CeMEAS

Lecture Series: Die Kulturrevolution im Familiengedächtnis
2013-06-28 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Paris)
Lecture Series
Die Kulturrevolution im Familiengedächtnis
Dr. Sascha Klotzbücher (Göttingen, Wien)
28. Juni 2013, 16:00 Uhr, KWZ 0.601
Beispiele aus Film, Literatur und Bildender Kunst zeigen den „langen Schatten“ der Kulturrevolution. Dieser bleibt jedoch für die Sozialwissenschaften schwer wissenschaftlich fassbar. In diesem Projekt werden daher Zeitzeugen und ihre Nachfahren in Wuhan befragt. Sie werden nicht zu Informationslieferanten degradiert, sondern in den Forschungsprozess integriert. Statt den Kontinuitäten der politischen und gesellschaftlichen Struktur frage ich nach den prozessualen Kontinuitäten.Welche Formen maoistischer Deutungs- und Identitätsmuster sind heute noch valide, wie werden sie in Familien revitalisiert und an die Kinder weitergegeben? Am Beispiel des für die Revolution zu ertragenden Leids verdeutliche ich in einer transgenerationalen Perspektive, wie Identitäten aus der politischen Sphäre in die Familie transferiert werden und dort einen alternativen Wahrnehmungs- und Gefühlsraum bilden.

The 2nd Göttingen East Asia Research Salon
2013-06-17 18:00 - 20:00
The 2nd Göttingen East Asia Research Salon
From Peasant to Pastor: The rural-urban transformation of Protestant Christianity in Linyi, Shandong Province
June 17, 2013, 6pm – 8pm
KWZ, Seminar Room 0.606, Heinrich – Düker – Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen
Presenter:
Kang Jie, PhD Student, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Commentators:
Niall Duggan, Department of East Asian Studies
Andreas Grünschloß, Department of Religious Studies
Katja Triplett, Department of East Asian Studies/Religions in East Asia
Moderator:
Katja Pessl, Centre for Modern East Asian Studies

Program:
Presentation of research project (max. 20 minutes)
Comments (15 minutes altogether)
Discussion
CeMEAS will provide coffee and light refreshments, however feel free to bring along additional food and drinks.
From Peasant to Pastor
The rural-urban transformation of Protestant Christianity in Linyi, Shandong Province
Kang Jie is a Doctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity and Ph.D. researcher at the University of Leipzig. The project examines the rise of Christian ‘house churches’ in Linyi Prefecture, Shandong Province. She obtained a Diplom in Economics at Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg (2005). From 2006 to 2009 she worked as chief of the representative office of University of Konstanz in Beijing. Her research interests are transnational religious networks and religious change and urbanization.

Lecture Series:Medicincal Delicatessen
2013-06-07 15:00 - 17:00
Lecture Series:
Medicincal Delicatessen
Chinese medicine practitioners and substances in contemporary China
Friday, June 7, 2013, 3 pm, KWZ, Room 0.609
Dr. Lena Springer
EASTmedicine research centre, University of Westminster, London

Lecture Abstract:
This talk presents findings of a multi-sited ethnography based on recent fieldwork in Sichuan province, China: in a remote region and in a global centre of science and trade. Scholars and medical circles in the region struggle to write its histories. The East-West divide of Sichuan province provides a test-field that reflects the overall geographic and
cultural frictions of the Chinese territorial and symbolic order. I will compare two “medical capitals” (yaodu) in Sichuan province: 1) one of them is contemporarily a global transfer centre for trade and pharma-science, and 2) the other one in the same province has had a similar function in the past but is now situated in the remote (Tibetan) West
of the province. My encounters with providers and prescribers of medicinal substances illustrate how their practice and ways of thinking differ fundamentally from the official map of ethnic relations in China. This is true for both Tibetan and Chinese physicians, in a monastery and in a local clinic.
Chinese medicines are circulated and prescribed in Europe today, and in China where they originate from. Diverse practitioners, pharmaceutical providers, and researchers are changing the ways how the medicinal substances are processed and evaluated. This circulation and prescription has local histories throughout world regions – but also within (Han-)China itself. Pharmaceutical evidence discourses and regulatory frameworks have their own global histories in China and East Asia. Fieldwork illuminates the historically important relation between remote South-West China and a scholarly influential region (“Jiangnan”).

Lecture Series Comparative Terror
2013-05-13 18:00 - 20:00
Lecture Series: Comparative Terror in China and Taiwan
Peformances and Realities in Regime Consolidation: The Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries and the White Terror in Su’nan and Taiwan, 1950-1954
Monday, May 13, 2013, 6 pm, KWZ, Room 0.606
Julia C. Strauss
SOAS, University of London

Lecture Abstract:
Much of the state building literature that comes from a Weberian perspective focusses on the creation and solidification of state institutions, particularly those bureaucratic institutions concerned with external defense, internal order, the extraction of sufficient resources to fund the state apparatus, and therecruitment and socialization for the state bureaucracy itself. Other literatures in a more rational choice vein, particularly associated with Robert Bates’ work on Africa, focus on how incentives for individuals within state bureaucracies often lead to rent seeking behaviour that undercuts the wider state building project.
My work attempts to fill in the large grey areas and gaps between these two literatures on state building by focussing on an aspects of state building that is often simply assumed: how the higher reaches of the state mobilize the lower reaches of the bureaucracy and focus its attentions and commitments. I suggest that this process of state mobilization occurs through a complex of actions that can be loosely called the bureaucratic “campaign” that operates in tension with the more procedurally and precedent bound tendencies of government bureaucracies, and further draw on the related notions of repertoire and performance as critical elements to processes of both campaign mobilization and workaday bureaucratization. In so doing, I expand on Charles Tilly’s notions of “repertoire” (which he applied almost exclusively to social movements and protest from “below” as part of claim making) to consider two crucial factors in the consolidation of otherwise unproven and/or outright illegitimate new regimes of the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China (Taiwan) in the early 1950s. At this time, the young PRC and the recently relocated ROC (Taiwan) were deeply concerned about questions of internal (and external) security, and launched massive campaigns against real and imagined subversion through the Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries (PRC) and the “White Terror”. 1) how leaders themselves drew on particular repertoires as the “frames” that established the boundaries of the desirable and achievable in terms of preference formation and 2) how leaders utilized particular kinds of performances to communicate new norms, vocabularies, and practices to the population at large.

The 1st Göttingen East Asia Research Salon
2013-05-06 18:00 - 20:00 | KWZ, Heinrich Düker Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
The 1st Göttingen East Asia Research Salon

Matteo Ricci in East West Music Exchange
May 6, 2013, 6pm – 8pm
CeMEAS, Seminar Room, Heinrich – Düker – Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen
Presenter:
Wong Tsz, PhD Student, Expert Cultures from the 12th to the 16th century
Commentators:
Thomas Kaufmann, Faculty of Theology/Church History
Axel Schneider, Department of East Asian Studies/Chinese History
Katja Triplett, Department of East Asian Studies/Religions in East Asia
Moderator:
Katja Pessl, CeMEAS Coordinator
Program:
Presentation of research project (max. 20 minutes)
Comments (20 minutes)
Discussion
CeMEAS will provide coffee and light refreshments, however feel free to bring along additional food and drinks.

VORTRAG: How Can Latecomer Countries Catch-Up? (Vortragssprache: Deutsch)
2013-04-30 14:00 - 16:00
VORTRAG: How Can Latecomer Countries Catch-Up? (Vortragssprache: Deutsch)
A Case Study of China‘s High-Speed Rail

Dienstag, 30. April, 2013
14 Uhr c.t., KWZ 2.601
Prof. Dr. Junhua Zhang
Jiaotong University, Shanghai

Dr. Junhua Zhang currently is a Professor of Political Science at the School of International and Public Affairs of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). His research fields are China’s political system, international politics with focus on internet policy and international political economy and social memory.

Lecture Series Environmental Communication
2013-04-24 18:00 - 20:00
Lecture Series: Environmental pollution in China.
New media and public participation: The case of air pollution
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
18:00 – 19:30, Seminar Room 0.609, KWZ
Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14
Prof. Li Ji
School of Journalism and Communication, Wuhan University
The air pollution problem in China has been taken as the most serious environmental challenge facing the Chinese new government in 2013. The severity of the problem grew as public awareness of air pollution has been aroused by media reports. Interconnections between traditional media and new media in China formed new strength to push the Chinese government to act legitimately for solving the problem. From Blue Sky Project to PM 2.5 reports, the lecture reviews how Chinese media respond to air pollution problems in China in recent years, and how new media becomes a new strength to promote public participation in air pollution problems in China.
Dr. JI Li has been researching in the field of international/intercultural communication for 10 years, with more than 20 journal articles, book chapters and books published. She has also undertaken more than 10 academic projects, including one major project on environmental communication funded by of National Social Science Foundation of China.
Dr. JI Li has been visiting scholar of the Open University, University of Sunderland, Chinese Culture University, Taiwan, University of Goettingen in last 10 years. In 2008, she was selected as a member delegate of United States Institute on Journalism and Media funded by U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. She has also won China-Canadian Scholarship Exchange Program (CCSEP) last year.
She is now focusing on environmental communication research and conducted many comparative researches in the field. As a founding member of the International Environmental Communication Association, she has already translated several important works on environmental communication into Chinese.

Lecture Series: Culture Governance and Local Development in China: The Case of Nanjing
2013-01-23 18:00 - 20:00
Lecture Series:
Culture Governance and Local Development in China: The Case of Nanjing
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
18:00 – 20:00, Seminar Room 0.603, KWZ
Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14
Prof. Leng Tse-Kang
National Chengchi University, Academia Sinica

The purpose of this talk is to delve into the model of urban governance on the cultural industry in China. The case of Nanjing is selected to demonstrate the formation of urban state entrepreneurialism and its constraints. In contrast to the manufacturing sector, which is marked by strong state intervention, the cultural and creative industries present the state with such challenges as “creating” the market and the environment. Traditional top-down policy instruments of command, control, and regulation could not be fully applied to this new field of service-oriented businesses. This talk aims to explain how the local state transforms itself into an active market player to create niches of urban development.
Prof. Lengs research interests focus on theories of international relations and cross-Straits relations, political economy of globalization, and political economy of urban development in China. Recent academic works include: “Local States, Institutional Changes, and Innovations Systems: Beijing and Shanghai Compared,” Journal of Contemporary China, (Forthcoming, March, 2013. Co-authored with Jenn-hwan Wang) / “Coping with China in Hard Times: Taiwan in global and domestic Perspectives,” Pacific Focus , (vol. 26, no. 3, Dec, 2011) / “Politics of Centrally-Administered Municipalities in China,” in Jae Ho Chung ed., The Ladder of Governance: Traditions and Changes in China’s Local Administrative Hierarchy (London: Rutledge, 2009), Chapter 3 / Governance of Biodiversity Conservation in China and Taiwan (Cheltenham,UK: Edward Elgar, 2006. Co-authored with Gerald McBeath).

China and the United States: Four Mutual Images in Public Discourse
2012-11-23 15:00 - 16:00
China and the United States: Four Mutual Images in Public Discourse
Friday, November 23, 2012
15:00 -16:00, Seminar Room 0.609, KWZ
Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14
Dong Wang
PhD, Professor of Contemporary Chinese History
University of Turku

Urbanization and the Establishment of Communities (Shequ) in China: Implications for Everyday Life
2012-11-23 00:30 - 13:30
Urbanization and the Establishment of Communities (Shequ) in China: Implications for Everyday Life
Friday, November 23, 2012
12:30 – 13:30, Seminar Room 0.610, KWZ
Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14
Prof. Dr. Flemming Christiansen
Chair of Political Sociology of China
University of Duisburg-Essen
