CeMEAS: The 10th East Asia Research Salon

Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Besprechunsgraum KWZ 0.701 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen

Elena C. Lichtenthaler Hungry China – How to explain China’s changing international food policy 6. Dezember 2016, 17-19 Uhr KWZ, Besprechungsraum 0.701, Heinrich- Düker- Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen Kurzbeschreibung: Ever tried to buy milk powder at a German drug store? There is a good possibility that you found empty shelves and signs with announcements like […]

Globalization and Environmental Sustainability in China

Kulturwisssenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 1.601 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen

CeMEAS Lecture:  Maoliang Bu, PhD Associate Professor, School of Business, Nanjing University Kurzbeschreibung: Globalization can be bad or good for the environment of China. On one side, China may suffer from international pollution transfer. While on the other side, globalization may make China better access advanced environmental technology and management. Erfahren Sie mehr

The 11th East Asia Research Salon: Bullets coated with sugar: Anticorruption and moralising in the Chinese Communist Party

Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.701 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen

Carolin Kautz, MA, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Ostasiatischem Seminar der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Mittwoch, 01. Februar 2017, 16:00 – 17:30, KWZ 0.701 Commentators: Dr. Armin Müller, Department of East Asian Studies Prof. Dr. Tobias Lenz, Department of Political Science Erfahren Sie mehr

Book Launch Dr. Julia C. Schneider (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen): Nation and Ethnicity: Chinese Discourses on History, Historiography, and Nationalism (1900s-1920s)

Verfügungsgebäude, VG 3.103 Verfügungsgebäude, VG 3.103, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, Göttingen

In Nation and Ethnicity: Chinese Discourses on History, Historiography, and Nationalism (1900s-1920s) Julia C. Schneider gives an analysis of nationalist and historiographical discourses among late imperial and early republican Chinese thinkers. In particular, she researches their approaches towards non-Chinese people within the Qing Empire and the question on how to integrate them into a Chinese […]

CeMEAS Lecture: Liberating the “oppressed nations”: Chinese communist networks and the Comintern in Southeast Asia, the Americas, and Europe, c. 1920s-1930s

Verfügungsgebäude VG 1.105 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, Göttingen

Anna Belogurova, CeMIS, Universität Göttingen Abstract: In the context of unprecedented circulation of people and ideas in the interwar global moment, Chinese communists built their overseas networks in the old empires and invented new nations. As they were making revolution both in and outside China, they aspired to liberate the world from imperialism and to […]

CeMEAS Podium: What is the Future of Made in China? Opportunities and Challenges for Europe

Emmy-Noether-Saal Tagungs- und Veranstaltungshaus Alte Mensa Wilhelmsplatz 3, Göttingen

Introduction: This half-day event will explore these issues in discussion with leading international scholars and government experts. A first roundtable will analyze the economic challenges and policy aims behind “Made in China 2025” and evaluate the prospects of this state-led approach to industrial upgrading. A second roundtable will focus on the opportunities and challenges for […]

CFP: Manchu in Global History: A Research Language for Qing Historians

Kulturwisssenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 1.601 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen

Organisatoren: Julia C. Schneider (Department for East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen) Katja Pessl (Centre for Modern East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen) The deadline for submissions is April 4, 2017, full papers need to be provided by August 18, 2017. To submit an abstract, please email the organising committee at: cemeas@cemeas.uni-goettingen.de. Erfahren Sie mehr

Dr. Armin Müller (Göttingen): „Social Policy in China: Retrospect and Prospect“

Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.609 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen

Abstract: Since 1979, social protection in China has undergone fundamental institutional transformations. This presentation provides an overview of the state of the literature on social policy in the PRC, the institutional change which has characterized social protection in the reform period, and an outlook on future developments. Social protection under the planned economy was characterized […]

Prof. Reza Hasmath (Alberta): „Is Policy Innovation Possible Under the Xi Jinping Regime?“

Theologicum, T0.136 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 2, Göttingen

Abstract: Despite playing a key contributory role in China’s recent economic reforms and the Party’s regime durability, there has been a noted reduction in central-level policy experimentation under Xi Jinping’s administration. Recent studies have further noted an empirical reduction in policy innovation at the subnational level, and question whether local officials will continue to experiment […]

Prof. Mark Frazier (India-China Institute, New School): „Urbanisation and Social Policy: Prospects for Social Citizenship in China“

Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.606 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen

Abstract: As numerous commentators have pointed out, China is the first country in the world to experience an ageing population without first having reached developed country status. China is indeed ‘growing old before it grows rich,’ but the meanings and significance of this demographic event are not clear. A substantial body of scholarship, generally public […]

Prof. Jane Duckett (University of Glasgow): „Who cares about inequality in China? Public attitudes toward inequalities in access to health care“

Theologicum, T0.136 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 2, Göttingen

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 […]

CeMEAS The 12th East Asia Research Salon: Theorizing the Current Global Order in the Era of Globalization, Regional Integration and the Resurgence of Nationalism: Global China, Regional EU, and National US?

Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.701 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen

Xiao (Alvin) Yang, University of Kassel 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 […]

Prof. Liu Tao (Universität Duisburg-Essen): „The Welfare Regime Within and Beyond Borders: The Openness and Closedness of Chinese Social Policy“

Theologicum, T0.136 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 2, Göttingen

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 […]

Voices of Struggle: LGTBQ & Feminist Activism in China and Beyond

17.04.: Emmy-Noether-Saal, Tagungs- und Veranstaltungshaus Alte Mensa, Wilhelmsplatz 3, Göttingen & 18.04.: ZHG 002

Symposium: Academia meets Activism: Feminism in China 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 […]

CeMEAS: The 15th Göttingen East Asia Research Salon: Closer to the self while far from home: A longitudinal study about the experiences of students from People’s Republic of China in Germany

Online (Zoom)

Please RSVP for the event via Ms Kara Blumenthal at assist@cemeas.uni-goettingen.de. Presenter: Lili Jiang (University of Göttingen, Department of East Asian Studies) Commentators: Dr. Jesús Pineda (Scientific coordinator and researcher, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Dr. Sascha Klotzbücher (Acting Chair, Society and Economy of China, University of Göttingen) Time: Tuesday, 07.07.2020, 6 pm (c.t.) – […]

CeMEAS Online Lecture: Affective pedagogic spaces in contemporary China

Online (Zoom)

Lecturer: Gil Hizi (PhD University of Sydney) Abstract: 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 […]

CeMEAS Lecture: Weaponizing medicine: China’s disease prevention and the “military-civil fusion” in medical research

Online (Zoom)

Sascha Klotzbücher (University of Göttingen) Time: July 15, 2020 5pm Venue: Zoom-Meeting https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/93597507671?pwd=S3htRlBNd0RNQVF6Ukw3dlpBSXJEUT09 Meeting-ID: 935 9750 7671 Passwort: 404190 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 […]

CeMEAS, The 16th Göttingen East Asia Research Salon: The Shifting Relationship between Classics and History: Constructing Historical Continuity in Republican China

Online (Zoom)

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, […]

Global China Conversations #9: Diskussionsreihe mitorganisiert durch das CeMEAS – Centre for Modern East Asian Studies

Online

Sprecherinnen Prof. Dr. Doris Fischer, Universität Würzburg Veronique Dunai, IHK Frankfurt am Main Dystopie eines autoritären Überwachungsstaats oder moderne Vision datenbasierter Regierungsführung? Das chinesische Sozialkreditsystem hat seit seiner offiziellen Ankündigung im Jahr 2014 für zahlreiche kontroverse Debatten gesorgt. Was genau jedoch ist das neue Bonitätssystem und wie wirkt es sich auf die chinesische Wirtschaft und […]

Lecture: Viren Murthy „Hegelian Master Narratives and Periodizing Japanese and Chinese Modernity“

Oeconomicum OEC 0.168

Abstract: Scholars of Asian studies have something of a love-hate relationship with Hegel; they love to cite him as the epitome of Eurocentrism, modernization theory and the legitimation of colonialism. Despite their prevalence, such criticisms overlook both the complexities of Hegel’s philosophy and the different ways in which Asian intellectuals attempted to turn Hegel on […]