AKI organized a panel discussion on “Regionalizing the Global, Globalizing the Regional: An interdisciplinary conversation” with Prof. Prasenjit Duara (Duke) and several members of the Göttingen campus.
Ethnomusicologist Frederick Lau explores ways of listening to Chinese music as a window to understand Chinese society. At the core of his presentation is the focus on the linkage between music and culture and how music exemplifies larger social sentiments, practice, and ethos across time and space. The definition of Chinese music thus depends on […]
AKI organized a dialogue with students on “China in the Global Humanities”, a lecture by Prof. Mu-chou Poo on “Common Elements of an Axial Age? Comparative Perspectives on Ancient China and Ancient Egypt” and a lecture by Prof Hsiung Ping-Chen (both Chinese University of Hong Kong) on “Chinese Humanities in the Global Era”.
In this lecture Prof. Poo re-examines the theory of the Axial Age by first investigating the case of China, situating the findings in the context of the on-going scholarly discussions on the idea of the Axial Age as proposed by Jaspers and expounded by subsequent generations of scholars. A comparison with the case of ancient […]
The Term “Humanities” is often used in reference to disciplinary academic humanities: a modern, institutional subject. That its development is usually a product (or byproduct) of cultural politics in nation-building can be taken for granted. In the case of China, however, the long and complicated civilization evidenced before the modern era—since Neolithic times, with literary […]