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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20230711T160000
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Viren Murthy "Hegelian Master Narratives and Periodizing Japanese and Chinese Modernity"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nScholars 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 his head or rescue the rational kernel of his thought in a non-Western context.  I contend that for much of the twentieth century\, especially in Japan\, but also in China\, scholars engaged Hegel by incorporating and transforming his ideas.  Such incorporations enabled us to see that Hegel was not merely a theorist of modernization but one of its most incisive critics.  Indeed\, it was precisely because of Hegel’s critique of capitalist modernity that conservatives such as Inoue Tetsujirō found him interesting.  In this presentation\, I will examine three attempts to rethink Hegel\, respectively by the pan-Asianist\, Okakura Tenshin\, the Kyoto school philosopher of world-history\, Koyama Iwao and the Japanese sinologist\, Mizoguchi Yūzō.  I argue that each of these thinkers narrates the history of Asia\, while implicitly or explicitly responding to Hegel’s idea of the Orient as not having subjectivity.  Against this static vision of Asia\, these figures reconfigure the historical trajectories of Japan\, China and the world to reconfigure both universality and subjectivity beyond Eurocentrism.  Towards the end of my talk\, I suggest that the contemporary “new leftist” intellectual Wang Hui\, continues elements of the various thinkers mentioned above. The contemporary rise of China makes such responses to Hegelian master narratives especially relevant for our contradictory present.
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/lecture-viren-murthy-hegelian-master-narratives-and-periodizing-japanese-and-chinese-modernity/
LOCATION:Oeconomicum OEC 0.168
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20230712T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20230712T160000
DTSTAMP:20260418T183301
CREATED:20230628T090613Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230628T090644Z
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SUMMARY:Yuhang Li (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Engineering Religious Bliss at the Qing Court: Jile shijie in the Beihai Park
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nIn 1770\, with the purpose of presenting an unusual gift to his mother Empress Dowager Chongqing (1692-1777) for her eightieth birthday\, Emperor Qianlong (1711-1799) ordered the imperial architectural department to construct a Buddhist compound named jile shijie or World of Utmost Pleasure on the northern shore of imperial Beihai Park next to the Forbidden City. Inside of the main hall\, instead of conventional Buddhist icons staged on the lotus pedestals\, an innovative three-dimensional clay mountain site scenery adorned with various deities from the Pure Land occupies the interior space. Jile shijie\, a synonym for the Western Paradise and Pure Land\, has been consistently visualized and contemplated since early medieval China. But the jile shijie built for Empress Dowager Chongqing is a standalone case which creates the experience of religious joy through a site scenery. The Pure Land is usually experienced as a future connected to death\, which one literally cannot experience as present.  However\, Qianlong’s filial gift allows his mother to feel the required affect in this world\, by juxtaposing transcendence and immanence.  The absolute future of the Pure Land\, a future that one experiences only after one has no more future on earth\, becomes present at least in part\, in a man-made small-scale western paradise. In this paper\, I will discuss the surviving architecture\, sculptural mountain preserved in old photographs\, imperial documents on the design process\, and Qianlong’s own writings on the given subject. Through unpacking the layers of this site\, I will demonstrate how a liminal temporality of religious joy is materialized.
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/yuhang-li-university-of-wisconsin-madison-engineering-religious-bliss-at-the-qing-court-jile-shijie-in-the-beihai-park/
LOCATION:Verfügungsgebäude (VG) 2.103\, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7\, Göttingen\, 37073
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20230713T181500
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Dr. Sally Chengji Xing (MPI Berlin) & Lucas Brang (Cologne): Transnational Knowledge Transfers Between China\, Europe\, and the United States:  Actors\, Institutions\, and Dynamics\, 1924-1935
DESCRIPTION:13. July (Thursday)\, 18:15 – 19:45\nVG 2.103 \nOverview:\nThe two talks of this joint session interrogate processes of knowledge transfer between China\, the United States\, and Europe during the 1920s and 1930s. Focusing on two distinct organizations– the China Foundation (based in Shanghai and New York) and the League of Nations (based in Geneva) – both talks shed new light on the transnational entanglements of the Republican period in China\, and demonstrate how foreign efforts to influence China often met with domestic resistance. \nBios:  \nSally Chengji Xing is a visiting fellow of the Max Planck Institute of History of Science in Berlin (Lise Meitner Research Group\, “China in the Global System of Science\,” MPIWG) and the Joint Center for Advanced Studies “Worldmaking from Global Perspectives: a Dialogue with China;” she is also an incoming associate professor of US history at Nankai University. She is interested in writing US history from transnational and global perspectives. Her book manuscript in progress\, “Pacific Crossings”: The China Foundation and a Negotiated Translation of American Science to China\, 1913-1949″\, examines how and to what extent did the American intellectuals in the first half of the twentieth century influence the development of Chinese science. Her multi-archival research in China and the United States has been funded by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR)\, the Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research\, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History\, Rockefeller Archive Center\, the Consortium for History of Science\, Technology and Medicine and numerous other graduate research fellowships at Columbia University in the City of New York. Her long-term research explores Sino-American intellectual history in transnational approaches\, from early 20th century all the way to the late 1960s. \nLucas Brang is a PhD candidate at the University of Cologne\, where he is currently completing his dissertation on the rise of the discipline of international law in early twentieth century China. From 2019 to 2022\, he was a recipient of a Marie Curie global research fellowship of the European Union\, as part of which he was affiliated with the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Lucas’ research interests include China’s constitutional development and visions of international order in historical and comparative perspective. In his work\, he employs approaches from different disciplinary traditions such as legal theory\, conceptual history\, and the sociology of knowledge. His research has appeared in journals like Global Constitutionalism\, Modern China\, and the International Journal of Constitutional Law.  \nOrganizer:\nProf. Dominic Sachsenmaier\, University of Göttingen
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/lecture-dr-sally-chengji-xing-mpi-berlin-lucas-brang-cologne-transnational-knowledge-transfers-between-china-europe-and-the-united-states-actors-institutions-and-dynamics-1924-1935/
LOCATION:Verfügungsgebäude (VG) 2.103\, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7\, Göttingen\, 37073
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20230714T160000
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Ying Zhou (Xiamen University): Education and democracy in modern China
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nInstitutional change in education and the cultivation of a qualified citizenry were two sides of the same coin of developing democratic education in modern China. At stake is to understand how democratic education filled a critical role in bridging the gap between democratic ideals and political realities. This lecture will focus on teachings of citizenship and democracy in Chinese primary and secondary schools between 1923-1936 for the purpose of strengthening embryonic democratic politics by creating qualified citizens\, and seek to shed some light on the complex intertwinement of educational and political reforms in modern China. \nShort biography:\nYing Zhou is an assistant professor at the Institute of Education\, Xiamen University\, China. She obtained her PhD at the University of Groningen (NL)\, trained in both Educational Studies and Sinology. Her PhD dissertation is entitled Education and Politics in China: Civic Education in Times of Reform\, 1901-1937\, and her current research project is concerned with pragmatism and progressive education in China and Japan.
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/lecture-ying-zhou-xiamen-university-education-and-democracy-in-modern-china/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum\, KWZ 0.602\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, Göttingen\, 37073
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20230717T160000
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CREATED:20230713T131857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230713T131932Z
UID:35284-1689609600-1689616800@www.sinologie-goettingen.de
SUMMARY:Lecture: Prof. Li Xuetao (Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU)): „Examples of research methods in the history of German Sinology / 德国汉学史研究方法举隅.“
DESCRIPTION:The lecture will be in Chinese. \nProf. Li is an expert among other topics on the history of Western China Studies and will address recent central questions of the development of China Studies in the West applying a global history perspective. \nAbstract: \n德国汉学从一开始就不局限于某一领域，今天对它的历史梳理，也必然是在历史学、语文学、人类学、自然科学等其他学科的理论和方法的参与下进行，这同时也体现了德国汉学史研究的活力和多样性。李雪涛教授以德国汉学史为例，指出近年来汉学史研究的范式，已经从之前的“内部论”（internalist）或“谱系式”（genealogical）的历史思考方式，转变为了将汉学研究的现象、事件与进程置于“全球脉络”中予以分析，从而形成了一种真正的跨文化全球史研究。
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/lecture-prof-li-xuetao-beijing-foreign-studies-university-bfsu-examples-of-research-methods-in-the-history-of-german-sinology-%e5%be%b7%e5%9b%bd%e6%b1%89%e5%ad%a6%e5%8f%b2%e7%a0%94/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum\, KWZ 0.608
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20230911T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20230911T193000
DTSTAMP:20260418T183301
CREATED:20230904T094321Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230904T094656Z
UID:35325-1694422800-1694460600@www.sinologie-goettingen.de
SUMMARY:CeMEAS: ENLIGHT WORKSHOP: "More than a Distant Relative: China and its Neighbours in an Increasingly Turbulent World"
DESCRIPTION:Click here to get more information.
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/cemeas-enlight-workshop-more-than-a-distant-relative-china-and-its-neighbours-in-an-increasingly-turbulent-world/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20230921T110000
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CREATED:20230919T095816Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230919T100007Z
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SUMMARY:Global China Conversations #24 Global Gateway und die Belt and Road: Eine Nachhaltige Alternative?
DESCRIPTION:For more information please click here.
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/global-china-conversations-24-global-gateway-und-die-belt-and-road-eine-nachhaltige-alternative/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20231004T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20231004T160000
DTSTAMP:20260418T183301
CREATED:20230919T102732Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230920T094929Z
UID:35342-1696428000-1696435200@www.sinologie-goettingen.de
SUMMARY:Opening Events – Ma East Asian Studies/Modern Sinology (Meeting 1)
DESCRIPTION:Click here to get more information.
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/informationsveranstaltung-fuer-alle-erstsemester-im-master-modern-sinology-4/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom)
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20231020T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20231020T120000
DTSTAMP:20260418T183301
CREATED:20230919T102537Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230921T093049Z
UID:35352-1697796000-1697803200@www.sinologie-goettingen.de
SUMMARY:Informationsveranstaltung für alle Erstsemester in den BA-Studiengängen des OAS
DESCRIPTION: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. \nDa wir an diesem Tag bereits die Gruppeneinteilung für den Sprachunterricht vornehmen werden\, wird die Teilnahme dringend empfohlen. \nHier gelangen Sie zum Orientierungsphasen-Programm des Ostasiatischen Seminars. \nHier gelangen Sie zur Kursübersicht des OAS für das WiSe 2023/24. \nLink zum Erklärvideo für die Stundenplan-Erstellung in EXA.
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/informationsveranstaltung-fuer-alle-erstsemester-in-den-ba-studiengaengen-des-oas-4/
LOCATION:KWZ 2.601/ KWZ 2.739
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20231026T191500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20231026T204500
DTSTAMP:20260418T183301
CREATED:20231010T104343Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231010T104521Z
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SUMMARY:Prof. Lung Ying-Tai (Writer): How the Wild Changed Me. A Philosophical Journey: Readings and Discussions with Lung Ying-Tai
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nSnail 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? \nBios: \nProf. 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. \nMonika 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.\n\nModerator:\nProf. Dominic Sachsenmaier\, University of Göttingen
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/prof-lung-ying-tai-writer-how-the-wild-changed-me-a-philosophical-journey-readings-and-discussions-with-lung-ying-tai/
LOCATION:Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude\, ZHG 002\, Platz der Göttingen Sieben 5\, Göttingen\, 37073
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20231103T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20231103T200000
DTSTAMP:20260418T183301
CREATED:20230920T095128Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230920T095209Z
UID:35346-1699034400-1699041600@www.sinologie-goettingen.de
SUMMARY:Opening Events – MA East Asian Studies/Modern Sinology (Meeting 2)
DESCRIPTION:Click here to get more information.
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/opening-events-ma-east-asian-studies-modern-sinology-meeting-2/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum\, KWZ 0.606\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, Göttingen\, 37073
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20231120T161500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20231120T174500
DTSTAMP:20260418T183301
CREATED:20231116T102637Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231116T103424Z
UID:35504-1700496900-1700502300@www.sinologie-goettingen.de
SUMMARY:Chen Hao (Shanghai Jiaotong Univ.): A Tentative Interpretation of the Rise of Global History in China
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nWhether 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.\n\nSpeaker:\nChen 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. \nOrganizer: \nProf. Dominic Sachsenmaier\, University of Göttingen
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/chen-hao-shanghai-jiaotong-univ-a-tentative-interpretation-of-the-rise-of-global-history-in-china/
LOCATION:Verfügungsgebäude\, VG 3.101\, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7\, Göttingen\, 37073\, Deutschland
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20231130T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20231130T120000
DTSTAMP:20260418T183301
CREATED:20231123T104832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231123T104832Z
UID:35508-1701342000-1701345600@www.sinologie-goettingen.de
SUMMARY:Global China Conversations #26: The Chinese Anti-espionage Law: What Risks for Companies and the Scientific Community?
DESCRIPTION:For more information please click here.
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/global-china-conversations-26-the-chinese-anti-espionage-law-what-risks-for-companies-and-the-scientific-community/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20231204T171500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20231204T184500
DTSTAMP:20260418T183301
CREATED:20231129T083618Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231129T083702Z
UID:35517-1701710100-1701715500@www.sinologie-goettingen.de
SUMMARY:Fan Xin (Cambridge): Emotions as Politics: Rethinking Chinese Nationalism
DESCRIPTION:4. Dec. (Monday)\, 17:15 – 18:45\nTheologicum (Theol) 0.135 \nAbstract: \nThe 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.  \nSpeaker:\nDr 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.\n\nOrganizer: \nProf. Dominic Sachsenmaier\, University of Göttingen
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/fan-xin-cambridge-emotions-as-politics-rethinking-chinese-nationalism/
LOCATION:Theologicum (Theol) 0.135
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20231207T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20231207T120000
DTSTAMP:20260418T183301
CREATED:20231201T083447Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231201T083516Z
UID:35521-1701946800-1701950400@www.sinologie-goettingen.de
SUMMARY:Global China Conversations #27: Zukunft der Technologiestandards: Deutschland und China im Wettbewerb?
DESCRIPTION:For more information please click here.
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/global-china-conversations-27-zukunft-der-technologiestandards-deutschland-und-china-im-wettbewerb/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20231214T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20231214T120000
DTSTAMP:20260418T183301
CREATED:20231212T090106Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231212T090158Z
UID:35526-1702551600-1702555200@www.sinologie-goettingen.de
SUMMARY:Online Präsentation & Diskussion\, 14.12.2023: Was wäre\, wenn…? Abkoppelung von China und die Kosten für Deutschland
DESCRIPTION:For more information please click here.
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/online-praesentation-diskussion-14-12-2023-was-waere-wenn-abkoppelung-von-china-und-die-kosten-fuer-deutschland/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20231218T161500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20231218T174500
DTSTAMP:20260418T183301
CREATED:20231212T104515Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231214T071821Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Robert Kramm (Munich): Staging Radical Utopian Communities in the Early 20th Century
DESCRIPTION:VG 3.101\n18. Dec. (Monday)\, 16:15-17:45 \nAbstract: \nAt 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. \nSpeaker:\nRobert 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.  \nOrganizer: \nProf. Dominic Sachsenmaier\, University of Göttingen
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/robert-kramm-munich-staging-radical-utopian-communities-in-the-early-20th-century/
LOCATION:Verfügungsgebäude (VG) 3.101
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SUMMARY:Invitation – Global China Conversations #28: Prospects of the Chinese economy: short malady or fundamental slow-down?
DESCRIPTION:For more information please click here.
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/invitation-global-china-conversations-28-prospects-of-the-chinese-economy-short-malady-or-fundamental-slow-down/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20240415T160000
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Prof. Dr. Lim Jie-Hyun: "Victimhood Nationalism: Global History and Memory"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nMy 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. \nBio:\nJie-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).
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/lecture-prof-dr-lim-jie-hyun-victimhood-nationalism-global-history-and-memory/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum\, KWZ 0.610\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, Göttingen\, 37073\, Deutschland
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SUMMARY:Lecture Prof. David Ownby (Université of Montréal): "A China We Can Talk To?"
DESCRIPTION:Introduction by Dr. Harlan Chambers (Fellow\, Worldmaking Project) and Comments by Prof. Lee Yu-Ting (National Taiwan University) \nTalk summary: \nFor 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. \nBio: \nDavid 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.
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/lecture-prof-david-ownby-universite-of-montreal-a-china-we-can-talk-to/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum\, KWZ 0.602\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, Göttingen\, 37073
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20240613T111500
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SUMMARY:Lecture: "China\, mein Vater und ich: Über den Aufstieg einer Supermacht und die Verbindung zur Familie Lee aus Wolfsburg"\, Gewinner des deutschen Wirtschaftsbuchpreises 2023
DESCRIPTION:Referent: Felix Lee\, Journalist & Autor\nTitel: “China\, mein Vater und ich: Über den Aufstieg einer Supermacht und die Verbindung zur Familie Lee aus Wolfsburg”\,\nGewinner des deutschen Wirtschaftsbuchpreises 2023\nDatum und Uhrzeit: 13. Juni 2024\, 11:15-12:15 Uhr\nOrt: ZHG (Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude)\nVeranstalter: Alumni der Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät \nFür Ihre Teilnahme registrieren Sie sich bitte hier: https://www.alumni-goettingen.de/termine/responsible-innovation-summit-2024/ \nWeitere Informationen finden Sie unter: Responsible Innovation Summit 2024 https://www.alumni-goettingen.de/termine/responsible-innovation-summit-2024/ \nMehr über Felix Lee erfahren Sie hier: Felix Lee – Aufbau Verlag https://www.aufbau-verlage.de/autor-in/felix-lee
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/lecture-china-mein-vater-und-ich-ueber-den-aufstieg-einer-supermacht-und-die-verbindung-zur-familie-lee-aus-wolfsburg-gewinner-des-deutschen-wirtschaftsbuchpreises-2023/
LOCATION:Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20240623T080000
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SUMMARY:Summer Workshop (Fudan University\, Shanghai\, China) 23.06.-02.07.2024
DESCRIPTION:For further information please click here.
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/summer-workshop-fudan-university-shanghai-china-23-06-02-07-2024/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20240705T090000
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SUMMARY:Workshop Announcement: Asian Regionalisms in an Age of De-Globalization. Observing\, Discoursing\, Identifying
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Announcement: Asian Regionalisms in an Age of De-Globalization. Observing\, Discoursing\, Identifying \n  \nDate: July 5\, 2024 \nTime: 09:00 – 17:00 \nVenue: Emmy-Noether-Saal\, Wilhelmsplatz\, Göttingen \nOrganizer: Lee\, Yu-Ting (National Taiwan University) \n  \nWe 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. \n  \nProgram Schedule: \n09:15-09:30 \n\nWelcome and Introduction\n\nLee\, Yu-Ting (National Taiwan University)\n\n\n\n09:30-11:00 \n\nPanel One: Worldmaking: Discourses and Structural Transformations\n\nChair: Eva Orthmann (Göttingen)\nPresenters:\n\nRebecca Karl (New York University): Civilizational Confusions: Neo-traditionalism and Economism\nCao Yin (Peking University): The Yunnan-Burma Railway Project\, 1860s-1940s\nNikolay Kamenov (Göttingen/ETH Zürich): India’s Trade Connections to the Rest of Asia: Territorialization in the Interwar Period.\n\n\n\n\n\n11:00-11:30 \n\nCoffee Break\n\n11:30-12:30 \n\nKeynote Presentation\n\nZhang Hanwen (Independent Artist\, Berlin): Defection\, Exile\, and Utopia: Pan-Asianist Bodies and Legacies\n\n\n\n12:30-13:30 \n\nLunch Break\n\n13:30-15:00 \n\nPanel Two: Between the Local and the Universal: Identity and Claims\n\nChair: Dominic Sachsenmaier (Göttingen)\nPresenters:\n\nLee Yu-Ting (National Taiwan University): Taiwanese Self-Situating in Asian Regionalisms\nJulian Strube (Göttingen): Religious Universalism and Nationalism in Bengal\nHenrike Rudolph (Göttingen): Reclaiming the Local. Conceptions of the Bentu in Chinese International Politics\n\n\n\n\n\n15:00-15:30 \n\nCoffee Break\n\n15:30-17:00 \n\nConcluding Discussion\n\nJoin us for an insightful day of discussions and presentations on the evolving dynamics of Asian regionalisms in our current era of de-globalization. \n  \nInstitute: Department of East Asian Studies\, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen \nThis workshop is open to all. We look forward to your participation!
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/workshop-announcement-asian-regionalisms-in-an-age-of-de-globalization-observing-discoursing-identifying/
LOCATION:Emmy-Noether-Saal\, Wilhelmsplatz\, Göttingen
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SUMMARY:Zhang Hanwen (Artist/Filmmaker; Berlin): Defection\, Exile\, and Utopia: Pan-Asianist Bodies and Legacies
DESCRIPTION:Zhang Hanwen (Artist/Filmmaker; Berlin)\nDefection\, Exile\, and Utopia: Pan-Asianist Bodies and Legacies \nEmmy-Noether Saal\, Wilhelmsplatz\n5. July (Friday)\, 11:30-12:30 \nAbstract:\nThe 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. \nSpeaker: \nZhang 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. \nOrganizer: \nProf. Dominic Sachsenmaier\, University of Göttingen
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/zhang-hanwen-artist-filmmaker-berlin-defection-exile-and-utopia-pan-asianist-bodies-and-legacies/
LOCATION:Emmy-Noether-Saal\, Tagungs-und Veranstaltungshaus Alte Mensa\, Wilhelmsplatz
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SUMMARY:Die Geschichte des Unterrichts „Chinesisch als Fremdsprache“ in Taiwan
DESCRIPTION: Die Geschichte des Unterrichts „Chinesisch als Fremdsprache“ in Taiwan \nReferent: Dr. Chin-Hua Chu\, National Taiwan University \nDatum und Uhrzeit: 11. Juli 2024\, 16:15-17:45 Uhr \nOrt: KWZ 0.602 \nSprache: Chinesisch-Englisch \n  \nWir 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.
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/die-geschichte-des-unterrichts-chinesisch-als-fremdsprache-in-taiwan/
LOCATION:KWZ 0.602
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20240715T180000
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Prof. Song Chen (Bucknell University): Connecting the Dots:  Advancing Chinese Historical Studies through Social Network Analysis
DESCRIPTION: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. \nBiography:\nSong 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.
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/lecture-prof-song-chen-bucknell-university-connecting-the-dots-advancing-chinese-historical-studies-through-social-network-analysis/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum\, KWZ 0.607\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, Göttingen\, 37073
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Prof. Mei Li Inouye (Stanford University): Soviet Dramatic Theory on a Shanghai Stage: Stanislavski\, Zhang Min\, and the Shanghai Amateur Dramatist Association
DESCRIPTION:Soviet Dramatic Theory on a Shanghai Stage: Stanislavski\, Zhang Min\, and the Shanghai Amateur Dramatist Association\n  \nTime: January\, 27 from 4-6 pm\nVenue: KWZ 1.601\n\n\n\n\nAbstract:​ 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. \nBio: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.  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/lecture-prof-mei-li-inouye-stanford-university-soviet-dramatic-theory-on-a-shanghai-stage-stanislavski-zhang-min-and-the-shanghai-amateur-dramatist-association/
LOCATION:Kulturwisssenschaftliches Zentrum\, KWZ 1.601\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, Göttingen\, 37073
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SUMMARY:Panel discussion: Xi Jinping and the Question of Power
DESCRIPTION:Johnny Erling & Joseph Fewsmith in Dialogue\nModerator: Jürgen Trittin \nSince 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? \nJoin 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. \nPanelists:\n🗣 Johnny Erling (Journalist\, China expert)\n🗣 Joseph Fewsmith (Political scientist\, China scholar\, Boston University)\n🎤 Moderation: Jürgen Trittin (Former Federal Minister) \nThis 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. \nZoom Link: https://uni-goettingen.zoom-x.de/j/69671256989 \nJohnny Erling\nJohnny 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. \nErling\, 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. \nJospeh Fewsmith\nJoseph 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. \nPrior 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.\nProfessor Fewsmith’s areas of expertise include comparative politics as well as Chinese domestic politics and foreign policy. \nhttps://www.bu.edu/pardeeschool/profile/joseph-fewsmith/ \nJürgen Trittin\nJürgen 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.\nhttps://www.trittin.de/ueber-mich/
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/panel-discussion-xi-jinping-and-the-question-of-power-johnny-erling-joseph-fewsmith-in-dialogue-moderator-juergen-trittin/
LOCATION:Adam von Trott Saal Tagungs- und Veranstaltungshaus Alte Mensa\, Wilhelmsplatz 3\, Göttingen\, 37073
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Writing World History in a Global Historical Context: Perspectives on Meiji Japan and Contemporary Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:Writing World History in a Global Historical Context: Perspectives on Meiji Japan and Contemporary Taiwan\nProf. Mu-chou Poo (Chinese University of Hong Kong) \nPH 20. Hörsaal der Philosophischen Fakultät\, Humboldtallee 19/21 \n29. April (Tuesday)\, 18:00-20:00 \n  \nAbstract:  \nThis 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. \nSpeaker: \nMu-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) \nOrganizer:  \nProf. Dominic Sachsenmaier\, University of Göttingen \n  \n\n© This image was generated with the assistance of OpenAI’s Chat GPT and is intended solely for promotional use. Unauthorized reproduction or use is prohibited.
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LOCATION:PH 20. Hörsaal der Philosophischen Fakultät\, Humboldtallee 19/21
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Should Children be Carefree? A Chinese and Global Debate
DESCRIPTION:Should Children be Carefree? A Chinese and Global Debate\nProf. Hsiung Ping-Chen (Secretary General\, CIPSH)\n  \nPH 20. Hörsaal der Philosophischen Fakultät\, Humboldtallee 19/21\n 6. May (Tuesday)\, 18:15-19:45\nAbstract:  \nRecognized 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. \nSpeaker: \nProfessor 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. \n  \nOrganizer: \nProf. Dominic Sachsenmaier\, University of Göttingen \n  \n  \n© This image was generated with the assistance of OpenAI’s Chat GPT and is intended solely for promotional use. Unauthorized reproduction or use is prohibited.
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