CeMEAS Lecture Series: Paper Tigers, Hidden Dragons: Firms and the Political Economy of China’s Technological Development
CeMEAS Lecture Series: Paper Tigers, Hidden Dragons: Firms and the Political Economy of China’s Technological Development Douglas B. Fuller, Zhejiang University Tuesday, 27.06.2017, 18:00 – 19:30, VG 3.103 China presents us with a conundrum. How has a developing country with a spectacularly inefficient financial system, coupled with asset-destroying state-owned firms, managed to create a number …
Lecture: The Powers of Xi Jinping
Lecture: The Powers of Xi Jinping Prof. Kerry Brown (King’s College London) Venue: VG 0.606 Date: Wednesday, 28.06.2017, 18.00 – 20.00 Uhr Organizers: Centre for Modern East Asian Studies & Department for Political Science Abstract: This year will see the 19th Party Congress, marking a moment of re-evaluation for the Communist Party policy and elite …
CeMEAS Lecture Series: Air Pollution and the Public in China: Perspectives from Urban and Rural Areas
CeMEAS Lecture Series: Air Pollution and the Public in China: Perspectives from Urban and Rural Areas Bryan Tilt, Oregon State University Tuesday, 04.07.2017, 18:00 – 19:30, VG 2.104 Abstract: China’s air pollution crisis has recently attracted a great deal of scientific and media attention both domestically and internationally. While official statistics and government pronouncements have …
Lecture: Liberating the “oppressed nations”: Chinese communist networks and the Comintern in Southeast Asia, the Americas, and Europe, c. 1920s-1930s
CeMEAS Lecture: Liberating the "oppressed nations": Chinese communist networks and the Comintern in Southeast Asia, the Americas, and Europe, c. 1920s-1930s Anna Belogurova, CeMIS, Universität Göttingen Tuesday, 11.07.2017, 18:00 - 19:30, VG 1.105 Abstract: In the context of unprecedented circulation of people and ideas in the interwar global moment, Chinese communists built their overseas networks in …
The Beginning of the Century: A Reconsideration on the 20th Century in Chinese/Global History
Lecture The Beginning of the Century: A Reconsideration on the 20th Century in Chinese/Global History Prof. WANG Hui (Tsinghua University) Ort: Adam-von-Trott-Saal, Alte Mensa am Wilhelmsplatz Datum: 12.07.2017, 18.00 – 20.00 Uhr Organizers: Akademisches Konfuzius-Institut Göttingen & Department of East Asian Studies & Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity Abstract: At the …
Podium: What is the Future of Made in China?
ZHG 002CeMEAS Podium: What is the Future of Made in China? Opportunities and Challenges for Europe Monday, July 17, 2017 • 14:00 - 18:00 Emmy-Noether-Saal Tagungs- und Veranstaltungshaus Alte Mensa Wilhelmsplatz 3, 37073 Göttingen Introduction: This half-day event will explore these issues in discussion with leading international scholars and government experts. A first roundtable will analyze …
Manchu in Global History: A Research Language for Qing Historians
International Symposium: Manchu in Global History: A Research Language for Qing Historians Keynote Lecture: Manchu Sources and the Problem of Translation Manchu in Global History: A Research Language for Qing Historians Time: September 19-22, 2017 Place: KWZ 1.601, University of Göttingen Organisers: Julia C. Schneider (Department for East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen) Katja Pessl …
Conceptions of the World in 20th-Century Chinese Historiography
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen, GermanyConceptions of the World in 20th-Century Chinese Historiography Time: 26-27 October 2017 Place: Göttingen, Germany Organizer: Dr. Xin Fan, State University of New York at Fredonia Over the course of the twentieth century, the constant writing and rewriting of history reflect aspects of the changing conceptions of the “world” in China. Through various lenses – …
Lecture: Global Elements in Traditional Chinese Historiography
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen, GermanyLecture: Global Elements in Traditional Chinese Historiography Prof. Ge Zhaoguang (Fudan University) Thursday, October 26, 6pm- 8pm, KWZ 0.603
Lecture Series: Social Policy in China: Retrospect and Prospect
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen, GermanySocial Policy in China: Retrospect and Prospect Dr. Armin Müller (University of Göttingen) Wednesday, 01.11.2017, 18:00-19:30, KWZ 0.609 Abstract Since 1979, social protection in China has undergone fundamental institutional transformations. This presentation provides an overview of the state of the literature on social policy in the PRC, the institutional change which has characterized social protection …
Lecture Series: Is Policy Innovation possible under the Xi Jinping Regime?
Theologicum Platz der Göttinger Sieben 2, 37073 Göttingen, GermanyIs Policy Innovation possible under the Xi Jinping Regime? Prof. Reza Hasmath (University of Alberta) Tuesday, 07.11.2017, 18:00-19:30, T0.136 Abstract: Despite playing a key contributory role in China’s recent economic reforms and the Party’s regime durability, there has been a noted reduction in central-level policy experimentation under Xi Jinping’s administration. Recent studies have further noted …
Lecture: Gendered Religiosity: Patriarchal Structures and Women’s Agency in China
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen, GermanyThis lecture will examine how social structures of power, such as patriarchal power, depend on the vicissitudes of human agency to implement their principles, opening them up to subtle shifts and reconfigurations in social practice (Anthony Giddens, Pierre Bourdieu).