CeMEAS

Guest Lecture: The Making of Merchants - War, Local Government, and Commercial Organization in Chongqing from 1750 to 1950
2016-06-08 12:15 - 13:45 (Europe/Paris) | Oec. 1.162
Guest Lecture
The Making of Merchants – War, Local Government, and Commercial Organization in Chongqing from 1750 to 1950
Wednesday, June 8, 2016 · 12:15 pm · Oec 1.162
Prof. Maura Dykstra
Caltech Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
This lecture explores the formation, development, and expansion of merchant groups in the inland commercial center of Chongqing from the Qianlong period to the end of the Republican era. It demonstrates how Sichuan’s profile as a military base provided an urgent demand and special conditions for commercial organization at the local level. It illustrates how provincial and local institutions created an opportunity for the emergence of merchant groups whose relationship to the state grew both closer and more complicated over time. In conclusion, this paper argues that the wartime mobilization of merchant groups in the 1930s and 1940s was the climax of two centuries of local state-building.
Picture: 渝城图section4, kindly provided by the speaker

Guest Lecture: 近代以來中國佛教的基本狀況與未來展望 Basic Situation and Future Prospects of Chinese Buddhism since the Modern Times
2016-06-06 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Paris) | VG 4.104
Guest Lecture
近代以來中國佛教的基本狀況與未來展望
普 慧, 國家教育部人文社會科學重點研究基地四川大學中國俗文化研究中心
Monday, June 6, 2016 · 4 pm (c.t.) · VG 4.104

Basic Situation and Future Prospects of Chinese Buddhism since the Modern Times
Pu Hui, Centre for Chinese Folk Cultural Studies of Sichuan University, Key Research Base of Humanities & Social Science of National Ministry of Education

佛教從公元1世紀傳入中國，歷經2000年，已經完全成爲中國傳統文化的重要組成部分，在中國漢文化以及一些主要的少數民族文化中，發揮了重要的作用。人們的社會生活、精神生活都充斥著佛教內容。無論是上層的知識精英，還是下層的黎民百姓，都離不開佛教信仰的指導。
走向近代時的佛教，已經是老態龍鍾，步履蹣跚，一副衰氣。伴隨著近代民族革命和民主革命的興起，中國佛教也開始懲治教內腐敗，力圖復興、光大佛法，以適應社會急變之需。然而，20世紀的中國，戰亂頻仍，內憂外患，民族救亡和國家振興成爲主題。意識形態的加強，政治氛圍的濃郁，把佛教的生存空間擠壓到了瀕臨倒閉的境地。佛教的精神指南作用下滑爲民間神祇的功利主義的心理安慰。20世紀直至今天的30多年裡，佛教迅速復興，力求適應新的社會變革。
中國佛教的前世、今生以及未來將如何行進呢？她還能有新的活力嗎？演講者將提出自己的觀點。

Image: By Mi..chael, CC BY-NC 2.0, https://flic.kr/p/hF5j9v
Design: CeMEAS

Globalization, Corporate Social Responsibility and the Environmental Impacts on China
2016-06-03 14:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Seminar Room (Room No. 13.122), Library of the Institute for International Law and European Law, MZG (“Blauer Turm”), 13th Floor
Guest Lecture
Globalization, Corporate Social Responsibility and the Environmental Impacts on China
Maoliang Bu, PhD, Associate Professor, Nanjing University, School of Business
Friday, June 3, 2 pm
Seminar Room (Room No. 13.122), Library of the Institute for International Law and European Law, MZG (“Blauer Turm”), 13th Floor

We kindly invite you to this week’s lecture by Maoliang Bu, jointly organized by the Institute for International Law and European Law, Sino-German Institute for Legal Studies and CeMEAS!
The presentation consists of a couple of papers on China’s environmental issues from the perspective of globalization and corporate social responsibility. Some interesting questions include: Is China a pollution haven of foreign direct investment? Do multinational enterprises race to bottom in China? Does corporate social responsibility play a role? How is the evolvement of pollution industry flight across regions in China?

CeMEAS Lecture: Beyond Modernity - Understanding Change in Qing China (1644 – 1911)
2016-05-20 12:15 - 14:00 (Europe/Paris) | Verfügungsgebäude, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, Göttingen
CeMEAS Lecture
Beyond Modernity: Understanding Change in Qing China (1644 – 1911)
Friday, May 20, 2016, 12:15 VG 2.101
Prof. Margherita Zanasi
Director of Asian Studies, Department of History at Louisiana State University
This lecture explores the limits of adopting a modernization approach to the study of economic change in Qing China. Recent works have successfully “decentered” developmental determinism by questioning both the uniqueness of the European experience and the imposition on non-Western countries of derivative chronologies of modernity. They have especially focused on tracing the existence in China of those elements that characterized the modernization experience in Europe, above all the introduction of pro-market and pro-consumption policies. This approach, however, had the unintended consequence of keeping the historical narrative focused on the European experience, overshadowing elements that played a uniquely important role in China, such as population growth.
In the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, under mounting pressure from population growth, pro-market and pro-consumption ideas and policies that had culminated in the reign of the Qianlong Emperor (1711 –1799) began to lose favor. This reversal marked the beginning of the uneasy relationship with the free market that came to characterize modern China. In China, therefore, the fortunes of laissez faire thought and policies followed a very different path than in Europe. They emerged almost a hundred year earlier and came later to be considered unsuitable to face newly emerging problems. In China, modernity actually arrived in the form of an increasingly interventionist state.

Image: By tanakawho, Behind the bars, CC BY-NC 2.0, https://flic.kr/p/dYqAgS
Design: CeMEAS

Global Food Research Colloquium - Fertilizer Use in China: Why Is It So High, and What Can Be Done to Reduce It?
2016-05-17 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Paris) | ZHG 102
Global Food Research Colloquium
Fertilizer Use in China: Why Is It So High, and What Can Be Done to Reduce It?

Professor David Abler, Ph.D., Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics and Demography, Penn State University

Tuesday, 17.05.2016, 16:15 to 17:45
ZHG 102

On Tuesday, May 17th David Abler will present his research on fertilizer use in China in the Global Food Research Colloquium. The Colloquium has been organized by the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development as a joint event with the Agricultural Economics Seminar.

China’s rates of agricultural fertilizer use per hectare are among the highest in the world, and fertilizer is a major contributor to water pollution, air pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions in China. Several explanations have been put forward for the high rates of fertilizer use in China, most of which do not stand up to close scrutiny. A number of pilot programs offering farmers information, technical assistance, and/or incentives to reduce fertilizer use have been tried, almost all of which have failed. This paper surveys these explanations and programs, identifies key unanswered research questions about fertilizer use in China, and offers programmatic suggestions for reducing fertilizer use based on the experience of other countries.

Find out more about Göttingen University Global Agri-Food Systems program and events on http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/191858.html

CeMEAS Lecture: AIRCRAFT, SPACECRAFT, STATECRAFT Specialist cultures and China-U.S. trade in sensitive technologies
2016-05-02 18:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Paris) | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Heinrich- Düker Weg 14, Göttingen
CeMEAS Lecture
Aircraft, Spacecraft, Statecraft: Specialist cultures and China-U.S. trade in sensitive technologies
Monday, May 2, 2016, 6 pm (c.t.) KWZ 0.610
Alanna Krolikowski, PhD
Visiting Professor of Modern Chinese Society and Economy, Georg-August-University Göttingen
Why are some sensitive, strategic high-technology industries organized into transnational production networks while others are fragmented into national industrial bases? This project explores this general question through a comparison of China-U.S. trade in two strategic, dual-use sectors: civil commercial aircraft and spacecraft manufacture. In the aircraft sector, Chinese and U.S. firms have expanded their trade and industrial partnerships for the manufacture of sensitive items since the 1980s. In the space sector, Chinese and U.S. firms traded in sensitive articles for a decade before policy changes severed these exchanges in 1999. This project explains these divergent outcomes, drawing on data collected through extensive field research.

Image: PaoPao Wang PCPOP.COM, kindly supplied by the lecturer
Design: CeMEAS

CeMEAS Lecture: The Uighur Separatist Movement - Its Past, Present and Future
2016-04-25 17:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Paris) | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Heinrich- Düker Weg 14, Göttingen
CeMEAS Lecture
The Uighur Separatist Movement – Its Past, Present and Future
Monday, April 25, 2016, 5 pm (c.t.) KWZ 3.701
Jeremy Gong, PhD candidate
Department of War Studies, King’s College, London
Over the past years China has claimed itself to be a victim of terrorist activities perpetrated by members of the Uighur Separatist Movement (USM), who were blamed for atrocities in Chinese cities of Urumqi, Kunming and so on. In response Chinese authorities have militarised Xinjiang Province and expressed desire to be included in the US-led alliance fighting Global War on Terror. Who are the Uighur people? Why do they want independence from China? Why have they taken up armed struggle against the Han Chinese? Are they terrorists or freedom fighters? Unsurprisingly media reports on the USM in the West are filled with colonial narratives, which have been provided by experts with little interest in the history of the Uighur nation or the development of the modern Chinese state. This talk intends to bring in a historical dimension to analysis of the USM to help scholars better understand the rise of Uighur militancy. Although it does not seek to find a solution to violence associated to the USM, it invites scholars to examine China’s claim over Uighur’s territory, evaluate China’s current policy on ethnic Muslim minorities and perhaps predict the future direction of such protracted conflict between the Han Chinese and the Uighur people.
Image: By Jed, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7797823
Design: CeMEAS

Guest Lecture: China in 1968 - From the Red Guard Movement to the Sent Down Youth Movement
2016-04-20 17:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Paris)
Guest Lecture
China in 1968: From the Red Guard Movement to the Sent Down Youth Movement
Wednesday, April 20, 2016 · 5 pm (c.t.) KWZ 0.701
Prof. Jin Guangyao
Department of History, Fudan University
2016 is the 50th anniversary of the Cultural Revolution. In order to launch the Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong mobilized the Red Guard (young students) to rebel against the class enemy, therefore the Red Guard played a vanguard role in the Cultural Revolution. In 1968, however, Mao ended the Red Guard movement and sent young students down to the countryside. This talk tries to discuss why Mao changed his attitude towards the Red Guard, how the Red Guard reacted to Mao’s policy, and what influence the Sent Down Youth movement had on the Red Guard generation.

Image: Joe Wong, Red Guards, Tag, CC BY 2.0, https://flic.kr/p/6MU6E5

The 9th East Asia Research Salon
2016-03-07 17:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Heinrich- Düker Weg 14, Göttingen
The 9th East Asia Research Salon
Peng Tsintsin
Between Faith and Truth: The Historical Writing of Buddhism in Modern China
March 7, 2016, 5 pm
KWZ, Conference Room 0.701, Heinrich- Düker- Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen
Abstract:
The historical writing of Buddhism in modern China, as one part of the revival of Buddhism and reform of historiography, developed under the dual impact of Chinese scholarly traditions and Western intellectual trends. Most outstanding historians and Buddhist scholars such as Hu Shi, Chen Yinque, Tang Yongtong, Lü ​Chen, were all attracted by this topic. Due to their different historical viewpoints and religious commitments, this branch of study quickly gained in diversity and complexity, closely linked with almost every significant phenomenon in the process of the modernization of Chinese scholarship.
My research is mainly focused on the modern historical expression of Buddhism, seeking to illustrate why Buddhism became the object of historical writing at this particular moment; how it was organized, formed an academic ​discipline and gained legitimacy in the new knowledge system and ideological orders. I also want to show how the historiographical developments ​influenced Buddhism, which tried by way of​ control​ling or modifying its resources and discourses and by adapting to the historical framework, to fit in the modern category of “religion”.
Peng Tsintsin has been a PhD candidate at the Centre of Modern East Asian Studies (CeMEAS), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany since 2013. The title of her dissertation is “Between Faith and Truth: Historical Writing of Buddhism in Modern China”. She is further conducting a research project under the title “The Historiography of Buddhism in Late Qing and Republican Era”.
The paper is available to interested participants via Email. Please get in touch with CeMEAS.

Rural-Urban Dynamics and Emergent Forms of Labor in India and China
2016-02-22 - 2016-02-23
Rural-Urban Dynamics and Emergent Forms of Labor in India and China
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University of Göttingen, Germany
CeMEAS – Centre for Modern East Asian Studies, CeMIS – Centre for Modern Indian Studies
In recent decades, economic reforms in India and China have changed the adaptability, speed, and direction through which capital flows in the global market economy. Accelerated growth in the two economies has been facilitated by increasing mobility and emergent forms of labor situated between agriculture, industry and services.

These developments reveal the fluidity and dynamism of the division between rural and urban, creating ambiguous interstitial spaces and networks through which new forms of labor arise. They are entangled with transformations in the regimes of production and land use, as well as with changes in the organization of kinship relations. In turn, they give rise to new subjectivities and aspirations.
Cities absorb large numbers of rural migrants aspiring to join the ranks of the urban middle classes. Illegal practices combine with legal forms of work, while private corporations and land-holding entities blur the boundary between public and private domains. The informalization of work and flexible labor practices facilitates the world’s growing demand for low-wage labor at the cost of unmaking former working-class communities already facing the retrenchment of state-sponsored benefits and social services. The weakening of traditional labor unions and the limited integration of migrants into public service provision means that migrants have to rely on their capacity to secure support networks through kinship and bottom-up labor organizations. Precarious employment also pushes migrants to experiment with new entrepreneurial practices: individuals need to become competent self-starters with flexible skills and business acumen.
These processes not only transform the livelihoods of individual migrants but also the conditions of local communities in the wider sending and receiving areas. Emerging peri-urban areas take many shapes. In mega-cities, former urban cores expand and shrink, thereby cultivating dynamic spaces which serve as gateways for migrant workers in search of affordable housing and employment. Lower tier cities and so-called “urban villages” pop-up as quickly as urban cores disappear.
Indeed, perhaps the most prominent features of development in China and India today are the increasing levels of social, economic and environmental violence in these interstitial zones, which, at the same time, gives rise to individual and collective aspirations, hopes, and imaginations for a better life.
Proposals
We invite contributions from the fields of cultural studies, labor studies, geography, political science, urban planning, sociology, anthropology, and related disciplines that address the entangled social and spatial aspects of these transformations. We encourage applicants to explore, evaluate, and debate the workshop themes by contributing empirical case studies and theoretical considerations within comparative Asian contexts.
The questions we are interested in addressing include:

Which new forms of labor and labor organization develop through these rural/urban dynamics?
To what extent are interstitial zones aspirational spaces?
Which factors facilitate, allow, and limit rural-urban migrants’ upward social mobility in these interstitial zones?
How do the experiences of migrants who float in and out of these zones challenge their gendered, ethnic, religious, and class-based self-identifications?
How are developing transnational economic ties influencing and transforming existing institutional structures (i.e. of labor relations and production regimes)?
How can workers interests be represented in the expansion of second- and third-sector employment in China and India? What role do old and new forms of worker organization and labor unions play in the process?
How do rural-urban migrants and urbanites organize social security in the absence of effective, state-organized social protection?
How do opportunities for education/skill-formation influence social mobility and employment relations? What roles do governments, enterprises, and labor unions play? Is the established state of labor market segregation along ethnicity, gender, and other lines challenged by new transnational economic ties and emerging peri-urban landscapes? How, if at all, are these transformations likely to impact on social mobility?
How are the costs and benefits of migration distributed between the urban and rural areas?
How do the boundary-making practices that take place within these interstitial zones articulate with national identifications, state governance, and cross-cultural encounters?

Submission of Proposals
Paper proposals should include a title, an abstract (250 words maximum) which states:

The objective and rationale of your project
The methods/sources used for writing the paper
A brief personal biography of 150 words.

Deadline for abstract submission is January 4, 2016.
Please send all proposals to assist(at)cemeas.uni-goettingen.de.
We are applying for funding to finance travel and accommodation costs for workshop participants. For further information, please contact Ms Katja Pessl via cemeas(at)uni-goettingen.de.
All applicants will be notified of the outcome of their application as soon as possible after the closing date.
Contact:
Katja Pessl
Coordinator
Centre for Modern East Asian Studies
University of Göttingen
cemeas(at)uni-goettingen.de
+49-(0)551-39 21280
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Dr. Karin Klenke
Coordinator
Centre for Modern Indian Studies
University of Göttingen
karin.klenke(at)cemis.uni-goettingen.de
+49-(0)551-39 19636
https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/131257.html

Lecture Series: Rethinking China’s Place in Global History Comparatively
2016-02-16 17:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Paris) | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Heinrich- Düker Weg 14, Göttingen
Special Guest Lecture:
Rethinking China’s Place in Global History Comparatively
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
5 p.m. (c.t.), KWZ 0.603
Prof. Dr. Kent Deng
The London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History
In 1803, Napoleon famously said in front of a world atlas where China was that ‘Here lies a sleeping giant (lion in other versions), let him sleep, for when he wakes up, he will shock the world’ (“Ici repose un géant endormi, laissez le dormir, car quand il s’éveillera, il étonnera le monde”).
Napoleon turned out to be right 200 years ago. China’s ‘miracle growth’ and development in the recent four decade has stunted the world. Most current observers have been very puzzled about where the energy and determination of such growth has come from. But if one takes a long-term and global view, China’s current growth and development become rather logical, if not entirely inevitable.
This talk will take the audience back to the very beginning of the formation of the Empire of China (which was at the same time the formation of one of the largest single economy in the world) and show what China managed to achieve in comparison with Europe historically. It argues that contemporary China merely reclaims its ‘rightful’ place in the world rather than invents a new one for itself. So, the rest of the world will have to get used to it.

Lecture Series: Transformative Spaces
2016-02-02 17:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Paris)
Special Guest Lecture:
Transformative Spaces of 19th Century East Asia:
A Japanese Merchant’s Experience of Treaty Port Yokohama
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
5 pm (c.t.), VG 3.102
Prof. Simon C. Partner
Duke University, Department of History
Following the experiences of one merchant, a farmer from Kōshū province (present-day Yamanashi prefecture) who left his village to open a trading venture in Yokohama in 1859, the presentation will examine the merchant communities of Yokohama during roughly the first decade of its existence, 1859-1873. Through this lens, the role of the Yokohama treaty port in the political, social, and economic transformations of the 1860s and beyond will be explored. More broadly, the presentation will consider the transformative agency of the East Asian treaty ports as new spaces of global exchange.
Image: Evan Blaser, 266, CC BY 2.0. https://flic.kr/p/arSwzN

Filmscreening: Somewhere Between
2016-01-27 16:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Heinrich- Düker- Weg 14, Göttingen
Somewhere Between 中间地带
Filmscreening
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
4 pm
KWZ 0.607
Lecturer: Katja Pessl

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Picture: John Carkeet, Zoominations, https://flic.kr/p/vwVbS4,CC BY 2.0

Filmscreening: Lilting
2016-01-20 16:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Heinrich- Düker- Weg 14, Göttingen
Lilting 轻轻摇晃
Filmscreening
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
4 pm
KWZ 0.607
Lecturer: Katja Pessl

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Picture: John Carkeet, Zoominations, https://flic.kr/p/vwVbS4,CC BY 2.0

Lecture Series: Dr. Armin Müller
2016-01-19 18:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Paris) | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Heinrich- Düker- Weg 14, Göttingen
Lecture
Informationalization and Transparency: The Changing Relations between Local Governments and Healthcare Providers in Rural China
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
6 pm, KWZ Room 0.606
Dr. Armin Müller
(University of Göttingen)

Since 2000, the previously neglected rural health sector of the People’s Republic of China has increasingly become a focus of attention. The introduction of a rural health insurance program since 2003 and the New Health Reform since 2009 aim at its stabilization, and the transformation of a commercialized public service back to public welfare orientation. Informal practices such as induced demand and overcharging are to be rooted out, and replaced by regulatory compliance. An increasingly dense and comprehensive system of network-based administration and monitoring has been built up since 2000, with policy initiatives such as the “Construction of Informationalization” (xinxihua jianshe) driving forward technological upgrading. Local governments and higher levels increasingly encroach upon doctors’ and hospitals’ fields of operations. The government is empowered vis-à-vis the providers through its enhanced access to information, and holds them accountable to often contradictory regulatory standards. On the other hand, however, the providers exploit loopholes and game the new systems of monitoring in pursuit of their own interests. The effects of the technological upgrading on local governance thus remain ambiguous.
Picture: Dr. Armin Müller

Filmscreening: Seeking Asian Female
2016-01-13 04:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Heinrich- Düker- Weg 14, Göttingen
Seeking Asian Female 娶个亚洲新娘
Filmscreening
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
4 pm, KWZ 0.607
Lecturer: Katja Pessl

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Picture: John Carkeet, Zoominations, https://flic.kr/p/vwVbS4,CC BY 2.0

Filmscreening: Flower Drum Song
2015-12-16 04:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Heinrich- Düker- Weg 14, Göttingen
Flower Drum Song 花鼓歌
Filmscreening
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
4 pm
KWZ 0.607
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Picture: John Carkeet, Zoominations, https://flic.kr/p/vwVbS4,CC BY 2.0

Lecture Series: Prof. Xiong Yuegen
2015-12-15 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/Paris) | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Heinrich- Düker- Weg 14, Göttingen
Lecture
Individual Power and the Politics of Welfare in China: Bringing Persons Back in Institutional Analysis
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
7 pm, KWZ Room 0.606
Prof. Xiong Yuegen
(Jacobs University Bremen; Peking University)

During the past decade, there has been a growing interest in social policy – making and welfare studies in post – socialist China. Compared to many advanced democracies, the role of Chinese leaders in the social policy – making and welfare politics is extraordinarily influential. This issue has not been adequately studied yet.
Employing a case study approach, this lecture will explore how the ideas, individual perceptions and personal experiences of state leaders and government officials influence their intentions, motives and strategies in social policy – making. It will also analyze how these processes are embedded within the context of economic transition, rapid social change and globalization.

Colloquium On the Concept and Methodology of Multiple Modernities and Global History
2015-12-15 04:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Paris) | Waldweg, Waldweg 26, Göttingen
Colloquium
On the Concept and Methodology of Multiple Modernities and Global History
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
4pm – 7pm, Waldweg 26, room 0.138To participate, please register with Dr. Florian Kappeler (f.kappeler@gmx.net) by 5 December 2015.The colloquium primarily addresses doctoral and postdoctoral researchers and is dedicated to discussing the concept and methodology of multiple modernities and global history. Furthermore, its overall purpose is to provide young academics with the opportunity to discuss their research linked to the implementation of theories of modernity, the analysis of global phenomena, the theoretical embedding of regional research into global contexts and/or the writing of global history with one distinguished expert on this subject.
Participants are expected to have read the pre-circulated excerpts of Dominic Sachsenmaier’s work, available after registration. Based on their own research, 5-6 PhD students will provide brief inputs in order to enable the other participants to engage in an animated discussion with Professor Dominic Sachsenmaier.
Expert:
Professor Dominic Sachsenmaier holds a chair professorship in “Modern China with a Special Emphasis on Global Historical Perspectives” at the University of Goettingen. He has extensively published on Sino-Western cultural relations, multiple modernities and approaches to global history.

Lecture Series: Dr. Andreas Fulda
2015-12-08 18:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Paris) | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Heinrich- Düker- Weg 14, Göttingen
Lecture
Philanthropy and civil society in China
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
6 pm, KWZ Room 0.606
Dr. Andreas Fulda
(School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham)

A public talk about critical and dynamic choices for foreign and domestic grant-making
foundations as aid actors in the PR China, followed by an introduction to postgraduate
degrees offered by the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies in Nottingham, UK

Foundations have supported the development of Chinese civil society organisations since the mid-1990s. Against the backdrop of the looming introduction of China’s Foreign NGO Management Law the speaker traces the evolution of foundations in the PRC and compares and contrasts foreign and domestic grant-making foundations based on their specific historical development trajectories, legal statuses, and modes of operation. This talk explores how in a period of political uncertainty, first and second generation of foundations – foreign and domestic, public and private, operating and grant -making – are likely to continue to co-exist, while converging and diverging from one another to varying degrees.

About the speaker
As a trained social and political scientist Dr Andreas Fulda is research active in the fields of philanthropy and civil society in Greater China as well as EU-China relations. He has worked with Chinese civil society organisations for more than 10 years. Dr Fulda is
also the editor of the book Civil Society Contributions to Policy Innovation in the PR China (Palgrave Macmillan, April 2015).

CETREN Roundtable Discussion
2015-12-07 14:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Paulinerkirche, Papendiek 14, Göttingen
CETREN Roundtable Discussion
Through the Looking-Glass: Imagining China/Africa Relations through Commodity Aesthetics, Art Media, and Photography
Monday, December 7, 2015
2pm – 6pm, Paulinerkirche, Papendiek 14, Göttingen

Over the past decade, the intensification of trade and diplomatic relations between China and countries across the African continent has shifted scholarly attention from the spatial and discursive binary of East and West to the emerging field of South-South relations.

Our one-day workshop invites cross-disciplinary scholars and art practitioners to examine the visual worlds and material cultures that mediate representations of “China” and “Africa” through encounters among the overseas Chinese in Africa, as well as by African migrants in China. Specifically, this roundtable asks: How are commodity aesthetics, photographic images, and art objects appropriated and produced through China-Africa exchanges? In turn, what do they tell use about these transnational dynamics?

Organizers: Nellie Chu & Gerda Heck (CETREN Postdoctoral Researchers).

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Panelists:

Manon Diederich (Phd Candidate, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Cologne).

Christian Hanussek (Berlin-based artist, writer and curator).
Michaela Pelican (Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Cologne).

Yu Qiu (Phd Candidate, Division of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge).
Xiaopeng Zhou (Berlin-based artist).

For further details on the program, please see our website: http://www.cetren.de/events/public-roundtable/

Photo by Nellie Chu, Advertisement at a fabrics market ibn Guangzhou

Filmscreening: Revenge of the Green Dragons
2015-12-02 16:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Heinrich- Düker- Weg 14, Göttingen
Revenge of the Green Dragons 青龙复仇
Filmscreening
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
4 pm, KWZ 0.607
Lecturer: Katja Pessl

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Picture: John Carkeet, Zoominations, https://flic.kr/p/vwVbS4,CC BY 2.0

Filmscreening: The Joy Luck Club
2015-11-18 16:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Heinrich- Düker- Weg 14, Göttingen
The Joy Luck Club 喜福会
Filmscreening
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
4 pm , KWZ 0.607
Lecturer: Katja Pessl

For the whole program click here
Picture: John Carkeet, Zoominations, https://flic.kr/p/vwVbS4,CC BY 2.0

Filmscreening: Becoming American - The Chinese Experience
2015-11-04 16:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Heinrich- Düker- Weg 14, Göttingen
Becoming American – The Chinese Experience
成为美国人：华人的经历
Filmscreening
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
4 pm, KWZ 0.607
Lecturer: Katja Pessl

For the whole program click here
Picture: John Carkeet, Zoominations, https://flic.kr/p/vwVbS4,CC BY 2.0

Vorbilder - Zerrbilder
2015-10-26 18:30 - 2015-11-14 17:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Foyer, Heinrich- Düker- Weg 14, Göttingen
Vorbilder – Zerrbilder: Berichte europäischer Reisender nach China, Tibet und Japan
– Eine Ausstellung wissenschaftlicher Poster –
26. Oktober – 14. November 2015
Foyer, Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum
Eröffnung: 26. Oktober 2015, 18:30 Uhr

Bis heute sind Reiseberichte wichtige Aufzeichnungen über fremde Länder, deren Kulturen und Einwohner. Das „Fremde“ ist für den Betrachter immer etwas Exotisches, Geheimnisvolles und daher stets von Interesse und ein allzeit präsentes Thema. Einige können selbst in fremde Länder reisen, andere lediglich Reiseberichte anderer lesen, um sich ein Bild von dem „Fremden“ zu machen. Die Berichte zeigen weniger die Situation und die Entwicklungen des bereisten Landes als vielmehr die Hoffnungen und Ängste des jeweiligen Betrachters auf. Sie berichten in verzerrter Weise von Vorbildlichem oder von Erlebnissen, die schrecken oder erstaunen.
Die Ausstellung stellt europäische Reiseberichte aus früher Zeit bis in die Gegenwart vor: von Marco Polos Bericht seiner Chinareise, über die Tibet-Expeditionsberichte der Nazis, Schriften der Jesuiten zu Religion, Heidentum & Mission sowie von China-Schwärmern, Abenteuerinnen und Diplomaten bis zum aktuellen Katalog für Asienreisen aus dem lokalen Reisebüro. Die Poster geben dabei einen Einblick in die wechselvolle Geschichte des Wissens über China, Tibet und Japan.
Die wissenschaftlichen Poster entstanden im Rahmen des Seminars „Vorbilder – Zerrbilder. Zur Erforschung von Religion und Kultur Chinas und Japans anhand früher Reiseberichte“ im Sommersemester 2015 unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. Katja Triplett (Ostasiatisches Seminar, Religionswissenschaft). Die Ausstellung wird in Kooperation mit dem Ostasiatischen Seminar der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen und der Niedersächsischen Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen veranstaltet.

19. Tagung des Fachverbandes Chinesisch
2015-09-24 08:00 - 2015-09-26 17:00 (Europe/Berlin)
19. Tagung des Fachverbandes Chinesisch

24. – 26. September 2015

Anmeldung / 报名 / Registration:
Hier finden Sie das Anmeldeformular für die Jahrestagung des Fachverbands Chinesisch in Göttingen. Für eine frühzeitige Anmeldung wären wir sehr dankbar.
下面是此次哥廷根汉语教学会议报名表的链接，麻烦各位尽快报名，非常感谢。
Here you find the registration form for the upcoming conference of the Chinese Language Teachers Association of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Kindly fill in the form at your earliest convenience.

Hotels
In den nachfolgenden Hotels wurden Kontingente für Teilnehmer der Tagung reserviert. Bitte reservieren Sie Ihr Hotelzimmer so früh wie möglich indem Sie direkt Kontakt mit dem Hotel aufnehmen und sich als Teilnehmer/in der Tagung des Fachverbands Chinesisch zu erkennen geben.
以下我們列出了幾家推薦的旅館。我們已經請旅館為與會人士保留一些房間，但我們建議您盡早預訂（請勿使用旅館網頁上之預訂表格，可直接通過電子郵件或電話訂房），以免向隅。訂房時請告知旅館您是Fachverband Chinesisch會議的與會者。
Participants are recommended to reserve accommodation as early as possible. A number of hotel rooms are available for participants of the conference. Please contact the hotel directly by phone or e-mail and specify that you wish to book as a participant of the “Fachverband Chinesisch” conference.
Stadt Hannover (77–112 €)
http://www.hotelstadthannover.de/
Deadline: 24. August
Hotel Central (82–105 €)
http://www.hotel-central.com/home_de.html
Deadline: 12. August
Leine Hotel (66–99 €)
Startseite

Deadline: 3. August
Novostar (90-110 €)
http://www.novostar.de/goettingen/
Deadline: 3. August

19. Tagung des Fachverbandes Chinesisch
2015-09-24 - 2015-09-26
19. Tagung des Fachverbandes Chinesisch
24. – 26. September 2015

Anmeldung / 报名 / Registration
Hier finden Sie das Anmeldeformular für die Jahrestagung des Fachverbands Chinesisch in Göttingen. Für eine frühzeitige Anmeldung wären wir sehr dankbar.
下面是此次哥廷根汉语教学会议报名表的链接，麻烦各位尽快报名，非常感谢。
Here you find the registration form for the upcoming conference of the Chinese Language Teachers Association of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Kindly fill in the form at your earliest convenience.

Call for papers: Deutsch 中文 English

Vorläufiges Tagungsprogramm 会议议程 (Stand 07.09.2015)
Wegweiser 会议地点指南
Hotels
In den nachfolgenden Hotels wurden Kontingente für Teilnehmer der Tagung reserviert. Bitte reservieren Sie Ihr Hotelzimmer so früh wie möglich indem Sie direkt Kontakt mit dem Hotel aufnehmen und sich als Teilnehmer/in der Tagung des Fachverbands Chinesisch zu erkennen geben.
以下我們列出了幾家推薦的旅館。我們已經請旅館為與會人士保留一些房間，但我們建議您盡早預訂（請勿使用旅館網頁上之預訂表格，可直接通過電子郵件或電話訂房），以免向隅。訂房時請告知旅館您是Fachverband Chinesisch會議的與會者。
Participants are recommended to reserve accommodation as early as possible. A number of hotel rooms are available for participants of the conference. Please contact the hotel directly by phone or e-mail and specify that you wish to book as a participant of the “Fachverband Chinesisch” conference.

Stadt Hannover (77–112 €)
http://www.hotelstadthannover.de/
Deadline: 24. August

Hotel Central (82–105 €)
http://www.hotel-central.com/home_de.html
Deadline: 12. August

Leine Hotel (66–99 €)
Startseite

Deadline: 3. August

Novostar (90-110 €)
http://www.novostar.de/goettingen/
Deadline: 3. August

Die Jahrestagung wird von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) gefördert.

Wir danken außerdem den folgenden Sponsoren:

Lecture Series: Prof. Dr. Dominic Sachsenmaier
2015-07-16 18:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Heinrich- Düker Weg 14, Göttingen
Lecture: Situating China within Global Intellectual History
Thursday, July 16, 2015
6 pm, KWZ Room 0.609
Prof. Dr. Dominic Sachsenmaier
(Jacobs University Bremen)

Image: Colin Bewes, Antique Globe, https://flic.kr/p/c1xgMh, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Lecture: Master Miaoyi
2015-07-09 14:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Verfügungsgebäude, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, Göttingen
Lecture: Die Rolle des Humanistischen Buddhismus in der Renaissance des Buddhismus in der Volksrepublik China
人間佛教於現代中國大陸佛教的復興
Thursday, July 9, 2015
2 pm, VG Room 2.101
Master Miaoyi (Fo-Guang-Shan Tempel Berlin)

Master Miaoyi absolvierte ein Studium der Buddhologie an der Fo-Guang-Shan Universität in Taiwan. Zur Zeit ist sie Vorsteherin des Fo-Guang-Shan-Tempels in Berlin. Früher hat sie als Vizepräsidentin des Zeitungsverlages „Renjian Fubao“ gearbeitet. Außerdem hat sie auch als Vorsteherin des Fo-Guang-Shan-Tempels in Hacienda Heights Kalifornien, Guam und Los Angeles in den USA, sowie auch in Amsterdam, Genf und Wien gedient.
Im Vortrag werden die Gründe und Hintergründe des Niedergangs und Wiederaufstiegs des Buddhismus in der VR China analysiert. Darüber hinaus wird die Rolle, die der Humanistische Buddhismus heute spielt, seine Bedeutung und Auswirkungen in der VR China vorgestellt. Zur Sprache kommen dabei die Definition von „Humanistischer Buddhismus“, seine konkreten Inhalte, Funktionen, sowie die Unterschiede zum traditionellen Buddhismus.
妙益法師,畢業於佛光山叢林大學研究部,現任柏林佛光山監寺。歷任人間福報副社長、
美國西來寺/關島佛光山/南灣佛光山監寺及歐洲荷華寺/日內瓦會議中心/維也納佛光
山監寺等。
剖析中國大陸佛教從衰微至現今復興的因與緣？進一步闡述人間佛教在現代中國大陸佛
教復興所扮演的角色、意義及功用？從而介紹何謂人間佛教？
人間佛教之意涵、特色等？與傳統所說「佛教」有何不同？
為何特別強調「人間」？
Im Anschluß an den Vortrag wird Master Miaoyi von 18:30 bis 21:00 bei den Schillerwiesen eine Meditationsübung leiten. Wer da ran teilnehmen möchte, der möge sich bitte bis zum 3. Juli bei der Göttingen Buddhism Salon unter buddhism.goettingen@gmail.com melden.
演講結束後，妙益法師將于18:30-21:00在席勒草坪親自指導一次禅修活動，有意參加者請在7月3日前與哥廷根學佛小組聯系，聯系郵buddhism.goettingen@gmail.com.

Lecture: Prof. Dr. Chi Chung
2015-07-08 18:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Heinrich- Düker Weg 14, Göttingen
Lecture: The Bilateral Investment Treaty between China and Taiwan and Its Historical Background
Wednesday, July 8, 2015
6 pm KWZ 0.602
Prof. Dr. Chi Chung (Academia Sinica)

The bilateral investment treaty between China (People’s Republic of China; PRC) and Taiwan (Republic of China; ROC) took effect on January 31, 2013. Although it is the 104th bilateral investment treaty for China and the 17th bilateral investment treaty for Taiwan, it is a milestone for both the China-Taiwan relationship and Taiwan’s relationships with the rest of the world. I will discuss its contents and historical background.
Longtime observers of China and Taiwan would of course note that the word “treaty” seems politically incorrect and therefore impossible in the China-Taiwan context. Indeed, the word “treaty” is not used in the document. I plan to provide the historical background to help explain the contents and purposes of the investment treaty.
After presenting the contents of the investment treaty between China and Taiwan, I will discuss the political history between China and Taiwan and the history of economic and social interactions between the people of China and the people of Taiwan. I will also discuss the legal history of the investment relationship between China and Taiwan. In the Conclusion, I draw on the historical background aforementioned and the international legal scholarship on the issue of “compliance” to discuss the extent to which the investment treaty lives up to its promise.
