Lecture Philanthropy and civil society in China Tuesday, December 8, 2015 6 pm, KWZ Room 0.606 Dr. Andreas Fulda (School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham) A public talk about critical and dynamic choices for foreign and domestic grant-making foundations as aid actors in the PR China, followed by an introduction to postgraduate degrees …

Lecture Individual Power and the Politics of Welfare in China: Bringing Persons Back in Institutional Analysis Tuesday, December 15, 2015 7 pm, KWZ Room 0.606 Prof. Xiong Yuegen (Jacobs University Bremen; Peking University)     During the past decade, there has been a growing interest in social policy - making and welfare studies in post …

Lecture Informationalization and Transparency: The Changing Relations between Local Governments and Healthcare Providers in Rural China Tuesday, January 19, 2016 6 pm, KWZ Room 0.606 Dr. Armin Müller (University of Göttingen) Since 2000, the previously neglected rural health sector of the People’s Republic of China has increasingly become a focus of attention. The introduction of …

Special Guest Lecture: Transformative Spaces of 19th Century East Asia: A Japanese Merchant's Experience of Treaty Port Yokohama Tuesday, February 2, 2016 5 pm (c.t.), VG 3.102 Prof. Simon C. Partner Duke University, Department of History Following the experiences of one merchant, a farmer from Kōshū province (present-day Yamanashi prefecture) who left his village to …

Special Guest Lecture: Rethinking China’s Place in Global History Comparatively Tuesday, February 16, 2016 5 p.m. (c.t.), KWZ 0.603 Prof. Dr. Kent Deng The London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History In 1803, Napoleon famously said in front of a world atlas where China was that ‘Here lies a sleeping giant …