CeMEAS

Lecture: China’s Ambitions in East Asia: Implications for Security and Stability
2021-06-15 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Zoom
Tuesday, June 15, 4pm-6pm (CET)
Helena Legarda
Senior analyst, Mercator Institute for Chinese Studies, Berlin
Zoom link: https://s.gwdg.de/MQZZWW

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Wochen der Hoffnung - Die Pekinger Studentenbewegung
2021-06-08 16:00 - 18:00
Wochen der Hoffnung – Die Pekinger Studentenbewegung
2.-31.Mai 1989“
Erlebnisbericht von Helmut Opletal
8. Juni 2021, 16:00 – 18:00 (CET)
Zoom-Link: https://s.gwdg.de/5tnkdO
Anfang Mai 1989 fuhr Helmut Opletal im Auftrag des ORF nach Peking, um über den historischen China-Besuch des sowjetischen Staats- und Parteichefs Michail Gorbatschow zu berichten. Schließlich verbrachte er vier Wochen in China, und nicht Gorbatschow, sondern die Studentenproteste wurden zum Schwerpunkt seiner Berichterstattung. In dieser Zeit (2.-31. Mai 1989) entstanden in den Wochen vor der Niederschlagung der Bewegung hunderte persönliche Fotos. Es sind keine Bilder der Panzer und tragischen Ereignisse von Anfang Juni, sondern Szenen voller Zuversicht und Hoffnung vor allem junger Menschen auf mehr Freiheit, Demokratie und einen nachhaltigen gesellschaftlichen Wandel.
Die Fotos dieser Präsentation und zahlreiche weitere finden Sie unter https://photos.app.goo.gl/Kws7c5kuc763Lks38.
Dr. Helmut OPLETAL, Jg. 1952, studierte an der Universität Wien Publizistik, Politikwissenschaft und Sinologie. 1973 gehörte er zu den ersten österreichischen Austauschstudenten in China, zwischen 1976 und 2009 war er Redakteur und Reporter für den ORF, 1980-85 auch China-Korrespondent mehrerer deutschsprachiger Zeitungen. Seit 2002 ist Opletal als Lehrbeauftragter, Gastprofessor und Projektmitarbeiter am Institut für Ostasienwissenschaften der Universität Wien tätig.
Veranstalter: Centre for Modern East Asian Studies & Ostasiatisches Seminar an der Universität Göttingen, Institut für Ostasienwissenschaften – Sinologie an der Universität Wien

Image: Helmut Opletal, “Demokratie - unser gemeinsames Ideal“ (Helmut Opletal auf dem Tian’anmen-Platz, Mai 1989)

Online Script Reading: Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land
2021-06-06 13:00 - 16:00
Online Script Reading: Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land
Online script reading No. 39 hosted by Ying Ming Theater
Play: Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land, written by Stan Lai (Chinese: 赖声川)
Time: June 12th, CET 13:00-16:00
Zoom Meeting https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/95083744298
ID 950 8374 4298
Contact: yingming.theater@gmail.com

Lecture: Nationalism and the Crisis of Modernity
2021-06-03 18:00 - 20:00
Presenter: Prasenjit Duara
Date: June 3, 6-8 pm (CEST)

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This lecture is presented within the framework of the Joint Center for Advanced Studies project “Worldmaking from a Global Perspective: A Dialogue with China” as part of the project “Conceptions of World Order and Their Social Carrier Groups”.
Abstract
“Whether or not there is a direct causal relationship, nationalism is at the heart of all the crises in the modern world and becomes entangled in its effects. As the fundamental source of authority for all modes of governance in the world, we are beholden to its capacity to resolve these cascading crises. I have long argued that its core confessional and anarchic constitutive form does not afford this capaciousness. It is plain to see this in how the WHO is being hampered in the present pandemic by powerful national interests. “I argue that the nation form is the ‘epistemic engine’ driving the globally circulatory and doxic Enlightenment ideal of the conquest of nature and perpetual growth that sustains the runaway technosphere. The cascading crises that we have already witnessed in this century – financial, economic, epidemic and climatological—are rooted significantly in this technosphere. At the same time, we will have to find our way through and out of these forms to secure a sustainable planet. Drawing from a paradigm of ‘oceanic temporality’ to grasp counter-finalities generated by the epistemic engine I explore the interstitial spaces and counter-flows of social movements that are seeking to develop a post-Enlightenment and a planetary, rather than a global, cosmology.”
About Prasenjit Duara
Prasenjit Duara is the Oscar Tang Chair of East Asian Studies at Duke University. He was born and educated in India and received his PhD in Chinese history from Harvard University. He was previously Professor and Chair of the Dept of History and Chair of the Committee on Chinese Studies at the University of Chicago (1991-2008). Subsequently, he became Raffles Professor of Humanities and Director, Asia Research Institute at National University of Singapore (2008-2015). In 1988, he published Culture, Power and the State: Rural North China, 1900-1942 (Stanford Univ Press) which won the Fairbank Prize of the AHA and the Levenson Prize of the AAS, USA. Among his other books are Rescuing History from the Nation (U Chicago 1995), Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern (Rowman 2003) and most recently, The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Cambridge 2014).

Lecture: China’s Foreign Policy: Interests, Ambitions, and Conceptions of World Order
2021-05-19 18:00 - 20:00
Wednesday, May 19, 6pm-8pm (CET)
Dr. Pascal Abb
Senior researcher, Leibniz-Institut, Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
Zoom link: https://s.gwdg.de/We1Gsj

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2021 Taiwan Lecture: Health and History in the Sinophone World
2021-05-17 11:00 - 12:00
COVID-19 Pandemic <Apocalypto> for Health Humanities
Professors Tony Hsiu-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University

Date and Time: Monday, 17th May 11:00 am -12:00 pm CET (s.t.)
Venue: Zoom
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Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused huge impact on human life. The adversity for human does not actually come from this emerging pathogen-SARS-CoV-2-but is probably due to untactful policies and inequitable philosophy that have been already existed before COVID-19. The catastrophe of COVID-19 pandemic is “revelation” for humanities like “A Great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within” says Will Durant, an American writer, historian, and philosopher. This metaphor has been witnessed in scenarios of containment measures (including lockdown, quarantine and isolation, and social distancing) and uneven distribution of vaccine and delivery of therapy during COVID-19 pandemic.
Professor Tony Hsiu-Hsi Chen works at the Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University.

2021 Taiwan Lecture: Health and History in the Sinophone World
2021-05-10 11:00 - 12:00
Emergency Medical Services Evolution in Taiwan: Lessons learned from the past century
Prof. Frank Fuh-yuan Shih, National Taiwan University Hospital

Date and Time: Monday, 10th May 11:00 am -12:00 pm CET (s.t.)
Venue: Zoom
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Abstract: In this lecture, we will discuss another representative China-born medical expert, Dr. Yang Wen-ta’s experience for viewing the establishment and mechanism of the Americanized emergency care system of Taiwan during the KMT Authoritarian era. Dr. Yang Wen-ta, a notable Taiwanese medical expert, had served in Taiwanese military medical system for many years. As an alumnus of the Peking Union Medical College, Yang’s medical education background proves the strong connection of the medical system between modern China and the USA. Furthermore, as a mainland emigrant medical elite who has been to Taiwan with the retreat of the Nationalist Government, Yang played quite a significant role in the construction of the military medical institution, which shows how Mainland military medicine profoundly influenced and changed Taiwan’s local emergency care system under the KMT rule during the Martial Law time.
Prof. Frank Fuh-yuan Shih is Adjunct Assistant Professor, Doctor, and Director of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the National Taiwan University Hospital.

Hamlet Shakespeare Day 2021
2021-05-08 08:00 - 2021-05-29 17:00 | Online
Hamlet Shakespeare Day 2021
Online script reading No. 38 hosted by Ying Ming Theater: Reading and Watching Shakespeare
Play: Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare
Schedule:

May 8th, CET 13:00-16:00, reading the script (obligatory)
May 15th, watching Hamlet, a production by British National Theater (optional)
May 22nd, watching Princess Hamlet, a production by Theater Rampe (optional)
May 28th, watching Hamlet, a production by the Maxim Gorki Theatre (optional)
May 29th, CET 13:00-16:00, presentation and discussion (obligatory)
Full Registrants. The Event is not open to the general public.
Contact: yingming.theater@gmail.com

Pictures on the announcement from left to right:
Princess Hamlet © The Rampe Theater
Hamlet © The Bochum Theater
Hamlet © The Maxim Gorki Theater

Online Script Reading: Saving Face
2021-05-01 13:00 - 16:00
Online Script Reading: Saving Face
Online script reading No. 37 hosted by Ying Ming Theater
Play: Saving Face, written by Lao She (Chinese: 老舍)

Time: May 1st, CET 13:00-16:00
Zoom Meeting https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/94282596030
ID 942 8259 6030
Contact: yingming.theater@gmail.com

Junges Forum zum chinesischen Recht
2021-04-29
Deutsch-Chinesisches Institut für Rechtswissenschaft

Junges Forum zum chinesischen Recht am 29.04.2021
Anmeldung: chinarecht@jura.uni-goettingen.de
Webpage: https://uni-goettingen.de/de/423274.html
Das Deutsch-Chinesische Institut für Rechtswissenschaft der Universität Göttingen stellt im Rahmen seiner digitalen Veranstaltung „Junges Forum zum chinesischen Recht“ am 29.04.2021 den Doppelmasterstudiengang „Chinesisches Recht und Rechtsvergleichung“ der Universitäten Göttingen und Nanjing vor.
Der Studiengang hat einen Umfang von vier Semestern und ermöglicht den Erwerb von gleich zwei Masterabschlüssen, sodass am Ende die Titel LL.M./LL.M. (oec.) oder M.A./LL.M. (oec.) verliehen werden. Das erste Mastersemester findet zur Vorbereitung in Göttingen statt, während das zweite und dritte Semester in Nanjing, China verbracht werden. Im vierten Semester widmen sich die Studierenden ihrer Masterarbeit in Göttingen.
Neben der allgemeinen Vorstellung des Studiengangs gibt Professor Dr. Knut Benjamin Pißler, Referent am Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht, im Rahmen einer kurzen Übersetzungsübung einen Einblick in die chinesische Rechtsterminologie. Anschließend hält Cara Meng von Taylor Wessing Shanghai einen Vortrag über “Das anwaltliche Berufsbild im Bereich M&A: Deutsch-Chinesische Rechtsbeziehungen in der Praxis” inkl. Q&A Session. Abschließend stellen zwei Masterabsolventinnen ihre Erfahrungen vor und führen mögliche Berufsperspektiven auf, bevor sie in einer offenen Fragestunde zur Verfügung stehen.

Programm:
9:45-10:30
Begrüßung und Vorstellung des Studiengangs Chinesisches Recht und Rechtsvergleichung (LL.M./ M.A.)
Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Krause, Prof. Dr. Axel Schneider
10:30-11:15
Chinesische Rechtsterminologie – eine Übersetzungsübung
Prof. Dr. Knut Benjamin Pißler, Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht (Hamburg) & Universität Göttingen
15 min. Pause
11:30-12:00
Das anwaltliche Berufsbild im Bereich M&A: Deutsch-Chinesische Rechtsbeziehungen in der Praxis
Cara Meng 孟戈弋, Taylor Wessing Shanghai Representative Office
10 min. Q&A mit Cara Meng 孟戈弋
12:10-12:30
Erfahrungsbericht: Berufliche Perspektiven in China
Dr. Madeleine Martinek, LL. M., LL. M. oec. (Nanjing), ehemalige Leiterin der Rechtsabteilung der Außenhandelskammer in Peking, derzeit Assistant Professor an der China-EU School of Law in Peking
12:30-12:50
Erfahrungsbericht: Studieren und Leben in Nanjing
Ronja Fischer, M.A., LL.M. oec. (Nanjing), Alumna des Studiengangs Chinesisches Recht und Rechtsvergleichung
Ab 12:50
Offene Fragerunde

Online Lecture: Institutional and Policy Pathways to Carbon Neutrality in China by 2060
2021-04-01 13:00 - 14:00
Institutional and Policy Pathways to Carbon Neutrality in China by 2060
Valerie J. Karplus (Carnegie Mellon University)
This lecture is part of our new lecture series China’s Economic Rise – Political Transformations in Asia and Beyond
Thursday, April 1, 2021, 1:00-2:00pm CET
ZOOM Link: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/98853778484

Abstract: President Xi Jinping has announced that China will pursue a goal of net zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2060. This talk will examine the evolution of China’s institutions and policies as they relate to carbon management and ask how they will need to further change in order to support the country’s 2060 ambitions. The talk will conclude by discussing the potential for China’s emissions trading system for carbon dioxide, which is currently under development, to contribute to the 2060 goal.
Valerie J. Karplus is a Visiting Associate Professor in Global Economics and Management (GEM) at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Karplus studies resource and environmental management in firms operating in diverse national and industry contexts, with a focus on the role of institutions and management practices in explaining performance. Karplus is an expert on China’s energy system, including technology and business model innovation, energy system governance, and the management of air pollution and climate change. She works with a collaborative team of researchers to study the micro and macro determinants of clean energy transitions in emerging markets, with a focus on China and India. She teaches Entrepreneurship without Borders, New Models for Global Business, and is currently developing a new course, together with Professor Chris Warshaw in Political Science, on Global Energy Markets and Policy.
Source: https://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/directory/valerie-j-karplus
The lecture series is co-organized and co-sponsored by Göttingen’s Centre for Modern East Asian Studies as well the Kiel Institute China Initiative.
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Online Theater Workshop: “Contemporary Theater Performance” Seminar Series No. 3
2021-03-18 14:00 - 15:30
“Contemporary Theater Performance” Seminar Series No. 3
Transnational Chinese Theatres: Aesthetics, Politics, Methods

Time: March 18, 2021 CET 2:00 PM-3:30 PM
Zoom Link: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/92404610446?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 924 0461 0446
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Abstract
How can we rethink Chinese-language theatres from the perspective of the transnational? What are the advantages of looking at the performance cultures of the Chinese-speaking world through a trans-Asian lens? What can the “trans-” signify in the performances of the Sinophone? Unlike the field of Sinophone cinemas, where “trans-” approaches, particularly the transnational, have been debated widely, there has not yet been a comprehensive theoretical reflection of the agentive implications of trans-ing for the performances of the contemporary Sinosphere, including the performances of memory. Based on the recent monograph, Transnational Chinese Theatres: Intercultural Performance Networks in East Asia (Palgrave, 2020), this talk will introduce the notion of transnational Chinese theatres as a practice and method of performance collaboration constituted by mobile networks of relations. Transnational Chinese theatres present a performative inflection of notions of minor transnationalism and inter-Asian referencing – or (trans-)Asia as method – which foregrounds collaboration as a generative site of counter-memory and transgressive imagination. An overview of recent transnational networks and works originating within the East Asian Sinosphere will show how collaborative practice can mobilize multiple dimensions of the “trans-” – transmediality, translingualism, translation, transcoloniality – to reconstitute Sinophone performance cultures as platforms for transgressively reconfiguring the nation and enabling the collective memorialization of contested national histories through transnational comparison.
Bio
Rossella Ferrari is Professor of Chinese Studies in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria. Her main expertise is in the performance cultures of the Chinese-speaking world. Her research interests include avant-garde studies, intercultural performance, intermediality, adaptation, memory studies, and transnational and inter-Asian approaches to the study of Sinophone cultural production. She is the author of Pop Goes the Avant-Garde: Experimental Theatre in Contemporary China (2012) and Transnational Chinese Theatres: Intercultural Performance Networks in East Asia (2020), and the co-editor of Asian City Crossings: Pathways of Performance through Hong Kong and Singapore (forthcoming 2021).
Organizer
Ying Ming Theater
Sponsors
The Center for Modern East Asian Studies at the University of Göttingen
The Academic Confucius Institute in Göttingen

Online Lecture: China’s R-AI-se: The Digital New Silk Road and China’s Global AI Dreams
2021-03-18 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom
China’s R-AI-se: The Digital New Silk Road and China’s Global AI Dreams
Nele Noesselt (Universität Duisburg-Essen)
This lecture is part of our new lecture series China’s Economic Rise – Political Transformations in Asia and Beyond
Thursday, March 18, 2021, 1:00-2:00pm CET
ZOOM Link: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/99233431817
Abstract: This paper assesses the global implications of the PRC’s AI strategy. Examining recent regional and global transformations from the perspective of role theory, it looks at the re-steering of the Chinese (gig)economy under the fifth generation and outlines strategic role adjustments and position changes.

The lecture series is co-organized and co-sponsored by Göttingen’s Centre for Modern East Asian Studies as well the Kiel Institute China Initiative.
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Joint Zoom Lecture: Making the World Safe for Dictatorship: Authoritarian Image Management in Contemporary China and North Korea
2021-03-04 16:00 - 17:30
Making the World Safe for Dictatorship: Authoritarian Image Management in Contemporary China and North Korea

Dr Alexander Dukalskis, School of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin, Ireland
Date: Thursday, 4 March 2021
Time: 3:00-4:30 pm (Dublin time)/16:00-17:30 (CET)
Please register in advance for this meeting:
https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwsc-2sqj4jGN1IjSpNxZbsvyuIxEGI9MHP
Organizers:
Department of Asian Studies at UCC and the Centre of Modern East Asian Studies at the University of Göttingen

Authoritarian states work hard to manage their images abroad. They invest in foreign-facing media, hire public relations firms, tout their popular celebrities, and showcase their successes to elite and popular foreign audiences. However, there is a dark side to these efforts that is sometimes overlooked. Authoritarian states try to obscure or censor bad news about their governments and often discredit their critics abroad. In extreme cases, authoritarian states intimidate, physically attack, or even murder their opponents overseas. This talk will be about how authoritarian states manage their image abroad using both “promotional” tactics of persuasion and “obstructive” tactics of repression. Dukalskis will look at the tactics that authoritarian states use for image management and the ways in which their strategies vary from one state to another. After providing an overview of the argument, the lecture will examine in detail two cases of authoritarian image management. First, it will discuss the global and multifaceted image management of contemporary China, ranging from controlling the narrative by clamping down on foreign correspondents, to Beijing’s external propaganda, to its attempts to silence critics abroad. Second, the lecture will widen its temporal scope to explore North Korea’s efforts since the 1950s up to today to craft an appealing image of itself among the ethnic Korean population in Japan. The lecture, based on the author’s forthcoming book Making the World Safe for Dictatorship, will draw on a diverse array of data, including interviews, cross-national data on extraterritorial repression, examination of public relations filings with the United States government, analysis of authoritarian propaganda, media frequency analysis, and speeches and statements by authoritarian leaders.

Alexander Dukalskis is an Associate Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin. He is also a 2020-21 Woodrow Wilson Center China Fellow and an associate editor at Communist & Post-Communist Studies. His research and teaching interests include authoritarianism, Asian politics, and human rights. His work has been published in several leading journals, including Government & Opposition, Review of International Studies, Journal of Democracy, Journal of Peace Research, and Democratization. His first book, The Authoritarian Public Sphere: Legitimation and Autocratic Power in North Korea, Burma, and China, was published in 2017. His second book Making the World Safe for Dictatorship, will be published by Oxford University Press in April 2021.

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Online Drama Reading: 安东·八甫洛维奇·契诃夫 《熊》Anton Pavlovich Chekhov The Bear
2021-02-27 13:00 - 16:00
安东·八甫洛维奇·契诃夫 《熊》Anton Pavlovich Chekhov The Bear
Time: 13:00 – 16:00 27 Feb 2021 (CET)
Place: Online (Zoom ID: 951 5232 7696)
Email: yingming.theater@gmail.com
Manner: Participants will read dramas and do some role-play exercises together via video or voice calls. Being an auditor is also welcome.
The pompous widow vowed to keep faithful to her husband for the rest of her life. When she met the rude and irrational male debt collector, what kind of chemistry would happen between them?
Anyone interested in Chekhov’s farce The Bear is welcome to participate in the activity.
For more information about the Chinese Theater in Goettingen, please click here.

Online Drama Reading: 杜国威《我和春天有个约会》Kwok-Wai Raymond TO I Have a Date with Spring
2021-02-13 13:00 - 16:00
杜国威《我和春天有个约会》Kwok-Wai Raymond TO I Have a Date with Spring
Time: 13:00 – 16:00 13 Feb 2021 (CET)
Place: Online (Zoom ID: 971 8032 8732)
Email: yingming.theater@gmail.com
Manner: Participants will read dramas and do some role-play exercises together via video or voice calls. Being an auditor is also welcome.
When a retired singsong girl came back to the stage after twenty years, what kind of stories would she recall for her debut and her colleagues? How did the four different singsong girls’ life change over time? If you are interested in the story of four Hong Kong singsong girls in the second half of the 20th century, please do not hesitate to join us to read I Have a Date with Spring.
For more information about the Chinese Theater in Goettingen, please click here.

Online Lecture: Gaining Ground, Gaining Influence? Vote Shares and Power in the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)
2021-02-11 13:00 - 14:00
Gaining Ground, Gaining Influence? Vote Shares and Power in the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)
Soo Yeon Kim (National University of Singapore)
This lecture is part of our new lecture series China’s Economic Rise – Political Transformations in Asia and Beyond
Thursday, February 11, 2021, 1:00-2:00pm CET
ZOOM Link: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/92410917518

Abstract: Why do countries join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and what do countries that have joined gain from membership? This paper examines the distribution of vote shares in the AIIB relative to that of existing international financial institutions (IFIs). Our analysis of the distribution of vote shares across the AIIB, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) supports the hypotheses: countries with lower vote shares in the existing IFIs are more likely to join the AIIB and member states have higher vote shares in the AIIB than in each of the other IFIs. The results of the OLS regressions suggest that the size of vote shares in existing IFIs is a strong deter-minant of countries’ decision to accede to the AIIB and that the distribution in vote shares in the AIIB are strongly correlated with the distribution of vote shares in these other IFIs. Countries systematically gain more vote shares in the AIIB than in the other IFIs and this gain in vote shares in the AIIB is most pronounced vis-a-vis the IMF, followed by the World Bank and the ADB. Developing countries also experience higher gains in vote shares than developed countries. The results also present no evidence that the distribution of vote shares in the AIIB privilege countries with greater political or economic proximity to China, which challenges the dominant explanation that the AIIB serves as an instrument that reflects or furthers Chinese interests. This paper contributes to the scholarship on the implications of international institutions created by rising powers on global governance, as well as whether Chinese-led international institutions conform to or deviate from existing rules and norms of international institutions.
Soo Yeon Kim joined the Department of Political Science in July 2011. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University and a B.A. in Political Science and International Studies from Yonsei University. Professor Kim’s research and teaching areas are International Political Economy, International Political Economy of Asia, and Research Methods, with a specialization in trade politics. She is the author of Power and the Governance of Global Trade (2011, Series in Political Economy, Cornell University Press). Her current research focuses on free trade agreements in Asia and on rising powers in the global economy.
Source: https://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/polsk/
The lecture series is co-organized and co-sponsored by Göttingen’s Centre for Modern East Asian Studies as well the Kiel Institute China Initiative.
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Hidden Dragon? Chinese Influence at the World Bank
2021-02-03 14:30 - 16:00
Hidden Dragon? Chinese Influence at the World Bank
Erasmus Kersting (Villanova University)
Abstract:
In this paper, we consider an alternate explanation for China’s continued interest in World Bank loans: borrower influence. As a bureaucracy and as a bank, the World Bank relies both on repayment of its outstanding loans and on a predictable pipeline of new lending. As a major client, China might prefer informal influence to formal influence (i.e., increased vote share) since key elements of the World Bank agenda – conditionality, transparency, indigenous rights – sit poorly with China’s own domestic record and non-interference approach to foreign policy. The paper examines how China has been treated by the World Bank and whether there is statistical evidence of China having informal influence over World Bank decisions.
cege research seminar
Wednesday, February 3rd from 2.30 pm – 4.00 pm, CET
In order to participate, please log in using the following link:
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cege – Center for European, Governance and Economic Development Resear
https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/60864.html
Contact: Mattheus Brenig ( mattheus.brenig[at]wiwi.uni-goettingen.de)

Online Drama Reading: 易卜生《海达.高布乐》Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler
2021-01-30 14:00 - 17:00
易卜生《海达.高布乐》Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler
Time: 14: 00 – 17: 00 30. January 2021
Place: Online (Zoom Meeting ID：996 8047 2840)
Email: yingming.theater@gmail.com
Manner: Participants will read dramas and do some role-play exercises together via video or voice calls. Being an auditor is also welcome.
“She is a mysterious and noble, rebellious and unruly the so-called “father’s daughter.” After getting to know the large deep shadows in her heart and see a touch of disdain and despair in her eye, people can only have complicated love-hate feelings for her. Let us go into the inner world of Ibsen’s most attractive and controversial woman – Haida Gabler.
Everyone is welcome to the online drama reading activity of Chinese Theater in Goettingen, Ying Ming Theater.

For more information about the Chinese Theater in Goettingen, please click here.

Online Lecture: China’s Overseas Lending
2021-01-28 13:00 - 14:00
China’s Overseas Lending
Sebastian Horn (IfW Kiel)
This lecture is part of our new lecture series China’s Economic Rise – Political Transformations in Asia and Beyond
Thursday, January 28, 2021, 1:00-2:00pm CET
ZOOM Link: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/92000859579

Abstract: Compared with China’s pre-eminent status in world trade, its role in global finance is poorly understood. This paper studies the size, characteristics, and determinants of China’s capital exports building a new database of 5000 loans and grants to 152 countries, 1949-2017. We find that 50% of China’s lending to developing countries is not reported to the IMF or World Bank. These “hidden debts” distort policy surveillance, risk pricing, and debt sustainability analyses. Since China’s overseas lending is almost entirely official (state-controlled), the standard “push” and “pull” drivers of private cross-border flows do not apply in the same way.

The lecture series is co-organized and co-sponsored by Göttingen’s Centre for Modern East Asian Studies as well the Kiel Institute China Initiative.
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Collaboration and Crossing Borders in Art
2021-01-17 13:00 - 14:30
Collaboration and Crossing Borders in Art
Time: 17.01.2021 CET 13:00-14:30
Place: Zoom Meeting ID 976 2733 1221
Language: Chinese

Speakers:
Chong Wang 王翀 is one of China’s most influential post-80s theater director. His works have been performed in 17 countries. The Warfare of Landmine 2.0 《地雷战2.0》 won 2013 Festival/Tokyo Award. Lu Xun 《大先生》was noted by the Beijing News as The Best Chinese Production of Year 2016. In April 2020, his online production of Waiting for Godot《等待戈多 attracted tens of thousands audience, breaking the record of single performance attendance in Chinese theater.
Shasha Li 李鋆天 is a puppetry artist. She has been recognized with the “Best Performance” awards at the 2nd and 4th Golden Lion National Puppet Art Festival in 2008 and 2012. She won the award “Best Performance” at the 2nd Omsk Arlekin International Puppet Art Festival in Russia. She received a Rockefeller Foundation Asian Cultural Council Scholarship in 2013 and spent a year as an artist-in-residence in New York. She is also a Chinese calligraphy and painting artist.

Online Lecture: The Chinese Communist Party’s International Networks
2021-01-14 13:00 - 14:00
The Chinese Communist Party’s International Networks
Julia Bader (University of Amsterdam)
This lecture is part of our new lecture series China’s Economic Rise – Political Transformations in Asia and Beyond
Thursday, January 14, 2021, 1:00-2:00pm CET
ZOOM Link: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/98494002315

Abstract: Under President Xi Jinping China has become a more assertive force of transformation. It is more openly promoting its vision of global order and more aggressively trying to popularize the Chinese political model. Instruments outside of traditional state-to-state diplomacy play a key role in this endeavor. The lecture focuses on the role of the International Department of the Communist Party of China (CCP-ID). Building on an intense travel diplomacy, the CCP-ID maintains a widely stretched network to political elites across the globe. The CCP-ID’s engagement is not new; but since Xi Jinping took office, it has bolstered its efforts to reach out to other parties. Yet, little is known about the CCP-ID’s role in China’s foreign relations: Who are the CCP-ID’s partners? And what are the CCP-ID’s networking efforts about?
The lecture tries to find answers to these questions. It provides insights into the patterns of the CCP-ID’s external relations since the early 2000s and discusses the underlying motives. Party relations not only serve as an additional channel to advance China’s foreign policy interests. Since President Xi has come to power, party relations also emerged as a key instrument to promote China’s vision for reforming the global order. Moreover, China increasingly uses the party channel as a vehicle of authoritarian learning by sharing experiences of its economic modernization and authoritarian one-party regime. The CCP-ID may well be an instrument of global political transformation.
Julia Bader
Julia Bader is Assistant Professor for International Relations in the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. She joined the Department of Political Science and the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research in July 2012. Before joining UvA, Julia Bader worked as a research fellow at the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) in Bonn (Germany) for five years. Julia Bader holds a MA in Politics and Management from Konstanz University and a PhD in Political Science from Heidelberg University.

Julia’s work focuses on China´s foreign relations; regime transition and autocratic stability, international relations and foreign policy, development assistance and human rights. She is a member of the International Diffusion and Cooperation of Authoritarian Regimes – IDCAR-Network and an external partner of the project Undermining Hegemony. The US, China, Russia, and International Public Goods.
Source: https://www.uva.nl/profiel/b/a/j.bader2/j.bader2.html

This lecture series is co-organized and co-sponsored by Göttingen’s Centre for Modern East Asian Studies as well the Kiel Institute China Initiative.

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The Visit: Online Drama Reading
2020-12-26 14:00 - 17:00 | VooV
The Visit by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Time: 26.12.2020, 14: 00 – 17: 00
Platform: VooV Meeting 931 957 233
Language: Chinese
Website: https://yingmingtheater.com/2020/11/08/2020fall/

Synopsis: An old woman inherits a huge fortune. She intends to make a desirable and dreadful exchange with her townspeople. She will revitalize the decrepit town with her enormous wealth if and only if people kill her old love who betrayed her 45 years ago. Is this a successful deal? Does the benefit of the majority stand for justice? Join us to read the tragicomedy written by Friedrich Dürrenmatt.

Zoom Lecture: Infectious Extremism: How the Chinese government normalises its campaign of internment in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
2020-12-17 18:00 - 19:30
The Department of Asian Studies at UCC (University College Cork) and the Centre of Modern East Asian Studies at the University of Göttingen would like to invite you to the following online lecture:

Dr David O’Brien, Faculty of East Asian Studies at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
“Infectious Extremism: How the Chinese government normalises its campaign of internment in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region”
Thursday 17 December, 6:00-7:30 pm, CET

According to official Chinese government figures 1.3 million people per year, mostly from the Uyghur ethnic group, have been sent for compulsory ‘vocational and educational’ training in the Xinjiang region. A huge network of camps has been set up where those who are deemed to have ‘wrong ideas’ and ‘bad ideology’ are held without trial in what the authorities claim is an attempt to turn them away from potential extremism and to make them ‘better citizens’. This talk will examine how extremism and separatism are likened to a disease from which the ‘normal, healthy’ population needs to be ‘quarantined’. Rather than framing such threats as ideological attacks upon a political order, the danger is presented as a threat to the general population, and one which conversely situates part of that population (ostensibly ‘extremists’ and ‘terrorists’ but in practice largely members of particular ethnic groups) as culpable for posing this threat. This enables the government to situate itself as the pastoral guardian of the general population, responsible for keeping them safe by any measures and therefore normalise a campaign which has been condemned internationally as the most serious human rights abuse in the world today.
Dr David O’Brien obtained his PhD from UCC and is currently a lecturer in the Faculty of East Asian Studies at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. He researches ethnic identity in Xinjiang, a region he has lived in and been travelling to for almost 20 years.
https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/poa/de/team/obrien.shtml

Please register by writing to: assist@cemeas.uni-goettingen.de (end of registration, December 15).
Anyone who registers will receive a Zoom link to watch the event and use the Q & A feature.

I am a Moon: Online Drama Reading
2020-12-12 14:00 - 17:00 | VooV
I Am a Moon by Yi Zhu
Time: 12.12.2020, 14: 00 – 17: 00
Platform: VooV Meeting 422 884 932
Language: Chinese
Website: https://yingmingtheater.com/2020/11/08/2020fall/

Synopsis: This is a lyric play full of Yi Zhu’s dark humor. Come a little bit closer! What do you see first? We see… but we see what we choose to see. I Am a Moon shows the fear of interacting with each other and ourselves. We will read the drama and look at how all the characters struggle with feelings of isolation and dissatisfaction, but deal with them very differently.

Juchang 剧场: Contemporary Theatre Performance in Germany and in China
2020-12-09 14:00 - 15:30
Chinese Culture Seminar Series:
Contemporary Theatre Performance
Time: 09.12, CET 14:00-15:30
Platform: Zoom 991 6515 5251
Language: English
Website: https://yingmingtheater.com/seminar-series/

Topic: Juchang 剧场: Contemporary Theatre Performance in Germany and in China
Invited Speakers:
Li Yinan is a Professor of Dramaturgy and Theatre Studies at the Central Academy of Drama, Beijing. Her research focuses on various aspects of new dramaturgy (including dramaturgy for documentary theatre, dance and new media art). She teaches courses on New Dramaturgy and Documentary Theatre in the B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. programs. She is also a theatre director. Her theatrical productions include YouMou – Have/Have not (有冇, 2015), Home (2016), In the Dream Land (赢得尊冷, 2017), Shuihu (水浒, 2017), and Heisi – The Black Temple (黑寺, 2017). She is the Chinese translator of Hans-Thies Lehmann’s Postdramatisches Theater (1999).
Huang Yiping, dramaturg, performer. He studied at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, the University of London and the Central Academy of Drama, Beijing. His research interests include new dramaturgy and contemporary theatre. He performed in Home (家, 2016), The Black Temple (黑寺, 2017), In the Dream Land (赢得尊冷, 2017),and Shuihu (水浒, 2017). As dramaturg and instructor, he conducted a series of theatre workshop with non-professional performers, including: The Room of Ambiguity 2.0 (黑盒子2.0, 2019), I’m here (我在, 2020).

Online Drama Reading: 加缪《卡里古拉》Albert Camus, Caligula
2020-11-28 14:00 - 17:00 | VooV
加缪《卡里古拉》Albert Camus, Caligula
Time: 14: 00 – 17: 00 28. November 2020
Place: Online (VooV Meeting ID：460 607 174)
Email: yingming.theater@gmail.com
Manner: Participants will read dramas and do some role-play exercises together via video or voice calls. Being an auditor is also welcome.
Synopsis: Who assassinated Roman Emperor Caligula, a famed historical figure for his cruelty and seemingly insane behavior? Find the answer by reading this play of psychological and philosophical debates.
If you would like to know more about Caligula’s story, please join us to read the Evolution together.
For more information about the Chinese Theater in Goettingen, please click here.

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

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

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

Hier kann man sich zum Workshop anmelden.

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