Chinese Studies

Lecture: The Great Transformation of International Order and the Future of Chinese Economy
2025-05-27 18:00 - 19:30 (Europe/Helsinki) | PH 20. Hörsaal der Philosophischen Fakultät, Humboldtallee 19/21
The Great Transformation of International Order and the Future of Chinese Economy

Prof. Gao Bai (Duke University)

PH 20. Hörsaal der Philosophischen Fakultät, Humboldtallee 19/21
27. May (Tuesday), 18:15-19:45

Abstract:
The international order established after World War II is currently experiencing a profound transformation. Many Chinese use 百年未有之大变局 （major changes unseen in a century）to describe the current situation.
What are the driving forces behind this great transformation?
In his newly published book titled 《把脉：全球巨变与中国经济》（Taking A Pulse：Global Transformation and the Chinese economy）, Bai Gao uses three long cycles of history, which include the pendulum movement of globalization, the cycle of hegemonic expansions, and technological revolution, to explain the drastic changes occurring in the international economic order and their profound impacts on the Chinese economy.
Bai Gao demonstrates that since China’s reform and opening up, the dynamics of development of the Chinese economy have changed twice, first to the world factory model focusing on external circulation by promoting export, and then shifted to a supply-side demand model emphasizing internal circulation sustained by government spending in infrastructure construction and private investment in real estate. With low birth rate and ageing population and mounting debts of local governments, these old strategies can no longer sustain economic growth. Bai Gao predicts a new model for the Chinese economy in the 21st century: 休养生息（rest and recuperate）by developing strong social protection programs, and 强筋壮骨 （strengthen muscles and bones）by upgrading industries and developing international competitiveness.
Speaker:
Gao Bai is a lifelong professor of sociology at Duke University. Professor Gao Bai graduated from Peking University in the 1980s and received a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree. In 1994, he graduated from the Department of Sociology of Princeton University and received a doctorate in sociology.
Professor Gao Bai’s main research fields include economics and society, comparative history sociology, organizational theory, comparative political economy, international political economy and globalization.
Professor Gao Bai has been teaching at Duke University since graduation; has been a visiting scholar at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Tokyo, the Department of Economics of the University of One Bridge, the School of International Business and Law of Yokohama National University, the Tokyo University of Economics and the Max Planck Institute of Social Studies in Cologne, Germany; has been a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo, Meiji University and Jacob University in Bremen, Germany, as a self-strengthening professor at the University of Shanghai and a lecture professor at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics; and has been the director and chief expert of the China High Speed Railway Development Strategy Research Center at Southwest Jiaotong University since June 2014.
Organizer:
Prof. Dominic Sachsenmaier, University of Göttingen

International Conference: Identity, Ignorance, and the Politics of the Self（May 19 & May 21, 2025）
2025-05-19 - 2025-05-21 | • May 19: Paulinerkirche, Papendiek 14, 37073 Göttingen • May 21: Historische Sternwarte, Geismar Landstraße 11, 37083 Göttingen
International Conference: Identity, Ignorance, and the Politics of the Self

Dates: May 19 & May 21, 2025
Locations:
• May 19: Paulinerkirche, Papendiek 14, 37073 Göttingen
• May 21: Historische Sternwarte, Geismar Landstraße 11, 37083 Göttingen
Online Option: YouTube Livestream

The University of Göttingen is pleased to host the international conference “Identity, Ignorance, and the Politics of the Self” on May 19 and 21, 2025. Co-organized by Prof. Dominic Sachsenmaier (University of Göttingen) and Prof. Wang Hui (Tsinghua University), this event will bring together leading voices from both academia and the arts to engage in a cross-cultural dialogue between China and the West.
Among the distinguished participants are world-renowned scholars as well as prominent figures from contemporary Chinese literature and art, including novelist Yu Hua, essayist Mao Jian, and artist Xu Bing. From the German side, acclaimed writer Steffen Kopetzky will also take part in the discussions.
This rare and high-level exchange is generously funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
We warmly welcome all students, faculty, and interested members of the public to join this exceptional event.

For detailed information, please click here for the full program.

Workshop | Strategien und Praxis der Vermittlung des chinesischen Ausdrucks
2025-05-17 10:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | Lulz-Raum, Waldweg 26, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
📢 Workshop-Ankündigung | 漢語作為外語的表達教學：策略與實踐
Strategien und Praxis der Vermittlung des chinesischen Ausdrucks
🗓 Datum | 日期: Samstag, 17. Mai 2025（週六）
📍 Ort | 地點: Lulz-Raum, Waldweg 26, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
🕙 Uhrzeit | 時間: 10:00 – 17:00（Einlass/報到 ab 09:30）
🈶 Kurssprache | 工作語言: Chinesisch 中文

Das Akademische Konfuzius-Institut Göttingen lädt herzlich zur Fortbildung für Chinesischlehrkräfte ein. Der Workshop wird von Frau Liu Dienmin, Doktorandin an der National Taiwan Normal University, geleitet und widmet sich praxisnah der Vermittlung mündlicher und schriftlicher Ausdrucksfähigkeiten im Chinesischunterricht.
哥廷根學術孔子學院誠摯邀請您參加本次華語教師專題工作坊，由臺灣師範大學華語教學系博士候選人劉殿敏老師主講。工作坊將聚焦於「語言輸出」的教學策略與實踐，幫助教師提升學生在口語與書寫方面的表達能力。

💡 Workshop-Inhalte | 活動亮點

Bildinterpretationen und kreative Denkprozesse 圖像解讀與創意思維啟發

Körperliche Multimodalität und Sprachwiederholung 肢體多模態與語言記憶訓練

Strategien für Vorträge und Schreibübungen 口語與寫作教學策略

Praktische Übungen, Gruppenarbeit, Feedback 實作演練與小組互動

👩‍🏫 Dozentin | 主講人:
劉殿敏 Dienmin Liu
Doktorandin an der National Taiwan Normal University, mit langjähriger Erfahrung im Bereich Chinesisch als Fremdsprache. Sie war u.a. an der UC Berkeley, der University of British Columbia sowie an der Universität Tübingen tätig und wurde 2019 mit dem „華育獎“ für hervorragende Lehrleistungen ausgezeichnet.
臺灣師範大學華語教學系博士候選人，曾任教於美國柏克萊大學、加拿大UBC與德國圖賓根大學，具多年華語教學與師資培訓經驗，2019年獲得「華育獎」殊榮。

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📧 Kontakt | 聯絡方式:
ChaF Team – chaf@aki-goettingen.de
🧩 Veranstalter | 主辦單位:
Akademisches Konfuzius-Institut Göttingen 哥廷根學術孔子學院
📎 In Zusammenarbeit mit | 合作單位: Professur für Fachdidaktik Chinesisch als Fremdsprache, Ostasiatisches Seminar 哥廷根大學東亞系華語教學教席

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Lecture: Towards a New World Order: Reading Zhao Tingyang’s Tianxia in Light of the Japanese Experience
2025-05-13 18:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | PH 20. Hörsaal der Philosophischen Fakultät, Humboldtallee 19/21
Towards a New World Order: Reading Zhao Tingyang’s Tianxia in Light of the Japanese Experience

Prof. Viren Murthy (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

PH 20. Hörsaal der Philosophischen Fakultät, Humboldtallee 19/21

13. May (Tuesday), 18:15–19:45

Abstract:
Today in the midst of a global pandemic, we are constantly confronted with the inability of national governments to create the conditions for human flourishing. In this context, the recent attempts from Chinese Confucianists to envision a new world order could point the way to a more sustainable future. This global gesture in recent Confucian theory overlaps with recent trends in Marxism. For example, Jacques Bidet has written of an incipient world-state (état-monde), which could potentially go against the capitalist world order. From its inception, Marxism has been interested in a global movement to overcome capitalism. But tianxia theorists seem to proceed from the opposite direction of Marxism. Put simply, while Marxists explain philosophical theories by relating them to social and historical structures, Confucian tianxia theorists proceed from philosophy to history and politics. Recently, Marxists have questioned the Confucian tianxia approach and contend that such theories are merely an ideology to legitimate Chinese capitalism and the imperialist tendency of the contemporary Chinese government. In response to such criticisms, I attempt to synthesize Marxism and tianxia theory by focusing on the contemporary Chinese thinker, Zhao Tingyang. With respect to imperialism, one of the key issues concerns how Zhao envisions the unity of a world as encompassing the many, without negating their particularity. I deal with this ideal philosophically, making comparisons to Hegel’s conception and also to thinkers in interwar Japan, which was imperialist. I claim that Zhang can avoid the pitfall of the Japanese path, only if he places the problems of capitalism at the center of his theory. In short, one will not be able to achieve a non-imperialist global unity that respects multiplicity without overcoming global capitalism.

Speaker:

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.

In June 2022, I published The Politics of Time in China and Japan: Back to the Future (Routledge), which is a collection of essays that explore how Chinese and Japanese intellectuals mobilize traditional texts to create a better future. They produce what I call “back to the future” narratives, in which they conjure the past to envision a world beyond global capitalism. These narratives are nationalistic but unlike in England and the United States, this nationalism is connected to anti-imperialism and resistance to global inequality. I suggest that such inequality also divides Europe, which enables comparisons between Germany and Asian nations, all of whom saw themselves as being marginalized.

My third monograph Pan-Asianism and Legacy of the Chinese Revolution (University of Chicago Press, 2023) shows how intellectuals in China and Japan promoted unity among weak Asian nations to resist Western domination. To promote such unity, pan-Asianists struggled against Eurocentric visions of history articulated by philosophers such as Hegel, who argued that the Orient had to follow the West. At the same time, these thinkers appropriated Hegel’s criticisms of abstract individualism. I contend that Japanese and Chinese pan-Asianists drew on elements of both Asian and Western culture to posit a world beyond narrow self-interest, capitalism, and imperialism. The legacy of pan-Asianism is complex given that Japan employed this ideology to promote imperialism. Consequently, postwar Japanese pan-Asianists had to confront the problem of war memory. Postwar pan-Asianists tried to show that a healthy transnationalism was both possible and necessary to struggle against Western imperialism.

My present project concerns how East Asian intellectuals drew on G.W.F Hegel to uncover logics to Chinese and Japanese history, which culminate in a new world order inspired by their respective cultures. In addition to the above projects connected to East Asia, I am also involved in a project on South Indian Classical Music and Tamil Identity, which also explores issues of how traditions have been reconstituted by capitalist modernity. I have also been interested in how Marxists in (primarily in the North Atlantic) have drawn on Jewish Messianism to confront capitalist modernity.

Organizer:
Prof. Dominic Sachsenmaier, University of Göttingen

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[Event Cancellation] Lecture: Network Ties, Social Capital, and Multilateral Cooperation
2025-05-12 16:00 - 17:30 (Europe/Helsinki)
We regret to inform you that the lecture:
Network Ties, Social Capital, and Multilateral Cooperation
has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Should the event be rescheduled in the future, we will update the information accordingly.
Thank you for your understanding and continued interest.
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Network Ties, Social Capital, and Multilateral Cooperation
Christina Davis (Harvard University)
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Room: ZHG 005 16:15 – 17:30
Lecture: May 12, 2025

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Christina L. Davis
Christina L. Davis is the Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics in the Department of Government and Director of the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at Harvard University. During academic year 2024-25 she will be on leave at Oxford University (affiliated to Queen’s College) as the Centenary Visiting Professor in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. Her research interests include the politics and foreign policy of Japan, East Asia, and the study of international organizations with a focus on trade policy. Her research has been published in leading political science journals. She is the author of Food Fights Over Free Trade: How International Institutions Promote Agricultural Trade Liberalization (Princeton University Press 2003), and Why Adjudicate? Enforcing Trade Rules in the WTO (Princeton University Press 2012, winner of the international law best book award of the International Studies Association, Ohira Memorial Prize, and co-winner of Chadwick Alger Prize). Her latest book, Discriminatory Clubs: The Geopolitics of International Organizations, was released by Princeton University Press in July 2023. Currently she is working on several projects on the evolving trade order and economic sanctions. Education: AB in East Asian Studies, Harvard 1993; Ph.D. in Political Science, Harvard 2001.
https://scholar.harvard.edu/cldavis/home

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Organizers:
Centre for Modern East Asian Studies (CeMEAS), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen, Germany, http://www.cemeas.de
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Department for International Relations, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen,Platz der Göttinger Sieben 3, 37073 Göttingen, Germany, https://lehrstuhlib.uni-goettingen.de
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Chair of Development Economics, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 3, 37073 Göttingen, Germany, https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/614556.h
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Lecture: Journey to the East (and Back): China and “Western Esotericism” from Reception History to Global Religious Studies
2025-05-08 18:00 - 19:30 (Europe/Helsinki) | KWZ 0.603
Journey to the East (and Back): China and “Western Esotericism” from Reception History to Global Religious Studies
Davide Marino (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg)

Date: May 8, 2025
Time: 18:00 – 19:30
Place: KWZ 0.603
Abstract:
This presentation examines the intricate and multifaceted relationship between Chinese spiritual culture(s) and the field of “Western Esotericism.” For centuries, the East, and particularly China, was regarded by Europeans as a repository of superior spiritual knowledge, a realm of profound wisdom that seemed inaccessible to the West. This perception of the East as a mystical and enigmatic source of ancient wisdom persisted across various periods of European intellectual history, with China holding a particularly prominent place in Western imagination. Beginning in the early modern period, and reaching its peak during the colonial era, Western thinkers found abundant inspiration in Chinese religions, philosophies, and cultural practices and these elements were integrated into the evolving spiritual and philosophical discourses of the time, ultimately becoming essential components of the eclectic mix of ideas now known as “Western Esotericism.” China was not simply “received” or passively absorbed into Western thought; rather, various Chinese intellectuals, spiritual leaders, and cultural movements became active participants in a global esoteric discourse that transcended geographical boundaries and facilitated the exchange of ideas. This dynamic of intellectual and spiritual exchange is even more pronounced in contemporary times. While in “the West,” Chinese cultural elements such as Chinese medicine, the Daodejing, and the notion of qi have become widely embraced as staples of global post-confessional spirituality, “Western Esotericism” is increasingly being discussed, reinterpreted, and adapted in the People’s Republic, both in commercial contexts and within academic discourse. This growing interest reflects a reciprocal flow of ideas that continues to shape global spiritual trends. Although often overlooked by Western scholars, Chinese perspectives on “Western Esotericism” present a challenge to traditional diffusionist models, which tend to view the flow of ideas as a one-way process. Instead, these Chinese perspectives reveal a more complex and circular flow of ideas, which calls into question the conventional notion of one-way reception (whether “from East to West” or “from West to East”). China did not merely provide raw material for Western thinkers to appropriate and adapt for their own purposes; rather, Chinese cultural and spiritual traditions actively shaped and influenced the trajectory of global discourses on esotericism. Likewise, contemporary Chinese discourses on “Western Esotericism” are increasingly framed around both domestic issues—such as the role and necessity of regulating religion in Chinese society—and international debates on religion, science, and public health. Thus, this presentation advocates for a global and interdisciplinary approach to the study of esotericism—one that recognizes the entangled and reciprocal histories of “China” and “the West,” and acknowledges their shared responsibility in shaping the development of modern and postmodern alternative religious trajectories.
Davide Marino, PhD
Davide Marino specializes in the interplay between East Asian religions, particularly Chinese, and European Esotericism, with a focus on Traditionalism. His Ph.D. thesis, which received the CUHK Young Scholars Thesis Award in 2023, examined the influence of Chinese and Vietnamese religious concepts on the works of Albert de Pouvourville and René Guénon. More recently, he has been investigating the intersection of politics and esotericism in both China and Europe.
Organizers:
Department of East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen
Centre for Modern East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen
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Lecture: Should Children be Carefree? A Chinese and Global Debate
2025-05-06 18:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
Should Children be Carefree? A Chinese and Global Debate
Prof. Hsiung Ping-Chen (Secretary General, CIPSH)

PH 20. Hörsaal der Philosophischen Fakultät, Humboldtallee 19/21
6. May (Tuesday), 18:15-19:45
Abstract:
Recognized as signs of modernity, children, free roaming, have been referred to as a best representatives for a progressive society. Historically in China, however, as early as the Song Dynasty, unique attention to children at play in arts and children’s health in traditional pediatrics prevailed, as Neo-Confucian philosophers continued to debate whether they ought to be left carefree. Illustrated with Chinese paintings and medical texts, this lecture will trace a thousand years of ebbs and flows of such concerns and interests on the nature of childhood. To reflect also on a contention and obsession with how to lessen burdens for today’s schoolers too, in creating a child friendly environment that connects contemporary China with the rest of the world. The talk intends to offer a public occasion to argue and deliberate on this never-ending tug of war over whether or how children should be set free.
Speaker:
Professor Hsiung Ping-chen is a distinguished scholar and academic leader in the humanities, with a multifaceted career across renowned international institutions. She holds a PhD in History from Brown University and an MSc from the Harvard School of Public Health. Her research spans childhood studies, gender and family history, and health humanities, with a particular focus on Late Imperial and Modern China. She also engages with comparative cultural and social history, public health, and the intellectual history of Russia. Professor Hsiung has published extensively on the history of Chinese pediatrics, the cultural memory of childhood, and the evolution of health practices in Chinese society. Since 2020, Professor Hsiung has served as Secretary-General of the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH), and she was re-elected to this position in 2023. Among other academic distinctions, she also holds the UNESCO Co-Chair in “Global Asia” at McGill University and the CIPSH Chair in “New Humanities” at the University of California, Irvine. She is also the founder of the Asian New Humanities Network and has held key leadership positions at institutions such as the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where she served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Director of the Research Institute for the Humanities.

Organizer:
Prof. Dominic Sachsenmaier, University of Göttingen

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Lecture: Writing World History in a Global Historical Context: Perspectives on Meiji Japan and Contemporary Taiwan
2025-04-29 18:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | PH 20. Hörsaal der Philosophischen Fakultät, Humboldtallee 19/21
Writing World History in a Global Historical Context: Perspectives on Meiji Japan and Contemporary Taiwan
Prof. Mu-chou Poo (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
PH 20. Hörsaal der Philosophischen Fakultät, Humboldtallee 19/21
29. April (Tuesday), 18:00-20:00

Abstract:
This talk will address two issues: the unique situation of Japanese learning of Western history and civilization in the mid-Nineteenth Century (Meiji Period), and the development of World History textbook writing as a response/reaction to the political process in contemporary Taiwan. For Japan, I will concentrate on the writing of ancient Western history, in particular the ancient Near East, as this period touches upon the origin of human civilization, which was of vital importance in terms of political, cultural, and religious implications to Japan’s effort of nation building. For Taiwan, the more liberal new national standard textbooks of mid-1980’s sought to debunk the old frame of textbook writing, and to introduce new concepts in history education; the decentralized textbooks of the late-1990’s were involved in the struggle of identity politics, and took a more conservative turn in terms of writing style and interpretation.
Speaker:
Mu-chou Poo (PhD in Egyptology, Johns Hopkins 1984), is adjunct Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He had worked as a Research Fellow at Academia Sinica, Taipei, from 1984-2009, and Chair Professor of History at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009-2023, and taught at various places, including Columbia, UCLA, and Grinnell College. Research interests include religion and society in ancient Egypt and China. Major publications include Burial and the Idea of Life and Death: Essay on Ancient Chinese Religion (Taipei, 1993); Wine and Wine Offering in the Religion of Ancient Egypt (London: Kegan Paul, 1995); In Search of Personal Welfare: A View of Ancient Chinese Religion (Albany: SUNY, 1998); Enemies of Civilization: Attitudes toward Foreigners in Ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt and China (Albany: SUNY, 2005). (Ed.) Rethinking Ghosts in World Religions (Leiden: Brill, 2009). Old Society, New Belief, Religious Transformation of China and Rome, ca. 1st-6th Centuries. Ed. With H. A. Drake and Lisa Raphals, (Oxford University Press, 2017), Daily Life in Ancient China (Cambridge U Press, 2018), Ghosts and Religious Life in Early China (Cambridge U Press, 2022), and The Netherworld in Ancient Egypt and China: An Imagined Paradise (London: Bloomsbury, 2023)
Organizer:
Prof. Dominic Sachsenmaier, University of Göttingen

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Panel discussion: Xi Jinping and the Question of Power
2025-03-13 18:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | Adam von Trott Saal Tagungs- und Veranstaltungshaus Alte Mensa, Wilhelmsplatz 3, Göttingen, 37073
Johnny Erling & Joseph Fewsmith in Dialogue
Moderator: Jürgen Trittin
Since taking office in 2012, Xi Jinping has reshaped the Chinese political landscape, consolidating authority in ways not seen since Mao Zedong. His leadership has redefined governance, the role of the Communist Party, and China’s position on the global stage. But how does power function under Xi? What mechanisms sustain his control, and how do they compare to past leadership models?
Join us for an in-depth discussion on the centralization of power, ideological shifts, and institutional changes under Xi Jinping—exploring their implications for China’s future and the international order.
Panelists:
🗣 Johnny Erling (Journalist, China expert)
🗣 Joseph Fewsmith (Political scientist, China scholar, Boston University)
🎤 Moderation: Jürgen Trittin (Former Federal Minister)
This event will be held in person and streamed via Zoom. It will be conducted in English, but questions during the Q&A can be asked in German. No registration is required—this is an open event.
Zoom Link: https://uni-goettingen.zoom-x.de/j/69671256989
Johnny Erling
Johnny Erling, born 1952, graduated from the University of Frankfurt/Main studied 1975/76 and 1982 at Beijing University. Most of his professional life he spent reporting from China, from 1985 until 1990 as the Beijing correspondent for a pool of daily newspapers from Germany and Austria, from 1997 to 2019 as the Beijing correspondent for the German newspaper “Die Welt” and the Austrian “Der Standard”. After more than 35 Years working in China he moved back to Germany where he lives since 2020 with his family in Bad Homburg. As a MERICS Senior Associate Fellow, he focuses on the Communist Party and domestic politics.
Erling, J. (2021). Xi Jinping: The rise of an authoritarian leader. In K. Larres (Ed.), Dictators and Autocrats (pp. 177–190). Routledge. This chapter is available for download.
Jospeh Fewsmith
Joseph Fewsmith is Professor of International Relations and Political Science at the Boston University Pardee School. He is the author of seven books, including, most recently, Forging Leninism in China: Mao and the Remaking of the Chinese Communist Party, 1927-1934. Other works include Rethinking Chinese Politics (June 2021), The Logic and Limits of Political Reform in China (January 2013), and China since Tiananmen (2nd edition, 2008). Other books include Elite Politics in Contemporary China (2001), The Dilemmas of Reform in China: Political Conflict and Economic Debate (1994), and Party, State, and Local Elites in Republican China: Merchant Organizations and Politics in Shanghai, 1890-1930 (1985). He was one of the seven regular contributors to the China Leadership Monitor, a quarterly web publication analyzing current developments in China from 2002 to 2014.
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Fewsmith traveled to China regularly and was active in the Association for Asian Studies. His articles have appeared in such journals as Asian Survey, Comparative Studies in Society and History, The China Journal, The China Quarterly, Current History, The Journal of Contemporary China, Problems of Communism, and Modern China. He is a Center Associate of the John King Fairbank Center for China Studies at Harvard University and an associate of the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University.
Professor Fewsmith’s areas of expertise include comparative politics as well as Chinese domestic politics and foreign policy.
https://www.bu.edu/pardeeschool/profile/joseph-fewsmith/
Jürgen Trittin
Jürgen Trittin is a former German minister, parliamentarian, speaker, and author. He studied social sciences in Göttingen, and worked as a researcher, press spokesman, and freelance journalist before entering politics. A member of Alliance 90/The Greens since 1980, Trittin served in the Lower Saxony state parliament from 1985 and was Minister for Federal and European Affairs from 1990 to 1994. He later became the federal spokesperson for the party (1994–1998) and entered the Bundestag in 1998, serving as Federal Minister for Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety until 2005. From 2009 to 2013, he chaired the Greens’ parliamentary group. After over 25 years in parliament, he stepped down on January 5, 2024.
https://www.trittin.de/ueber-mich/

Lecture: Prof. Mei Li Inouye (Stanford University): Soviet Dramatic Theory on a Shanghai Stage: Stanislavski, Zhang Min, and the Shanghai Amateur Dramatist Association
2025-01-27 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Kulturwisssenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 1.601, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, 37073
Soviet Dramatic Theory on a Shanghai Stage: Stanislavski, Zhang Min, and the Shanghai Amateur Dramatist Association

Time: January, 27 from 4-6 pm
Venue: KWZ 1.601

Abstract:​ References to Stanislavski are commonplace in the historiography of Chinese socialist theater and cinema. Scholars have largely focused on translations of Stanislavski into Chinese as the starting point for Stanislavski in China, crediting director and actor Zheng Junli 郑君里(1911–1969) with the first translation of Stanislavski’s An Actor’s Works in 1943. However, Zheng Junli was not the only translator of An Actor’s Works. First introduced to Stanislavski by director and theater scholar Zhang Min at the Shanghai Amateur Dramatists Association during the 1930s, Zheng Junli worked as an actor under Zhang Min’s directorship and co-translated An Actor’s Works with him. This paper explores Chinese modern dramatists’ early reception and experiments with Stanislavski by attending to the elements of Stanislavski’s theories that received the most attention in practice. It demonstrates that Stanislavski’s system was a familiar system within acting and film circles prior to its translation and how the practice and circulation of Stanislavski within the elite circles of modern dramatist practitioners laid the ground for its widespread acceptance in the 1950s in the domains of both theater and cinema prior to being banned in the 1960s. This paper concludes with considerations of the effects of those experiments on actors and actresses who acted in those productions and who participated in the banning of Stanislavski in the 1960s.
Bio:Mei Li Inouye is an assistant professor of Chinese at Centre College with a Ph.D. in Chinese Literature from Stanford University. Her research interests include transnational exchange, gender politics, performance and remix studies in modern Chinese literature, theater, and visual culture. Her book project, “Performing Jiang Qing (1914-1991): Gender, Performance, and Power in Modern China,” examines the most powerful, visible, and reviled woman in the history of modern China as a cultural remix and durational performance that can help us understand the interplay of gender, performance, media, and power in the worlds she inhabited and the scholarship that has tried to understand those worlds. Her scholarship has been supported by a CLIR-Mellon Fellowship, the Stanford Humanities Center, and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. Her article, “Marketing Jiang Qing: Revolutionary, Modern Girl, and Dangerous Woman in Left-wing Cinema,” is forthcoming in the Journal of Chinese Cinemas. Her article, “Soviet Dramatic Theory and Dramas on Stage in 1930s Shanghai,” can be found in the fall 2022 issue (5.2) of International Comparative Literature.

Lecture: Prof. Song Chen (Bucknell University): Connecting the Dots: Advancing Chinese Historical Studies through Social Network Analysis
2024-07-15 18:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.607, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, 37073
In recent years, an increasing number of scholars have actively explored how social network analysis (SNA) may advance the understanding of Chinese history and literature. These explorations have underscored the pressing need for methodological reflections and the most appropriate subjects for network analysis. Drawing on my research in the areas of prosopography and local religion, this talk discusses the potentials and pitfalls in the application of SNA to historical studies. Using elite marriages in eleventh- and thirteenth-century China as an example, the first part of this talk explores how SNA breaks new ground in prosopographical research, directing attention from the “common background characteristics” of a historical population to the patterned relationships knitting together the members of that population. The second part of this talk addresses the tendency to conflate social networks as a subject of inquiry with social network analysis as a method of data modeling. This confusion often leads to flawed research designs at the onset of a project, skewing data collection and hampering subsequent analyses. It also results in missed opportunities where scholars overlook potential research projects that seem unrelated to SNA but could greatly benefit from its analytical capabilities. As an illustration, insights will be shared from my recent work that employs SNA to unveil patterns in the spatial distribution of temple cults in the Lower Yangzi during the thirteenth century.
Biography:
Song Chen received his Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University in 2011 and is currently an Associate Professor of Chinese History in the Department of East Asian Studies at Bucknell University, USA. His research focuses on Chinese social and cultural history between the eighth and the eighteenth century. For many years his work has focused on the migration and marriage patterns of China’s ruling elite in these centuries. Recently he is expanding the scope of his study to popular religion. He uses digital methods extensively in his teaching and scholarship. He is the inaugural project manager of the China Biographical Database project (CBDB), and has served on the project’s Steering and Executive Committees since 2011. His research combines prosopography, network analysis, and historical GIS. In 2021 and 2022, he co-edited, with Henrike Rudolph and Zhao Wei, two special journal issues that feature cutting-edge digital scholarship in Chinese studies. He has given research talks and taught digital humanities workshops at Harvard, Stanford, Cornell, National Taiwan University, Peking University, Tsinghua University (Beijing), Shanghai Normal University, National University of Singapore, among others.

Die Geschichte des Unterrichts „Chinesisch als Fremdsprache“ in Taiwan
2024-07-11 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | KWZ 0.602
Die Geschichte des Unterrichts „Chinesisch als Fremdsprache“ in Taiwan
Referent: Dr. Chin-Hua Chu, National Taiwan University
Datum und Uhrzeit: 11. Juli 2024, 16:15-17:45 Uhr
Ort: KWZ 0.602
Sprache: Chinesisch-Englisch

Wir laden Sie herzlich zu einem spannenden Vortrag von Dr. Chin-Hua Chu von der National Taiwan University ein. Dr. Chu wird über die Geschichte und Entwicklung des Unterrichts von „Chinesisch als Fremdsprache“ in Taiwan sprechen. Dieser Vortrag bietet eine einzigartige Gelegenheit, mehr über die Methoden und Herausforderungen des Sprachunterrichts in Taiwan zu erfahren.

Zhang Hanwen (Artist/Filmmaker; Berlin): Defection, Exile, and Utopia: Pan-Asianist Bodies and Legacies
2024-07-05 11:30 - 12:30 (Europe/Helsinki) | Emmy-Noether-Saal, Tagungs-und Veranstaltungshaus Alte Mensa, Wilhelmsplatz
Zhang Hanwen (Artist/Filmmaker; Berlin)
Defection, Exile, and Utopia: Pan-Asianist Bodies and Legacies
Emmy-Noether Saal, Wilhelmsplatz
5. July (Friday), 11:30-12:30
Abstract:
The artist and filmmaker Zhang Hanwen will present his recent work, “Hostile Landscapes”, a two-channel installation film initiated in 2022, and related research. The project revolves around the true story of Jhu Hyeun-ken (朱贤健/주현건), a North Korean defector imprisoned in the Jilin Prison in Northeast China for illegal border-crossing since 2013. Jhu managed to escape from the prison on October 18th, 2021, with bare hands. After eluding local police and authorities for 40 days, Jhu was ultimately shot in the leg and apprehended near the Fengman Dam and Reservoir, a historically significant location with deep Japanese colonial ties. The presentation will explore notions related to Chinese/Asian identities, and their connections to nationalism and colonialism, within the framework of contemporary and modern East Asian history, navigating the geopolitical shifts of the past and the present.
Speaker:
Zhang Hanwen is an artist and filmmaker originally from Changchun, China, who has been wandering nomadically across Germany lately. Drawing from artistic research and field studies, his work examines specific landscapes, infrastructures, and mundane activities through images and texts, weaving them within a network of local, personal, transnational, historical, and ideological contexts. His recent research revolves around marginalized individuals’ exile, troublesome colonial heritage, and secret society activities against the backdrop of East Asian modern/contemporary history. Zhang holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and has participated in various artist-in-residencies and fellowship programs including the German Chancellor Fellowship (Bonn, 2025), the Braunschweig Projects (Braunschweig, 2023), the Oberhausen Seminar (Oberhausen, 2023), the Fosun Foundation Art Residency (Shanghai, 2021), the BRIClab Video Art Residency (New York, 2020), etc. His work has been exhibited and screened at venues such as the Power Station of Art in Shanghai, the OCAT Institute in Beijing, BY ART MATTERS in Hangzhou, the CACHE Space in Beijing, as well as at film festivals including the Beijing International Short Film Festival and BBC LongShots. In 2020, Zhang’s film “The First Line of China” was awarded the SAH Award for Film and Video.
Organizer:
Prof. Dominic Sachsenmaier, University of Göttingen

Workshop Announcement: Asian Regionalisms in an Age of De-Globalization. Observing, Discoursing, Identifying
2024-07-05 09:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | Emmy-Noether-Saal, Wilhelmsplatz, Göttingen
Workshop Announcement: Asian Regionalisms in an Age of De-Globalization. Observing, Discoursing, Identifying

Date: July 5, 2024
Time: 09:00 – 17:00
Venue: Emmy-Noether-Saal, Wilhelmsplatz, Göttingen
Organizer: Lee, Yu-Ting (National Taiwan University)

We are pleased to invite you to our upcoming workshop, “Asian Regionalisms in an Age of De-Globalization. Observing, Discoursing, Identifying,” hosted by the Department of East Asian Studies at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. This event is open to all.

Program Schedule:
09:15-09:30

Welcome and Introduction

Lee, Yu-Ting (National Taiwan University)

09:30-11:00

Panel One: Worldmaking: Discourses and Structural Transformations

Chair: Eva Orthmann (Göttingen)
Presenters:

Rebecca Karl (New York University): Civilizational Confusions: Neo-traditionalism and Economism
Cao Yin (Peking University): The Yunnan-Burma Railway Project, 1860s-1940s
Nikolay Kamenov (Göttingen/ETH Zürich): India’s Trade Connections to the Rest of Asia: Territorialization in the Interwar Period.

11:00-11:30

Coffee Break

11:30-12:30

Keynote Presentation

Zhang Hanwen (Independent Artist, Berlin): Defection, Exile, and Utopia: Pan-Asianist Bodies and Legacies

12:30-13:30

Lunch Break

13:30-15:00

Panel Two: Between the Local and the Universal: Identity and Claims

Chair: Dominic Sachsenmaier (Göttingen)
Presenters:

Lee Yu-Ting (National Taiwan University): Taiwanese Self-Situating in Asian Regionalisms
Julian Strube (Göttingen): Religious Universalism and Nationalism in Bengal
Henrike Rudolph (Göttingen): Reclaiming the Local. Conceptions of the Bentu in Chinese International Politics

15:00-15:30

Coffee Break

15:30-17:00

Concluding Discussion

Join us for an insightful day of discussions and presentations on the evolving dynamics of Asian regionalisms in our current era of de-globalization.

Institute: Department of East Asian Studies, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
This workshop is open to all. We look forward to your participation!

Summer Workshop (Fudan University, Shanghai, China) 23.06.-02.07.2024
2024-06-23 08:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
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Lecture: "China, mein Vater und ich: Über den Aufstieg einer Supermacht und die Verbindung zur Familie Lee aus Wolfsburg", Gewinner des deutschen Wirtschaftsbuchpreises 2023
2024-06-13 11:15 - 12:15 (Europe/Helsinki) | Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude
Referent: Felix Lee, Journalist & Autor
Titel: “China, mein Vater und ich: Über den Aufstieg einer Supermacht und die Verbindung zur Familie Lee aus Wolfsburg”,
Gewinner des deutschen Wirtschaftsbuchpreises 2023
Datum und Uhrzeit: 13. Juni 2024, 11:15-12:15 Uhr
Ort: ZHG (Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude)
Veranstalter: Alumni der Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät
Für Ihre Teilnahme registrieren Sie sich bitte hier: https://www.alumni-goettingen.de/termine/responsible-innovation-summit-2024/
Weitere Informationen finden Sie unter: Responsible Innovation Summit 2024 https://www.alumni-goettingen.de/termine/responsible-innovation-summit-2024/
Mehr über Felix Lee erfahren Sie hier: Felix Lee – Aufbau Verlag https://www.aufbau-verlage.de/autor-in/felix-lee

Lecture Prof. David Ownby (Université of Montréal): "A China We Can Talk To?"
2024-04-18 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.602, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, 37073
Introduction by Dr. Harlan Chambers (Fellow, Worldmaking Project) and Comments by Prof. Lee Yu-Ting (National Taiwan University)
Talk summary:
For the past decade or so, in his Reading the China Dream project, David Ownby has been reading and translating the work of Chinese intellectuals who publish in China and in Chinese, not dissidents, but not Party propagandists either. These intellectuals inhabit a world parallel to and at the mercy of the world of Xi Jinping and the Party-State where – like intellectuals elsewhere in the world – they write and publish to try to influence public opinion and perhaps the state on the issues they are allowed to discuss. This world is circumscribed and has shrunk under Xi Jinping, but over the course of 40 years of reform and opening, Chinese intellectual life in China underwent a transformation like that of China’s economy and society; globalization changed the way Chinese intellectuals think and write with the result that, to a surprising degree, Chinese and Western intellectuals now share a common vocabulary and common references. This suggests that a dialogue might be possible with many of China’s thought-leaders, if not with Chinese authorities.
Bio:
David Ownby recently retired from the History Department of the Université of Montréal and is currently a Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. His most recent work focuses on intellectual life in contemporary China and he is the founder of the Reading the China Dream website.

Lecture: Prof. Dr. Lim Jie-Hyun: "Victimhood Nationalism: Global History and Memory"
2024-04-15 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.610, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, 37073, Deutschland
Abstract:
My work “victimhood nationalism” aims to illustrate competing memories of victimhood in the postwar Vergangenheitsbewältigung in the global memory space. I try to make a critical inquiry of the global memory formation with a focus on victimhood memories. The historical space in this study is not an individual nation but an intersection of the memory loci of entangled history. Assuming the national history of “victimhood nationalism” implies a tautology resulting from and contributing to the nationalist phenomenology that constructs memories upon the present idea of the nation, I am tracing the global trajectory of victimhood nationalism through the interactions among Poland, Germany, Israel, Japan and Korea. As a memory activist as well as a historian, I aim to sacrifice the victimhood nationalism globally for the mnemonic solidarity. The book consists of 11 chapters: 1. Mnemohistory, 2. Genealogy, 3. Sublimation, 4. Globalization, 5. Nationalization, 6. De-historicization, 7. Over-historicization, 8. Juxtaposition, 9. Denial, 10. Forgiveness, 11. Solidarity.
Bio:
Jie-Hyun Lim holds CIPSH chair of Global Easts and is founding director of the Critical Global Studies Institute at Sogang University, Seoul. He has published widely on nationalism and Marxism in comparison, Polish history, transnational history and global memory. He is principal investigator of the research projects of Mnemonic Solidarity: Colonialism, War and Genocide in the Global Memory Space (2017-2024) and Series Editor of “Entangled Memories in the Global South” at Palgrave/Macmillan and “Global Easts” at the Central European University Press. His recent books include Victimhood Nationalism-Global History and Memory (Columbia Univ. Press, 2024-forthcoming), Opfernationalismus. Erinnerung und Herrschaft in der postkolonialen Welt (Klaus Wagenbach, 2024), Global Easts: Remembering, Imagining, Practicing (Columbia Univ. Press, 2022). Victimhood Nationalism-A Global History (Humanist, 2021, Japanese translation-2022), and Mnemonic Solidarity-Global Interventions (Palgrave, 2021, co-edited with Eve Rosenhaft).

Invitation – Global China Conversations #28: Prospects of the Chinese economy: short malady or fundamental slow-down?
2024-01-25 11:00 - 12:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | Online
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CANCELLED: Robert Kramm (Munich): Staging Radical Utopian Communities in the Early 20th Century
2023-12-18 16:15 - 17:45 (Europe/Helsinki) | Verfügungsgebäude (VG) 3.101
VG 3.101
18. Dec. (Monday), 16:15-17:45
Abstract:
At the turn of the twentieth century, radical utopian communities were built all around the world. They served as retreats, but they simultaneously constituted hubs for activists, reformers, and revolutionaries to meet, share, and develop new ideas and practices of community and human existence. The project Radical Utopian Communities deliberately builds on different and seemingly unrelated case studies of communal experiments, encompassing the Tolstoy Farm in South Africa, the Nōson Seinen Sha’s anarchist commune in imperial Japan, and the Rastafarian Pinnacle Commune on Jamaica. In this talk, the main focus is on these communities’ intellectual work, and their staging as a struggle of modernity in the first half of the twentieth century.
Speaker:
Robert Kramm holds a doctoral degree in history from ETH Zurich and is currently Freigeist-Fellow and principal investigator of the research group “Radical Utopian Communities” in the School of History at LMU Munich. He received an Asia-Pacific History Fellowship at the GHI West at UC Berkeley, and was a post-doctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at the University of Hong Kong and the Kulturwissenschaftliches Kolleg at the University of Konstanz. His first book, Sanitized Sex: Regulating Prostitution, Venereal Disease, and Intimacy during the Occupation of Japan, 1945-1952, was published 2017 with University of California Press. His peer-reviewed articles appeared in the Journal of World History, Journal of Women’s History, Geschichte und Gesellschaft, Modern Asian Studies and Journal of Global History.
Organizer:
Prof. Dominic Sachsenmaier, University of Göttingen

Online Präsentation & Diskussion, 14.12.2023: Was wäre, wenn…? Abkoppelung von China und die Kosten für Deutschland
2023-12-14 11:00 - 12:00 (Europe/Helsinki)

Global China Conversations #27: Zukunft der Technologiestandards: Deutschland und China im Wettbewerb?
2023-12-07 11:00 - 12:00 (Europe/Helsinki)

Fan Xin (Cambridge): Emotions as Politics: Rethinking Chinese Nationalism
2023-12-04 17:15 - 18:45 (Europe/Helsinki) | Theologicum (Theol) 0.135
4. Dec. (Monday), 17:15 – 18:45
Theologicum (Theol) 0.135
Abstract:
The rise of history of emotions has been a recent development in historiography. In the field of Chinese studies, scholars such as Eugenia Lean, Haiyan Lee, Chen Li, and Zuo Ya have been writing about how emotions, feelings, and sentiments contributed to the formation and transformation of Chinese identities. In this presentation, I attempt to bridge the gap between tradition and modernity to rethink the theoretical implication when we historicize emotions beyond the Eurocentric paradigm of the rationality regime. By critically examining the existing scholarship on Chinese nationalism through the lens of history of emotions, I argue that emotions are a significant aspect to affect decision-making process in nationalist politics, and Chinese nationalism is not just political, cultural, ethnic, but also emotional.
Speaker:
Dr Xin Fan is Teaching Associate of Modern Chinese History and Fellow at Lucy Cavendish College at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of World History and National identity in China: The Twentieth Century (Cambridge UP, 2021) and the second editor of Receptions of Greek and Roman in East Asia (Brill, 2018). As a historian of modern China with strong interest in global history, he is currently working on two book projects, “Global History in China” and “The Right to Talk about China: The Rise of Emotional Politics, 1900–1949.” In addition, he has written on global conceptual history, the history of international relations, and the rise of historical geography in China. He also the book review editor of China and Asia: A Journal in Historical Studies. He has studied and worked in China, Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

Organizer:
Prof. Dominic Sachsenmaier, University of Göttingen

Global China Conversations #26: The Chinese Anti-espionage Law: What Risks for Companies and the Scientific Community?
2023-11-30 11:00 - 12:00 (Europe/Helsinki)

Chen Hao (Shanghai Jiaotong Univ.): A Tentative Interpretation of the Rise of Global History in China
2023-11-20 16:15 - 17:45 (Europe/Helsinki) | Verfügungsgebäude, VG 3.101, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, Göttingen, 37073, Deutschland
Abstract:
Whether in a democratic or authoritarian society, it is not uncommon to explain academic currents by taking political and economic factors into consideration. However, the impetus in the intellectual realm itself shall never be disregarded. The recent development of Global History in China can be explained adequately by Chinese intellectuals’ persistent endeavor to stage global publics, rather than its pursuit of political and economic power worldwide.

Speaker:
Chen Hao is an associate professor of history at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He received his Ph. D at Free University of Berlin (2016) and is the 2023 recipient of the Göttingen Academy’s humanities award. His academic interests include Global History and history of Inner Asia, especially the Turkic-speaking peoples. He has published his first monography A History of the Second Türk Empire (ca. 682-745 AD), Brill, 2021. His forthcoming book deals with the historical semantics of “Turk”. The current project he is working on is about a 17th century Central Asian historian Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur.
Organizer:
Prof. Dominic Sachsenmaier, University of Göttingen

Opening Events – MA East Asian Studies/Modern Sinology (Meeting 2)
2023-11-03 18:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.606, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, 37073
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Prof. Lung Ying-Tai (Writer): How the Wild Changed Me. A Philosophical Journey: Readings and Discussions with Lung Ying-Tai
2023-10-26 19:15 - 20:45 (Europe/Helsinki) | Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude, ZHG 002, Platz der Göttingen Sieben 5, Göttingen, 37073
Abstract:
Snail sex, demanding deities, a cold case – everyday life in Taiwan holds the most unbelievable stories in store. Lung Ying-Tai compiled them in her novel “Under Kavulungan.” In conversation with Dominic Sachsenmaier and Monika Li, Taiwan’s most famous author explores the complex answers to this question. Philosophical young adult novel, nature writing, nativist literature, an escapist zeitgeist portrait, thriller or love story – “Under Kavulungan” offers many ways of reading. On which themes did Lung Ying-Tai’s focus during the writing? Why did she choose southern Taiwan as the stage of her novel?
Bios:
Prof. Lung Ying-Tai (author) is one of Taiwan’s most renowned essayist and cultural critics, whose writing significantly contributed to Taiwan’s democratization. She taught at the University of Hong Kong and Heidelberg University and served as Taiwan’s first minister of culture from 2012 till 2014. With more than 30 published works, she is among the most well-known authors in the Chinese speaking world.
Monika Li (moderator and translator) grew up bilingual – German and Hungarian – and studied German studies, philosophy and Chinese studies in Heidelberg. She received a scholarship of the National Taiwan University in 2009 and lives with her family between Taipei and Berlin, where she translates Taiwanese literature into German.

Moderator:
Prof. Dominic Sachsenmaier, University of Göttingen

Informationsveranstaltung für alle Erstsemester in den BA-Studiengängen des OAS
2023-10-20 10:00 - 12:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | KWZ 2.601/ KWZ 2.739
Das Ostasiatische Seminar lädt alle Erstsemester für den 20. Oktober 2023 von 10:00-12:00 Uhr zu einer Informationsveranstaltung über unsere Bachelorstudiengänge in das Kulturwissenschaftliche Zentrum KWZ 2.601/ 2.739 ein.
Da wir an diesem Tag bereits die Gruppeneinteilung für den Sprachunterricht vornehmen werden, wird die Teilnahme dringend empfohlen.
Hier gelangen Sie zum Orientierungsphasen-Programm des Ostasiatischen Seminars.
Hier gelangen Sie zur Kursübersicht des OAS für das WiSe 2023/24.
Link zum Erklärvideo für die Stundenplan-Erstellung in EXA.

Opening Events – Ma East Asian Studies/Modern Sinology (Meeting 1)
2023-10-04 14:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | Online (Zoom)

Global China Conversations #24 Global Gateway und die Belt and Road: Eine Nachhaltige Alternative?
2023-09-21 11:00 - 12:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
