Chinese Studies

Greg Distelhorst (MIT) & Diana Fu (University of Toronto): Citizenship & Bureaucracy in China
2018-05-16 17:00 - 19:30 (Europe/Helsinki) | Waldweg -1.201, Waldweg 26, Göttingen, 37073
Articulating Authoritatian Citizenship in China
Greg Distelhorst (MIT)
Evaluating the Bureaucracy in China and the US
Diana Fu (University of Toronto)
Short Bio:
Greg Distelhorst:
Greg Distelhorst is the Mitsubishi Career Development Professor and an Assistant Professor in Global Economics and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
His research explores the social impact of multinational business, focusing on how multinationals engage with labor-intensive manufacturers in the developing world. He examines initiatives to regulate labor standards in the supply chains of firms like Nike and HP. This research sits at the intersection of multinational management, industrial relations, and political economy.
Distelhorst also studies Chinese politics and public policy, focusing on China’s institutions of government responsiveness and accountability. He examines how citizens exploit these institutions and what prompts unelected officials to respond to citizen demands.
His research has been published in Management Science, Regulation & Governance, Comparative Political Studies, and the Quarterly Journal of Political Science.
(Information from MIT)
Diana Fu:
Diana Fu is an assistant professor of Asian Politics. Her research examines the relationship between popular contention, state power, and civil society in contemporary China. Her book, “Mobilizing Without the Masses,” (2018, Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics Series and Columbia University’s Studies of the Weatherhead East Asia Institute), examines state control and civil society contention in China. Articles that are part of this broader project have appeared in Governance (2017), Comparative Political Studies (2017), and The China Journal (2018), among others.
(Information from University of Toronto)
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Bene Bassetti (University of Warwick): „Chinese as a Second Language Writing System: Some Less Widely Researched Issues“
2018-05-16 18:00 - 20:00 | Verfügungsgebäude VG 2.108, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, Göttingen, 37073
Abstract:
This talk will explore some less widely researched topics related to the learning and use of hanzi and pinyin in learners of Chinese as a Foreign Language. First, we will look at how the interword spacing conventions of CFL learners’ first languages affect their Chinese word awareness and their reading of hanzi sentences and texts. Then, we will see how the grapheme-phoneme correspondences of pinyin affect metaphonological awareness and speech production. Finally, we will discuss the results of an on-going project that investigates the effects of the native script on hanzi handwriting. All these issues have implications for teaching practice, including the use of interword spacing in CFL reading materials, the use of pinyin for teaching pronunciation, and best practice in the teaching of handwriting. At a theoretical level, it will be argued that the written forms of both the first and the second language have an important and sometimes under-rated impact on the learning and use of a second language, both written and spoken.
Short bio:
Bene Bassetti is an Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick, and is researching second language learning and bilingualism, particularly involving the Chinese, English and Italian languages. Bene has co-founded the journal Writing Systems Research, obtained research funding by the Leverhulme Foundation and other sponsors, engaged in international and interdisciplinary collaborations, co-edited volumes and special issues, organised events, and presented papers around the world.

Florian Coulmas (Universität Duisburg-Essen): “Die Alphabetschrift ist an und für sich die intelligentere.“ Überlegungen zur Bewertung von Schriftsystemen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Chinesischen
2018-05-23 18:00 - 20:00 | Theologicum, T0.134, Platz der Göttingen Sieben 2, Göttingen, 37073
Abstract:
Sind manche Schriftsysteme besser als andere? Gibt es sinnvolle und verlässliche Kriterien zur Bewertung von Schriftsystemen? Vor dem Hintergrund dieser Fragen vergleicht dieser Vortrag die chinesische Schrift mit anderen Schriften. Ausgangpunkt ist das in der Überschrift zitierte Verdikt des deutschen Philosophen Georg Friedrich Hegel, das eine positive Beantwortung der Frage nach einer möglichen qualitativen Bewertung von Schriftsystemen nahelegt. Kritisch zu untersuchen sind jedoch die Maßstäbe, die angelegt wurden, um zu dem darin ausgedrückten Urteil zu kommen. Einer der zu diskutierenden Maßstäbe ist das Verhältnis von Schrift und Sprache, das in diesem Zusammenhang näher betrachtet werden soll.
Short bio:
Florian Coulmas ist Senior-Professor am IN-EAST Institut für Ostasienstudien der Universität Duisburg-Essen. Er hat 25 Jahre an verschiedenen japanischen Universitäten und Forschungseinrichtungen gearbeitet und leitete von 2004 bis 2014 das Deutsche Institut für Japanstudien in Tokio (https://www.dijtokyo.org/), von wo er an das IN-EAST-Institut ging. Er schreibt regelmäßig für die Neue Zürcher Zeitung und andere Zeitungen. Er ist Mitherausgeber des International Journal of the Sociology of Language und hat neben zahlreichen Aufsätzen in Fachzeitschriften und herausgegebenen Werken 25 Monographien verfasst, darunter Writing Systems. An Introduction to Their Linguistic Analysis, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2003.

Qin Yaqing (China Foreign Affairs University): Chinese culture and foreign policy decision (中国文化与外交决策)
2018-05-29 18:00 - 20:00 | Verfügungsgebäude VG 3.103, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, Göttingen, 37073
Short Bio of the lecturer:
QIN Yaqing is President and Professor of China Foreign Affairs University (CFAU) and Chancellor of China Diplomatic Academy, Executive Vice-president of China National Association for International Studies (CNAIS) and editor-in-chief of Foreign Affairs Review, the academic journal of CFAU and CNAIS. He was on the resource team for the UN High Panel for Challenges, Threats and Changes (2003-04) and worked as Special Assistant to the Chinese Eminent Person, China-ASEAN Eminent Persons Group (2005).
Qin’s main academic interest is International Relations (IR) theory and has recently focused on the exploration of Chinese cultural and philosophical traditions for developing IR theory. He has also done research on global and regional governance and China’s foreign policy. As a leading scholar and professor in the field of international relations in China, Qin has published extensively, including Hegemonic System and International Conflicts; Power, Institutions and Culture; Relations and Process, etc.
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Dr. Liza Wing Man Kam: "Underneath the grand yellow imperial roofs of Martyrs’ Shrines: Taiwan’s colonial past and onwards and the political symbolisms at play"
2018-06-05 10:30 - 12:00 | MPI. Max-Planck Institute for Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12 (Villa), Göttingen, 37073
Abstract:
The paper investigates the shift of power symbolism represented in Shinto Shrines and Martyrs’ Shrines since the colonial era in Taiwan, through putting architectural/urban design theories into dialogue with political history. Three architectural complexes, Hualien Martyrs’ Shrine, Taipei National Revolutionary Martyrs’ Shrine and the Imperial Palace in Peking are interpreted in material and spatial terms.
Hualien Martyrs’ Shrine and the Taipei National Revolutionary Martyrs’ Shrine, located on the former sites of two annihilated Shinto Shrines built by the Japanese colonisers, were commissioned and reconstructed by the Republican’s Party in Taiwan in the 1970s. Shifting from being the site enshrined with the spirits who fought to contribute the expansion of the Japanese Empire, the current Martyrs’ Shrines were designated to commemorate the sacrificed lives who defended the Island of Taiwan in the Sino-Japanese War. Stripped off from the Japanese zukuri (architectural orders for Shinto Shrine constructions), the shrines are bedecked with the grand Imperial yellow roofs, which accommodated the Chinese imperial power in the late Ming and Qing Dynasty– the very power that the Republicans strove to overthrow during the Xinhai Revolution in 1911.
Through analysing the Shinto Shrines, the Martyrs’ Shrines and their material history, I contend that a continual interplay of political symbolism via architectural representations from different authorities, emerged from the Japanese colonial era, followed by the Republicans’ authority since the Post-war era and till now with manipulation of the notion of ‘colonial legacy/ heritage’–essentially never ceases, despite the situational considerations to the changing political and economic agendas proclaimed.
Short bio:
Dr. Liza Wing Man Kam is Research Fellow (Architecture and Urban Studies) at the Max-Planck Institute for Religious and Ethnics Diversity and Assistant Professor of Urban Studies and Chinese Societies at the Department of East Asian Studies at the Georg-August University of Göttingen. She was trained as architect and later researcher in Hong Kong, Singapore, Liverpool, London, Paris and Germany. Her work on Hong Kong and Taiwan depicts the transformation of political, societal and cultural symbolisms represented by the colonial urban heritage in their unique post-colonial settings by illustrating the inter-relation between architecture, historiography, identity formation and hence civic awareness. She currently investigates colonial Shinto Shrines in the Japanese occupied Taiwan as both religious space and political symbolisms for enunciating the different powers in post-war Taiwan. Her work puts into dialogue the local memory and the grand narrated history while interpreting the meaning of colonial urban heritage and colonial legacy.

Vortragsreihe „On Stage: Chinesische Oper im Kulturkontakt“ – Karsten Gundermann, „China und die Barockmusik. Von Chinoiserien, Missionaren und gegenwärtigen Experimenten“
2018-06-05 18:00 - 20:00 | Tagungs- und Veranstaltungshaus Alte Mensa, Hannah-Vogt-Saal, Wilhelmsplatz 3, Göttingen, 37073
Abstract:
In der Chinamode des Barockzeitalters verbindet sich europäische Neugier auf Kurioses und Fremdes mit Projektionen eigener Träume auf das ferne „Reich der Mitte“. Ballette, höfische Opern und Genrestücke der Kammermusik verlangten plötzlich nach chinesischen Klängen. Wie befriedigten die klassischen Komponisten Europas diese Nachfrage und welche Vorlagen nutzten sie? Was wusste man zur gleichen Zeit in China von der europäischen Musik? Wie fand sie Eingang in die chinesische Kultur und was hielt das östliche Publikum von ihr? Der Komponist Karsten Gundermann gewährt in seinem Vortrag Einblicke in die chinesische und europäische Musikgeschichte, die er mit Hörbeispielen aus der Klassik und mit Ausschnitten aus dem eigenen Schaffen unterlegt.
Short bio:

Karsten Gundermann studierte Komposition in Dresden, Beijing und New York. Mit der 1993 uraufgeführten „Nachtigall“ schuf er als erster westlicher Komponist eine Pekingoper, die in China und Europa große Erfolge feierte. Mit einer eigenwilligen Neubearbeitung von Glucks „Le Cinesi“ glückte Gundermann im Jahr 2010 eine Verbindung von Pekingoper und Barockoper. Im Jahr 2017 erregte sein Ausstellungsprojekt „Secret Sounds of China“ große Aufmerksamkeit.
Mehr Informationen zur Vortragsreihe “On Stage: Chinesische Oper im Kulturkontakt” finden Sie hier.

Todd Hall (Oxford University): The Senkaku Islands Dispute: A MacGruffin?
2018-06-05 18:00 - 20:00 | Waldweg 9.102, Waldweg 26, Göttingen, 37073, Deutschland
Short Bio of the lecturer:
Prof Hall earned his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2008 and has held postdoctoral fellowships at Princeton and Harvard, as well as visiting scholar appointments at the Free University of Berlin, Tsinghua University in Beijing, and the University of Tokyo. Prior to joining the University of Oxford, Prof Hall held the position of Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Toronto (2010-2013). Research interests extend to the areas of international relations theory; the intersection of emotion, affect, and foreign policy; and Chinese foreign policy. Recent publications include articles in Asian Security, International Organization, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Review, Political Science Quarterly, and Security Studies. Prof Hall has also published a book with Cornell University Press, titled Emotional Diplomacy: Official Emotion on the International Stage, which was recently named co-recipient of the International Studies Association’s 2016 Diplomatic Studies Section Book Award.
Prof Hall’s research fields include:
Theorizing the role of emotions and affect in international politics.
The international relations of East Asia, with a specific focus on the foreign policy of China.
Information from Oxford University

Dominique Hertzer: "Die Resonanz von Körper und Geist – Zur Philosophie des Geistes im Chinesischen Denken"
2018-06-07 16:00 - 18:00 | 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.
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“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.
Hier können Sie Informationen zu dem ganzen Programm finden.

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.
