Chinese Studies

Dominique Hertzer: "Die Resonanz von Körper und Geist – Zur Philosophie des Geistes im Chinesischen Denken"
2018-06-07 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.607, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, 37073
Abstract:
Die chinesische Vorstellung vom „Geist“ (shen 神) wird oftmals mit der westlichen Vorstellung von der „Psyche“ oder „der Seele“ gleichgesetzt. Doch gibt es im Chinesischen Denken überhaupt Vorstellungen, die unseren Begriffen von Psyche oder Seele entsprechen? Ausgehend von den klassischen Fragen des Leib-Seele Diskurses im Abendland werden wir uns der chinesischen Vorstellung nähern, die das Verhältnis von Geist (shen 神) und Körper (xing 形) generell als eines der Polarität verhandelt. Es wird zu zeigen sein, dass die Ebene des Geistig-Seelischen im Chinesischen Denken nicht im Sinne einer Einheit – also des „einen“ Geistes oder der „einen“ Seele -, sondern in Gestalt einer fünffachen Auffächerung des Geistes zu verstehen ist, die sich in Resonanz zu den verschiedenen (korrespondierenden) Aspekten des Leibes bewegt. Im Zentrum steht die Frage, ob es in einem derartigen Resonanzverhältnis eine Ursache- Wirkungsbeziehung zwischen Geist und Körper geben kann und welcher Art ihre gegenseitige Beeinflussung ist. Vor dem Hintergrund der gegenwärtigen Diskussion um die Frage nach der Freiheit des menschlichen Willens und des Bewusstseins, wie sie derzeit in der Philosophie und den Neurowissenschaften geführt wird, mag der Blick auf das Chinesische Denken vielleicht auch an dieser Stelle eine neue Perspektive zu eröffnen, die die Diskussion von festgefahrenen Standpunkten befreit.

Saori Katada (University of Southern California): "The BRICS and Collective Financial Statecraft"
2018-06-12 18:00 - 20:00 | Verfügungsgebäude VG 3.103, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, Göttingen, 37073
Abstract:
In the first decade of the 21st century, five rising powers (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) formed an exclusive and informal international club, the BRICS. Although neither revolutionaries nor extreme revisionists, the BRICS perceive an ongoing global power shift and contest the West’s pretensions to permanent stewardship of the existing economic order. Together they have exercised collective financial statecraft, employing their expanding financial and monetary capabilities for the purpose of achieving larger foreign policy goals. This volume examines the forms and strategies of such collective financial statecraft, and the motivations of each individual government for collaborating through the BRICS club. Their cooperative financial statecraft takes various forms, ranging from pressure for “inside reforms” of either multilateral institutions or global markets, to “outside options” exercised through creating new multilateral institutions or jointly pushing for new realities in international financial markets. To the surprise of many observers, the joint actions of the BRICS are largely successful. Although each member has its unique rationale for collaboration, the largest member, China, controls resources that permit it the greatest influence in intra-club decision-making. The BRICS cooperate due to both common aversions (for example, resentment over being perennial junior partners in global economic and financial governance and resistance to infringements on their autonomy due to U.S. dollar dominance and financial power) and common interests (such as obtaining greater voice in international institutions, as the IMF). The group seeks reforms, influence, and enhanced leadership roles within the liberal capitalist global system. Where blocked, they experiment with parallel multilateral institutions in which they are the dominant rule-makers. The future of the BRICS depends not only on their bargaining power and adjustment to market players, but also on their ability to overcome domestic impediments to sustainable economic growth, the basis for their international influence.

Vortragsreihe „On Stage: Chinesische Oper im Kulturkontakt“ – Dr. Andreas Seifert, „Bühnen aus Papier. Popularisierung von Opern- und Theaterstoffen im chinesischen Comic“
2018-06-19 18:00 - 20:00 | Theologicum, T0.134, Platz der Göttingen Sieben 2, Göttingen, 37073
Abstract:
In diesem Vortrag geht es um die Darstellung und Wiedergabe von Opern und anderen Bühnenstücken im chinesischen Comic (lianhuanhua 连环画). Dabei wird ein historischer Bogen gespannt, der bei der Bühne als Ausgangspunkt der chinesischen Comicentwicklung ansetzt, sich über die weitere Entwicklung der Comics als Mittel der politischen, kulturellen und technischen Bildung erstreckt und mit ihrer Indienstnahme für die politische Indoktrination während der späten Jahre der Kulturrevolution endet. Auch nach dem Beginn der Politik von Reform und Öffnung spielten die chinesischen Comics eine zentrale Rolle in der kulturellen Bildung. Anhand von zahlreichen Beispielen wird der besondere Stellenwert, den die Wiedergabe von Bühnenstücken (mit Schwerpunkt Oper) im Comic einnahm, veranschaulicht und analysiert. Die dem Vortrag zugrundeliegende These lautet, dass es gerade das lianhuanhua ist, das zur Popularisierung von Opern- und Bühnenstücken in China beigetragen hat.
Short bio:
Andreas Seifert ist promovierter Sinologe und hat sich in Studium und Forschung mit populären Bildmedien aus China beschäftigt. 2010 kuratierte er zusammen mit dem Cartoon-Museum Basel die Ausstellung „Wortbilder“ zu chinesischen Comics. Ein weiterer Schwerpunkt seiner wissenschaftlichen Tätigkeit ist die Auseinandersetzung mit der Militär- und Sicherheitspolitik der Volksrepublik China.
Mehr Informationen zur Vortragsreihe “On Stage: Chinesische Oper im Kulturkontakt” finden Sie hier.

Marijk van der Wende and Marcus Düwell (Utrecht University): The New Silk Road: Implications for higher education and research cooperation between China and Europe
2018-06-26 12:15 - 13:45 | Verfügungsgebäude VG 1.102, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, Göttingen, 37073
Abstract:
Recent geopolitical events such as Brexit and the US turning its back on international trade and cooperation create waves of uncertainty in higher education regarding international cooperation, the free movement of students, academics, scientific knowledge, and ideas. Meanwhile China is launching new global initiatives with its New Silk Road (or One Belt One Road) project, which could potentially span and integrate major parts of the world across the Euro-Asian continents. But likely on new and different conditions, also for higher education.
How will the NSR affect European higher education and research? What types of academic flows and activities emerge along the NSR, how do universities respond, under what conditions are these activities taking place, who defines these, based on what values, and do we actually understand these values at all?
About the speakers:
Marijk van der Wende is Distinguished Professor of Higher Education at Utrecht University’s Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance. Her research focuses on the impact of globalization and internationalization on higher education. She is also an affiliate faculty and research associate at the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE) at the University of California Berkeley and member of the Academia Europaea. Previously she held full professorial positions at VU University Amsterdam (2006-2015), the University of Twente (2001-2016), and was a visiting scholar at Harvard University (Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies), Boston College (Centre for International Higher Education), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Graduate School of Education), and the University of California Berkeley (CSHE).
Marcus Düwell holds a chair for philosophical ethics at Utrecht University. He is director of the Ethics Institute of Utrecht University and director of the Utrecht Research Institute for Philosophy and Religious Studies. From 2005-2012 he was director of the Netherlands Research School for Practical Philosophy. Düwell studied Philosophy, German Literature and Theology in Tübingen and Munich. His PhD-thesis at the university of Tübingen was a philosophical investigation about the relationship between ethics and aesthetics. From 1993-2001 he was academic coordinator of the Interdepartmental Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities at the University of Tübingen. His research interests include bioethics, ethics of climate change and general topics of moral and political philosophy, particular the ethics of human dignity and human rights.

Prof. Chen Huaiyu (Arizona State University): The animal turn in the study of global history: a religious perspective
2018-07-05 12:00 - 14:00 | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 2.601, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, 37073
Abstract:
This talk will examine some key issues that concern scholars who attempt to figure out the historical roots of our contemporary problems. One the one hand, some scholars have been debating the intellectual and religious cause of the ecological crisis and the extinction of animal species across the global village. For instance, Lynn White Jr. noted that the Christian dogma in the West contributed to the dominance of humans over animals and nature. On the other hand, the development of modern biotechnology and genetic engineering might have profoundly changed the non-human animals in the technology-assisted farm industry. The modern state of biotechnology has ended the traditional contract between humans and nature. Numerous plants and animals are cultivated and reared in the human-created or modified environment. Animals are no longer aware of nature’s changes when they do not witness the Sunrise and Sunset. Some ethicists and religious scholars are concerned that the animality of these technology-assisted reared animals is deprived because these animals now live in a human-made environment, which cannot even be called an ecological system. The human-animal relations have entered a new phase. This talk hopes to offer some observations about how the roles of major religions have been redefined and reshaped in the global ecological crisis and farm industry.
Short bio:
Huaiyu Chen received his MA in history from Peking University, China and Ph.D in religious studies from Princeton University, USA. Currently he is an associate professor at Arizona State University where he teaches Buddhism and Chinese Religions. He has published several monographs and numerous articles on Buddhist rituals and monastic culture, the interactions among Buddhism, Christianity, and Daoism, animals in Chinese religions, Western missionaries in China, and modern Chinese intellectual history. In this summer, as a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, he is finishing up his English book on animals in medieval Chinese religions.

Information meeting for our new master students in Modern Sinology
2018-10-12 13:00 - 14:00 | Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude, ZHG 002, Platz der Göttingen Sieben 5, Göttingen, 37073
All new students in the master program Modern Sinology are cordially invited to join the information meeting on October 12, 2018, at 1pm in room 002 of the ZHG (Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude).

Lecture: Jung-jen, Norman Tsai (National United University, Taiwan): "Japanese Colonial Shinto Shrines in Taiwan"
2018-10-24 16:00 - 18:00 | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 1.601, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, 37073
Abstract:
A lecture illustrated with the speaker’s latest field study on Japanese colonial Shinto shrines in Taiwan—the more than 400 Shinto Shrines built by the Japanese colonizers over the 50 years of colonization between 1895-1945—The lecture interprets the political, social and cultural meaning of these Shinto Shrines and their relics in the past and present.
Short bio:
Norman Tsai is assistant professor at the Architecture Department at the National United University in Taiwan. His research covers a wide range of modern ideas and their relation to architecture. These ideas include nationalism, modernity, museum politics, power and gender studies. Prof. Tsai has been educated and teaching in Taiwan, England and Scotland with an extensive exposure to architectural theory, architectural design practice, critical theory and cultural studies.
The lecture is open to the public.

Lecture: Mu-chou Poo (Chinese University of Hong Kong): "Old society, New Belief: Religious transformation of Rome and China (1st – 6th c. CE)"
2018-10-25 18:00 - 20:00 | Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude, ZHG 004, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5, Göttingen, 37073
Abstract:
Recently scholars in the study of antiquity around the world began to notice a trend of increasing interest in doing comparative studies. How should comparative study, particularly of the ancient world, be conducted, what are the benefits, what are the issues, are still problems that draw debates among scholars. This talk intends to use the example of a comparative project to address some of the issues in the comparative study of antiquity. This is a project comparing early Christianity in Rome and early Buddhism in China. Although a conference volume has been published, the issues are far from being resolved. Further investigation of this subject is needed.
Short bio:
Prof. Poo Mu-chou received a B.A. in History from National Taiwan University in 1975 and Ph.D. in Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from The Johns Hopkins University in 1984. He is a Professor of History and director of the Centre for the Comparative Study of Antiquity at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include society and religion in ancient Egypt and China. His major publications include Burial and the Idea of Life and Death: Essay on Ancient Chinese Religion, Wine and Wine Offering in the Religion of Ancient Egypt, In Search of Personal Welfare: A View of Ancient Chinese Religion, Enemies of Civilization: Attitudes toward Foreigners in Ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt and China and Daily Life in Ancient China.

Lecture: Prof. Dr. YANG Yuling 杨玉玲 (Beijing Language and Culture University): 汉字造字法和汉字教学 / Struktur und Didaktik der chinesischen Schriftzeichen
2018-10-25 18:00 - 20:00 | Verfügungsgebäude (VG) 2.105, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, Göttingen, 37073
Abstract:
摘要： 汉字是汉语学习和教学中的一大难点。本讲座将从以下角度解读汉字教学及学习的相关问题：1. 掌握汉字是学好汉语的前提吗？ 2. 汉字学习任务真的那么繁重吗？汉字学习有何理据？ 3. 汉字造字法：六书。科学指导还是陈旧概念？ 4. 词本位VS字本位，孰优孰劣？ 5. 汉字教学有哪些技巧及注意事项？
Schriftzeichen gelten als eine zentrale Schwierigkeit beim Erlernen der chinesischen Sprache. Der Vortrag wird die Vermittlung der chinesischen Schrift und deren Problematik aus folgenden Blickwinkeln beleuchten: 1. Muss man die chinesische Schrift erlernen, um Chinesisch zu lernen? 2. Ist es tatsächlich eine so komplexe Aufgabe, Schriftzeichen zu lernen? Gibt es Regeln oder Prinzipien des Schriftzeichenlernens? 3. Sind die „sechs Bildeweisen“ (liu shu) der Schriftzeichen aus dem chinesischen Altertum ein geeignetes System oder ein veraltetes Prinzip? 4. Die Diskussion um zibenwei vs. cibenwei: Stellen Wörter oder Schriftzeichen die Basis des Chinesischen dar? 5. Welche didaktischen Tricks gibt es in der Schriftzeichenvermittlung, welche Fehler sollte man vermeiden?
Der Vortrag findet in chinesischer Sprache statt. 讲座将用中文进行。
Short bio:
Prof. Dr. YANG Yuling, Beijing Language and Culture University, Doktor der chinesischen Philologie an der Fakultät für Chinesisch der Peking-Universität bei Prof. LU Jianming, beschäftigt sich hauptsächlich mit der Grammatik des modernen Chinesisch und der Forschung zu Chinesisch als Fremdsprache und widmet sich der Ausbildung von Chinesischlehrkräften. Prof. Dr. Yang hat mehr als 40 Artikel zum Thema Chinesischdidaktik publiziert und sieben Bücher veröffentlicht, unter anderem 《国际汉语教师语法教学手册》(„Grammatikunterricht – Ein Handbuch für den internationalen ChaF-Unterricht“) und《国际汉语语法与语法教学》(„ChaF-Grammatik und Grammatikunterricht“).

Trittin trifft Volker Stanzel, Ulrich Delius und Prof. Dr. Axel Schneider – „China – Aufstieg eines neuen Hegemons?“
2018-11-13 19:00 - 21:00 | DT Keller, Theaterplatz 11, Göttingen, 37073
Abstract:
China gerät immer mehr in den Blick. Präsident Xi Jingping treibt auf vielen Ebenen offen und selbstbewusst den Wiederaufstieg Chinas voran. Als permanentes Mitglied im UN-Sicherheitsrat ist China bereits seit langem ein zentraler Akteur in den internationalen Beziehungen. Die chinesische Führung klammert in ihrem Handeln aus, was ihrer Ansicht nach nicht wichtig ist – wie etwa die Menschenrechte. Die Inhaftierung Oppositioneller und die umfangreiche soziale Überwachung sind zwei Beispiele dafür.
Als regionaler Hegemon hingegen agiert China klassisch unilateral mit militärischer Macht. Die zunehmende Militarisierung des Südchinesischen Meeres wird von den USA und Chinas Nachbarn, die ebenfalls Ansprüche auf die strategisch wichtigen Gewässer erheben, kritisiert.
Handelspolitisch haben sowohl Deutschland als auch China als Exportnationen im gegenwärtigen Handelskonflikt mit den USA viel zu verlieren. Daher ist es umso wichtiger, dass die Basis dieser Partnerschaft stimmt. Sie muss auf Chancengleichheit und Reziprozität beruhen.
Auf der Veranstaltung „Trittin trifft: China –Aufstieg eines neuen Hegemons?“ möchte ich mit dem ehemaligen Botschafter Volker Stanzel (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik), dem Sinologen Prof. Dr. Axel Schneider (Universität Göttingen) und dem Direktor der Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker Ulrich Delius am Dienstag, den 13. November um 19 Uhr im DT-Keller in Göttingen diskutieren. Chinas Wiederaufstieg stellt Deutschland vor neue Herausforderung, denn China fügt sich nicht einfach in die bestehende internationale Ordnung ein. China will mitbestimmen und Anpassungen des internationalen Regelwerks vornehmen, die seinen eigenen, anderen (Wert-)Vorstellungen entsprechen.
Hier erhalten Sie mehr Informationen.

“China’s Role in a Changing Global Economy” (2018年哥廷根大学-南京大学研讨会：变化的全球经济和中国发展)
2018-11-16 13:00 - 16:00 | Seminar Room 1, DARE (9.136, Blue tower), Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5, Göttingen, 37073, Deutschland
Program:
Opening 13:00-13:10
Prof. Xiaohua Yu (Göttingen), Introducing the program and the participants from University of Göttingen
(于晓华教授：介绍会议日程以及哥廷根大学的与会者)
Dr. Xu Ning (NJU), Introducing the participants from Nanjing University and IDEI
(徐宁博士: 介绍南京大学的与会者以及南京大学产业经济研究院）
Presentations: 13:10-16:00
1，Prof. Zhibiao Liu (NJU): Globalization and Advanced Countries-of-Manufacture from a Perspective of Global Value Chain
（刘志彪教授：GVC视角下的全球化与建设制造强国）
2, Prof. Krisztina Kis-Katos (Göttingen): Current research on International Economic Policy: Potential linkages to China
（Krisztina Kis-Katos教授：和中国相关的国际经济政策进展）
3，Dr. Liu Chen （NJU）：Development Patterns of Emerging and Strategic Industries in China
（陈 柳博士：中国战略新兴产业发展模式分析）
4，Prof. Fabian Froese (Göttingen): Employability of Chinese students
(Fabian Froese教授：中国学生的可雇佣性)
Break ：14：30-14：40
5，Dr. Yueyou Zhang (NJU): Industry 4.0 in Germany and Development of Production-Service Industry in China
（张月友博士：德国工业4.0模式与中国生产性服务业发展）
Organizer & Contact:
Prof. Xiaohua Yu: Professor, University of Göttingen (xyu@uni-goettingen.de)
Ms. Jana Nowakowsky, (jana.nowakowsky@agr.uni-goettingen.de, Tel:0551-39-4883)

Dharmameister Kaiyin: „Path to Happiness: Loving-kindness Meditation"
2018-11-16 14:00 - 17:00 | Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude, ZHG 004, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5, Göttingen, 37073
Im Kontext der Einführung in den Buddhismus (Teil des Moduls Geistesgeschichte) findet ein Gastvortrag statt. Ein führender Mönch vom Fagu-Kloster in Nordtaiwan kommt nach Göttingen und hält einen Vortrag zur buddhistischen Meditation. Sie alle sind herzlich eingeladen, diesen sicherlich spannenden Vortrag zum Buddhismus aus einer Innenperspektive zu besuchen.
Sprache: Hochchinesisch mit Übersetzung ins Englische
Übersetzer: Shi Chanzhen
PS: Für die Studenten*innen, welche die Vorlesung zum Buddhismus besuchen, ist dieser Vortrag Teil der Lehrveranstaltung.

ASC Conference
2018-11-30 - 2018-12-01
Arbeitskreis Sozialwissenschaftliche Chinaforschung- Jahrestagung 2018
Hier erhalten Sie mehr Informationen.

Prof. Dr. Christine Moll-Murata (Ruhr-Universität Bochum): "North-East Asian peripheries in focus: industrialization, architecture and city planning in Inner Mongolia"
2018-12-03 12:00 - 14:00 | Verfügungsgebäude, VG 3.107, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, Göttingen, 37073
Abstract:
Inner Mongolia belongs to the Northeast Asian Frontier Region as defined by Owen Lattimore. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, this macro-region has been subjected to various political impacts, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian. A recent research initiative based at Bochum and Duisburg sets out to consider especially the transnational and cross-border perspectives that connect this large area, although it is divided by national frontiers. This talk presents an outlook on Inner Mongolia as a region which so far has not been recognized as one of the centers of industrialization on a global scale. Yet its mineral resources in coal and rare earths are very rich; the Baotou Iron and Steel group is one of the largest steel producers nationwide, and in agribusiness the Inner Mongolian dairy companies rank topmost in China. How did this come about? Inner Mongolia seems to be a typical latecomer in industrialization with a short colonial history – or a very long one, depending on the conception of colonialism. This presentation will focus on the period during the first half of the twentieth century, when industrialization made several starts that were triggered by the competition among all the powers in the field. Its focus will be on the prerequisites of industrial development – infrastructure and communication.
Short Bio:
Christine Moll-Murata is chair professor at the Department for History of China, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, and honorary fellow of the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam. Her research focuses on labor history of China, Taiwan, and Japan, the history of crafts and guilds in China, perceptions of the future in East Asia since 1900 and the industrialization of Northeast Asia. Her recent book, States and Crafts in the Qing Dynasty, was published with Amsterdam University Press in 2018.

Prof. Zhang Xupeng (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences): "Beyond National History: Some New Trends in Chinese History Writing"
2018-12-05 18:00 - 20:00 | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.610, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, 37073, Deutschland
Abstract:
In recent years, many Chinese scholars have rethought the paradigm of national history. Consequently, research on borders and border-crossing history has become increasingly popular. In this context, some scholars argue that the formation of the Chinese nation is not a historically given process but rather the result of interactions between various internal and external factors. With this new, more complex understanding of the Chinese nation, these historians reflect upon the nature of national history, which can be an effective way to transcend it.
Bio:
Zhang Xupeng is Professor at the World History Institute, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing. He is the author of The Theory of Cultural Studies (2014) and co-author of The Philosophy and Theory of Contemporary Western History (2019, forthcoming). His primary research and teaching fields are intellectual history, global history and modern Western historical theory.

CANCELLED:Nicolas Standaert (University of Leuven (Belgium)): "AN INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION CIRCUIT OF BOOKS BETWEEN CHINA AND EUROPE IN THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES: THE ESTABLISHMENT OF IN-BETWEEN TEXTUAL COMMUNITIES"
2019-01-18 12:00 - 14:00 | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.606, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, 37073
Abstract:
A unique characteristic of the cultural contacts between China and Europe is the intercultural circuit of books: European books travelling to China and in return Chinese books travelling to Europe. A special feature was that a large number of intercultural books were translated and published into Chinese and others into European languages. What shape did this communication circuit take? What are the characteristics of the intercultural books produced through this interaction? What kind of community took shape in the ‘in between’ of two cultures through this circuit of books?
This presentation introduces a collective research project on this topic. By analyzing a unique collection of intercultural books, the project investigates their production, distribution and consumption in search of their role in the identity formation of in-between textual communities in China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This study will provide insight into the emergence of intercultural book worlds.
Short bio:
Nicolas Standaert is professor of Sinology at the University of Leuven (Belgium). His major research interest is the cultural contacts between China and Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In this field he has led multiple research projects on rituality, visual culture, materiality and historiography and organized several international workshop on these topics. His recent publications include: The Intercultural Weaving of Historical Texts: Chinese and European Stories about Emperor Ku and His Concubines, Leiden: Brill, 2016; Chinese Voices in the Rites Controversy: Travelling Books, Community Networks, Intercultural Arguments, (Bibliotheca Instituti Historici S.I. 75), Rome: Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu, 2012; The Interweaving of Rituals: Funerals in the Cultural Exchange between China and Europe, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008.

Informations- und Diskussionsveranstaltung: "Arbeitskämpfe und die Verfolgung studentischer AktivistInnen in China"
2019-01-22 18:00 - 20:00 | Oeconomicum. OEC 0.211, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, Göttingen
Mit: Michael Ma (SACOM, Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour, Hongkong), Peter Birke und Daniel Fuchs (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen).
Moderation: Katja Pessl (CeMEAS)
Die Zahl der Streiks und Proteste in Chinas Weltmarktfabriken ist im vergangenen Jahrzehnt rasant angestiegen. Alleine zwischen 2015 und 2017 ereigneten sich mehr als 6.500 Arbeitskämpfe. Zugleich haben sich mit der Machtübernahme von Xi Jinping im Jahr 2012 auch die staatlichen Repressionsmaßnahmen verschärft. Jüngst sorgte der Fall des Arbeitskampfes bei Jasic Technology Co. Ltd. in Shenzhen, Südchina, für internationale Aufmerksamkeit. Die von Beschäftigten im Mai 2018 gegründete Gewerkschaftsvertretung wurde – entgegen der geltenden Gesetzeslage – für illegal erklärt, ArbeiterInnen wurden entlassen und verhaftet. Dies führte zu einer breiten Solidaritätskampagne, mehrheitlich getragen von marxistischen Studierenden und UniversitätsabsolventInnen aus ganz China, die unter anderem auch nach Südchina reisten, um vor Ort Demonstrationen zu organisieren. Damit gerieten sie zur Zielscheibe staatlicher Verfolgung. Zwischen Juli und September 2018 erfolgten zahlreiche, landesweit koordinierte Razzien, mehrere Dutzend studentische AktivistInnen wurden verhaftet. Ebenfalls an der Repression beteiligt waren und sind die Universitätsleitungen mehrerer renommierter Hochschulen, auch direkt auf dem Campus der Peking Universität wurden UnterstützerInnen des Arbeitskampfes verschleppt. Bis dato befinden sich vier ArbeiterInnen der Firma Jasic sowie ein NGO-Mitarbeiter in Untersuchungshaft. Mindestens zehn weitere studentische AktivistInnen werden weiterhin in Polizeigewahrsam gehalten oder stehen unter Hausarrest.

Berufsinformationstag
2019-01-24 12:00 - 18:00 | Die einzelnen Veranstaltungsorte entnehmen Sie bitte dem obigen Link., Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, 37073
Die Seminare für Arabistik/ Islamwissenschaft, Iranstik, Turkologie und das Ostasiatische Seminar laden ein zum BerufsInformationsTag.
Nähere Informationen zum Programm erhalten Sie hier.

4. Nacht des Wissens: Katja Pessl (CeMEAS) & Daniel Fuchs (Ostasiatisches Seminar): "Sprachsalat und Fettnäpfchen: Chinesisch für Kinder und Erwachsene"
2019-01-26 18:00 - 20:00 | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.607
Die Veranstaltung bietet eine humorvolle Einführung in Grundkenntnisse der chinesischen Sprache. Sie erlernen Grundstrukturen chinesischer Schriftzeichen und werden in die Herausforderungen der Übersetzung aus dem / in das Chinesische eingeführt. Zudem erwerben sie die Fähigkeit, ihren eigenen Namen am Ende der Veranstaltung in Form von chinesischen Schriftzeichen zu schreiben.
Die Anzahl der Teilnehmer für diesen Programmpunkt ist limitiert, melden Sie sich bitte an.
Diese Veranstaltung is Teil der 4. Nacht des Wissens in Göttingen am Samstag, den 26. Januar 2019 von 17 bis 24 Uhr. Der Eintritt zu allen Veranstaltungen ist frei.
Hier können Sie Informationen zu dem ganzen Programm finden.

4. Nacht des Wissens: Wang Yan & Christoph Zimmer (Ostasiatisches Seminar): "Chinesisch verstehen – China verstehen?"
2019-01-26 20:00 - 21:00 | Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude, ZHG 003, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5, Göttingen, 37073
Zhèng dà guāng míng: 1706 steht Charles Maigrot vor dem chinesischen Kaiser. Als er aufgefordert wird, einige Schriftzeichen zu erläutern, versagt er kläglich. Kurz darauf werden die Missionare des Landes verwiesen. Legitimiert sprachliche Kompetenz kulturelle Expertise? Welche Bedeutung haben Sprache und Schrift zum Verständnis Chinas gestern und heute? Können wir China ohne Chinesisch verstehen?
Diese Veranstaltung is Teil der 4. Nacht des Wissens in Göttingen am Samstag, den 26. Januar 2019 von 17 bis 24 Uhr. Der Eintritt zu allen Veranstaltungen ist frei.
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Li-Jen Kuo (Texas A&M University, USA): „Acquisition of Chinese Characters by Second Language Learners: The Effects of Character Properties and Individual Differences“
2019-04-17 18:00 - 20:00 | Verfügungsgebäude, VG 3.106, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, Göttingen, 37073
Abstract:
Recent years have witnessed a dramatic growth of Chinese learners worldwide and a need for cross-linguistic research on Chinese literacy development. Drawing upon theories of visual complexity effect (Su and Samuels, 2010) and dual-coding processing (Sadoski and Paivio, 2013), Dr. Li-Jen Kuo will present a study that investigated (a) the effects of character properties (i.e., visual complexity and radical presence) on character acquisition and (b) the relationship between individual learner differences in radical awareness and character acquisition. Participants included adolescent English-speaking beginning learners of Chinese in the U.S. Following Kuo et al. (2014), a novel character acquisition task was used to investigate the process of acquiring the meaning of new characters. Theoretical and pedagogical implications of the findings will be discussed.
Short bio:
Dr. Li-Jen Kuo is Associate Professor of Literacy Education and Second Language Acquisition in the College of Education and Human Development at Texas A&M University, USA. Dr. Kuo also serves as the Director of Texas A&M’s Chinese and Korean Language and Culture Program, a service program funded by US federal grants.
Dr. Kuo received her M.A. in Language, Learning and Policy from Stanford University and her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology with an emphasis on Cognitive Science of Teaching and Learning from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the US National Academy of Education.
Dr. Kuo’s research focuses on the interface among literacy, cognition and learning. She has directed several national and international research projects that investigate how different aspects of literacy development, ranging from the emergence of phonological awareness to the acquisition of argumentative discourse, vary across learners of diverse first and second language backgrounds. Her research participants included Chinese-, Korean-, Japanese- and Spanish-speaking learners of English as well as English-speaking learners of Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Spanish. Dr. Kuo’s research has been funded by the US National Academy of Education/ Spencer Foundation and American Psychological Association. Utilizing both experimental and naturalistic methods, her research aims to advance theories of biliteracy development and to inform educational practice. Dr. Kuo has been publishing her research in high impact journals and her work has been widely cited in the fields of educational psychology and applied linguistics (Google Scholar Citation: 1.780; h-index: 14; i10-index: 16).

Prof. David Armitage (Harvard University): „In Defense of Presentism"
2019-04-24 18:00 - 20:00 | Tagungs- und Veranstaltungshaus Alte Mensa, Raum “Taberna”, Wilhelmsplatz 3, Göttingen, 37073
Abstract:
Historians know one thing about presentism: they are against it. Yet what exactly presentism is, they cannot agree. Is it a focus on modern history or a novel way of thinking confined to the present at the expense of both past and future? Does it mean speaking only to the concerns of the present or recognising that “all history is contemporary history”? This confusion is a symptom of a deeper quandary: the very purpose of history writing itself. With the help of scholarship on presentism in other disciplines—philosophy, psychology, history of science—this lecture disentangles the various meanings of presentism, presents their ethical implications, and offers a tempered defence of presentism in history as a key to human flourishing.

Short Bio:
DAVID ARMITAGE is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University, where he teaches intellectual history and international history. He is also an Honorary Professor of History at the University of Sydney and at Queen’s University Belfast and an Honorary Fellow of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge; he is currently a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He is the author or editor of seventeen books, among them The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (2000), The Declaration of Independence: A Global History (2007), Foundations of Modern International Thought (2013), The History Manifesto (co-auth, 2014) and Civil Wars: A History in Ideas (2017). He is currently working on an edition of John Locke’s colonial writings and a global history of treaty-making over the longue durée.

Dr. Lee Chun-Yi (University of Nottingham): "Does China’s BRI have smart power on Southeast Asian countries?"
2019-05-02 18:00 - 20:00 | Verfügungsgebäude (VG) 2.103, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, Göttingen, 37073
Abstract:
The One Belt One Road project (OBOR, later known as the Belt and Road Initiative, BRI), initiated by Chinese President Xi Jinping, took shape in October 2013. It is envisaged to connect vibrant East Asia and developed Europe via the Silk Road Economic Belt, linking China with European countries through the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. Its ultimate goal is to facilitate trade and investment in Eurasia and promote economic growth. The BRI triggered great discussion within and beyond China, with the intention of positioning China in an active role of global governance.
The main Asian countries on the map of China’s maritime belt include Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand. So far there has been no systematic research focusing on the socioeconomic impact of China’s BRI particularly on the question of to what extent the BRI’s smart power, that is the combination of hard power (economic and military) and soft power (cultural influence) on those countries. In this paper I will aim to compare and contrast Chinese investment on Vietnam and Malaysia.
The structure of the paper will be as following, the first section will be the discussion of smart power, the second section will be the empirical data of Chinese investment in selected countries of China’s BRI: Vietnam, Malaysia and Singapore. The empirical data will be composed by qualitative interviews and also statistic data from the listed countries. The third section will be the analysis of ‘effectiveness’ of China’s smart power by interpreting those countries responses towards Chinese investment in comparison of their responses towards China’s position in South China Sea.
Key words: Smart Power, Maritime Silk Road, South China Sea
Short bio:
Dr Lee Chun-Yi’s is an Associate Professor at school of Politics and International Relations, she is also the director of Taiwan Studies Program at University of Nottingham. Chun-yi’s current research project is on geopolitical implications of BRI. She has served as a visiting research fellow at East Asia Institute at National University of Singapore from May to June 2018.
Dr Lee’s past research included Chinese investment in Taiwan. This project investigated bilateral cross-Strait economic activities and their impact on the two societies. It is a two and a half year project from July 2014 to December 2016. Dr Lee’s previous research project was on Chinese labour within the global economy with Prof Andreas Bieler at the School of Politics and International Relation. A three-year project that was completed in September 2014, it investigated the influence of different foreign investors on Chinese workers and labour rights.

Eva Sternfeld (Sino-German Agricultural Centre): "Transforming China’s Agriculture and Food Sector – On path to sustainability?"
2019-05-06 16:00 - 18:00 | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.603, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen
Abstract:
China needs to feed about one fifth of the world population but has only 7 percent of world’s arable land. Ensuring food security has been always a challenge and agricultural intensification has been the program for decades. Since the 1970s technological developments such as mechanization, biotechnology and agrochemicals helped to achieve enormous increases in agricultural productivity.
However, the so called “green revolution” is reaching its limits. In recent years the sector has been in the spot light for food safety scandals and ecosystem degradation. China’s government tries tackle these problems with a series of new policies and action plans. The presentation looks at the challenges China’s agricultural and food sector is confronted with and introduces recent strategies for sustainable agriculture.
Short bio:
Eva Sternfeld is science advisor at Sino-German agricultural Center (DCZ) in Beijing, a joint initiative of the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People’s Republic of China (MARA).
Prior to working with DCZ, Eva Sternfeld was a visiting professor at the Institute for East Asian Studies at Freie Universität Berlin and head of the Center for Cultural Studies on Science and Technology in China of TU Berlin. Between 2000 and 2008 she has been working as a foreign advisor for the Center of Environmental Education and Communication of the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection in Beijing. She has widely published on issues related to urban/rural development and water management in China. Recent publications include the edition of the Routledge Handbook on Environmental Policy in China (2017).

Prof. Dr. JIA Fang (Beijing Normal University): "Chinese Oral Expression Training in Overseas Language Environment"
2019-05-08 18:00 - 20:00 | Verfügungsgebäude, VG 3.106, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, Göttingen, 37073
Abstract:
摘要：在第二语言技能教学中，口头表达训练是学习者最需要教师帮助的项目之一，也是最能检验教师教学能力的科目，有很大的研究空间。本讲座的内容分为两个部分：第一部分：“汉语口头表达训练的基本问题与教学策略”，简要论述口语课的定位及教学目标，着重梳理教学中存在的实际问题和对应的教学策略。第二部分：“海外环境下的汉语口头表达训练”，分析海外环境下汉语口头表达训练的特点以及如何从教师、教材、教学方法等方面进行环境补偿。
In second language teaching, the training of oral competence is one of the most important skills for students that requires their teacher’s support. That is why it is as well one of the most representative subjects to proof the teacher’s teaching skills. Lots of research space remains within this topic. The lecture will be divided in two parts. The first will treat “fundamental issues and teaching strategies of oral expression training”, discussing briefly the status and teaching objectives of oral competence classes and putting emphasis on the combination of practical problems and how to respond to them with corresponding teaching strategies. The second part will focus on the analysis of characteristics of “Chinese Oral Expression Training in Overseas Environment” and how the environment can be compensated through teaching materials, teaching methods and other aspects.
讲座将用中文进行。
The lecture will be held in Chinese language.
Short bio:
简介：贾放，博士，北京师范大学汉语文化学院教授，世界汉语教学学会会员，中国民俗学会会员。研究方向为对外汉语教学及中国文化教学，民俗文化学。发表论文20余篇，出版译著两部及译文多篇，参加编写汉语教材两部。主持完成国家社科基金项目一项，省部级项目子课题两项。自1994年起从事对外汉语与中国文化教学以及各类汉语师资培训，培训内容包括：汉语课堂教学法、课堂教学观摩点评、汉语口头表达训练、教师的汉语观与教学成效、跨文化语境下的民俗文化教学等。讲授过的本硕士研究生课程有：汉语课堂教学法、课堂教学观摩、社会语言学课堂教学论、教学观摩与点评、以及中国风俗文化专题、中国文化史专题等。
JIA Fang (Ph.D.) is professor at the Chinese Culture Institute of Beijing Normal University and member of the International Society for Chinese Language Teaching, as well as the Chinese Folklore Society. Her research interests include teaching Chinese as a foreign language, Chinese culture, and Chinese folklore studies. Her academic achievements include over 20 published journal articles, two translated books, several translated papers and two Chinese textbooks. She also was the lead researcher in a national key research project funded by the National Social Science Foundation and two research projects on provincial level. Since 1994, she has been engaged in teacher trainings and Chinese language and culture teaching, amongst others focusing on Chinese language teaching methodology, teaching observation and evaluation, oral expression training, teaching theories and efficiency, as well as folklore culture teaching in cross-cultural contexts. Furthermore, she has taught a number of different postgraduate and undergraduate courses at BNU, such as Chinese language teaching methods, social linguistics, teaching theories, teaching observation and evaluation as well as special lectures on Chinese customs, culture, and cultural history.

Li Hongtao 李红涛 (Zhegjiang University): "Defining a Green APP: Civic Tech, Digital Activism and Visions of Public Participation"
2019-05-14 18:00 - 20:00 | Verfügungsgebäude. VG 3.104, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, Göttingen, 37073
Abstract:
With smog now constituting part of the daily health threats for Chinese people, many pollution tracking APPs have come into the market to meet the demand for smog related information. Taking one particular APP- “BlueSky Map”, which is originally known as Pollution Map, as the focal case, this talk will explore how grassroots activists define, legitimize and employ such APPs as useful tools, which enable the general public to get informed, make their voices heard, and take necessary actions. The empirical analysis will focus on how environmental APPs empower Chinese public, how do citizens, NGOs, government and polluters interact on the interface, and what is the effect and implication of such participation for China’s environmental governance.
Short bio:
Dr. Hongtao Li (李红涛) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Journalism & Communication and a Distinguished Young Scholar at Zhejiang University. He also serves as an Associate Professor (20%) in the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages at University of Oslo. He received his Ph.D. in Communication from City University of Hong Kong in February 2010. Before joining Zhejiang University in May 2010, he was a post-doctoral fellow and later a visiting Assistant Professor in the Center for Communication Research at City U of Hong Kong. His research interests include air pollution and environmental politics, global communication, sociology of news, media and cultural memory. He has published a book on the mediated memory of Nanjing Massacre (Renmin University Press, 2017) and his work appears regularly on major English and Chinese journals, including The China Quarterly, Communication and the Public, Media, Culture & Society, International Journal of Press/Politics, Asian Journal of Communication, Chinese Journal of Communication, and Communication & Society (in Chinese), etc.
(Source: Personal Homepage, Zhejiang University)

Prof. Dr. Lena Hennigsen (Freiburg University): „Reading as creative and social practice: Unofficial popular entertainment literature during the Cultural Revolution“
2019-05-20 16:00 - 18:00 | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 1.731, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, 37073
Abstract:
Most literary histories of Twentieth Century China describe the output of the Cultural Revolution (CR) in a few sentences or paragraphs. Legal and officially endorsed literary texts of the decade seem flat, dull and boring to today’s readers. The CR thus appears as a period of literary shortage that would be ended with post-CR literature: misty poetry, scar literature, root seeking literature… However, a much more complicated picture of literary diversity arises once we look at actual literary practices: Chinese readers at the time were craving for things to read and went to great lengths to obtain reading materials. They would steal books from libraries; they read literary texts from earlier epochs that were now forbidden; they would illegally read and often copy material designated for internal circulation; they would write, read, copy and circulate entertainment literature by hand…
In this talk, I will discuss this latter type of popular unofficial hand-written (shouchaoben) entertainment fiction from the perspective of reading practices. First, I will present an overview of what and how particular groups of readers actually read at the time, and what meaning actual reading materials and reading practices had for their lives. Second, I will discuss a number of exemplary fictional shouchaoben texts and delineate the role that readers played in their creation, circulation, preservation and development. After all, extant manuscripts attest to a great variety of versions of the “same” story: when copying texts, many readers found ways to alter, enhance or change extant stories. This, I argue, thwarts notions of the dullness of CR literary practices. Rather, these practices lowered the threshold for literary creativity. Resembling fan-fiction practices in many ways, they offered readers space to probe into their literary talents and creativity, to ponder their experiences during the CR, to question the ideals of Maoism, and to test new notions of love or the self. From this I will proceed to argue that these practices anticipated post-Maoist literary trends as well as developments on the bestseller market that would emerge in the People’s Republic after 1978.
Short bio:
Lena Henningsen is Junior Professor for Chinese Studies at Freiburg University. Her research interests focus on 20th and 21st century popular literature and culture. She has authored a book on the 2000s Chinese bestseller market (Copyright Matters: Imitation, Creativity and Authenticity in Contemporary Chinese Literature, 2010) and has completed a book project on unofficial handwritten entertainment fiction from the Chinese Cultural Revolution. She currently leads the ERC funded research project “The Politics of Reading in the People’s Republic of China” in which she and her team investigate literary and intellectual change from the perspective of the (ordinary) reader. From 2013 to 2018 she was member of the German Young Academy.

China - Pflanzen aus dem Reich der Mitte Sonderführungen durch den Alten Botanischen Garten der Universität Göttingen
2019-05-22 17:00 - 18:00 | Alter Botanischer Garten, Untere Karspüle 2, Göttingen, 37073
Im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe China’s Green Transformation werden im Sommersemester 2019 Führungen zur Flora Chinas im Alten Botanischen Garten angeboten. Veranstalter der Vortragsreihe sind das Centre for Modern East Asian Studies (CeMEAS) und das Akademische Konfuzius Institut (AKI) an der Universität Göttingen. Das detaillierte Programm der Vortragsreihe finden Sie auf unserer Webpage: www.cemeas.de.
Termine für die Führungen durch den Alten Botanischen Garten:
Mittwoch, 22. Mai, 17:00 – ca. 18:00 (zusätzlicher Termin!)
Mittwoch, 5. Juni 2019, 17:00 – ca. 18:00
Mittwoch, 10. Juli, 17:00 – ca. 18:00
Alter Botanischer Garten, unter Karspüle 2, 37073 Göttingen
www.altgart.uni-goettingen.de
Die Führungen werden von Dr. Michael Schwerdtfeger (Kustos des Alten Botanischen Gartens) durchgeführt. Sie sind kostenfrei und eine Anmeldung ist nicht nötig.
China – Pflanzen aus dem Reich der Mitte
Als im Jahr 1737 der Botanische Garten der Universität Göttingen angelegt wurde, war China noch „unerreichbar“ weit weg, und die meisten Europäer hatten von Natur und Kultur Chinas nur vage und abenteuerliche Vorstellungen. In der Folge fanden durch Naturforscher, Abenteurer, Gärtner, Missionare und Handelsreisende mehr und mehr Pflanzenarten aus dem Reich der Mitte in unsere Gärten. Unser Gartenrundgang stellt bekannte und außergewöhnliche pflanzliche Gäste und Botschafter aus diesem großen und vielfältigen Land vor.

Guest Lectures on Chinese as a Foreign Language 汉语作为外语讲座
2019-05-23 18:00 - 20:00 | Verfügungsgebäude, VG 4.104, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, Göttingen, 37073
Prof. LI Xiaoqi 李晓琪 (Peking University北京大学): 汉语虚词教学与研究 (Teaching and Research of Chinese Function Words)
摘要：
虚词是汉语语法的重要特点，是外国学生学习汉语的难点，外国学生在虚词学习方面存在着严重的“化石化”现象。如何把汉语虚词教学与研究有机地结合起来，摸索出科学有效的虚词教学方法和虚词研究模式，是每一位汉语教师及研究者需要面对的课题。本讲座与大家分享一路走来的虚词教学与研究心得。包括：虚词教学的原则（分清理论语法与教学语法）；虚词教学的方法（讲授与参与；练习与互动；表格与重现）和虚词教学案例分析。
Abstract:
Chinese function words (虚词xuci ) are an important feature of Chinese grammar, and they stand for a point of difficulty for foreign students learning the Chinese language. In the study of function words, foreign students maintain a serious state of “fossilization”. Therefore, every Chinese language teacher or researcher should face questions such as how to combine teaching and research of Chinese function words, as well as explore scientific and effective teaching methods and research methods. The lecture will provide an insight on the principles of teaching function words (distinguishing between theoretical grammar and teaching grammar), teaching methods of Chinese function words (lecture and participation, practice and interaction, form and reappearance) and will analyze cases of teaching Chinese function words.
The lecture will be held in Chinese language.
简介：
李晓琪， 北京大学对外汉语教育学院教授、博士生导师，“北京大学汉语口语自动化考试”研发负责人，中文教学现代化学会会长。自1984年从事对外汉语教学工作以来，曾先后赴美国纽约州立大学、美国明德暑期学校、美国斯坦福大学、法国巴黎十大任教。研究领域为对外汉语教学（学科建设、教材编写、语言测试、师资培训等）和现代汉语语法。发表研究论文50余篇，出版编著、工具书10余部，编写和主编汉语教材50余部。其中，《快乐汉语》获中国国家汉办“优秀汉语教材”奖。《博雅汉语》评为“2016年北京大学优秀教材”。出版专著《现代汉语虚词讲义》和《汉语第二语言教材编写》。曾任北京大学对外汉语教育学院院长，世界汉语教学学会常务理事，“商务汉语考试”（BCT）研发负责人，《汉语教学学刊》主编。
LI Xiaoqi is professor and academic advisor for doctoral students at the School of Chinese as a Second Language at Peking University, in charge of the research and development of the Automated “Spoken Chinese Test (SCT)” and president of the Chinese Society for Modernization of Chinese Language Education. Since 1984, she has trained a large number of future teachers and researchers in the field of teaching Chinese as a foreign language in the United States and in France. Among her research interests are different aspects of teaching Chinese as a foreign language, such as textbook compilation, language tests, teacher training, as well as Modern Chinese grammar. Her publication of research papers, books and textbooks include prize-winning textbooks such as “Happy Chinese” or “Boya Chinese”, which in 2016 was rated as “Peking University Excellent Teaching Material”. She was the dean of the School of Chinese as a Second Language at Peking University, permanent council member of the World Chinese Language Teaching Association, head of the research and development of the “Business Chinese Test (BCT)” and chief editor of the “Journal of Teaching Chinese” (汉语教学学刊).
Prof. Dr. JI Chuanbo 汲传波 (Peking University 北京大学): 面向第二语言教学的汉语语体语法研究 (Turning towards research on Register Grammar for Teaching Chinese as a Second Language)
摘要：
第二语言教学的目标是培养学习者正确、流利、得体地使用二语的能力，其中“得体”与否往往涉及语体问题。无论是英语二语教学，还是汉语二语教学，研究者都发现学习者的书面语中存在口语化倾向；与母语者相比，无论是初级二语学习者，还是高级二语学习者，语体能力都存在不足。本讲座将从语体语法的视角出发，介绍汉语二语教学界关于语体习得研究的相关成果和最新热点，分享个人对语体习得研究的一些思考。
Abstract: The goal of second language teaching is to cultivate the learner’s ability to use the second language correctly, fluently and “decently”, though the latter often causes problems in terms of language registers. Whether in Teaching English as a second language or Chinese, researchers have found that learners have a tendency of using colloquial language in texts that should adapt a written language. In comparison to native speakers, the capabilities of using written language registers are insufficient, affecting beginners as much as advanced second language learners. This lecture will introduce relevant achievements and latest hot spots of the research of register acquisition in the field of teaching Chinese as a second language, and share some thoughts on the given topic.
The lecture will be held in Chinese language.
简介：
汲传波，应用语言学博士，教授。2002年7月至今在北京大学对外汉语教育学院工作，其间曾赴英国牛津大学、韩国梨花女子大学任教。研究领域为面向第二语言教学的汉语语体、语法研究；“三教”研究（教师、教材、教学法）；语言生活状况研究。著有《强调范畴及其若干句法研究》等，发表论文30余篇。
JI Chuanbo (Ph.D.) is professor of Applied Linguistics. Since July 2002, he has worked at the School of Chinese as a Second Language at Peking University. During this time, he has stayed as well at the Oxford University in the UK and the Ewha Women’s University in Korea. His research interests include Chinese language and grammar for second language teaching, research on the “three T’s” (teacher, textbook and teaching methods), and reports on the language situation in China. He has published more than 30 papers as well as a monography on “Study on the Emphatic Category and Some of Its Syntax”.

The 13th Göttingen East Asia Research Salon: Mixed Identities in Northeast Chinese Borderlands: Koreans in Liaodong in the 15th to 17th centuries
2019-06-04 16:00 - 18:00 | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.701, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, 37073
Presenter: Hanning PIAO (Fudan University, Shanghai)
Commentators: Yan JIN (Department of East Asian Studies, Göttingen) & Dr. Julia C. SCHNEIDER (Department of East Asian Studies, Göttingen)
Abstract:
Migration has existed throughout the history of human beings, affecting the identities of migrating peoples and the societies they migrate into. Before the world has been overwhelmed by modernization, national states and globalization, how did migratory people perceive themselves and how were they perceived by others? Were there clear boundaries between “Us” and “Them”, “Self” and “Others”? Was identity pure and stable or mixed and fragile?
In my presentation, I will discuss these questions by examining the case of Koreans who migrated to Liaodong in the 15th to 17th centuries. In case of the Korean migrants, identities turn out to be unstable, mixed and entangled.
(Image by Hanning Piao)
Short CV:
Since 2017, Hanning PIAO is a Master student at the Department of History, Fudan University. She has been a guest student at the University of Pennsylvania and at Seoul National University. Hanning earned her BA in History at the Department of History, Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, where she also worked as a student research assistant at the Research Center of Local Archives.
