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SUMMARY:Francois Gipouloux (CNRS): „Maritime trade expansion in late Ming China“
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nMaritime trade during the late Ming was characterised by the intermingling of tributary trade\, private trade and piracy. The establishment of the ban on maritime trade (海禁 haijin) gave way to a scarcity of goods entering China and to a great profitability of smuggling activities. While the ban on maritime trade never succeded in eliminating the so called Japanese pirates (倭寇 woko)\, it opened the possibilities of huge profits to illegal trade. Fujian coast offered many opportunities to smugglers. \nSeveral records of judicial cases\, are reported by Wang Zaijin in 1611 along with and local records from Fujian and Zhejiang gazeteers give a precise description of maritime trade procedures in the 17th century. They reveal the complex mechanism of pooling capital and cargoes before venturing for overseas trade. It also describes in a very vivid way the involvement of local administration in a still prohibited trade with Japan. It finally highlights however the lack of financial instruments to mobilise capital and secure a cargo\, and underline the limits of the management of the relationship between investors\, ship-owners\, and operators. \nShort bio:\nFrançois Gipouloux (Emeritus Research Director\, National Centre for Scientific Research\, [CNRS] France)\, has worked almost 20 years in Asia (Peking\, Tokyo\, Hong Kong). His research covers the dynamics of urbanisation in China and the comparative analysis of economic institutions and business practices in Europe and Asia from the 16th to the 21st century. His recent publications include: The Asian Mediterranean\, Edward Elgar\, 2011 (also translated in Korean and Chinese)\, and China’s Urban Century (Edward Elgar\, 2015).
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/francois-gipouloux-cnrs-maritime-trade-expansion-in-late-ming-china/
LOCATION:Theologicum\, T0.135\, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 2\, Göttingen\, 37073
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20180116T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20180116T200000
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SUMMARY:CeMEAS The 12th East Asia Research Salon: Theorizing the Current Global Order in the Era of Globalization\, Regional Integration and the Resurgence of Nationalism: Global China\, Regional EU\, and National US?
DESCRIPTION:Xiao (Alvin) Yang\, University of Kassel  \nAbstract: \nWhy has China become the defender of globalization whereas the US\, who is supposed to be the defender of globalization\, has turned towards more nationalist and inward-looking direction? Moreover\, why is European Union\, the model for regional integration\, not only facing economic\, financial and migration crises\, but also the crisis of the resurgence of nationalist movements within its member states?  This dissertation aims to theorize the current global order after 2008 where there is an on-going contradictory and simultaneous process of globalization\, regional integration and the resurgence of nationalism. It theorizes the relationships among China\, the EU and the US in relation to their respective domestic conditions\, with a particular focus on the bilateral Sino-American and Sino-EU relations. \nMoreover\, it goes beyond the European-Americano-centric international relations(IR) and global political economy (GPE) theories by bringing in non-Western IR/GPE theories. Particularly\, it situates in the theoretical discourse and engages with the research programs of the emerging Chinese IR theories. It critically and systematically carries out literature review on both Western and Chinese IR/GPE theories and their respective critiques by selecting each work (e.g. journal article\, book) based on a set of criteria\, such as the relevance to the research questions\, the level of intellectual and policy influence\, and uniqueness of a theory.  How these competing theories conceptualize hegemony\, the relationship between a hegemonic power and a rising power\, the notions of international relations and global order are compared and contrasted and then synthesized in order to shed light upon the current global order. Furthermore\, it systematically reveals the underlying epistemological\, ontological\, methodological and historical assumptions of these theories to illustrate how and why they interpret the same phenomena differently as well as to bridge these assumptions to make fruitful analyses. \nTo test these competing theories\, a set of hypotheses are generated from their respective theoretical implications and predictions. Subsequently\, these hypotheses are tested on different institutional dimensions by critically examining the foreign policy of China\, EU\, and the US\, as well as applying set theory to analyze their respective bilateral and multilateral trade arrangements and security configurations. They are further substantiated by macro indices\, such as flows and trends of trade\, investment\, capital\, and currency.  Furthermore\, China’s Belt and Road initiative (B&R)\, formerly named as One Belt One Road (OBOR)\, is chosen to be the main case study. Finally\, this dissertation aims to construct and develop a holistic theoretical and conceptual framework that encompasses politico-economic and socio-cultural dimensions to theorize the current global order. \nAbout the presenter: \nXiao (Alvin) Yang is currently a PhD Candidate in Political Science at the University of Kassel in Germany.  His dissertation aims to theorize the current global order by focusing on international relations among and within East Asia\, Europe and North America where there are on-going tensions among globalization\, regional integration and the resurgence of nationalism. He holds a master degree in Chinese European Economics and Business from the Berlin School of Economics and Law and a master degree in International Business from the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in China. He also holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music with honours at York University in Canada. Furthermore\, he studied political science\, business management and anthropology at Stockholm University\, explored sociology at University of Toronto\, studied German at Heidelberg Universität\, Humboldt Universität and München Universität\, as well as French at Université Jean Monnet in France\, Western University at Trois-Pistoles and Laval Université in Quebec.
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/cemeas-the-12th-east-asia-research-salon-theorizing-the-current-global-order-in-the-era-of-globalization-regional-integration-and-the-resurgence-of-nationalism-global-china-regional-eu-and-nation/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum\, KWZ 0.701\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, Göttingen\, 37073
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20171213T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20171213T200000
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SUMMARY:Prof. Jeffrey Wasserstrom (UC Irvine): “China and the World in 1900: Stories of the Boxers and the First Global War”
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nThis illustrated lecture\, entitled “China and the World in 1900: Stories of the Boxers and the First Global War\,” revisits the anti-Christian uprising and international invasion that convulsed the Qing Empire during the final year of the nineteenth century\, paying particular attention to the varied ways these events were understood in different places at the time and the diverse kinds of stories that have been told about them since. As different as the world of 1900 is from our own\, especially when it comes to China’s strength now as opposed to weakness then\, we can see in the Boxer uprising and the response by an Allied Army made up of soldiers from Germany\, Japan\, Britain\, the United States and four other nations and empires many intimations of many things to come in the troubled twentieth century that was about to start and in our own anxious age. \nShort bio: \nGENERIC CAPTIONUC Irvine Chancellor’s professor Jeff Wasserstrom is the chair of the department of history as well as an expert on Chinese history and culture.photo : Steve Zylius/UC Irvine Communications Jeffrey Wasserstrom\, who received his master’s from Harvard and his PhD. From Berkeley\, is Chancellor’s Professor of History at UC Irvine\, where he edits the Journal of Asian Studies (term ending June 2018) and holds courtesy affiliations with the Law School and program in Literary Journalism.  He has written five books\, including Student Protests in Twentieth-Century China (1991) and Eight Juxtapositions: China through Imperfect Analogies from Mark Twain to Manchukuo (Penguin 2016).  He has edited or co-edited several others\, including\, most recently\, The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China (2016).  In addition to writing for academic journals\, he has contributed to many general interest venues\, among them the New York Times\, the TLS\, and the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB).  He is an advising editor at LARB and an academic editor of its associated China Channel.
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/prof-jeffrey-wasserstrom-uc-irvine-china-and-the-world-in-1900-stories-of-the-boxers-and-the-first-global-war/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum\, KWZ 0.609\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, Göttingen\, 37073
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20171212T180000
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SUMMARY:Prof. Jane Duckett (University of Glasgow): "Who cares about inequality in China? Public attitudes toward inequalities in access to health care "
DESCRIPTION:About the letuerer:\nJane Duckett is Edward Caird Chair of Politics\, International Dean (East Asia)\, and Director of the Scottish Centre for China Research at the University of Glasgow. She is also Guest Professor at Nankai University (Tianjin\, China). In 2012 she received the Lord Provost of Glasgow Education Award. In 2014 she was elected President of the British Association for Chinese Studies. In 2016 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. \nProf Duckett’s early research on the Chinese state under market reform included a book-length study\, The Entrepreneurial State in China (Routledge\, 1998). It explained state business activities as the outcome of fiscal and staffing constraints on officials in an institutional context of poorly defined property rights. Jane also (with colleague Bill Miller) made a comparative study of public attitudes to openness in East Asia and Eastern Europe\, published as The Open Economy and its Enemies (CUP\, 2006). Her current research is concerned with the politics of China’s social policy making and implementation. She argues through studies across a range of social policies (on local social welfare financing\, health insurance\, poverty and unemployment)\, that the politics behind them and their enormous redistributive consequences make them central to the Chinese state’s marketising project. Her monograph\, The Chinese State’s Retreat from Health: Policy and the Politics of Retrenchment (Routledge\, hdbk 2011; pbk 2013) draws on comparative political theory to explain the Chinese state’s retrenchment in health care provision. She has also co-edited (with Beatriz Carrillo)\, China’s Changing Welfare Mix: Local Perspectives (Routledge\, 2011)\, a book that takes a local perspective on China’s evolving social welfare provision. She has recently published papers in Health Policy and Planning and Health Expectations that draw on a project to survey Chinese public opinion on health care. \n(Information from The University of Glasgow\, School of Social & Political Sciences)
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/prof-jane-duckett-titel-des-vortrags-folgt-in-kuerze/
LOCATION:Theologicum\, T0.136\, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 2\, Göttingen\, 37073
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20171207T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20171207T200000
DTSTAMP:20260418T231440
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SUMMARY:Prof. Xiong Yuegen (Peking Univ.): "Poverty Alleviation as an Instrument of Technical Governance in Rural China”
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nIn the past decades\, China has achieved a great success in poverty reduction by helping more than 800 million of poor farmers out of poverty trap. However\, Chinese government has made a series of serious efforts on social policy implementation in rural areas\, poverty as a problematic persistent issue is still perplexing owing to institutional constraints and policy failure. In 2015\, the Party and central government launched a new national campaign entitled the Targeted Poverty Alleviation Programme aiming to eradicate the problem of poverty in rural areas by 2020. In this lecture\, I will mainly discuss the following issues: First\, how does this national campaign on poverty reduction in the new era differ from the previous ones? Second\, what is the main impact of the targeted poverty reduction programme on the farmers’ life and local government? Third\, what are the main limitations of the top-down model of poverty reduction programme in the centralized regime and its implications for the socio-economic development in future in China. Based on the field research conducted in Jiangxi Province\, the author will link the empirical data with theoretical interpretation on the ongoing social changes in the country. \nBio of the Speaker – Prof. Dr. Xiong Yuegen:\n\nYuegen Xiong is Professor and Director\, The Centre for Social Policy Research (CSPR) in the Department of Sociology at Peking University\, China. He is the author of Needs\, Reciprocity and Shared Function: Policy and Practice of Elderly Care in Urban China ( Shanghai Renmin Press\, 2008 )and Social Policy: Theories and Analytical Approaches ( Renmin University Press\, 2009 ) . He was the British Academy KC Wong Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford during November 2002- September 2003\, the Fellow at the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study (HWK)\, Delmonhorst\, Germany during December 2003- February 2004 and the JSPS Fellow at the University of Tokyo in October\, 2005\, Visiting Professor in the Department of Social Sciences & Humanities\, Jacobs University Bremen from November\, 2015 to December\, 2015\, Germany. In the past years\, he has published extensively in the field of social policy\, comparative welfare regimes\, social work\, NGOs and civil society. He is the editorial member of Asian Social Work and Policy Review (Wiley)\, Asian Education and Development Studies (Emerald) and the British Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies (UK). He was the faculty of 483rd Salzburg Global Seminar on “ Economic Growth and Social Protection in Asia ” held in Austria during 7th-12th November\, 2011.
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/prof-xiong-yuegen-peking-univ-poverty-alleviation-as-an-instrument-of-technical-governance-in-rural-china/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum\, KWZ 0.602\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, Göttingen\, 37073
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20171130T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20171130T200000
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SUMMARY:Prof. Mark Frazier (India-China Institute\, New School): "Urbanisation and Social Policy: Prospects for Social Citizenship in China"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nAs numerous commentators have pointed out\, China is the first country in the world to experience an ageing population without first having reached developed country status. China is indeed ‘growing old before it grows rich\,’ but the meanings and significance of this demographic event are not clear. A substantial body of scholarship\, generally public policy-oriented to measure and propose solutions to China’s demographic challenge\, has emerged since the mid-2000s\, with some observers concluding that the ageing burden will impose an insurmountable obstacle to China’s continued economic growth. Many analysts also wonder what population ageing will mean for the fiscal conditions of the Chinese government\, given the demands to be placed on a still fragmented\, and seemingly fragile\, public pension system. Yet\, will be argued in this paper\, the effects of population ageing will in large part depend on questions of citizenship. Inclusion and access to basic social protections—and\, by implication\, exclusion from them—are debated not only in China but also in most high-income countries\, many of which are ageing. In both the former and the latter\, pressures from population ageing would be lessened if those now treated in law and social policy as non-citizens were to be granted access to pension and other social welfare programs (notably\, healthcare) that rely on mandatory contributions from citizens.
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/prof-mark-frazier-new-school-urbanisation-and-social-policy-prospects-for-social-citizenship-in-china/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum\, KWZ 0.606\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, Göttingen\, 37073
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20171128T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20171128T200000
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SUMMARY:Prof. Hsiung Ping-chen (Chinese University of Hong Kong): "Discovering Childhood and Paediatrics in Chinese History: Further Considerations "
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\n\nAs a reflection on thirty plus years of research on childhood and paediatrics in Chinese history\, this lecture intends to present further concerns after a systematic review\, in three parts:\nFirst\, a retrospective on the why’s and how’s of studying children and childhood in history\, the conceptual definition that the Chinese case had to start up with\, the categorical materials for the investigation\, the basic methodological questions to conduct the study with.\nSecond\, an in depth re-examination of the physical conditions in the beginnings of life \, and the role of traditional pedestrics  in the Chinese and East Asian cultural linguistic world.\nThird\, further considerations are offered in way of world history\, interdisciplinary childhood studies\, and contemporary Chinese youth culture\, in this ongoing journey.
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/prof-hsiung-ping-chen-chinese-university-of-hong-kong-discovering-childhood-and-paediatrics-in-chinese-history-further-considerations/
LOCATION:Theologicum\, T0.136\, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 2\, Göttingen\, 37073
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20171116T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20171116T200000
DTSTAMP:20260418T231440
CREATED:20171010T080706Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171016T065110Z
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SUMMARY:Prof. Mayfair Yang (UC Santa Barbara): “Gendered Religiosity:  Patriarchal Structures and Women’s Agency in China”
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nThis lecture will examine how social structures of power\, such as patriarchal power\, depend on the vicissitudes of human agency to implement their principles\, opening them up to subtle shifts and reconfigurations in social practice (Anthony Giddens\, Pierre Bourdieu).  Traditional religiosities\, whether Christian\, Islamic\, Buddhist\, or others\, are often seen to produce conservative agents of patriarchy\, in both men and women.  Writing about the women’s Islamic piety movement in contemporary Egypt\, Saba Mahmood has criticized the narrow definition of women’s agency put forth by liberal Western feminism.  She suggests that women’s agency cannot be understood or defined in terms of oppositionality\, critical discourse\, or rebellious acts\, but must also take into account the modesty\, self-effacement\, and self-sacrificing ethos of pious women.  Here\, I will examine the non-oppositional religious agency of pious women in rural and small-town Wenzhou.  Two divinities in particular\, the regional deity of Chinese popular religion\, known as Goddess Chen the Fourteenth\, and the Buddhist mother goddess Guan Yin\, inspire these women’s religious agency.  However\, I depart from Mahmood\, who almost closes herself off from feminist inquiry\, by showing how local women have\, through their self-sacrifice\, religious leadership\, and religious transcendence\, carved out a public space and role for women.  In the absence of feminism\, and without directly confronting or resisting patriarchal power\, women’s religious agency has made a social impact and brought changes in local society. \nShort bio: \nMayfair Yang received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from UC Berkeley.  She has been a faculty member in the Anthropology Department at UC Santa Barbara\, and is now a Professor in Religious Studies Department and East Asian Studies Department there.  Yang was Director of Asian Studies at the University of Sydney in Australia\, and has been visiting scholar at the University of Michigan\, University of Chicago\, Harvard University\, Academia Sinica in Taiwan\, Beijing and Fudan Universities in China\, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.  She is the author of Gifts\, Favors\, & Banquets:  the Art of Social Relationships in China\, and editor of Chinese Religiosities:  Afflictions of Modernities & State Formation\, andPlaces of Their Own:  Women’s Public Sphere in Transnational China.  Her forthcoming book:  Re-enchanting Modernity:  Ritual Economy & Religious Civil Society in Wenzhou\, China (Duke University Press).  She is also working on a second\, more theoretical book on Wenzhou religiosity and politics.
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/prof-mayfair-yang-uc-santa-barbara-gendered-religiosity-patriarchal-structures-and-womens-agency-in-china/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum\, KWZ 0.602\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, Göttingen\, 37073
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20171107T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20171107T200000
DTSTAMP:20260418T231440
CREATED:20171011T103135Z
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SUMMARY:Prof. Reza Hasmath (Alberta): "Is Policy Innovation Possible Under the Xi Jinping Regime?"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nDespite playing a key contributory role in China’s recent economic reforms and the Party’s regime durability\, there has been a noted reduction in central-level policy experimentation under Xi Jinping’s administration. Recent studies have further noted an empirical reduction in policy innovation at the subnational level\, and question whether local officials will continue to experiment in the foreseeable future.\nThis talk suggests that although these changes at the central-level are filtering down to local officials\, a great deal of variation in policy experimentation exists. Thus\, the puzzle motivating this talk is how do local officials filter these institutional changes to the extent of observed variations in local policy innovation?\nUsing recent fieldwork evidence\, this talk presents three potential explanations: (1) the ineffectiveness of the vertical reward and punishment systems operated by the Party-state; (2) differing base preferences of local officials; and\, (3) the presence of a cohort effect\, viz. a communities of practice. While some officials are still conducting policy experimentation\, the overall reduction in innovation strongly suggests that potential solutions to governance problems remain trapped at the local level\, and that the central government will lose this “adaptable” governance mechanism that has contributed\nto its past economic and political successes.
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/prof-reza-hasmath-alberta-is-policy-innovation-possible-under-the-xi-jinping-regime/
LOCATION:Theologicum\, T0.136\, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 2\, Göttingen\, 37073
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20171101T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20171101T200000
DTSTAMP:20260418T231440
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SUMMARY:Dr. Armin Müller (Göttingen): "Social Policy in China: Retrospect and Prospect"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nSince 1979\, social protection in China has undergone fundamental institutional transformations. This presentation provides an overview of the state of the literature on social policy in the PRC\, the institutional change which has characterized social protection in the reform period\, and an outlook on future developments. Social protection under the planned economy was characterized by a division between urban and rural areas\, decentralization\, and companies functioning as enclosed mini-welfare states. In the course of economic reforms\, urbanization\, marketization and migration have generated substantial frictions with the institutional legacies of planned-economy social protection. The examples of health and pension insurance illustrate the pattern of institutional change that resulted from these frictions: a process of gradual functional integration. This process adapts social protection to marketization through the creation of insurance systems pooling risks between companies and households; it adapts previously separate urban and rural insurance systems to urbanization by integrating them; and it adapts insurance to migration by improving the portability of benefits from the decentralized and formally enclosed local insurance systems. Functional integration is also driving forward a dualization of social protection in China\, with relatively generous benefits for people in regular\, formal employment\, and merely basic protection for the remainder of the population. While we enter the second term of the Xi administration\, China’s social protection system keeps reproducing economic and political inequality rather than counter-balancing it. Current policy initiatives aim at attenuating inequalities related to employment status\, locality\, and the urban-rural divide. However\, the potentially contentious nature of social redistribution raises questions regarding the degree to which these reforms can achieve their envisioned outcomes.\n \n \nPicture: Pedro Szekely， Shanghai\, China\, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0\, https://flic.kr/p/YkeqME
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/dr-armin-mueller-goettingen-social-policy-in-china-retrospect-and-prospect/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum\, KWZ 0.609\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, Göttingen\, 37073
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20171026T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20171027T190000
DTSTAMP:20260418T231440
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SUMMARY:Conference: Conceptions of the World in Twentieth-Century Chinese Historiography
DESCRIPTION:Over the course of the twentieth century\, the constant writing and rewriting of history reflect aspects of the changing conceptions of the “world” in China.  Through various lenses – including but not limited to nation-states\, empires\, races\, civilizations\, cultures\, and classes – Chinese historians both creatively imagined global time and space and actively negotiated China’s position in it. This conference will posit new questions about the formation of Chinese worldviews by focusing on historiography as its primary field of inquiry. It will investigate a variety of ways in which Chinese historians constructed and deconstructed temporal and spatial concepts such as “Asian\,” “Asiatic\,” and “China.” In that manner\, the workshop will also establish an exchange between the field of China studies and global and transregional studies. A cohort of leading scholars from China\, North America\, and Europe have already committed their participation in this event\, and Professor Ge Zhaoguang from Fudan University will deliver a key speech during the event.  \nThe conference is jointly hosted by the Göttingen Department of East Asian Studies\, the Center for Modern East Asian Studies and the Academic Confucius Institute. Outside sponsors: Volkswagen Foundation and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.  \nHere you may find the whole conference program!
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/conference-conceptions-of-the-world-in-twentieth-century-chinese-historiography/
LOCATION:KWZ & Sternwarte\, Göttingen
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20171026T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20171026T200000
DTSTAMP:20260418T231440
CREATED:20170925T104832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170925T105030Z
UID:28568-1509040800-1509048000@www.sinologie-goettingen.de
SUMMARY:Prof Ge\, Zhaoguang (Fudan University): “Global Elements in Traditional Chinese Historiography” (in Chinese\, with English translation)
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URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/prof-ge-zhaoguang-fudan-university-global-elements-in-traditional-chinese-historiography-in-chinese-with-english-translation/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum\, KWZ 0.60\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, Göttingen
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20171014T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20171014T170000
DTSTAMP:20260418T231440
CREATED:20170927T063008Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170927T063227Z
UID:28577-1507975200-1508000400@www.sinologie-goettingen.de
SUMMARY:本年度第三次“汉语作为外语”专题工作坊 (3. Workshop „Fachdidaktik Chinesisch): 教学组织与管理 (Organisation und Management von Lehr- und Lernprozessen)
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Dr. XIN Ping (辛平教授)\nPeking-Universität\n北京大学\n教学组织与管理\n(Organisation und Management von Lehr-und Lernprozessen) \nDer Workshop findet in chinesischer Sprache statt.\n本次工作坊工作语言为中文。 \nEin kostenloses Mittagessen wird angeboten. Aufgrund der begrenzten Teilnehmerzähl bitten wir um rechtzeitige Anmeldung bis spätestens 6. Oktober.\n我们为每位正式报名参与工作坊的同行提供免费午餐。因座位有限\, 请有意参 加培训的老师/同学尽快报名(报名截止日期：2017 年10 月6 日) 。 \nAnmeldung über / 报名方式: info@aki-goettingen.de! \nErfahren Sie mehr …
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/%e6%9c%ac%e5%b9%b4%e5%ba%a6%e7%ac%ac%e4%b8%89%e6%ac%a1%e6%b1%89%e8%af%ad%e4%bd%9c%e4%b8%ba%e5%a4%96%e8%af%ad%e4%b8%93%e9%a2%98%e5%b7%a5%e4%bd%9c%e5%9d%8a-3-workshop-fachdi/
LOCATION:地点: Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerzimmer (LULZ)\, Waldweg 26\, Göttingen\, 37073
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20170919T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20170922T170000
DTSTAMP:20260418T231440
CREATED:20170221T091636Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170221T092126Z
UID:27648-1505808000-1506099600@www.sinologie-goettingen.de
SUMMARY:CFP: Manchu in Global History: A Research Language for Qing Historians
DESCRIPTION:Organisers:\nJulia C. Schneider (Department for East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen)\nKatja Pessl (Centre for Modern East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen) \nThe deadline for submissions is April 4\, 2017\, full papers need to be provided by August 18\, 2017. To submit an abstract\, please email the organising committee at: cemeas@cemeas.uni-goettingen.de. \nContinue reading
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/cfp-manchu-in-global-history-a-research-language-for-qing-historians/
LOCATION:Kulturwisssenschaftliches Zentrum\, KWZ 1.601\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, Göttingen\, 37073
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20170717T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20170717T180000
DTSTAMP:20260418T231440
CREATED:20170608T112259Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170608T112259Z
UID:28328-1500300000-1500314400@www.sinologie-goettingen.de
SUMMARY:CeMEAS Podium: What is the Future of Made in China? Opportunities and Challenges for Europe
DESCRIPTION:Introduction:\nThis half-day event will explore these issues in discussion with leading international scholars and government experts. A first roundtable will analyze the economic challenges and policy aims behind “Made in China 2025” and evaluate the prospects of this state-led approach to industrial upgrading. A second roundtable will focus on the opportunities and challenges for European economies by analyzing both the drivers and impact of outward Chinese investment in Europe as well as the new terrain of global competition in key sectors\, including clean tech. \nProgram \n2:00 pm Welcome\nHiltraud Casper-Hehne\, Vice-President\, University of Göttingen\nSarah Eaton\, Centre for Modern East Asian Studies\, Director \n2:10 – 3:40 pm Made in China 2025: Context\, Goals and Prospects\nSebastian Heilmann: Made in China 2025: What? Why? Will it Work?\nBarry Naughton: China in Search of a New Growth Model\nVictor Shih: Financing Mercantilism: China’s Quest to Dominate Global Trade \n3:40-4:00 pm Coffee Break \n4:00-5:30 pm Made in China 2025: Opportunities and Challenges for Europe\nDoris Fischer: Fighting for the Lead: The Case of Green Tech\nThilo Hanemann: The Implications of Made in China 2025 for Europe: Investment Flows and M&A\nEric Thun: The Challenge of Upgrading and Innovation in Global Markets: A View from the Firm Level \n5:30 pm Wrap-Up \nIf you are interested in the podium and want to  paticipate\, please write us an email by 3rd of July\, 2017.\nContact: cemeas@uni-goettingen.de \nClick here for more details.
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/cemeas-podium-what-is-the-future-of-made-in-china-opportunities-and-challenges-for-europe/
LOCATION:Emmy-Noether-Saal Tagungs- und Veranstaltungshaus Alte Mensa\, Wilhelmsplatz 3\, Göttingen\, 37073
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20170712T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20170712T200000
DTSTAMP:20260418T231440
CREATED:20170608T110755Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170608T111428Z
UID:28326-1499882400-1499889600@www.sinologie-goettingen.de
SUMMARY:Prof. WANG Hui (Tsinghua University): The Beginning of the Century: A Reconsideration on the 20th Century in Chinese/Global History
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nAt the beginning of the 20th century\, the alien idea of century began to replace other traditional concepts of chronology in China and reshaped Chinese idea of time. Following the application of 20th century in Chinese context\, other related concepts such as 19th century\, 18th century and their sequence emerged as derivatives of 20th century. Before 1900\, the concept of century had almost not been discussed in this sense in China and never used as the self-consciousness of our era. The notion of century is closely connected with the 20th century\, its distinction from past eras being not just a simple temporal demarcation but an understanding of singular propensity of the time\, which render the history of the\nothers into a history of one’s own\, while situating it within history in toto for explanation and identification. This is the birth of global synchronicity in the history of China. How did intellectuals theorized the idea of 20th century? This talk will examine the birth of the notion of the 20th century in China from an intellectual history perspective and analyze its particular position in the history of China from the perspectives of time (history)\, space\, self-identification\, social ideals and etc. \nPresenter:\nWang Hui is a Changjiang Scholar Professor in the Department of Chinese Literature and the Department of History\, Tsinghua University\, and is Director of the Tsinghua Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences. His recent publications include China’s Twentieth Century (London/New York\, Verso\, 2016)\,  and China from Empire to Nation-State (two volumes) (Cambridge\, Mass: Harvard University Press\, 2014).
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/prof-wang-hui-tsinghua-university-the-beginning-of-the-century-a-reconsideration-on-the-20th-century-in-chineseglobal-history/
LOCATION:Adam-von-Trott-Saal\, Alte Mensa am Wilhelmsplatz\, Wilhelmsplatz 3\, Göttingen\, 37073
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20170711T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20170711T193000
DTSTAMP:20260418T231440
CREATED:20170704T072401Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170704T072619Z
UID:28381-1499796000-1499801400@www.sinologie-goettingen.de
SUMMARY:CeMEAS Lecture: Liberating the “oppressed nations”: Chinese communist networks and the Comintern in Southeast Asia\, the Americas\, and Europe\, c. 1920s-1930s
DESCRIPTION:Anna Belogurova\, CeMIS\, Universität Göttingen \nAbstract:\nIn the context of unprecedented circulation of people and ideas in the interwar global moment\, Chinese communists built their overseas networks in the old empires and invented new nations. As they were making revolution both in and outside China\, they aspired to liberate the world from imperialism and to save China. Their rationale was rooted both in long held ideas about China’s place in the world\, as well as in new theories of political revolution which had originated outside China.\nDifferent local contexts and transnational actors such as the Comintern\, shaped the interaction of the Chinese networks with local nationalism and local anti-colonial movements. As the result\, the historical roles of the Chinese networks in Americas\, Europe\, and the Southeast Asia were different.
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/cemeas-lecture-liberating-the-oppressed-nations-chinese-communist-networks-and-the-comintern-in-southeast-asia-the-americas-and-europe-c-1920s-1930s/
LOCATION:Verfügungsgebäude VG 1.105\, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7\, Göttingen\, 37073
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20170704T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20170704T193000
DTSTAMP:20260418T231440
CREATED:20170425T111314Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170425T111438Z
UID:28139-1499191200-1499196600@www.sinologie-goettingen.de
SUMMARY:CeMEAS Lecture Series: Air Pollution and the Public in China: Perspectives from Urban and Rural Areas
DESCRIPTION:Bryan Tilt\, Oregon State University \nContinue reading
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/cemeas-lecture-series-air-pollution-and-the-public-in-china-perspectives-from-urban-and-rural-areas/
LOCATION:Verfügungsgebäude VG 2.104\, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7\, Göttingen\, 37073
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20170628T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20170628T200000
DTSTAMP:20260418T231440
CREATED:20170425T142032Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170607T090931Z
UID:28157-1498672800-1498680000@www.sinologie-goettingen.de
SUMMARY:Vortrag Prof. Kerry Brown (King’s College\, London): „The Powers of Xi Jinping“
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nThis year will see the 19th Party Congress. marking a moment of re-evaluation for the Communist Party policy and elite leadership. Under Xi since 2012 there has been what is claimed to have been a concentration of power within his hands. But how can we best understand this power\, and what sense does it make to say that Xi is the new Mao of China? What is his political programme\, and how does it relate to the organisation he is meant to be serving and leading to a sustainable future – the Communist Party of China.’ \nPresenter: \nKerry Brown is Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College\, London. His main interests are in the politics and society of modern China\, in its international relations and its political economy. His monographs include `Struggling Giant: China in the 21st Century’ (London\, June 2007 )and `Friends and Enemies: The Past\, Present and Future of the Communist Party of China’ (London\, 2009).
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/vortrag-prof-kerry-brown-kings-college-london-the-powers-of-xi-jinping/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum\, KWZ 0.606\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, Göttingen\, 37073
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20170627T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20170627T193000
DTSTAMP:20260418T231440
CREATED:20170425T110311Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170425T110353Z
UID:28130-1498586400-1498591800@www.sinologie-goettingen.de
SUMMARY:CeMEAS Lecture Series: Paper Tigers\, Hidden Dragons: Firms and the Political Economy of China’s Technological Development
DESCRIPTION:Doug Fuller\, Zhejiang University \nContinue reading
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/cemeas-lecture-series-paper-tigers-hidden-dragons-firms-and-the-political-economy-of-chinas-technological-development/
LOCATION:Verfügungsgebäude\, VG 3.103\, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7\, Göttingen\, 37073
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20170619T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20170619T193000
DTSTAMP:20260418T231440
CREATED:20170425T105912Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170425T110044Z
UID:28124-1497895200-1497900600@www.sinologie-goettingen.de
SUMMARY:CeMEAS Lecture Series: Headlines are not the Main Story: Tracking Xi Jinping’s Economic Reforms
DESCRIPTION:Christine Wong\, University of Melbourne \nContinue reading
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/cemeas-lecture-series-headlines-are-not-the-main-story-tracking-xi-jinpings-economic-reforms/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum\, KWZ 0.602\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, Göttingen\, 37073
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20170614T111500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20170614T150000
DTSTAMP:20260418T231440
CREATED:20170512T065308Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170512T070634Z
UID:28267-1497438900-1497452400@www.sinologie-goettingen.de
SUMMARY:Pun Ngai (University of Hongkong): Working in China
DESCRIPTION:If you are interested in it and want to participate\, please contact Villarama\, Jennifer per email (jennifer.villarama@sofi.uni-goettingen.de).
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/workshop-pun-ngai-university-of-hongkong-working-in-china/
LOCATION:SOFI Göttingen\, Friedländer Weg 31\, Göttingen\, 37085
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20170613T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20170613T193000
DTSTAMP:20260418T231440
CREATED:20170530T094844Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170530T094844Z
UID:28303-1497376800-1497382200@www.sinologie-goettingen.de
SUMMARY:“Bhiksunī Chao-Hwei’s Buddhist Social Activism: From Solidarity with the Disadvantaged to Marriage Equality”
DESCRIPTION:Hsiao-Lan Hu\, Ph.D.\n(Associate Professor of Religious Studies\, and Women’s and Gender Studies University of Detroit Mercy) \nAbstract:  \nOn 24 May 2017\, the Supreme Court in Taiwan ruled in favor of marriage equality\, nearly five years after the much celebrated first Buddhist lesbian wedding officiated by Bhiksunī Chao-Hwei. She has officiated a few other same-sex weddings since that time. While the cultural significance of such same-sex weddings officiated by a Buddhist monastic is debatable since lay Buddhists typically do not turn to monks and nuns for weddings and since historically Buddhism has not been vehemently anti-homosexual as many other religions have\, such ceremonies are nonetheless groundbreaking in opening up public discourses. \nIn the Chinese academic and Buddhist circles\, Bhiksunī Chao-Hwei is the lone monastic-scholar-activist who develops systematic discourses on Buddhist ethical principles and actively applies them to social issues. She often condenses Buddhist ethics into three phrases: co-arising\, protection of beings\, and the middle way. Based on these principles\, she engages in social activism defending various groups of sentient beings who are discriminated against and/or deprived of rights by the dominant groups\, including LGBT persons. This lecture aims to examine her reasons for supporting marriage equality in the light of her overall understanding of Buddhist ethics\, and to analyze the significance of her public discourse and social activism.
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/bhiksuni-chao-hweis-buddhist-social-activism-from-solidarity-with-the-disadvantaged-to-marriage-equality/
LOCATION:Verfügungsgebäude VG 1.104\, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7\, Göttingen\, 37073
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20170607T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20170607T200000
DTSTAMP:20260418T231440
CREATED:20170425T103318Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170425T103522Z
UID:28097-1496858400-1496865600@www.sinologie-goettingen.de
SUMMARY:Vortrag Prof. Michael Schoenhals (Lund Univ.\, Sweden): „Are they reading our mail? – Postüberwachung in the early People’s Republic of China“
DESCRIPTION:On the basis of Chinese archival records\, this presentation describes and critically assesses – including from a global\, comparative perspective – covert postal inspection as conducted by state security organs in Mao Zedong’s China (1949–1976). According to an early classified directive\, postal inspection and monitoring was to “pay attention to the imperialist countries as well as conduct spot checks of the domestic correspondence of targets.” What ensued in the technically primitive conditions prevailing was\, for many years\, a… \nContinue reading
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/vortrag-prof-michael-schoenhals-lund-univ-sweden-are-they-reading-our-mail-postueberwachung-in-the-early-peoples-republic-of-china/
LOCATION:Verfügungsgebäude VG 2.101\, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7\, Göttingen\, 37073
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20170606T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20170606T193000
DTSTAMP:20260418T231440
CREATED:20170524T093716Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170524T094154Z
UID:28297-1496772000-1496777400@www.sinologie-goettingen.de
SUMMARY:CeMEAS Lecture: The 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party
DESCRIPTION:The 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party: a Quantitative Assessment\nVictor Shih\, University of California San Diego \nAbstract: \nTwo important questions that can be asked about the 19th Party Congress\, scheduled to take place in the fall of 2017\, include who will take over key positions at the top of the party hierarchy and whether Party Secretary General Xi Jinping can dominate the upper echelons of the Communist Party.  Drawing from a quantitative biographical database of over 4000 Chinese political elite\, I first attempt to present some theoretical and machine learning predictions about who will enter the Politburo in the fall of 2017.  Then\, using the same data\, I assess whether Xi Jinping already dominates the Chinese Communist Party\, or whether that is still a goal he needs to achieve in the fall congress. \nAbout the lecturer: \nVictor Shih is an associate professor of political economy and has published widely on the politics of Chinese banking policies\, fiscal policies and exchange rates. He was the first analyst to identify the risk of massive local government debt\, and is the author of “Factions and Finance in China: Elite Conflict and Inflation.”\nPrior to joining UC San Diego\, Shih was a professor of political science at Northwestern University and former principal for The Carlyle Group.\nShih is currently engaged in a study of how the coalition-formation strategies of founding leaders had a profound impact on the evolution of the Chinese Communist Party. He is also constructing a large database on biographical information of elites in China.
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/cemeas-lecture-the-19th-congress-of-the-chinese-communist-party/
LOCATION:Verfügungsgebäude VG 2.104\, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7\, Göttingen\, 37073
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170602
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170604
DTSTAMP:20260418T231440
CREATED:20170307T140207Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170315T134612Z
UID:27778-1496361600-1496534399@www.sinologie-goettingen.de
SUMMARY:International Conference: “Teaching and Assessing Chinese in Europe: Proficiency Expectations and Assessment Instruments”
DESCRIPTION:Organizer: \n\nProf. Dr. Andreas Guder\, Department of East Asian Studies\, Göttingen und German Director of the Academic Confucius Institute at the Georg-August-Universität\, Göttingen\nProf. Dr. Erwin Tschirner\, Institute for Test Research and Test Development\, Leipzig\nPriv.-Doz. Dr. Olaf Bärenfänger\, Institute for Test Research and Test Development\, Leipzig\n\nIf you have any questions please contact Prof. Dr. Guder via email. \nWhat levels of Chinese proficiency may be expected after so many years of secondary or tertiary education? How should proficiency be measured? Are all frameworks equal: HSK\, the Common European Framework of Reference (CERF)\, the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines 2012? What are the correspondences between these frameworks and how can they inform the development of Chinese curricula in Europe focused on success? \nContinue reading \n 
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/international-conference-teaching-and-assessing-chinese-in-europe-proficiency-expectations-and-assessment-instruments/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20170530T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20170530T193000
DTSTAMP:20260418T231440
CREATED:20170425T105528Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170425T110830Z
UID:28119-1496167200-1496172600@www.sinologie-goettingen.de
SUMMARY:CeMEAS Lecture Series: Farmers\, Market and Agricultural Policy in China
DESCRIPTION:Yu Xiaohua\, University of Göttingen \nContinue reading
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/cemeas-lecture-series-farmers-market-and-agricultural-policy-in-china/
LOCATION:Verfügungsgebäude VG 3.103\, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7\, Göttingen\, 37073
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20170517T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20170517T200000
DTSTAMP:20260418T231440
CREATED:20170510T090038Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170510T090253Z
UID:28254-1495044000-1495051200@www.sinologie-goettingen.de
SUMMARY:Prof. XIAO Huafeng: “Cultural Imperialism and Americanization in China”
DESCRIPTION:Along with the practice of the Reform and Open Policy in China in the 1980s\, more and more Chinese have been much influenced by American way of life. Undeniably\, as Michel Gueldry writes\, China has imported capitalism but not democracy(2009). But I think that for the ordinary Chinese people to live an American way of life is more threatening to Chinese traditions than the official practice of American democracy. That is the power of American popular culture. \nThe lecture is divided into four parts: definition and experience of cultural Imperialism in world history; two implications of Americanization; phenomena of Americanization in China\, and personal observations about Americanization. \nContinue reading \n 
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/prof-xiao-huafeng-cultural-imperialism-and-americanization-in-china/
LOCATION:Verfügungsgebäude\, VG 1.102\, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7\, Göttingen\, 37073
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20170517T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20170517T180000
DTSTAMP:20260418T231440
CREATED:20170515T111958Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170516T062556Z
UID:28280-1495036800-1495044000@www.sinologie-goettingen.de
SUMMARY:Prof. Dr. Jinhua Chen: Market and Merit: Reconsidering the Monastic Financial and Banking system under the Rule of Emperor Liang Wudi (r. 502-549)
DESCRIPTION:Scholars have made great strides to study the important role that Buddhism played in promoting economic\, financial\, and commercial activities in medieval China. There is\, however\, one limitation is in need of addressing: almost singular focus on the economic activities carried out within or in connection with the saṃgha\, with little attention to the economic and financial context for some allegedly “pure” religious programs installed by Buddhists. This lecture endeavors to make some long overdue compensation for this unbalanced approach. First\, it introduces the proto-banking institution known as wujinzang 無盡藏  (Inexhaustible Treasury)\, which was established during the reign of the Chinese Emperor Wu of the Liang Dynasty (i.e. Liang Wudi\, r. 502-549)\, who modeled himself upon King Asoka.  Then it traces its provenance back to some significant precedents and practices in India. Finally\, I highlight several major impacts Liang Wudi’s wujinzang system appears to have wrought on its counterpart during the Sui-Tang period in China when\, primarily because of the charismatic Buddhist monk Xinxing (540-594) and the leader of the Buddhist movement known as Sanjie jiao (The cult of Three Stages)\, the Inexhaustible Treasury shaped the institutional role of the Buddhist church in China for centuries. \nZur Person: \nJinhua Chen is a professor of East Asian Buddhism at the University of British Columbia (UBC)\, where he has served since 2001 as the founding director of the UBC Buddhist Studies Forum. He is currently the director of the newly-awarded multi-year international and interdisciplinary Partnership project sponsored by SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada) Project that aims at reconstructing several key aspects of East Asian religions through multi-media sources and interdisciplinary perspectives\, based at UBC (www.frogbear.org). His numerous publications cover different parts of Eats Asian Buddhism\, such as state-church relationships\, monastic (hagio/)biographical literature\, Buddhist sacred sites\, relic veneration\, Buddhism and technological innovation in medieval China\, Buddhist translations\, and manuscript culture.
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/prof-dr-jinhua-chen-market-and-merit-reconsidering-the-monastic-financial-and-banking-system-under-the-rule-of-emperor-liang-wudi-r-502-549/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum\, KWZ 0.609\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, Göttingen\, 37073
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20170515T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20170515T200000
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SUMMARY:Prof. XU Guoqi (Hong Kong University): „Chinese and Americans: A Shared History“
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Professor Xu Guoqi will discuss the shared visions\, experiences\, journeys\, and frustrations Chinese and Americans have had with each other from the mid-19th century to the present. Professor Xu will \nContinue reading
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/prof-xu-guoqi-hong-kong-university-chinese-and-americans-a-shared-history/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum\, KWZ 0.602\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, Göttingen\, 37073
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