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SUMMARY:Lecture: Dr. Fan Xin (Cambridge University): Before China Studies: Private Foundations and Cold War Politics in Colonial Hong Kong
DESCRIPTION:6. July (Thursday)\, 18:15 – 19:45\nVG 2.103 \nAbstract:\nThe founding of the University Service Centre in Hong Kong in 1963 was a significant event in the development of China studies. Thanks to the city’s adjacency to mainland China and the Carnegie Corporation’s funding support\, the Centre since its very beginning has become the “go-to” place for aspiring researchers to obtain first-hand information to study contemporary China. Yet in what way did U.S. government\, private foundations\, and the British Colonial government collaborate on founding this important institution? This is the central question of this talk. By using American and British archives\, I will investigate the complicated relationship between state and society in the production of China-related knowledge in the Cold War era.  \nBio:\nDr Xin Fan is Teaching Associate in Modern Chinese History at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge\, and he is also a fellow at Lucy Cavendish College of the university. Prior to the move to the UK\, he was a tenured associate professor at the State University of New York at Fredonia. As a historian of twentieth-century China\, he is the author of World History and National Identity in China: The Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press\, 2021) and the second editor of Receptions of Greek and Roman Antiquity in East Asia (Brill\, 2018). He also serves as book review editor for China and Asia: A Journal in Historical Studies. He is currently working on a book project tentatively titled\, “The Right to Talk about China: The Rise of Emotions of Politics\, 1900s–1949.” He is collaborating with Kristin Stapleton and Els van Dongen on editing “The SAGE Handbook of Interpreting Chinese History.” In addition\, he is writing about nationalism\, historiography\, and the history of concepts.  \nOrganizer:\nProf. Dominic Sachsenmaier\, University of Göttingen
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/lecture-dr-fan-xin-cambridge-university-before-china-studies-private-foundations-and-cold-war-politics-in-colonial-hong-kong/
LOCATION:Verfügungsgebäude (VG) 2.103\, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7\, Göttingen\, 37073
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20230707T140000
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SUMMARY:Lecture: PENG Guoxiang "Confucius as a Cosmopolitan: Thought and Practice"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nBased on the Analects and other texts related to Confucius in classical period and taken “cosmopolitanism\,” a concept with long history in the Western tradition as a counterpart for comparison\, this talk aims to probe the thought and practice of Confucius as a cosmopolitan and point out the feature and significance of the Confucian “rooted cosmopolitanism” revealed in the thought and practice of Confucius. The rooted cosmopolitanism embodied by Confucius not only has the basic characteristics of all versions of cosmopolitanism\, namely\, going beyond the territory and ethnicity\, but also keeps a dynamic balance between the one and the many\, which is usually ignored by the radical cosmopolitanism. Last\, a brief comparison between Confucian rooted cosmopolitanism and the rooted cosmopolitanism advocated by Appiah would be made.
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/lecture-peng-guoxiang-confucius-as-a-cosmopolitan-thought-and-practice/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum\, KWZ 0.601
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20230711T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20230711T180000
DTSTAMP:20260418T151346
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Viren Murthy "Hegelian Master Narratives and Periodizing Japanese and Chinese Modernity"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nScholars of Asian studies have something of a love-hate relationship with Hegel; they love to cite him as the epitome of Eurocentrism\, modernization theory and the legitimation of colonialism.  Despite their prevalence\, such criticisms overlook both the complexities of Hegel’s philosophy and the different ways in which Asian intellectuals attempted to turn Hegel on his head or rescue the rational kernel of his thought in a non-Western context.  I contend that for much of the twentieth century\, especially in Japan\, but also in China\, scholars engaged Hegel by incorporating and transforming his ideas.  Such incorporations enabled us to see that Hegel was not merely a theorist of modernization but one of its most incisive critics.  Indeed\, it was precisely because of Hegel’s critique of capitalist modernity that conservatives such as Inoue Tetsujirō found him interesting.  In this presentation\, I will examine three attempts to rethink Hegel\, respectively by the pan-Asianist\, Okakura Tenshin\, the Kyoto school philosopher of world-history\, Koyama Iwao and the Japanese sinologist\, Mizoguchi Yūzō.  I argue that each of these thinkers narrates the history of Asia\, while implicitly or explicitly responding to Hegel’s idea of the Orient as not having subjectivity.  Against this static vision of Asia\, these figures reconfigure the historical trajectories of Japan\, China and the world to reconfigure both universality and subjectivity beyond Eurocentrism.  Towards the end of my talk\, I suggest that the contemporary “new leftist” intellectual Wang Hui\, continues elements of the various thinkers mentioned above. The contemporary rise of China makes such responses to Hegelian master narratives especially relevant for our contradictory present.
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/lecture-viren-murthy-hegelian-master-narratives-and-periodizing-japanese-and-chinese-modernity/
LOCATION:Oeconomicum OEC 0.168
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20230712T140000
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SUMMARY:Yuhang Li (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Engineering Religious Bliss at the Qing Court: Jile shijie in the Beihai Park
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nIn 1770\, with the purpose of presenting an unusual gift to his mother Empress Dowager Chongqing (1692-1777) for her eightieth birthday\, Emperor Qianlong (1711-1799) ordered the imperial architectural department to construct a Buddhist compound named jile shijie or World of Utmost Pleasure on the northern shore of imperial Beihai Park next to the Forbidden City. Inside of the main hall\, instead of conventional Buddhist icons staged on the lotus pedestals\, an innovative three-dimensional clay mountain site scenery adorned with various deities from the Pure Land occupies the interior space. Jile shijie\, a synonym for the Western Paradise and Pure Land\, has been consistently visualized and contemplated since early medieval China. But the jile shijie built for Empress Dowager Chongqing is a standalone case which creates the experience of religious joy through a site scenery. The Pure Land is usually experienced as a future connected to death\, which one literally cannot experience as present.  However\, Qianlong’s filial gift allows his mother to feel the required affect in this world\, by juxtaposing transcendence and immanence.  The absolute future of the Pure Land\, a future that one experiences only after one has no more future on earth\, becomes present at least in part\, in a man-made small-scale western paradise. In this paper\, I will discuss the surviving architecture\, sculptural mountain preserved in old photographs\, imperial documents on the design process\, and Qianlong’s own writings on the given subject. Through unpacking the layers of this site\, I will demonstrate how a liminal temporality of religious joy is materialized.
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/yuhang-li-university-of-wisconsin-madison-engineering-religious-bliss-at-the-qing-court-jile-shijie-in-the-beihai-park/
LOCATION:Verfügungsgebäude (VG) 2.103\, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7\, Göttingen\, 37073
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Dr. Sally Chengji Xing (MPI Berlin) & Lucas Brang (Cologne): Transnational Knowledge Transfers Between China\, Europe\, and the United States:  Actors\, Institutions\, and Dynamics\, 1924-1935
DESCRIPTION:13. July (Thursday)\, 18:15 – 19:45\nVG 2.103 \nOverview:\nThe two talks of this joint session interrogate processes of knowledge transfer between China\, the United States\, and Europe during the 1920s and 1930s. Focusing on two distinct organizations– the China Foundation (based in Shanghai and New York) and the League of Nations (based in Geneva) – both talks shed new light on the transnational entanglements of the Republican period in China\, and demonstrate how foreign efforts to influence China often met with domestic resistance. \nBios:  \nSally Chengji Xing is a visiting fellow of the Max Planck Institute of History of Science in Berlin (Lise Meitner Research Group\, “China in the Global System of Science\,” MPIWG) and the Joint Center for Advanced Studies “Worldmaking from Global Perspectives: a Dialogue with China;” she is also an incoming associate professor of US history at Nankai University. She is interested in writing US history from transnational and global perspectives. Her book manuscript in progress\, “Pacific Crossings”: The China Foundation and a Negotiated Translation of American Science to China\, 1913-1949″\, examines how and to what extent did the American intellectuals in the first half of the twentieth century influence the development of Chinese science. Her multi-archival research in China and the United States has been funded by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR)\, the Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research\, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History\, Rockefeller Archive Center\, the Consortium for History of Science\, Technology and Medicine and numerous other graduate research fellowships at Columbia University in the City of New York. Her long-term research explores Sino-American intellectual history in transnational approaches\, from early 20th century all the way to the late 1960s. \nLucas Brang is a PhD candidate at the University of Cologne\, where he is currently completing his dissertation on the rise of the discipline of international law in early twentieth century China. From 2019 to 2022\, he was a recipient of a Marie Curie global research fellowship of the European Union\, as part of which he was affiliated with the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Lucas’ research interests include China’s constitutional development and visions of international order in historical and comparative perspective. In his work\, he employs approaches from different disciplinary traditions such as legal theory\, conceptual history\, and the sociology of knowledge. His research has appeared in journals like Global Constitutionalism\, Modern China\, and the International Journal of Constitutional Law.  \nOrganizer:\nProf. Dominic Sachsenmaier\, University of Göttingen
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/lecture-dr-sally-chengji-xing-mpi-berlin-lucas-brang-cologne-transnational-knowledge-transfers-between-china-europe-and-the-united-states-actors-institutions-and-dynamics-1924-1935/
LOCATION:Verfügungsgebäude (VG) 2.103\, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7\, Göttingen\, 37073
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20230714T160000
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Ying Zhou (Xiamen University): Education and democracy in modern China
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nInstitutional change in education and the cultivation of a qualified citizenry were two sides of the same coin of developing democratic education in modern China. At stake is to understand how democratic education filled a critical role in bridging the gap between democratic ideals and political realities. This lecture will focus on teachings of citizenship and democracy in Chinese primary and secondary schools between 1923-1936 for the purpose of strengthening embryonic democratic politics by creating qualified citizens\, and seek to shed some light on the complex intertwinement of educational and political reforms in modern China. \nShort biography:\nYing Zhou is an assistant professor at the Institute of Education\, Xiamen University\, China. She obtained her PhD at the University of Groningen (NL)\, trained in both Educational Studies and Sinology. Her PhD dissertation is entitled Education and Politics in China: Civic Education in Times of Reform\, 1901-1937\, and her current research project is concerned with pragmatism and progressive education in China and Japan.
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/lecture-ying-zhou-xiamen-university-education-and-democracy-in-modern-china/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum\, KWZ 0.602\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, Göttingen\, 37073
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20230717T160000
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Prof. Li Xuetao (Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU)): „Examples of research methods in the history of German Sinology / 德国汉学史研究方法举隅.“
DESCRIPTION:The lecture will be in Chinese. \nProf. Li is an expert among other topics on the history of Western China Studies and will address recent central questions of the development of China Studies in the West applying a global history perspective. \nAbstract: \n德国汉学从一开始就不局限于某一领域，今天对它的历史梳理，也必然是在历史学、语文学、人类学、自然科学等其他学科的理论和方法的参与下进行，这同时也体现了德国汉学史研究的活力和多样性。李雪涛教授以德国汉学史为例，指出近年来汉学史研究的范式，已经从之前的“内部论”（internalist）或“谱系式”（genealogical）的历史思考方式，转变为了将汉学研究的现象、事件与进程置于“全球脉络”中予以分析，从而形成了一种真正的跨文化全球史研究。
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/lecture-prof-li-xuetao-beijing-foreign-studies-university-bfsu-examples-of-research-methods-in-the-history-of-german-sinology-%e5%be%b7%e5%9b%bd%e6%b1%89%e5%ad%a6%e5%8f%b2%e7%a0%94/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum\, KWZ 0.608
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