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The Seeds of Drama—Taking The Clothes of Rongyi as an example 戏剧的种子——以《戎夷之衣》为例
2023-02-22 13:00 - 14:30 (Europe/Berlin)
Topic: The Seeds of Drama—Taking The Clothes of Rongyi as an example 戏剧的种子——以《戎夷之衣》为例
Speaker: LI Jing, Playwright, Deputy Editor in Chief of Chinese Literature
Time: Feb. 22nd, CET 1: 00 PM, Beijing Time 8: 00 PM
Zoom: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/64401512154
Meeting ID: 644 0151 2154

李静，剧作家，文学评论家。著有话剧《大先生》《秦国喜剧》《戎夷之衣》，出版有五卷本文集《我害怕生活》（包括《必须冒犯观众》《捕风记》《王小波的遗产》《致你》《戎夷之衣》)等。现居北京。《戎夷之衣》这部作品改编自《吕氏春秋·恃君览第八》中戎夷解衣的故事，一个人的棉衣和另一个人的余生，就这样被紧紧地焊接在一起。本次讲座作者将以此为例谈谈如何形成和确立一部戏的精神主题。这主题是一部戏的核心和种子。

Li Jing, playwright, and literary critic, is the author of Mr. Big, Comedy of the State of Qin, and the Clothes of Rongyi, and published five volumes of the anthology I’m Afraid of Life (including “Must Offend the Audience” “Catching the Wind” “Wang Xiaobo’s Legacy” “To You ” “The Clothes of Rongyi”). She lives in Beijing. The Clothes of Rongyi is adapted from the story of Rongyi depicted in the Examinations Section 8 of the Annals of Lü Buwei (compiled in 239 BC). It tells about a cotton coat and Rongyi bonded together for life. Li Jing will take this play as an example to talk about how to develop a theme when writing a play script——the seed of a play.

Christian Henriot & Cecile Armand , Aix-Marseille University: Taming the Digital Dragon. Textbases, Datafication, and the Study of Modern China
2023-02-23 16:00 - 18:00 | KWZ 0.602
23. Feb., 16:15 – 17:45
KWZ 0.602
Abstract:
Since the mid-1990s much has been written about digital history and how the Internet and the dematerialization of historical sources are transforming the ways in which historians can muster their materials. The major shift, however, occurred when historical sources became available in full text format. This finally opened the way to approaches and methods based on text analysis and natural language processing, though with a particular challenge due to the very nature of historical sources. The ENP-China project has been at the forefront of developing a set of resources — text database, spatial database, and HistText — that break through the limits of historical investigation on modern China.
Speakers:
Christian Henriot is a Professor of modern Chinese history at Aix-Marseille University and a former Senior Research Fellow at the Institut Universitaire de France (2007-2012). He is the author and editor of several books on modern Chinese history, including Prostitution and Sexuality in Shanghai. A Social History, 1849-1949 (Cambridge UP, 2001), In the Shadow of the Rising Sun. Shanghai under Japanese Occupation (Cambridge UP, 2004), Visualizing China (Brill, 2012) and Scythe and the city. A social history of death in Shanghai (1865-1965) (2016, Stanford UP). Henriot is also the creator of a digital research and resource platform on Shanghai history (http://virtualshanghai.net) and the P.I. of the ENP-China Project (ERC) (https://www.enpchina.eu/)
Cécile Armand is a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC project “Elites, Networks and Power in modern China” (Aix-Marseille University), a former postdoctoral fellow of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (2018-20), and Andrew Mellon postdoctoral fellow in the DHAsia program at Stanford University (2017-18). Her first monograph based on her dissertation will be published by De Gruyter (Berlin) under the title: Madmen in Shanghai: A social history of advertising in modern China. She is the author of several articles on advertising, urban history, transnational elites in modern China, and digital history. She is the creator of a digital research platform (https://madspace.org/).
Organizer:
Prof. Dominic Sachsenmaier, University of Göttingen

Theater Identity
2023-03-15 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom
ZHANG Xian
March 15, 2023, Wednesday, CET 13:00 PM, Beijing Time 20:00 PM
Zoom: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/64857394408
Meeting ID: 648 5739 4408
Hosts: Prof. Dr. Ziwen Gao (Nanjing University), Dr. Yumin Ao (The University of Göttingen)
Zhang Xian is a playwright, theater director, social choreographer, and art activist. As one of the earliest independent dramatists in China in the post-Mao era, he has long been based on the idea of civil society, initiating and hosting several folk art groups, pan-theater spaces, and art festivals. He devotes himself to socio-theatrical actions in the hope of transforming lives. In 2005, he participated in the creation of the independent artists’ consensus group—Zuhe Niao (Teaser Association), where he presented his creative works of anarchist dramatic performances, ranging from dance theater, physical theater, and installation performance to forum theater and conceptual theater, which continue to influence the resistance culture of the younger generation. He has published books, including The Theatre of the Occult, Myth in Action, and How to Create Yourself.
张献，剧作家、剧场导演、社会编舞家、艺术行动者。作为后毛泽东时代中国最早的独立戏剧家，他长期立足民间社会，发起组织、主持多个民间艺术团体、泛剧场空间及艺术节，致力于改造生活的社会戏剧行动。2005年参与创建独立艺术家共识组织”组合嬲”，逐一推出从舞蹈剧场、身体剧场、装置表演，到言论行动剧场、概念剧场等创造性安那其社会表演代表作品，与其主要著作《隐修剧场》、《神话行动》和《怎样创造自己》一道，持续地影响着年青一代的抵抗文化。

Global China Conversations #19 Braucht Deutschland eine China-Strategie?
2023-03-16 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
Thema
China ist heutzutage die zweitgrößte Volkswirtschaft weltweit und prägt als Absatz- wie als Beschaffungsmarkt den globalen Handel. Es gehört zusammen mit den USA zu den wichtigsten Akteuren in einer zunehmend von geopolitischen Faktoren und Rivalität bestimmten Welt. Aufgrund der zugenommenen wirtschaftlichen Verflechtungen im Handel und Kapitalverkehr und der von den westlichen demokratischen Ländern immer stärker betonten systemischen Rivalität arbeiten die Europäische Union und viele EU-Mitgliedsstaaten erstmalig an einer Strategie gegenüber einem einzelnen Land, um in der Zukunft besser ihre Interessen gegenüber China durchsetzen zu können. Auch die deutsche Regierung arbeitet an einer derartigen Strategie. Aber braucht Deutschland wirklich eine „China“-Strategie? Welche Voraussetzungen müssen erfüllt werden, um überhaupt eine effektive Strategie zu entwickeln? Was kann von so einer Chinastrategie erwartet werden? In welchem Zusammenhang soll die Chinastrategie Deutschlands mit der Chinastrategie der EU stehen? Oder gibt es eine strategische Alternative zu der (geplanten) Chinastrategie?
Programm
Die Veranstaltung besteht aus Impulsvorträgen der Sprecher gefolgt von einer Diskussion.
Die Global China Conversation #19 wird auf Deutsch abgehalten.

Literatur

Die Impulsvorträge nehmen Bezug auf folgende Veröffentlichungen:
Görg, H., Kamin, K., Langhammer, R. J., & Liu, W.-H. (2023). Die geplante China-Strategie Deutschlands ist der falsche Weg. Kiel Focus.

Sprecher

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Holger Görg
Prof. Holger Görg, Ph.D. ist Präsident des Kiel Instituts für Weltwirtschaft. Er ist Professor für Außenwirtschaft an der Christian-Albrecht-Universität zu Kiel und Leiter des Forschungsbereichs ‘Internationaler Handel und Investitionen’ am Kiel Institut. Seit 2016 leitet er das Kiel Centre for Globalization. Weiterhin ist er ein Research Fellow des Tuborg Centre for Globalisation and Firms an der Universität Aarhus, des Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy an der University of Nottingham und des IZA in Bonn.

Katja Leikert
Dr. Katja Leikert ist seit 2013 Mitglied des Deutschen Bundestages und sitzt dort als promovierte Sicherheitspolitikerin für die CDU im Auswärtigen Ausschuss. Zusätzlich ist sie Mitglied im Unterausschuss Abrüstung, Rüstungskontrolle und Nichtverbreitung sowie Obfrau der CDU/CSU-Fraktion im Familienausschuss.

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Labour and Migration in Guangzhou: Reading Group with Prof. Nellie Chu, Duke Kunshan University
2023-04-13 13:00 - 15:00 | KWZ 0.701
Dear students, dear colleagues, we warmly invite you to join our upcoming reading group with Prof. Nellie Chu on April 13, 2023: Labour and Migration in Guangzhou.
Date: April 13, 2023
Time: 1pm – 3pm
Place: CeMEAS Meeting Room, KWZ 0.701
The reading group is an exclusive opportunity to delve into migration and labour research in South China.
Reading and discussing research together will give you new ideas, perspectives and information and will greatly enrich your knowledge!
We will focus on two papers:
Castillo, Roberto. 2016. “‘Homing’ Guangzhou: Emplacement, belonging and precarity among Africans in China.” International Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol. 19(3): 287–306.
Chu, Nellie. 2019. “Jiagongchang Household Workshops as Marginal Hubs of Women’s Subcontracted Labour in Guangzhou.” Modern Asian Studies 53, 3: 800-821.
We invite up to ten advanced BA students, MA and PhD students to participate and we kindly ask you to read the two papers in advance and prepare questions for discussion!
Please register by email to Ms. Lu Cai (assist@cemeas.uni-goettingen.de).
Nellie Chu is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke Kunshan University in Kunshan, China. She has published in positions: east Asia critique, Modern Asian Studies, Culture, Theory, and Critique, and Journal of Modern Craft. Her work can also be found in Made in China Journal, Youth Circulations, and University of Nottingham China Policy Institute blog.

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The southern end of Baohan Straight Street (facing south), the heart of the African area, Dengfeng Subdistrict, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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Precarious Accumulation: Fast Fashion Bosses in Transnational Guangzhou, China
2023-04-13 16:00 - 18:00 | KWZ 0.602
Precarious Accumulation: Fast Fashion Bosses in Transnational Guangzhou, China
Prof. Nellie Chu, Duke Kunshan University
Date: April 13, 2023
Time: 4pm – 6pm
Place: KWZ 0.602
This presentation traces the emergence of migrant “bosshood” across China, West Africa, and South Korea fast fashion commodity chains in Guangzhou. It is part of a larger book project that analyzes the global fast fashion industry as a historical movement in transnational capitalism that is tied to China’s post-socialist transformations of land, labor, and personhood. At the heart of these transformations is the emergence of the small-scale migrant “boss,” a figure of labor and livelihood that hovers between boundless riches and merciless ruin in southern China’s “workshop of the world.” While West Africans forge ties with Chinese manufacturers, South Korean bosses collaborate with members of the Chinese-Korean ethnic group to capitalize on the rise of K-pop trends and fashion around the globe. The rise of these migrant bosses engenders forms of governmentality that materialize through practices of criminalization, racialization, and policing. The disparagement of African and Chinese migrants by local officials and urban residents as “criminals” and “counterfeiters,” for instance, demonstrates the unequal access that aspiring entrepreneurs have to the state-sponsored welfare services and legal protections that are necessary for capital accumulation. In place of security and protection, nationalism, racism, and the policing of migrants have fueled a secondary economy of predation, rent seeking, and extraction.

Nellie Chu is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke Kunshan University in Kunshan, China. She has published in positions: east asia critique, Modern Asian Studies, Culture, Theory, and Critique, and Journal of Modern Craft. Her work can also be found in Made in China Journal, Youth Circulations, and University of Nottingham China Policy Institute blog.

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Global China Conversations #20 Hidden Debts and Defaults: A Chinese Debt Trap for Africa?
2023-04-20 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
April 20, 2023, 11:00-12:00
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Topic
There has been an increasing concern over “debt trap diplomacy” in recent years, which refers to the sustainability of African debt owed to China. Although it is unlikely that this is a deliberate strategy by the Chinese government, it is important to take into account the scale of the debt and the associated issues. Recent studies have uncovered high levels of “hidden” debt and defaults, with Chinese lenders’ restructuring providing little relief. At the same time, there has been criticism from both African and Chinese stakeholders regarding the lending and restructuring practices of multinational lenders. The impact of COVID-19 on African countries’ liquidity has compounded the overall debt situation, which could lead to a potential financial crisis on the continent. Will we see African countries defaulting in large numbers? Which role can Chinese lenders and multinational institutions play?
Program
The event consists of different impulse lectures followed by a discussion.
The Global China Conversation #20 will be held in English.

Literature

The impulse lectures refer to the following publications:
Horn, Reinhart, Trebesch (2021) China’s Overseas Lending
Horn, Reinhart, Trebesch (2022) Hidden Defaults

Speakers

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Christoph Trebesch
Christoph Trebesch is Head of the Research Centre International Finance and Macroeconomics and Director of the Research Initiative Geopolitics and Economics at the Kiel Institute, as well as a Professor of Macroeconomics at Kiel University. His research links international financial markets, macroeconomics, economic history, and political economy, with a growing focus on China’s rise in the global financial system. After completing his doctorate at FU Berlin, he first went to LMU Munich as an assistant professor and then moved to Kiel. He has advised the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the United Nations, and the US Treasury Department and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Federal Ministry of Finance. His work is regularly cited by leading international media, such as the New York Times, the Economist, or the Financial Times.

Hannah Ryder
Hannah Ryder is the CEO of Development Reimagined (DR). A former diplomat and economist with 20 years of experience, named one of 100 most influential Africans in 2021, she is also Senior Associate for the Africa Program of the Center for Strategic International Studies (CSIS), sits on the Board of the Environmental Defence Fund, and is a member of UAE’s International Advisory Council on the New Economy. Prior to her role at DR, Ms Ryder led the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)’s work with China to help it scale up and improve its cooperation with other developing countries, including in Africa. She has also played various advisory roles for the UN and OECD and co-authored the seminal Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change in 2006.

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Junges Forum zum chinesischen Recht
2023-04-27 09:00 - 19:00 | Zoom
27.04.2023, 9:00-19:00
Seminarraum der Völkerrechtsbibliothek, 12. Stock Blauer Turm
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ZOOM:https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/69899465754?pwd=[REDACTED]
Das Deutsch-Chinesische Institut für Rechtswissenschaften in Göttingen organisiert am 27.04. eine hybride Veranstaltung in Göttingen mit dem Titel “Junges Forum zum chinesischen Recht”, bei dem Studieninteressierte die Möglichkeit haben, sich über den Masterstudiengang umfassend zu informieren. Die Veranstaltung findet an der Universität Göttingen und online statt, eingeladen sind alle, die sich für den Studiengang “Chinesisches Recht und Rechtsvergleichung” interessieren. Besonders gemeint sind damit Studierende der Sinologie, die einen spannenden Master absolvieren wollen, und Studierende der Rechtswissenschaften, die gerne ihre internationalen Kompetenzen ausbauen möchten.
2023.04.17 Programm Junges Forum
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Vortrag: Dr. phil. Volker Klöpsch: „Jadeschleifer, Verseschmied: Das Handwerk der Dichtung im Lichte der chinesischen Literaturkritik“.
2023-05-03 18:00 - 20:00 | KWZ 0.602
Dichtung ist ein universales Phänomen. Doch entsteht sie überall unter ähnlichen Voraussetzungen? Ein genauerer Blick zeigt, dass Dichten vielfach als ein gewöhnliches Handwerk verstanden wird. Darauf verweisen Begriffe wie Verseschmied oder Jadeschleifer, Vers oder Text. Der Vortrag untersucht an einer Reihe von Beispielen, wie im Alten China ein Gedicht entstand, welche Funktion sein Verfasser in Gesellschaft und Politik einnahm und wie seine Verse bewertet wurden. Aus der Betonung handwerklichen Könnens ergibt sich auch die Frage nach der Erlernbarkeit des Dichtens.
Zeigen wird sich, dass die chinesische Poetik des Altertums Gemeinsamkeiten mit Vorstellungen des europäischen Mittelalters aufweist, aber möglicherweise Leser enttäuscht, die an Goethe und Hölderlin geschult sind.
Volker Klöpsch (geb. 1948) studierte Germanistik, Anglistik, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft und Sinologie auf verschiedenen Kontinenten. Er lehrte in Taipeh, Bochum und Köln, legte zahlreiche Übersetzungen von Lyrik und Prosa aus verschiedenen Epochen der chinesischen Literatur vor, gab mit Eva Müller das Lexikon der chinesischen Literatur (München 2004) heraus und ist Begründer und langjähriger Mitherausgeber der Hefte für ostasiatische Literatur.

Two Tales of the City: Conflicting Narratives on Hong Kong
2023-05-04 18:15 - 19:45 | VG 2.103
4. May, 18:15 – 19:45
VG 2.103
Abstract:
As always, there are conflicting narratives on Hong Kong’s history from the British colonial period to the present comprehensive rule of the People’s Republic of China. In the early transition from British to Chinese rule in early 2000s, there were two contradictory views in explaining the economic success of the colonial Hong Kong, namely the nationalistic narrative – ‘Hong Kong has been part of Chinese territory since ancient times’ and the colonial narrative – ‘Hong Kong as a barren-rock-turned capitalist-paradise by benevolent rule’. In the present day of China’s Hong Kong, the debate continues with two opposing narratives. It involves the official campaign of telling the world the ‘good story’ of Hong Kong following ‘the new stage of transition from chaos to order’, which is to combat the ‘bad story’ of distorted anti-China prejudice. According to renowned literary educators, ‘telling the story of Hong Kong is so difficult’ (Leung Ping-kwan’s words) and ‘the personality and life of Hong Kong are blurred and obscured’ (Lo Wai-luen’s words), this presentation inquires the ambiguities of Hong Kong stories and the society has been navigating under superpowers in history.
Speaker:
Wai-Yip Ho is currently the Honorary Research Fellow, Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies, University of Exeter; Correspondent Member, Nantes Institute for Advanced Studies. He is the author of Islam and China’s Hong Kong: Ethnic Identity, Muslim Networks and the new Silk Road (Routledge: London, 2015, paperback). He held several research fellowship and research appointments, including the François Chevalier Fellow (2021-2022), Madrid Institute for Advanced Study (MIAS); Sir Edward Youde Fellow; Visiting Scholar at Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies at Oxford as well as Endeavour Research Fellow at Australian National University etc. His research interests include Islamic Studies, China’s Christian-Muslim relations, New Media and China’s Islam, etc.
Organizer:
Prof. Dominic Sachsenmaier, University of Göttingen

Prof. Selcuk Esenbel (Bogazici Univ. Istanbul): Legal Transformation, Contemporary Civilization, and Sovereignty: Global Perspectives on the Quest for Modernity in Japan, China, and Turkey
2023-05-09 16:15 - 17:45 | VG 0.110
9. May (Tuesday), 16:15 – 17:45
VG 0.110
Abstract:
The paper discusses some key experiences of Japan, Turkey, and China during the nineteenth century, but primarily focuses on a comparative discussion of Japan and Turkey for the twentieth century and possibly the early years of the new millennium. It will offer reflections particularly on the conjuncture that was related to the adoption of European codes and constitutionalism, coupled with the larger aim of catching up with contemporary civilization and regaining sovereignty. Despite the fact that the perception of the West throughout this long history kept shifting between a friend or foe, the West has remained to be the “Un-forgettable Other.”
Speaker:
Dr. Selçuk Esenbel is Professor em. of History at Boğaziçi University, and the Director of the Asian Studies Center at the same institution. After studying at International Christian University Tokyo and George Washington University, she obtained her Ph.D. in Japanese history from the Columbia University. Since 1982, she has been teaching Japanese and Asian history at Boğaziçi University, where she is also in charge of the Asian Studies Center, Asian studies graduate program and Asian language courses. Esenbel has published many articles in various professional journals as well as a number of books on history of Asia with particular focus on Japanese history. Her research interests cover Japan and the world of Islam, Japanese pan-Asianism, modernization in Japan and Ottoman Turkey, peasant uprisings in Meiji Japan, and Japanese-Ottoman/Turkish relations. Esenbel is the recipient of various awards, like the Order of the Rising Sun, Japan Foundation Special Prize for Japanese Studies, Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs special award for the promotion of Japanese-Turkish academic relations, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation George Forster research award.
Organizer:
Prof. Dominic Sachsenmaier, University of Göttingen

Global China Conversations #21 Geopolitik im Rohstoffmarkt: Wie balanciert Europa Chinas Zentralität?
2023-05-11 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Thema
Graphit, Nickel, Kobalt, Lithium, und die 17 Metalle der seltenen Erden – all diese Rohstoffe sind für die Energiewende, Digitalisierung und andere kritische Sektoren unverzichtbar. Zudem werden steigende Mengen dieser mineralischen Rohstoffe nachgefragt. In Deutschland, in der EU, und weltweit. Entsprechend dynamisch ist der globale Rohstoffwettbewerb. Gefördert werden mineralische Rohstoffe nur in einer Handvoll Länder und die Raffinierung ist in noch weniger Ländern noch konzentrierter. Heute dominieren chinesische Firmen die globalen Rohstofflieferketten.
Diese Abhängigkeit von China ist eine Herausforderung für die Europäische Union (EU), welche eine Politik der strategischen Autonomie verfolgt. Die EU strebt mit dem „Critical Raw Materials Act“ eine Diversifizierung der Rohstoffimporte um Einhaltung effektiver Nachhaltigkeitsstandards an.
Angesichts dieser Herausforderungen werden wir unter anderem folgende Fragen diskutieren: Welche kritischen Abhängigkeiten bestehen? Wie gelingt der EU eine rasche Diversifizierung der Rohstoffquellen? Welche Rohstoffstrategie verfolgt China? Wie werden im Jahr 2030 die europäisch-chinesischen Rohstofflieferketten aussehen? Welche Rollen spielen dabei Nachhaltigkeitsstandards?

Programm
Die Veranstaltung besteht aus Impulsvorträgen der Sprecher gefolgt von einer Diskussion.
Die Global China Conversation #21 wird auf Deutsch abgehalten.

Literatur

Die Impulsvorträge nehmen Bezug auf folgende Veröffentlichungen:
EU Critical Raw Materials Act
Carry, I., Godehardt, N., & Müller, M. (2023). Die Zukunft europäisch-chinesischer Rohstofflieferketten: Drei Szenarien für das Jahr 2030 – und was sich daraus ergibt. SWP-Aktuell, 2023(A 15), 1-8.

Sprechende

Markus Herrmann Chen
Markus Herrmann Chen ist Mitgründer und Managing Director der China Macro Group (CMG / www.chinamacro.eu) und erfahrener Berater für europäische Unternehmen und öffentliche Institutionen im chinesischen Markt. Er ist Experte für Chinas Wirtschafts-, Handels- und Forschungs- und Technologiepolitik sowie politische Zusammenarbeit und Regierungsbeziehungen. Vor CMG war Markus Government Affairs Director bei Bayer MaterialScience in China und Management Consultant bei der Boston Consulting Group in Shanghai, Hongkong und Zürich. Er ist Strategic Advisor Europe für Caixin Global, Vorstandsmitglied des Schweizer Forums für Außenpolitik (Foraus) und Stiftungsratsmitglied des Stein am Rhein Symposiums (stars). Markus hält einen B.A. und M.A. in Rechtswissenschaften von den Universitäten Genf, Bern und Fribourg, und absolvierte darüber hinaus weiterführende Zertifikate in Chinesisch von der Peking Universität, Public Policy von der ETH Zürich und Angewandter Ethik von der Universität Zürich.

Nadine Godehardt
Nadine Godehardt ist Forscherin der Forschungsgruppe Asien am Deutschen Institut für Internationale Politik und Sicherheit. Seit 2015 ist sie darüber hinaus Mit-Herausgeberin der Buchreihe “Routledge Studies on Challenges, Crises and Dissent in World Politics” und Affiliierte Wissenschaftlerin am NCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory. Neben ihrer Promotion 2012 (Dr. phil.) in Politikwissenschaften an der Universität Hamburg war sie als Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies in Hamburg tätig. Frau Godehardt hält einen Master in Politikwissenschaft, Philosophie und Sinologie von der Universität Tübingen.

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Vera Eichenauer
Vera Eichenauer ist Ökonomin an der Konjunkturforschungsstelle KOF der ETH Zürich und Fellow des Kiel Institut für Weltwirtschaft. Sie interessiert sich für Wirtschaftspolitik und Fragen der internationalen ökonomischen Governance. Sie forscht aktuell unter anderem zu Europas Umgang mit Chinas wirtschaftlicher Präsenz und Einfluss durch wirtschaftspolitische Massnahmen. Sie promovierte 2016 an der Universität Heidelberg in Volkswirtschaft und erhielt ihren Masterabschluss in Internationalen Beziehungen von der Sciences Po Paris.

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Dr. Hu Nan, Fudan University: Towards an Anticolonial Asian Cinema: the 1957 Asian Film Week and China’s Imagination of Asia
2023-05-11 18:15 - 19:45 | VG 2.103
11. May, 18:15 – 19:45
VG 2.103
Abstract:
This talk traces the forgotten history of the Asian Film Week held by and in China in 1957. It engages with two recent discussions of cultural politics in the Cold War era. First, there is a growing interest in Sino-Asian cultural relations in the 1950s and 1960s, but scholars have not focused attention on film festivals, which was a very important element of cultural diplomacy during the Cold War. Second, studies on film festivals among Asian countries in this period highlight events sponsored by either the U. S. or the Soviet Union, leaving the efforts and experiments of cinematic practices beyond the superpowers understudied. Drawing on a variety of sources including contemporary newspapers, magazines, festival brochures, local film gazetteers, government documents, and the films shown at the 1957 Asian Film Week, this talk demonstrates that film festival was a crucial part of China’s inter-Asian cultural diplomacy in the Bandung age and that the postcolonial Asian countries played an active role in defining “Asian cinema” and “Asianness” alternative to the superpowers’ imagination. Not only did the Film Week build an inter-Asian cinematic network beyond the Cold War divide to improve China’s diplomatic relations with many Asian countries, but it also sought to unite Asian filmmakers with anticolonial aesthetics and agenda, which challenged the cinema-as-entertainment model previously entrenched in other inter-Asian cinematic networks. This talk will also discuss the enduring influence of the Asian Film Week as an important event in the history of world cinema, including its connections with the Afro-Asian Film Festival (1958-1964) and the Third Cinema movement.
Bio:
Nan Hu is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Fudan University, Shanghai. She earned her Ph. D. in Chinese and Comparative Literature in 2021 at Washington University in St. Louis, where she completed a dissertation entitled “In Other Voices: Dubbing Foreign Films in Maoist China (1949-1976).” Her current research projects explore the idea of inter-Asian solidarity among Chinese intellectuals around the 1960s, and the ways zoos have reconfigured the human-animal relationship vis-à-vis the Chinese projects of nation-building, modernity, and revolution. Her studies have been funded by the McDonnell International Scholars Academy, the Center for the Humanities at Washington University, Ministry of Education (Taiwan), and China Postdoctoral International Exchange Program, among others.
Organizer:
Prof. Dominic Sachsenmaier, University of Göttingen

“Contemporary Theatre Arts” Seminar No. 18: Theatre as Wild Grass
2023-05-17 14:00 - 16:00 | Zoom
Speaker: Kai Tuchmann
Time: May 17, 2023, Wednesday, CET 14:00 PM, Beijing time 20:00 PM
Language: English
Zoom: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/64821966382
Meeting ID: 648 2196 6382

“The past life has died. I exult over its death because from this I know that it once existed. From the clay of life abandoned on the ground grow no lofty trees, only wild grass. Wild grass strikes no empty roots, has no beautiful flowers and leaves, yet it imbibes dew, water, and the blood and flesh of the dead, although all try to rob it of life.” –Lu Xun Wild Grass

The Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Göttingen is delighted to extend an invitation to Mr. Kai Tuchmann, a distinguished dramaturge, director, author, and fellow of the Mellon School of Theatre at Harvard University. Mr. Tuchmann will be delivering a talk on May 17th. This event is jointly organized with the Department of Theater, Film, and TV Arts at Nanjing University.
This talk circles around Kai Tuchmann’s most recent publication “Postdramatic Dramaturgies-Resonances between Asia and Europe”. This volume introduces the reader to the aesthetics of leading practitioners of post-dramatic theatre from China and the German-speaking world: Zhao Chuan, Wen Hui, Boris Nikitin, and Hans-Werner Kroesinger. The dramaturgies of these theatre makers utilize the assembly of theatre in a way that is not primarily concerned with aesthetic matters, but instead, they focus on connections to the neglected and forgotten. In his talk, Kai will situate this dramaturgical approach by evoking Lu Xun’s metaphor of Wild Grass.

Kai Tuchmann graduated in directing from Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch in Berlin. He works as a dramaturge, director, and academic. As a visiting professor at the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing, he helped develop the curriculum for the BA Dramaturgy program there. In his internationally shown documentary theatre works, Kai has explored the afterlife of the Cultural Revolution in contemporary China, the impact of urbanization on migrant workers in Europe and Asia, and the role of the body in the face of digital technologies. His stagings and dramaturgies were invited, among others, to Seoul Marginal Theatre Festival, Zürcher Theaterspektakel, Festival d’Automne à Paris, and documenta-institute.
Kai’s open-access publication is downloadable here:
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5997-9/postdramatic-dramaturgies/?c=311000028

Marsianer und Mutanten: Chinesische Science-Fiction erobert den Planeten
2023-05-24 16:15 - 17:45 | VG 1.103
Dr. Marc Hermann, Universität Bonn
Datum: 25. Mai, 2023
Zeit: 16:00 – 18:00
Ort: VG 1.103

Der weltweite Erfolg von LIU Cixins Trisolaris-Trilogie hat der chinesischen Science-Fiction internationale Aufmerksamkeit beschert. Neben LIU als Galionsfigur haben sich auch jüngere Autoren wie CHEN Qiufan oder HAO Jingfang einen Namen gemacht. Was steckt hinter diesem Erfolg? Wie „chinesisch” ist die chinesische Science-Fiction? Und welche unterschiedlichen Strömungen weist sie auf?

Dr. Marc Hermann ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Abteilung für Sinologie der Universität Bonn und gehört zu den aktivsten Übersetzern chinesischer Literatur in Deutschland. In den letzten Jahren hat er schwerpunktmäßig chinesische Science-Fiction übersetzt – von Altmeistern wie LIU Cixin und WANG Jinkang bis hin zu Nachwuchsstars wie CHEN Qiufan und HAO Jingfang.

Antisemitism(s) – Local to Global
2023-05-25 18:15 - 19:45 | VG 2.103
Antisemitism(s) – Local to Global
Malachi Haim Hacohen (Duke University)
Date: May 25, 2023
Time: 6pm – 8pm
Place: VG 2.103
Abstract:
In the aftermath of the Holocaust, Antisemitism occupies a unique place among minority hatreds, weighing on historians’ conscience and challenging historical faculties. The variety, local contexts, and divergent character of antisemitism present a major challenge for historical explanation Yet, as globalization progresses, there is a convergence toward a global antisemitic discourse, crossing continents from Europe to Asia to the Americas. The lecture will seek to demystify antisemitism by projecting it against the growth of an ever changing Jewish Diaspora and provide a framework for understanding its transformation from local and diverse antisemitism to a more uniform global discourse.

Speaker:
Malachi Haim Hacohen is Professor of History, Jewish Studies and Religion at Duke University, and Director of the Religions and Public Life Program. His research interests focus on Central Europe and include social theory, political philosophy, and rabbinic culture. His Karl Popper – The Formative Years, 1902-1945: Politics and Philosophy in Interwar Vienna (Cambridge, 2000) won the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the AHA and Austria’s Victor Adler State Prize. His Jacob & Esau: Jewish European History Between Nation and Empire (Cambridge, 2019) won the Center for Austrian Studies’ Biannual Book Prize. He has published on the European Jewish intelligentsia, Cold War liberalism, and cosmopolitanism and Jewish identity in leading professional journals. He was a fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, the National Humanities Center, and the IFK in Vienna. He is presently Leibniz Professor in Leipzig for Summer 2023.

Hybrid Maps: Reformatting the Chinese Imperial Realm According to 19th-Century Western Cartography
2023-06-01 18:15 - 19:45 | VG 2.103
1. June, 18:15 – 19:45
VG 2.103
Abstract:
The definition of “The Great Qing Everlasting Unified” was frequently used in titles of general maps of the imperial realm in the beginning of the 19th century. It formally distinguishes one of the most widely known and impressive group of Chinese maps, the so-called Blue Maps and their multi-coloured congeners. This series of large format wall maps is representative of the late imperial phase of the development of traditional Chinese cartography. Göttingen State and University Library possesses a unique surviving copy of a hand-coloured map of this kind. The map is signed by Li Mingche (1751-1832), a Taoist master and a recognised Chinese astronomer and cartographer, who was propagating Western science in China. The proposed presentation analyzes how Li Mingche tried to reformat traditional Chinese representation of the realm of the Qing empire according to the standards of modern Western cartography and evaluate the outcome of this attempt from the point of view of Chinese and the Western cartographic traditions.

Speaker:
Dr. Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann studies historical Chinese conceptions of terrestrial space and their continuous influence on Chinese cartography. Since 2000 she is a Chargé de Recherche at the CNRS (France), and in 2017-2023 was recurrently a Visiting Scholar of the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (Germany). Her latest publications cover a large scope of text-map relationships, including translation of text into maps.

Organizer:
Prof. Dominic Sachsenmaier, University of Göttingen

Xiconomics, Dual Circulation Strategy and Western Business
2023-06-05 17:15 - 18:45 | ZHG 003
5. June, 17:15 – 18:45
ZHG 003
Abstract:
In Xi Jinping’s China, national security, ideology and the political priorities of the Communist Party now play a much larger role in shaping China’s economic and business environment. The context is more politicized, more uncertain. China’s state media call this ‘Xiconomics’. Xi’s Dual Circulation Strategy marks out clear dividing lines between China’s domestic economy and the rest of the world. It sets out how China seeks to manage the interactions between the two. And it does so just as Western countries focus too on decoupling, ‘friendshoring’ and technology competition. In order to succeed, Western business needs to understand these new dynamics. Simply declaring them ‘too political’ no longer works. As a result, companies are reconsidering and revising their China strategy – driven by changes both in China and at home. How far can ‘ambidexterity’ in operations go? What are companies doing to maintain connectivity and build resilience and agility? And what comes next from geopolitics – is this all just getting started?

Speaker:
Having first visited China in 1981, Andrew Cainey has lived and worked for most of the past twenty-five years in China, Korea and Singapore advising businesses and governments. He now lives in London and works on the impact of geopolitics on business, with a particular focus on China and is the co-author of Xiconomics: What China’s Dual Circulation Strategy Means for Global Business.

Mr Cainey is a senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, the world’s oldest security and defense think tank, and a founding director of the UK National Committee on China. He was previously China managing partner for Booz & Company; the head of the Rt Hon Tony Blair’s Asian government advisory practice; the head of Boston Consulting Group’s Asian financial institutions practice; and a project leader in BCG Germany. Andrew has also had roles with Chatham House and think tanks in Hong Kong and Shanghai. He has a First Class MA (Hons) in Economics from the University of Cambridge and an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School; he speaks Chinese and German.

Changing Perceptions of World Order in Chinese Historiography: Three Phases of Development/C
2023-06-08 18:15 - 19:45 | VG 2.103
8. June (Thursday), 18:15 – 19:45
VG 2.103
Abstract:
“Changing Perceptions of World Order in Chinese Historiography: Three Phases of Development”: This talk takes a longue-durée perspective to examine and analyze the modern Chinese conception of the world from the middle of the 19th century to the present. This perception has changed significantly over the course of this period, which is reflected in the ups and downs of world/global history as a subfield of history. Foreign histories are commonly referred to as “world history” in the Chinese historical community; the term’s invention in the 19th century was a sign of a shifting worldview. The term “world history” has been increasingly been replaced by the term “global history” starting from the late 1990s, which suggests yet another significant shift in how the Chinese leadership and historians view the world.

Speaker:
Q. Edward Wang, a specialist in Chinese history and global historiography, received his education partly in China and partly in the US. He is now Eminent Professor of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey. He is also editor of Chinese Studies in History, a journal that promotes academic exchanges between historical communities in greater China and the rest of the world. Wang’s main publications include Historiography: Critical Readings (2021 in 4 volumes); A Global History of Modern Historiography (2008 and 2017); Chopsticks: A Cultural and Culinary History (2015), and Inventing China through History: The May Fourth Approach to Historiography (2001). Some of the above titles have appeared in Chinese, Korean, German, Greek, Japanese, and Russian.

Vom Dichter zum Zeugen: Der Schriftsteller und Dissident Liao Yiwu
2023-06-21 18:00 - 19:30 | KWZ 0.602
21. Juni 2023, 18 h c.t.
KWZ 0.602
Der Nachwuchslyriker Liao Yiwu kam nach dem 4. Juni 1989 wegen zweier Gedichte für vier Jahre ins Gefängnis, wo er sich vom Dichter zum (Zeit) Zeugen wandelte. Danach beruflich in Schwierigkeiten, begann er, in hunderten von Interviews den Außenseitern der VR-chinesischen Gesellschaft, unter ihnen die vergessenen Opfer früherer Kampagnen sowie der Öffnungspolitik, eine Stimme zu geben und ein Bild der Gesellschaft von unten zu zeichnen. Gleichzeitig hielt er in autobiographischen Werken seine Erfahrungen in und nach der Haft und bei seinen mehrfachen Fluchtversuchen fest. Zuletzt legte er mit Wuhan einen Dokumentarroman über die Corona-Pandemie in China vor. Bei all dem hat Liao Yiwu doch nie aufgehört, ein Dichter zu sein. So stellt dieser Vortrag auch die Frage nach der Beziehung von Dichtertum und Zeugenschaft.

Prof. Dr. Hans Peter Hoffmann ist einer der profiliertesten literarischen Übersetzer aus dem Chinesischen in Deutschland. Er leitet zurzeit den Arbeitsbereich Chinesisch am Fachbereich Translations-, Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft der Universität Mainz in Germersheim. Dort lehrt und forscht er zur chinesischen Literatur und Kultur und unterrichtet literarisches Übersetzen. Hier wie in seiner weiter geführten übersetzerischen Tätigkeit beschäftigt er sich mit Texten verschiedener Genres, Autor:innen unterschiedlichster Hintergründe und mitunter weit auseinander liegenden Thematiken.

Global China Conversations #22 Deutsche Forschungskooperationen: Wissen Schaffen für oder mit China?
2023-06-29 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Thema
Die wissenschaftliche Zusammenarbeit mit China wirft zahlreiche Fragen und Herausforderungen auf. Transparenz und Offenheit bei der Zusammenarbeit, insbesondere in Bezug auf den Austausch von Forschungsergebnissen und Daten, sind zunächst zu beidseitigem Vorteil. Gleichzeitig aber mag es Unterschiede geben in ethischen Standards, Fragen des geistigen Eigentums und der Sicherstellung der Forschungsintegrität. Die enge Verflechtung von Chinas wissenschaftlichen und wirtschaftlichen Sektoren kann darüber hinaus potenziell zu Interessenkonflikten führen. Das führt auf deutscher Seite immer wieder zu Sicherheitsbedenken bezüglich des Diebstahls geistigen Eigentums und der möglichen Nutzung wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse für militärische Zwecke. Vor diesem Hintergrund stellen sich verschiedene Diskussionsfragen: Wie können transparente und verantwortungsvolle Forschungskooperationen mit China gestaltet werden? Welche Mechanismen sollten entwickelt werden, um ethische Standards und den Schutz des geistigen Eigentums zu gewährleisten? Wie können potenzielle Interessenkonflikte zwischen wissenschaftlicher Zusammenarbeit und wirtschaftlichen Interessen bewältigt werden? Diese Fragen bilden den Ausgangspunkt für einen konstruktiven Dialog über die Gestaltung und Ausrichtung deutscher Forschungskooperationen mit China.
Programm
Die Veranstaltung besteht aus Impulsvorträgen der Sprecher gefolgt von einer Diskussion.
Die Global China Conversation #22wird auf Deutsch abgehalten.

Literatur

Die Impulsvorträge nehmen Bezug auf folgende Veröffentlichung:
Fulda, A., Klotzbücher, S. (2022). Still und Heimlich Schließen Sich die Türen. Der Tagesspiegel. (pdf download)

Sprecher

© Matthias Stepan

Matthias Stepan
Matthias Stepan leitet das Forschungsprojekt „Hochschulen als Akteure im Dialog mit China“ an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum und ist im EU geförderten Projekt „China Horizons“ für Wissensmanagement verantwortlich. In den vergangenen fünfzehn Jahren hat Matthias Stepan in verschiedenen Funktionen an den Schnittstellen Politik, Wissenschaft, Zivilgesellschaft und Wirtschaft zu und in China gearbeitet. Von 2019 bis Anfang 2023 leitete er das Peking-Büro der Stiftung Mercator, 2014 bis 2019 gehörte er dem Management-Team des Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) an. Darüber hinaus war er als Gastdozent, Junior Experte bei dem “EU-China Social Security Reform Cooperation Project” und bei einem großen deutschen Unternehmen in China tätig. Seine Publikationsliste umfasst akademische Veröffentlichungen in bedeutenden Journals, viel beachtete Projektberichte wie „China kennen, China können – Analyse über den Ausbau von China-Kompetenz in Deutschland“ und Policy Papers.

Sascha Klotzbücher
Sascha Klotzbücher hat an der Universität Wien promoviert und sich dort auch 2017 für das Fach ,,Sinologie” habilitiert. Nach einer Verwaltung der Professur für ,,Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft des modernen China” an der Universität Göttingen ist er nun Associate Professor am Ostasiatischen Institut an der Universität Bratislava in der Slowakei und Fellow am Institut für Ostasienwissenschaften der Universität Wien. In intensiver Feldforschung in China befasste er sich unter anderem mit ländlichem Gesundheitswesen im kasachisch-chinesischen Grenzgebiet von Xinjiang im Rahmen eines FWF-Projekts (2005-2010) und mit Familienerinnerungen und intergenerationaler Weitergabe von Erinnerungen der Kulturrevolution in Wuhan (2007-2012). Ergebnisse dieser Forschung sind im Buch ,,Lange Schatten der Kulturrevolution: Eine transgenerationale Sicht auf Politik und Emotion in der Volksrepublik China” veröffentlicht. Forschungsaufenthalte führten ihn an Universitäten in Taiwan, der VR China, und den USA, darunter die Peking Universität, die National Chengchi University in Taipei und die Universität Stanford. Er ist Mitherausgeber des open access „Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies“.

Moderation

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

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

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The Wandering Earth and China's Construction of an Alternative Cosmopolitanism
2023-06-29 18:15 - 19:45 | VG 2.103
29. June (Thursday), 18:15 – 19:45
VG 2.103
Abstract:
As an epoch-making event in the history of the Chinese sci-fi film industry, The Wandering Earth boasts the extraordinary acting skills of cinema superstars and fabulous special effects. Instead of providing a description of the technical issues surrounding the film’s production, this paper looks at the film as a cultural expression and dramatization of China’s reconceptualization of the notion of cosmopolitanism. After scrutinizing tianxia, which is generally taken to refer to classical Chinese cosmopolitanism, this paper goes on to describe its experiential dimension, its techno-socio-economic foundation, and its cosmopolitan solidarity as shown in the film. Finally, after analyzing the ethical dimension of the cosmopolitan community, which is embodied in the idea of “home” in the film, the paper concludes by proposing a cosmopolitanism of ethicality.

Speaker:
Weihua He is currently Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Central China Normal University. He is also the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Foreign Language and Literature Research and the Secretary General of the International Ethnic Literature Commission of (China) Association for Comparative Studies of Languages and Cultures. His research interests include comparative literature, literary theory, and the modern transformation of China. He has published extensively in journals such as European Review, Journal of Modern Literature, Comparative Literature Studies, Neohelicon and Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature.

Disclaimer:
The lecture was canceled last week due to extreme weather conditions. However, we are pleased to inform you that the lecture will be carried out this week.

Film Screening: Songs of Abdul
2023-07-04 18:00 - 20:30 | KWZ 0.610
New series of film screenings – Beyond Borders: Visions of Central Asia
Save the dates for our “Visions of Central Asia” series, where we delve into the landscapes, traditions, and narratives that define this diverse region.
Our selection of films offers a lens into the multifaceted identities and social dynamics of Central Asia fand we cordially invite you to join us on this cinematic journey!

Songs of Abdul, Director: Anna Moiseenko, 2016
Date & Time: July 4, 2023 6pm
Place: KWZ 0.610
Short introduction (Mark Simon) & screening: 6pm
Q&A with director Anna Moiseenko: 7:30 pm (tbc)
Songs of Abdul
In the captivating documentary “Songs of Abdul,” the life and experiences of Abdulmamad Bekmamadov, also known as Abdul, unfold against the backdrop of his journey from the Pamir mountains in Tajikistan to Moscow in search of work. This poignant film chronicles Abdul’s hardships in Moscow through the medium of traditional Pamirian tunes, which serve as a vehicle for him to express his deeply personal story.
Over the course of four years, the filmmakers closely observe Abdul’s multifaceted existence as a labor migrant, artist, father, and husband who has been separated from his family for a decade. With each episode, Abdul skillfully weaves the intricate threads of his real-life experiences into poetic texts, effortlessly melding them with the rhythmic melodies of traditional Pamir songs.
While facing the challenges of living in a foreign land and enduring the separation from his wife and children, who reside in the snow-covered Pamir mountains, Abdul’s music becomes a powerful conduit for storytelling and self-expression.

Organizers:
Institute of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology (KA/EE), Mark Simon
Centre for Modern East Asian Studies (CeMEAS), Katja Pessl
Centre for Global Migration Studies (CeMIG)

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Before China Studies: Private Foundations and Cold War Politics in Colonial Hong Kong
2023-07-06 18:15 - 19:45 | VG 2.103
6. July (Thursday), 18:15 – 19:45
VG 2.103

Abstract:
The founding of the University Service Centre in Hong Kong in 1963 was a significant event in the development of China studies. Thanks to the city’s adjacency to mainland China and the Carnegie Corporation’s funding support, the Centre since its very beginning has become the “go-to” place for aspiring researchers to obtain first-hand information to study contemporary China. Yet in what way did U.S. government, private foundations, and the British Colonial government collaborate on founding this important institution? This is the central question of this talk. By using American and British archives, I will investigate the complicated relationship between state and society in the production of China-related knowledge in the Cold War era.

Speaker:
Dr Xin Fan is Teaching Associate in Modern Chinese History at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge, and he is also a fellow at Lucy Cavendish College of the university. Prior to the move to the UK, he was a tenured associate professor at the State University of New York at Fredonia. As a historian of twentieth-century China, he is the author of World History and National Identity in China: The Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and the second editor of Receptions of Greek and Roman Antiquity in East Asia (Brill, 2018). He also serves as book review editor for China and Asia: A Journal in Historical Studies. He is currently working on a book project tentatively titled, “The Right to Talk about China: The Rise of Emotions of Politics, 1900s–1949.” He is collaborating with Kristin Stapleton and Els van Dongen on editing “The SAGE Handbook of Interpreting Chinese History.” In addition, he is writing about nationalism, historiography, and the history of concepts.

Confucius as a Cosmopolitan: Thought and Practice
2023-07-07 14:00 - 16:00 | KWZ 0.601
07. July, 14:00-16:00
KWZ 0.601

Abstract:
Based on the Analects and other texts related to Confucius in classical period and taken “cosmopolitanism,” a concept with long history in the Western tradition as a counterpart for comparison, this talk aims to probe the thought and practice of Confucius as a cosmopolitan and point out the feature and significance of the Confucian “rooted cosmopolitanism” revealed in the thought and practice of Confucius. The rooted cosmopolitanism embodied by Confucius not only has the basic characteristics of all versions of cosmopolitanism, namely, going beyond the territory and ethnicity, but also keeps a dynamic balance between the one and the many, which is usually ignored by the radical cosmopolitanism. Last, a brief comparison between Confucian rooted cosmopolitanism and the rooted cosmopolitanism advocated by Appiah would be made.
Speaker:
PENG Guoxiang 彭國翔 is Qiu Shi Distinguished Professor of Chinese philosophy, intellectual history and religions and the director of Ma Yifu International Center for the Studies in Humanities at Zhejiang University. He was professor at Peking University and Tsinghua University and research fellow at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is the 2016 Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the North (Library of Congress, USA) and 2009 Awardee of the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award (Humboldt Foundation and the Ministry of Education and Research, Germany).
His publications include The Unfolding of the Innate Good Knowing: Wang Ji and the Yangming Learning in Mid-Late Ming (2003, 2005, 2015), Confucian Tradition: Between Religion and Humanism (2007, 2017), Confucian Tradition and Chinese Philosophy: Retrospect and Prospect in a New Century (2009), Confucian Tradition from Classical Period to Its Contemporary Transformation: Speculation and Interpretation(2012), Revision and New Discovery: Historical Study of Pre-Modern Confucianism from Northern Song till Early Qing Dynasty (2013, 2015), Reconstruction of This Culture of Ours: Confucianism and Contemporary World (2013, 2017), This-worldly Concern of the Wise: The Political and Social Thought of Mou Zongsan(1909-1995) (2016) and numerous articles.

Hegelian Master Narratives and Periodizing Japanese and Chinese Modernity
2023-07-11 16:00 - 18:00 | OEC 0.168
11. July, 16:00 – 18:00
OEC. 0.168
Abstract:
Scholars of Asian studies have something of a love-hate relationship with Hegel; they love to cite him as the epitome of Eurocentrism, modernization theory and the legitimation of colonialism. Despite their prevalence, such criticisms overlook both the complexities of Hegel’s philosophy and the different ways in which Asian intellectuals attempted to turn Hegel on his head or rescue the rational kernel of his thought in a non-Western context. Viren Murthy contends that for much of the twentieth century, especially in Japan, but also in China, scholars engaged Hegel by incorporating and transforming his ideas. Such incorporations enabled us to see that Hegel was not merely a theorist of modernization but one of its most incisive critics. Indeed, it was precisely because of Hegel’s critique of capitalist modernity that conservatives such as Inoue Tetsujirō found him interesting. In this presentation, Viren Murthy will examine three attempts to rethink Hegel, respectively by the pan-Asianist, Okakura Tenshin, the Kyoto school philosopher of world-history, Koyama Iwao and the Japanese sinologist, Mizoguchi Yūzō. Viren Murthy argues that each of these thinkers narrates the history of Asia, while implicitly or explicitly responding to Hegel’s idea of the Orient as not having subjectivity. Against this static vision of Asia, these figures reconfigure the historical trajectories of Japan, China and the world to reconfigure both universality and subjectivity beyond Eurocentrism. Towards the end of his talk, Viren Murthy suggests that the contemporary “new leftist” intellectual Wang Hui, continues elements of the various thinkers mentioned above. The contemporary rise of China makes such responses to Hegelian master narratives especially relevant for our contradictory present.
Speaker:
Viren Murthy teaches transnational Asian History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and researches Chinese, Japanese and Indian intellectual history. He is interested in critics of modernity in Asia, specifically, China, Japan and India. He places the history of nationalism and transnationalism in the larger trajectory of global capitalism and examines how pan-Asianists, Third Worldists, Marxists and postcolonialists theorize resistance to imperialism and capitalism and posit a world beyond the present. Central to his work is the politics of the nation-form. Pan-Asianists and Third Worldists believed that the nation-form would be able to combine anti-imperialism with a politics of socialism. He inquires into the conditions for the possibility of such theories in the early postwar period and the ask whether their categories and politics continue to be germane to our neo-liberal present. He is the author of The Political Philosophy of Zhang Taiyan: The Resistance of Consciousness (Brill, 2011) and The Politics of Time in China and Japan, Routledge, 2022). He is co-editor with Prasenjit Duara and Andrew Sartori of A Companion to Global Historical Thought, (Blackwell, 2014), co-editor with Joyce Liu of East Asian Marxisms and Their Trajectories (Routledge, 2017) and co-editor with Max Ward and Fabian Schäfer of Confronting Capital and Empire: Rethinking Kyoto School Philosophy (Brill, 2017). He has published articles in Modern Intellectual History, Modern China, Frontiers of History in China and Positions: Asia Critique, Jewish Social Studies, Critical Historical Studies, Journal of Labor and Society. His book, entitled: Pan-Asianism and the Legacy of the Chinese Revolution, is scheduled to appear in October, 2023 with University of Chicago Press.

Transnational Knowledge Transfers Between China, Europe, and the United States: Actors, Institutions, and Dynamics, 1924-1935
2023-07-13 18:15 - 19:45 | VG 2.103
13. July (Thursday), 18:15 – 19:45
VG 2.103

Overview
The two talks of this joint session interrogate processes of knowledge transfer between China, the United States, and Europe during the 1920s and 1930s. Focusing on two distinct organizations– the China Foundation (based in Shanghai and New York) and the League of Nations (based in Geneva) – both talks shed new light on the transnational entanglements of the Republican period in China, and demonstrate how foreign efforts to influence China often met with domestic resistance.

Abstract First Talk (Sally Chengji Xing): The China Foundation’s Sponsorship for Pure Science Research since 1924
In the first half of the twentieth century, leading American intellectuals frequently communicated with a cohort of prominent Chinese intellectuals previously trained in the US. Such face-to-face interchanges across the Pacific ultimately influenced Chinese choices in shaping modern scientific education and research, and the impact was generated primarily through a unique organization established based on Sino-American intellectual collaborations, the China Foundation. The China Foundation administered the second American remission of the Boxer Indemnity Funds to China and served as a sponsor of Chinese pure science research. Xing’s talk studies the contested debates, conversations and dialogues that occurred in Beijing surrounding the establishment of the China Foundation in 1924. It revisits the robust debate within the China Foundation back in 1924, by Paul Monroe and Roger Sherman Greene, about whether to sponsor “pure” or “applied” science for the sake of China’s modernization. In so doing, it demonstrates how and why Paul Monroe’s ideas, though being very influential at the time, were consequently challenged by Greene and other Chinese scientists.
Abstract Second talk (Lucas Brang): From Geneva with Expertise: The League of Nations’ program of cooperation with Republican China (1925-1935)
Despite being largely forgotten today, the League of Nations’ China Program was likely the largest and most ambitious program of international cooperation and “development assistance” prior to the second half of the twentieth century. From its formal inception in 1931 to its dismantling several years later, the cooperation between Geneva and Nanjing brought large numbers of European experts to China, where they advised on such diverse fields as public health, educational reform, infrastructure-building, administrative restructuring, and global finance. Based on memoirs of involved actors as well as diplomatic documents from several Foreign Offices and the League of Nations Archive in Geneva, Lucas Brang’s talk will reexamine the China Program as an early instance of “global governance” through professional expertise. Revisiting this episode of transnational cooperation demonstrates that, despite the increasingly hostile environment, the early 1930s constituted a highpoint of China’s international legal, economic, and administrative integration. At the same time, internal documents reveal that, rather than being a genuinely universal organization, the League of Nations was widely perceived as an agent of “European civilization” in competition with new hegemons like the United States and Soviet Russia. Finally, the talk shows how this global rivalry over China undermined Geneva’s claim to “neutral” expertise, which ultimately precipitated the collapse of the program along with the interwar peace order at large.

Speakers:

Sally Chengji Xing is a visiting fellow of the Max Planck Institute of History of Science in Berlin (Lise Meitner Research Group, “China in the Global System of Science,” MPIWG) and the Joint Center for Advanced Studies “Worldmaking from Global Perspectives: a Dialogue with China;” she is also an incoming associate professor of US history at Nankai University. She is interested in writing US history from transnational and global perspectives. Her book manuscript in progress, “Pacific Crossings”: The China Foundation and a Negotiated Translation of American Science to China, 1913-1949″, examines how and to what extent did the American intellectuals in the first half of the twentieth century influence the development of Chinese science. Her multi-archival research in China and the United States has been funded by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), the Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Rockefeller Archive Center, the Consortium for History of Science, Technology, and Medicine and numerous other graduate research fellowships at Columbia University in the City of New York. Her long-term research explores Sino-American intellectual history in transnational approaches, from the early 20th century all the way to the late 1960s.

Lucas Brang is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Cologne, where he is currently completing his dissertation on the rise of the discipline of international law in early 20th-century China. From 2019 to 2022, he was a recipient of a Marie Curie global research fellowship of the European Union, as part of which he was affiliated with the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Lucas’ research interests include China’s constitutional development and visions of international order from historical and comparative perspectives. In his work, he employs approaches from different disciplinary traditions such as legal theory, conceptual history, and the sociology of knowledge. His research has appeared in journals like Global Constitutionalism, Modern China, and the International Journal of Constitutional Law.

The 15th CEA (Europe) and 34th CEA (UK) 2023 Annual Conference: Sustainable Development in a Changing Era: China and the World
2023-07-14 - 2023-07-16 | Historical Building of the State and University Library Göttingen Pauliner Church – Lecture Hall, Am Papendiek 17, Göttingen, 37073, Germany
The 15th CEA (Europe) and 34th CEA (UK) 2023 Annual Conference: Sustainable Development in a Changing Era: China and the World

Co-organizers: CEA Europe/UK, University of Göttingen

Date: 14-16 July 2023
14 July: preconference workshop “Sustainable Food System”
Venue: University of Göttingen, Germany
Local Organizers:
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, University of Göttingen
Centre for Modern East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen

For further information, please contact the CEA conference team under cea@uni-goetttingen.de
Conference Information webpage： CEA 2023 Conference

Economic development in China and the world faces many challenges, including COVID-19, conflicts, climate change, currency inflation, and aging populations. After the 20th Party Congress in October 2022, China is shifting many of its policies to address these challenges.
In this era of change, sustainable development is critical as it provides a framework to meet the present generation’s needs while preserving the ability of future generations to meet their own. With a rapidly growing global population and increasing demand for natural resources, it is imperative to balance economic, social, and environmental considerations to ensure a stable and prosperous future for all. By tackling issues such as climate change, poverty, and inequality, sustainable development can foster a more resilient and equitable society.
As we navigate a changing era characterized by technological advances like artificial intelligence, globalization, and shifting demographics, sustainable development is becoming more relevant as a guide for policy-making and business practices. It encourages innovation and collaboration, and advocates for responsible resource management and inclusive growth. Ultimately, sustainable development provides a pathway to a better future that is both prosperous and equitable, while ensuring that our planet can continue to support life for generations to come.
Given this context, the conference’s main focus is on sustainable development in China and the world. Submitted papers will cover a range of relevant topics, including but not limited to the following:
– Sustainable food system
– International trade and development
– Low carbon economy
– Food security
– Poverty reduction
– Energy security and energy poverty
– Digitalization in China
– Sustainable development goals
– Gender equality and economic development
– Demographic transition
– Innovation and business strategies
– Sustainable business management
– Human resources and sustainable business
– Green product and green supply chain
– ESG and economic development
– Blockchain, AI, and their impact on sustainable development goals
– Financial innovation and its impacts on financial services
– Green Finance
– New model of productivity growth and innovation in dual circulation
– China Path to modernization

Selected papers will be considered for inclusion in a special issue of the Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, or a special issue on Machine Learning in Food System of International Food and Agribusiness Management, or in the British Accounting Review.

CONFERENCE FEE AND REGISTRATION
Conference fee: Standard €200; Research student €100.
The conference fee covers one-year membership of CEA and four issues of the Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies.

VENUE
Venue 1: Historical Building, Papendiek 14, 37073 Goettingen, Germany
(Entrance to the building via Lichtenberghof)

Alfred Hessel Hall (Historical Building, 1st Floor)
Lecture Hall (Historical Building, 1st Floor)

Venue 2: Heyne-Haus, Papendiek 16, 37073 Goettingen, Germany

Büttner-Raum 1
Büttner Raum 2

CONFERENCE PROGRAM DRAFT

Confirmed Keynote Speakers (Listed in Alphabetical Order):

Prof. David Abler, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Prof. Bernhard Bruemmer, Vice President, University of Goettingen, Germany
Prof. Nancy Chau, Cornell University, USA
Prof. Shenggen Fan, China Agricultural University, China
Prof. Qu Feng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Prof. Doris Fischer, Vice President, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Prof. Yi Huang, Fudan University, China
Prof. Heinz Tuselmann, Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, UK
Prof. Zhongxiang Zhang, Tianjin University, China

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Local Organization Committee:
Prof. Xiaohua Yu
Prof. Andreas Fuchs
Dr. Lucie Maruejols
Ms. Jana Nowkowsky
Ms. Katja Pessl
Ms. Lisa Hoeschle
Ms. Shuang Liu
Mr. Simon Meister
Ms. Jasmin Wehner
Mr. Xiaoke Zhu

Education and democracy in modern China
2023-07-14 16:00 - 18:00 | KWZ 0.602
Abstract:
Institutional change in education and the cultivation of a qualified citizenry were two sides of the same coin of developing democratic education in modern China. At stake is to understand how democratic education filled a critical role in bridging the gap between democratic ideals and political realities. This lecture will focus on teachings of citizenship and democracy in Chinese primary and secondary schools between 1923-1936 for the purpose of strengthening embryonic democratic politics by creating qualified citizens, and seek to shed some light on the complex intertwinement of educational and political reforms in modern China.
Speaker:
Ying Zhou is an assistant professor at the Institute of Education, Xiamen University, China. She obtained her PhD at the University of Groningen (NL), trained in both Educational Studies and Sinology. Her PhD dissertation is entitled Education and Politics in China: Civic Education in Times of Reform, 1901-1937, and her current research project is concerned with pragmatism and progressive education in China and Japan.

Examples of research methods in the history of German Sinology / 德国汉学史研究方法举隅
2023-07-17 16:00 - 18:00 | KWZ 0.608
17. 07, 16:00 – 18:00
KWZ 0.608

Abstract:
德国汉学从一开始就不局限于某一领域，今天对它的历史梳理，也必然是在历史学、语文学、人类学、自然科学等其他学科的理论和方法的参与下进行，这同时也体现了德国汉学史研究的活力和多样性。李雪涛教授以德国汉学史为例，指出近年来汉学史研究的范式，已经从之前的”内部论”（internalist）或”谱系式”（genealogical）的历史思考方式，转变为了将汉学研究的现象、事件与进程置于”全球脉络”中予以分析，从而形成了一种真正的跨文化全球史研究。

Speaker:
Prof. Li is an expert among other topics on the history of Western China Studies and will address recent central questions of the development of China Studies in the West applying a global history perspective.

The lecture will be held in Chinese.
