Academic Confucius Institute Göttingen

OAS Lecture (co-hosted by AKI): Prof. Hsiung Ping-chen (Chinese University of Hong Kong): Discovering Childhood and Paediatrics in Chinese History: Further Considerations”

Theo 0.136 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 2, Göttingen, Deutschland

As a reflection on thirty plus years of research on childhood and paediatrics in Chinese history, this lecture intends to present further concerns after a systematic review, in three parts: First, a retrospective on the why's and how's of studying children and childhood in history, the conceptual definition that the Chinese case had to start […]

Prof. Xiong Yuegen (Peking Univ.): “Poverty Alleviation as an Instrument of Technical Governance in Rural China”

Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum KWZ, Raum 0.602 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, Deutschland

In the past decades, China has achieved a great success in poverty reduction by helping more than 800 million of poor farmers out of poverty trap. However, Chinese government has made a series of serious efforts on social policy implementation in rural areas, poverty as a problematic persistent issue is still perplexing owing to institutional […]