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Contemporary Theater Art Seminar Series 11: Performing the Socialist State
2022-05-04 16:00 - 18:00 | Zoom
Performing the Socialist State
Speaker: Professor Xiaomei CHEN
Time: May 4, California 7:00 AM, Wednesday, Göttingen 4:00 PM, Beijing 10:00 PM
Zoom Meeting: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/95966904122
Meeting ID: 959 6690 4122
Language: English
Poster: Nathalie Morenings

Content
The lecture offers a quick overview of Xiaomei Chen’s forthcoming book, Performing the Socialist State: Moments, Crisis and Success of Modern Chinese Theater (Columbia University Press, 2022). It begins with the theatrical achievements of Tian Han, Hong Shen, and Ouyang Yuqian, three founders of spoken drama, and asks how their legacies in the Republican period played important roles in constructing socialist theater. She will demonstrate how these multi-faceted leaders provided the blueprints for the Maoist theater in the PRC, contrary to the conventional claim that the PRC theater is a total break-away from the Republican period. To this end and in this context, she will reflect on the continuities with the performing culture in the Republican period through examinations of “Rightist satirical comedies” in the 1950s, women’s theater and film “red classic” in the 1960s, scientists on stage in the Maoist and post-Maoist periods, and soldiers in the transformation from the Republican, to the socialist, and finally, to the post-socialist stage. She will also explore the relationship between science and theater, music and theater, and artists and their collective identities as “new cultural workers.”
Short Bio
Xiaomei Chen is a Distinguished Professor at the University of California at Davis where she teaches modern Chinese literature, film, and theater. She is the author of Occidentalism (1995), Acting the Right Part (2002), and Staging Chinese Revolution (2016). She is the editor of Reading the Right Text (2003) and Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama (2010) and co-editor, with Claire Sponsler, of East of West: Cross-Cultural Performances and the Staging of Difference (2000)”; with Julia Andrew, of Visual Culture in Contemporary China (2001), with Steven Siouan Liu, Hong Shen and the Modern Mediasphere in Republican-Era China (2016), and with Tarryn Chun and Siyuan Liu, Rethinking Socialist Theater Reform (2021).
Further information: https://yingmingtheater.com/seminar-series-no-11/

Organizer
哥廷根大学东亚系

南京大学戏剧影视文学系

Partner
哥廷根大学现代东亚研究中心

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

Lecture: Push and Pull: Toward a Taylorian Theory of Alternative Modernities
2022-05-06 16:00 - 18:00 | Zoom
Push and Pull: Toward a Taylorian Theory of Alternative Modernities
Justin Ritzinger, Associate Professor of Religious Studies,
University of Miami

May 6, 2022, 4 PM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
On Zoom: For registration, please use this zoom link.
Religion occupies a vexed position in many visions of modernity. It stands as the embodiment of “tradition,” of the nonmodern, of the irrational. It is thus presumed to be condemned to a shrinking sphere of social and cultural life. This has typically been construed as a “challenge” to which religion must “adapt” lest it face extinction. This adaptation typically includes demythologization, rationalization, and social engagement. Such understandings of modernization, which I term “push models,” are useful but insufficient. They fail to account not only for religion’s continuing hold on the hearts of many but also the inspiration modernity gave to many modernizing figures. This talk will offer a counterbalancing “pull model,” drawing upon the account of moral frameworks in Sources of the Self to develop a Taylorian theory of the formulation of alternative modernities. Illustrated with reference to developments in religion in Republican China, this theory may offer new angles for understanding this process in other areas of cultures as well.
Justin Ritzinger is associate professor of Religious Studies at the University of Miami. He received his PhD in the Study of Religion from Harvard in 2010. His work focuses on modern and contemporary Chinese Buddhism. He is the author of a monograph on the reinvention of the cult of Maitreya, entitled Anarchy in the Pure Land, and articles dealing with eschatology, engagements with evolutionary theory, and international monastic exchange, as well as tourist development in the contemporary People’s Republic. He is currently working on an ethnographic study of a blue-collar lay Buddhist group in Taiwan. At the University of Miami, Ritzinger teaches courses in Asian religions.
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This lecture is part of the lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China.
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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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Global China Conversations #10 The Race for Technology Sovereignty: The Case of Government Support in the Semiconductor Industry
2022-05-19 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
The Race for Technology Sovereignty: The Case of Government Support in the Semiconductor Industry
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May 19, 2022, 11:00 – 12:00 CEST
Online on Zoom: Please register here.
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Speakers
Sophia Helmrich (PhD), Federation of German Industries (BDI)
Christian Steidl, OECD
Jehan Sauvage, OECD

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Global semiconductor shortages that turned particularly critical amid the COVID-19 pandemic, have affected a wide range of industries worldwide with the suffering of the automobile industry being the most prominent example. The lack of chips has thus forced carmakers, amongst others, to temporarily downscale their production. Customers and consumers need to wait for a much longer time for their desired products in which chips are nowadays used as key components. The shortages of semiconductors have raised, however, not only economic but also national security concerns for the reason that chips are becoming indispensable for many devices and tools used in cloud, space, and for defense and connectivity purposes. Chips are thus considered by many policymakers as strategic assets where their countries need to strive for technology sovereignty. While the Chinese government has provided substantial support for years to help develop an indigenous and vertically integrated semiconductor industry, the EU Commission launched the Industrial Alliance on Processors and Semiconductors in 2021 and proposed in February 2022 its European Chips Act to strengthen Europe’s technological leadership in the semiconductor industry.
How has the Chinese government supported the development of the semiconductor industry in China? How different was/is China’s government semiconductor support from other countries? Can policy implications and lessons be derived from their experiences? What would be the challenges for the EU Commission’s proposals to ensure the supply, resilience and technological sovereignty in semiconductor technologies and applications in the EU?
Literature
OECD (2019), OECD Trade Policy Paper No. 234, Measuring distortions in international markets: The semiconductor value chain
BDI (2022), BDI Position European Chips Act

Speakers

Sophia Helmrich
Sophia Helmrich (PhD) is responsible for the topics of semiconductors, quantum technologies and research data in the area of digitization and innovation at the Federation of German Industries (BDI). In addition, she is responsible for the BDI/BDA committee for research, innovation and technology policy and oversees the key technologies in particular. Previously, she worked on the President’s staff at the headquarters of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft for strategic science and innovation issues. Miss Dr. Helmrich has a doctorate in physics in the field of nonlinear optics and semiconductor systems.

Jehan Sauvage
Jehan Sauvage currently serves as a Policy Analyst in the Trade and Agriculture Directorate of the OECD, where he specialises in questions related to market distortions and government subsidies in industrial sectors. Prior to holding that position, he also served as Counsellor in the office of the OECD’s Director for Trade and Agriculture and as Policy Analyst in the OECD’s trade and environment team. In this latter capacity, he has conducted several studies on topics such as cross-border electricity markets and trade in environmental goods and services. He was also a lead author of the OECD’s Inventory of Support Measures for Fossil Fuels, spearheading early OECD efforts to identify and quantify government support for energy products.

Christian Steidl
Christian Steidl is a Policy Analyst at the OECD, working on the analysis of various forms of government support for industrial companies. His research covers support from both a sectoral as well as a transfer mechanism perspective and outlines trade policy implications. Before his current position, he has worked for the Committees for shipbuilding and steel at the OECD, similarly with a focus on government support policies as well as market analysis. Christian holds a BSc in International Economics with a focus on China and a Master’s degree in both International Economic Policy from SciencesPo Paris and in International Relations from Peking University. He also gained experience at research institutes and has previously worked, for instance, at the Centre for European Economic Research in Mannheim.

Moderation

Dr. Hanna Henkel
Dr. Hanna Henkel heads the science & technology desk at Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ). A journalist by training (Georg von Holtzbrinck-Schule für Wirtschaftsjournalisten), she holds an M.A. in business administration from HEC Lausanne and a Ph.D. form University of St. Gallen. Prior to becoming an editor, she worked as a foreign correspondent for NZZ in South Amerika and the US. NZZ is a Switzerland-based daily founded in 1780 and Europe’s oldest quality newspaper. It has a clear positioning of high-quality journalism.

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