Chinese Studies

Lecture.: The Creativeness of Modern Chinese Conservative Thinkers 王汎森: 近代保守思想家的創造性 Wang Fansen Academia Sinica
2022-06-10 10:00 - 12:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | Online
June 10, 2022, 10:00 AM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
On Zoom: For registration, please use this zoom link.
The lecture will be held in Chinese.
近代中國保守思想家中至少可以區分成兩類，第一類是本能地反對任何改變現狀的思想，第二類是回到一個重要的思想基盤（如宋明理學、大乘佛學）上戰鬥。在這次演講中，我想討論第二類思想家，以宋育仁（1859-1931）、熊十力（1885-1968）、唐文治（1865-1954）、劉咸炘（1896-1932）、錢穆（1895-1990）等人為例，討論一個思想史上的問題：當晚清以來的新派一直在變的時候，反對或批評他們的人，其實也一直在變換他們的言論，同時也變換他們對傳統的解釋，以便對應挑戰。
此外，我在比較仔細地審視他們的思路之後，認為他們不只是「回到本來」的樣子，而是有一個微妙的新創過程。譬如他們有時候會用「提高一格法」，把儒家思想，尤其是宋明理學，作一種新的調整、詮釋。借用卡夫卡的話：「當你凝視深淵時，深淵也在凝視你」。
This lecture is part of the lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China.
Organizers:
Prof. Dr. Axel Schneider, University of Göttingen
Prof. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich, University of Hamburg
CeMEAS – Centre for Modern East Asian Studies & Department of East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen
Asia-Africa- Institute, Department for Chinese Language and Culture, University of Hamburg
Department of East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen
Sponsor:
Academic Confucius Institute, University of Göttingen

Lecture: Chinese Intellectuals’ Rethinking of Science, Religion and Superstition in the 20th Century: From Yan Fu, Liang Qichao to New Confucians Huang Ko-Wu 黃克武, Academia Sinica
2022-06-17 10:00 - 12:00 | Online
June 17, 2022, 10:100 AM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
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Late Qing and early Republican China has been regarded as a “secularized” age that ended “the era of classical learning” and opened the door to an empirical, scientific search for knowledge. With the progress of secularization, science gradually established its authoritative status. Thinkers of the May Fourth period, such as Hu Shi and Chen Duxiu, held science in high esteem and emphasized a clear-cut definition of science and superstition. To them, religions were superstitions that needed to be eliminated. This led to many debates. There were two famous debates in the early Republican period. One was the spiritualism debate and the other was the science and metaphysics debate. The latter was influenced by the former in terms of vocabulary and issues. This lecture will describe these two debates and use Yan Fu and Liang Qichao as two examples to illustrate their views on science, religion and superstition. Their views had a very complex origin. They attempted to rely on traditional spiritual resources to bridge East and West in order to build the moral and intellectual foundation needed for a modern state. New Confucians such as Tang Junyi and Mou Zongsan inherited the legacy of Yan and Liang. They resisted May Fourth scientism and anti-traditionalism, and thought more deeply about the serious issue of how Chinese tradition and Western modernity should converge.
Dr. Max K. W. Huang was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1957. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in History from Nation Taiwan Normal University. He subsequently pursued his studies in the United Kingdom and the United States, receiving a second master’s degree from Oxford University and his Ph. D degree from Stanford University. He is a distinguished research fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica. His major fields are Ming-Qing studies and Modern Chinese intellectual history. He has published ten books and more than 100 articles. Dr. Huang’s most recent book is Yan Fu: The Man Who Enlightened China with His Pen (筆醒山河：中國近代啟蒙人嚴復, 廣西師範大學出版社，2022年).
This lecture is part of the lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China.
Organizers:
Prof. Dr. Axel Schneider, University of Göttingen
Prof. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich, University of Hamburg
CeMEAS – Centre for Modern East Asian Studies & Department of East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen
Asia-Africa- Institute, Department for Chinese Language and Culture, University of Hamburg
Department of East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen
Sponsor:
Academic Confucius Institute, University of Göttingen

Lecture: Prof Liu Kang (Duke University): Social Sciences, Humanities and Liberal Arts: China and the West
2022-06-20 16:15 - 17:45 | KWZ 0.609
Location: KWZ 0.609
Abstract:
The talk traces the genealogy of modern European modes of knowledge under the rubrics of ‘liberal arts’, as the origin and basis for modern China’s institutions and modes of knowledge, and then examines China’s ‘liberal arts’ as institution and modes of knowledge from the early years of the twentieth century to the present. The paper’s objective is to question the relationship between (Eurocentric) universalism and Chinese exceptionalism within the dominant modern Western institutions and modes of knowledge today.
Speaker:
Liu Kang is Professor of Chinese Studies, and Director of Duke Program of Research on China at Duke University. Professor Liu is Elected Member of Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe) since 2015. He is the author of twelve books, and written widely in scholarly journals in both English and Chinese. In addition, He frequently contributes in the forms of op-eds, interviews, reviews, to American and Chinese print media and the internet media, on issues ranging from contemporary Chinese media and culture, globalization, to Marxism and aesthetics.

Lecture: What is to be Done? Literature and History in China’s Revolutionary Twentieth-Century, Rebecca Karl Professor of History, New York University
2022-06-24 10:00 - 12:00 | KWZ 0.607 or Zoom
June 24, 2022, 10:00 AM
On Campus: KWZ 0.607 (University of Göttingen, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen)
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This talk will address the problem of literary and historical narrative in China’s twentieth century. Revolutionary time is a particular kind of time, requiring different kinds of narrative. In an analytical pass through a century of narrativizations/re-narrativizations, the talk will examine how successive revolutionaries and writers attempted to answer the constantly posed and re-posed radical question of “what is to be done” (shto delats? 怎么办?).
This lecture is part of the lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China.
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Organizers:
Prof. Dr. Axel Schneider, University of Göttingen
Prof. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich, University of Hamburg
CeMEAS – Centre for Modern East Asian Studies & Department of East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen
Asia-Africa- Institute, Department for Chinese Language and Culture, University of Hamburg
Department of East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen
Sponsor:
Academic Confucius Institute, University of Göttingen

Lecture: Modernity without Alienation: New Possibilities for 20th century Chinese Buddhism, Eyal Aviv Assistant Professor of Religion, Department of Religion, George Washington University
2022-07-01 12:00 - 14:00 | KWZ 0.606 or Zoom
July 01, 2022, 12:00 PM (GMT +2) in Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
On Campus: KWZ 0.606 (University of Göttingen, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen)
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Intellectuals, such as Nietzsche, Weber, and Adorno, described modernity as a period of alienation resulting from the collapse of pre-modern social and political structures and the disintegration of shared values. Alienation leaves the individual disconnected from organic relational networks from which humans derive a sense of meaning. But is alienation an inevitable side effect of modernity? In this talk, I will explore the examples of some leading Chinese Buddhist intellectuals in the modern period and argue that far from being alienated, Chinese Buddhists seized the significant changes of the period as an opportunity to transform Buddhism and adapt it to the new era. While they were aware of China’s predicament after the collapse of the imperial world order and the spread of colonialism, still, they approached it in an engaged and constructive spirit. In the talk, I will reflect on what prevents alienation from occurring and why not all modernisms were born alike.
This lecture is part of the lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China.
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Organizers:
Prof. Dr. Axel Schneider, University of Göttingen
Prof. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich, University of Hamburg
CeMEAS – Centre for Modern East Asian Studies & Department of East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen
Asia-Africa- Institute, Department for Chinese Language and Culture, University of Hamburg
Department of East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen
Sponsor:
Academic Confucius Institute, University of Göttingen

Nationalism in China and Europe: Global Divergence and Convergence of an Idea
2022-07-06 14:00 - 15:30 | Oeconomicum OEC 0.169
Nationalism as a concept is often considered to be rooted in European experience. However, the introduction, translation, and appropriation of nationalism have also changed the course of history in East Asia. On this panel, Stefan Berger and Xin Fan contrast and compare the role of nationalism in the making and unmaking of modern China and Europe over the course of the twentieth century, and they ask, ––What is the role of nationalism in unifying or dismantling political formations? Why did it break Europe into multiple states but hold China together as a unitary political entity? To answer these questions, they return to the historical writings about the nation during the twentieth century and re-examine the global divergence and convergence of nationalism as an idea. Getting beyond the ethnic-centric framework of historical interpretations, the presenters attempt to forge a truly global dialogue on nationalism studies in the twentieth-first century.
The speakers:
Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr Universitaet Bochum. He is also executive chair of the Foundation History of the Ruhr in Bochum and a Honorary Professor at Cardiff University in the UK. He has worked extensively on comparative labour history, the history of historiography, nationalism, the theory of history, British-German relations, industrial heritage, the memory of social movements and the history of deindustrialization. His latest monograph is ‘History and Identity: How Historical Theory Shapes Historical Practice, Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Xin Fan is Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York at Fredonia. His research areas include Chinese intellectual history, historiography, and global history. He is the author of World History and National Identity in China: The Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2021), and he also coedited Receptions of Greek and Roman Antiquity in East Asia (Brill, 2018).
Access:
This event will take place in a hybrid format:
Venue: Universität Göttingen, Oeconomicum, OEC 0.169
Register to attend at:
https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/meeting/register/u50udOipqT8sGdRzNIVLa3ur2xQH4Irc85c3

Lecture (Eugenio Menegon, Associate Professor of History, Boston University): Empire of Paper. Missionaries, Diplomats, and Early Sinologists as Social Carriers of Translingual Practices and Worldviews, through the Story of a Manuscript Vocabulary between Beijing and Rome, 1760s-1820s
2022-07-07 18:00 - 20:00 | VG 3.103
July 07, 2022, 18:00 (GMT +2) in Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
On Campus: VG 3.103 (University of Göttingen, Verfügungsgebäude, Platz der Göttinger 7, 37073 Göttingen)
On Zoom: For registration, please use this zoom link.
Dictionaries compiled in the last phase of the manuscript age (late 16th to early 19th century) acted as metaphorical soldiers of the “empire of paper” that European observers in China – predecessors of the modern China watchers – enlisted to crack the secrets of the Chinese language and to convert the Chinese to Christianity. Through them, information on China, its language, and culture circulated in Europe, and assisted the birth of academic sinology. Such texts also reflect the role of missionaries, diplomats, and sinologists as “social carriers” of a hybrid cultural worldview developed between Europe and China, and their translingual practices. The story of a vocabulary preserved at the Vatican Library, the object of this study, illuminates the past of the Catholic mission in imperial Beijing during the eighteenth century, and in particular the operations of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith or de Propaganda Fide, the “ministry of missions” of the Holy See. It also shows how linguistic knowledge of Chinese was treasured and sought for by European diplomats, linguists, and missionaries alike, and how manuscript culture continued to have an important role in the cross-cultural circulation of knowledge about China well into the nineteenth century.
This lecture is part of the lecture series Conceptions of World Order and Their Social Carrier Groups.
Speaker:
Eugenio Menegon 梅歐金 (BA University of Venice Ca’ Foscari, Italy; MA & PhD, UC Berkeley) teaches Chinese history and world history at the Department of History at Boston University, and was Director of the Boston University Center for the Study of Asia in 2012-2015. His interests include Chinese-Western relations in late imperial times, Chinese religions and Christianity in China, Chinese science, the intellectual history of Republican China, the history of maritime Asia, and Chinese food history. He has been Research Fellow in Chinese Studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), An Wang Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Boston University Humanities Center Junior and Senior Fellow, a Member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College.
He has published widely, including the book Ancestors, Virgins, and Friars: Christianity as a Local Religion in Late Imperial China (Harvard University Press, 2009; recipient of the AAS 2011 Joseph Levenson Book Prize) centers on the life of Catholic communities in Fujian province between 1630 and the present. He is currently a Berenson Fellow at the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies – Villa “I Tatti” (Florence).
Organizers:
Prof. Dr. Dominic Sachsenmaier, University of Göttingen
Benjamin Creutzfeldt, PhD, University of Göttingen
Worldmaking from a global perspective: A Dialogue with China
Department of East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen
Sponsor:
University of Göttingen

Lecture Wang Hui (Professor of History, Tsinghua University): Heavenly Principle and the Trends of the Times: Some Thoughts on Confucianism
2022-07-08 10:00 - 12:00 | Online
July 08, 2022, 10:00 AM (GMT +2) in Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
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Between the 1920s and the 1940s, first Naitō Torajirō and then Miyazaki Ichisada introduced several important propositions regarding the Tang to Song transition, capitalism during the Song Dynasty, and East Asian early modernity. Since then, despite constant controversy, revision, and improvement, one Kyoto School proposition has garnered universal acclaim: there is a basic difference between the Tang and Song, and the Song Dynasty deserves special status in history. In the fields of Chinese intellectual history or philosophy, some of the characteristics of the Confucianism of the Northern and Southern Song dynasties (and especially the School of Principle of the Cheng brothers and Zhu Xi) have been of use to modern Confucian scholars as a reference for understanding the early modern in Chinese or East Asian history. Follow this trend, the basic principles of Confucianism are not only organized into the European philosophical categories of ontology and epistemology, but also into such historical categories as: an inward turn, rationalization, and secularization. So, was there an early modern in Chinese history, or how to interpret China and its “modernity”? This talk will take the establishment of the concept of heavenly principle as a clue to address the above issues.
This lecture is part of the lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China.
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Organizers:
Prof. Dr. Axel Schneider, University of Göttingen
Prof. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich, University of Hamburg
CeMEAS – Centre for Modern East Asian Studies & Department of East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen
Asia-Africa- Institute, Department for Chinese Language and Culture, University of Hamburg
Department of East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen
Sponsor:
Academic Confucius Institute, University of Göttingen

The World of Everyday Political Thought: A Transcultural History of a 'Chinese' Rhetorical Curriculum, ca. 1200-1600
2022-07-11 13:00 - 14:30 | Waldweg 1.201 or Zoom
Speaker: Shoufu Yi (University of British Columbia)
On Campus: Hörsaal 1.201, Waldweg
On Zoom: The digital participation at this event is open to everyone who registers prior to the event: Registration
This talk has two goals. First, it develops a new approach to the studies of political theory and philosophy, one that I call everyday political thought. This approach invites us to explore how ordinary individuals were able to come up with remarkable ideas despite the fact that they were living under and working within different forms of oppressive powers. Second, employing everyday political thought as method, I provide a new narrative of the history of early modern political thought by excavating a rhetorical curriculum that flourished in East Eurasia. This rhetorical curriculum trained individuals to write official documents in literary Sinitic, a lingua franca of the regions. I use documents in Chinese, Mongolian, Manchu, and Persian, among other languages, to reconstruct how the curriculum took its shape under Mongol-ruled China, flourished in post-Mongol East Eurasia, until it was finally restructured under the Manchu Empire. Practicing both close and distant readings of a large number of previously untapped sources that have survived in different parts of the world, I show that this form of education enabled individuals thus trained to philosophize the state, bureaucracy, and counterfactual histories in their everyday settings. In sum, this talk seeks to demonstrate how new method and toolkits, combined with large corpora of overlooked materials, will allow us to write new kinds of intellectual histories that decenters Western Europe and China while foregrounding the theoretical contributions of “everyday” thinkers of different locals and traditions.
Further Details: https://www.worldmaking-china.org/en/veranstaltungen/lecture-The-World-of-Everyday-Political-Thought_-A-Transcultural-History-of-a-Chinese-Rhetorical-Curriculum-ca_-1200_1600.html

Hun 魂 and Po 魄: An ancient Chinese approach to human psyche and soul
2022-07-13 10:00 - 12:00 | KWZ 0.701 or Zoom
Dr. Dr. Dominique Hertzer
Visiting Lecturer, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen
July 13, 2022, 10:00 AM
On Campus: KWZ 0.701 Conference Room (University of Göttingen, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen)
On Zoom: For online participation, please use this zoom link.
Is there only one soul? What is the relation between body and mind or is there only a body? We will explore the meaning and function of the Chinese concept of the human soul, as it is represented in the dynamic relation between spirit (shen 神), hun 魂 (etheral soul) and po 魄 (body soul). We will look into the ideas underlying the differentiation of these three aspects and see what are the consequences for the relationship of body and mind. Finally, we will discuss which impact this may have for our own understanding of the human psyche.
This lecture announcement is beyond our currently running lecture series.
Organizers:
Department of East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen

Arab-Chinese Entanglements in the Age of Global Empires
2022-07-18 13:00 - 14:30 | ZHG 104 or Zoom
Speaker: Wen Shuang (New York University of Shanghai)
This talk narrates four little-known stories of Arab-Chinese entanglement in the age of trans-imperial collaboration and competition in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Although much attention is paid to China’s relationships with the Middle East today, I argue that this relationship did not emerge out of nowhere. Chinese and Arab lands were not entirely separate worlds until recently. Rather they have been entangled in complex ways well before the turn of the twenty-first century. The discovery of these episodes of largely invisible interactions resulted from my original juxtaposition of primary sources in Arabic and Chinese from multi-sited research in Beijing, Cairo, Damascus, London, Nanjing, Taipei, Washington DC, and Zhangzhou.
On Campus: ZHG (Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude) 104
On Zoom: The digital participation at this event is open to everyone who registers prior to the event: Registration
Further Details: https://www.worldmaking-china.org/en/veranstaltungen/lecture-Arab-Chinese-Entanglement-in-the-Age-of-Global-Empires.html

Workshop: Islamic Pasts and Futures in East Asia’s Worldmaking
2022-08-23 11:00 | Historische Sternwarte, University of Göttingen, Geismar Landstraße 11, Göttingen, 37083
September 23, Friday
11:00 – 11:20 Opening and Introduction
• Dominic Sachsenmaier (University of Göttingen)
• Janice Hyeju Jeong (University of Göttingen)
• Mohammad Alsudairi (King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies)
11:30 – 14:00 Panel I. Visions and Instrumentalizations of Islam in Asia: Historical Trajectories
Chair: Janice Hyeju Jeong (University of Göttingen)
• Cemil Aydin (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill)
“Inter-Asian Muslim Experiences of World-Making and World-Breaking in the Long 20th Century”
• Ulrich Brandenburg (University of Zurich)
“Asia, Muslim Asia, and the Challenge to Geography”
• Yee Lak Elliot Lee (Leipzig University)
“Re-Territorialization of Hui Muslims in Early 20th Century China: Historical and Demographic Knowledge Production”
• Hale Eroglu (Bogazici University)
“The Awakened Muslim: Turkish Modernity in Chinese Muslim Reformist Thought”
15:30 – 16:30 Keynote Address by Selcuk Esenbel (Bogazici University)
“Islam and East Asia in World-Making: Local and Regional Maps Embedded into a Globalizing World”
17:00 – 18:45 Panel II. Crisis, Community, and Control in Altishahr/Xinjiang
Chair: Cemil Aydin (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
• Elke Spiessens (Leiden University, WWU Münster)
“CCP Policy towards Uyghur Islam in the 21st Century: What Changed?”
• Björn Alpermann (University of Würzburg)
“A Vanishing Act? Islam in Contemporary Xinjiang”
• Rachel Harris (SOAS University of London)
“Religious Experience and Manufactured Spectacle in Xinjiang”
September 24, Saturday
10:00 – 11:45 Panel III. The Question of “Muslim” Ethnicities and Minorities in “non-Muslim” Asia
Chair: Selcuk Esenbel (Bogazici University)
• Rian Thum (University of Manchester)
“Inter-Asian Islamophobia”
• Wlodzimierz Cieciura (University of Warsaw)
“Huizu – a Chinese ‘Muslim race’? Muslim Racialization and Self-Racialization in Modern China.”
• Yoko Yamashita (Sophia University)
“Multicultural Freedom and Discursive Modes of Control over Muslims in Contemporary Japan”

13:00 – 14:45 Panel IV. The Politics of “Acceptable” Islam: Aesthetics and Public Visibility
Chair: Liu Kang (Duke University)
• Yi Soojeong (Sogang Euro-MENA Institute)
“Social Integration in South Korea: Ban-Opticon and Recognition Struggle”
• Yang Yang (National University of Singapore)
“Traveling Muslim Men as Cultural Assets: Popularized Islam, Heritage Diplomacy, and the Silk Road in China”
• Michael Malzer (University of Würzburg)
“From Arabian Nights to China’s Bordeaux: the Vanishing Role of Islam in Yinchuan, Ningxia.”
15:00 – 16:00 Keynote Address by Engseng Ho (Duke University)
“Mobile Muslims and Majoritarian States: Open and Shut Cases”
16:30 – 18:15 Panel V. Dwelling in Migration and Displacement: Tensions and Opportunities between Global Expanses and Westphalian Borders
Chair: Zhu Guohua (East China Normal University)
• Francesca Rosati (University of Leiden)
“Muslim Women in Northwestern China between Islamization and Chinafication: The Case of Women’s Madrasas in Linxia”
• Leila Chebbi (CETOBaC)
“In the ways of Tabligh: Sinicization as a Survival Strategy for a Global Islamic Revivalist Movement?”
• Atsushi Yamagata (University of Wollongong)
“Responses to the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Japan”
There is a limited number of seats for attendance onsite. Please contact xiaoyang.zhao@stud.uni-goettingen.de for inquiries.
Please find here the program of the workshop as a PDF.

ABGESAGT: Veranstaltung für Studierende: 07.10.2022 Praxisbezogene Chinakompetenz
2022-10-07 10:00 - 12:00 | VG 1.101
Nach zwei Jahren Pandemie eine einmalige Möglichkeit, Arbeitswelten, Berufseinstieg und Kompetenzen für den chinesischen Arbeitsmarkt kennen zu lernen und zu diskutieren!
Zeit: 07.10.2022, 10:00
Ort: VG 1.101
Herr Wolfgang Krieger vom BDI (Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie) in Peking wird einen kurzen Vortrag halten und dann für ein Q&A zur Verfügung stehen.
Wolfgang Krieger ist Deputy Chief Representative des Bundesverbands der Deutschen Industrie (BDI e.V.) in China. Er hat Regionalwissenschaften Ostasien und Volkswirtschaftslehre an der Universität zu Köln studiert. In seiner Arbeit beschäftigt er sich mit dem regulatorischen Umfeld in China, sowie den Wirtschaftsbeziehungen zwischen der EU und China.
Herr Max Hiller von der Fachgruppe Sinologie wird die Veranstaltung eröffnen und moderieren.
Wir freuen uns auf zahlreiches Erscheinen!

Informationsveranstaltung für alle Erstsemester in den BA-Studiengängen des OAS
2022-10-21 10:00 - 12:00 | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.602, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, 37073
Das Ostasiatische Seminar lädt alle Erstsemester für den 21. Oktober 2022 von 10:00-12:00 Uhr zu einer Informationsveranstaltung über unsere Bachelorstudiengänge in das Kulturwissenschaftliche Zentrum KWZ 0.602 ein.
Da wir an diesem Tag bereits die Gruppeneinteilung für den Sprachunterricht vornehmen werden, wird die Teilnahme dringend empfohlen.
Hier gelangen Sie zum Orientierungsphasen-Programm des Ostasiatischen Seminars.

Information event for all first semester students in the Master Modern Sinology
2022-10-21 12:00 - 13:00 | KWZ 0.602
The Department of East Asian Studies invites all first semester students to an information event on October 21, 2022 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. The meeting takes place in room KWZ 0.602.
Here you get to the orientation phase program of the Department of East Asian Studies.
Here you can find the course overview of the OAS for the winter term 2023/23.
Link to the explanatory video for creating a timetable in EXA.

Sophia Kidd : Ontology of Self in Translating China's New Silk Roads
2022-10-26 16:00 - 18:00 | KWZ 0.609
Sophia Kidd
Title: Ontology of Self in Translating China’s New Silk Roads
KWZ 0.609
Abstract:
In this lecture, I discuss how the ontological unit of ‘self’ cannot be taken for granted when discussing narratives, translation of, and methodology for understanding China’s New Silk Roads. I will do this by analyzing how the ontology of self remains fluid in translation of four key terms in China’s BRI narrative: ‘Five Pillars (Wu Tong 五通)’, ‘Chinese Dream (Zhongguo Meng 中国梦),’ ‘Community of Common Destiny (Mingyun Gongtongti 命运共同体) ,’ and ‘harmony in diversity (he er bu tong 和而不同) .’ First, we will look at the epistemological and ontological ‘self’ in Western thought in contradistinction to the Chinese notion of ‘self (ziwo 自我).’ By examining selected uses of the term ziwo in Chinese literature over the past two thousand years, we arrive at a constructed Chinese notion of self which resembles the epistemological more than the ontological Western ‘self,’ while failing to reach equivalency with either. This understanding will inform our lexical and contextual analysis of Wu Tong, Zhongguo Meng, Mingyun Gongtongti, and he er bu tong.

Global China Conversations #14: Compliance in China zwischen Sozialpunkten und wachsender Regulierung: Welche Herausforderungen stellen sich für Unternehmen?
2022-10-27 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
For further information please click here.

“Contemporary Theater Arts” Seminar Series No. 13
2022-10-28 14:00 - 15:30 | Online

„Contemporary Theater Arts“ Seminar Series No. 14
2022-11-29 13:00 - 14:30 | Online
The Department of East Asian Studies (the University of Göttignen) and the Department of Theatre, Film and TV Arts (Nanjing University) jointly host the “Contemporary Theater Arts” Seminar Series. It is open to anyone interested in the Asian theatre.
Topic: Draft Theatre: the Assembly Line Theatre Production
Speaker: ZHAO Chuan, author, art critic, independent theatre director
Time: Tuesday, Nov. 29th, 2022, 13: 00 PM CET
Language: Chinese
Zoom link: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/66476427828

Lecture: The Art of Audience Participation in Applied Theatre
2023-01-19 13:00 - 14:30 | Online
The Art of Audience Participation in Applied Theatre
Speaker: Estella WONG, Associate Professor and the Head of Applied Theatre in the School of Drama, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
Date: Thursday, Jan 19, 2023, 13:00 PM CET
Zoom Link: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/69482194990
Language: English
More Information: https://yingmingtheater.com/chinese-culture-seminar-series/

Vortrag Francois Gipoloux, CNRS Paris: The paradox of Wealthy Merchants and Weak Capital Accumulation in Late Imperial China
2023-01-24 18:15 - 19:45 | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.607, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, 37073
Tuesday, January 24, 18:15 – 19:45
KWZ 0.607
Abstract:
This presentation proposes another interpretation of the Europe/China divergence, based on a redefinition of capitalism in much broader terms than its mere reduction to the industrial revolution. It recalls the reasons why Chinese merchant networks did not formalize autonomous institutions, in order to confer a perennial scope to their affairs. It revisits the paradox of Chinese economic history where the emergencee of rich merchants does not translate into steady capital accumulation. What credit institutions facilitated the collection of capital in China? How did it circulate? Where were capital markets developing credit instruments, allowing a wide exchange of information and the diffusion of financial innovations? This presentation raises the issue of late imperial China’s capital sterilization, due to the fragmentation of financial institutions and high interest rates.
Speaker:
François Gipouloux (Emeritus Research Director, National Centre for Scientific Research, [CNRS] France), is a specialist in Chinese economics with a professional experience in China, Hong Kong and Japan of almost 20 years. He teaches at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. He also directs the International Research Programme : « The Globalisation’s Origins and the Great Divergence : Trading Networks and the Trajectory of Economic Institutions—— Europe-Asia, 1500-2000 », financed by CNRS and prestigious European and Asian universities. His research covers the dynamics of urbanisation in China, and the historically comparative analysis of economic institutions and business practices in Europe and Asia.
Organizer:
Prof. Dr. Dominic Sachsenmaier, University of Göttingen
Sponsor:
Department of East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen

Global China Conversations #17 Ideology First, Economy Second? What Challenges do European Companies Face in China?
2023-01-26 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
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Drama reading
2023-01-27 15:00 - 17:00 | LSG University of Göttingen
“Mr. Big,” a play based on the leading figure of modern Chinese literature, is the first attempt to visualize Lu Xun’s image on the stage. The play starts with Lu Xun’s death and then shows the flashback scenes of the protagonist’s encounters with the people he was most concerned about during his lifetime. The play highlights how they fell into conversations and were engaged in arguments. Li Jing uses stream-of-consciousness writing to capture Lu Xun’s most painful knots in his heart.
Author: Li Jing
Language: Chinese
Venue: LSG University of Göttingen
Registration: yingming.theater@gmail.com
Anyone who is interested in Chinese theater or learning the language and culture is welcome to join the reading event.

线上讲座 Online Lectures – 如何让学生爱学汉语 How to make students love learning Chinese
2023-01-28 09:00 - 10:30 | Online
讲座要点：
如何激发学生学习动机始终是一线教师需要关注的问题，本讲座首先分析了学习者汉语学习动机的类型，动机与学习效果的关系，并在此基础上从需求分析、目标设定、发现学习、难度控制等多个角度探讨了激发学生的学习动机的方式与方法。
Key points of the lecture:
The stimulation of students’ learning motivation is doubtless one of the key challenges of teachers in practice. After an analysis of different types of learning motives of Chinese learners and the relationship between motivation and learning outcomes, this lecture explores various means and methods of enhance students’ learning motivation from different perspectives, such as leaners’ needs, goal setting and levels of difficulty.

报告人简介
丁安琪 中国人民大学博士，华东师范大学国际汉语文化学院副院长兼国际汉语教师研修基地副主任，教授，世界汉语教学学会标准与评估专委会副主任委员，上海市语文学会理事。主要研究领域为国际中文教育、国际中文教师教育，主持或作为主要成员参与教育部语合中心《国际中文教学通用课程大纲》研制与《国际中文教师标准》修订工作。发表学术论文七十余篇，出版专著《汉语作为第二语言学习者研究》及《汉语作为第二语言学习者实证研究》（合著），作为主编或主要作者参与编写多部教材，主编《我的课堂活动设计笔记》系列丛书，多次参与海外本土汉语教师培训。
Prof. Ding received her PhD from the Renmin University and is currently deputy dean of the International Chinese Culture College and deputy director of the International Chinese Teacher Training Base of the East China Normal University. She also functions as vice chairwoman of the Standards and Evaluation Committee of the World Association for Chinese Language Teaching and as director of the Shanghai Chinese Language Association. Her main fields of research include international Chinese language education and international Chinese teacher education. She presided over and participated as a key member in the development of the „General Curriculum Syllabus for International Chinese Teaching“ and the revision of the „International Chinese Teacher Standards“ by the Language Coordination Center of the Chinese Ministry of Education. She has published over 70 academic papers as well as the monographs „Research on Learning Chinese as a Second Language“ and „Empirical Research on Learning Chinese as a Second Language“ (co-authored). The „My Classroom Activity Design Notes“ series of books has participated in the training of overseas local Chinese teachers for many times. As the editor-in-chief or the main author, she participated in the compilation of several textbooks, edited the „My Classroom Activity Design Notes“ series of books, and participated in the training of local Chinese teachers around the globe for many times.
Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81564277513

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讲座将用中文进行 This lecture will be held in Chinese.
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线上讲座 Online Lectures 李泉教授 Prof. LI Quan, 中国人民大学 Renmin University of China
2023-02-11 09:00 - 10:30 | Online
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Global China Conversations #18, 16.02.2023, Spannungen um Taiwan: Wie ist die aktuelle Situation und welche Herausforderungen ergeben sich für Unternehmen und die Wirtschaft?
2023-02-16 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
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Christian Henriot & Cecile Armand , Aix-Marseille University: Taming the Digital Dragon. Textbases, Datafication, and the Study of Modern China
2023-02-23 16:15 - 17:45 | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.602, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, 37073
23. Feb., 16:15 – 17:45
KWZ 0.602
Abstract:
Since the mid-1990s much has been written about digital history and how the Internet and the dematerialization of historical sources are transforming the ways in which historians can muster their materials. The major shift, however, occurred when historical sources became available in full text format. This finally opened the way to approaches and methods based on text analysis and natural language processing, though with a particular challenge due to the very nature of historical sources. The ENP-China project has been at the forefront of developing a set of resources — text database, spatial database, and HistText — that break through the limits of historical investigation on modern China.
Speakers:
Christian Henriot is Professor of modern Chinese history at Aix-Marseille University and a former Senior Research Fellow at the Institut Universitaire de France (2007-2012). He is the author and editor of several books on modern Chinese history, including Prostitution and Sexuality in Shanghai. A Social History, 1849-1949 (Cambridge UP, 2001), In the Shadow of the Rising Sun. Shanghai under Japanese Occupation (Cambridge UP, 2004), Visualizing China (Brill, 2012) and Scythe and the city. A social history of death in Shanghai (1865-1965) (2016, Stanford UP). Henriot is also the creator of a digital research and resource platform on Shanghai history (http://virtualshanghai.net) and the P.I. of the ENP-China Project (ERC) (https://www.enpchina.eu/)
Cécile Armand is a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC project “Elites, Networks and Power in modern China” (Aix-Marseille University), a former postdoctoral fellow of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (2018-20) and Andrew Mellon postdoctoral fellow in the DHAsia program at Stanford University (2017-18). Her first monograph based on her dissertation will be published by De Gruyter (Berlin) under the title: Madmen in Shanghai: A social history of advertising in modern China. She is the author of several articles on advertising, urban history, transnational elites in modern China, and digital history. She is the creator of a digital research platform (https://madspace.org/).
Organizer:
Prof. Dominic Sachsenmaier, University of Göttingen

线上讲座 Online Lectures – 吴中伟教授 Prof. WU Zhongwei, 复旦大学 Fudan University
2023-02-25 09:00 - 10:30 | Online

Vortrag: Dr. phil. Volker Klöpsch "Jadeschleifer, Verseschmied Das Handwerk der Dichtung im Lichte der chinesischen Literaturkritik"
2023-05-03 18:00 - 20:00 | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.602, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, 37073
Dichtung ist ein universales Phänomen. Doch entsteht sie überall unter ähnlichen Voraussetzungen? Ein genauerer Blick zeigt, dass Dichten vielfach als ein gewöhnliches Handwerk verstanden wird. Darauf verweisen Begriffe wie Verseschmied oder Jadeschleifer, Vers oder Text. Der Vortrag untersucht an einer Reihe von Beispielen, wie im Alten China ein Gedicht entstand, welche Funktion sein Verfasser in Gesellschaft und Politik einnahm und wie seine Verse bewertet wurden. Aus der Betonung handwerklichen Könnens ergibt sich auch die Frage nach der Erlernbarkeit des Dichtens.
Zeigen wird sich, dass die chinesische Poetik des Altertums Gemeinsamkeiten mit Vorstellungen des europäischen Mittelalters aufweist, aber möglicherweise Leser enttäuscht, die an Goethe und Hölderlin geschult sind.
Volker Klöpsch (geb. 1948) studierte Germanistik, Anglistik, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft und Sinologie auf verschiedenen Kontinenten. Er lehrte in Taipeh, Bochum und Köln, legte zahlreiche Übersetzungen von Lyrik und Prosa aus verschiedenen Epochen der chinesischen Literatur vor, gab mit Eva Müller das Lexikon der chinesischen Literatur (München 2004) heraus und ist Begründer und langjähriger Mitherausgeber der Hefte für ostasiatische Literatur.

Prof. Ho Wai Yip, Exeter University: Two Tales of the City: Conflicting Narratives on Hong Kong
2023-05-04 18:15 - 19:45 | Verfügungsgebäude (VG) 2.103, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, Göttingen, 37073
4. May, 18:15 – 19:45
VG 2.103
Abstract:
As always, there are conflicting narratives on Hong Kong’s history from the British colonial period to the present comprehensive rule of the People’s Republic of China. In the early transition from British to Chinese rule in early 2000s, there were two contradictory views in explaining the economic success of the colonial Hong Kong, namely the nationalistic narrative – ‘Hong Kong has been part of Chinese territory since ancient times’ and the colonial narrative – ‘Hong Kong as a barren-rock-turned capitalist-paradise by benevolent rule’. In the present day of China’s Hong Kong, the debate continues with two opposing narratives. It involves the official campaign of telling the world the ‘good story’ of Hong Kong following ‘the new stage of transition from chaos to order’, which is to combat the ‘bad story’ of distorted anti-China prejudice. According to renowned literary educators, ‘telling the story of Hong Kong is so difficult’ (Leung Ping-kwan’s words) and ‘the personality and life of Hong Kong are blurred and obscured’ (Lo Wai-luen’s words), this presentation inquires the ambiguities of Hong Kong stories and the society has been navigating under superpowers in history.
Speaker:
Wai-Yip Ho is currently the Honorary Research Fellow, Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies, University of Exeter; Correspondent Member, Nantes Institute for Advanced Studies. He is the author of Islam and China’s Hong Kong: Ethnic Identity, Muslim Networks and the new Silk Road (Routledge: London, 2015, paperback). He held several research fellowship and research appointments, including the François Chevalier Fellow (2021-2022), Madrid Institute for Advanced Study (MIAS); Sir Edward Youde Fellow; Visiting Scholar at Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies at Oxford as well as Endeavour Research Fellow at Australian National University etc. His research interests include Islamic Studies, China’s Christian-Muslim relations, New Media and China’s Islam, etc.
Organizer:
Prof. Dominic Sachsenmaier, University of Göttingen
