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 (Europe/Berlin) | 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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Lecture: Conservative Radicalism: Watsuji Tetsuro’s Critique of Civil Society and Its Implications for Chinese Intellectual History
2022-05-20 12:00 - 14:00 | KWZ & ONLINE, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
Conservative Radicalism: Watsuji Tetsuro’s Critique of Civil Society and Its Implications for Chinese Intellectual History
Viren Murthy, Associate Professor of History,
University of Wisconsin-Madison

May 20, 2022, 12:00 PM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
On Campus: KWZ 0.610 (University of Göttingen, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen)
On Zoom: For registration, please use this zoom link.
Since the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as the Meiji state quickly modernized, Japanese intellectuals confronted the atomization and alienation associated with new forms of labor in civil society. Unlike in the family, where affective bonds govern human action, in civil society, people ventured into the world as purposive individuals entering into wage-contracts, which forced them into a means-end relationship. While scholars have dealt with attempts to overcome modernity twentieth century Japan, few have focused on the how the ideal of the family served as a trope to reconcile the antagonism between the individual and the community. The Japanese philosopher, Watsuji Tetsuro (1889-1960) critically drew on Hegel’s conception of the family to attack civil society. While his critique is clearly conservative, I argue that his position overlaps with leftist treatments of modern alienation and reveals the contradictions between spheres of the family and civil society. Watsuji develops his position in an essay written in the 1930s on the city, where he translates the civil society (bürgerliche Gesellschaft) as “interest society (rieki shakai)”, a sphere where people pursue personal gain. In response to this, he advocates rekindling to older forms of society, where work and family are not so clearly severed. Towards the end of my presentation, I examine the implications of Watsuji’s critique of urban life for the study of Chinese intellectual history. Specifically, in both contexts, my study suggests that we at times blur the lines between radical and conservative because they often have a similar object of critique, namely capitalism, which they each grasp with varying degrees of success.
Viren Murthy teaches transnational Asian History and researches Chinese and Japanese intellectual history in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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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 No. 12
2022-05-25 14:00 - 16:00 | Zoom
Writing a Play Script and Teaching How to Write One
Guo Chenzi
Time: Wednesday, May 25, 2: 00 PM CET
Zoom Meeting: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/62861416226
Meeting ID: 628 6141 6226
Language: Chinese
Content
1. Can we “learn” how to write a play? What are the pros and cons of playwriting “apprenticeships”?
写剧本能“学”吗？ 编剧“学徒制”的利与弊。
2. Can we “teach” how to write a play? Is teaching playwriting equivalent to play diagnosis?
写剧本能“教”吗？ 编剧教学=剧本诊断？
3. What is dramaturgy in the opinion of a playwright? How did I write “Hudec”?
编剧眼中的 Dramaturgy 与《邬达克》的写作。
Short Bio
GUO Chenzi, M.A., associate professor of Shanghai Theater Academy. Her works written include the dramas performed in black box theaters “Don’t Ask Who I Am”, “Love Slimming”, “Resurrection”, the musical drama “Zhong Kui”, “A Moment Is Not Forever”, the musical “Jews in Shanghai” (cooperation with others), stage plays “Hudec” and “Clear Ripples”, etc. She has published books Kunqu Opera: The Past Life I See in This Life, A Moment Is Not Forever – Guo Chenzi’s Drama Collection, The Curtain Opens – Guo Chenzi’s Drama Critic Collection, and Chenzi Watching Dramas.
郭晨子，文学硕士，上海戏剧学院副教授。编剧并上演的作品主要有小剧场话剧《别问我是谁》《爱情瘦身》《还魂记》、音乐话剧《钟馗》《瞬间不是永远》、音乐剧《犹太人在上海》（与人合作）、舞台剧《邬达克》《清清涟漪》等。出版有《昆曲 今生看到的前世》《瞬间不是永远——郭晨子剧作集》《大幕拉开——郭晨子戏剧评论集》和《晨子看戏》

For further information please refer to Yingming Theater.

Lecture: Understanding the Alienated Self: The Interest in and Problematization of the Village in the Post May-Fourth Period 认识被化外的自我：后五四时期对乡村的关注和农村的问题化
2022-05-27 10:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Understanding the Alienated Self: The Interest in and Problematization of the Village in the Post May-Fourth Period 认识被化外的自我：后五四时期对乡村的关注和农村的问题化
Luo Zhitian 罗志田 (Distinguished Professor), History Department, Sichuan University
May 27, 2022, 10:00 AM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
On Zoom: For registration, please use this zoom link.
The lecture will be held in Chinese.
乡村曾被视为中国社会与文化的基础，在近代改称“农村”后，逐渐被认为出了问题。农村怎样成为“问题”及其所成的“问题”本身，既伴随着中国现代性展开的进程，也因其间的“现代”眼光所生成。这背后的一个要因，是城市的兴起和城乡的对立。由于城市被视为国家的主体，原来作为广土众民代表的乡村逐渐沦为化外，不复能表述自己。在五四后出现一种读书人想要了解自己国家的倾向，先是开始关注已近于未知的农村，观感褒贬参半；接着是被关注者逐渐问题化，见解贬多于褒；最后是问题化的农村升级为“破产”或“崩溃”，表述以贬为主。其间一个重要特点，是一些人因缺乏了解而把常态看成变态，甚至把国家整体的危难移植到农村身上。

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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Lecture: Building a New Chinese State from the Northwest: The Proposal of Liu Guangfen (1843-1903)
2022-06-03 10:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Building a New Chinese State from the Northwest: The Proposal of Liu Guangfen (1843-1903)
Ong Chang Woei 王昌偉 (Professor of Chinese Studies), Department of Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore

June 3, 2022, 10:00 AM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
On Zoom: For registration, please use this zoom link.

In the beginning of his book Origins of the Modern Chinese State, Kuhn asks, “What is Chinese about China’s modern state?” The answer, Kuhn explains, is not to be found by supposing that there some distinctive cultural qualities that will ensure that “China will always be China.” Rather, it is to be found by probing how the Chinese in the recent past dealt with what he calls “constitutional issues” that had already presented themselves before the West made its impact felt. Using Liu Guangfen 劉光蕡 (1843-1903) as a case study, I would like to ask a follow-up question: “What is northwestern about China’s modern state?” My assumption is that whatever “Chinese” problems that existed could be better understood if we take the regional perceptions of such problems into consideration. In this talk, I will demonstrate that Liu Guangfen’s vision of building a modern Chinese state allows us to examine how the concern over nation-state building was shaped by regional experiences. I will also try to show that by studying a particular regional version of “Chinese” nation-state, we can learn something important about the dynamics that shape the quest for a strong nation-state in modern China in general.
Chang Woei ONG is Professor of Chinese Studies at the National University of Singapore. He specializes in the intellectual history of middle period China and is the author of Men of Letters within the Passes: Guanzhong Literati in Chinese History, 907-1911 (2008) and Li Mengyang, the North-South Divide and Literati Learning in Ming China (2016), both published by Harvard University Asia Center.

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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Conference: Global Conflicts, Global Collaboration: China in a Changing World Order
2022-06-03 13:15 - 19:15
2022 Annual ConferenceGlobal Conflicts, Global Collaboration:China in a Changing World Order

Public PanelsThis conference is organized by a Joint Center of Advanced Studies entitled “Worldmaking from Global Perspective: A Dialogue with China.” Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) since November 2020, the Joint Center is characterized by its highly integrated network system. It brings together scholarly teams from Freie Universität Berlin, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität München and Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg. The Joint Center’s annual conference takes place in Göttingen from June 2nd to June 4th,2022. Two panels and a keynote that deal with China’s place in shifting global orders are available to a wider public, via zoom.
Please register to attend via Zoom: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN___I-HO8QSBWQd_jxvEkWHQ

June 3, 202213:15 – 15:15 Panel IV. Carrier or Challenger? China and East Asia in Contemporary Debates on World Order
Chair: Dominic Sachsenmaier (University of Göttingen)
• Sebastian Conrad (Free University of Berlin) Transformations of Territoriality in East Asia in the Nineteenth Century• Tansen Sen (NYU Shanghai) The Recurring Idea (and Failure) of the Asian Century (Online)• Selcuk Esenbel (Bogazici University) The End to Global Multi-Polarity?: The Japanese Perspective on the Making of a New World Order of Transcontinental Alliances and Free Trade Zones• Fan Xin (State University of New York at Fredonia) The World as Historical Analogy: The Thucydides Trap Debate in Recent China

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15:45 – 16:30 Keynote Address by William C. Kirby (Harvard University) China and the World in the ‘New Era’: Reflections after February 24, 2022

16:30 – 19:15 Panel V. The Global Impact of the Ukraine War: Situating China in a New Context
Chair: Hans van Ess (LMU Munich)
• Sören Urbansky (German Historical Institute Washington/Berkeley) Friends with Benefits: Some Thoughts about the Past and Present of Sino-Russian Relations• Maryia Danilovich (Humboldt Fellow, Göttingen) China’s BRI and Eastern Europe in Reload• Liu Kang (Duke University) Chinese Exceptionalism Revisited, within the Context of the Pandemic and Russian Invasion of Ukraine• Tobias ten Brink (Jacobs University) Weaponized Interdependence? China’s Rise and Competition over Technological Leadership

Comments by Selcuk Esenbel (Bogazici University)

Further information:
https://www.worldmaking-china.org/en/veranstaltungen/annual-conference-2022.html

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Lecture: The Creativeness of Modern Chinese Conservative Thinkers 王汎森: 近代保守思想家的創造性
2022-06-10 10:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
The Creativeness of Modern Chinese Conservative Thinkers 王汎森: 近代保守思想家的創造性
Wang Fan-sen 王汎森 (Academician, Distinguished Research Fellow), Institute for History and Philology, Academia Sinica

June 10, 2022, 10:00 AM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
On Zoom: For registration, please use this zoom link.
The lecture will be held in Chinese.

近代中國保守思想家中至少可以區分成兩類，第一類是本能地反對任何改變現狀的思想，第二類是回到一個重要的思想基盤（如宋明理學、大乘佛學）上戰鬥。在這次演講中，我想討論第二類思想家，以宋育仁（1859-1931）、熊十力（1885-1968）、唐文治（1865-1954）、劉咸炘（1896-1932）、錢穆（1895-1990）等人為例，討論一個思想史上的問題：當晚清以來的新派一直在變的時候，反對或批評他們的人，其實也一直在變換他們的言論，同時也變換他們對傳統的解釋，以便對應挑戰。
此外，我在比較仔細地審視他們的思路之後，認為他們不只是「回到本來」的樣子，而是有一個微妙的新創過程。譬如他們有時候會用「提高一格法」，把儒家思想，尤其是宋明理學，作一種新的調整、詮釋。借用卡夫卡的話：「當你凝視深淵時，深淵也在凝視你」。

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 #11: Can China achieve its 2022 GDP growth target of 5.5%?
2022-06-16 14:00 - 15:00 | Zoom
Global China Conversations #11
Can China achieve its 2022 GDP growth target of 5.5%?
June 16, 2022, 2pm – 3pm CEST
Online via Zoom: Please register here.
Speakers:
Prof. Dr. Helge Berger, IMF
Prof. Dr. Justin Yifu Lin, Peking University

In early March, China announced its ambitious economic growth target of 5.5% for 2022. Over the past two months, however, both the national and the global economic environments became even more challenging for China to achieve this development goal. The unprecedentedly strict, large-scale and long-lasting lockdowns in Shanghai and other cities in China have strongly restricted normal business operations, compounded supply chain disruptions and weighed down spending on consumption. Global economic pressure has increased too. The war in Ukraine has slowed the global economic recovery and fueled global inflation.
Despite these challenges, some Chinese experts are convinced that achieving the GDP growth target is still possible with effective counter-cyclical policy measures and if China can succeed in its dynamic Null-Covid policy soon. On the contrary, experts from the West are now even more pessimistic than before. In April, the IMF, for example, again downgraded China’s economic growth forecast for this year to only 4.4%.
Why are there so different economic forecasts for China? Do experts from China and abroad assess the relevance of economic challenges for China, the Chinese government’s policy latitude or the strength/weakness of the Chinese economy differently? What kind of role do international trade and foreign investments play for China to achieve (or not) its GDP growth target? What can China and the Chinese government still do to support its economic development?

Speakers

Prof. Dr. Helge Berger
Helge Berger is the IMF’s China mission chief and Assistant Director in the IMF’s Asia and Pacific Department. He is also an adjunct professor of monetary economics at Free University of Berlin. He was educated in Munich, Germany, where he received his PhD and the venia legendi for economics. Previously, he taught at Princeton University as a John Foster Dulles Visiting Lecturer, helped to coordinate the Munich-based CESifo network as its research director, and served as a full professor (tenured) at Free University Berlin.

Prof. Dr. Justin Yifu Lin
Justin Yifu Lin is Dean of the Institute of New Structural Economics, Dean of the Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development and Professor and Honorary Dean of the National School of Development at Peking University. He was Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank from 2008-2012. Prior to this, Mr Lin served for 15 years as Founding Director and Professor of the China Centre for Economic Research (CCER) at Peking University. He is a Councillor of the State Council and a member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultation Conference. He is the author of more than 20 books including New Structural Economics; Demystifying the Chinese Economy; The Quest for Prosperity, etc. He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for Developing World.

Moderation

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

Finn Mayer-Kuckuk
Finn Mayer-Kuckuk is a business journalist specializing in East Asia. He heads the editorial team of China.Table, the daily professional briefing for experts in business, science, politics, and organizations. Among other things, he has worked as Beijing correspondent for the Handelsblatt and the DuMont Group and later represented several media as business correspondent at the Federal Press Conference in Berlin.

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Lecture: Chinese Intellectuals’ Rethinking of Science, Religion and Superstition in the 20th Century: From Yan Fu, Liang Qichao to New Confucians
2022-06-17 10:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Chinese Intellectuals’ Rethinking of Science, Religion and Superstition in the 20th Century: From Yan Fu, Liang Qichao to New Confucians
Huang Ko-wu 黃克武
(Academician, Distinguished Research Fellow)
Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica

June 17, 2022, 10:00 AM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
On Zoom: For registration, please use this zoom link.
This lecture will be held in Chinese.

Late Qing and early Republican China has been regarded as a “secularized” age that ended “the era of classical learning” and opened the door to an empirical, scientific search for knowledge. With the progress of secularization, science gradually established its authoritative status. Thinkers of the May Fourth period, such as Hu Shi and Chen Duxiu, held science in high esteem and emphasized a clear-cut definition of science and superstition. To them, religions were superstitions that needed to be eliminated. This led to many debates. There were two famous debates in the early Republican period. One was the spiritualism debate and the other was the science and metaphysics debate. The latter was influenced by the former in terms of vocabulary and issues. This lecture will describe these two debates and use Yan Fu and Liang Qichao as two examples to illustrate their views on science, religion and superstition. Their views had a very complex origin. They attempted to rely on traditional spiritual resources to bridge East and West in order to build the moral and intellectual foundation needed for a modern state. New Confucians such as Tang Junyi and Mou Zongsan inherited the legacy of Yan and Liang. They resisted May Fourth scientism and anti-traditionalism, and thought more deeply about the serious issue of how Chinese tradition and Western modernity should converge.
清末民初的中國常常被認為是一個「世俗化」的過程，它結束了「經學時代」，開啟了經驗主義的科學時代。本講座以嚴復與梁啟超對科學、宗教與迷信等觀念的思索，來反省近代中國世俗化的問題。嚴復與梁啟超是近代中國引介民主與科學的先驅。嚴復所翻譯的《天演論》帶來了一個新的宇宙觀，而梁啟超受到嚴復影響，也對新學的引介發揮重要的作用。五四時期新舊人物均受到嚴、梁的影響，然而嚴、梁卻走出一條與五四新文化運動的支持者，如胡適與陳獨秀等人不同的思路。他們不主張科學與宗教（即迷信）的矛盾，反而強調，科學有其限度、宗教有其價值，而科學與宗教的發展將導致迷信的衰微。這一套想法一方面源自於赫胥黎的「不可知論」，另一方面則由於他們以易經與佛教來詮釋新的宇宙觀，並肯定「孝」的宗教意義。這一種以傳統思想資源來貫通中西的想法為港台新儒家，如熊十力、唐君毅和牟宗三等所繼承。他們極力抵制五四科學主義和反傳統主義，更深入地思考中國傳統和西方現代應該如何融合的嚴肅問題。
Dr. Max K. W. Huang was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1957. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in History from Nation Taiwan Normal University. He subsequently pursued his studies in the United Kingdom and the United States, receiving a second master’s degree from Oxford University and his Ph. D degree from Stanford University. He is a distinguished research fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica. His major fields are Ming-Qing studies and Modern Chinese intellectual history. He has published ten books and more than 100 articles. Dr. Huang’s most recent book is Yan Fu: The Man Who Enlightened China with His Pen (筆醒山河：中國近代啟蒙人嚴復, 廣西師範大學出版社，2022年).

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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Lecture: What is to be Done? Literature and History in China's Revolutionary Twentieth-Century
2022-06-24 10:00 - 12:00 | KWZ 0.607
What is to be Done? Literature and History in China’s Revolutionary Twentieth-Century
Rebecca Karl
Professor of History, New York University

June 24, 2022, 10:00 AM (GMT +2) in Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
On Campus: KWZ 0.607 (University of Göttingen, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen)
On Zoom: For registration, please use this zoom link.

This talk will address the problem of literary and historical narrative in China’s twentieth century. Revolutionary time is a particular kind of time, requiring different kinds of narrative. In an analytical pass through a century of narrativizations/re-narrativizations, the talk will examine how successive revolutionaries and writers attempted to answer the constantly posed and re-posed radical question of “what is to be done” (shto delats? 怎么办?).

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 Project: 你好，陌生人! Hello, Stranger!
2022-07-01 - 2022-07-03 | Haus Sindlingen, Sindlinger Bahnstraße 124, Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, 65931, Germany
你好，陌生人！Hello, Stranger! (Nihao, moshengren!)
Ying Ming Theater group
Dr. Yumin Ao

Date: July 01-03, 2022

Venue: Haus Sindlingen, Sindlinger Bahnstraße 124, 65931 Frankfurt am Main

The play Hello, Stranger! is produced by the Ying Ming theater group in Göttingen. The themes are cyberbullying, animal rights, freedom, betrayal, understanding, etc. Students are engaged in scripting, rehearsal, and theater design and technology. The students will join Dr. Yumin Ao to perform the play at Haus Sindlingen, Frankfurt, July 1-3.

In May, the Ying Ming theater organized a study tour to the Berliner Theatertreffen 2022. Students went to watch theaters and attended stückmart workshops and conferences on eco-theater and sustainability. They interviewed performance artist, composer, and singer Aine Nakamura from Japan/Germany, playwright Ruth Tang from Singapore/New Zealand, and talked with directors from Asia and Europe.

On June 4th, the students attended the premiere of the documentary film Lao Mei Chun Xiang 老梅春香 on Chinese shadow puppetry screened at KOLK 17 Puppet Theatre & Museum in Lübeck. Ying Ming Theater group contributes to the production through research and translation. Students were interested in the diverse collection in the museum and the staff’s research work. They interviewed the director, Dr. Antonia Napp.

Cast and Crew:
Director: Yumin Ao
Script: Xin Chen (drafting), Yumin Ao, Jiayue Li, Siyi Liu
Cast: Xin Chen, Siyi Liu, Jiayue Li, Sishi Cao, Ping He, Matheus
Assistant Director/Stage Manager: Xia Li
Costumes/Props/Makeup: Jiayue Li
Light Effect: Yumin Ao
Audio/Video: Xia Li, Sishi Cao, Jiayue Li, Siyi Liu, Xin Chen, Xiaoxi Li
Rap Music: Xin Chen
Voiceover: Xiaoxi Li, etc.
Poster: Jiayue Li

作品主题：
网络霸凌、动物权益、自由、背叛、孤独、理解

台词选段：
【说唱《游乐园》】
欢乐世界 / 我们一起游戏/ 疯狂地嬉戏
随机选中一个闪烁靶心/ 箭一脱手/ 只能继续前进/ 飞速地前进
吞没/ 将我吞没/ 欢呼扑向我/ 我爱这堕落
远去/ 看着我远去/ 奔向沸腾人群/ 我满心憧憬
最后发现终点不止一个/ 你我面面相觑不知所措
没关系/ 一起享受这美妙的时刻
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（场外音）：它是不是普通的狗重要吗？现在外界都在说我们中心伪造证明！再说 了，哪有人不希望自己的狗是名贵品种？哪有人会刻意要求自己的狗是普通品种？说出去谁会相信？你自己信吗？你见过谁鉴宝的时候希望自己的宝物是假的？现在你只需要向外界澄清自己判断失误，我们道个歉就完了。如果再坚持说下去，保不准我们整个鉴定中心都会被上级审核调查！再说了，这么多年谁能保证自己的鉴定没有失误呢？你也是蠢，塞红包的过程也被拍下来，你要是不想被吊销执照你赶紧给我道歉！不然就卷铺盖滚蛋！
宠物医生：是，是，是，我知道怎么做了。
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鉴狗专家三：大家好，我是 James Wild。我认为，这只狗长成这样完全是自然界的错误，是基因突变的产物，因为我从没有在美国文献中发现这种狗的存在。（其他两位专家听见后耳语了一番）据——说，（稍停顿）据说，麒麟狗来自中国的古老神话，它寓意着子孙满堂，多子多福，品德高尚，才高八斗，招财进宝，财富满贯，长命百岁，寿比南山，事业顺畅，家庭和睦，吉祥如意，繁荣昌盛。谢谢！
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艺术家（亢奋地）：“您好动物园，我是一位当代艺术家。得知跳舞小狗死去的消息，我深表遗憾，我想买下小狗的遗体做成作品…… 名字我都想好了，就叫《生者对死者的无动于衷》。草间弥生说过：‘魔鬼是艺术的敌人，但更是它的盟友，如果不是为了艺术，我应该很早就自杀了。我成为了创作的囚犯，创作成为了我的医生。’ 对，她是这么说的。这将是一件伟大的作品，一座堆满尸体的动物园，不再有痛苦….. ”
动物园（打断）：“没问题啊，还有别的死了的都可以一起拉走。”

Poster © Jiayue Li

演职员表：
导演：敖玉敏
编剧：陈鑫（执笔），敖玉敏，李佳玥，刘思忆
演员：陈鑫，刘思忆，李佳玥，曹思诗，何平，Matheus
导演助理/舞台监督：李霞
服道化：李佳玥
灯光： 敖玉敏
音频/视频：李霞，曹思诗，李佳玥，刘思忆，陈鑫，李小溪
说唱词曲：陈鑫
场外音：李小溪等
海报：李佳玥

Attribution
Let me go by Steep, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyIYoWm1Gio
The higher being by Wei Dou, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j6saRRm9B0
Shameful Being Left Alone by Chu Zhang, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUYUWf1a5tQ
音乐署名/来源
Steep乐队 Let me go，https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyIYoWm1Gio
窦唯《高级动物》，https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j6saRRm9B0
张楚《孤独的人是可耻的》，https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUYUWf1a5tQ

Acknowledgment
We extend our appreciation to Shuhan Miao, Zijun Li, Junjun Zhang, Hao Cui, Xiaofeng Wu, Pingping Zhu, Qiwen Deng, Yueming, Huanhuan Yang, and Yunshan Feng for their help in recording. We would like to especially thank Dr. Kai Zhang, Ulrich, Tong Zhang, Katharina, and Yu Hönicke, for all their great support.
致谢
感谢苗澍晗、李姿俊、张俊俊、崔昊、吴筱枫、朱平平、邓棋文、悦明、杨欢欢、冯韵珊为演出提供录音。也要特别感谢张凯博士、Ulrich，张桐、Katharina, Yu Hönicke 的大力支持。

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Lecture: Modern Alienation and its Antidotes: Strategies from Early 20th Chinese Buddhist Intellectuals
2022-07-01 10:00 - 12:00 | KWZ 2.739, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, 37073, Germany
Modern Alienation and its Antidotes: Strategies from Early 20th Chinese Buddhist Intellectuals
Eyal Aviv
Assistant Professor of Religion, Department of Religion, George Washington University

July 01, 2022, 10:00 AM (GMT +2) in Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
On Campus: KWZ 2.739 (University of Göttingen, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen)
On Zoom: For registration, please use this zoom link.

Intellectuals, such as Nietzsche, Weber, and Adorno, described modernity as a period of alienation resulting from the collapse of pre-modern social and political structures and the disintegration of shared values. Alienation leaves the individual disconnected from organic relational networks from which humans derive a sense of meaning. But is alienation an inevitable side effect of modernity? In this talk, I will explore the examples of some leading Chinese Buddhist intellectuals in the modern period and argue that far from being alienated, Chinese Buddhists seized the significant changes of the period as an opportunity to transform Buddhism and adapt it to the new era. While they were aware of China’s predicament after the collapse of the imperial world order and the spread of colonialism, still, they approached it in an engaged and constructive spirit. In the talk, I will reflect on what prevents alienation from occurring and why not all modernisms were born alike.

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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Digital Dialogues: Nationalism in China and Europe: Global Divergence and Convergence of an Idea
2022-07-06 14:00 - 15:30 | Oec 0.169, Platz d. Göttinger Sieben 3, Göttingen, Lower Saxony, 37073, Germany
Nationalism in China and Europe: Global Divergence and Convergence of an Idea

Stefan Berger Professor of Social History, Ruhr Universität Bochum
Xin Fan Associate Professor of History, State University of New York (Fredonia)

July 06, 2022, 2:00 PM (GMT +2) in Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
On Campus: Oeconomicum 0.169 (University of Göttingen, Platz d. Göttinger Sieben 3, 37073 Göttingen)
On Zoom: For registration, please use this zoom link.

Nationalism as a concept is often considered to be rooted in European experience. However, the introduction, translation, and appropriation of nationalism have also changed the course of history in East Asia. On this panel, Stefan Berger and Xin Fan contrast and compare the role of nationalism in the making and unmaking of modern China and Europe over the course of the twentieth century, and they ask, ––What is the role of nationalism in unifying or dismantling political formations? Why did it break Europe into multiple states but hold China together as a unitary political entity? To answer these questions, they return to the historical writings about the nation during the twentieth century and re-examine the global divergence and convergence of nationalism as an idea. Getting beyond the ethnic-centric framework of historical interpretations, the presenters attempt to forge a truly global dialogue on nationalism studies in the twentieth-first century.

The speakers:
Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr Universitaet Bochum. He is also executive chair of the Foundation History of the Ruhr in Bochum and a Honorary Professor at Cardiff University in the UK. He has worked extensively on comparative labour history, the history of historiography, nationalism, the theory of history, British-German relations, industrial heritage, the memory of social movements and the history of deindustrialization. His latest monograph is ‘History and Identity: How Historical Theory Shapes Historical Practice, Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Xin Fan is Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York at Fredonia. His research areas include Chinese intellectual history, historiography, and global history. He is the author of World History and National Identity in China: The Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2021), and he also coedited Receptions of Greek and Roman Antiquity in East Asia (Brill, 2018).
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Worldmaking from a Global Perspective: A Dialogue with China

Lecture: Empire of Paper. Missionaries, Diplomats, and Early Sinologists as Social Carriers of Translingual Practices and Worldviews
2022-07-07 18:00 - 22:00 | VG 3.103, Verfügungsgebäude, Platz der Göttinger 7, Göttingen, Lower Saxony, 37073, Germany
Empire of Paper. Missionaries, Diplomats, and Early Sinologists as Social Carriers of Translingual Practices and Worldviews

Eugenio Menegon
Associate Professor of History, Boston University

July 07, 2022, 06:00 PM (GMT +2) in Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
On Campus: VG 3.103 (University of Göttingen, Verfügungsgebäude, Platz der Göttinger 7, 37073 Göttingen)
On Zoom: For registration, please use this zoom link.

Dictionaries compiled in the last phase of the manuscript age (late 16th to early 19th century) acted as metaphorical soldiers of the “empire of paper” that European observers in China – predecessors of the modern China watchers – enlisted to crack the secrets of the Chinese language and to convert the Chinese to Christianity. Through them, information on China, its language, and culture circulated in Europe, and assisted the birth of academic sinology. Such texts also reflect the role of missionaries, diplomats, and sinologists as “social carriers” of a hybrid cultural worldview developed between Europe and China, and their translingual practices. The story of a vocabulary preserved at the Vatican Library, the object of this study, illuminates the past of the Catholic mission in imperial Beijing during the eighteenth century, and in particular the operations of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith or de Propaganda Fide, the “ministry of missions” of the Holy See. It also shows how linguistic knowledge of Chinese was treasured and sought for by European diplomats, linguists, and missionaries alike, and how manuscript culture continued to have an important role in the cross-cultural circulation of knowledge about China well into the nineteenth century.
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This lecture is part of the lecture series Conceptions of World Order and Their Social Carrier Groups.

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Speaker:

Eugenio Menegon 梅歐金 (BA University of Venice Ca’ Foscari, Italy; MA & PhD, UC Berkeley) teaches Chinese history and world history at the Department of History at Boston University, and was Director of the Boston University Center for the Study of Asia in 2012-2015. His interests include Chinese-Western relations in late imperial times, Chinese religions and Christianity in China, Chinese science, the intellectual history of Republican China, the history of maritime Asia, and Chinese food history. He has been Research Fellow in Chinese Studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), An Wang Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Boston University Humanities Center Junior and Senior Fellow, a Member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College.

He has published widely, including the book Ancestors, Virgins, and Friars: Christianity as a Local Religion in Late Imperial China (Harvard University Press, 2009; recipient of the AAS 2011 Joseph Levenson Book Prize) centers on the life of Catholic communities in Fujian province between 1630 and the present. He is currently a Berenson Fellow at the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies – Villa “I Tatti” (Florence).

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Prof. Dr. Dominic Sachsenmaier, University of Göttingen
Benjamin Creutzfeldt, PhD, University of Göttingen

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Department of East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen

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University of Göttingen

Lecture: Heavenly Principle and the Trends of the Times: Some Thoughts on Confucianism
2022-07-08 10:00 - 12:00
Heavenly Principle and the Trends of the Times: Some Thoughts on Confucianism
Wang Hui
Professor of History, Tsinghua University

July 08, 2022, 10:00 AM (GMT +2) in Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
On Zoom: For registration, please use this zoom link.

Between the 1920s and the 1940s, first Naitō Torajirō and then Miyazaki Ichisada introduced several important propositions regarding the Tang to Song transition, capitalism during the Song Dynasty, and East Asian early modernity. Since then, despite constant controversy, revision, and improvement, one Kyoto School proposition has garnered universal acclaim: there is a basic difference between the Tang and Song, and the Song Dynasty deserves special status in history. In the fields of Chinese intellectual history or philosophy, some of the characteristics of the Confucianism of the Northern and Southern Song dynasties (and especially the School of Principle of the Cheng brothers and Zhu Xi) have been of use to modern Confucian scholars as a reference for understanding the early modern in Chinese or East Asian history. Follow this trend, the basic principles of Confucianism are not only organized into the European philosophical categories of ontology and epistemology, but also into such historical categories as: an inward turn, rationalization, and secularization. So, was there an early modern in Chinese history, or how to interpret China and its “modernity”? This talk will take the establishment of the concept of heavenly principle as a clue to address the above issues.

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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Lecture: The World of Everyday Political Thought: A Transcultural History of a “Chinese” Rhetorical Curriculum, ca. 1200–1600
2022-07-11 13:00 - 14:30 | ERZ 1.201, Waldweg 26, Göttingen, Lower Saxony, 37073, Germany
The World of Everyday Political Thought: A Transcultural History of a “Chinese” Rhetorical Curriculum, ca. 1200–1600
Shoufu Yin
Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia

July 11, 2022, 01:00 PM (GMT +2) in Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
On Campus: ERZ 1.201 (University of Göttingen, Waldweg 26, 37073 Göttingen)
On Zoom: For registration, please use this zoom link.

This talk has two goals. First, it develops a new approach to the studies of political theory and philosophy, one that I call everyday political thought. This approach invites us to explore how ordinary individuals were able to come up with remarkable ideas despite the fact that they were living under and working within different forms of oppressive powers. Second, employing everyday political thought as method, I provide a new narrative of the history of early modern political thought by excavating a rhetorical curriculum that flourished in East Eurasia. This rhetorical curriculum trained individuals to write official documents in literary Sinitic, a lingua franca of the regions. I use documents in Chinese, Mongolian, Manchu, and Persian, among other languages, to reconstruct how the curriculum took its shape under Mongol-ruled China, flourished in post-Mongol East Eurasia, until it was finally restructured under the Manchu Empire. Practicing both close and distant readings of a large number of previously untapped sources that have survived in different parts of the world, I show that this form of education enabled individuals thus trained to philosophize the state, bureaucracy, and counterfactual histories in their everyday settings. In sum, this talk seeks to demonstrate how new method and toolkits, combined with large corpora of overlooked materials, will allow us to write new kinds of intellectual histories that decenters Western Europe and China while foregrounding the theoretical contributions of “everyday” thinkers of different locals and traditions.

This lecture is part of the lecture series Conceptions of World Order and Their Social Carrier Groups.

Speaker:
Shoufu Yin is an assistant professor in history at the University of British Columbia. His research and teaching center on Chinese and Inner Asian political culture and thought in global historical contexts. Specializing in areas where cultural history meets comparative philosophy, he works on a wide array of previously unknown, untapped, and understudied sources in different languages—literary Sinitic (classical Chinese), Korean, Manchu, Mongolian, Persian, Latin, and Greek, to name a few. As such, his publications show that it is productive to engage the intellectual world of hitherto overlooked and marginalized groups—including peasant women who fought in wars, Manchu translators who processed imperial documents, and anonymous typesetters behind the production of books. Ultimately, his scholarly passion lies in writing new kinds of global intellectual histories that foreground the theoretical contributions of both “canonical” and “everyday” thinkers of different traditions.
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Department of East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen

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Lecture: Hun 魂 and Po 魄: An ancient Chinese approach to human psyche and soul
2022-07-13 10:00 - 12:00 | KWZ 0.701
Hun 魂 and Po 魄: An ancient Chinese approach to human psyche and soul
Dr. Dr. Dominique Hertzer
Visiting Lecturer, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen

July 13, 2022, 10:00 AM (GMT +2) in Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
On Campus: KWZ 0.701 Conference Room (University of Göttingen, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen)
On Zoom: For online participation, please use this zoom link.

Is there only one soul? What is the relation between body and mind or is there only a body? We will explore the meaning and function of the Chinese concept of the human soul, as it is represented in the dynamic relation between spirit (shen 神), hun 魂 (etheral soul) and po 魄 (body soul). We will look into the ideas underlying the differentiation of these three aspects and see what are the consequences for the relationship of body and mind. Finally, we will discuss which impact this may have for our own understanding of the human psyche.

This lecture announcement is beyond our currently running lecture series.

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Lecture: From Mentorship to Comradeship: Irving Babbitt, The Critical Review, and Conservative Globalism in Republican China
2022-07-15 10:00 - 12:00 | KWZ 0.609, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, 37073, Germany
From Mentorship to Comradeship: Irving Babbitt, The Critical Review, and Conservative Globalism in Republican China
Kuo Ya-pei
Assistant Professor, Center for International Relations Research, University of Groningen

July 15, 2022, 10:00 AM (GMT +2) in Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
On Campus: KWZ 0.609 (University of Göttingen, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen)
On Zoom: For registration, please use this zoom link.

Since the late 19th century, the “East vs West” dichotomy has been the predominant framework for understanding Chinese civilization and its place in the world. This talk focuses on The Critical Review (Xueheng 學衡), a “conservative” platform launched in 1922, and its effort to overcome this dichotomy. As many modern scholars have pointed out, those who were associated with the journal, such as Wu Mi and Mei Guangdi, held a globalist agenda with a conviction in cultural commonality across the East-West divide. This talk elucidates the particularist dimension of their globalist position. In spite of the apparent disparity between the East and the West, these intellectuals believed that regional civilizations contain certain shared, universal elements. The undeniable particularity of each cultural system thereby presents no barrier to the advancement of history. Rather, they argued that manifesting local specifics was a vehicle contributing to the modern quest for the universal. Through the notion of a diffused locus of the universal, The Critical Review relativized the West’s place in the modern world. The second half of the talk reconsiders Mei Guangdi and Wu Mi’s indebtedness to their American “mentor” Irving Babbitt. While Babbitt’s hermeneutic method and historical outlook left an imprint on the intellectual lives of his Chinese students, Wu and Mei were cognizant of their own as well as Babbitt’s particularity. Their globalism rendered both Prograssive-Era America and post-revolutionary China as parallels that could learn from each other but held neither to be the absolute paragon of human progress. Revering Babbitt, Mei and Wu wittingly deviated from his teachings in formulating their interpretations of Chinese culture. They epitomized an especially sober kind of student of the West, a kind that utilized the knowledge of the West to nurture their own cultural acumen, without idolizing the West as an object of emulation.

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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Lecture: Arab-Chinese Entanglement in the Age of Global Empires
2022-07-18 13:00 - 14:30 | ZHG 104, Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude, Platz der Göttinger 7, Göttingen, Lower Saxony, 37073, Germany
Arab-Chinese Entanglement in the Age of Global Empires
Shuang Wen
Clinical Assistant Professor of History, New York University Shanghai

July 18, 2022, 01:00 PM (GMT +2) in Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
On Campus: ZHG 104 (University of Göttingen, Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude, Platz der Göttinger 7, 37073 Göttingen)
On Zoom: For registration, please use this zoom link.

This talk narrates four little-known stories of Arab-Chinese entanglement in the age of trans-imperial collaboration and competition in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Although much attention is paid to China’s relationships with the Middle East today, I argue that this relationship did not emerge out of nowhere. Chinese and Arab lands were not entirely separate worlds until recently. Rather they have been entangled in complex ways well before the turn of the twenty-first century. The discovery of these episodes of largely invisible interactions resulted from my original juxtaposition of primary sources in Arabic and Chinese from multi-sited research in China, Egypt, Syria, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

This lecture is part of the lecture series Conceptions of World Order and Their Social Carrier Groups.

Speaker:
Shuang Wen is a historian of modern China and the Arab world. Prior to joining NYU Shanghai, Professor Wen held fellowships at the National University of Singapore and New York University Abu Dhabi. As a native Mandarin speaker, she received intensive Arabic-language trainings. Before switching her career to academia, Shuang was a broadcast journalist for Phoenix Satellite Television InfoNews Channel in Hong Kong, covering major breaking news events from the Middle East, and English-Mandarin-Cantonese simultaneous interpreter for live news coverage. Her latest publication is “A Short History of Modern Arab Knowledge Production on China,” in Islam, Revival, and Reform: Redefining Tradition for the Twenty-First Century, edited by Natana J. DeLong-Bas, University of Syracuse Press, 2022, chapter 9.

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Department of East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen

Global China Conversations #12: Green growth: What can we expect from China?
2022-08-18 11:00 - 12:00
Global China Conversations #12:
Green Growth: What can we expect from China?

Time: August 18, 2022, 11:00 am (GMT +2) in Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
On Zoom: For registration, please use this zoom link.
Speakers:
Dr. Sebastian Eckardt, World Bank
Prof. Dr. Xiliang Zhang, Tsinghua University

Limiting the rise in global temperature is an internationally shared goal. But it should not come at the cost of economic growth and poverty reduction. How does China aim to bridge these challenges and achieve sustained green growth? What CO2 reduction path is the Chinese government pursuing? What policy instruments will help achieve these goals? What does China’s green growth strategy mean for the rest of the world?
Program:
The event consists of different impulse lectures followed by a discussion.
The Global China Conversation #12 will be held in English.

Speakers

Sebastian Eckardt
Sebastian Eckardt is a Practice Manager for Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment in the East Asia and Pacific Region where he leads a team of economists working on Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, China, Mongolia and Vietnam. Prior to this position, he was the Lead Economist for China, Mongolia and Korea and earlier Vietnam. Since joining the World Bank in 2008, he has led complex lending operations and innovative analytical work across more than a dozen countries mostly in Europe and Asia, supporting clients in the areas of macroeconomic, fiscal, and structural reforms.
Before joining the Bank, Sebastian worked as an economist for the German Government. A German national, he holds an MSc from the University of Birmingham, UK and PhD in Public Finance from the University of Potsdam, Germany.

Xiliang Zhang
Dr. Zhang Xiliang is a professor of management science and engineering and director of the Institute of Energy, Environment, and Economy at Tsinghua University. Professor Zhang is a member of the National Experts Panel on Climate Change and the Chair of the Energy Systems Engineering Committee of the China Energy Research Society. He has been heading the expert group of national carbon market design since 2015. He was a lead author of the fourth and fifth IPCC Climate Change Assessment Report. He was granted the Leading Talent Award by Ministry of Ecology and Environment and the First Award for Humanity and Social Science Research by Ministry of Education in 2020. His current research interests include low-carbon energy economy transformation, climate change economics, and climate change policy and mechanism design. Professor Zhang holds a PhD in Systems Engineering from Tsinghua University.

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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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Global China Conversations #13: Krieg in der Ukraine: Ein Gewinn für China?
2022-09-08 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Global China Conversations #13
Krieg in der Ukraine: Ein Gewinn für China?

Datum: 08. September 2022
Zeit: 11:00 – 12:00 (GMT +2) in Amsterdam, Berlin, Rom, Stockholm, Wien
Ort: Online auf Zoom – Anmeldeformular
Sprecherin und Sprecher
Dr. Marina Rudyak
Prof. Dr. Julian Hinz

Am 24. Februar 2022 überfiel Russland die Ukraine. Als Antwort darauf verhängten viele westliche Länder eine Kaskade wirtschaftlicher und politischer Sanktionen. China hingegen erklärte eine „grenzenlose Freundschaft“. Während einige Beobachter argumentieren, dass diese Antworten die Kluft zwischen Ost und West vertiefen und die wirtschaftliche Entkopplung weiter vorantreiben, sprechen sich andere für ein China aus, das zwischen den Fronten steht. Durch die Sanktionen von westlicher Nachfrage abgeschnitten, hat Russland in China zwar in manchen Sektoren Abnehmer gefunden. Gleichzeitig sind viele insbesondere private Unternehmen in China vorsichtig geworden, ihre Tätigkeiten in Russland im gewohnten Maße fortzusetzen. Sechs Monate nach Kriegsbeginn und mit einem richtungsweisenden Nationalen Parteikongress vor der Tür diskutieren wir folgende Fragen: Wo liegen Chinas ökonomische und geopolitische Interessen? Beobachten wir eine Zeitenwende in Chinas Engagement gegenüber Russland? Welche Effekte haben die Sanktionen? Und welche Auswirkungen haben die politischen Spannungen auf die Wirtschaftsbeziehungen mit China und der Welt?
In unserer 13. Global China Conversation wird Handels- und Sanktionsexperte Julian Hinz die Auswirkungen der Sanktionen auf die globalen Handel- und Investitionsströme beleuchten und die China- und Russlandexpertin Marina Rudyak Chinas geopolitische Rolle in dem Konflikt diskutiert. Entsteht eine erneute geopolitische und ökonomische Blockbildung?

Programm
Die Veranstaltung besteht aus Impulsvorträgen der Sprecher gefolgt von einer Diskussion.
Die Global China Conversation #13 wird auf Deutsch abgehalten.

Sprecherin und Sprecher

Dr. Marina Rudyak
Marina Rudyak ist Assistenzprofessorin für Chinesische Kulturwissenschaft an der Universität Heidelberg und Vertretungsprofessorin für Chinesische Politik an der Universität Frankfurt. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Chinas internationale Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und der chinesische außenpolitische Diskurs. Zuvor war sie als Politikberaterin bei der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in Peking tätig. Sie berät regelmäßig Regierungsorganisationen und NGOs zu Fragen der chinesischen Außenhilfe und internationalen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit. Rudyak ist Mitbegründerin des Decoding China Dictionary. Sie studierte Chinastudien und öffentliches Recht in Heidelberg und Shanghai und hat einen Doktortitel und einen Master of Arts in Chinastudien der Universität Heidelberg.

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Prof. Dr. Julian Hinz
Julian Hinz ist ein empirischer Ökonom, der zu Themen des internationalen Handels, der Migration und der angewandten Ökonometrie forscht. Er ist Leiter der Trade Policy Task Force und Juniorprofessor für Internationale Volkswirtschaftslehre an der Universität Bielefeld. Vorher war er Vertretungsprofessor am Institut für Wettbewerbsökonomie (DICE) der Universität Düsseldorf, Postdoc am Kiel Institut für Weltwirtschaft und Fellow am Kiel Centre for Globalization. In den Jahren 2018-2019 war er Max-Weber-Stipendiat am Europäischen Hochschulinstitut in Florenz. Seine Promotion in Volkswirtschaftslehre erwarb er an der Paris School of Economics und der Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

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Prof. Dr. Andreas Fuchs
Andreas Fuchs ist Professor für Entwicklungsökonomie, Direktor des Zentrums für Moderne Ostasienwissenschaften an der Universität Göttingen und Leiter der China-Initiative des IfW Kiel. In seiner Forschung analysiert er Handels-, Investitions- und Entwicklungspolitik mit quantitativen Methoden und einem besonderen Fokus auf China und andere Schwellenländer. Außerdem untersucht er die politische Ökonomie von Naturkatastrophen, humanitären Krisen und nicht-militärischen Konflikten.

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Workshop: Islamic Pasts and Futures in East Asia's Worldmaking
2022-09-23 11:00 - 2022-09-24 19:00 | Historische Sternwarte
Workshop:
Islamic Pasts and Futures in East Asia’s Worldmaking
September 23, 2022 – September 24, 2022

Venue: Historische Sternwarte, University of Göttingen, Geismar Landstraße 11, 37083 Göttingen
*There is only a limited number of seats for attendance onsite. Please contact xiaoyang.zhao@stud.uni-goettingen.de for inquiries.
Program:
September 23, 2022 (Friday)

11:00 –
11:20
Opening and Introduction
Dominic Sachsenmaier (University of Göttingen)
Janice Hyeju Jeong (University of Göttingen)
Mohammad Alsudairi (King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies)

11:30 –
14:00
Panel I. Visions and Instrumentalizations of Islam in Asia: Historical Trajectories
Chair: Janice Hyeju Jeong (University of Göttingen)

Cemil Aydin (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill)
Inter-Asian Muslim Experiences of World-Making and World-Breaking in the Long 20th Century

Ulrich Brandenburg (University of Zurich)
Asia, Muslim Asia, and the Challenge to Geography

Yee Lak Elliot Lee (Leipzig University)
Re-Territorialization of Hui Muslims in Early 20th Century China: Historical and Demographic Knowledge Production

Hale Eroglu (Bogazici University)
The Awakened Muslim: Turkish Modernity in Chinese Muslim Reformist Thought

15:30 –
16:30

Keynote Address by Selcuk Esenbel (Bogazici University)
“Islam and East Asia in World-Making: Local and Regional Maps Embedded into a Globalizing World”

17:00 –
18:45
Panel II. Crisis, Community, and Control in Altishahr/Xinjiang
Chair: Cemil Aydin (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill)

Elke Spiessens (Leiden University, WWU Münster)
CCP Policy towards Uyghur Islam in the 21st Century: What Changed?

Björn Alpermann (University of Würzburg)
A Vanishing Act? Islam in Contemporary Xinjiang

Rachel Harris (SOAS University of London)
Religious Experience and Manufactured Spectacle in Xinjiang

September 24, 2022 (Saturday)

10:00 –
11:45

Panel III. The Question of “Muslim” Ethnicities and Minorities in “non-Muslim” Asia
Chair: Selcuk Esenbel (Bogazici University)

Rian Thum (University of Manchester)
Inter-Asian Islamophobia

Wlodzimierz Cieciura (University of Warsaw)
Huizu – a Chinese ‘Muslim race’? Muslim Racialization and Self-Racialization in Modern China.

Yoko Yamashita (Sophia University)
Multicultural Freedom and Discursive Modes of Control over Muslims in Contemporary Japan

13:00 –
14:45
Panel IV. The Politics of “Acceptable” Islam: Aesthetics and Public Visibility
Chair: Liu Kang (Duke University)

Soojeong Yi (Sogang Euro-MENA Institute, Sogang University)
Social Integration in South Korea: Ban-Opticon and Recognition Struggle

Yang Yang (National University of Singapore)
Traveling Muslim Men as Cultural Assets: Popularized Islam, Heritage, Diplomacy, and the Silk Road in China

Michael Malzer (University of Würzburg)
From Arabian Nights to China’s Bordeaux: the Vanishing Role of Islam in Yinchuan, Ningxia

15:00 –
16:00

Keynote Address by Engseng Ho (Duke University):
“Mobile Muslims and Majoritarian States: Open and Shut Cases”

16:30 –
18:15
Panel V. Dwelling in Migration and Displacement: Tensions and Opportunities between Global Expanses and Westphalian Borders
Chair: Zhu Guohua (East China Normal University)

Francesca Rosati (University of Leiden)
Muslim Women in Northwestern China between Islamization and Chinafication: The Case of Women’s Madrasas in Linxia

Leila Chebbi (CETOBaC)
In the ways of Tabligh: Sinicization as a Survival Strategy for a Global Islamic Revivalist Movement?

Atsushi Yamagata (University of Wollongong)
Responses to the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Japan

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Public Conference Program “Islamic Pasts and Futures in East Asia’s Worldmaking”

For further information please refer to the website of the Joint Center for Advanced Studies “Worldmaking from a Global Perspective: A Dialogue with China”.

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Podiumsdiskussion: Systemwettbewerb China
2022-10-06 18:00 - 19:30 | ZHG 002
Öffentliche Podiumsdiskussion: Chinas Wirtschaft im globalen Systemwettbewerb

Zeit: 06.10.2022, 18:00 – 19:30 (GMT +2)
Ort: Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude ZHG 002, Platz d. Göttinger Sieben 5, 37073 Göttingen
Diskutant*innen:
Dietmar Baetge, TH Wildau
Anja Jetschke, Universität Göttingen
Wolfgang Krieger, BDI
Jürgen Matthes, IW Köln
Moderation: Felix Turbanisch, Universität Göttingen
Ist die westliche Demokratie und Marktwirtschaft gegenüber der staatskapitalistischen Autokratie wettbewerbsfähig? Was bedeuten die wachsenden wirtschaftlichen Abhängigkeiten von China für Deutschland und Europa? Verstärkt die Handhabung der Corona-Pandemie die Rivalität zwischen China und dem “Westen”?
Chinas System der staatskapitalistischen Autokratie hat sich unter Xi Jinping nicht nur weiter verfestigt, sondern China positioniert sich immer selbstbewusster als Alternative zu westlicher Demokratie und Marktwirtschaft. Eine neue Form internationaler Beziehungen könnte kultiviert werden und so eine Abkehr von Chinas außenpolitischem Prinzip der Nichteinmischung einleiten. Der neue Systemwettbewerb zwischen den demokratischen Marktwirtschaften und dem autoritären Staatskapitalismus in China birgt neue Herausforderungen. Dies zeigt sich beispielsweise in Chinas Haltung gegenüber dem Globalen Süden und den damit einhergehenden wirtschaftlichen und politischen Perspektiven in Entwicklungs- und Schwellenländern oder im Rahmen der Neuen Seidenstraße durch sich verstärkende Handlungs- und Investitionsbeziehungen.
Dietmar Baetge (TH Wildau)
Dr. Dietmar Baetge ist Professor für Internationales Handelsrecht und Wirtschaftsprivatrecht an der Technischen Hochschule Wildau. Zu seinen Forschungsschwerpunkten gehören die Wechselwirkungen zwischen Wettbewerbs- und internationaler Handelspolitik.

Anja Jetschke (Universität Göttingen),
Anja Jetschke ist seit April 2012 Professorin für Internationale Beziehungen am Institut für Politikwissenschaft an der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen auf der Entstehung und den Effekten des institutionellen Designs internationaler und regionaler Organisationen.

Wolfgang Krieger (BDI)
Wolfgang Krieger ist Deputy Chief Representative des Bundesverbands der Deutschen Industrie (BDI e.V.) in China. In seiner Forschung beschäftigt er sich mit dem regulatorischen Umfeld in China, sowie den Wirtschaftsbeziehungen zwischen der EU und China.

Jürgen Matthes (IW Köln)
Jürgen Matthes ist Leiter des Kompetenzfelds Internationale Wirtschaftsordnung und Konjunktur am Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln. Sein Forschungsschwerpunkt liegt auf den ökonomischen Aspekten der Globalisierung.

Organisator*innen:

Centre for Modern East Asian Studies (CeMEAS) der Universität Göttingen

Kiel Institute China Initiative des IfW Kiel
Andreas Fuchs (Professur für Entwicklungsökonomik) und
Anja Jetschke (Professur für Internationale Beziehungen) an der Universität Göttingen.

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**ABGESAGT** Veranstaltung: Praxisbezogene Chinakompetenz
2022-10-07 10:00 - 12:00 | VG 1.101, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, Göttingen, Lower Saxony, 37073, Germany
Praxisbezogene Chinakompetenz

Zeit: 07.10.2022, 10:00 (GMT +2)
Ort: Verfügungsgebäude VG 1.101, Platz d. Göttinger Sieben 7, 37073 Göttingen

**ABGESAGT! Leider muss die Veranstaltung aufgrund einer Coronaerkrankung abgesagt werden.**
**NUR FÜR STUDIERENDE DER UNIVERSITÄT GÖTTINGEN**
Sprecher
Wolfgang Krieger, Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie (BDI e.V.)

Liebe Studierende,
wir laden Sie herzlich zur Veranstaltung Praxisbezogene Chinakompetenz ein!

Nach zwei Jahren Pandemie eine einmalige Möglichkeit, Arbeitswelten, Berufseinstieg und Kompetenzen für den chinesischen Arbeitsmarkt kennen zu lernen und zu diskutieren!
Herr Wolfgang Krieger vom BDI (Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie) in Peking wird einen kurzen Vortrag halten und dann für ein Q&A zur Verfügung stehen.
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Wolfgang Krieger ist Deputy Chief Representative des Bundesverbands der Deutschen Industrie (BDI e.V.) in China. Er hat Regionalwissenschaften Ostasien und Volkswirtschaftslehre an der Universität zu Köln studiert. In seiner Arbeit beschäftigt er sich mit dem regulatorischen Umfeld in China, sowie den Wirtschaftsbeziehungen zwischen der EU und China.

Herr Max Hiller von der Fachgruppe Sinologie wird die Veranstaltung eröffnen und moderieren.
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.Wir freuen uns auf zahlreiches Erscheinen!

Veranstaltet von:
CeMEAS – Centre for Modern East Asian Studies
Fachgruppe des Ostasiatischen Seminars Göttingen

Centre for Modern East Asian Studies (CeMEAS) der Universität Göttingen

Ostasiatisches Seminar der Universität Göttingen

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Lecture: Ontology of Self in Translating China's New Silk Roads
2022-10-26 16:00 - 18:00 | KWZ 0.609, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, 37073, Germany
Ontology of Self in Translating China’s New Silk Roads
Sophia Kidd
Visiting Lecturer at the University of Goettingen
Date: October 26, 2022, 04 pm – 06 pm (GMT +2) in Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
On Campus: KWZ 0.609 (University of Goettingen, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen)

In this lecture, Sophia Kidd discusses how the ontological unit of ’self‘ cannot be taken for granted when discussing narratives, translation of, and methodology for understanding China’s New Silk Roads. She will do this by analyzing how the ontology of self remains fluid in translation of four key terms in China’s BRI narrative: ‘Five Pillars (Wu Tong 五通)’, ‘Chinese Dream (Zhongguo Meng 中国梦),’ ‘Community of Common Destiny (Mingyun Gongtongti 命运共同体) ,’ and ‘harmony in diversity (he er bu tong 和而不同) .’ First, we will look at the epistemological and ontological ‘self’ in Western thought in contradistinction to the Chinese notion of ‘self (ziwo 自我).’ By examining selected uses of the term ziwo in Chinese literature over the past two thousand years, we arrive at a constructed Chinese notion of self which resembles the epistemological more than the ontological Western ‘self,’ while failing to reach equivalency with either. This understanding will inform our lexical and contextual analysis of Wu Tong, Zhongguo Meng, Mingyun Gongtongti, and he er bu tong.

Lecturer:

Dr. Sophia Kidd is an Asia-focused scholar in the social sciences and arts disciplines. She is affiliated with the Chinese Department at Sichuan University, as well as the Research Center of Literary Geography at Southwest University, China. Her most recent contribution to a comparative study of spatial studies in literature can be seen in Spatial Studies in Literature (Palgrave 2022). Dr. Kidd has given a visiting course and lectures on Chinese contemporary art and politics as at Ruhr University Bochum, while currently delivering a course at Göttingen University on her book, Culture Paves the New Silk Roads (Palgrave, 2022). This book includes new regional research from within China’s borders, as well as throughout the New Silk Road regions. It derives primary and secondary materials from classical and contemporary Chinese arts and literature.
Sophia Kidd is also an arts professional, contributing to private and public sector arts infrastructure development in the US and China. Managing arts, culture, and education projects, she works with small teams to network creative professionals across regional and national boundaries.
Specialties:
Skilled researcher in diverse fields. Experience in arts and project management, digital branding and content development. Bi-lingual in Mandarin Chinese and English.

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Global China Conversations #14: Compliance in China zwischen Sozialpunkten und wachsender Regulierung: Welche Herausforderungen stellen sich für Unternehmen?
2022-10-27 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Global China Conversations #14: Compliance in China zwischen Sozialpunkten und wachsender Regulierung: Welche Herausforderungen stellen sich für Unternehmen?

Datum: 27. Oktober 2022
Zeit: 11:00 – 12:00 (GMT +2) in Amsterdam, Berlin, Rom, Stockholm, Wien
Ort: Online auf Zoom – Anmeldeformular
Sprecher:
Rainer Burkardt, Anwaltskanzlei Burkardt & Partner in Shanghai
Dominik Nowak, Martin Mantz Compliance Solutions
Moderator:
Prof. Dr. Dietmar Baetge, Technische Hochschule Wildau

Thema
Die stark gewachsene Zahl und zunehmende Komplexität der Gesetze in der VR China haben zusammen mit den Anti-Korruptions-Kampagnen der chinesischen Regierung und dem steigenden Compliance-Bewusstsein in Europa das Thema Compliance an die Spitze der To-Do-Liste deutscher und europäischer Unternehmen mit Tochtergesellschaften in China gerückt. In dieser vierzehnten Ausgabe der Global China Conversations soll es um die Entwicklung und aktuelle Lage der Compliance in China gehen, einschließlich des Sozialkreditsystems für Unternehmen und der fortbestehenden Einreisebeschränkungen aufgrund der chinesischen Zero-COVID-Politik. Die Sprecher erörtern als erfahrene Compliance- und China-Experten, wie mittelständische Unternehmen mit dem Thema Compliance in China umgehen sollten und mit welchen Instrumenten und Maßnahmen die regulatorischen Herausforderungen gemeistert werden können. Dabei spielen auch Möglichkeiten der Digitalisierung eine wichtige Rolle.
Programm
Die Veranstaltung besteht aus Impulsvorträgen der Sprecher gefolgt von einer Diskussion.
Die Global China Conversation #14 wird auf Deutsch abgehalten.
Literatur
Die Impulsvorträge nehmen Bezug auf folgende Veröffentlichungen:
Burkardt, Rainer (2021). ,,Social Credit System – Schwarze Listen sind das Herzstück“. In ChinaContact 25(4). S.31-32
Buss, Simona (2021). ,,Social Credit System – Einträge mit Konsequenzen“. In ChinaContact 25(4). S.21
Börner, Juliane und Mantz, Martin (2021). ,,Digitalisierung braucht Rechtssicherheit“. In QZ 66(1). S.43-45
Martin Mantz Compliance Solutions zum praktischen Anwendungsfall in China am Beispiel von emz Hanauer

Sprecher

Rainer Burkardt
Herr Rainer Burkardt ist Gründer und Geschäftsführer der chinesischen Anwaltskanzlei Burkardt & Partner in Shanghai. Er lebt schon seit mehr als 25 Jahren in China und ist somit einer der wenigen ausländischen Rechtsanwälte mit einer mehr als zwei Jahrzehnte dauernden Berufs- und Beratungserfahrung vor Ort in China. Seit 2009 ist Herr RA Burkardt Vertrauensanwalt des österreichischen Generalkonsulats in Shanghai. Von 2008 bis 2010 war er Mitglied des Vorstandes der deutschen Handelskammer und Vorsitzender der Arbeitsgruppe Recht der Europäischen Handelskammer in Shanghai. Anfang 2013 wurde Herr RA Burkardt zum Schiedsrichter der Shanghai International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission ernannt. Sein Fokus liegt auf der Rechtsberatung vorwiegend mittelständischer Unternehmen, aber auch Unternehmensgruppen und internationalen Industriekonzernen aus Österreich, Deutschland und der Schweiz bei deren Investitionen und Geschäften in China.

Dominik Nowak
Dominik Nowak begleitet internationale Projekte im Rahmen digitaler Compliance Organisation bei Martin Mantz Compliance Solutions. Er erlebt hierbei als Geschäftsführer der Martin Mantz Compliance Solutions in der VR China und Ansprechpartner weltweiter Partner eine steigende Komplexität insbesondere hinsichtlich länderspezifischer Anforderungen und Organisationsbedingter Fragen der Compliance. Dominik Nowak hat berufliche Erfahrungen als Geschäftsführer, Projektleiter, Manager, Beirat und Berater (Branchen u.a.: Dienstleistung, Beratung, Elektrotechnik, Windkraft, Software, Maschinenbau, Handel) in Europa, Asien, Nordamerika und Afrika gemacht, die seinen Blick auf unternehmerische wie auch kulturelle Herausforderungen bis heute prägen. Seine Universitätsabschlüsse hat er in Deutschland (M.A.) und in Neuseeland (MBA) mit dem Schwerpunkt der nachhaltigen Unternehmensentwicklung abgeschlossen.

Moderation

Prof. Dr. Dietmar Baetge
Dietmar Baetge ist Professor für Internationales Handelsrecht und Wirtschaftsprivatrecht an der Technischen Hochschule Wildau. Er war u.a. Referent am Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht in Hamburg und Partner einer deutsch-griechischen Anwaltskanzlei. Zu seinen Forschungsschwerpunkten gehören die Wechselwirkungen zwischen Wettbewerbs- und internationaler Handelspolitik.
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“Contemporary Theater Arts” Seminar Series No. 13
2022-10-28 14:00 - 15:30 | Online
Cantonese Opera in a Shakespearean Garb: An East-West Adaption Framework
Ying Ming Theater group
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kelly Kar Yue Chan (陈家愉博士)
Date: October 28, 2022, 02pm – 03:30pm (Beijing Time 8pm – 09.30pm)
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Drama and performances are meticulously knitted with poetic and lyrical representations; poetry in turn conforms well to the dialogue-lyric-laden framework of plays and operas. Specifically in the case of Cantonese opera, it is inspiring to scrutinize the intimate relationship amongst the specific poetic structure, rhetorical features and their cultural implications manifested in performable genres during the process of translation and adaptation.
Over the last few decades, some attempts of adapting Shakespearean plays into Cantonese opera performances were witnessed. Well-known Shakespearean plays like Macbeth, Hamlet and Midsummer Night’s Dream have been reformatted and restored into localized Cantonese opera titles (starting from 1996, and in 2012 and 2015/2018 respectively), resulting from a breakaway of territorial and literary restrictions, and a merging of Eastern and Western essentials to supplement the original taste of these performances. For Chinese performance goers who are also familiar with English literary masterpieces, this creation subsequently serves as a brand-new knowledge transfer. In spite of some criticisms received for such adaptations for being “something in-between”, it is still worthy of sensible discussions about the value of their existence.

Short Bio:
Kelly Kar Yue CHAN completed her undergraduate degree and her master’s degree both in the discipline of Translation and Interpretation at the City University of Hong Kong. She then finished her PhD in Classical Chinese Literature at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. She is currently an Associate Professor in language and translation at Hong Kong Metropolitan University, teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses on culture and translation, and literary translation. Her research interests include literary translation, translation of women’s poetry in pre-modern China, and translation of Cantonese opera.

陈家愉博士，获得香港城市大学翻译和口译学本科和硕士学位。毕业于英国苏格兰爱丁堡大学，获得中国古典文学博士学位。现任香港都会大学人文学院语言与翻译学副教授，教授文化与翻译、文学翻译等本科和研究生课程。她的研究兴趣包括文学翻译、前现代中国女性诗歌翻译和粤剧翻译。
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Reading: 高子文《故乡》Hometown by Ziwen Gao
2022-11-11 15:00 - 17:00 | Humboldtalle 32, Humboldtalle 32, Göttingen, Lower Saxony, 37073, Germany
高子文《故乡》Hometown by Ziwen Gao
Ying Ming Theater group

Date: November 11, 2022, 03pm – 05pm
Location: Humboldtalle 32, 2-104, Göttingen

**This event is held in Chinese!**
语言：中文
联系：yingming.theater@gmail.com
海报：刘思忆/ 敖玉敏
剧情：为纪念鲁迅先生《故乡》发表一百周年，编剧高子文创作了三幕喜剧《故乡》。大学生李新和李菲菲回到了位于江南的农村老家，看到故乡在新农村建设下已是旧貌换新颜，也观察到农村社会深层的巨变和割裂。剧本集中表现现代文明与传统观念的碰撞，客观地记录下新农村在新时代下所发生的文化转型。作品在喜剧性的氛围中，挖掘出了人物的悲剧性内核，极具艺术感染力。

Language: Chinese
Contact: yingming.theater@gmail.com
Poster: Siyi Liu/ Yumin Ao
Synopsis:
To mark the centenary of the publication of Mr Lu Xun’s Hometown, screenwriter Gao Ziwen has created a comedy in three acts called Hometown. University students Li Xin and Li Fei Fei return to their rural hometown in Jiangnan and see that their hometown has been transformed by the construction of the new countryside, and also observe the profound changes and fragmentation of rural society. The play focuses on the collision between modern civilisation and traditional ideas, and objectively records the cultural transformation that is taking place in the new countryside in the new era. The work has a comedic atmosphere, but also uncovers the tragic core of the characters, which is highly compelling.

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Global China Conversations #15: Foreigners Leaving China - What Consequences for Multinationals and the Chinese Economy?
2022-11-24 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Global China Conversations #15:
Foreigners Leaving China: What Consequences for Multinationals and the Chinese Economy?

Time: November 24, 2022, 11:00 am (GMT +2) in Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
On Zoom: For registration, please use this zoom link.
Speakers:
Maximilian Butek, German Industry and Commerce Shanghai, German Chamber of Commerce China
Dr. Wan-Hsin Liu, Kiel Institute for the World Economy

The number of foreigners living in China is very low in international comparison and has further declined recently. The pandemic-related travel restrictions have significantly exacerbated the problems many Western companies in China face in attracting and retaining foreign talent and have thus led to a further reduction in the number of foreign staff employed by Western companies in China. Given the hiring difficulties the companies currently encounter, the decline in the number of foreign employees is likely to continue – even after a future lifting of the COVID-19-related travel restrictions. Against this background, the Global China Conversation #15 will discuss the economic challenges that the decline in the number of foreigners is causing for Western multinationals in China as well as for the Chinese economy and the world economy more broadly.
Program:
The event consists of different impulse lectures followed by a discussion.
The Global China Conversation #15 will be held in English.

Literature:
The impulse lectures refer to the following publication:
Bickenback, Frank and Liu, Wan-Hsin (forthcoming). Goodbye China: What do fewer foreigners in China mean for multinationals and the Chinese Economy? Intereconomics – Review of European Economic Policy
Speakers

Maximilian Butek
Maximilian Butek is Delegate and Chief Representative of the Delegation of German Industry & Commerce Shanghai and Executive Director and Board Member of the German Chamber of Commerce in China – East China. Mr. Maximilian Butek has more than 14 years of experience in the Network of German Chambers Abroad. Before his posting as Chief Representative of Delegation of German Industry and Commerce Shanghai, he held positions as Chief Representative of Delegation of German Industry and Commerce in Guangzhou and Ghana. His previous postings include the Southern Africa-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the German-Baltic Chamber of Commerce in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the German-Thai Chamber of Commerce. Before his career in the German Chamber Network abroad, he gained experience in a multinational ICT company and a German strategy consulting firm.

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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.

Moderation

© Finn Mayer-Kuckuk (Autoren: Kopf&Kragen, mark von wardenburg)
Finn Mayer-Kuckuk
Finn Mayer-Kuckuk is a business journalist specializing in East Asia. He heads the editorial team of China.Table, the daily professional briefing for experts in business, science, politics, and organizations. Among other things, he has worked as a Beijing correspondent for the Handelsblatt and the DuMont Group and later represented several media as a business correspondent at the Federal Press Conference in Berlin.

Contact: Silas Dreier (silas.dreier@ifw-kiel.de)
For more information about the Global China Conversations, please visit the IfW Website.

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Lecture: Draft Theatre: The Assembly Line Theatre Production
2022-11-29 13:00 - 15:00 | Zoom
Draft Theatre: The Assembly Line Theatre Production

Speaker: ZHAO Chuan, author, art critic, independent theatre director
Time: Tuesday, Nov. 29th, 2022, 13: 00 PM CET
Language: Chinese
Zoom link: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/66476427828

More information: https://yingmingtheater.com/chinese-culture-seminar-series/
