CeMEAS

Film Screening: Mountains May Depart
2019-01-16 16:00 - 19:30 (Europe/Berlin) | Oec 1.163, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 3, Göttingen, 37073, Germany
OAS Film Cycle:
Mountains May Depart 山河故人 (2015)
Venue: OEC Raum/Room 1.163
Time: Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019, 16:00 – 19:30 (c.t.)
Lecturer: Katja Pessl

Mountains May Depart opens in 1999 to the strains of the Pet Shop Boys’ “Go West,” a song whose promise of blue skies captures the dreams of affluence that seized so many Chinese youth at the turn of the century. And it’s to the West that small-town dance instructor Shen Tao (played by Jia’s muse Zhao Tao) looks when she spurns the shy, introverted labourer Liangzi (Liang Jindong) to marry the slick entrepreneur Zhang (Zhang Yi). The couple soon welcomes a son, whom Zhang names Dollar — though if he could have seen only a few years into the future, he would surely have christened him Renminbi. The chasm between the family’s origins and their new life of Western-style wealth grows ever wider as the film leaps ahead to 2014 and finally to 2025, when Dollar is living in Australia and struggling to relearn the mother tongue he has forgotten with the help of an attractive, older college professor (played by the great Sylvia Chang, also at the Festival in Johnnie To’s Office and with her own film Murmur of the Hearts), who embodies the culture, life, and love he has never truly known.
This film is an intensely moving study of how China’s economic boom — and the culture of materialism it has spawned — has affected the bonds of family, tradition, and love.
(Source: Mountains May Depart: Official Trailer, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc1ZKyhMG6o)

Featured image:
Filmstreifen, Tim Reckmann, CC BY-NC 2.0, https://flic.kr/p/kAnkkP

JEP 2019-4 China’s political economy under Xi
2018-12-17 08:00 - 2019-01-28 00:00
Call for papers for
Journal für Entwicklungspolitik (JEP) 2019-4
China’s political economy under Xi
Special Issue Editors: Daniel Fuchs, Frido Wenten

Over the last decade, China’s political economy underwent two significant caesuras. The world economic crisis of 2008 inaugurated a period of slower growth rates and a renewed governmental effort to ‘rebalance’ the economy. Shortly thereafter, the new Xi/Li administration began to consolidate its power, tightening domestic control over civil society, while framing its interests abroad in terms of a free market agenda. This special issue of the Austrian Journal of Development Studies aims to explore the coherence and contradictions, challenges and opportunities of this new stage in China’s capitalist development.
We welcome both macro-level/systemic and sectoral/case study approaches to analyses of China’s developmental trajectory during the last decade, in particular in, but not limited to, the following areas:
Domestic issues:

Regime resilience and internal transformation
Geographically uneven development and industrial relocation within China
Finance, banking and financial stability
Industrial policy and innovation
The transformation of manufacturing systems: digitalisation, automation, industrial upgrading, “Made in China 2025”
China’s changing social stratification; inequality and class divisions
Social conflict and its authoritarian governance
The political economy of environmental protection (strategies and challenges of environmental policy)

International issues:

The “Belt and Road Initiative”
Implications of international relations for China’s political economy (US-China in particular)
China’s developmental trajectory in comparison to that of other BRICS countries
China’s South-South cooperation and development finance
China and global political economic governance

Deadlines: Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be sent to daniel_fuchs@soas.ac.uk by January 28, 2019. Authors of selected abstracts will receive a notification by February 15, 2019.
The deadline for submitting the full paper (6,000 words/40,000 characters) is May 22, 2019.

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Beyond National History: Some New Trends in Chinese History Writing
2018-12-05 18:00 - 20:00 | KWZ, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen, 37073, Germany
Lecture:
Beyond National History: Some New Trends in Chinese History Writing

Prof. Zhang Xupeng (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
05.12.2018, 18:00 – 20:00
Venue: KWZ 0.610
Organizer: Ostasiatisches Seminar, Co-Host: Akademisches Konfuzius-Institut Göttingen

Abstract:
In recent years, many Chinese scholars have rethought the paradigm of national history. Consequently, research on borders and border-crossing history has become increasingly popular. In this context, some scholars argue that the formation of the Chinese nation is not a historically given process but rather the result of interactions between various internal and external factors. With this new, more complex understanding of the Chinese nation, these historians reflect upon the nature of national history, which can be an effective way to transcend it.
Short bio:
Zhang Xupeng is Professor at the World History Institute, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing. He is the author of The Theory of Cultural Studies (2014) and co-author of The Philosophy and Theory of Contemporary Western History (2019, forthcoming). His primary research and teaching fields are intellectual history, global history and modern Western historical theory.

Image:AMD5150, Anyone Know Chinese?, CC BY-SA 2.0.,https://flic.kr/p/8sfe5H

North-East Asian peripheries in focus: industrialization, architecture and city planning in Inner Mongolia
2018-12-03 12:00 - 14:00 | VG, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
Lecture:
North-East Asian peripheries in focus: industrialization, architecture and city planning in Inner Mongolia
Dr. Christine Moll-Murata (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
03.12.2018, 12:00 bis 14:00 Uhr
Veranstaltungsort: VG 3.107
Veranstalter: Ostasiatisches Seminar, Co-Host: Akademisches Konfuzius-Institut Göttingen
Abstract:
Inner Mongolia belongs to the Northeast Asian Frontier Region as defined by Owen Lattimore. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, this macro-region has been subjected to various political impacts, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian. A recent research initiative based at Bochum and Duisburg sets out to consider especially the transnational and cross-border perspectives that connect this large area, although it is divided by national frontiers. This talk presents an outlook on Inner Mongolia as a region which so far has not been recognized as one of the centers of industrialization on a global scale. Yet its mineral resources in coal and rare earths are very rich; the Baotou Iron and Steel group is one of the largest steel producers nationwide, and in agribusiness the Inner Mongolian dairy companies rank topmost in China. How did this come about? Inner Mongolia seems to be a typical latecomer in industrialization with a short colonial history – or a very long one, depending on the conception of colonialism. This presentation will focus on the period during the first half of the twentieth century, when industrialization made several starts that were triggered by the competition among all the powers in the field. Its focus will be on the prerequisites of industrial development – infrastructure and communication.
Short bio:
Christine Moll-Murata is chair professor at the Department for History of China, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, and honorary fellow of the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam. Her research focuses on labor history of China, Taiwan, and Japan, the history of crafts and guilds in China, perceptions of the future in East Asia since 1900 and the industrialization of Northeast Asia. Her recent book, States and Crafts in the Qing Dynasty, was published with Amsterdam University Press in 2018.

Picture: Tim Zachernuk, Mongolian tent, CC BY-SA 2.0., https://flic.kr/p/6EJWG9

ASC Conference
2018-11-30 - 2018-12-01 | Wilhelmsplatz 2, Wilhelmsplatz 2, 37073 Göttingen, 37073, Germany
Arbeitskreis Sozialwissenschaftliche Chinaforschung
Jahrestagung 2018
This event is by invitation only.
Click here for details (programs, papers, etc.)

Contact:
Prof. Dr. Sarah Eaton
Professor for Modern Chinese Society & Economy, Director Center for Modern East Asian Studies (CeMEAS)
Organizer:
Prof. Dr. Sarah Eaton
Department for East Asian Studies
Centre for Modern East Asian Studies
About ASC:
Association for Social Science Research on China
(der Arbeitskreis Sozialwissenschaftliche Chinaforschung)
Website

Picture: Universität Göttingen https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/tagungszentrum+an+der+sternwarte/125324.html

“China’s Role in a Changing Global Economy”
2018-11-16 13:00 - 16:00 | blaue trum, Platz der Goettinger Sieben 5, 37073 göttingen, 37073, Germany
2018 University of Göttingen-Nanjing University Joint Workshop

“China’s Role in a Changing Global Economy”
(2018年哥廷根大学-南京大学研讨会：变化的全球经济和中国发展)

Venue: Seminar Room 1, DARE
(9.136, Blue tower, Platz der Goettinger Sieben 5, 37073, Goettingen)
Time:13:00-16:00, Nov. 16, 2018

Program:
Opening 13:00-13:10
Prof. Xiaohua Yu (Göttingen), Introducing the program and the participants from University of Göttingen
(于晓华教授：介绍会议日程以及哥廷根大学的与会者)
Dr. Xu Ning (NJU), Introducing the participants from Nanjing University and IDEI
(徐宁博士: 介绍南京大学的与会者以及南京大学产业经济研究院）

Presentations: 13:10-16:00
1，Prof. Zhibiao Liu (NJU): Globalization and Advanced Countries-of-Manufacture from a Perspective of Global Value Chain
（刘志彪教授：GVC视角下的全球化与建设制造强国）
2, Prof. Krisztina Kis-Katos (Göttingen): Current research on International Economic Policy: Potential linkages to China
（Krisztina Kis-Katos教授：和中国相关的国际经济政策进展）
3，Dr. Liu Chen （NJU）：Development Patterns of Emerging and Strategic Industries in China
（陈 柳博士：中国战略新兴产业发展模式分析）
4，Prof. Fabian Froese (Göttingen): Employability of Chinese students
(Fabian Froese教授：中国学生的可雇佣性)
Break ：14：30-14：40
5，Dr. Yueyou Zhang (NJU): Industry 4.0 in Germany and Development of Production-Service Industry in China
（张月友博士：德国工业4.0模式与中国生产性服务业发展）
6, Dr. Feicheng Wang (Göttingen): Hukou reform and firm-level employment adjustment in China
(王飞成博士：户口制度改革和中国企业雇佣调整)
7, Dr. Lingchi Kong (NJU): Spatial Pattern and its Change in Manufacturing Industries of China
(孔令池博士：中国制造业布局特征及空间重塑)
8, Xiaohua Yu (Göttingen): China’s Belt & Road Initiativeand International Agricultural Development
（于晓华教授：中国的一带一路倡议和国际农业发展）

Organizer & Contact: Prof. Xiaohua Yu: Professor, University of Göttingen (xyu@uni-goettingen.de)
Ms. Jana Nowakowsky, (jana.nowakowsky@agr.uni-goettingen.de, Tel:0551-39-4883)

Image: Tommy N. Armansyah, XpanEktarNanjingDec2010_020, CC BY-SA 2.0., https://flic.kr/p/93exjL

China – Aufstieg eines neuen Hegemons?
2018-11-13 19:00 - 21:00 | Thaeterplatz 11, Theaterpl. 11, 37073 Göttingen, 37073, Germany
Trittin trifft Volker Stanzel, Ulrich Delius und Prof. Dr. Axel Schneider – „China – Aufstieg eines neuen Hegemons?“
Dienstag, den 13. November 2018, 19:00 Uhr bis 21:00
Theaterpl. 11, Göttingen

China gerät immer mehr in den Blick. Präsident Xi Jingping treibt auf vielen Ebenen offen und selbstbewusst den Wiederaufstieg Chinas voran. Als permanentes Mitglied im UN-Sicherheitsrat ist China bereits seit langem ein zentraler Akteur in den internationalen Beziehungen. Die chinesische Führung klammert in ihrem Handeln aus, was ihrer Ansicht nach nicht wichtig ist – wie etwa die Menschenrechte. Die Inhaftierung Oppositioneller und die umfangreiche soziale Überwachung sind zwei Beispiele dafür.
Als regionaler Hegemon hingegen agiert China klassisch unilateral mit militärischer Macht. Die zunehmende Militarisierung des Südchinesischen Meeres wird von den USA und Chinas Nachbarn, die ebenfalls Ansprüche auf die strategisch wichtigen Gewässer erheben, kritisiert.
Handelspolitisch haben sowohl Deutschland als auch China als Exportnationen im gegenwärtigen Handelskonflikt mit den USA viel zu verlieren. Daher ist es umso wichtiger, dass die Basis dieser Partnerschaft stimmt. Sie muss auf Chancengleichheit und Reziprozität beruhen.
Auf der Veranstaltung „Trittin trifft: China –Aufstieg eines neuen Hegemons?“ möchte ich mit dem ehemaligen Botschafter Volker Stanzel (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik), dem Sinologen Prof. Dr. Axel Schneider (Universität Göttingen) und dem Direktor der Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker Ulrich Delius am Dienstag, den 18. September um 19 Uhr im DT-Keller in Göttingen diskutieren. Chinas Wiederaufstieg stellt Deutschland vor neue Herausforderung, denn China fügt sich nicht einfach in die bestehende internationale Ordnung ein. China will mitbestimmen und Anpassungen des internationalen Regelwerks vornehmen, die seinen eigenen, anderen (Wert-)Vorstellungen entsprechen.

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Lecture: Old society, New Belief: Religious transformation of Rome and China (1st – 6th c. CE)
2018-10-25 18:00 - 20:00 | ZHG
Lecture
Mu-chou Poo (Chinese University of Hong Kong):
Old society, New Belief: Religious transformation of Rome and China (1st – 6th c. CE)

25. Okt., 18:00 – 20:00, ZHG 004

Abstract:
Recently scholars in the study of antiquity around the world began to notice a trend of increasing interest in doing comparative studies. How should comparative study, particularly of the ancient world, be conducted, what are the benefits, what are the issues, are still problems that draw debates among scholars. This talk intends to use the example of a comparative project to address some of the issues in the comparative study of antiquity. This is a project comparing early Christianity in Rome and early Buddhism in China. Although a conference volume has been published, the issues are far from being resolved. Further investigation of this subject is needed.
Short bio:
Prof. Poo Mu-chou received a B.A. in History from National Taiwan University in 1975 and Ph.D. in Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from The Johns Hopkins University in 1984. He is a Professor of History and director of the Centre for the Comparative Study of Antiquity at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include society and religion in ancient Egypt and China. His major publications include Burial and the Idea of Life and Death: Essay on Ancient Chinese Religion, Wine and Wine Offering in the Religion of Ancient Egypt, In Search of Personal Welfare: A View of Ancient Chinese Religion, Enemies of Civilization: Attitudes toward Foreigners in Ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt and China and Daily Life in Ancient China.

Image: JasonChamberlain,釋迦牟尼佛 – Shakyamuni Buddha, CC BY-SA 2.0., https://flic.kr/p/7CnDX8

Lecture: Japanese Colonial Shinto Shrines in Taiwan
2018-10-24 16:00 - 18:00 | KWZ, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen, 37073, Germany
Jung-jen, Norman Tsai (National United University, Taiwan):
Japanese Colonial Shinto Shrines in Taiwan

24. Okt., 16:00 – 18:00, KWZ 1.601

Abstract:
A lecture illustrated with the speaker’s latest field study on Japanese colonial Shinto shrines in Taiwan—the more than 400 Shinto Shrines built by the Japanese colonizers over the 50 years of colonization between 1895-1945—The lecture interprets the political, social and cultural meaning of these Shinto Shrines and their relics in the past and present.
Short bio:
Norman Tsai is assistant professor at the Architecture Department at the National United University in Taiwan. His research covers a wide range of modern ideas and their relation to architecture. These ideas include nationalism, modernity, museum politics, power and gender studies. Prof. Tsai has been educated and teaching in Taiwan, England and Scotland with an extensive exposure to architectural theory, architectural design practice, critical theory and cultural studies.
The lecture is open to the public.

Image: GD Taber,JAPAN: Shinto Shrine,CC BY-SA 2.0., https://flic.kr/p/eipTZn

Summer Break
2018-07-16 08:00 - 2018-10-09 17:00
CeMEAS wishes you a wonderful and relaxing summer break!
We will be back next semester with more exciting events and news to share with you right here!

Film screening Cunxi/ Bangzi Melody
2018-07-03 18:00 - 20:00 | Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5, Göttingen, 37073
Film screening
Cunxi/ Bangzi Melody (VR China 2017)
Time: Tuesday, July 3, 2018, 18:00
Place: ZHG 004, Platz der Göttingen Sieben 5
Organiser: Academic Confucius Institute Göttingen
Cooperation: CeMEAS
Moderator: Katja Pessl

Image: public poster

Lecture Series 2018: The BRICS and Collective Financial Statecraft
2018-06-12 18:00 - 20:00 | VG, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
Lecture Series 2018:
The BRICS and Collective Financial Statecraft

Saori Katada (University of Southern California)
Tuesday, June 12, 6pm (c.t.), VG 3.103
Abstract:
In the first decade of the 21st century, five rising powers (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) formed an exclusive and informal international club, the BRICS. Although neither revolutionaries nor extreme revisionists, the BRICS perceive an ongoing global power shift and contest the West’s pretensions to permanent stewardship of the existing economic order. Together they have exercised collective financial statecraft, employing their expanding financial and monetary capabilities for the purpose of achieving larger foreign policy goals. This volume examines the forms and strategies of such collective financial statecraft, and the motivations of each individual government for collaborating through the BRICS club. Their cooperative financial statecraft takes various forms, ranging from pressure for “inside reforms” of either multilateral institutions or global markets, to “outside options” exercised through creating new multilateral institutions or jointly pushing for new realities in international financial markets. To the surprise of many observers, the joint actions of the BRICS are largely successful. Although each member has its unique rationale for collaboration, the largest member, China, controls resources that permit it the greatest influence in intra-club decision-making. The BRICS cooperate due to both common aversions (for example, resentment over being perennial junior partners in global economic and financial governance and resistance to infringements on their autonomy due to U.S. dollar dominance and financial power) and common interests (such as obtaining greater voice in international institutions, as the IMF). The group seeks reforms, influence, and enhanced leadership roles within the liberal capitalist global system. Where blocked, they experiment with parallel multilateral institutions in which they are the dominant rule-makers. The future of the BRICS depends not only on their bargaining power and adjustment to market players, but also on their ability to overcome domestic impediments to sustainable economic growth, the basis for their international influence.

Primary Organizer: CeMEAS
Co-Hosts: Department of East Asian Studies, Department of Political Science, Global and Transregional Studies Platform
Sponsors: Academic Confucius Institute (Qin Yaqing & Liu Kang), Department of East Asian Studies, Department of Political Science, CeMEAS

Lecture: Die Resonanz von Körper und Geist – Zur Philosophie des Geistes im Chinesischen Denken
2018-06-07 16:00 - 18:00 | KWZ, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen, 37073, Germany
Die Resonanz von Körper und Geist –
Zur Philosophie des Geistes im Chinesischen Denken

Dr. Dr. Dominique Hertzer
Donnerstag, 07.06.2018, 4 pm (c.t.), KWZ 0.607

Übersicht:
Die chinesische Vorstellung vom „Geist“ (shen 神) wird oftmals mit der westlichen Vorstellung von der „Psyche“ oder „der Seele“ gleichgesetzt. Doch gibt es im Chinesischen Denken überhaupt Vorstellungen, die unseren Begriffen von Psyche oder Seele entsprechen? Ausgehend von den klassischen Fragen des Leib-Seele Diskurses im Abendland werden wir uns der chinesischen Vorstellung nähern, die das Verhältnis von Geist (shen 神) und Körper (xing 形) generell als eines der Polarität verhandelt. Es wird zu zeigen sein, dass die Ebene des Geistig-Seelischen im Chinesischen Denken nicht im Sinne einer Einheit – also des „einen“ Geistes oder der „einen“ Seele -, sondern in Gestalt einer fünffachen Auffächerung des Geistes zu verstehen ist, die sich in Resonanz zu den verschiedenen (korrespondierenden) Aspekten des Leibes bewegt. Im Zentrum steht die Frage, ob es in einem derartigen Resonanzverhältnis eine Ursache- Wirkungsbeziehung zwischen Geist und Körper geben kann und welcher Art ihre gegenseitige Beeinflussung ist. Vor dem Hintergrund der gegenwärtigen Diskussion um die Frage nach der Freiheit des menschlichen Willens und des Bewusstseins, wie sie derzeit in der Philosophie und den Neurowissenschaften geführt wird, mag der Blick auf das Chinesische Denken vielleicht auch an dieser Stelle eine neue Perspektive zu eröffnen, die die Diskussion von festgefahrenen Standpunkten befreit.

Lecture Series 2018: The Senkaku Islands Dispute: A MacGruffin?
2018-06-05 18:00 - 20:00 | waldweg, waldweg 26, Gӧttingen, 37073
Lecture Series 2018:
The Senkaku Islands Dispute: A MacGruffin?
Todd Hall (Oxford University)
Tuesday, June 5, 6pm (c.t.), Waldweg 9.102

Short Bio of the lecturer:
Prof Hall earned his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2008 and has held postdoctoral fellowships at Princeton and Harvard, as well as visiting scholar appointments at the Free University of Berlin, Tsinghua University in Beijing, and the University of Tokyo. Prior to joining the University of Oxford, Prof Hall held the position of Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Toronto (2010-2013). Research interests extend to the areas of international relations theory; the intersection of emotion, affect, and foreign policy; and Chinese foreign policy. Recent publications include articles in Asian Security, International Organization, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Review, Political Science Quarterly, and Security Studies. Prof Hall has also published a book with Cornell University Press, titled Emotional Diplomacy: Official Emotion on the International Stage, which was recently named co-recipient of the International Studies Association’s 2016 Diplomatic Studies Section Book Award.
Prof Hall’s research fields include:
Theorizing the role of emotions and affect in international politics.
The international relations of East Asia, with a specific focus on the foreign policy of China.
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Primary Organizer: CeMEAS
Co-Hosts: Department of East Asian Studies, Department of Political Science, Global and Transregional Studies Platform
Sponsors: Academic Confucius Institute (Qin Yaqing & Liu Kang), Department of East Asian Studies, Department of Political Science, CeMEAS

Design & Poster: CeMEAS
Image: Location of Senkaku Islands. Blue : Uotsuri-shima (魚釣島) / Diaoyu Dao (釣魚島) Yellow : Kuba-shima (久場島) / Huangwei Yu (黃尾嶼) Red : Taishō-tō (大正島) / Chiwei Yu (赤尾嶼).
Wikimedia Commons, Senkaku Diaoyu Tiaoyu Islands.png, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Lecture: Underneath the grand yellow imperial roofs of Martyrs’ Shrines: Taiwan’s colonial past and onwards and the political symbolisms at play
2018-06-05 10:30 - 12:00 | MPI, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, 37073 Göttingen, 37073
Underneath the grand yellow imperial roofs of Martyrs’ Shrines: Taiwan’s colonial past and onwards and the political symbolisms at play
Dr. Liza Wing Man Kam
Time: Tuesday, June 5, 10:30-12:00,
Venue: MPI. Max-Planck Institute for Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12 (Villa), 37073 Göttingen

Abstract:
The paper investigates the shift of power symbolism represented in Shinto Shrines and Martyrs’ Shrines since the colonial era in Taiwan, through putting architectural/urban design theories into dialogue with political history. Three architectural complexes, Hualien Martyrs’ Shrine, Taipei National Revolutionary Martyrs’ Shrine and the Imperial Palace in Peking are interpreted in material and spatial terms.
Hualien Martyrs’ Shrine and the Taipei National Revolutionary Martyrs’ Shrine, located on the former sites of two annihilated Shinto Shrines built by the Japanese colonisers, were commissioned and reconstructed by the Republican’s Party in Taiwan in the 1970s. Shifting from being the site enshrined with the spirits who fought to contribute the expansion of the Japanese Empire, the current Martyrs’ Shrines were designated to commemorate the sacrificed lives who defended the Island of Taiwan in the Sino-Japanese War. Stripped off from the Japanese zukuri (architectural orders for Shinto Shrine constructions), the shrines are bedecked with the grand Imperial yellow roofs, which accommodated the Chinese imperial power in the late Ming and Qing Dynasty– the very power that the Republicans strove to overthrow during the Xinhai Revolution in 1911.
Through analysing the Shinto Shrines, the Martyrs’ Shrines and their material history, I contend that a continual interplay of political symbolism via architectural representations from different authorities, emerged from the Japanese colonial era, followed by the Republicans’ authority since the Post-war era and till now with manipulation of the notion of ‘colonial legacy/ heritage’–essentially never ceases, despite the situational considerations to the changing political and economic agendas proclaimed.
Biography:
Dr. Liza Wing Man Kam is Research Fellow (Architecture and Urban Studies) at the Max-Planck Institute for Religious and Ethnics Diversity and Assistant Professor of Urban Studies and Chinese Societies at the Department of East Asian Studies at the Georg-August University of Göttingen. She was trained as architect and later researcher in Hong Kong, Singapore, Liverpool, London, Paris and Germany. Her work on Hong Kong and Taiwan depicts the transformation of political, societal and cultural symbolisms represented by the colonial urban heritage in their unique post-colonial settings by illustrating the inter-relation between architecture, historiography, identity formation and hence civic awareness. She currently investigates colonial Shinto Shrines in the Japanese occupied Taiwan as both religious space and political symbolisms for enunciating the different powers in post-war Taiwan. Her work puts into dialogue the local memory and the grand narrated history while interpreting the meaning of colonial urban heritage and colonial legacy.

Design & Poster: CeMEAS
Image: National Martyrs Shrine (0732), Public Domain

Lecture Series 2018: Chinese culture and foreign policy decision
2018-05-29 18:00 - 20:00 | VG, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
Lecture Series 2018:
Chinese culture and foreign policy decision (中国文化与外交决策)
Qin Yaqing 秦亚青(China Foreign Affairs University)
Tuesday, May 29, 6pm (c.t.), VG 3.103

Short Bio of the lecturer:
QIN Yaqing is President and Professor of China Foreign Affairs University (CFAU) and Chancellor of China Diplomatic Academy, Executive Vice-president of China National Association for International Studies (CNAIS) and editor-in-chief of Foreign Affairs Review, the academic journal of CFAU and CNAIS. He was on the resource team for the UN High Panel for Challenges, Threats and Changes (2003-04) and worked as Special Assistant to the Chinese Eminent Person, China-ASEAN Eminent Persons Group (2005).
Qin’s main academic interest is International Relations (IR) theory and has recently focused on the exploration of Chinese cultural and philosophical traditions for developing IR theory. He has also done research on global and regional governance and China’s foreign policy. As a leading scholar and professor in the field of international relations in China, Qin has published extensively, including Hegemonic System and International Conflicts; Power, Institutions and Culture; Relations and Process, etc.
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Primary Organizer: CeMEAS
Co-Hosts: Department of East Asian Studies, Department of Political Science, Global and Transregional Studies Platform
Sponsors: Academic Confucius Institute (Qin Yaqing & Liu Kang), Department of East Asian Studies, Department of Political Science, CeMEAS

Lecture: Historical Evolution and Future Trend of China's Agricultural Policy
2018-05-22 10:00 - 12:00 | VG, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
Lecture:
Historical Evolution and Future Trend of China’s Agricultural Policy

Dr. Xingqing Ye (The Development Research Center of State Council of China)
Time: 10:00-12:00, May 22
Venue: VG 4105
Short CV:
Dr. Xingqing Ye is currently Director-General of the Research Department of Rural Economy of the Development Research Center of the State Council (DRC). DRC is a key policy think tank within Chinese government.
Dr. Ye has conducted in-depth research in the fields of modern agriculture, new village construction, grain supply, agricultural tax systems, urbanization, rural migrant workers, and land systems. He has compiled large amounts of research materials, which got the approval of leaders in the State Council, and played an important role in making some crucial decisions.

Design & Poster: CeMEAS
Image:tribp, Field, CC BY-SA 3.0.https://flic.kr/p/faNDSg

Lecture: Citizenship & Bureaucracy in China
2018-05-16 17:00 - 19:30 | waldweg, waldweg 26, Gӧttingen, 37073
Articulating Authoritatian Citizenship in China
Diana Fu (University of Toronto)
Evaluating the Bureaucracy in China and the US
Greg Distelhorst (MIT)

Wednesday, May 16, 17:00-19:30, Waldweg -1.201

Short Bio:
Diana Fu:
Diana Fu is an assistant professor of Asian Politics. Her research examines the relationship between popular contention, state power, and civil society in contemporary China. Her book, “Mobilizing Without the Masses,” (2018, Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics Series and Columbia University’s Studies of the Weatherhead East Asia Institute), examines state control and civil society contention in China. Articles that are part of this broader project have appeared in Governance (2017), Comparative Political Studies (2017), and The China Journal (2018), among others.
(Information from University of Toronto)
Greg Distelhorst:
Greg Distelhorst is the Mitsubishi Career Development Professor and an Assistant Professor in Global Economics and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
His research explores the social impact of multinational business, focusing on how multinationals engage with labor-intensive manufacturers in the developing world. He examines initiatives to regulate labor standards in the supply chains of firms like Nike and HP. This research sits at the intersection of multinational management, industrial relations, and political economy.
Distelhorst also studies Chinese politics and public policy, focusing on China’s institutions of government responsiveness and accountability. He examines how citizens exploit these institutions and what prompts unelected officials to respond to citizen demands.
His research has been published in Management Science, Regulation & Governance, Comparative Political Studies, and the Quarterly Journal of Political Science.
(Information from MIT)

Click here for a draft paper to the topic by Greg Distelhorst.

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Lecture Series 2018: China and International Order: What Order? Which Order?
2018-05-15 18:00 - 20:00 | VG, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
Lecture Series 2018:
China and International Order: What Order? Which Order?
Alastair Iain Johnston (Harvard University)
Tuesday, May 15, 6pm (c.t.), VG 3.103
Abstract:
The discourse about China’s challenge to the liberal world order assumes that such an order exists. This talk argues that there are instead multiple orders in different arenas (military, trade, finance, information, environment, among others), and that there are tensions within and between these orders. China supports some of these orders, wants to reform others, and opposes elements of others. We need new and more sophisticated ways of measuring order and describing the relationship of states to these orders.
Short Bio:
Alastair Iain Johnston (PhD University of Michigan, 1993) is the Gov. James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs in the Government Department at Harvard University. He has written on socialization theory, identity and political behavior, and strategic culture, mostly with application to the study of East Asian international relations and Chinese foreign policy. Johnston is the author of Cultural Realism: Strategic Culture and Grand Strategy in Chinese History (Princeton 1995) and Social States: China in International Institutions, 1980-2000 (Princeton University Press, 2008), and is co-editor of Engaging China: The Management of an Emerging Power (Routledge 1999), New Directions in the Study of China’s Foreign Policy (Stanford 2006), Crafting Cooperation: Regional Institutions in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge 2007), Measuring Identity: A Guide for Social Scientists (Cambridge 2009), and Perception and Misperception in American and Chinese Views of the Other (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 2015).
Information from Harvard University.
Primary Organizer: CeMEAS
Co-Hosts: Department of East Asian Studies, Department of Political Science, Global and Transregional Studies Platform
Sponsors: Academic Confucius Institute (Qin Yaqing & Liu Kang), Department of East Asian Studies, Department of Political Science, CeMEAS

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Image: U.S. Pacific Fleet, 170305-N-BL637-053, CC BY-SA 2.0.,https://flic.kr/p/Rv9DKa

Lecture Series 2018: Chinese Exceptionalism: A Research Agenda
2018-04-24 18:00 - 20:00 | VG, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
Lecture Series 2018:
Chinese Exceptionalism: A Research Agenda
Liu Kang (Duke University)
Tuesday, April 24, 6pm (c.t.), VG 3.103
Abstract:
This lecture explores the emergent Chinese exceptionalism in order to search for a possible research agenda from interdisciplinary approaches. It will focus on modern times from Mao to the present, especially the ideological formations of Sinicization of Marxism (Chinese Marxism or Mao Zedong Thought),and “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics” (from Deng to Xi). To begin the research, we need to address 1) Chinese exceptionalism under the rubrics of international politics; 2) Chinese exceptionalism as an ideology, or value system; 3) cultural and historical roots of Chinese exceptionalism, and 4) implications for Xi Jinping’s global strategy.
Short bio:
Liu Kang is Professor of Chinese Studies, and Director of Duke Program of Research on China at Duke University. Professor Liu is Elected Member of Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe) since 2015. He is the author of twelve books, and written widely in scholarly journals in both English and Chinese. In addition, He frequently contributes in the forms of op-eds, interviews, reviews, to American and Chinese print media and the internet media, on issues ranging from contemporary Chinese media and culture, globalization, to Marxism and aesthetics.

Primary Organizer: CeMEAS
Co-Hosts: Department of East Asian Studies, Department of Political Science, Global and Transregional Studies Platform
Sponsors: Academic Confucius Institute (Qin Yaqing & Liu Kang), Department of East Asian Studies, Department of Political Science, CeMEAS

Image: theo phontes, Opening in Great Wall, CC BY-SA 2.0., https://flic.kr/p/bBDWRT

Lecture Series 2018: What Makes a Superpower? New Perspectives on China's Rise
2018-04-24 08:00 - 2018-06-12 17:00 | KWZ, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen, 37073, Germany
CeMEAS Lecture Series Summer Term 2018:
China in a Global World
Conveners: Sarah Eaton & Katja Pessl

Title: What Makes a Superpower? New Perspectives on China’s Rise

Time & Place: 18:00-20:00, VG 3.103
Liu Kang (Duke University)
Tuesday, April 24
Chinese Exceptionalism: A Research Agenda
Iain Johnston (Harvard University)
Tuesday, May 15
China and International Order: What Order? Which Order?
Qin Yaqing (China Foreign Affairs University)
Tuesday, May 29
Chinese culture and foreign policy decision (中国文化与外交决策)
Todd Hall (Oxford University)
Tuesday, 5 June
The Senkaku Islands Dispute: A MacGruffin?
Saori Katada (University of Southern California)
Tuesday, 12 June
The BRICS and Collective Financial Statecraft

Primary Organizer: CeMEAS
Co-Hosts: Department of East Asian Studies, Department of Political Science, Global and Transregional Studies Platform
Sponsors: Academic Confucius Institute (Qin Yaqing & Liu Kang), Department of East Asian Studies, Department of Political Science, CeMEAS

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Image: VR_Man, CommScope, 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0), https://flic.kr/p/V6mWt7

Film Screening: The VaChina Monologues
2018-04-18 18:00 - 20:00 | ZHG
Film Screening: The VaChina Monologues
Wednesday, April 18, 18:00-20:00, ZHG 002
Moderator: Katja Pessl

Fan Popo’s 2013 short documentary explores how ‘The Vagina Monologues’ (1996), the iconic yet controversial play by Eve Ensler, has become an empowering tool for feminist and women’s groups all over China. The first theatrical performance in the PRC was translated and directed by Professor Ai Xiaoming of Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou) in 2003; since then enactments of ‘The Vagina Monologues’ (in Chinese ‘来自阴道’ lit. ‘from the vagina’), at times banned and partly censored, have taken over university campuses, theatres, cafes, villages, streets and public transport.
(Source:shadesofnoir.org.uk)

About the director:
Fan Popo is a queer filmmaker, writer and activist. Born in 1985, he graduated from the Beijing Film Academy. He published “Happy Together: Complete Record of a Hundred Queer Films”. His documentary works include: New Beijing, New Marriage, Mama Rainbow, The VaChina Monologues and other works. He has participated in international film festivals in Taipei, Copenhagen, Los Angeles, Mumbai and other places. In 2012 he received the Prism Prize of the 22nd Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, and was invited to join the jury of MixCopenhagen in 2014. Fan Popo now serves as a committee member of the Beijing Queer Film Festival and is a board member of Beijing LGBT Centre.

Image: public poster

Voices of Struggle: LGBTQ & Feminist Activism in China and Beyond
2018-04-17 13:30 - 18:15 | Alten Mensa, Wilhelmsplatz 3, Gӧttingen, 37073, Germany
Voices of Struggle: LGBTQ & Feminist Activism in China and Beyond
Voices of Struggle explores the complex entanglements between activism and academia in transnational perspective. What does it mean to be an engaged or activist scholar today? How should we think about the connections/separations between the two spheres of activism and academia? And how can activists and academics best combine their strengths to effect change? In what ways are deepening transnational connections re-shaping the practice of activism around the globe? This two day event brings together leading scholars and activists to discuss these questions in relation to the development of feminism and LGBTQ activism in China and beyond.
Event is free to the public. No registration is needed.
Workshop: April 17, 13:30 – 18:15
Venue: Emmy-Noether-Saal, Tagungs- und Veranstaltungshaus Alte Mensa, Wilhelmsplatz 3, Göttingen
Participants：
Bao Hongwei (University of Nottingham)
Harriett Evans (University of Westminster)
Li Tingting (Activist, London)
Kimberley Manning (Concorida University)

Film Screening: April 18, 18:00 – 20:00
Location: ZHG 002
Vachina Monologues 来自阴道
FanPopo|28’|2013
Documentary China
Language: Mandarin
Subtitles: English
Participants:
Bao Hongwei (University of Nottingham)
Fan Popo (Filmmaker, Berlin)
Li Tingting (Activist, London)

Program:
A first roundtable session, featuring Harriet Evans (Westminster) and Kimberley Manning (Concordia), explores the history and development of feminism in relation to politics and state power in China. Evans is an expert on gender and sexuality in China and is the author of many studies on these topics including The Subject of Gender: Daughters and Mothers in Urban China (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007). Manning specializes in Chinese politics, women and politics, and the rights of transgender children and youth. She is the author of the forthcoming book Revolutionary Attachments: Party Families and the Gendered Origins of Chinese State Power” (Cornell University Press, 2019)
A second session turns to China’s recent feminist awakening and the struggle for LGBTQ rights and will feature the inspirational activist Li Tinging/“Maizi” and Bao Hongwei (Nottingham). Li is one of China’s famous ‘Feminist Five’ who made headlines around the world in March 2015 when they were arrested and detained in Beijing for planning to hand out stickers about sexual harassment on International Women’s Day. Bao is an expert on LGBTQ activism in China and author of a new book on the topic, Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Politics in Postsocialist China (NIAS Press, 2018).
An evening film screening on Wednesday, 18 April will feature the documentary The VaChina Monologues, a reflection on performances of Eve Ensler’s play around China since its first staging in Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou) in 2003. The director Fan Popo will join us for a discussion of his film.

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Past Event Highlights
2018-02-01 08:00 - 17:00
In the past winter term CeMEAS has organized the Lecture Series “Social Policy in China: Retrospect and Prospect” and co-organized the OAS Film Cycle “Periphery at the Centre: China’ s Borders and Frontiers”.
In September we organized an international workshop “Manchu in Global History:A Research Language for Qing Historians”.

We are looking forward to share with you more exciting events.

Lecture: Sovereignty, Natural Law, and the Ironies of Decolonization: India and the Tokyo Trial
2018-01-29 16:00 - 18:00 | Zentrale Einrichtung für Sprachen und Schlüsselqualifikationen der Universität Göttingen, Goßlerstraße 10, 37073 Göttingen, 37073, Germany
Sovereignty, Natural Law, and the Ironies of Decolonization: India and the Tokyo Trial
Prof.Milinda Banerjee( Ludwig-Maximilian University )
Monday, 29.01.2018, 16:00(c.t.) – 18:00, ZESS, AP26
Abstract:
Is the demand for codified international criminal justice antithetical to the demand for agonistic decolonization of global political, military, and economic power? Or can the establishment of global norms of justice be made compatible with, and even grounded upon, anti-colonial and democratic interventions? By analysing Indian involvement in the Tokyo Trial (1946-48), this paper foregrounds some of the key complexities at stake in the dialectics between global norm-building and anti-colonial agonism. While existing scholarship on the Tokyo Trial has mainly dwelt upon legal and political history, I draw upon methodological debates in the nascent field of global intellectual history to sharply focus on the tense relation between sovereignty and natural law which mediated discussions on justice in relation to colonialism, in the Tokyo moment as well as in its long aftermath. I give particular attention to the dissenting Indian judge at the trial, Radhabinod Pal (1886-1967), and contextualize his controversial judgment in relation to (anti-) colonial politics and justice, not merely in relation to the Japanese Empire – and the decades-old Indian engagement with Japanese models of sovereignty – but also in relation to British India, Dutch Indonesia, French Indochina, and Korea. In the process, I relate the dynamics of the trial to transregional flows in legal-moral vocabularies and the emergence of international legal institutions, including, most notably, the post-war International Law Commission. Simultaneously, I relate Pal to other Indian actors, such as Agent General Girja Shankar Bajpai (1891-1954) and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964), who related (anti-) imperial anxieties to the politics of the Tokyo Trial. Further, I show how the trial linked the paradoxes of India’s decolonization to foreign policy debates and questions about ‘race’ in relation to the United States and the United Kingdom. Ultimately, I theorize about how the Tokyo Trial can shed novel conceptual light on the tortuous ironies involved in decolonization processes, as regimes of sovereignty – and sovereign violence – were combated, translated, and expropriated across Asia through transimperial and transnational entanglements, often with haunting long-term consequences.

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Image: The International Military Tribunal for the Far East

Lecture Series: The Welfare Regime Within and Beyond Borders: The Openness and Closedness of the Chinese Social Policy
2018-01-23 18:00 - 20:00 | Theologicum, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 2, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
The Welfare Regime Within and Beyond Borders:
The Openness and Closedness of the Chinese Social Policy

Prof. Liu Tao
(University of Duisburg-Essen)
Tuesday, 23.01.2018, 18:00 (c.t.) – 20:00, T0.136
Abstract:
The functional operation of conventional Chinese welfare regime was closely linked to institutionally created forms of discrepancies and borders entrenching the status differences between different social classes as well as among welfare clients from different social spaces (e.g. rural or urban areas). Since the Millennium an unprecedented and fast expanding social policy in the Chinese history has softened the welfare boundaries of classes, regions and functionally segregated welfare spaces substantially even the welfare class ‘borders’ won’t entirely disappear in the short term. A conceptual notion of ‘incomplete universalism’ contributes to outlining the main trends of social policy development in contemporary China: on the one hand, residents from different origins are increasingly considered as national social citizens; on the other hand, the notion of a national social citizenship and its concrete implementation are heavily constrained by the uneven institutional welfare arrangements created in the past.

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Image: Matthias Ripp, The colors of the street, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, https://flic.kr/p/TjfNZv

The 12th East Asia Research Salon
2018-01-16 18:00 - 19:30 | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
Theorizing the Current Global Order in the Era of Globalization, Regional Integration and the Resurgence of Nationalism:
Global China, Regional EU, and National US?
Xiao (Alvin) Yang, University of Kassel
Tuesday, 16.01.2018, 18:00 (c.t.) – 20:00, KWZ 0.701

Commentators
Dr. Armin Müller, University of Göttingen
Prof. Dr. Sarah Eaton, University of Göttingen

Abstract:
Why has China become the defender of globalization whereas the US, who is supposed to be the defender of globalization, has turned towards more nationalist and inward-looking direction? Moreover, why is European Union, the model for regional integration, not only facing economic, financial and migration crises, but also the crisis of the resurgence of nationalist movements within its member states? This dissertation aims to theorize the current global order after 2008 where there is an on-going contradictory and simultaneous process of globalization, regional integration and the resurgence of nationalism. It theorizes the relationships among China, the EU and the US in relation to their respective domestic conditions, with a particular focus on the bilateral Sino-American and Sino-EU relations.
Moreover, it goes beyond the European-Americano-centric international relations(IR) and global political economy (GPE) theories by bringing in non-Western IR/GPE theories. Particularly, it situates in the theoretical discourse and engages with the research programs of the emerging Chinese IR theories. It critically and systematically carries out literature review on both Western and Chinese IR/GPE theories and their respective critiques by selecting each work (e.g. journal article, book) based on a set of criteria, such as the relevance to the research questions, the level of intellectual and policy influence, and uniqueness of a theory. How these competing theories conceptualize hegemony, the relationship between a hegemonic power and a rising power, the notions of international relations and global order are compared and contrasted and then synthesized in order to shed light upon the current global order. Furthermore, it systematically reveals the underlying epistemological, ontological, methodological and historical assumptions of these theories to illustrate how and why they interpret the same phenomena differently as well as to bridge these assumptions to make fruitful analyses.
To test these competing theories, a set of hypotheses are generated from their respective theoretical implications and predictions. Subsequently, these hypotheses are tested on different institutional dimensions by critically examining the foreign policy of China, EU, and the US, as well as applying set theory to analyze their respective bilateral and multilateral trade arrangements and security configurations. They are further substantiated by macro indices, such as flows and trends of trade, investment, capital, and currency. Furthermore, China’s Belt and Road initiative (B&R), formerly named as One Belt One Road (OBOR), is chosen to be the main case study. Finally, this dissertation aims to construct and develop a holistic theoretical and conceptual framework that encompasses politico-economic and socio-cultural dimensions to theorize the current global order.
About the presenter:
Xiao (Alvin) Yang is currently a PhD Candidate in Political Science at the University of Kassel in Germany. His dissertation aims to theorize the current global order by focusing on international relations among and within East Asia, Europe and North America where there are on-going tensions among globalization, regional integration and the resurgence of nationalism. He holds a master degree in Chinese European Economics and Business from the Berlin School of Economics and Law and a master degree in International Business from the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in China. He also holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music with honours at York University in Canada. Furthermore, he studied political science, business management and anthropology at Stockholm University, explored sociology at University of Toronto, studied German at Heidelberg Universität, Humboldt Universität and München Universität, as well as French at Université Jean Monnet in France, Western University at Trois-Pistoles and Laval Université in Quebec.

If you want to learn more about Alvin Yang’s PhD project, you can contact us for an extended abstract of his work.
cemeas@uni-goettingen.de

Lecture： China and the World in 1900: Stories of the Boxers and the First Global War
2017-12-13 18:00 - 20:00 | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
China and the World in 1900: Stories of the Boxers and the First Global War
Prof. Jeffrey Wasserstrom (UC Irvine)
Wednesday, 13.12.2017, 18:00 (c.t.) – 20:00,
KWZ 0.609
Abstract:
This illustrated lecture, entitled “China and the World in 1900: Stories of the Boxers and the First Global War,” revisits the anti-Christian uprising and international invasion that convulsed the Qing Empire during the final year of the nineteenth century, paying particular attention to the varied ways these events were understood in different places at the time and the diverse kinds of stories that have been told about them since. As different as the world of 1900 is from our own, especially when it comes to China’s strength now as opposed to weakness then, we can see in the Boxer uprising and the response by an Allied Army made up of soldiers from Germany, Japan, Britain, the United States and four other nations and empires many intimations of many things to come in the troubled twentieth century that was about to start and in our own anxious age.
Short bio:
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, who received his master’s from Harvard and his PhD. From Berkeley, is Chancellor’s Professor of History at UC Irvine, where he edits the Journal of Asian Studies (term ending June 2018) and holds courtesy affiliations with the Law School and program in Literary Journalism. He has written five books, including Student Protests in Twentieth-Century China (1991) and Eight Juxtapositions: China through Imperfect Analogies from Mark Twain to Manchukuo (Penguin 2016). He has edited or co-edited several others, including, most recently, The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China (2016). In addition to writing for academic journals, he has contributed to many general interest venues, among them the New York Times, the TLS, and the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB). He is an advising editor at LARB and an academic editor of its associated China Channel.

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Image: ralph repo， Qing Court Return, The Emperess Dowerger [1902] George E. Morrison [RESTORED], CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, https://flic.kr/p/7cW6Dp

Cancelled: Who cares about inequality in China? Public attitudes toward inequalities in access to health care
2017-12-12 18:00 - 20:00 | Theologicum, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 2, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
Who cares about inequality in China?
Public attitudes toward inequalities in access to health care

Prof. Jane Duckett(University of Glasgow)
Tuesday, 12.12.2017, 18:00 (c.t.) – 20:00, T0.136
We are very sorry to announce that the lecture is cancelled!

About the letuerer:
Jane Duckett is Edward Caird Chair of Politics, International Dean (East Asia), and Director of the Scottish Centre for China Research at the University of Glasgow. She is also Guest Professor at Nankai University (Tianjin, China). In 2012 she received the Lord Provost of Glasgow Education Award. In 2014 she was elected President of the British Association for Chinese Studies. In 2016 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
Prof Duckett’s early research on the Chinese state under market reform included a book-length study, The Entrepreneurial State in China (Routledge, 1998). It explained state business activities as the outcome of fiscal and staffing constraints on officials in an institutional context of poorly defined property rights. Jane also (with colleague Bill Miller) made a comparative study of public attitudes to openness in East Asia and Eastern Europe, published as The Open Economy and its Enemies (CUP, 2006). Her current research is concerned with the politics of China’s social policy making and implementation. She argues through studies across a range of social policies (on local social welfare financing, health insurance, poverty and unemployment), that the politics behind them and their enormous redistributive consequences make them central to the Chinese state’s marketising project. Her monograph, The Chinese State’s Retreat from Health: Policy and the Politics of Retrenchment (Routledge, hdbk 2011; pbk 2013) draws on comparative political theory to explain the Chinese state’s retrenchment in health care provision. She has also co-edited (with Beatriz Carrillo), China’s Changing Welfare Mix: Local Perspectives (Routledge, 2011), a book that takes a local perspective on China’s evolving social welfare provision. She has recently published papers in Health Policy and Planning and Health Expectations that draw on a project to survey Chinese public opinion on health care.
(Information from The University of Glasgow, School of Social & Political Sciences)

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Image: ReSurge International， doctor checking in patient，CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, https://flic.kr/p/3nrMwy

Lecture Series: Poverty Alleviation as an Instrument of Technical Governance in Rural China
2017-12-07 18:00 - 20:00 | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
Poverty Alleviation as an Instrument of Technical Governance in Rural China
Prof. Xiong Yuegen (Peking University)
Thursday, 07.12.2017, 18:00 (c.t.) – 20:00, KWZ 0.602
Abstract:
In the past decades, China has achieved a great success in poverty reduction by helping more than 800 million of poor farmers out of poverty trap. However, Chinese government has made a series of serious efforts on social policy implementation in rural areas, poverty as a problematic persistent issue is still perplexing owing to institutional constraints and policy failure. In 2015, the Party and central government launched a new national campaign entitled the Targeted Poverty Alleviation Programme aiming to eradicate the problem of poverty in rural areas by 2020. In this lecture, I will mainly discuss the following issues: First, how does this national campaign on poverty reduction in the new era differ from the previous ones? Second, what is the main impact of the targeted poverty reduction programme on the farmers’ life and local government? Third, what are the main limitations of the top-down model of poverty reduction programme in the centralized regime and its implications for the socio-economic development in future in China. Based on the field research conducted in Jiangxi Province, the author will link the empirical data with theoretical interpretation on the ongoing social changes in the country.
Bio of the Speaker:
Yuegen Xiong is Professor and Director, The Centre for Social Policy Research (CSPR) in the Department of Sociology at Peking University, China. He is the author of Needs, Reciprocity and Shared Function: Policy and Practice of Elderly Care in Urban China ( Shanghai Renmin Press, 2008 )and Social Policy: Theories and Analytical Approaches ( Renmin University Press, 2009 ) . He was the British Academy KC Wong Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford during November 2002- September 2003, the Fellow at the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study (HWK), Delmonhorst, Germany during December 2003- February 2004 and the JSPS Fellow at the University of Tokyo in October, 2005, Visiting Professor in the Department of Social Sciences & Humanities, Jacobs University Bremen from November, 2015 to December, 2015, Germany. In the past years, he has published extensively in the field of social policy, comparative welfare regimes, social work, NGOs and civil society. He is the editorial member of Asian Social Work and Policy Review (Wiley), Asian Education and Development Studies (Emerald) and the British Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies (UK). He was the faculty of 483rd Salzburg Global Seminar on “ Economic Growth and Social Protection in Asia ” held in Austria during 7th-12th November, 2011.

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Image: Samuel Vigier， Rural China, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, https://flic.kr/p/c3ix1b
