Chinese Studies

Online-Vortrag: 哥廷根大学汉语作为外语师范专业 — 经验报告 Erfahrungsbericht zum Fach „Chinesisch als Fremdsprache” (Lehramt) an der Universität Göttingen
2021-04-26 17:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | Online (Zoom)
Andrea Lappen
Master ofEducation an der Uni Göttingen
Tätig als Lehrerin am Hainberg-Gymnasium Göttingen
Abstract:
第一部分为讲座，主要内容包含-哥廷根大学汉语作为外语师范专业、教学专业搭配选择以及汉语专业在下萨克森州文理高中的概况-汉语师范专业在大学学习和工作中对德语母语者以及中文母语者的机遇和挑战-主讲人自身的学习，实习以及就业的实践经验的分享。第二部分为答疑时间.参与者可以向主讲人自由提问。
Im ersten Teil des Vortrags werden folgende Punkte thematisiert:

ein Überblick über das Lehramtsstudium „Chinesisch als Fremdsprache“ an der Universität Göttingen
die Wahl des Kombinationsfachs sowie das Fach an Gymnasien in Niedersachsen
Chancen und mögliche Herausforderungen für deutsche und chinesische Muttersprachler*innen im Studium und im Beruf
die eigenenpraktischen Erfahrungen der Referentin im Studium, Praktikum und Beruf

Der zweite Teil ist eine Frage-Antwort-Runde. DieTeilnehmer*innen haben die Gelegenheit, eigene Fragen an die Referentin zustellen.
Zoom Meeting: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/91934531208?pwd=[REDACTED]
讲座将用德语进行。Der Vortrag wird in Deutsch gehalten.
Short bio:
Andrea Lappen 女士2018年取得哥廷根大学师范专业硕士学位并于2020年通过中学汉语科目教师的见习(Referendariat)，现于哥廷根Hainberg文理高中任职德语以及中文老师。主要研究学生在中文课堂语言以及跨文化的运用能力，于2018年发表文章«从做中学-中文课堂的行动导向»，硕士论文«在交流中学习：汉语教学中的行动导向-从学生的视角»。2017年台湾政治国立大学交换生，2015年厦门大学交换生。
Seit 2020 ist Frau Andrea Lappen am Hainberg-Gymnasium Göttingen als Deutsch-und Chinesischlehrerin tätig. Sie hat 2018 ihr Masterstudium (Master of Education) an der Universität Göttingen abgeschlossen und anschließend ihre Referendariat erfolgreich bestanden. 2018 veröffentlichte sie den Artikel „从做中学 – Handlungsorientierung im Chinesischunterricht“ und ihre Masterarbeit „Learning by Communicating: Handlungsorientierung im Chinesischunterricht-eineSchülerperspektive”.2017 war sie Austauschstudentin an der National Chengchi University in Taiwan und im Jahr 2015 war sie Austauschstudentin an der Xiamen University.

Junges Forum zum Chinesischen Recht am 29.04.2021
2021-04-29 09:45 - 14:00 | Online
Das Deutsch-Chinesische Institut für Rechtswissenschaft der Universität Göttingen stellt im Rahmen seiner digitalen Veranstaltung “Junges Forum zum chinesischen Recht” am 29.04.2021 den Doppelmasterstudiengang “Chinesisches Recht und Rechtsvergleichung” der Universitäten Göttingen und Nanjing vor.
Der Studiengang hat einen Umfang von vier Semestern und ermöglicht den Erwerb von gleich zwei Masterabschlüssen, sodass am Ende die Titel LL.M./LL.M. (oec.) oder M.A./LL.M. (oec.) verliehen werden. Das erste Mastersemester findet zur Vorbereitung in Göttingen statt, während das zweite und dritte Semester in Nanjing, China verbracht werden. Im vierten Semester widmen sich die Studierenden ihrer Masterarbeit in Göttingen.
Neben der allgemeinen Vorstellung des Studiengangs gibt Professor Dr. Knut Benjamin Pißler, Referent am Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht, im Rahmen einer kurzen Übersetzungsübung einen Einblick in die chinesische Rechtsterminologie. Anschließend hält Cara Meng von Taylor Wessing Shanghai einen Vortrag über “Das anwaltliche Berufsbild im Bereich M&A: Deutsch-Chinesische Rechtsbeziehungen in der Praxis” inkl. Q&A Session. Abschließend stellen zwei Masterabsolventinnen ihre Erfahrungen vor und führen mögliche Berufsperspektiven auf, bevor sie in einer offenen Fragestunde zur Verfügung stehen.
Zur Anmeldung schreiben Sie uns eine kurze E-Mail an: chinarecht@jura.uni-goettingen.de.
Programm:
9:45-10:30
Begrüßung und Vorstellung des Studiengangs Chinesisches Recht und Rechtsvergleichung (LL.M./ M.A.)
Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Krause, Prof. Dr. Axel Schneider
10:30-11:15
Chinesische Rechtsterminologie – eine Übersetzungsübung
Prof. Dr. Knut Benjamin Pißler, Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht (Hamburg) & Universität Göttingen
15 min. Pause
11:30-12:00
Das anwaltliche Berufsbild im Bereich M&A: Deutsch-Chinesische Rechtsbeziehungen in der Praxis
Cara Meng 孟戈弋, Taylor Wessing Shanghai Representative Office
10 min. Q&A mit Cara Meng 孟戈弋
12:10-12:30
Erfahrungsbericht: Berufliche Perspektiven in China
Dr. Madeleine Martinek, LL. M., LL. M. oec. (Nanjing), ehemalige Leiterin der Rechtsabteilung der Außenhandelskammer in Peking, derzeit Assistant Professor an der China-EU School of Law in Peking
12:30-12:50
Erfahrungsbericht: Studieren und Leben in Nanjing
Ronja Fischer, M.A., LL.M. oec. (Nanjing), Alumna des Studiengangs Chinesisches Recht und Rechtsvergleichung
Ab 12:50
Offene Fragerunde

2021 Taiwan Lecture: Health and History in the Sinophone World: Emergency Medical Services Evolution in Taiwan -Lessons learned from the past century- (Prof. Frank Fuh-yuan Shih, National Taiwan University Hospital)
2021-05-10 11:00 - 12:00 | Online (Zoom)
Venue: Zoom
Password: [REDACTED]
Abstract:
In this lecture, we will discuss another representative China-born medical expert, Dr. Yang Wen-ta’s experience for viewing the establishment and mechanism of the Americanized emergency care system of Taiwan during the KMT Authoritarian era. Dr. Yang Wen-ta, a notable Taiwanese medical expert, had served in Taiwanese military medical system for many years. As an alumnus of the Peking Union Medical College, Yang’s medical education background proves the strong connection of the medical system between modern China and the USA. Furthermore, as a mainland emigrant medical elite who has been to Taiwan with the retreat of the Nationalist Government, Yang played quite a significant role in the construction of the military medical institution, which shows how Mainland military medicine profoundly influenced and changed Taiwan’s local emergency care system under the KMT rule during the Martial Law time.
Prof. Frank Fuh-yuan Shih is Adjunct Assistant Professor, Doctor, and Director of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the National Taiwan University Hospital.

2021 Taiwan Lecture: Health and History in the Sinophone World: COVID-19 Pandemic for Health Humanities (Professors Tony Hsiu-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University)
2021-05-17 11:00 - 12:00 | Online (Zoom)
Venue: Zoom
Password: [REDACTED]
Abstract:
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused huge impact on human life. The adversity for human does not actually come from this emerging pathogen-SARS-CoV-2-but is probably due to untactful policies and inequitable philosophy that have been already existed before COVID-19. The catastrophe of COVID-19 pandemic is “revelation” for humanities like “A Great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within” says Will Durant, an American writer, historian, and philosopher. This metaphor has been witnessed in scenarios of containment measures (including lockdown, quarantine and isolation, and social distancing) and uneven distribution of vaccine and delivery of therapy during COVID-19 pandemic.
Professors Tony Hsiu-Hsi Chen working at the Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University.

Lecture: China’s Foreign Policy: Interests, Ambitions, and Conceptions of World Order (Dr. Pascal Abb)
2021-05-19 18:00 - 20:00 | Online (Zoom)
Dr. Pascal Abb
Senior researcher, Leibniz-Institut, Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
Zoom-Link: https://s.gwdg.de/We1Gsj

Lecture: Nationalism and the Crisis of Modernity (Prasenjit Duara)
2021-06-03 18:00 - 20:00 | Online (Zoom)
Join Zoom Meeting: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/97494889145?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 974 9488 9145
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This lecture is presented within the framework of the Joint Center for Advanced Studies project “Worldmaking from a Global Perspective: A Dialogue with China” as part of the project “Conceptions of World Order and Their Social Carrier Groups”.
Abstract:
“Whether or not there is a direct causal relationship, nationalism is at the heart of all the crises in the modern world and becomes entangled in its effects. As the fundamental source of authority for all modes of governance in the world, we are beholden to its capacity to resolve these cascading crises. I have long argued that its core confessional and anarchic constitutive form does not afford this capaciousness. It is plain to see this in how the WHO is being hampered in the present pandemic by powerful national interests. “I argue that the nation form is the ‘epistemic engine’ driving the globally circulatory and doxic Enlightenment ideal of the conquest of nature and perpetual growth that sustains the runaway technosphere. The cascading crises that we have already witnessed in this century – financial, economic, epidemic and climatological—are rooted significantly in this technosphere. At the same time, we will have to find our way through and out of these forms to secure a sustainable planet. Drawing from a paradigm of ‘oceanic temporality’ to grasp counter-finalities generated by the epistemic engine I explore the interstitial spaces and counter-flows of social movements that are seeking to develop a post-Enlightenment and a planetary, rather than a global, cosmology.”
About Prasenjit Duara:
Prasenjit Duara is the Oscar Tang Chair of East Asian Studies at Duke University. He was born and educated in India and received his PhD in Chinese history from Harvard University. He was previously Professor and Chair of the Dept of History and Chair of the Committee on Chinese Studies at the University of Chicago (1991-2008). Subsequently, he became Raffles Professor of Humanities and Director, Asia Research Institute at National University of Singapore (2008-2015). In 1988, he published Culture, Power and the State: Rural North China, 1900-1942 (Stanford Univ Press) which won the Fairbank Prize of the AHA and the Levenson Prize of the AAS, USA. Among his other books are Rescuing History from the Nation (U Chicago 1995), Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern (Rowman 2003) and most recently, The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Cambridge 2014).

Vortrag: Die Pekinger Studentenbewegung 2.-31.Mai 1989
2021-06-08 16:00 - 18:00 | Online (Zoom)
Erlebnisbericht von Helmut Opletal
Zoom-Link: https://s.gwdg.de/5tnkdO
Anfang Mai 1989 fuhr Helmut Opletal im Auftrag des ORF nach Peking, um über den historischen China-Besuch des sowjetischen Staats- und Parteichefs Michail Gorbatschow zu berichten. Schließlich verbrachte er vier Wochen in China, und nicht Gorbatschow, sondern die Studentenproteste wurden zum Schwerpunkt seiner Berichterstattung. In dieser Zeit (2.-31. Mai 1989) entstanden in den Wochen vor der Niederschlagung der Bewegung hunderte persönliche Fotos. Es sind keine Bilder der Panzer und tragischen Ereignisse von Anfang Juni, sondern Szenen voller Zuversicht und Hoffnung vor allem junger Menschen auf mehr Freiheit, Demokratie und einen nachhaltigen gesellschaftlichen Wandel.
Die Fotos dieser Präsentation und zahlreiche weitere finden Sie unter https://photos.app.goo.gl/Kws7c5kuc763Lks38.
Dr. Helmut OPLETAL, Jg. 1952, studierte an der Universität Wien Publizistik, Politikwissenschaft und Sinologie. 1973 gehörte er zu den ersten österreichischen Austauschstudenten in China, zwischen 1976 und 2009 war er Redakteur und Reporter für den ORF, 1980-85 auch China-Korrespondent mehrerer deutschsprachiger Zeitungen. Seit 2002 ist Opletal als Lehrbeauftragter, Gastprofessor und Projektmitarbeiter am Institut für Ostasienwissenschaften der Universität Wien tätig.

Lecture: China’s Ambitions in East Asia: Implications for Security and Stability (Helena Legarda)
2021-06-15 16:00 - 18:00 | Online (Zoom)
Helena Legarda
Senior analyst, Mercator Institute for Chinese Studies, Berlin
Zoom-Link: https://s.gwdg.de/MQZZWW

CeMEAS Research Salon & Discussion: 100 Years of CCP History – 100 Jahre KPCh History in three keys: The Cultural Revolution as event, memory, and theory
2021-06-22 18:00 - 20:00 | Online (Zoom)
Looking at 100 years of CCP history, the Cultural Revolution emerges as a key event in post-49 history. The idea is that understanding the Cultural Revolution is crucial to understanding both the Maoist period and the post-Maoist period of CCP history. In no socialist country has the leader of the Communist Party dared to mobilize the population against the Party, and to some degree, it is still a mystery that the CCP survived this attack. Mr Cui Jinke, doctoral student from the University of Vienna, will introduce insights from his doctoral project on factionalism in CCP history, and Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik as well as Sascha Klotzbücher will discuss his findings in the context of research strategies that focus on memory and theoretical approaches to explaining the Cultural Revolution.
Presenter: Cui Jinke (University of Vienna)
Moderator: Sascha Klotzbücher (University of Göttingen)
Discussants: Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik (University of Vienna) & Felix Wemheuer (University of Cologne)
Zoom link: https://s.gwdg.de/6OYGsF
Pancake and Ladder: Inside Local Factional Politics during the Cultural Revolution
Cui Jinke (University of Vienna)
The Cultural Revolution (CR), known as the Ten Years of Chaos, is the most sustained and intensive factional struggle in the 100-year history of the Chinese Communist Party. However, the official party history records tend to be silent and vague on the content of factional politics, especially when it comes to the local levels of the political process. Moreover, the lack of local sources makes it more difficult to analyze its variety outside the center. On the local level, do the factional conflicts occur inside the rebel groups, or between the rebels and the conservatives supported by the army? Is it a game of “the winner takes it all”, or is it a “balance of power” game? By analyzing the primary sources from the process, oral history records, and local chronicles from Shandong province, this presentation will show that policy reversals have repeatedly occurred in the process of local factional politics (called turn over pancakes翻烙饼 during the CR). A typical factional circle starts with a crisis initiated as a result for a certain central political agenda. Then a specific group is mobilized to attack selected targets. When the crisis rises to a certain level, the campaign initiator intervenes on behalf of the criticized target and offers a way out. This tactic is described as “setting aladder架梯子“. Through this method, the campaign initiator tries to gain the gratitude and loyalty from those factions which had been under attack. In local factional practice, the optimal solution, i.e that the winner takes it all, was rarely achieved. Instead, usual procedure is constant internal split and repeated balancing of power. This finding will contribute to understanding the complicated local factional political process in CR.
Cui Jinke崔金珂 is a PhD student at the Department of East Asian Studies – Sinology (University of Vienna). He obtained her MA at Peking University, majoring in the History of the CCP. For his research on the Cultural Revolution Cui Jinke conducted fieldwork in Shandong and Shanxi provinces, collecting local archival materials and conducting oral history interviews since 2013.

Conceptualizing Planetary Humanities - A Public Panel (Two Parts)
2021-06-24 16:00 - 17:15 | YouTube Livestream
This public panel is part of a workshop hosted by Bo Strath, John Noyes & Dominic Sachsenmaier. It will discuss some of the major themes, contours, contexts, interventions, challenges, or potential pitfalls of the humanities understood as a planetary endeavor. The two panels (about one hour each) will be broadcast on youtube livestream.
Part One: June 24th, 16.00-17.15 Central European Time
Chair: Selcuk Esenbel (Bogazici University)
– Dipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago)
– Rochona Majumdar (University of Chicago)
– Walter Mignolo (Duke University)
– Henning Trüper (Free University Berlin)
– Achille Mbembe (University of the Witwatersrand)
Livestream: https://youtu.be/ugLel0HrieA
Part Two: June 25h, 9.00-10.15 am Central European Time
Chair: Dominic Sachsenmaier (Göttingen University)
– Wang Hui (Tsinghua University)
– Selcuk Esenbel (Bogazici University)
– Nkatha Kabira (University of Nairobi)
– Hsiung Ping-Chen (Academia Sinica)
– Premesh Lalu (University of the Western Cape)
Livestream: http://youtu.be/rmUbJfWL5HQ

汉语教学培训 线上 讲座 – Chinesischlehrerfortbildung Online Veranstaltung
2021-06-26 09:00 - 12:00 | Online (Zoom)
汉语作为外语 阅读技能的培养 — 从汉语综合课阅读教学入手
Erwerb der Lesekompetenz für Chinesisch als Fremdsprache — Einführung in die Vermittlung der Lesekompetenz im Allgemeinen Chinesischunterricht
讲座要点 Informationen
讲座内容: 剖析汉语语言特点，帮助学习者提升汉语阅读理解能力；
分析汉语书面语特点，结合教学法进行阅读课教学设计；
以初级、准中级水平阅读教材为案例，互动交流、准备教案。
讲座形式：两次课程，教师讲解、互动讨论、微格教学。
讲座特色：从教学案例入手，互动交流讨论；
微课教学，模拟授课；
听众互评，教师点评。
Inhalt:
• Verbesserung des Leseverständnisses von Chinesischlernenden durch die
Untersuchung sprachlicher Besonderheiten;
• Planung von Unterricht zum Leseverständnis mittels Analysen
schriftsprachlicher Merkmale und didaktischen Methoden;
• Interaktiver Austausch und Erstellung von Unterrichtsplänen mit beispielhaften Lesematerialien für Anfänger und Quasifortgeschrittene.
Format: Zwei Termine, Vorträge durch Dozentin, interaktiver Austausch, Lehrverhaltenstraining
Besonderheiten:
• interaktive Diskussionen auf der Grundlage von Unterrichtsfallbeispielen;
• Mikrounterricht und Unterrichtssimulationen;
• Gegenseitige Einschätzungen durch die Teilnehmer und Kommentierung
durch die Dozentin.
主讲人简介 Über die Dozentin
王健昆，北京师范大学汉语文化学院副教授，硕士生导师。主要研究专长：汉语教学语法、汉语作为第二语言教学法、汉语语音习得与汉外语音对比、海外本土汉语教师培训；发表学术论文20余篇，编写教材多部，出版辞书多部。曾在美国、英国大学任教，曾任孔子学院中方院长。
WANG Jiankun, Associate-Professorin am Institut für Sprach-und Kulturwissenschaften der Beijing Normal University (Pädagogische Universität Peking); Forschungsschwerpunkte: Didaktik der chinesischen Grammatik und Chinesisch als Fremdsprache, Erwerb der chinesischen Phonetik und deren interlingualer Vergleich, internationale Ausbildung lokaler Chinesischlehrkräfte; Veröffentlichung von über 20 Fachaufsätzen und mehrerer Wörterbücher, Erstellung zahlreicher Lehrmittel; Lehrtätigkeiten an US-amerikanischen und britischen Universitäten sowie Tätigkeit als chinesische Direktorin eines Konfuziusinstituts in der Vergangenheit.
报名链接 Anmeldung unter：https://forms.gle/Px3Wc6ShtMGSZGgK7
名额限定，报名截止日期为6月7日。
Teilnehmeranzahl begrenzt, Anmeldefrist bis zum 07.06.2021.
讲座将用中文进行。Veranstaltungssprache: Chinesisch.

CeMEAS Vortrag & Podiumsdiskussion: 100 Years of CCP History – 100 Jahre KPCh/ Ist die Ära Xi Jinping das Ende der Geschichte der KPCh oder: Wie Xi Jinping die Parteigeschichte umschreibt.
2021-06-29 18:00 - 20:00 | Online (Zoom)
Vortrag: Jonny Erling (Frankurt am Main)
Moderator: Sascha Klotzbücher (Universität Göttingen)
Diskutant*innen: Felix Wemheuer (Universität Köln) & Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik (Universität Wien)
Zoom-Link: https://s.gwdg.de/Bxi2rO
100 Jahre Geschichte der KPCh, das ist ein Anlaß, um die Geschichte der KPCh neu zu überdenken und millionenfach in der VR China als Buch zu vertreiben. Xi Jinping hat die offizielle Parteigeschichtsschreibung in der VR China schon jahrelang damit beschäftigt, eine neue Version der Parteigeschichte zu verfassen und ihr seinen Stempel aufzudrücken. Johnny Erling wird sich mit der „neuen“ Parteigeschichte auseinandersetzen und in seiner Präsentation die wichtigsten Änderungen gegenüber früheren Versionen herausarbeiten. In der anschließenden Diskussion werden Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik und Felix Wemheuer die aktuellen Befunde historisch und politisch im Gespräch mit Johnny Erling einordnen.
Auch der Pfirsich hat nur einen Kern: Wie Xi Jinping mit der Umschreibung der Parteigeschichte sich als Chinas neuer Steuermann etablieren will
Jonny Erling (Frankfurt am Main)
Zusammenfassung:
Zur Feier des hundertjährigen „Geburtstag“ der Partei am 1. Juli hat Parteichef Xi Jinping die Geschichte der KP seit 1921 neu schreiben lassen und ihr damit ein Danahergeschenk gemacht. Ein Viertel der 531 Seiten ist der Glorifizierung der Herrschaft Xis seit Ende 2012 gewidmet. Die Neufassung preist Staatsgründer Mao Zedongs Verdienst, das unterdrückte China „aufstehen“ zu lassen. Reformarchitekt Deng Xiaoping gelang es, China „reich“ werden zu lassen, Xi aber vollendet nun das Werk seiner Vorgänger, indem er China seiner historischen Bestimmung zuführt, „stark zu werden.“ Die Partei ist zu diesem Zweck vorbestimmt. Alle ihre Linienkämpfe und verheerenden Verfolgungskampagnen wie die Kulturrevolution können im Nachhinein neu bewertet werden, als rechtzeitig von der Partei korrigierte Betriebsunfälle auf der Suche nach dem richtigen Weg. Alle dabei gemachten Fehler können daher (ohnehin relativiert durch die vielen Erfolge) auf wenigen Seiten abgehandelt werden. Sie brauchen keine eigenen Kapitel mehr, um sie zu beschreiben.
Im Countdown auf den 20. Parteitag 2022, der die Weichen für Chinas Aufstieg in den kommenden 30 Jahren zur dominierenden Weltmacht stellen soll, festigt Partei- und Staatschef Xi Jinping mit der Reinterpretation der Parteigeschichte seinen Anspruch auf die Rolle eines neuen Steuermann in Chinas Geschichte. Als „Kern“ der chinesischen Führung hat er bereits die kollektive Führung ausgehebelt. Die Schulungskampagnen zur Parteigeschichte kurz vor dem 1. Juli geben die Linie vor, dass ohne Xi als Kern keines von Chinas Zielsetzungen erreichbar ist. „Wie Genosse Mao einst sagte. Wie viele Kerne hat ein Pfirsich? Wenn man ihn öffnet, dann sieht man nur einen.“
Statt wie einst vom Reformarchitekten Deng Xiaoping vorgegeben, nach zehn Jahren Amtszeit einen geordneten Übergang vorzubereiten, baut Xi seine Alleinherrschaft aus. Auf dem 19. Parteitag ließ er die Parteistatuten ändern, um sich als ideologischer Vordenker für die neue sozialistische Ära Xi zu verankern. Er brachte den Volkskongress dazu, ihm durch Verfassungsänderung zu erlauben, aufLebenszeit zu regieren.
Johnny Erling studierte Sinologie in Frankfurt und an der Peking-Universität. Von 1980 bis 1982 arbeitete er als Lektor am Pekinger Marx-Engels Institut. Von 1985 bis 1990 war er China-Korrespondent für einen Zeitungspool unter Federführung der Frankfurter Rundschau, von 1997 bis 2019 arbeitete er für die Welt und den Standard in Peking.

汉语教学培训 线上 讲座 – Chinesischlehrerfortbildung Online Veranstaltung
2021-07-03 09:00 - 12:00 | Online (Zoom)
汉语作为外语 阅读技能的培养 — 从汉语综合课阅读教学入手
Erwerb der Lesekompetenz für Chinesisch als Fremdsprache — Einführung in die Vermittlung der Lesekompetenz im Allgemeinen Chinesischunterricht
讲座要点 Informationen:
讲座内容: 剖析汉语语言特点，帮助学习者提升汉语阅读理解能力；
分析汉语书面语特点，结合教学法进行阅读课教学设计；
以初级、准中级水平阅读教材为案例，互动交流、准备教案。
讲座形式：两次课程，教师讲解、互动讨论、微格教学。
讲座特色：从教学案例入手，互动交流讨论；
微课教学，模拟授课；
听众互评，教师点评。
Inhalt:
• Verbesserung des Leseverständnisses von Chinesischlernenden durch die
Untersuchung sprachlicher Besonderheiten;
• Planung von Unterricht zum Leseverständnis mittels Analysen
schriftsprachlicher Merkmale und didaktischen Methoden;
• Interaktiver Austausch und Erstellung von Unterrichtsplänen mit beispielhaften Lesematerialien für Anfänger und Quasifortgeschrittene.
Format: Zwei Termine, Vorträge durch Dozentin, interaktiver Austausch, Lehrverhaltenstraining
Besonderheiten:
• interaktive Diskussionen auf der Grundlage von Unterrichtsfallbeispielen;
• Mikrounterricht und Unterrichtssimulationen;
• Gegenseitige Einschätzungen durch die Teilnehmer und Kommentierung
durch die Dozentin.
主讲人简介 Über die Dozentin:
王健昆，北京师范大学汉语文化学院副教授，硕士生导师。主要研究专长：汉语教学语法、汉语作为第二语言教学法、汉语语音习得与汉外语音对比、海外本土汉语教师培训；发表学术论文20余篇，编写教材多部，出版辞书多部。曾在美国、英国大学任教，曾任孔子学院中方院长。
WANG Jiankun, Associate-Professorin am Institut für Sprach-und Kulturwissenschaften der Beijing Normal University (Pädagogische Universität Peking); Forschungsschwerpunkte: Didaktik der chinesischen Grammatik und Chinesisch als Fremdsprache, Erwerb der chinesischen Phonetik und deren interlingualer Vergleich, internationale Ausbildung lokaler Chinesischlehrkräfte; Veröffentlichung von über 20 Fachaufsätzen und mehrerer Wörterbücher, Erstellung zahlreicher Lehrmittel; Lehrtätigkeiten an US-amerikanischen und britischen Universitäten sowie Tätigkeit als chinesische Direktorin eines Konfuziusinstituts in der Vergangenheit.
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Teilnehmeranzahl begrenzt, Anmeldefrist bis zum 07.06.2021.
讲座将用中文进行。Veranstaltungssprache: Chinesisch.

Lecture: "The Inter-State Order of Post-Tang East Asia" by Nicolas Tackett (Berkeley)
2021-07-15 15:00 - 17:00 | Online (Zoom)
This lecture is presented within the framework of the Joint Center for Advanced Studies project “Worldmaking from a Global Perspective: A Dialogue with China” as part of the project “Conceptions of World Order and Their Social Carrier Groups”.
Abstract:
Whereas a few decades ago, the pre-twentieth century “Chinese World Order” was typically treated as unchanging across the vast span of the imperial period, this talk is premised on the idea that inter-state systems evolve substantially over time. With this spirit in mind, I will propose the fall of the Tang as a pivotal moment that ushered in a very different East Asian World Order. I will consider both the ideological foundation of this state system and the pragmatic rules and protocols governing inter-state interactions.
About Nicolas Tackett:
Nicolas Tackett is Professor of History at U.C. Berkeley. He is the author of two books. The Destruction of the Medieval Chinese Aristocracy (2014) examines how a network of powerful families survived at the pinnacle of political power for centuries only to disappear into oblivion suddenly and completely at the turn of the 10th c. The Origins of the Chinese Nation (2017) argues that a national consciousness emerged in China in the eleventh century (i.e., much earlier than typically assumed), and explores how this new consciousness was a product of the diplomatic environment of 11th-c. Northeast Asia.
Join Zoom Meeting: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/s/93717896257
Further Information:
Contact Information: Dr. Janice Hyeju Jeong
Contact Email: janicehyeju.jeong@uni-goettingen.de

Lecture: Maritime Security and Strategic Implications in the South China Sea (Dr. Sarah Kirchberger)
2021-07-20 16:00 - 18:00 | Online (Zoom)
Dr. Sarah Kirchberger
Leiterin der Abteilung Strategische Entwicklung in Asien-Pazifik am Institut für Sicherheitspolitik an der Universität Kiel
Zoom-Link: https://s.gwdg.de/JFiAoJ

Global Visions of Place and Belonging: Sojourners from China and the Arab World Dr. Janice Jeong (Göttingen) & Dr. Mohammed Al-Sudairi (Hong Kong University)
2021-09-08 13:15 - 14:45 | Online (Zoom)
The talks by Dr. Mohammed Al-Sudairi and Dr. Janice Hyeju Jeong will discuss sojourners who traversed between China and the Arab world at pivotal moments in the twentieth century, who interpreted the destinations of their travels as the center of their spiritual or revolutionary worlds. They will each position Maoist China and Mecca under pre-1970s Saudi rule as global sites that drew in visitors and writers from different parts of the non-western world, and inspired idealized visions on the connections between China and the Arab world in past and future. Besides outlining the little-known actors and sources, the speakers will try to highlight the tensions between the romanticized imaginaries and realities, and the projection of the writers’ societal circumstances onto their conceptualizations. Read more
The speakers:
Mohammed Turki Al-Sudairi is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hong Kong Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong. He is affiliated with the Asian Religious Connections research cluster and involved in the “The Infrastructures of Faith: Religious Mobilities on the Belt and the Road” research project. He is also a Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Asian Studies Unit at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies. His research interests encompass Sino-Middle Eastern relations, Islamic and leftist connections between East Asia and the Arab World, and Chinese politics.
Janice Hyeju Jeong is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Göttingen, working as a part of the project ‘Conceptions of World Order and their Social Carrier Groups’ funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Her broad research interests include formations of Islamic diaspora networks between China and the Arabian Peninsula, inter-Asian connections, and history and anthropology.
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China Platform: Taiwan Lecture Café Series 2021
2021-10-27 11:30 - 13:00 | Online
Wednesday 27 October
Liao Hsien-hao (National Taiwan University)
“Taiwan at the crossroads: Between Central Kingdom and Seafaring Pirates”
Wednesday 3 November
Yeh Kuo-chün (National Taiwan University)
“Did China’s soft power seduction lure Taiwan’s youth? Preliminary evidence for employment and entrepreneurship”
Wednesday 10 November
Lee Yu-Ting (National Taiwan University)
“Problems of East Asian Historical Narrative: Compared with Europe”
Wednesday 17 November
Hwang Yih-Jye (The Hague University College)
“The Origin and Development of International Studies in Taiwan”
Wednesday 24 November
Chen Yi-Ling (University of Wyoming)
“Governed by the Market: The Rise of Social Housing Movement and its Obstacles in Taiwan”
Wednesday 1 December
Hsiung Ping-Chen (University of California, Irvine)
“Further Reflections on the Migrating Taste: Development of Taiwanese Food Culture in the Postwar Era”

online discussion forum: Making Chinese Foreign Aid Transparent – What is Hidden in Data and Policy Documents?
2021-10-28 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
Since the turn of the millennium, China has provided record amounts of development aid and other types of development finance to countries around the globe. However, its grant-giving and lending activities remain intransparent. This is not least due to the institutional complexity of China’s system of foreign aid and the absence of comprehensive reporting systems for development projects. How can we therefore try to piece through the veil of secrecy and complexity? In this third Global China Conversation, Brad Parks and Marina Rudyak will help us unravel some of the underlying processes. Marina Rudyak will guide us through the complexity of the institutional setup and outline what we can learn from official government documents. Brad Parks will offer us a bird’s-eye view of China’s geo-economic strategy before and after the introduction of the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, by looking at a uniquely comprehensive and granular dataset of international development finance from China that captures 13,427 projects worth $843 billion across 165 countries in every major world region over an 18-year period.
Program
The event consists of different impulse lectures followed by a discussion.
Global China Conversation #3 will take place in English.
Literature
The impulse lectures are based on the following publication:
Malik, A., Parks, B., Russell, B., Lin, J., Walsh, K., Solomon, K., Zhang, S., Elston, T., and S. Goodman. (2021). Banking on the Belt and Road: Insights from a new global dataset of 13,427 Chinese development projects. Williamsburg, VA: AidData at William & Mary. https://www.aiddata.org/publications/banking-on-the-belt-and-road
Place:
Online via Zoom, please register here.
Speakers
Dr. Bradley Parks, AidData
Dr. Bradley Parks is the Executive Director of AidData, a research lab at William and Mary. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research has been published in academic and policy journals, including Science, Governance, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, the Journal of Development Economics, World Development, the National Interest, and China Economic Quarterly. He is the author of three books, including Banking on Beijing: The Aims and Impacts of China’s Overseas Development Program (Cambridge University Press). Dr. Parks is also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development, where he works on issues related to the Belt and Road Initiative.
Dr. Marina Rudyak, Heidelberg University
Marina Rudyak is a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Sinology of Heidelberg University. She is the founder of china-aid-blog.com and a member of the Global Diplomacy Lab, the Sino-German Future Bridge, and the BMW Foundation Responsible Leaders Network. She has previously worked with the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) in Beijing as Program Manager of the multi-country project “Regional Economic Cooperation and Integration Asia-China.” Her research interests are Chinese foreign aid and development lending policy with a focus on Africa and Central Asia, as well as the political ideology of the Chinese Communist Party and coded communication in Chinese politics.
Moderator
Prof. Dr. Andreas Fuchs, University of Göttingen, IfW Kiel
Andreas Fuchs is Professor of Development Economics, Director of the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies at the University of Göttingen, and Director of the Kiel Institute China Initiative. His research analyzes trade, investment and development policies with quantitative methods and a special focus on China and other emerging economies. He also investigates the political economy of natural disasters, humanitarian crises, and non-militarized conflicts.

Online-Lecture: Frau Prof. Weigelin-Schwiedrzik (Universität Wien): „Das Jahr 1943: Die Alliierten entscheiden über die Zukunft von Österreich und Taiwan“
2021-11-02 17:00 - 19:00 | Online
Abstract:
Im Jahr 1943 fanden zwei Konferenzen statt, die über die Nachkriegssituation von Taiwan und Österreich entscheiden sollten: Vom 19. Oktober bis 1. November 1943 fand die Konferenz von Moskau statt, auf der durch die Außenminister der USA, der SU und Großbritanniens die Wiederherstellung des Staates Österreich beschlossen wurde. Es wurde festgestellt, dass Österreich „das erste freie Land [war], das der typischen Angriffspolitik Hitlers zum Opfer fallen sollte“, weshalb keine Kapitulation wie im Falle Deutschlands gefordert, eine „endgültige Abrechnung“ über den Anteil Österreichs an den Verbrechen des Nazi-Regimes jedoch angekündigt wurde.
Im Falle Taiwans wurde ein entsprechender, wenn auch inhaltlich vollkommen anderer Beschluss auf der Konferenz von Kairo gefällt, die vom 22. bis 26. November 1943 stattfand und an der Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill und Tschiang Kaishek teilnahmen. Die Deklaration von Kairo postuliert, dass nach der angestrebten Niederlage Japans Taiwan Teil der Republik China werden sollte.
Der Vortrag analysiert die beiden Beschlüsse und arbeitet die Gründe heraus, welche die Alliierten dazu bewogen haben, in einem Fall für die staatliche Selbständigkeit und in dem anderen für die Anbindung an Festland China zu optieren. Besonderes Augenmerk wird auf die Rolle der SU gelegt, auf deren Territorium die eine Konferenz stattfand und die auf der anderen Konferenz nicht anwesend war. Während der Beschluss in Moskau heute fast in Vergessenheit geraten ist, sorgt der Beschluss der Konferenz von Kairo in Ostasien für lebhafte Diskussionen.
Bio:
Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik ist Professorin a.D. der Sinologie. Ihre Forschung konzentriert sich auf das Schreiben der modernen und zeitgenössischen chinesischen Geschichte, die Geschichte Ostasiens und die Erinnerungspolitik in der VR China. Überdies publiziert sie zur chinesischen Politik
Ort: https://bit.ly/3oG6Xtf

Online-Lecture: Prof. Edward Wang (Rowan University & Peking University): "Potato vs. Sweet Potato in Making the Modern World: A Discussion of Oceanic and Plant History in Historiography."
2021-11-02 18:00 - 20:00 | Online (Zoom)
Abstract:
Both oceanic history and plant history are recent developments in historiography. This talk will discuss how the two schools enhance the study of global history and reshape our views about the making of the modern world. As a continual effort to critique the nation-state focus in 19th century historiography, which began with the French Annales School in the early 20th century, historians in more recent decades have shifted attention from land to ocean and from people to plants, analyzing how the two played their parts in shaping worldwide historical development. Discussing these new attempts will help us see the inter-continental connections and transcend Eurocentrism in historical writing.
Bio:
Q. Edward Wang, Professor of History and Coordinator of Asian Studies Program at Rowan University and Changjiang Professor of History at Peking University, serves on the board of International Commission for the History and Theory of Historiography. His main publications include A Global History of Modern Historiography (2008, 2017); Turning Points in Historiography: A Cross-Cultural Perspective (2005); Marxist Historiographies: A Global Perspective (2017) and, most recently, Historiography: Critical Readings (2021).
https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/93878559419?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting-ID: 938 7855 9419
Kenncode: [REDACTED]

Online-Lecture: Prof. Elizabeth Kaske (Leipzig): "Late Qing Perceptions of Risk and Fortune: Plotting Careers in an Age of Anxiety"
2021-11-09 18:15 - 20:15 | Online
Abstract:
One aspect that strikes observers of nineteenth-century China is the apparent lack of panic in the face of foreign aggression among Qing officials. Max Weber, an avid reader of Peking Gazette translations and the English-language press of coastal China, identified the precarity of status and income—rather than Confucian conservatism—as the main impediment to reform. Weber’s analysis has been criticized as “Eurocentric,” but it matched the self-perception of many in China towards the end of the dynasty. Perhaps the most famous account of the official “precariat” is Li Boyuan’s Officialdom Unmasked (1903-1905) which was both a wildly popular novel and a bold political statement. This paper combines fictional careers and real-life biographies to show how status anxieties determined political choices, and elite politics was increasingly seen as the source of China’s decline. The desacralization of the scholar-official as the ruling social order paved the way for abolishing the civil service examinations and, finally, the revolution of 1911.
Bio:
Elisabeth Kaske has joined Leipzig University as professor of modern Chinese society and culture in April 2017, after studying and teaching in Berlin, Beijing, Heidelberg, Frankfurt, Boston, Vienna, Pittsburgh, Taipei, and Princeton. As a historian of late Qing and early Republican China she is interested in China’s rugged path towards modernization. Her studies include the history of German-Chinese military exchange and technology transfer, the emergence of new concepts of language and education, the sale of rank and public office by the late imperial state, and the fiscal regime of the Qing dynasty. After having long focused on bureaucratic elites, she has recently become fascinated with how new professional elites, particularly engineers, imagined the nation and their own role in it.
Ort:
https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/94710833540?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting-ID: 947 1083 3540
Kenncode: [REDACTED]

CeMEAS: Lecture Series: "New Perspectives on Modernity in China"
2021-11-12 12:00 - 14:00 | Online
Since the nineteenth century, China is offering perspectives on modernity that are often unexpected and therefore challenge Western assumptions about the nature of modernity. In this lecture series, we will look at Chinese history, philosophy, religion, politics etc. presenting current research that is addressing unsettling questions triggered by these developments.
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Nov 12, 2021
The Understanding and Practice of “Five Religions” in Early 20th Century China. The Works and Views of Feng Bingnan (1888-1956)
Peng Guoxiang, Zhejiang University
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Dec 3, 2021
The Ming-Qing Transition as a Philosophical Problem
Leigh Jenco, Professor of Political Theory, London School of Economics, Department of Government
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Dec 17, 2021
The Utopian Impulse and Chinese Political Modernity
Peter Zarrow, Department of History, University of Connecticut, Hartford, USA
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Jan 28, 2022
Self-government (zizhi) in China from the late Qing to the Republic: a contested concept in the search for political modernity
Federico Brusadelli, University of Naples “L’Orientale”

Lecture: Peng Guoxiang (Zhejiang University): The Understanding and Practice of “Five Religions” in Early 20th Century China. The Works and Views of Feng Bingnan (1888-1956)
2021-11-12 12:00 - 14:00 | Online
Please register in advance: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYlcOirrTwvHd2Cw9yScwFKBSvj9vemw7sK
Abstract:
The so-called “sanjiao 三教 tradition (three teachings/religions)” that includes Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism has conventionally been considered as the “Chinese religion” in Chinese history. In addition to the “sanjiao,” however, Christianity and Islam were introduced to China pretty early and also became integral parts of the Chinese religious tradition. In the early 20th century, the concept and practice of “wujiao 五教” rather than “sanjiao” had already been widely accepted by Chinese people, much beyond intellectual circles. This talk introduces the understanding and practice of “wujiao” exemplified by Feng Bingnan, a successful lawyer and businessman renowned and influential in the 1940s but totally forgotten later on and demonstrates that “wujiao” offers a better perspective than “sanjiao” to understand the Chinese religious tradition.
PENG Guoxiang 彭國翔 is Qiu Shi Distinguished Professor of Chinese philosophy, intellectual history and religions at Zhejiang University, China. Before moving to Zhejiang University, he was Professor at Peking University and Tsinghua University. He was the 2016 Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the North (Library of Congress, USA) and was awarded the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award in 2009 (Humboldt Foundation, Germany). He has been a visiting Professor or research fellow in numerous institutions such as Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, University of Frankfurt am Main, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, University of Hawaii, Harvard-Yenching Institute, National Taiwan University, Chinese University of Hong Kong, National University of Singapore. His publications include The Unfolding of the Innate Good Knowing: Wang Ji and the Yangming Learning in Mid-Late Ming (2003, 2005, 2015), Confucian Tradition: Between Religion and Humanism (2007, 2019), Confucian Tradition and Chinese Philosophy: Retrospect and Prospect in a New Century (2009), Confucian Tradition from Classical Period to Its Contemporary Transformation: Speculation and Interpretation (2012), Revision and New Discovery: Historical Study of Pre-Modern Confucianism from Northern Song till Early Qing Dynasty (2013, 2015), Reconstruction of This Culture of Ours: Confucianism and Contemporary World (2013, 2018, 2019), This-worldly Concern of the Wise: The Political and Social Thought of Mou Zongsan (1909-1995) (2016), The Methodology of Doing Chinese Philosophy (2020) as well as numerous articles.
This lecture is part of the lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China.

Prof. Im Chong Myong (Chonnam National University): "The Amorphousness of Post-War and Post-Colonial South Korea and its Regional Contexts"
2021-11-16 18:15 - 20:00 | Online
Abstract:
The talk deals with the effects of World War Two on East Asia and Korea, and in this context it deals with issues like the re-construction of Western modernism and the inauguration of the nation-states system in the region. The talk also discusses the amorphousness of post-colonial South Korea where, in many respects, modern ideas such as democracy and nationalism could not establish their own discursive hegemony.
Presenter:
Prof. Im Chong Myong received his doctoral degree from the University of Chicago in 2004. He subsequently took the position of professor at History Department of Chonnam National University, South Korea. From 2012 to 2013, he spent a year as a Fulbright scholar at the University of California at Los Angeles. As an expert of modern Korean history, his fields of research include the subjectification of South Koreans in post-colonial/World War II contexts and the contemporary configurations of the global Cold-War dynamics.
Link: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/99020196657?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting-ID: 990 2019 6657
Kenncode: [REDACTED]

汉语教学培训 线上讲座 Chinesischlehrerfortbildung – Online-Veranstaltung
2021-11-20 09:00 - 12:00 | Online
汉语教学中的差异化教学 Differenzierung im Chinesischunterricht
培训
内容:
• 差异化教学及其理论基础：多元智能理论与布鲁姆教育目标分类
• 华裔学习者与非华裔学习者、汉语传承语教学（ Heritage Language Teaching ）与传统的外语教学（ Foreign Language Teaching ）的异同
• 成人汉语教学中的差异化教学设计和案例
• 儿童汉语教学中的差异化教学设计和案例。
Inhalt:
• Differenzierung im Unterricht und ihre theoretischen Grundlagen: Multifaktorielle Intelligenztheorien und Blooms Taxonomie der Lernziele;
• Unterschiede im Spracherwerb zwischen chinesischstämmigen und nicht chinesischstämmigen Lernenden, Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede zwischen Herkunftsprachenunterricht (Heritage Language Teaching) und Fremdsprachenunterricht (Foreign Language Learning);
• Differenzierung im Chinesischunterricht mit erwachsenen Lernenden Unterrichtsplanung und Fallbeispiele;
• Differenzierung im Chinesischunterricht mit Kindern Unterrichtsplanung und Fallbeispiele.
曹贤文，南京大学教授、博士生导师，中国语言战略研究中心研究员、世界汉语教学学会理事、世汉学会教师发展专业委员会副主任委员，长期在国内外从事一线教学和研究工作，发表学术论文50余篇，出版专著、教材等10余部。Prof. Dr. CAO Xianwen lehrt an der Universität Nanjing und forscht am Chinesischen Forschungszetrum für Sprachstrategien. Er ist Mitglied im Vorstand der International Society for Chinese Language Teaching (ISCLT) und stellvertretender Vorsitzender des Fachausschusses für Lehrkräftebildung des ISCLT. Seit langem an vorderster Front in einschlägiger Lehre und Forschung im In- und Ausland tätig, hat Prof. Cao über 50 Fachzeitschriftenartikel und mehr als zehn Fach- und Lehrbücher veröffentlicht.
张凤永，南京大学海外教育学院汉语教师，持有国际可理解输入工作坊（TCI）专业培训证书和剑桥成人英语教学证书（CELTA）。曾参与联合国职员中文培训项目等项目。Frau ZHANG Fengyong ist Chinesischlehrerin am Institut für Fremdsprachen der Universität Nanjing und besitzt das Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA) der Universität Cambridge sowie ein Zertifikat für Teaching with Comprehensible Input (TCI). Sie wirkte als Chinesischlehrerin in zahlreichen internationalen Programmen mit, u.a. im Rahmen des Chinesisch-Ausbildungsprogramms für Mitarbeitende der Vereinten Nationen usw.
本次工作坊工作语言为中文 。Der Workshop findet in chinesischer Sprache statt.
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China Platform: Taiwan Lecture Café Series 2021
2021-11-30 10:00 - 11:30 | Online
Wednesday 27 October
Liao Hsien-hao (National Taiwan University)
“Taiwan at the crossroads: Between Central Kingdom and Seafaring Pirates”
Wednesday 3 November
Yeh Kuo-chün (National Taiwan University)
“Did China’s soft power seduction lure Taiwan’s youth? Preliminary evidence for employment and entrepreneurship”
Wednesday 10 November
Lee Yu-Ting (National Taiwan University)
“Problems of East Asian Historical Narrative: Compared with Europe”
Wednesday 17 November
Hwang Yih-Jye (The Hague University College)
“The Origin and Development of International Studies in Taiwan”
Wednesday 24 November
Chen Yi-Ling (University of Wyoming)
“Governed by the Market: The Rise of Social Housing Movement and its Obstacles in Taiwan”
Tuesday 30 November*
Hsiung Ping-Chen (University of California, Irvine)
“Further Reflections on the Migrating Taste: Development of Taiwanese Food Culture in the Postwar Era”
Time 11:30-13:00 (CET)
*10:00-11:30 (CET)
Online registration: https://eventmanager.ugent.be/TaiwanLC

Dr. Mohammed Al-Sudairi (Hong Kong University): "Yellow Peril with a Dash of Green?: Global Fantasies on an Islamized China at the Turn of the Twentieth Century"
2021-11-30 18:15 - 20:15 | Online
Bio: Mohammed Al-Sudairi is a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Hong Kong Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences and is a Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Asian Studies Unit at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies. He obtained his PhD in Comparative Politics from the University of Hong Kong, his master’s degree in International Relations from the Peking University and in International History from the London School of Economics (joint program), and his undergraduate degree in International Politics from the Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He is proficient in Arabic, English, and Chinese. His research interests encompass Sino-Middle Eastern relations, Islamic and leftist connections between East Asia and the Arab World, and Chinese politics.
https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/skype/93990758044
Meeting-ID: 939 9075 8044
Code: 957008

Lecture: Leigh Jenco (Professor of Political Theory, London School of Economics, Department of Government): The Ming-Qing Transition as a Philosophical Problem
2021-12-03 16:00 - 18:00 | Online
Please register in advance: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUqdeysqDMvE9zMw_ZJ55l2L9xVPUb67XwZ
Abstract:
The transition from the Ming dynasty to the Qing dynasty was not experienced as a sharp break for those who lived through it, but it has come to stand in the minds of later Chinese literati as nothing less than an existential crisis for Chinese identity—both driving and driven by a shift in intellectual perspective that emerged in the early years of Qing consolidation. Many educated literati retrospectively blamed the fall of the Ming on the abstruse philosophizing that preoccupied followers of Wang Yangming, a sixteenth-century statesman, frontier general and philosopher whose rejection of state-sponsored Confucian orthodoxy rode a wave of interest in metaphysical speculation about the sources of moral knowledge. In its place—just as the government policy adapted from an inward-looking, Han-dominated state to a cosmopolitan, expansionist inner Asian empire—seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literati turned their attention to the historical and philological verification of classic texts, inaugurating the “evidential learning” (kaozheng) that twentieth-century Chinese reformers would see as proof of an indigenous, modern “scientific spirit.” In this paper I argue that such divisions obscure from view the extent to which the Manchu victory and the territorial consolidation that followed continued the strong parallels that marked both Chinese and European societies in early modernity. There are thus important philosophical consequences for periodizing the Chinese early modern period as an abrupt transition from “Ming to Qing” or “philosophy to philology”. I use my current research to offer examples of these consequences. Specifically, I argue that characterizing this time period in terms of a rupture between dynasties, rather than as a more general epoch of early modernity, leaves us unable to assess philosophically the ways in which ideas and practices thematized by scholars of Yangming learning enabled particular kinds of discourse about human difference to take shape, and in turn how empirical information about human kinds generated by Ming-era territorial expansion, travel and commerce was fed back into philosophical thinking about moral possibility and the textual tradition that articulated it.
This lecture is part of the lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China.

Alessandro Rippa (Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München): "Borderland Infrastructures: Trade, Development, and Control in Western China"
2021-12-07 18:15 - 20:15 | Online
ABSTRACT:
Across the Chinese borderlands, investments in large-scale transnational infrastructure such as roads and special economic zones have increased exponentially over the past two decades. Based on long-term ethnographic research, Borderland Infrastructures addresses a major contradiction at the heart of this fast-paced development: small-scale traders have lost their historic strategic advantages under the growth of massive Chinese state investment and are now struggling to keep their businesses afloat. Concurrently, local ethnic minorities have become the target of radical resettlement projects, securitization, and tourism initiatives, and have in many cases grown increasingly dependent on state subsidies. At the juncture of anthropological explorations of the state, border studies, and research on transnational trade and infrastructure development, Borderland Infrastructures provides new analytical tools to understand how state power is experienced, mediated, and enacted in Xinjiang and Yunnan.
More information and a link to the PDF of the book which is fully Open Access:
https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463725606/borderland-infrastructures
SHORT BIO:
Alessandro is a social anthropologist interested in issues surrounding infrastructure, borders, globalisation, conservation and the environment, particularly in the contexts of the China-Myanmar borderlands and the Italian Alps. He is the author of Borderland Infrastructures: Trade, Development, and Control in Western China (Amsterdam University Press, 2020) and of numerous articles in journals such as Social Anthropology, The China Journal, Political Geography, and Ethnos. Alessandro obtained his PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen in 2015, and held postdoctoral positions at LMU Munich and at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is currently based at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich, where he leads the 5-year project Environing Infrastructure (www.environing.asia) funded by a “freigeist” fellowship from the Volkswagen Foundation. Alessandro is currently on leave from his position as Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at Tallinn University.

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“Contemporary Theater Arts” Seminar Series No. 7: Chan Kwok Wai Bernice: "Illustrating the Stage of Hong Kong for Audiences of the Present and the Future - My Creative Journey as a Curator of the Exhibition "A Snap beyond Borders""
2021-12-08 13:00 - 14:30 | Online
“Contemporary Theater Arts” Seminar Series No. 7
Illustrating the Stage of Hong Kong for Audiences of the Present and the Future – My Creative Journey as a Curator of the Exhibition “A Snap beyond Borders”
Speaker: Chan Kwok Wai Bernice
Language: English
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Bio:
Chan Kwok Wai Bernice is currently the General Manager of the International Association of Theatre Crit-ics (Hong Kong), and an Examiner for the Hong Kong Arts Development Council (Drama Committee). She is also a Panel Member of the Hong Kong Drama Awards, the Hong Kong Theatre Libre, and the IATC(HK) Critics Awards, as well as an Executive Committee Member of the International Association of Libraries, Museums, Archives and Documentation Centres of the Performing Arts (SIBMAS).
She received the Hong Kong Arts Development Council-University of Leeds-Chevening Scholarships in 2005 and obtained her Master of Arts in Theatre Studies from the University of Leeds (UK). She was also an Art Form Panel Member (Festivals) of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (2011–2016), an Advisory Committee Member of School of Drama, the Hong Kong of Academy for Performing Arts (2017–2018), as well as a guest host of Artscritique (2007–2018)and a Radio and Television Hong Kong radio programme. Chan has curated and edited over 50 publishing projects about performing arts. Her recent editorial projects have included Ten Years of A City: Selected Hong Kong Plays (2003–2012), which was awarded the 11th Hong Kong Book Prize in 2018, and “A Snap beyond Borders: An Online Archive and Education Project of Hong Kong Theatre and Performance Photography”.
