This conference is organized by a Joint Center of Advanced Studies entitled "Worldmaking from Global Perspective: A Dialogue with China." Funded by the Federal Ministry of Educa-tion and Research (BMBF) since November 2020, the Joint Center is characterized by its highly integrated network system. It brings together scholarly teams from Freie Universität Berlin, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität München and Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg. The Göttingen part of the project is directed by Prof. Dominic Sachsenmaier and explores the transformation of conceptions…