CeMEAS

Lecture Series: Wie traditionell ist die Traditionelle Chinesische Medizin wirklich?
2014-05-23 14:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Paris)
Lecture: Wie traditionell ist die Traditionelle Chinesische Medizin wirklich?
Friday, May 23, 2014
2pm, KWZ, Room 0.608
Dr. phil. Dr. rer. med. Dominique Herzter
“Chinesische Medizin ist ein großes Schatzhaus, das wir gründlich ans Licht holen und weiter entwickeln sollten” (Mao Zedong)
Anders als die Bezeichnung „Traditionelle Chinesische Medizin “ (TCM) vermuten lässt, handelt es sich hier weniger um eine Medizin, die primär auf traditionelles medizinisches Wissen zurückgreift, als vielmehr um eine „moderne“, von Mao Zedong persönlich initiierte Erfindung. Dieses medizinische System „TCM“ ist stark von der Schulmedizin beeinflusst ist und hat in China nicht nur das Monopol auf die Ausübung ostasiatischer Medizin, sondern dient inzwischen als (wirtschaftliches) Modell für die weltweit florierende Chinesische Medizin. Doch nachdem inzwischen sowohl in den westlichen Ländern wie in China selbst der Ruf nach der „eigentlichen Traditionellen Chinesischen Medizin“ laut wird, geht der Vortrag der Frage nach, was unter dieser traditionellen Medizin zu verstehen sein könnte und ob sie in Gestalt einer postulierten „Daoistischen Medizin“ wieder zu finden ist.
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Lecture Series: Japan and the World of Islam, a transnational history of nationalism, modernism and empire
2014-05-21 18:00 - 19:00
Lecture: Japan and the World of Islam, a transnational history of nationalism, modernism and empire
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
6pm (s.t.), KWZ, Room 3.601
Prof. Selçuk Esenbel
The Japanese interest in the “world of Islam” between 1868-1945 displays the history of nationalism, modernism, and empire from a global perspective at multiple levels. The little-known interaction between Japan and Muslim states (Ottoman Turkey, Qajar Iran, Egypt) as well as Muslim ethnic and national communities in Eurasia reveals international relations between Non-European states and transnational connections that was parallel to the world order dominated by the Western Great Powers. The Japanese interest extended to the study of Islam and the ethnic and national populations such as the Turkic peoples of Inner Asia and Central Asia. Japanese and Muslim intellectuals interacted through the vision of Pan-Asianism and Pan-Islamism that represents mutual imaginations about alternative modernities. The Japanese interest in Islamic affairs and the study of Muslim Asia and the Middle East coupled with the Japanese network among Muslims became part of imperial Japan’s geo-political strategy for empire building in Asia.
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CeMEAS Round Table: Labour Relations in China
2014-05-15 15:00 - 17:30
CeMEAS Round Table:
Labour Relations in China
15th of May 2014, 15:00 – 17:30
Alfred-Hessel-Saal, Am Papendiek 14
37073 Göttingen
This event is free and open to public!

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Lecture Series: Developing security, securing development?
2014-05-08 14:00 - 16:00
Lecture: Developing security, securing development? Chinese foreign policy, norms evolution and the challenges of security in Africa
Thursday, May 8, 2014
2pm, Room VG 2.101
Dr. Daniel Large
Deepening conflict in South Sudan is once again increasing interest in China’s role in the country, in neighboring Sudan and, more generally, China’s changing engagement with conflict and security dynamics in Africa. China’s relations with fragile and conflict affected states is well recognized. Recognizing that post-conflict environments and state fragility pose a unique set of challenges to its growing economic interests on the continent, the Chinese government has sought to respond through a process of adaptation and policy engagement. Using the case of South Sudan and Sudan to illustrate broader themes, this seminar will examine China’s negotiation of development and security, and why and how this has travelled from the margins to a much more central part of China’s emerging role in Africa.
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The 4th East Asia Research Salon
2014-05-07 17:00 - 19:00
The 4th Göttingen East Asia Research Salon
Julia Schneider
“Can there be a how-to manual for doing a PhD? A personal account”
Date: Wednesday, May 7, 2014, 5pm-7pm
Place: CeMEAS-Meeting Room, KWZ-Building, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14

Julia Schneider (Department of East Asian Studies) will talk about her PhD research project and focus on the question of “the importance of research methods”:
“Can there be a how-to manual for doing a PhD? A personal account”

Julia Schneider
is assistant professor at the University of Göttingen. She has gained her Ph.D. at Ghent University and the University of Göttingen. She studied Sinology and Musicology in Heidelberg , Berlin, Vienna and Beijing and gained her M.A. from Heidelberg University. Her research focus lies on historiography and nationalism in late Qing and early Republican times, the histories of non-Chinese conquest dynasties, and questions of ethnic identity.
CeMEAS will provide coffee and light refreshments, however feel free to bring along additional food and drinks.

Lecture Series: Language Planning of Chinese as a First/ Second/ Foreign Language in 21st Century Taiwan
2014-05-06 18:00 - 20:00
Lecture: Language Planning of Chinese as a First/ Second/ Foreign Language in 21st Century Taiwan
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
6pm (s.t.), Room KWZ 0.601
Prof. Dr. Chen- Cheng Chun

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Lecture Series: Wahnsinn oder Weisheit?
2014-04-25 14:00 - 16:00
LECTURE: Wahnsinn oder Weisheit? Eine chinesische Perspektive
Friday, April 25, 2014
2pm, Room KWZ 0.608
Dr. phil. Dr. rer. med. Dominique Hertzer
Was ist Vernunft? Der Wahnsinn aller. Was ist Wahnsinn? Die Vernunft des Einzelnen. Was nennt Ihr Wahrheit? Die Täuschung, die Jahrhunderte alt geworden. Was Täuschung? Die Wahrheit, die nur eine Minute gelebt. (Spinoza)
Über die Nähe von Genie, Weisheit und Wahnsinn ist seit dem Altertum immer wieder diskutiert und philosophiert worden, im Abendland wie in China. Jüngsten Studien zufolge soll diese Verbindung nun auch biologisch in Gestalt einer bestimmten Genvariante nachgewiesen sein. Der Weise wie der Wahnsinnige offenbaren die Grenzen der „normalen Gesellschaft“ und werden meist als bedrohliche Herausforderung für die Aufrechterhaltung des vermeintlich Normalen wahrgenommen. Zugleich birgt der Wahn jedoch wertvolles Potential, um Neues und in den Grenzen der Normalität „Ungedachtes“ zu erfahren, mit der Aufforderung, eben diese Grenzen zu überschreiten. Im Zentrum des Vortrages steht die Frage, welche Erkenntnisse und welche Potentiale den Verrückten im Chinesischen Denken zugedacht wurden, um dem Sinn des Wahns auf die Spur zu kommen.
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Lecture Series: Des Kaisers neue Kleider? Chinas Führungs- Rolle in den G20
2014-04-24 14:00 - 16:00
LECTURE: Des Kaisers neue Kleider? Chinas Führungs- Rolle in den G20
Thursday, April 24, 2014
2pm, Room VG 2.101
Prof. Dr. Jörn – Carsten Gottwald (Ruhr – Universität Bochum)

Der kontinuierliche Aufstieg der Volksrepublik China zu einer wirtschaftlichen und politischen „major power“ (Xi Jinping) hat zu einer breiten Debatte über eine chinesisch geprägte neue Weltordnung geführt. Mit dem Ausbruch der globalen Finanzkrise (GFK) 2007/2008 scheint sich diese tektonische Verschiebung der Weltpolitik vom Trans-Atlantik zum Pazifik zu beschleunigen. Gleichwohl stellen Beobachter des wohl wichtigsten Forums zur Reaktion auf die GFK, den G 20, ernüchtert ein Ausbleiben ambitionierter chinesischer Reformvorschläge fest. Woran liegt diese augenscheinliche Passivität? Verweigert sich die Volkrepublik China wirklich der Übernahme einer neuen Rolle oder lassen sich Anzeichen für eine Neuorientierung – gerade nach dem Führungswechsel in der Staats und Parteispitze – finden?
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CeMEAS Lecture Series on Modern China 2014
2014-04-24 08:00 - 17:00
CeMEAS Lecture Series on Modern China 2014
The central concern of this year’s lecture series is the reflection of China’s rise and its consequences for the world as well as China’s homeland affairs. Background is that despite the common notion of the Asian Century there are shortcomings in our understanding of the significance and character of China’s rising power from the periphery to the centre of the international system. CeMEAS invited a number of experts from various disciplines, such as Architecture, Politics, Law, History and East Asian Studies from all over the globe to talk about China’s global impact in the 21st century.
24.04.2014 2 pm VG 2.101 Prof. Dr. Jörn- Carsten Gottwald (Ruhr- Universität Bochum):
Des Kaisers neue Kleider? Chinas Führungs- Rolle in den G20

25.04.2014 2pm KWZ 0.608 Dr.phil.Dr.rer.med.Dominique Hertzer:
Wahnsinn oder Weisheit? Eine chinesische Perspektive

08.05.2014 2 pm VG 2.101 Dr. Daniel Large (Central European University): Developing security, securing development? Chinese foreign policy, norms evolution and the challenges of security in Africa

21.05.2014 6 pm Prof. Selçuk Esenbel (Boğaziçi University):
Japan on the silk road

23.05.2014 2pm KWZ 0.608 Dr.phil.Dr.rer.med.Dominique Hertzer:
Wie traditionell is die Traditionelle Chinesische Medizin wirklich?

11.06.2014 2 pm KWZ 0.610 Dr. Dan Smyer Yu (Max Planck Institute):
Post- Orientalist Perceptions on Tibet between China and the West: Essentialization, Geopolitics and Topophilia

19.06.2014 6 pm KWZ 0.610 Botschafter a.D. Dr. Michael Schäfer

07.07.2014 6 pm KWZ 0.608 Prof. Dr. Tseng Yen-fen曾嬿芬教授

14.07.2014 2 pm KWZ 0.608 Prof. Dr. Lo Shih-chieh
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LECTURE: Die chinesische Wahrnehmung Europas – Perzeptionen, Adaptionen und konzeptionelle Differenzen
2014-01-29 18:00 - 20:00
LECTURE: Die chinesische Wahrnehmung Europas –
Perzeptionen, Adaptionen und konzeptionelle Differenzen
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
6pm, KWZ 1.731
May-Britt Stumbaum, Freie Univerität Berlin
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Lecture Series: The PR China and the International Human Rights System
2014-01-23 18:00 - 20:00
LECTURE:
The PR China and the International Human Rights System
Thursday, January 23, 2014
6 pm KWZ, Room 0.603
Peter-Tobias Stoll, Göttingen University
One of the most controversial issues about the PR China concerns its commitment to
respect, protect and fulfill human rights. After explaining the international human
rights system, including standards, institutions and procedures for compliance and
enforcement, recent country reports and related activities of UN human rights bodies
will be explained. After a brief review of relevant legal instruments of the country and
the Constitution in particular, the academic debate on the issue will be briefly
discussed.
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The 3rd East Asia Research Salon
2014-01-22 17:30 - 19:30
The 3rd East Asia Research Salon
Special Economic Zones and the WTO
Legal Implications for China’s Unitary State and the International Trade
Madeleine Martinek
Ph.D. Student, Chinese Law and WTO Law, Göttingen

Time, Place
January 22, 2014, 5.30pm – 7.30pm
KWZ, Conference Room 0.701, Heinrich – Düker – Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen
Commentators
Britta Büermann / Department of East Asian Studies
Alper Tasdelen/ Department of Law
Moderator
Katja Pessl, CeMEAS Coordinator
Program
Presentation of research project (max. 20 minutes)
Comments (max. 15 minutes)
Discussion
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LECTURE: The Internationalization of China’s Uyghur Issues
2013-12-17 18:00 - 20:00
LECTURE:
The Internationalization of China’s Uyghur Issues
Julie Yu-wen Chen, University College Cork
Tuesday, December 17, 2013 · 6 pm, KWZ, Room 0.607
This lecture explores the operation and coalition-building of Uyghur diasporic organizations in democratic countries. Since some Uyghur organizations have been lent notable legitimacy by liberal democracies and international governmental organizations, they can no longer be considered merely splintered members of a far-flung diaspora locked in a one-sided struggle with Beijing. Uyghur activists can and do use their hard-won legitimacy as legal migrants and asylum seekers to influence politics in their host countries.
And while they pose no direct security threat to the countries they presently reside in, their use of democratic channels in their host countries serve to extend the Uyghur conflict into nations around the world. This study is a timely one, as it shines a light on how an issue concerning a minority in China has been catapulted onto the wider global political stage. For instance, Uyghur organizations have seized on the Obama administration’s pledge to close the Guantanamo Bay prison to boost global awareness of Uyghur issues and call on countries like Germany, Switzerland and Australia to take in Uyghurs who they argue were “unjustly” detained at Guantanamo Bay.Whether the Uyghur lobby is capable of influencing these decisions, which are matters that can only be decided by sovereign states, is less important than the fact that Uyghur groups are able to successfully use the issue to raise their visibility.

LECTURE The Social Basis of Taiwan’s Liberalizing Cross-Strait Policies, 2008-2012
2013-12-13 00:00 - 14:00
LECTURE
The Social Basis of Taiwan’s Liberalizing Cross-Strait Policies, 2008-2012
Chih-Jou Jay Chen of the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica
Time13.12., 12-14 Uhr
Room: VG 2.101
http://www.ios.sinica.edu.tw/fellow/chihjoujaychen/

LECTURE: U.S. Pivoting to Asia: Is there a real change in the American Foreign Policy towards China and the Asia- Pacific?
2013-12-12 18:00 - 20:00
LECTURE:
U.S. Pivoting to Asia: Is there a real change in the American Foreign Policy towards China and the Asia-
Pacific?
Marcin Grabowski, Jagiellonian University
Thursday, December 12, 2013, 6 pm KWZ, Room 0.603

G.W. Bush’s policy towards Asia-Pacific region was often perceived and described as neglectful. Occupied with other regions, especially Iraq and Afghanistan, Bush couldn’t devote enough time and energy to develop U.S. relations with countries in East Asia and the Pacific or regional organizations.

Deeper research show, however, the policy wasn’t as unfavorable, as characterized in both dimensions – in case of U.S. relations with countries of the region, we should look at improving relations with People’s Republic of China, stronger alliance connections with Japan and Australia, as well as solution of nuclear problem of India. In case of regional organizations – after many negligence of the first term (and a risk of being excluded from the region in case of successful development of the East Asia Summit), we could observe many beneficial initiatives. Barack Obama entered the White House bringing hopes of greater engagement in the Asia-Pacific Region, what was reinforced by his advisors’ premises of U.S. foreign policy (Kurt Campbell). Also his engagement with regional powers (Strategic and Economic Dialogue with China), regional organizations (membership of the U.S. in the EAS, support for the TPP) made his term Pacific presidency. It was reinforced by the H. Clinton’s statement that the 21st Century is America’s Pacific Century . The presentation tries to show certain real and sham dichotomies in the American foreign policy towards Asia and the Pacific, including the role of the People’s Republic of China in the ‘American pivoting’.

Lecture:Changing Cultures and Sociospatial Restructuring in Urban China: Shanghai
2013-12-05 18:00 - 20:00
Lecture:Changing Cultures and Sociospatial Restructuring in Urban China: Shanghai
Deljana Iossifova, University of Manchester
Thursday, December 5, 2013 6 pm KWZ, Room 0.602
The talk explores closely linked processes of urban restructuring in China – rural-to-urban migration, urban redevelopment (including demolition and resettlement) and the ‘worlding’ of cities – through the lens of sanitation infrastructure and practices.
Sanitation is here understood as a nexus between different spatial scales, social groups and levels of governance. On the case of Shanghai, the talk traces the evolution of sanitation infrastructure over time to illustrate the varying sanitation-related experiences and practices among different social groups in the contemporary city, raising the following questions: How do sanitation practices and perceptions impact on both
everyday life and long-term life trajectories? How do dissimilar groups and individuals negotiate their differing practices? How are different inequalities produced, reproduced and, potentially, negotiated? How are policies and practices on the ground linked with global economic and ecological processes? In this way, the talk explores the
contemporary challenges faced by municipalities and urban dwellers alike and considers some likely consequences for the future of growing cities in China and beyond.

LECTURE: The African Policies of EU and People‘s Republic of China
2013-11-14 18:00 - 20:00
LECTURE: The African Policies of EU and People‘s Republic of China

Thursday, November 14, 2013
6 pm, KWZ, Room 0.603
Dr. Niall Duggan
University of Göttingen
Lecture Abstract:
Both Europe and China have strong strategic interests in Africa. However, the actions of one of these two actors in Africa can often be counterproductive to the actions of the other, which can often lead to a negative impact on Africa itself. Both the European Union and the People’s Republic of China have issued a policy on Africa. These documents outline how each actor intends to undertake its actions in Africa. Each actor outlines its political and economic interests in Africa, as well as the role it intends to play in the development of the region. There are numerous differences in the policies of each actor, most notably in terms of how to deal with states that have poor human rights records or a history of misusing funds intended for development projects. A number of similarities can be found between the two policies, such as their commitment to combat terrorism and organised crime. This paper examines the call for trilateral dialogue and cooperation between the EU, China and Africa and looks at how such a dialogue would operate, who would benefit most and whether it could replace the EU’s and China’s current policies on Africa.

Lecture Series China goes global: Reflections on the Impact of a Rising Power
2013-10-31 18:00 - 20:00
Lecture Series
China goes global: Reflections on the Impact of a Rising Power
Thursday, October 31, 2013, 6 pm, KWZ, Room 0.603
Prof. Bart Dessein
Ghent University, Belgium

Economic growth has increasingly interconnected China with world markets, and has given it an increasing clout in global politics and governance. This rise has, however, also had important consequences for the country’s homeland affairs: economic developments have led to a rapid urbanization, an ecologic downgrade, and growing problems of social inequality. Along with the introduction of elements of a free market system and a greater religious freedom, the ideological monopoly of the ruling CCP has become questioned by many more citizens.While, on the one hand, having to cope with the ecological, social, and political consequences of recent economic developments, the country’s political and economic power has also fed Chinese nationalist and patriotic feelings, and the country’s imperial past has gradually been revaluated by the Chinese political and intellectual elite and Chinese citizens alike. Chinese policies not only affect the Chinese population, but also affect the world at large…

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Göttingen Lecture Series 2013/14: Understanding China's Global Impact
2013-10-31 08:00 - 17:00
Göttingen Lecture Series 2013/14:
Understanding China’s Global Impact
This year’s lecture series deals with China’s rise and the consequences for the world as well as China’s homeland affairs.
Thursday, 6pm, KWZ, Room 603 (602, 607)
CeMEAS invited a number of experts from all over the globe to talk about China’s gobal impact:

31.10.13
Prof. Bart Dessein
Gent University
China Goes Global
KWZ 0.603

14.11.13
Dr. Niall Duggan
University of Göttingen
The African Policies of EU and the People’s Republic of China
KWZ 0.603

21.11.13
Dr. Hu-Jen Wang
University of Duisburg-Essen
China’s Rise and Cross Strait Relations
KWZ 0.603

05.12.13
Dr. Deljana Iossifova
The University of Manchester
Changing Cultures and Sociopatial Restructuring in Urban China
KWZ 0.602

12.12.13
Dr. Marcin Grabowski
Jagiellonian University
US Pivoting to Asia
KWZ 0.603

17.12.13
Dr. Julie Yu-wen Chen
University College Cork
The Internationalization of China’s Uyghur Issues
KWZ 0.607

23.01.14
Prof. Peter-Tobias Stoll
University of Göttingen
The PR China and the International Human Rights System
KWZ 0.603

13.02.14
Prof. Joern Carsten Gottwald
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
IPE
KWZ 0.603

Chinese Dragon 2012
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Lecture Series: Hermes und Buddha in Japan
2013-07-03 18:30 - 20:30
Lecture Series

Hermes und Buddha in Japan
PD Dr. Dr. Franz Winter (Wien)
Zeit/Ort: 3. Juli 2013, 18:30 Uhr, KWZ 0.603

“Hermes und Buddha in Japan. Ein Neuzugang auf dem religiösen Markt und seine Präsentationsstrategien”
Die 1986 gegründete Religionsgemeinschaft Kôfuku no kagaku, die sich international als Happy Science präsentiert, zählt zu den jüngsten Entwicklungen auf dem religiösen Markt Japans. Im Zentrum des Vortrags stehen die Strategien dieser Neuen Religion, sich in den (Massen-) Medien zu präsentieren. Zudem gibt der Vortrag eine religionswissenschaftliche Beschreibung der Entwicklung (bis in die ersten Jahre des aktuellen Millenniums) und eine traditionsgeschichtlich orientierte Auseinandersetzung mit zentralen Inhalten der Gruppierung.
Franz Winter
Studium der Religionswissenschaft, Theologie und Klassischen Philologie in Graz, Wien, Salzburg; weitere Forschungs- und Studienaufenthalte in Rom, Kyoto, Tokyo und Boston (Fulbright). 1999 Promotion in Klassischer Philologie, 2005 Promotion in Religionswissenschaft; 2010 Habilitation für Religionswissenschaft an der Universität Wien. 2001-2006 wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Universität Wien; seit 2010 Dozent für Religionswissenschaft ebenda; seit 2006 wissenschaftlicher Referent an der Bundesstelle für Sektenfragen, Wien. Forschungsschwerpunkte: Buddhismus, Religionskontakte zwischen Asien und Europa von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart, neureligiöse Bewegungen in Ost und West.

Lecture Series: Die Kulturrevolution im Familiengedächtnis
2013-06-28 16:00 - 18:00
Lecture Series
Die Kulturrevolution im Familiengedächtnis
Dr. Sascha Klotzbücher (Göttingen, Wien)
28. Juni 2013, 16:00 Uhr, KWZ 0.601
Beispiele aus Film, Literatur und Bildender Kunst zeigen den „langen Schatten“ der Kulturrevolution. Dieser bleibt jedoch für die Sozialwissenschaften schwer wissenschaftlich fassbar. In diesem Projekt werden daher Zeitzeugen und ihre Nachfahren in Wuhan befragt. Sie werden nicht zu Informationslieferanten degradiert, sondern in den Forschungsprozess integriert. Statt den Kontinuitäten der politischen und gesellschaftlichen Struktur frage ich nach den prozessualen Kontinuitäten.Welche Formen maoistischer Deutungs- und Identitätsmuster sind heute noch valide, wie werden sie in Familien revitalisiert und an die Kinder weitergegeben? Am Beispiel des für die Revolution zu ertragenden Leids verdeutliche ich in einer transgenerationalen Perspektive, wie Identitäten aus der politischen Sphäre in die Familie transferiert werden und dort einen alternativen Wahrnehmungs- und Gefühlsraum bilden.

The 2nd Göttingen East Asia Research Salon
2013-06-17 18:00 - 20:00
The 2nd Göttingen East Asia Research Salon
From Peasant to Pastor: The rural-urban transformation of Protestant Christianity in Linyi, Shandong Province
June 17, 2013, 6pm – 8pm
KWZ, Seminar Room 0.606, Heinrich – Düker – Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen
Presenter:
Kang Jie, PhD Student, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Commentators:
Niall Duggan, Department of East Asian Studies
Andreas Grünschloß, Department of Religious Studies
Katja Triplett, Department of East Asian Studies/Religions in East Asia
Moderator:
Katja Pessl, Centre for Modern East Asian Studies

Program:
Presentation of research project (max. 20 minutes)
Comments (15 minutes altogether)
Discussion
CeMEAS will provide coffee and light refreshments, however feel free to bring along additional food and drinks.
From Peasant to Pastor
The rural-urban transformation of Protestant Christianity in Linyi, Shandong Province
Kang Jie is a Doctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity and Ph.D. researcher at the University of Leipzig. The project examines the rise of Christian ‘house churches’ in Linyi Prefecture, Shandong Province. She obtained a Diplom in Economics at Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg (2005). From 2006 to 2009 she worked as chief of the representative office of University of Konstanz in Beijing. Her research interests are transnational religious networks and religious change and urbanization.

Lecture Series:Medicincal Delicatessen
2013-06-07 15:00 - 17:00
Lecture Series:
Medicincal Delicatessen
Chinese medicine practitioners and substances in contemporary China
Friday, June 7, 2013, 3 pm, KWZ, Room 0.609
Dr. Lena Springer
EASTmedicine research centre, University of Westminster, London

Lecture Abstract:
This talk presents findings of a multi-sited ethnography based on recent fieldwork in Sichuan province, China: in a remote region and in a global centre of science and trade. Scholars and medical circles in the region struggle to write its histories. The East-West divide of Sichuan province provides a test-field that reflects the overall geographic and
cultural frictions of the Chinese territorial and symbolic order. I will compare two “medical capitals” (yaodu) in Sichuan province: 1) one of them is contemporarily a global transfer centre for trade and pharma-science, and 2) the other one in the same province has had a similar function in the past but is now situated in the remote (Tibetan) West
of the province. My encounters with providers and prescribers of medicinal substances illustrate how their practice and ways of thinking differ fundamentally from the official map of ethnic relations in China. This is true for both Tibetan and Chinese physicians, in a monastery and in a local clinic.
Chinese medicines are circulated and prescribed in Europe today, and in China where they originate from. Diverse practitioners, pharmaceutical providers, and researchers are changing the ways how the medicinal substances are processed and evaluated. This circulation and prescription has local histories throughout world regions – but also within (Han-)China itself. Pharmaceutical evidence discourses and regulatory frameworks have their own global histories in China and East Asia. Fieldwork illuminates the historically important relation between remote South-West China and a scholarly influential region (“Jiangnan”).

Lecture Series Comparative Terror
2013-05-13 18:00 - 20:00
Lecture Series: Comparative Terror in China and Taiwan
Peformances and Realities in Regime Consolidation: The Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries and the White Terror in Su’nan and Taiwan, 1950-1954
Monday, May 13, 2013, 6 pm, KWZ, Room 0.606
Julia C. Strauss
SOAS, University of London

Lecture Abstract:
Much of the state building literature that comes from a Weberian perspective focusses on the creation and solidification of state institutions, particularly those bureaucratic institutions concerned with external defense, internal order, the extraction of sufficient resources to fund the state apparatus, and therecruitment and socialization for the state bureaucracy itself. Other literatures in a more rational choice vein, particularly associated with Robert Bates’ work on Africa, focus on how incentives for individuals within state bureaucracies often lead to rent seeking behaviour that undercuts the wider state building project.
My work attempts to fill in the large grey areas and gaps between these two literatures on state building by focussing on an aspects of state building that is often simply assumed: how the higher reaches of the state mobilize the lower reaches of the bureaucracy and focus its attentions and commitments. I suggest that this process of state mobilization occurs through a complex of actions that can be loosely called the bureaucratic “campaign” that operates in tension with the more procedurally and precedent bound tendencies of government bureaucracies, and further draw on the related notions of repertoire and performance as critical elements to processes of both campaign mobilization and workaday bureaucratization. In so doing, I expand on Charles Tilly’s notions of “repertoire” (which he applied almost exclusively to social movements and protest from “below” as part of claim making) to consider two crucial factors in the consolidation of otherwise unproven and/or outright illegitimate new regimes of the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China (Taiwan) in the early 1950s. At this time, the young PRC and the recently relocated ROC (Taiwan) were deeply concerned about questions of internal (and external) security, and launched massive campaigns against real and imagined subversion through the Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries (PRC) and the “White Terror”. 1) how leaders themselves drew on particular repertoires as the “frames” that established the boundaries of the desirable and achievable in terms of preference formation and 2) how leaders utilized particular kinds of performances to communicate new norms, vocabularies, and practices to the population at large.

The 1st Göttingen East Asia Research Salon
2013-05-06 18:00 - 20:00 | KWZ, Heinrich Düker Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
The 1st Göttingen East Asia Research Salon

Matteo Ricci in East West Music Exchange
May 6, 2013, 6pm – 8pm
CeMEAS, Seminar Room, Heinrich – Düker – Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen
Presenter:
Wong Tsz, PhD Student, Expert Cultures from the 12th to the 16th century
Commentators:
Thomas Kaufmann, Faculty of Theology/Church History
Axel Schneider, Department of East Asian Studies/Chinese History
Katja Triplett, Department of East Asian Studies/Religions in East Asia
Moderator:
Katja Pessl, CeMEAS Coordinator
Program:
Presentation of research project (max. 20 minutes)
Comments (20 minutes)
Discussion
CeMEAS will provide coffee and light refreshments, however feel free to bring along additional food and drinks.

VORTRAG: How Can Latecomer Countries Catch-Up? (Vortragssprache: Deutsch)
2013-04-30 14:00 - 16:00
VORTRAG: How Can Latecomer Countries Catch-Up? (Vortragssprache: Deutsch)
A Case Study of China‘s High-Speed Rail

Dienstag, 30. April, 2013
14 Uhr c.t., KWZ 2.601
Prof. Dr. Junhua Zhang
Jiaotong University, Shanghai

Dr. Junhua Zhang currently is a Professor of Political Science at the School of International and Public Affairs of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). His research fields are China’s political system, international politics with focus on internet policy and international political economy and social memory.

Lecture Series Environmental Communication
2013-04-24 18:00 - 20:00
Lecture Series: Environmental pollution in China.
New media and public participation: The case of air pollution
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
18:00 – 19:30, Seminar Room 0.609, KWZ
Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14
Prof. Li Ji
School of Journalism and Communication, Wuhan University
The air pollution problem in China has been taken as the most serious environmental challenge facing the Chinese new government in 2013. The severity of the problem grew as public awareness of air pollution has been aroused by media reports. Interconnections between traditional media and new media in China formed new strength to push the Chinese government to act legitimately for solving the problem. From Blue Sky Project to PM 2.5 reports, the lecture reviews how Chinese media respond to air pollution problems in China in recent years, and how new media becomes a new strength to promote public participation in air pollution problems in China.
Dr. JI Li has been researching in the field of international/intercultural communication for 10 years, with more than 20 journal articles, book chapters and books published. She has also undertaken more than 10 academic projects, including one major project on environmental communication funded by of National Social Science Foundation of China.
Dr. JI Li has been visiting scholar of the Open University, University of Sunderland, Chinese Culture University, Taiwan, University of Goettingen in last 10 years. In 2008, she was selected as a member delegate of United States Institute on Journalism and Media funded by U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. She has also won China-Canadian Scholarship Exchange Program (CCSEP) last year.
She is now focusing on environmental communication research and conducted many comparative researches in the field. As a founding member of the International Environmental Communication Association, she has already translated several important works on environmental communication into Chinese.

Lecture Series: Culture Governance and Local Development in China: The Case of Nanjing
2013-01-23 18:00 - 20:00
Lecture Series:
Culture Governance and Local Development in China: The Case of Nanjing
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
18:00 – 20:00, Seminar Room 0.603, KWZ
Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14
Prof. Leng Tse-Kang
National Chengchi University, Academia Sinica

The purpose of this talk is to delve into the model of urban governance on the cultural industry in China. The case of Nanjing is selected to demonstrate the formation of urban state entrepreneurialism and its constraints. In contrast to the manufacturing sector, which is marked by strong state intervention, the cultural and creative industries present the state with such challenges as “creating” the market and the environment. Traditional top-down policy instruments of command, control, and regulation could not be fully applied to this new field of service-oriented businesses. This talk aims to explain how the local state transforms itself into an active market player to create niches of urban development.
Prof. Lengs research interests focus on theories of international relations and cross-Straits relations, political economy of globalization, and political economy of urban development in China. Recent academic works include: “Local States, Institutional Changes, and Innovations Systems: Beijing and Shanghai Compared,” Journal of Contemporary China, (Forthcoming, March, 2013. Co-authored with Jenn-hwan Wang) / “Coping with China in Hard Times: Taiwan in global and domestic Perspectives,” Pacific Focus , (vol. 26, no. 3, Dec, 2011) / “Politics of Centrally-Administered Municipalities in China,” in Jae Ho Chung ed., The Ladder of Governance: Traditions and Changes in China’s Local Administrative Hierarchy (London: Rutledge, 2009), Chapter 3 / Governance of Biodiversity Conservation in China and Taiwan (Cheltenham,UK: Edward Elgar, 2006. Co-authored with Gerald McBeath).

China and the United States: Four Mutual Images in Public Discourse
2012-11-23 15:00 - 16:00
China and the United States: Four Mutual Images in Public Discourse
Friday, November 23, 2012
15:00 -16:00, Seminar Room 0.609, KWZ
Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14
Dong Wang
PhD, Professor of Contemporary Chinese History
University of Turku

Urbanization and the Establishment of Communities (Shequ) in China: Implications for Everyday Life
2012-11-23 00:30 - 13:30
Urbanization and the Establishment of Communities (Shequ) in China: Implications for Everyday Life
Friday, November 23, 2012
12:30 – 13:30, Seminar Room 0.610, KWZ
Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14
Prof. Dr. Flemming Christiansen
Chair of Political Sociology of China
University of Duisburg-Essen
