Online Drama Reading: The Umbrella in Salzburg
2020-07-11 14:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Berlin)
苏叔阳《萨尔茨堡的雨伞》Shuyang SU, The Umbrella in Salzburg
Time: 14: 00 – 17: 00 11. July 2020
Place: Online (VooV Meeting ID：696 443 903 )
Email: yingming.theater@gmail.com
Manner: Participants will read dramas and do some role-play exercises together via video or voice calls. Being an auditor is also welcome.
The derailment seems to be the uppermost factor of an abortive relationship. What kind of stories will happen in a seemingly relaxed relationship in Salzburg? Are there any so-called schemes, PUA (Pick-up Artist), or even the derailment? Let us read the diverting script The Umbrella in Salzberg by Shuyang Su.
If you want to know more about the drama The Umbrella in Salzburg, please do not hesitate to join us.
For more information about the Chinese Theater in Goettingen, please click here.

Online Lecture: Affective pedagogic spaces in contemporary China
2020-07-14 18:00 - 19:30
Lecturer: Gil Hizi (PhD University of Sydney)
Time: 14. July. 2020, 6:00 p.m.
Venue: Zoom

Through the influence of psychotherapeutic expertise and popular entertainment, pedagogic programs for “self-improvement” in China today define positive affect as a key aspect of learning. In this talk, based on participant observations in the city of Jinan, I describe how workshops for interpersonal skills produce interactive spaces that spark enthusiasm and optimism in participants. These pedagogies draw on the current primacy of “positive energy” (zheng nengliang) in Chinese education, media, and politics. I will discuss how these interactive spaces resemble group interactions from the communist period, while today positive affect is positioned more as an endpoint in separation from ordinary life and collective enterprises.
Gil Hizi (PhD University of Sydney) is a Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow of Anthropology at the University of Cologne. He studies social change in China by focusing on perceptions of personhood and emotions. His main sites of enquiry have been pedagogic practices of self-improvement and psychotherapy. His work has been published in Anthropology and Asian Studies journals.

Zoom Access:
Topic: Affective Pedagogic Spaces in Contemporary China, Gil Hizi (PhD University of Sydney)
Time: 14.Jul.2020 06:00 PM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rom, Stockholm, Wien
https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/92606540714?pwd=[REDACTED]

Meeting-ID: 926 0654 0714
Passwort: [REDACTED]

Picture: MartaZ* , Positivity , https://flic.kr/p/egg74u
Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)

Lecture: Weaponizing medicine: China’s disease prevention and the “military-civil fusion” in medical research
2020-07-15 17:00 - 18:30
Weaponizing medicine: China’s disease prevention and the “military-civil fusion” in medical research
Sascha Klotzbücher (University of Göttingen)
Time: July 15, 2020 5pm
Venue: Zoom-Meeting
https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/93597507671?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting-ID: 935 9750 7671
Passwort: [REDACTED]
Abstract
Since 2016, the Chinese Communist Party proclaimed the strategy of “military-civil fusion” of research (Kania 2019) (军民融合). However, this cooperation between military academies and civil universities or research institutes is not new. This lecture aims to discuss the overseen or hidden link and connection to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and its warfare for the institutionalization of disease control in China with case studies from the Korean War to the recent outbreak of Covid-19 epidemics.
I will discuss two different qualities of this militarization of disease control and medicine: First, disease control is organized in a procedural logic and along with the script of warfare and it mainly implemented by agents of warfare. The fight against an “American virus” during the Korean War, the strive to eliminate transmitting animals during several health campaigns, the SARS in 2003 and Covid-19 epidemics are examples how disease control is organized in the logic of battle when military logistics and organization patterns temporarily take the lead and establish new forms of control and distribution.
The second dimension of the militarization of the medical field is how “Military Academies” initiate and supervise joint medical projects with “civil” research institutes and universities. The best-documented example of this military-civic fusion is the noble price laureate Tu Youyou and her involvement in the “Project 523” against malaria in the 1970s.
Today, the Communist Party has restructured its science institutions and scientists to explore new forms of warfare with “life-controlling power” (制生权) or brain/ -controlling power” (制脑权). For this aim, the PLA seeks to integrate certain strategically important scientific disciplines (nanotech, neuroscience, genetics, AI) and their research into its military strategies. However, in contrast to Tu Youyou’s studies conducted in an exclusive Chinese context, today’s weaponization of science intends to create research platforms with international scholars for innovation and knowledge transfer of their usable data, techniques, and output. I will analyze these mechanisms based on the French-Chinese cooperation in one of the labs of the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the current search for vaccines against Covid-19 in commercial start-ups with a military background.
Sascha Klotzbücher is the Acting Chair for “Society and Economy of China” at the University of Göttingen. His research interests are health governance and memory of the Cultural Revolution. Related publication to the topic of the talk is the article “’Embedded Research’ in Collaborative Fieldwork” in the Journal of Chinese Current Affairs and his Ph.D. thesis on rural health care in the People’s Republic. His recent publication is a monograph on the transgenerational transmission of the Cultural Revolution in families (Lange Schatten der Kulturrevolution: Eine transgenerationale Perspektive auf Politik und Emotion in der Volksrepublik China“. Psychosozial-Verlag, 2019).

Picture: Report of the International Scientific Commission for the Investigation of the Facts Concerning Bacterial Warfare in Korea and China (ISC), 1952

CeMEAS Summer Break 2020
2020-07-24 08:00 - 2020-09-13 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!

Photo: Tambako, Cute red panda on the branch, CC BY-ND 2.0, https://www.flickr.com/photos/tambako/49690787126/

Online Drama Reading: 童道明《塞纳河少女的面模》Daoming TONG, The Facial Mask of Seine Maiden
2020-07-25 14:00 - 17:00 | VooV
童道明《塞纳河少女的面模》Daoming TONG, The Facial Mask of Seine Maiden
Time: 14: 00 – 17: 00 25. July 2020
Place: Online (VooV Meeting ID：349 101 546)
Email: yingming.theater@gmail.com
Manner: Participants will read dramas and do some role-play exercises together via video or voice calls. Being an auditor is also welcome.
The Facial Mask of Seine Maiden was bought by Zhi FENG (冯至) accidentally in a bookstore when he studied aboard in Berlin. Since then, he had kept this facial mask even when he was at the National Southwest Associated University. If you are interested in Zhi FENG’s poems and his friendship with another famous Chinese scholar Xianlin JI (季羡林), please join us to read The Facial Masks of Seine Maiden together.
Anyone interested in the drama The Facial Mask of Seine Maiden is warmly welcome to participate in the activities.
For more information about the Chinese Theater in Goettingen, please click here.

Online Drama Reading: 潘惠森《在天台上冥想的蜘蛛》Weisum Poon, Spider in Meditation
2020-08-07 14:00 - 17:00 | VooV
潘惠森《在天台上冥想的蜘蛛》Weisum Poon, Spider in Meditation
Time: 14: 00 – 17: 00 07. August 2020
Place: Online (VooV Meeting ID：338 885 111)
Email: yingming.theater@gmail.com
Manner: Participants will read dramas and do some role-play exercises together via video or voice calls. Being an auditor is also welcome.
In this crowded city, Hong Kong, buildings are nestled against each other, well illuminated day and night. The rooftops of abundant high buildings and skyscrapers are connected into a wasteland when seen from above the city. There are four paupers without fixed residences on this wasteland. They gaze at the sky and overlook the world above the city landscapes while pursuing the highest-positioned goal in life with the lowest standard of material conditions.
They fly from one rooftop to another and do their best to return the world’s desires, which leaves them only spiders meditating on the rooftop. If you want to have the experience of spiders contemplating on the rooftop, please do not hesitate to join us.
For more information about the Chinese Theater in Goettingen, please click here.

Online Drama Reading: 陈尹莹《花近高楼》Joanna CHAN, The Whirligig of Time
2020-08-21 14:00 - 17:00 | VooV
陈尹莹《花近高楼》Joanna CHAN, The Whirligig of Time
Time: 14: 00 – 17: 00 21. August 2020
Place: Online (VooV Meeting ID：338 885 111)
Email: yingming.theater@gmail.com
Manner: Participants will read dramas and do some role-play exercises together via video or voice calls. Being an auditor is also welcome.
When you see the Chinese title of the drama, would you recall the verses by Du Fu杜甫, a poet from the Tang Dynasty? How does this kind of texts apply to Hong Kong stories in the second half of the 20th century? In a turbulent environment, what kind of persistence will people have, and what kind of choices will people make? By reading The Whirligig of Time, perhaps you could find your answer.
Anyone interested in the drama The Whirligig of Time is warmly welcome to participate in the activities.
For more information about the Chinese Theater in Goettingen, please click here.

Online Drama Reading: 顾雷《进化》Lei GU, Evolution
2020-09-12 14:00 - 17:00 | VooV
顾雷《进化》Lei GU, Evolution
Time: 14: 00 – 17: 00 12. September 2020
Place: Online (VooV Meeting ID：518 226 916)
Email: yingming.theater@gmail.com
Manner: Participants will read dramas and do some role-play exercises together via video or voice calls. Being an auditor is also welcome.
According to Stanford Encyclopedia, evolution means the changes in the proportions of biological types in a population over time, which is also a common understanding for most people. However, what does the term evolution mean when it comes to one particular family in current society, such as a journalist or a taxi driver living in Beijing? What is the so-called best choice to make for “evolution?”
It is a great honor and pleasure to invite the playwright, Mr. Lei Gu, to participate in our online script reading and discussion on Sep. 12th.
If you would like to know more about the evolutional story that happened in the wee hours of Beijing, please join us to read the Evolution together.
For more information about the Chinese Theater in Goettingen, please click here.

Workshop: The Sound Topography of Göttingen (SOTO-Gö) 哥廷根声音地貌
2020-09-19 | Göttingen University Campus
Workshop: The Sound Topography of Göttingen (SOTO-Gö) 哥廷根声音地貌
September 19, 2020

Dr. Yumin Ao
Global and Transregional Studies Platform, University of Göttingen
Centre for Modern East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen
For more information regarding the workshop and registration, please see the webpage of Yingming Theater: https://yingmingtheater.com/events/workshop/
The Sound Topography of Göttingen (SOTO-Gö) “哥廷根声音地貌”工作坊将带领参与者从探索城市声音开始,从有意识地倾听到声音工厂,然后到理解剧场音效的设计和挖掘剧本潜台词,最后再返回到对于自我与社群关系的思考。工作坊以过程为导向,让参与者通过合作完成一项项任务的方式,去重新 定义戏剧艺术场域里的“维度” “现场” 与“虚实”,并在个体连接社群的有效互动中,去突破对戏剧与现实美学关系的常规考量。
Abstract: The “sound” in the project of the Sound Topography of Göttingen (SOTO-Gö) refers to sounds collected in the city of Göttingen. “Topography” originally means in ancient Greece the description of a place, but in the SOTO-Gö project, we loan the term and use it in a broad sense which is related to a map. The project is concerned with local information about sound sources in general, including natural and artificial sound features. It involves the recording of sounds, the identification of specific sound-forms, and the mapping of the recorded sounds. The project-based approach requests participants to create a sound-map online together, which can demonstrate the phonic identity of Göttingen’s urban community. Moreover, through describing personal sensory details for sounds, participants may reveal the transformative dimension of their individual attitudes towards listening. When listening consciously and actively, one becomes a good practitioner in community involvement and will be able to further one’s understanding that community connections are significant and integral features of the self. Analysis of the roles performed by the sound effects in theater and subtexts of drama contributes to the completion of this project.
Key words: sound, subtext, topography, listening, community, the self
摘要:哥廷根声音地貌(SOTO-Gö)项目中“声音”是指在哥廷根市采集到的声音。 “地貌”一词最初在古希腊语中指的是对位置的描述,但是在本项目中,我们借用了该术语,并在广义上使用它来指代地图。该项目关注有关声音资源的本地信息,包括自然和人工的声音。活动涉及声音的记录、特定声音形式的识别以及将采集到的声音标示在地图上。项目要求参与者共同在线创建声音地图,以显示哥廷根城市社区的语音特性。此外,通过描述自身对声音的感受,参与者可以改变他们对于聆听的个人态度。我们认为,当有意识地积极地倾听时,人们就会成为社区的良好实践者,并能够进一步理解与社区建立联系也是构建自我的重要组成部分。对剧场音效和剧本潜台词的分析也是本次工作坊的重要组织部分。
关键词:声音、潜台词、地貌、倾听、社群、自我

Online Drama Reading: 朱宜《杂音》Yi ZHU, A Deal
2020-09-26 14:00 - 17:00 | VooV
朱宜《杂音》Yi ZHU, A Deal
Time: 14: 00 – 17: 00 26. September 2020
Place: Online (VooV Meeting ID：979 386 357)
Email: yingming.theater@gmail.com
Manner: Participants will read dramas and do some role-play exercises together via video or voice calls. Being an auditor is also welcome.
What will happen if Chinese parents would like to buy an American house for their kid who receives his/her education in the United States? What kind of “chemical reaction” will be produced by the generation gap plus cultural shocks between China and the USA? Let us read the Yi ZHU’s A Deal to explore their conflicts and struggles.
Anyone interested in the drama A Deal is warmly welcome to participate in the activities.
For more information about the Chinese Theater in Goettingen, please click here.

The 16th Göttingen East Asia Research Salon
2020-09-30 16:00 - 17:30
The Shifting Relationship between Classics and History: Constructing Historical Continuity in Republican China

Presenter:
Felix Erdt (University of Göttingen, Department of East Asian Studies)
Commentators:
Prof. Viren Murthy (Associate Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Dr. Phil. Dr. rer. Med. Dominique Hertzer (Guest Researcher at the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen)
Time: Wednesday, September 30, 4 pm – 5.30 pm
Join us via Zoom, no prior registration required:
https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/94054360676?pwd=[REDACTED]
Convener & host: Katja Pessl
Abstract:
In this dissertation project, I investigate how scholars in Republican China tried to construct continuity between the modern epoch and the Confucian past in the context of the intrusion of Western notions of historical progress.
I focus on three scholars from the Sichuan province, Liu Xianxin (1896-1932), Meng Wentong (1894-1968) and Li Yuancheng (1909-1958) who reinterpreted the relationship of classics and history in their historiographical writings in different ways.
Strongly influenced by Daoist thinking, Liu held a cyclical view of history and therefore believed in a future turn that will overcome modernity according to logic of the changing “propensity of times“ . Meng supposed a development of Confucianism through history which culminated in the utopian ideas of an ideal society of the western Han scholars and can served as a blueprint for revolutionary transformation of Chinese society. Li emphasized Confucianism as the core of the cultural identity of Chinese people. Confucianism was constantly changing throughout history and was adjusted to different historical circumstances.
Felix Erdt:
Since March 2017 I am a doctoral candidate and research assistant at the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Göttingen. My research interests include conservatism, the idea of progress in history and modern Chinese historiography with a focus on late Qing and Republican China. In my PhD I conduct research about Chinese conservatism.I hold a Bachelor degree in East-Asian Studies/China and History, and a Master degree in Modern Sinology from Georg-August-University Göttingen/Germany. As a part of my studies I spent one year each at the Beijing Foreign Studies University and at the National Chengchi University in Taiwan. In my Master-Thesis I researched Liu Xianxin’s criticism of the idea of progress in history.
Viren Murthy
My work probes the historical conditions for the possibility of philosophy and politics in the modern world and in East Asia in particular. I am generally interested in the attempts of East Asian intellectuals to resist modernity through reviving premodern philosophies and religions, such as Buddhism. My first book, The Political Philosophy of Zhang Taiyan: The Resistance of Consciousness, shows how in early 20th century China, Zhang Taiyan, drew on Consciousness-Only (Yogācāra) Buddhism to formulate a theory of revolution. In particular, the book explains how this seemingly ancient body of knowledge is reformulated as China was incorporated into the global capitalist system of nation-states. My more recent project, tentatively entitled, “Imagining Asia: Takeuchi Yoshimi and the Conundrums of Asian Modernity,” examines how philosophies of resistance intersect with visions of transnational identity and hopes for an alternative future. The historical context for this second work continues to be the fundamental transformations in conceptions of space and time associated with spread of global capitalism and how such changes affect the way intellectuals in East Asia conceive of political alliances, strategies and futures. In this context, the project not only concerns the manner in which Takeuchi re-imagines the politics of Asian identity, but also how such imaginaries relate to attempts to imagine a different world by Marxists in Japan and elsewhere in East Asia. The project about Asianism also has an important contemporary dimension and in this context I interrogate the work of various proponents of Asianism, such as Baik Yong-soe, Kuan-hsing Chen, Sun Ge and Wang Hui.
Dominique Hertzer
Dominique Hertzer hat im Fach Sinologie über den Text des Buches der Wandlungen (Yijing) aus dem Grabfund von Mawangdui promoviert und im Fach Geschichte der Medizin mit einer Untersuchung zum unterschiedlichen Verhältnis von Leib und Seele im Abendland sowie Geist und Körper in China. Sie hat eine Praxis für chinesische Medizin und Philosophie in Utting am Ammersee. Sie unterrichtet als Lehrbeauftragte an den Universitäten München, Göttingen und Oldenburg sowie in ihrem in ihrem eigenen Institut. Seit 2017 ist sie als Gastwissenschaftlerin am Cemeas der Universität Göttingen beschäftigt. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind das Verhältnis von Medizin und Philosophie, das Leib- Seele Verhältnis im Abendland und in China sowie die Philosophische Praxis. Dominique Hertzer veröffentlichte zuletzt: Durchgänge Tong 通 Eine Chinesische Philosophie des Kommunizierens.

Video: Fractured Mirror: New Revolutionary History (新革命史) and the Search for China’s Future
2020-10-01 08:00 - 2020-10-31 17:00
The online presentation “Fractured Mirror: New Revolutionary History (新革命史) and the Search for China’s Future” of Prof. Dr. Timothy Cheek from University of British Columbia is now here available on youtube.

Conference Keynote of “Whither China?”, October 1st, 2020

“Whither China?” requires, of course, a clear sense of “whence China?” Chinese historiography over the past century or more has continued to contribute to this retrospective assessment and prospective speculation. Any assessment of Chinese historiography perforce reprises many of the central themes in the work of Dr. Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik: the internationalization of the study of Chinese history (both inside China and outside), the centrality of politics and morality in Chinese historiography, and the search today for a new master narrative. I follow these themes in the case of recent Chinese historiography that has been reconsidering China’s Twentieth Century revolutions, what is often referred to as “New Revolutionary History” (新革命史). I see three important worlds of conversation about China’s recent past: the official 官方, the academic 学术, and the social 民间. Xi Jinping has led an official Party effort to re-assert an orthodox reading of “the first thirty years and the second thirty years” of the PRC. Scholars in PRC universities have produced a wide range of empirical and theoretical studies, many of which seek a scientific understanding of China’s revolutionary past. Increasingly, independent scholars, artists, and activists have availed themselves of the new media (from convenient video recording to the internet) to offer unofficial readings of this history from which to draw their own meaning. Each seeks to shape the collective memory of “China,” yet different official policies, different academic schools, and different communities across China’s continental-sized society offer distinct, often different and sometimes conflicting narratives. As both Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik and Arif Dirlik have noted for historical universality, any comprehensive Chinese history must be a sum of these particularities. Timothy Cheek is Director of the Institute of Asian Research and Louis Cha Chair Professor of Chinese Research at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and Department of History at the University of British Columbia. His research, teaching and translating focus on the recent history of China, especially the Chinese Communist Party and intellectual debate in China. https://sppga.ubc.ca/profile/timothy-… Co-oganized by the Department of East Asian Studies/Sinology (University of Vienna) https://sinologie.univie.ac.at/ & the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies (University of Göttingen) http://www.cemeas.de. Prof. Timothy Cheek’s lecture is the public keynote of „Whither China?“ 中國的未來與未來在中國, a conference taking place October 2-3, 2020 at the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna. Conference program: https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:1111122

Zoom Lecture: Fractured Mirror: New Revolutionary History (新革命史) and the Search for China’s Future
2020-10-01 17:15 - 19:15
Fractured Mirror: New Revolutionary History (新革命史) and the Search for China’s Future

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Timothy Cheek (University of British Columbia)
Time: Thursday, October 1st, 2020, 5.15 p.m. Central European Summer Time (Berlin)
Zoom: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/92488442758

Co-oganized by the Department of East Asian Studies/Sinology (University of Vienna) & the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies (University of Göttingen).
Prof. Timothy Cheek’s lecture is the public keynote of „Whither China“ 中國的未來與未來在中國, a conference taking place October 2-3, 2020 at the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna.
“Whither China?” requires, of course, a clear sense of “whence China?” Chinese historiography over the past century or more has continued to contribute to this retrospective assessment and prospective speculation. Any assessment of Chinese historiography perforce reprises many of the central themes in the work of Dr. Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik: the internationalization of the study of Chinese history (both inside China and outside), the centrality of politics and morality in Chinese historiography, and the search today for a new master narrative. I follow these themes in the case of recent Chinese historiography that has been reconsidering China’s Twentieth Century revolutions, what is often referred to as “New Revolutionary History” (新革命史). I see three important worlds of conversation about China’s recent past: the official 官方, the academic 学术, and the social 民间. Xi Jinping has led an official Party effort to re-assert an orthodox reading of “the first thirty years and the second thirty years” of the PRC. Scholars in PRC universities have produced a wide range of empirical and theoretical studies, many of which seek a scientific understanding of China’s revolutionary past. Increasingly, independent scholars, artists, and activists have availed themselves of the new media (from convenient video recording to the internet) to offer unofficial readings of this history from which to draw their own meaning. Each seeks to shape the collective memory of “China,” yet different official policies, different academic schools, and different communities across China’s continental-sized society offer distinct, often different and sometimes conflicting narratives. As both Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik and Arif Dirlik have noted for historical universality, any comprehensive Chinese history must be a sum of these particularities.
Timothy Cheek is Director of the Institute of Asian Research and Louis Cha Chair Professor of Chinese Research at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and Department of History at the University of British Columbia. His research, teaching and translating focus on the recent history of China, especially the Chinese Communist Party and intellectual debate in China. His books include The Intellectual in Modern Chinese History (2015), Living with Reform: China Since 1989 (2006), Mao Zedong and China’s Revolutions (2002) and Propaganda and Culture in Mao’s China (1997), as well as edited volumes, Mao’s Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings, 1912-1949, Vol. VIII (2015) with Stuart R. Schram, The Cambridge Critical Introduction to Mao (2010), and New Perspectives on State Socialism in China (1997), with Tony Saich. In recent years Cheek has been working with some Chinese intellectuals to explore avenues of collaborative research and translation. https://sppga.ubc.ca/profile/timothy-cheek/

Online Drama Reading: 约翰·洛根《红色》John Logan, Red
2020-10-24 14:00 - 17:00 | VooV
约翰·洛根《红色》John Logan, Red
Time: 14: 00 – 17: 00 24. October 2020
Place: Online (VooV Meeting ID：877 506 987)
Email: yingming.theater@gmail.com
Manner: Participants will read dramas and do some role-play exercises together via video or voice calls. Being an auditor is also welcome.
“There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend… One day the black will swallow the red,” mentioned by Rothko. In his eyes, what does “black” mean in this play? For his young assistant, Ken, what about his ideas towards “red?” Besides, which is your option between black and red based on culture and aesthetics?
If you would like to know more about Rothko and Ken’s discussions, let’s read John Logan’s Red together.
For more information about the Chinese Theater in Goettingen, please click here.

China und Deutschland in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit: Vergangenheit und Zukunft
2020-11-14 10:00 - 16:45
China und Deutschland in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit: Vergangenheit und Zukunft
In der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit hat sich Chinas Rolle global gewandelt – vom Empfängerland westlicher Unterstützung zu einem wichtigen Geberstaat in Afrika, Asien und Lateinamerika. 2014 begannen Deutschland und China eine strategische Partnerschaft zu pflegen. Damit änderte sich die Beziehung der Länder grundsätzlich. Wie schlägt sich dieser Wandel in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit nieder? Welche Entwicklungen lassen sich seit der Etablierung der chinesischen Entwicklungsbehörde CIDCA beobachten? Wie wird mit China, einem selbsterklärten „Entwicklungsland“, als Geber in der globalen Entwicklungspolitik umgegangen? Welche Perspektiven gibt es für deutsch-chinesische Kooperationen?
N.N., Andreas Fuchs (Universität Göttingen), Anja Weckwert (giz). Moderation: Christian Straube (Stiftung Asienhaus)
Der Workshop ist Teil der Veranstaltungsreihe 8. Asientag: Solidarität mit Asien in der Pandemie

Am 13. und 14. November 2020 findet der 8. Asientag statt, dieses Jahr zum ersten Mal als Online-Veranstaltung. Viele Workshops werden einen Bezug zur Corona-Pandemie haben, aber auch andere interessante Themen werden aufgegriffen. Hinzu haben wir spannende Diskussionsrunden geplant. Die Stiftung Asienhaus, das philippinenbüro und der Korea Verband laden herzlich zum digitalen Austausch im November ein.

Hier kann man sich zum Workshop anmelden.

Online Drama Reading: 席勒《阴谋与爱情》Friedrich Schiller, Intrigue and Love
2020-11-14 14:00 - 16:00 | VooV
席勒《阴谋与爱情》Friedrich Schiller, Intrigue and Love
Time: 14: 00 – 16: 00 14. November 2020
Place: Online (VooV Meeting ID：567 436 316)
Email: yingming.theater@gmail.com
Manner: Participants will read dramas and do some role-play exercises together via video or voice calls. Being an auditor is also welcome.
This play shows Ferdinand von Walter, son of an aristocrat, falls in love with Luise Miller, daughter of a middle-class musician, and how cabals and their intrigue destroy the couple’s relationship.
Anyone interested in the love story is warmly welcome to participate in the activities.
For more information about the Chinese Theater in Goettingen, please click here.

Online Drama Reading: 加缪《卡里古拉》Albert Camus, Caligula
2020-11-28 14:00 - 17:00 | VooV
加缪《卡里古拉》Albert Camus, Caligula
Time: 14: 00 – 17: 00 28. November 2020
Place: Online (VooV Meeting ID：460 607 174)
Email: yingming.theater@gmail.com
Manner: Participants will read dramas and do some role-play exercises together via video or voice calls. Being an auditor is also welcome.
Synopsis: Who assassinated Roman Emperor Caligula, a famed historical figure for his cruelty and seemingly insane behavior? Find the answer by reading this play of psychological and philosophical debates.
If you would like to know more about Caligula’s story, please join us to read the Evolution together.
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Juchang 剧场: Contemporary Theatre Performance in Germany and in China
2020-12-09 14:00 - 15:30
Chinese Culture Seminar Series:
Contemporary Theatre Performance
Time: 09.12, CET 14:00-15:30
Platform: Zoom 991 6515 5251
Language: English
Website: https://yingmingtheater.com/seminar-series/

Topic: Juchang 剧场: Contemporary Theatre Performance in Germany and in China
Invited Speakers:
Li Yinan is a Professor of Dramaturgy and Theatre Studies at the Central Academy of Drama, Beijing. Her research focuses on various aspects of new dramaturgy (including dramaturgy for documentary theatre, dance and new media art). She teaches courses on New Dramaturgy and Documentary Theatre in the B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. programs. She is also a theatre director. Her theatrical productions include YouMou – Have/Have not (有冇, 2015), Home (2016), In the Dream Land (赢得尊冷, 2017), Shuihu (水浒, 2017), and Heisi – The Black Temple (黑寺, 2017). She is the Chinese translator of Hans-Thies Lehmann’s Postdramatisches Theater (1999).
Huang Yiping, dramaturg, performer. He studied at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, the University of London and the Central Academy of Drama, Beijing. His research interests include new dramaturgy and contemporary theatre. He performed in Home (家, 2016), The Black Temple (黑寺, 2017), In the Dream Land (赢得尊冷, 2017),and Shuihu (水浒, 2017). As dramaturg and instructor, he conducted a series of theatre workshop with non-professional performers, including: The Room of Ambiguity 2.0 (黑盒子2.0, 2019), I’m here (我在, 2020).

I am a Moon: Online Drama Reading
2020-12-12 14:00 - 17:00 | VooV
I Am a Moon by Yi Zhu
Time: 12.12.2020, 14: 00 – 17: 00
Platform: VooV Meeting 422 884 932
Language: Chinese
Website: https://yingmingtheater.com/2020/11/08/2020fall/

Synopsis: This is a lyric play full of Yi Zhu’s dark humor. Come a little bit closer! What do you see first? We see… but we see what we choose to see. I Am a Moon shows the fear of interacting with each other and ourselves. We will read the drama and look at how all the characters struggle with feelings of isolation and dissatisfaction, but deal with them very differently.

Zoom Lecture: Infectious Extremism: How the Chinese government normalises its campaign of internment in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
2020-12-17 18:00 - 19:30
The Department of Asian Studies at UCC (University College Cork) and the Centre of Modern East Asian Studies at the University of Göttingen would like to invite you to the following online lecture:

Dr David O’Brien, Faculty of East Asian Studies at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
“Infectious Extremism: How the Chinese government normalises its campaign of internment in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region”
Thursday 17 December, 6:00-7:30 pm, CET

According to official Chinese government figures 1.3 million people per year, mostly from the Uyghur ethnic group, have been sent for compulsory ‘vocational and educational’ training in the Xinjiang region. A huge network of camps has been set up where those who are deemed to have ‘wrong ideas’ and ‘bad ideology’ are held without trial in what the authorities claim is an attempt to turn them away from potential extremism and to make them ‘better citizens’. This talk will examine how extremism and separatism are likened to a disease from which the ‘normal, healthy’ population needs to be ‘quarantined’. Rather than framing such threats as ideological attacks upon a political order, the danger is presented as a threat to the general population, and one which conversely situates part of that population (ostensibly ‘extremists’ and ‘terrorists’ but in practice largely members of particular ethnic groups) as culpable for posing this threat. This enables the government to situate itself as the pastoral guardian of the general population, responsible for keeping them safe by any measures and therefore normalise a campaign which has been condemned internationally as the most serious human rights abuse in the world today.
Dr David O’Brien obtained his PhD from UCC and is currently a lecturer in the Faculty of East Asian Studies at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. He researches ethnic identity in Xinjiang, a region he has lived in and been travelling to for almost 20 years.
https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/poa/de/team/obrien.shtml

Please register by writing to: assist@cemeas.uni-goettingen.de (end of registration, December 15).
Anyone who registers will receive a Zoom link to watch the event and use the Q & A feature.

The Visit: Online Drama Reading
2020-12-26 14:00 - 17:00 | VooV
The Visit by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Time: 26.12.2020, 14: 00 – 17: 00
Platform: VooV Meeting 931 957 233
Language: Chinese
Website: https://yingmingtheater.com/2020/11/08/2020fall/

Synopsis: An old woman inherits a huge fortune. She intends to make a desirable and dreadful exchange with her townspeople. She will revitalize the decrepit town with her enormous wealth if and only if people kill her old love who betrayed her 45 years ago. Is this a successful deal? Does the benefit of the majority stand for justice? Join us to read the tragicomedy written by Friedrich Dürrenmatt.

Online Lecture: The Chinese Communist Party’s International Networks
2021-01-14 13:00 - 14:00
The Chinese Communist Party’s International Networks
Julia Bader (University of Amsterdam)
This lecture is part of our new lecture series China’s Economic Rise – Political Transformations in Asia and Beyond
Thursday, January 14, 2021, 1:00-2:00pm CET
ZOOM Link: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/98494002315

Abstract: Under President Xi Jinping China has become a more assertive force of transformation. It is more openly promoting its vision of global order and more aggressively trying to popularize the Chinese political model. Instruments outside of traditional state-to-state diplomacy play a key role in this endeavor. The lecture focuses on the role of the International Department of the Communist Party of China (CCP-ID). Building on an intense travel diplomacy, the CCP-ID maintains a widely stretched network to political elites across the globe. The CCP-ID’s engagement is not new; but since Xi Jinping took office, it has bolstered its efforts to reach out to other parties. Yet, little is known about the CCP-ID’s role in China’s foreign relations: Who are the CCP-ID’s partners? And what are the CCP-ID’s networking efforts about?
The lecture tries to find answers to these questions. It provides insights into the patterns of the CCP-ID’s external relations since the early 2000s and discusses the underlying motives. Party relations not only serve as an additional channel to advance China’s foreign policy interests. Since President Xi has come to power, party relations also emerged as a key instrument to promote China’s vision for reforming the global order. Moreover, China increasingly uses the party channel as a vehicle of authoritarian learning by sharing experiences of its economic modernization and authoritarian one-party regime. The CCP-ID may well be an instrument of global political transformation.
Julia Bader
Julia Bader is Assistant Professor for International Relations in the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. She joined the Department of Political Science and the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research in July 2012. Before joining UvA, Julia Bader worked as a research fellow at the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) in Bonn (Germany) for five years. Julia Bader holds a MA in Politics and Management from Konstanz University and a PhD in Political Science from Heidelberg University.

Julia’s work focuses on China´s foreign relations; regime transition and autocratic stability, international relations and foreign policy, development assistance and human rights. She is a member of the International Diffusion and Cooperation of Authoritarian Regimes – IDCAR-Network and an external partner of the project Undermining Hegemony. The US, China, Russia, and International Public Goods.
Source: https://www.uva.nl/profiel/b/a/j.bader2/j.bader2.html

This lecture series is co-organized and co-sponsored by Göttingen’s Centre for Modern East Asian Studies as well the Kiel Institute China Initiative.

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Collaboration and Crossing Borders in Art
2021-01-17 13:00 - 14:30
Collaboration and Crossing Borders in Art
Time: 17.01.2021 CET 13:00-14:30
Place: Zoom Meeting ID 976 2733 1221
Language: Chinese

Speakers:
Chong Wang 王翀 is one of China’s most influential post-80s theater director. His works have been performed in 17 countries. The Warfare of Landmine 2.0 《地雷战2.0》 won 2013 Festival/Tokyo Award. Lu Xun 《大先生》was noted by the Beijing News as The Best Chinese Production of Year 2016. In April 2020, his online production of Waiting for Godot《等待戈多 attracted tens of thousands audience, breaking the record of single performance attendance in Chinese theater.
Shasha Li 李鋆天 is a puppetry artist. She has been recognized with the “Best Performance” awards at the 2nd and 4th Golden Lion National Puppet Art Festival in 2008 and 2012. She won the award “Best Performance” at the 2nd Omsk Arlekin International Puppet Art Festival in Russia. She received a Rockefeller Foundation Asian Cultural Council Scholarship in 2013 and spent a year as an artist-in-residence in New York. She is also a Chinese calligraphy and painting artist.

Online Lecture: China’s Overseas Lending
2021-01-28 13:00 - 14:00
China’s Overseas Lending
Sebastian Horn (IfW Kiel)
This lecture is part of our new lecture series China’s Economic Rise – Political Transformations in Asia and Beyond
Thursday, January 28, 2021, 1:00-2:00pm CET
ZOOM Link: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/92000859579

Abstract: Compared with China’s pre-eminent status in world trade, its role in global finance is poorly understood. This paper studies the size, characteristics, and determinants of China’s capital exports building a new database of 5000 loans and grants to 152 countries, 1949-2017. We find that 50% of China’s lending to developing countries is not reported to the IMF or World Bank. These “hidden debts” distort policy surveillance, risk pricing, and debt sustainability analyses. Since China’s overseas lending is almost entirely official (state-controlled), the standard “push” and “pull” drivers of private cross-border flows do not apply in the same way.

The lecture series is co-organized and co-sponsored by Göttingen’s Centre for Modern East Asian Studies as well the Kiel Institute China Initiative.
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Online Drama Reading: 易卜生《海达.高布乐》Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler
2021-01-30 14:00 - 17:00
易卜生《海达.高布乐》Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler
Time: 14: 00 – 17: 00 30. January 2021
Place: Online (Zoom Meeting ID：996 8047 2840)
Email: yingming.theater@gmail.com
Manner: Participants will read dramas and do some role-play exercises together via video or voice calls. Being an auditor is also welcome.
“She is a mysterious and noble, rebellious and unruly the so-called “father’s daughter.” After getting to know the large deep shadows in her heart and see a touch of disdain and despair in her eye, people can only have complicated love-hate feelings for her. Let us go into the inner world of Ibsen’s most attractive and controversial woman – Haida Gabler.
Everyone is welcome to the online drama reading activity of Chinese Theater in Goettingen, Ying Ming Theater.

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Hidden Dragon? Chinese Influence at the World Bank
2021-02-03 14:30 - 16:00
Hidden Dragon? Chinese Influence at the World Bank
Erasmus Kersting (Villanova University)
Abstract:
In this paper, we consider an alternate explanation for China’s continued interest in World Bank loans: borrower influence. As a bureaucracy and as a bank, the World Bank relies both on repayment of its outstanding loans and on a predictable pipeline of new lending. As a major client, China might prefer informal influence to formal influence (i.e., increased vote share) since key elements of the World Bank agenda – conditionality, transparency, indigenous rights – sit poorly with China’s own domestic record and non-interference approach to foreign policy. The paper examines how China has been treated by the World Bank and whether there is statistical evidence of China having informal influence over World Bank decisions.
cege research seminar
Wednesday, February 3rd from 2.30 pm – 4.00 pm, CET
In order to participate, please log in using the following link:
https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/92920198042?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting-ID: 929 2019 8042
Passcode: [REDACTED]
cege – Center for European, Governance and Economic Development Resear
https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/60864.html
Contact: Mattheus Brenig ( mattheus.brenig[at]wiwi.uni-goettingen.de)

Online Lecture: Gaining Ground, Gaining Influence? Vote Shares and Power in the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)
2021-02-11 13:00 - 14:00
Gaining Ground, Gaining Influence? Vote Shares and Power in the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)
Soo Yeon Kim (National University of Singapore)
This lecture is part of our new lecture series China’s Economic Rise – Political Transformations in Asia and Beyond
Thursday, February 11, 2021, 1:00-2:00pm CET
ZOOM Link: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/92410917518

Abstract: Why do countries join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and what do countries that have joined gain from membership? This paper examines the distribution of vote shares in the AIIB relative to that of existing international financial institutions (IFIs). Our analysis of the distribution of vote shares across the AIIB, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) supports the hypotheses: countries with lower vote shares in the existing IFIs are more likely to join the AIIB and member states have higher vote shares in the AIIB than in each of the other IFIs. The results of the OLS regressions suggest that the size of vote shares in existing IFIs is a strong deter-minant of countries’ decision to accede to the AIIB and that the distribution in vote shares in the AIIB are strongly correlated with the distribution of vote shares in these other IFIs. Countries systematically gain more vote shares in the AIIB than in the other IFIs and this gain in vote shares in the AIIB is most pronounced vis-a-vis the IMF, followed by the World Bank and the ADB. Developing countries also experience higher gains in vote shares than developed countries. The results also present no evidence that the distribution of vote shares in the AIIB privilege countries with greater political or economic proximity to China, which challenges the dominant explanation that the AIIB serves as an instrument that reflects or furthers Chinese interests. This paper contributes to the scholarship on the implications of international institutions created by rising powers on global governance, as well as whether Chinese-led international institutions conform to or deviate from existing rules and norms of international institutions.
Soo Yeon Kim joined the Department of Political Science in July 2011. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University and a B.A. in Political Science and International Studies from Yonsei University. Professor Kim’s research and teaching areas are International Political Economy, International Political Economy of Asia, and Research Methods, with a specialization in trade politics. She is the author of Power and the Governance of Global Trade (2011, Series in Political Economy, Cornell University Press). Her current research focuses on free trade agreements in Asia and on rising powers in the global economy.
Source: https://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/polsk/
The lecture series is co-organized and co-sponsored by Göttingen’s Centre for Modern East Asian Studies as well the Kiel Institute China Initiative.
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Online Drama Reading: 杜国威《我和春天有个约会》Kwok-Wai Raymond TO I Have a Date with Spring
2021-02-13 13:00 - 16:00
杜国威《我和春天有个约会》Kwok-Wai Raymond TO I Have a Date with Spring
Time: 13:00 – 16:00 13 Feb 2021 (CET)
Place: Online (Zoom ID: 971 8032 8732)
Email: yingming.theater@gmail.com
Manner: Participants will read dramas and do some role-play exercises together via video or voice calls. Being an auditor is also welcome.
When a retired singsong girl came back to the stage after twenty years, what kind of stories would she recall for her debut and her colleagues? How did the four different singsong girls’ life change over time? If you are interested in the story of four Hong Kong singsong girls in the second half of the 20th century, please do not hesitate to join us to read I Have a Date with Spring.
For more information about the Chinese Theater in Goettingen, please click here.

Online Drama Reading: 安东·八甫洛维奇·契诃夫 《熊》Anton Pavlovich Chekhov The Bear
2021-02-27 13:00 - 16:00
安东·八甫洛维奇·契诃夫 《熊》Anton Pavlovich Chekhov The Bear
Time: 13:00 – 16:00 27 Feb 2021 (CET)
Place: Online (Zoom ID: 951 5232 7696)
Email: yingming.theater@gmail.com
Manner: Participants will read dramas and do some role-play exercises together via video or voice calls. Being an auditor is also welcome.
The pompous widow vowed to keep faithful to her husband for the rest of her life. When she met the rude and irrational male debt collector, what kind of chemistry would happen between them?
Anyone interested in Chekhov’s farce The Bear is welcome to participate in the activity.
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Joint Zoom Lecture: Making the World Safe for Dictatorship: Authoritarian Image Management in Contemporary China and North Korea
2021-03-04 16:00 - 17:30
Making the World Safe for Dictatorship: Authoritarian Image Management in Contemporary China and North Korea

Dr Alexander Dukalskis, School of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin, Ireland
Date: Thursday, 4 March 2021
Time: 3:00-4:30 pm (Dublin time)/16:00-17:30 (CET)
Please register in advance for this meeting:
https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwsc-2sqj4jGN1IjSpNxZbsvyuIxEGI9MHP
Organizers:
Department of Asian Studies at UCC and the Centre of Modern East Asian Studies at the University of Göttingen

Authoritarian states work hard to manage their images abroad. They invest in foreign-facing media, hire public relations firms, tout their popular celebrities, and showcase their successes to elite and popular foreign audiences. However, there is a dark side to these efforts that is sometimes overlooked. Authoritarian states try to obscure or censor bad news about their governments and often discredit their critics abroad. In extreme cases, authoritarian states intimidate, physically attack, or even murder their opponents overseas. This talk will be about how authoritarian states manage their image abroad using both “promotional” tactics of persuasion and “obstructive” tactics of repression. Dukalskis will look at the tactics that authoritarian states use for image management and the ways in which their strategies vary from one state to another. After providing an overview of the argument, the lecture will examine in detail two cases of authoritarian image management. First, it will discuss the global and multifaceted image management of contemporary China, ranging from controlling the narrative by clamping down on foreign correspondents, to Beijing’s external propaganda, to its attempts to silence critics abroad. Second, the lecture will widen its temporal scope to explore North Korea’s efforts since the 1950s up to today to craft an appealing image of itself among the ethnic Korean population in Japan. The lecture, based on the author’s forthcoming book Making the World Safe for Dictatorship, will draw on a diverse array of data, including interviews, cross-national data on extraterritorial repression, examination of public relations filings with the United States government, analysis of authoritarian propaganda, media frequency analysis, and speeches and statements by authoritarian leaders.

Alexander Dukalskis is an Associate Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin. He is also a 2020-21 Woodrow Wilson Center China Fellow and an associate editor at Communist & Post-Communist Studies. His research and teaching interests include authoritarianism, Asian politics, and human rights. His work has been published in several leading journals, including Government & Opposition, Review of International Studies, Journal of Democracy, Journal of Peace Research, and Democratization. His first book, The Authoritarian Public Sphere: Legitimation and Autocratic Power in North Korea, Burma, and China, was published in 2017. His second book Making the World Safe for Dictatorship, will be published by Oxford University Press in April 2021.

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