Yingming Theater Journal – Volume 16 Editor: Dr. Yumin Ao Yingming Theater was founded by Dr. Yumin Ao, Oct. 2019. It is a non-profit online journal that focuses on intercultural theater, cultural diversity in theater, and cross-cultural dialogue through theater. The contributors and columnists of the journal’s content are based in various countries and theatrical practices…
Year: 2021
Recent Publications: Yingming Theater Journal Vol.15

Yingming Theater Journal – Volume 15 Editor: Dr. Yumin Ao Yingming Theater was founded by Dr. Yumin Ao, Oct. 2019. It is a non-profit online journal that focuses on intercultural theater, cultural diversity in theater, and cross-cultural dialogue through theater. The contributors and columnists of the journal’s content are based in various countries and theatrical practices…
Meet Our Researchers: Yonghui Hu

Dr. Yonghui Hu joined the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies as a guest reseacher since October 2021. He obtained his Ph.D. in Philosophy Department at Nanjing University in June 2013, majoring in Chinese Philosophy. He is a philosophy associate professor at Nanjing University since 2016. He teaches History of Chinese Buddhism, Philosophy of Tao…
Discussion Forum: Global China Conversations

The Global China Conversations provide a 60-minute online discussion forum that fosters the exchange of ideas between research and practice. The Conversations are hosted by the Kiel Institute China Initiative in cooperation with the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies (CeMEAS) at the University of Göttingen, KOF Swiss Economic Institute at ETH Zürich, and Wildau Technical…
Meet Our Researchers: Yingjie Fan

Ms Fan obtained her Ph.D. in the Sichuan University in China in June 2017, majoring in Chinese legal history. Her research focuses on Local System and Grassroots Social Governance in China. The topic of her dissertation is the Practice of the New County System in Rongxian County, Sichuan in the Republic of China (1939-1949). Ms Fan…
CeMEAS Conversations: Benjamin Creutzfeldt

China’s Relations with Latin America: Past, Present and a Challenging Future In this video, Benjamin Creutzfeldt discusses his research on China’s relationship with Latin America. Drawing on the history of Sino-Latin American Relations, he critically examines China’s recent engagement and its consequences for Latin America. He discusses China’s Belt and Road Initiative and developmental aid…
Global China Conversations: China in der Weltwirtschaft

Neue Online Diskussionsreihe: Global China Conversations Die Global China Conversations bieten ein einstündiges Online-Diskussionsforum, das den Austausch zwischen Forschung und Praxis fördert. Die Diskussionsreihe wird von der Kiel Institute China Initiative in Kooperation mit dem Center for Modern East Asian Studies (CeMEAS) der Universität Göttingen, der KOF Konjunkturforschungsstelle der ETH Zürich und der Technischen Hochschule Wildau veranstaltet.…
Meet Our Researchers: Dr. Mengshu Zhan

Ms Mengshu Zhan joined the project “Conceptions of World Order and Their Social Carrier Groups” in Göttingen University since June 2021 and her topic in this project is Conceptions of World Order from Chinese and African Scholars. She obtained her Ph.D. in the Center for Global Study at Bonn University in Germany in May 2021, majoring…
Meet Our Researchers: Prof. Chong Myong Im

Professor Im joined CeMEAS as a guest researcher in March 2021 and is a history professor at Chonnam National University since 2006. He teaches Contemporary History of Korea, the Modern History of Korean Art and the Modern History of Korean Historiography among others. From 2012 to 2013, he was invited as a Fulbright scholar by…
Meet Our Researchers: Prof. Zhang Chunjie

Chunjie Zhang is working on the project, World as Method: Cosmopolitan Thinking in German and Chinese Modernist Cultures, that seeks to compare cosmopolitan thinking in German and Chinese discourses in the first half of the twentieth century. In the current theoretical debates on cosmopolitanism, scholars point out that it is not necessarily always the national…
Kooperation auf Augenhöhe?
CeMEAS Mitglied Prof. Dr. Dominic Sachsenmaier im Interview mit dem Leibniz Magazin Kooperation auf Augenhöhe? In vielen Feldern forscht China längst in der Weltspitze. Welche Rolle spielt das für seine Zukunftspläne – und die Zusammenarbeit mit dem Ausland? Lesen sie den gesamten Artikel hier!
Meet Our Researchers: Prof. Hsiung Ping-chen

Professor Hsiung Ping-chen received her Ph.D. in History from Brown University and her S.M. in Population Studies and International Health from Harvard University. She is Professor of History and Director of the Taiwan Research Centre at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her main research interest lies in the area of women’s and children’s health.…