Auch in diesem Jahr findet die Vortragsreihe „Göttinger Sommerschule zum chinesischen Recht“ des Deutsch-Chinesischen Instituts für Rechtswissenschaft der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen in der Woche vom 20.-24.09.2021 im digitalen Format statt. Die in Kooperation mit dem Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht Hamburg organisierte Veranstaltung richtet sich an Studierende, Doktoranden und Praktiker*innen, die einen ersten Einblick in […]

Abstract: One aspect that strikes observers of nineteenth-century China is the apparent lack of panic in the face of foreign aggression among Qing officials. Max Weber, an avid reader of Peking Gazette translations and the English-language press of coastal China, identified the precarity of status and income—rather than Confucian conservatism—as the main impediment to reform. […]

Abstract: The so-called “sanjiao tradition (three teachings/religions)” that includes Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism has conventionally been considered as the “Chinese religion” in Chinese history. In addition to the “sanjiao,” however, Christianity and Islam were introduced to China pretty early and also became integral parts of the Chinese religious tradition. In the early 20th century, the […]